Random NBA Observations 2016 - 2017

[Brozay]

It was a godsend and I might be discrediting him a bit about his development, but his actual gameplans are trash and I refuse to hear otherwise. He has the best recruiting class every year and he's won once there with a guy that was a generational talent. Nah, you don't say "you can't complain about the results" when you can easily look at other teams he's lost with, particularly the 2010 and 2014 teams.

I was talking specifically about his season with AD and made that pretty clear

 

[SchoolboyC]

Zubac > Zizic

 

[CantStop]

Zizic too shook to come to the league. While zubac told teams don't draft me if you're gonna stash me

 

[SchoolboyC]

Zizic too shook to come to the league. While zubac told teams don't draft me if you're gonna stash me

Greatness takes time, word to Jokic & Saric

 

[I.AM.PIFF]

The Suns have always been a "running" team for as long as I can remember.


Just a perfect match like flies & shyt.


I guess it's a good consolation for never being able to strike on a Center


I was a lil iffy about Chriss at the start of the year, but I'm beginning to think he has All Star potential.


Unlike Amare, he actually shows flashes of developing into a monster on defense.



Amare never gave that kind of effort on D.

Just need to learn how to cut his fouls a bit (a lot actually )

 

[Darealtwo1]

#35 instead of saying Durant. #15 instead of Vince Carter or #3 instead of dwade. No one would ever say that . She's just a casual who stopped watching during our down years and suddenly went to a game and didn't know who #14 was.

spoken like a true idiot.

Cari has interviewed ingram on sportcenter and had him on her podcast.....She put the # instead of his name because twitter only allows 140 characters. It's okay, its something you wouldn't know because you probably don't have a life outside of the coli LMAO.

She's actually seen him play in person unlike you

 

[Malta]

What do you know, somebody broke down Embiid's landing to a damn science. Been saying he doesn't land properly.




They need to spend the entire offseason working on his biomechanics, they are all wrong.

 

[duckbutta]

What do you know, somebody broke down Embiid's landing to a damn science. Been saying he doesn't land properly.




They need to spend the entire offseason working on his biomechanics, they are all wrong.

It's weird to me that when it comes to nba teams nobody talks about the player development side...

As great as Kawhi is it can't be discounted that he has spent his career working with the GOAT shooting coach in Chip and with Chad Forcier, who was considered the best all around player development guy in the league...

I increasingly start looking at players and before i ask myself why they are as good or bad as i think they are i ask myself "but who is coaching them though"

I look at Pau on the spurs...dude is playing at a gawd tier stretch 5 level...dude is shooting around 60% from 3 the last month

From the top of the key he has been so money that fukking missing that 3 the vast majority of them don't even hit the rim his shot is so flawless

And I'm like..."da fukk how has Pau not been playing like this in the past for:dahellwhat:"

And then I remember...oh right the spurs hired that Kirk Goldsberry dude who was at the forefront of all the focus on shot charts ...no wonder why Pau gets all these wide open 3's he never got before and he making an absurd number of them

 

[DetroitEWarren]

Lmao @ Jalen Rose having his man's and nem steal Pat Ewing bag at the airport during their rivalry with the Pacers. Real D nikka shyt from a NBA nikka

 

[director_of_bands]

is mcgrady the best guy to be criticizing players about playing an 82 game season? im just sayin

 

[ALonelyDad]

 

[<<TheStandard>>]

SVG starting Ish Smith over Reggie Jackson is a probably a decision he should have made like 20 to 30 games ago.

 

[Cladyclad]

That 2009 draft class got some of the most players that trigger hate than any class ever

Blake
Harden
Curry
Rubio
Tyreke
Hansborough
Flynn ( For Minnesota fans)

 

[Liquid]

@ that "post move" by Dwight

 

[<<TheStandard>>]

Eh, I think Cal does a good job of teaching bigs how to use their size as shotblockers and learn to play big, Skal was just his first real big miss, mainly because Skal actually hadn't played any real HS ball prior to going to UK.

Cal actually helped KAT a lot, there's a reason why KAT wasn't the number 1 recruit going into college and it's cause his post game was weak as fukk. He learned to play like a big at Kentucky and the Dominican national team under Cal. He was a soft jumpshooter that thought of himself as a SF or some shyt Cal put him on the block and made him work on that weak part of his game, now he's a beast in the league. Cal has far more success stories with his big men than he does stories like Skals.

I remember seeing his high school highlight tape and thought he was a younger Dirk or older Sheed who would just shoot jumpers......I never saw him as a 5 so that surprised me the few games I've seen him at Kentucky.

I've been a stan of his game since HS tho. I knew he was the one over Okafor.