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Maybe Phil will come back and take over the Clippers next year.
I think I have to wait a whole season to claim victory on this one. Or at least until a CP3 injury.
Brown could certainly happen. If Sterling actually paid Brown what he owed him without attorneys becoming involved, that would constitute a "good history" with The Little Donald.
Also, Mario ("Supernintendo?") Chalmers may be the best shooter of buzzer-beaters in the history of the sport.
Billups hit with 3 secs left, then Chalmers hit with under a second. It was the passing of the Mr. Big Shot torch.
There is a Tebow!
Right. In case anyone wasn't sure about how bad the Wizards are. He was just chucking left and right. I don't know if that was the game plan, but I can't believe how many possessions the Bulls had where he was the only guy touching the ball. And he completely outplayed Wall - that has to be concerning, right?
How long do I have to wait before I get to take a victory lap on Jimmer, btw?
On that team, with those teammates? I think you have to wait until he's on another team.
Was there any discussion of the Wizards' new logo when it was unveiled? It looks like it was designed by Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Does anyone remember if there was a DC team in BASEketball?
Didn't they just use an old Bullets template and substitute in Wizards? It's much, much, much better than the old logo and color scheme.
I am excited about what Shumpert brings to the table, but it's pretty clear that he's not ready to run an offense. They need a point. The 76ers exposed this during the second half of the 4th, as he could barely make it past half court.
Ridnour for Fields
Ridnour for Fields
Ridnour for Fields
Works for me. At this point, I don't see what Fields brings to the Knicks. There is no motion in the offense, so he's been effectively made useless. He's not a great defender either.
It's only available here for Comcast subscribers. If you get your tv any other way, you only get to watch a fraction of the games.
IIRC, to this point all the 1s Shumpert has been matched up with are guys who he is clearly physically/athletically superior to. This wasn’t the case with Holiday and it seemed to really bother him. A friend of mine pointed this out to me prior to the PHI game and I didn’t think much of it, but it did seem to show last night. In addition, his still shaky, at best, shot is exactly why I don’t want him as our “scorer off the bench” if/when Davis is healthy. He has a shot selection problem and though he will still likely take bad shots no matter what, I think it is tempered somewhat when the majority of his minutes come with guys higher on the pecking order. Once TD figures out his issues, and I have faith he can/will, I think that’s his role.
On a happier note, the Knicks are now 7th in Defensive Efficiency.
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Ridnour makes something like four times as much as Fields.
KAHHHNNNN!!!
OR
Ridnour ($3.7 M) for Fields ($0.8 M) & Jeffries ($1.2 M) & Bibby? ($1.3 M)?
Can Minnesota acquire a 16th player for salary matching purposes to let the trade go through, then waive him? Or do they have to open a spot on the roster to absorb the salary first?
Let's see how deep into the details of this made up internet trade that isn't going to happen.
Not sure why the Wolves would want Jeffries (though, I suppose, if they're in need of someone who can draw a charge he's your guy) or Bibby.
Also, I think the Knicks have used up their ability to toss cash into a deal w/ the Turiaf trade.
They would have to waive a player currently on the roster.
The more interesting MN personnel issue right now is whether AR gets to keep starter's minutes when Beasley heals. The offense flows much better, naturally, and he has developed into a pretty smart, efficient player. He works hard to get to the rim and is the only non-Love guy who is good at getting to the line. He used to shoot too many long twos, but those are fewer and fewer.
It is the internet, you don't!
But yeah I am with you on this one.
There wasn't a lot of love, but there were a couple posters who felt Jimmer was being underrated, IIRC.
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And yeah, my memory is not a huge amount of love here, but plenty in the MSM.
Oh, and...those of us with Rubio, Irving and/or Brooks crow to eat would prefer you wait.
More than ten games. Middle of next season seems about right to me.
New York
Sacramento
Orlando?
Oklahoma City?
LA Lakers?
Dallas? (depending on Kidd's availability)
Chicago? (depending on CJ Watson / Rose)
Add / delete at your leisure.
My fantasy team is ######.
If he were going to be great, I think we'd be seeing more of it by now. "Good" could take longer to develop though.
You didn't see JLIII last night I take it. No, the Bulls have no need or interest in a PG making anywhere near what Ridnour is making.
I'm still not sure either way. I am not going to make any judgments for a while, though. The Kings don't play great team ball, Jimmer included, and they went from a coach not well suited to them to an interim. I think his team is definitely playing into it.
Agreed. Did anyone think he was going to be great, though? I imagined him ending up as something like a variation on JJ Redick - a guy who can make open jumpers and 3s off the bench. A solid rotation guy, but never a star nor a starter on a good team.
Well, he would be if the refs ever called it on him...
Hopefully everyone's fantasy seasons survive this.
I thought (and I believe said at the time) that he would be a Ben Gordon type player and that I expected him to be a contributor in that mold, with Gordon his like 80th percentile projection. Obviously that hasn't happened yet. But yeah, we're 10 games into an anomalous season and he is on a team that's fired their coach and has all sorts of other problems. Too early to judge. To be honest, given how compacted the schedule is and the lack of training camp, I think it's going to be hard to evaluate any rookie based on their performance this year.
Horford: Well, we're (Hawks) boned.
I think you should almost always wait until mid-season two. That said, I knew Hurley wouldbe bust before he ever played pro ball, same for Morrison,... sometimes a pick is just bad.
The Fredette pick was bad, but not that bad. IIRC, I had him somewhere around where B-Pro had him (more passing, less shooting).
Proj: 25.0 min, 11.9 pts, 1.8 reb, 2.9 ast, 0.7 stl, 1.8 to, 39% fg, 34% 3pt, 88% ft
Real: 24.2 min, 8.5 pts, 1.6 reb, 2.3 ast, 0.5 stl, 1.8 to, 35% fg, 31% 3pt, 91% ft
Let's give him some time (especially with the mess the Kings are in).
IIRC, Fredette was the 7th pick.
My read on Fredette is that he will not be as good as Ben Gordon (when Gordon was at his best). For one thing, Gordon is a very strong guy and is a bit bigger than Fredette.
But I think Fredette will be a useful NBA player; as noted, he is in a tough situation right now.
Jimmer fans better hope that he suffers a debilitating injury that they can blame his lack of development on that.
Ha. Apparently Kwame even taught Bynum about getting hurt.
I heard today that Jamal Crawford extended his own NBA record last night with his 34th 4-point play. That's amazing tome.
Playing Kwame so many minutes, and even bringing him in, was classic "siding with the safe veteran choice to the long term detriment of the team" anyways. Udoh is raw and needs minutes to a) develop and b) see if he's worth keeping around long term.
Blessing in disguise for the Warriors and Jackson.
http://nba-point-forward.si.com/2012/01/12/crunch-time-failures-cost-heat-again/?sct=hp_wr_a1&eref=sihp
I think Hollinger basically agrees: Free Chat
I'm also skeptical. I can see Favors really taking off, Burks gets more PT and does well, Howard continues to play well and gets more PT, Harris gets back to his level with NJ, and maybe even Hayward plays decently. None of these would surprise me, but they're not all going to happen and I think they need three of the last four to have a legitimate shot.
Also:
As a D-Will fan this saddens me, though if he is already on the decline the Jazz made one hell of a trade. I was wondering about his awful numbers (.354 FG%, 4.6 TOV, and "only" 8.2 AST), and losing a step could definitely explain that. I think rust from the lockout is less of an excuse for him too since he did play in Turkey. Still, it's early and he's on an atrocious team, so we'll see.
2. Tony Allen had a wide open fast break layup, no one back, and somehow...the ball ended up by the 3 point line. Never seen that before at any level of basketball.
Yup. Shump has been funny.
Sorry, I should've specified. I was referring to the "dc" version that they use on ESPN. One of these team logos seems just a bit more phallic than the others.
Michael Redd has 8 points on 3-4 fg through the first quarter in his first game of the year for Phoenix.
So, any early word on Carmelo?
(Seriously, don't do that. Really don't do that at Bayi.)
He does that about 15 times a year it seems like. He is maybe the only guy I've ever seen that might be better on the break when he's got somebody around him. It's almost like he can only play at full speed, so if he's wide open and has an easy jogging layup he donks it off the rim or something like that. However, at least anecdotally he seems to have some of his best games when he blows a wide-open fast break early. I don't really know what that's all about.
Rudy Gay finally found his shot and had a tremendous game. The media was on him a bit after the first few games, but I really haven't felt like he was lacking in effort, he just couldn't get his shot to fall and was probably pressing a little after the long layoff and then Z-Bo going down. They need a lot from him with Randolph out, but he's got to avoid trying to do too much. He can get a bit too aggressive at times and wind up forcing up jumpers and dribbling into traffic.
And Marc Gasol once again did a lot of the dirty work on defense and the boards with a 10/12/5/4 pts/reb/asts/blks. I think he is probably their best player with Randolph out, and honestly considering the defensive impact he brings, he might even be their best player including Randolph.
It's going to be tough without Randolph though. They've mostly hung in there in all their losses, that Chicago blowout notwithstanding, but they have tended to hit a stretch some time in the second half where they can't get any turnovers and the offense dies. If you execute on offense during their dry spells you can hold them off and beat them. If Rudy can get going, maybe he can correct some of that, and it helps when O.J. Mayo is as hot as he was tonight, but I'm still hoping they can just go about .500 until Z-Bo gets back.
After rereading this sentence, I feel like I should clarify that this is only in reference to the game tonight. I really don't know what to make of the Knicks overall.
that's a really nice game for him, on top of what's been a really nice start to his rookie season.
I watched the first half of this game ... apparently it picked up even more in the second half. When they hacked him at the end of the first quarter I realized how good a technique this is. Instead of the opponent getting the last shot, they get a point (on average) and then YOU get the last shot. Pomeroy talks about this a lot in the college case -- he's a proponent of fouling on purpose up 2 at the end of a game -- of course FT percentage is significantly worse there. But with Howard or a similarly bad free throw shooter (like a Haywood or Biedrins) at the end of a quarter I think it's a no-brainer and surprised we don't see that particular hack a lot more often.
I feel bad for Howard. Not because of the embarrassment, but, I mean, like Shaq, the guy is getting mercilessly pounded by a rotating army of stiffs (paging Mike Piazza to a courtesy phone). It can't be nearly as much fun as, you know, getting to play basketball. Enough to drive a guy to take steroids.
QFT. And Mike Crudale, listening to the Beatles.
I don't feel bad for him, though; if he makes 70%, teams would stop doing it, and if he made 80%, teams would active avoid putting him on the line for fear of a bunch of 3-pt plays. On the NBA podcast the other day, Legler talked about how, when he was on the Wizards, they had a shooting coach who was the same guy who worked with Shaq. During games when Shaq was clanking throws we'd always hear announcers talk about how Shaq would shoot a ton of free throws after practice, and that it wasn't for a lack of effort that he was horrible from the line. According to the shooting coach, Shaq was showing up for FT practice with a cell phone. He'd shoot a couple, then send a few texts, then shoot some more — IOW, he wasn't taking it seriously.
I'm not saying D12 is doing this, but he has the power to stop this type of game plan. I hope he gets it together on the line, though. These games could be completely unwatchable.
Hslf listening to an old Hang Up and Listen (sports podcast) - they made a steagles joke/reference (the team, not the guy). Just thought I'd share.
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Bulls are saying it's a game time decision whether or not Rose plays tonight in Boston. No Hamilton or Watson though. I'd like to see JLIII try to take 28 shots on Rondo tonight (that's not at all true, or what I really want, but if Rose isn't playing, why the hell not). No matter how bad or banged up or whatever the C's are right now, the Bulls have no chance of winning without Rose in the lineup tonight.
EDIT: Rose says he's playing. But he also said he'd play the other night and he didn't.
Seriously, he's beating the dead horse like Simmons does now.
Our man DK is boldly participating in the new political thread. Gotta hand it to him. I am burned out on those.
Politics: I'm due, it's been a few months. Besides, we've got some smart people here, maybe I'll learn something.
I've defended Abbott here, but I rolled my eyes at that one.
Victory is mine!
I like Abbott, but on this topic, he's just annoying if not petty. If it were truly about crunch time, it'd be ok. But it's not, at least not anymore, now it's about how he doesn't like Kobe. Because Kobe's the only example he ever uses. It's one trick, and he's been doing it for seasons now.
That euphemism is thankfully new to me.
Ah, bunyon - you're the most genteel posting Lib on the site.
It seems like Abbott has chosen this as his moneyball/Malcolm Gladwell hill to die on, and he's going to flog it until it enters mainstream discourse. As far as causes go, it's not the worst choice, although I would enjoy if he would quit using Kobe quite so constantly as his strawman, as there are plenty of other worthy targets, and differentiation would do his argument good.
Well, that's what I get for taking my time. Coke to Jimmy
He would do that, if it were entirely about the "argument", but it has been clear for awhile that that isn't the case. It was actually clear a couple of years ago, but it has gotten so blatant now that even many non-Lakers fans are sick of it, and here we actually have a Celtics fan suggesting that maybe Abbott should find another "worthy target."
In terms of actual basketball, I think Kobe should be taking the Lakers' last shots, or setting them up, but they should be doing it by setting him up on the blocks or the elbow,using screens, curls, etc. At his age, with his hands, he simply can't hold the ball 25 feet from the basket, take a guy one-on-one and knock shots down at anywhere near a high enough % to make it a good call. They did that against Utah and he clanked it; Abbott ran a huge picture on his blog of the disastrous last possession 1-on-4 against the Bulls after the Christmas game. How much of that decision-making one wants to put on Bryant and one wants to put on Brown is another issue, but it is a change that needs to happen.
Pelton wrote a long piece in the BaskPro annual defending ISOs as a general, if not necessarily a last-shot, strategy.
Abbott's a big Portland fan. I'm not saying Kobe's two impossible iso 3-pointers at the end of regulation and OT got under Abbott's skin a little, but I bet they still sting.
I think my point is that you shouldn't use historically great players to prove a general point. How many Kobe Bryants are there in the league, now or ever? Up to this point in his career, healthy Chris Paul has been arguably playing at an all-time top-5 level; he's uniquely gifted in the league. These are not the players you should be using to argue for or against a general point.
Sure, it makes sense if Kobe getting a lot of adulation BOTHERS YOU. If you are really just interested in knowledge, etc, as Abbott claims to be, Kobe is just one point in the argument.
Maybe one could say it made sense the first 10 or 12 times. But Abbott, has, literally, written about this 25 or so times since the first 3000-comment bonanza last January before the Super Bowl, and in the wake of that, openly announced his intentions to do so.
Also, Abbott has never, to my knowledge, given LeBron any crap for poor crunch-time optics, numbers, or hero-ball shots. After James and the Heat took the down the Bulls with, in part, some hero-ball action in the ECF, Abbott wrote a post entitled, "Looking for the new Michael Jordan? Found Him" and then when the Finals proved that was a little premature, never really blamed James for any issues in the Finals, never reconsidered the statement, and never broke down James' and Dirk's fourth-quarter Finals numbers, which were a key part of the narrative of that series. He did, however, write a post a couple of weeks after the Finals saying the Lakers should consider amnestying Kobe because he was obviously headed for a steep decline.
In the present, Miami has had back-to-back 4th quarter meltdowns, and Zach Lowe, as I linked here, wrote about it. The Lakers meanwhile have won four straight with Kobe averaging 36 a game and shooting 50%. Yet Abbott podcasted about the Kobe clutch thing again today, complete with the subtle dig at Kobe's character. Maybe he talked about the Heat in the actual pod, I don't know. But ISTM, like it did to Lowe, (a Boston fan, BTW) that Miami in the clutch is a more interesting basketball topic for today. Abbott,I think, has some things on his mind other than basketball.
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True. Also, as noted here (including by you) and in many places, Abbott is really talking about "last shots" more than "crunch time."
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