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are the hawks really this bad?
Saw this in twitterverse - Bulls had 59 rebounds, Hawks had 58 points.
that is one weird list. popeye jones, rasho nesterovic, evan eschmeyer, michael ruffin, lorenzen wright. dennis rodman, jerome williams, horrace grant, zydrunas ilgauskas, lamarcus aldridge.
Goodbye, Josh.
Hibbert did something similar recently. I think he had 9 OREB out of 10 total. It is very strange indeed. Makes me think the defensive scheme is not optimizing their rebounding abilities.
Must be Hollinger's fault. They need to get out of their moms' basements and watch a basketball game.
"It was like going to Morton's Steakhouse and paying $63 for porterhouse and they bring out cube steak," said McGuinness, who said he bought his ticket on the resale market. "That's exactly what happened here."
Something tells me he is not going to win this.
JaVale played the second worst game I've seen him play this season. I think it was the Knicks game that was the only one that was worse. As someone who watches the Knicks and the Nuggets regularly, what I've noticed about him and STAT in terms of their post-Dream School post-game is that they seem much more decisive. I wonder whether Hakeem emphasizes decision making more than anything. JaVale got a little out of control last night and struggled to finish, but he's been generally very effective this year catching the ball and immediately making his move whether it's a turnaround, a backdown, or a post-spin. In particular, the strategy of quick decision making seems post effective with the post-spin because I think most bigs playing defense gear up to stop a methodical backdown when the ball is tossed into the post.
Wow, you've got to love Popeye Jones throwing up 12 boards, all offensive, zero defensive. That is wacky.
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The media keeps focusing on Carlos Boozer and his "Eastern Conference-leading 21st double-double" last night. Superficially, he is playing "better" than last year - he counting stats are up. But his rate stats are down - he's shooting the lowest FG% in his career. However, he's actually playing worse than his first year in Chicago - across the board. He's not playing more minutes. He's not getting more shots. He's only getting these double doubles that seem to be mesmerizing everyone. Now, I will say he does seem more engaged defensively and you see more effort plays out of him. But that could simply me my, and others', selective memories at work.
Having said all that, he actually has been really damn good this month (8 games), after a really bad Nov/Dec. He's averaging 24/11 on 56% shooting, so there's a narrative forming about his whole season. It's kind of funny to see the gymnastics people are going through to defend him now after all the #### he's taken the last 2 seasons.
That's pretty much what my memory of him was during his Utah tenure as well. It would almost be easier to accept if he was simply a bust, but instead he was one of the most frustrating players I ever cheered for cuz he'd go through stretches - not just a random game here or there, but sometimes several weeks in a row - where he'd look simply unstoppable. But then he'd get bored for a few games, barely bothering to get involved in the offense and completely checking out on defense. It was maddening.
He was a big part of the 2007-2010 Jazz's success so I'll always root for him, but I wasn't too sad to see him go, either. The bi-polar play just got to be a bit much for my liking.
Edit: Oh, and getting injured if people looked at him funny, of course. He has the Malone/LeBron physique that looks like he should be durable, but he...well...isn't.
For example, I'm not sure Bryant Stith really brings much to "Kobe Bryant Stith", but "Kobe Bryant Reeves" is an interesting beast. LeBron doesn't have a lot of holes in his game, but LeBron James Harden's FT% and Rate would be (more) frightening.
Dwight Howard Eisley?
Michael Jordan....Crawford? ...Hill?
Didn't Moses suggest Joakim Price at some point?
Oh, I see what you mean now. Sorry. I thought we were just coming up with #######' players.
How about Larry Bird-man Andersen?
EDIT: Or Isaac Austin Car(r)melo Anthony Mason Plumlee
That's a perfect storm of coming up short.
This player would probably start balding in middle school.
On the flip side, Chris Anderson Varejao would have the coolest hair in the league.
I was trying to think of the worst possible combination, but unfortunately I can't think of anyone whose last name was Eric or first name was Snow (because obviously Eric Snow would be in this combination).
Otherwise, Shawn Bradley Beal sounds like an intriguing combo.
Never bet against a Reign Man when fertility is on the line.
I was trying to think of that too (but didn't get very far)...some of these combined skillsets would be the greatest player ever in the NBA. But I bet there's lots of combinations that are still a *$(# sandwich.
tony allen iverson
terrell brandon bass
terrell brandon jennings
steve blake griffin
marshon brooks lopez
luol deng gai
ben gordon heyward
jeremy tyler hansbrough
lebron james johnson
lebron james jones
carl landry fields
carmelo anthony randolph
isiah thomas robinson
brandon roy hibbert
mike scott machado
I'm trying to picture the face. This is a pretty odd looking guy, right?
How does he compare to Chris Paul Mokeski?
Omer Kerr : tall as Kerr, shoots like Asik ...
Though the other ways around for these combo would be pretty good.
Rockets after a big run now lost 5 strait, some of their guys really look like their hitting a wall, expected from a team where almost no one played a full year as starter last year I guess.
Darius Miles Plumlee
Donyell Marshall Plumlee
Bryce Drew Gooden
Antoine Carrmelo Anthony Randolph Morris Peterson
Kobe Bryant Stith
Manute Ginobili
The poor man's Chris Paul Mokeski. Still better than Tate Georghe Muresan.
On the way home, listened to the post game show. George Karl said something really interesting, talking about the growth of his team. He said the really good teams play hard 42 minutes a game. And that Denver had improved a lot over the past 20 games, and were now up around 32 to 35 minutes a game.
That captured the Portland game perfectly. They had 8 dominant minutes at the end of the game, and spurts of 3-4 minutes where they either whittled down a lead or built a slight cushion. Like a lot of their games the past few weeks, there was a period in the 4th quarter where their defensive pressure was so strong that the other team turned the ball over more times than they shot and missed. But they needed just a few more minutes of that level of intensity, and instead they retreated from working to playing and let Portland back in.
Anyhow, I thought of evaluating teams on the basis of the # of minutes of playing hard was pretty interesting.
some more are: willie warren jabali, dave meyers leonard, jason terry porter, david wesley matthews, reggie lewis lloyd, jarrett jack sikma (who is better than reggie jackson vroman).
Michael Jordan Crawford amuses me because Crawford brings high usage and fearlessness in taking a shot to the table. Except there was plenty of that on the table already.
Kobe Bryant Stith is another wait-why-do-I-need-to-be-mashed-up-with-you guy, I think.
really though, allan ray allen and shelvin mack calvin are all i needed to say.
they're still ####### terrible, though. they pulled a win, but they had to come back from being 20 down, at home, against toronto, so it's not exactly a banner performance.
Seriously though, if Rose is at even 75%, the Bulls can really do some damage in the playoffs.
Heh.
But the comment about them being pointless feels kind of dead on.
This doesn't feel like a team that can play hard enough to win a playoff series, even if they have home court advantage.
Moses is clearly baiting me by quoting Mr. Finger Guns. :-)
Certainly not the Lakers.
Since I was one of the ones arguing with you about this, thank you for following up on it. I think it's a shame that Hunter will basically be able to get away with this after having forced Fisher out.
The whole finger gun thing has always been lame. And he made a big deal that he was going to stop it after the Newtown shooting, but sometimes he just can't help himself.
I didn't mention yesterday, but Deng's injury doesn't sound great. It's not terrible, but he's going to miss some time (although they officially won't even say he's not playing tonight when it's clear he won't). He had tweaked the hamstring before, and looks like he re-pulled it. He might struggle with that all year. I hate to see how the Bulls offense is going to look with him out too. I like Jimmy Butler and think he can do some nice things, but he's not at all reliable offensively yet.
Wait, how did no one take that to "The Tyson Chandler Parsons Project"?
Other being a free agent at the end of the season, that's not really a status change for Josh Smith.
Though...
...I suspect this sad news makes it more likely Smith is traded during the season, as opposed to Ferry playing hardball with potential trade partners and taking his chances on a better sign-and-trade deal in the Summer. But, without a great offer for Smith, I still think Ferry chooses to play the season out and take the cap space.
and i don't know whether it's mchale or morey who has almost instituted a "no 2 point shot unless it's 5 feet away". the reason a 3 point shot is good is because there's not a huge % difference in the 21 foot shot and the 24 foot shot. but there IS a huge % difference between the 10 foot shot and the 24 foot shot.
he's got four very talented players (harden, lin, parsons, asik) and if the rox are playing run and gun, they need to sub more. if they're playing halfcourt, they need to pnr/screen more. as is, they look awful - and many of those problems are the same ones that were present during the first games of the season, except that harden was bailing them out.
Everyone keeps waiting for things to get better, and for the personnel to click with the game plan. It's not happening, and the more you watch this team the more you realize it'll never happen for this group.
Obviously everything is contingent on openness, but the numbers don't really bear this out. Away from the rim, percentages stay relatively constant no matter the difference, as you can sort of see here:
http://hoopdata.com/teamshotlocs.aspx
to be contested than the far away ones). however, there are many more opps for open closer shots in their game - they're just passing out for similarly open threes.
Why does Billy Hunter still have a job? Also, I think the fact that the majority of the players in the NBA aren't college graduates is really hurting them here. Its pretty clear that Hunter thought and knew he could take advantage of a league that wouldn't question him. Especially compared to the leadership of the other current Player Associations/unions, Billy Hunter is scum.
Of course, in other related news, the Lakers lost to the Raptors anyway.
Assistant coaches Elston Turner and Dan Majerle may be leaving organization.
I thought McHale did well as an interim with the Wolves a few years ago in terms of optimizing offense. As good as he was defensively, he did not coac it well.
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