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what's the face you make when you realize that Giannis has only been playing high level basketball for 3 years and is already better than LeBron was when he was the same age.
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Jan 5, 2017 05:37
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To be fair, Giannis has to sustain those numbers all season
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Jan 5, 2017 05:39
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no one is safe from his wrath straight up brolic posted:what's the face you make when you realize that Giannis has only been playing high level basketball for 3 years and is already better than LeBron was when he was the same age. 
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Jan 5, 2017 05:49
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Giannis is what you get when the max development curve in an NBA2K draft pick happens in real life. I mean...this guy was playing minor league basketball in Greece when he was drafted. There are high school gyms bigger than some of the places he was playing.
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Jan 5, 2017 05:56
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Crazy Ted posted:Giannis is what you get when the max development curve in an NBA2K draft pick happens in real life. [ Smush_Parker_Playing_In_Greece.txt ]
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Jan 5, 2017 05:59
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I did it, I found my favorite Giannis post.
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Jan 5, 2017 06:04
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straight up brolic posted:I did it, I found my favorite Giannis post. Gerald Green has the basketball IQ of a brick and he managed to have a couple of decent seasons that basically came down to the fact that he was athletic enough that he could probably dunk in a 13-foot basket.
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Jan 5, 2017 06:07
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When he was drafted, there wasn't much to separate him from the endless stream of lanky rear end bigman with athleticism. It could just as easily been Joe Alexander or one of the billion dudes the Warriors drafted who magically developed into the next LeBron
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Jan 5, 2017 06:09
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straight up brolic posted:I did it, I found my favorite Giannis post. Bizort made almost the exact same posts about Lebron when he was coming out too. He had an absolute hatred of him. Like, it's all in hindsight but he so passionately hated both Gianni's and lebron that it can't help but be funny Bizort was really funny but also the grumpiest dude in the NBA threads even though this was during a time when Gendo could only get sexually aroused by talking about how much he hated Kevin Love
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Jan 5, 2017 06:09
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Fun fact not covered in this story: when Kurt Rambis played for AEK he did so under a different name, which was Kyriakos Rambidis
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Jan 5, 2017 06:13
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The Glumslinger posted:When he was drafted, there wasn't much to separate him from the endless stream of lanky rear end bigman with athleticism. It could just as easily been Joe Alexander or one of the billion dudes the Warriors drafted who magically developed into the next LeBron
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Jan 5, 2017 06:14
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straight up brolic posted:to provide context this was in reaction to Giannis showing glimpses of what he could do on the court and people like me freaking out and making terrible posts. it wasn't the draft thread.
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Jan 5, 2017 06:16
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Time posted:Bizort made almost the exact same posts about Lebron when he was coming out too. He had an absolute hatred of him. Like, it's all in hindsight but he so passionately hated both Gianni's and lebron that it can't help but be funny Also Tobias Harris has somehow turned out to be a respectable rotation player OTOH Hiring Scott Skiles went about as well as he said it would
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Jan 5, 2017 06:18
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Crazy Ted posted:Giannis hit the rookie wall pretty hard too. He had an O-Rating in the 80's over the last month of the season. Yeah, nothing was certain with him after year 1 like with Lebron. Which makes the leaps he is taking now even more impressive
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Jan 5, 2017 06:18
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Time posted:Yeah, nothing was certain with him after year 1 like with Lebron. Which makes the leaps he is taking now even more impressive
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Jan 5, 2017 06:19
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eh I stand by the fact that he looked significantly different than the other comparables. dude ticked all the boxes for development (being athletically gifted, coordination, size, wanting to get better, work ethic) and the majority opinion in the threads was that he was going to be awesome.
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Jan 5, 2017 06:23
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I went to a basketball game in Greece like 5 years ago and they played "Welcome to Weapon World" by prince Paul like 4 times in a row during halftime because the guy working the PA system was standing on the court smoking cigarettes and shooting freethrows
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Jan 5, 2017 06:24
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Time posted:Bizort made almost the exact same posts about Lebron when he was coming out too. He had an absolute hatred of him. Like, it's all in hindsight but he so passionately hated both Gianni's and lebron that it can't help but be funny lmfao that's amazing
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Jan 5, 2017 06:24
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Time posted:I went to a basketball game in Greece like 5 years ago and they played "Welcome to Weapon World" by prince Paul like 4 times in a row during halftime because the guy working the PA system was standing on the court smoking cigarettes and shooting freethrows
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Jan 5, 2017 06:24
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straight up brolic posted:eh I stand by the fact that he looked significantly different than the other comparables. dude ticked all the boxes for development (being athletically gifted, coordination, size, wanting to get better, work ethic) and the majority opinion in the threads was that he was going to be awesome.
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Jan 5, 2017 06:26
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also lest I be accused of selectively cherry picking, I posted quote:Tony Snell is really good and will have a good season and said that MCW would never be a good shooter but could be a "12, 5, 7 guy"
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Jan 5, 2017 06:27
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All Giannis did was stand in the corner and shoot threes his rookie year because he didn't know jack poo poo. Basically what they are doing with Thon now. I think back then those who thought highly of him thought he could be Josh Smith. Certainly not loving Lebron.
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Jan 5, 2017 06:29
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straight up brolic posted:and said that MCW would never be a good shooter but could be a "12, 5, 7 guy"
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Jan 5, 2017 06:31
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Hand Row posted:All Giannis did was stand in the corner and shoot threes his rookie year because he didn't know jack poo poo. Basically what they are doing with Thon now. I think back then those who thought highly of him thought he could be Josh Smith. Certainly not loving Lebron.
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Jan 5, 2017 06:34
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Apparently a couple of reporters asked Giannis if he's ready to be treated like a Greek God the next time he goes back home to Greece. Unless Giannis is no longer black the odds of that actually happening are slim to none.
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Jan 5, 2017 06:36
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Andrew Bogut doesn't think he has much of a future in Dallasquote:"Thankfully, I'm a free agent here, so I only have a couple of months more here and then will most likely move on," Bogut told Sky Sports. "I don't see myself hanging around with everything that's gone on. It will be an interesting six months ahead." http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/18409928/andrew-bogut-hanging-dallas-mavericks-not-likely
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Jan 5, 2017 06:58
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Austin Rivers scored 28/7/4 on 16 shots and the Clippers beat the Grizzlies lmao
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Jan 5, 2017 07:11
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straight up brolic posted:Austin Rivers scored 28/7/4 on 16 shots and the Clippers beat the Grizzlies lmao 
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Jan 5, 2017 07:20
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Honestly, given the amount of poo poo that Austin has taken over the years for things completely out of his control (him being a Duke alum is a valid criticism), it would make me very happy if he eventually turned into an above average NBA guard
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Jan 5, 2017 07:27
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I saw the ref counting off Giannis' back to the basket seconds go to 5 and just do nothing. Then there was like 3 more seconds after that. What the gently caress refs?
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Jan 5, 2017 07:38
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I'm always amazed at how well GSW hid how much of a dick Bogut is.
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Jan 5, 2017 07:42
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Doltos posted:I saw the ref counting off Giannis' back to the basket seconds go to 5 and just do nothing. Then there was like 3 more seconds after that. giannis getting superstar calls he's officially made it
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Jan 5, 2017 07:45
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chunkles posted:Incidentally I was checking out the SportVU miles run per game stat and CJ McCollum is way up at the top. (I was actually thinking Bev would be up there, but apparently not). Watching Portland, this makes total sense. I dunno if this is backed up by stats but man they seem to have to work extremely hard on offense. I have this pet theory that one of the reasons their defense sucks so bad is because they have to put so much energy into every offensive possession. One of the reasons mind you.
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Jan 5, 2017 07:47
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Doltos posted:I saw the ref counting off Giannis' back to the basket seconds go to 5 and just do nothing. Then there was like 3 more seconds after that. straight up brolic fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Jan 5, 2017 |
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Jan 5, 2017 07:48
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this is the only time i've ever seen it called and the rule was completely misapplied. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g12hs5uS6x4
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Jan 5, 2017 07:56
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hey metapod lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3DuEC-2OlU lmao
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Jan 5, 2017 08:01
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Ramadu posted:hey metapod lol beautiful
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Jan 5, 2017 08:08
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I'm fine with keeping five seconds on the book, but also fine with them not calling it. Five Seconds got the ridiculousness that was way-past-their-prime Mark Jackson and Charles Barkley (and really Jordan probably rode the move to his last title) abusing the fact that it's really hard to stop an all-time good passer, with a historically good high post game, playing with a team full of vets from manufacturing points almost every possession without really doing anything athletic. But really, it's not something a lot of people were doing, were capable of doing, or probably had a desire to do so if the refs just silently stop calling it (which they pretty much have), no big deal. Like maybe if Lebron starts doing it in five years get back to me.
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Giannis got brought up exactly four times in the 65 page long pre-draft thread. To say he was under the radar is underselling it. It is mostly arguing about whether Oladipo or McLemore were more likely to develop a consistent jumper and everyone desperately hoping their team doesn't draft MCW. However: chuckles correctly posted:So apparently GMs/scouts have been making pilgrimages to Athens to see Giannis Adetokunbo including Sam Presti and Daryl Morey. oceanlife correctly posted:Guys, hold up the draft talk for a minute. What if I told you I had a prospect that is foreign, unrealistically tall for his position, was compared to an all time great, and had the interest of the Boston Celtics? Also everyone was spelling his last name wrong because it was changed later when he got Greek citizenship. tanglewood1420 fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Jan 5, 2017 |
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Today I learned that Lebron hit his first game winning buzzer beater in 2009 (against the Warriors!) which seems way later than I thought it would have been.
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