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Okay phili answer these grant questions for me please: Can grant pass well? Is grant a good decision maker? Can he finish around the rim?
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WhyteRyce posted:I thought this was the good Grant Yeah he's one of like 5 players I know on Philly cause he's cool but I guess he's solidly behind Covington on the depth chart so they weren't sure what do with him. That and Saric is getting roasted as a PF right now so Ersan gives him help. They might slide Saric to SF at times too if they're going crazy big and running Embiid and Okafor at the same time, which gives less room for Grant maybe? Iunno I'm making poo poo up off the top of my head here.
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Metapod posted:Okay phili answer these grant questions for me please: So so. So so. Yes. He'll block a lot of shots and play solid defense. He was an incredible perimeter defender his first year, but he's put on a lot of muscle weight since.
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Metapod posted:Okay phili answer these grant questions for me please: he protects the rim and dunks 1.27 times per 36. https://nyloncalculus.com/stats/rim-protection/ those are his skills.
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Metapod posted:Okay phili answer these grant questions for me please: No No Yes
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Shedding ersans salary + the trade exception makes me think this is the first domino
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Final question can he catch an oop
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If I was smart, I would have gone to a print shop and got this on a poster to bring to the game tonight: https://twitter.com/bennettberry/status/792215968177016832
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https://twitter.com/rachaelhoops/status/793552960399691777?s=09 I love old tweets
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Spacebump posted:Whenever this gets posted, someone should always mention this was deep into the smart phone era. zach randolph gets caught with a trap phone then has to pretend the rest of his life he uses a flip phone as his main
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Metapod posted:Final question can he catch an oop This is one of the only things he can do. Fast Luck posted:But they are cool now. but they're only cool now and they weren't cool back when Stockton wore them. Sorry but that's how it is, because back then people wore them short solely because the Fab Five hadn't invented big shorts yet. Now that big shorts have been invented and mainstreamed, to wear the short shorts is to actively reject the big shorts in favor of confidently showing off your big muscular thighs, which is cool The Fab Five were in like 1992, and everyone was wearing them by the mid 90s. Stockton was still rocking the short shorts well into the early 00s when it was no longer mainstream. That's why he's the first name anyone brings up when they talk about them; he actively rejected the mainstream trend of baggy shorts. MourningView fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Nov 1, 2016 |
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Stockton would also be a better Steph Curry if he played now, I demand he be acknowledged as the brave iconoclast ahead of his time that he was
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How will we know if a unanimous MVP choked or not? Although Steph Curry being forced to smile and accept the award while Lebron sat in the audience would have been pretty fantastic.
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Lockback posted:Although Steph Curry being forced to smile and accept the award while Lebron sat in the audience with the Larry O'Brien would have been pretty fantastic. Made it even better for you
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Metapod posted:Okay phili answer these grant questions for me please: You guys got yourselves a version of KJ McDaniels. He throws down some monster dunks and makes some savage blocks which is cool
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MourningView posted:Stockton would also be a better Steph Curry if he played now, I demand he be acknowledged as the brave iconoclast ahead of his time that he was There's no guard currently playing anywhere near as dirty as Stockton. Except maybe CP3. Delly has the white dude hustle, but I think he's more reckless than anything else. Stockton knew exactly what he was doing with every elbow to your kidneys.
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euphronius posted:Tacit admission that Dario saric is not ready to play starters minutes Brett Brown just now said he'd be considering starting Ersan so it definitely looks that way. That didn't last long
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Does anyone know what Boban went as for Halloween? Actually, we should really have made an NBA halloween thread. I guess if this was just a salary dump for OKC it makes sense, but otherwise...? The S7 Edge is a legitimately good phone and that interview with Adams reiterated his top 5 centre in the leagueness. I would love to have him on my team. Unrelated, anyone who hates the ESPN box scores, I found this plugin to make them not suck: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/enhanced-espn-nba-box-sco/obmjelnefbpppnlclofadlniafdnhjpc Smellyhead fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Nov 1, 2016 |
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I just want to say that Steph Curry definitely had an all time great season last year, right up there with some great seasons from Alex English and Karl Malone and Bernard KingMourningView posted:Stockton would also be a better Steph Curry if he played now, I demand he be acknowledged as the brave iconoclast ahead of his time that he was John Stockton was a hero to regulation sized white men who love basketball and/but/especially the part where he played hard like he was supposed to for his whole career and never won poo poo and was ultimately defeated by a narcissist preacher out for his own glory EvanTH fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Nov 1, 2016 |
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Paulocaust posted:JV has made Drunmond his bitch every time they faced off. JV just dropped him off for a career high 32 like 6 days ago. head2head don't matter otherwise we would think Deron is better than Chris Paul JV could be good someday whereas Drummond is actually good right now Dexo posted:Desus and Mero are great. Also they aren't being entirely serious. gently caress WIZ KHALIFA *airhorn* Spite posted:There's no guard currently playing anywhere near as dirty as Stockton. Except maybe CP3. rip lance
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I don't approve of this. MVPs being announced during the playoffs only to get dominated in a later series by the player they snubbed is a time-honored tradition.
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Smellyhead posted:Does anyone know what Boban went as for Halloween? A human
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Spite posted:There's no guard currently playing anywhere near as dirty as Stockton. Except maybe CP3. What are you talking about?! Delly is a straight up nut-puncher.
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EvanTH posted:I just want to say that Steph Curry definitely had an all time great season last year, right up there with some great seasons from Alex English and Karl Malone and Bernard King Karl Malone and Alex English were NOT system players. King probably wasn't but I don't know anything about the 80s Knicks.
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MCW out for 4-6 weeks.
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WhyteRyce posted:I thought this was the good Grant He is the good one! But the other is really bad so it doesn't mean much. Anyhow I like him some and I think he'll be good on OKC
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Cool Buff Man posted:MCW out for 4-6 weeks. ugh how lucky can this stupid bulls squad get
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Gynecolojustice posted:The knee is an ugly joint to look at It's kind of like one of those crazy spaghetti freeway junctions in sunny los angeles california
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EvanTH posted:ugh how lucky can this stupid bulls squad get It's absurd Just a reminder: The Houston - Cleveland game is on right now, instead of the normal 7 pm est or whatever start times
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EvanTH posted:He is the good one! But the other is really bad so it doesn't mean much. If Evan believes it so do I!!! Let's go grant 👏👏👏
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the 3 alphas' good fortune is a demonstration of the power of confidence and positive thinking
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Super Jay Mann posted:I don't approve of this. MVPs being announced during the playoffs only to get dominated in a later series by the player they snubbed is a time-honored tradition. same https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW4uXlRGAF0
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SAS should be renamed the Three Alphas BAsketball Discussion Zone the way that insane Minnesota forum that Gendo always posted from was called the Five National Championships Football Discussion something or other
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wandler20 posted:NBA trades involving draft picks are the best: Hinkie would've gotten a real pick. A shameful imitation of The Process.
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Cool Buff Man posted:Taking applications to join my new barbershop quartet "The Juicy Fruits" I was Harold Hill my senior year, I wish to apply
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Bashez posted:Am I the only one that thinks that the Bulls are going to be okay as long as Wade holds up? I have a little faith in the Bulls to improve upon last year. In 43 minutes Bulls new star Isaiah Canaan has reached .4 WS. The same amount that Rose had all of last season. Redgrendel2001 posted:This is chicken/egg. People would stationary check all the time on the perimeter, but that wasn't something that began at 22'-23'. They let poo poo go everywhere after half court. You are mythologizing 1980s defense into something it wasn't. It's reminiscent of 1960s guys belittling Jordan in the 1990s like he wouldn't do well back in the 1960s because they'd injure him and play more physically. Yes, Jordan would've struggled in the era where no guards dunked and the elite guards were dribbling using only their dominant hand. I still remember seeing some of these old curmudgeons come on TV talking about how their era was supreme. Back then Youtube wasn't around so many people fell for it. They called MJ a "hotdog" and threatened physical violence against him! Now in 2016 we have Youtube and we know they were lying. I've seen plenty of 1980s games and think Curry would be fine. We're talking about an era where the average team attempted two 3P shots per game @ 25%. Early 1980s teams didn't even have a concept of 3P shot defense. I've seen footage of "good shooters" of the time standing at the 3P line and the opposing team is giving them a wide open shot every possession. Humorously, the shooter usually didn't even consider taking the shot. The 3P shot was regarded as a major gamble and a vice/bad habit well into the 1990s unlike today's NBA where it's a virtue and some have carte blanche. When Reggie Miller and other 3P shooters from the 80s and 90s wanted to shoot them they were able to. In game 1 of the 1992 NBA finals Jordan shot 6/9 from 3 and people thought he was a demigod. Completely pedestrian numbers today for some. Even in the mid-1990s when great 3P guys were emerging the average transition D was mediocre. Any time Pippen wanted to take a pull up 3 it was there for him. Curry would be feasting on that on a nightly basis. The D has improved significantly in that area in the last twenty years as back then teams were more into getting offensive rebounds. Here's Rex Chapman in the vaunted handcheck era against the BEST team of the 1990s and #1 DRtg team that season. Launching threes against two of the best perimeter defenders of the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-4xwcxo9gk A career night for Chapman and a mere glimpse of what Curry would look like frequently in the 1990s. It'd be even more embarrassing if we put Curry back into the early 1980s when the elite scoring PGs/SGs of the time were putting up these intimidating numbers: code: PS Guards were generally smaller in the 1980s and 1990s as well. Pro sports evolution and increasing global competition (without NBA team growth) dictates that today's players are assuredly more skilled and competent than those playing 30+ years back. This primacy is another aspect in Curry's favor. Some might think Bird/McHale or Magic/Kareem would be winning titles today but I'm skeptical. Some may also think modern guys are just soft and not fit to play in the 1980s.
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EvanTH posted:John Stockton was a hero to regulation sized white men who love basketball and/but/especially the part where he played hard like he was supposed to for his whole career and never won poo poo and was ultimately defeated by a narcissist preacher out for his own glory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W25t7wXLVfw "Yeah, you! loving son of a bitch! Chicken poo poo!"
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