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damn the way griffin falls into the floor is funny
matt barnes got jerked hard. completely unfair to him. he's had a few questionable moments, but he's always been ahard player, especially on the defensive endpiece of ****
hate how players get the benefit or non-benefit of the doubt based on their reputation in the nba. totaly ref bias.
refs should not be out there making judgement calls. total bs
Combine numbers are more overatted as indicator of athleticism than athleticism itself though. Kevin Durant tested as the worst athlete in his draft class. Luke Jackson scored a higher vertical leap than Andre Iguodala and JR Smith. Kevin Love is slow and doesn't run fast or jump high.Why does everyone think Kevin love isn't athletic?
I'm saying. Being white definitely has people labeling love as an "unathletic" "fundamental" "heady" "crafty" bball player. (Bball code words) His combine numbers were pretty good actually, something like a 36inch vert. And this was when he was chubby
K love isn't a super athlete, but he has a quick second jump and is far from slow for a PF. I don't think its really fair to label him as unathletic. He's an average athlete.
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[h3]Bird Believes Granger Doesn't Work Hard Enough In Offseason[/h3]
Dec 22, 2013 2:58 PM EST
Danny Granger has fallen out of the plans of the Indiana Pacers while he's been out due to injury as the team has become a title contender without him.
Granger is earning $14 million in the expiring season of his contract.
"It's really important for me to remain a Pacer," Granger said Saturday. "I feel like I've been a big part of the building, gone through a lot of the bad years and now the good. I'd love to stay, but I understand the business of basketball and I understand that I might be a trade commodity."
"I've talked to Danny, talked to his agent; I'm not looking to trade him," team President Larry Bird said Saturday. "But you never know. If the right thing came along that would help the franchise, I would have to look at it, but I'm not out there looking at deals."
Bird questions whether Granger's work ethic will allow him to become his former self.
"He doesn't work hard enough (in the offseason)," Bird said. "He's not a guy who'll push himself to the brink like a lot of our guys do. He works hard but he doesn't push himself. That's why he starts slow every year and he just works his way back. Now this year, he's been hurt, so it's a different deal."
Bird believes Granger can become the Pacers' x-factor late in the season and into the playoffs.
"You know how I feel about Danny," Bird said. "He brings so much more to our team than people realize. Watching the game Friday night, our team finally looked complete. Just his toughness, his ability to shoot the ball from the outside. What we're going to need is for him to defend. It all boils down to how he defends, and that'll determine how many minutes he gets."
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he avged 9 his rookie year and 11 his sophomore year playing under 30 mins a game before Pek got therelove is an amazing scoring machine but i am not sure if he is such an amazing rebounder , i havent watched him during college but in minnesota i d say it isnt that hard to grab the rebounds if u have the mountain pekovic beside you.
pekovic or no pekovic though love is 1st or 2nd best PF in the league , with this rubio and trades like moute for derrick willliams wolves go nowhere
I shant quote that gif. But I hate you, fervently[h3] [/h3][h3]Bird Believes Granger Doesn't Work Hard Enough In Offseason[/h3]
Dec 22, 2013 2:58 PM EST
Danny Granger has fallen out of the plans of the Indiana Pacers while he's been out due to injury as the team has become a title contender without him.
Granger is earning $14 million in the expiring season of his contract.
"It's really important for me to remain a Pacer," Granger said Saturday. "I feel like I've been a big part of the building, gone through a lot of the bad years and now the good. I'd love to stay, but I understand the business of basketball and I understand that I might be a trade commodity."
"I've talked to Danny, talked to his agent; I'm not looking to trade him," team President Larry Bird said Saturday. "But you never know. If the right thing came along that would help the franchise, I would have to look at it, but I'm not out there looking at deals."
Bird questions whether Granger's work ethic will allow him to become his former self.
"He doesn't work hard enough (in the offseason)," Bird said. "He's not a guy who'll push himself to the brink like a lot of our guys do. He works hard but he doesn't push himself. That's why he starts slow every year and he just works his way back. Now this year, he's been hurt, so it's a different deal."
Bird believes Granger can become the Pacers' x-factor late in the season and into the playoffs.
"You know how I feel about Danny," Bird said. "He brings so much more to our team than people realize. Watching the game Friday night, our team finally looked complete. Just his toughness, his ability to shoot the ball from the outside. What we're going to need is for him to defend. It all boils down to how he defends, and that'll determine how many minutes he gets."
damn thats sick , rebounding is so hard in basketball this guy makes it piss easy then , i dont know how he does it , he got 18 boards yesterday against the best rebounding duo in the nba ? godamnhe avged 9 his rookie year and 11 his sophomore year playing under 30 mins a game before Pek got there
The salary's dont match...but if they could swing it....
Lance Stephenson's new signature move > _________
I read an article today about the possibility of Hill x Granger for Rondo. If that happens
I honestly love the idea
[h1]NBA Reportedly Considering Eliminating Draft Lottery in Favor of Wheel System[/h1]
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NBA tank jobs may have met their match: the wheel.
According to Grantland's Zach Lowe, the Association may have found a replacement for the draft lottery and will consider bringing said proposal to league owners in 2014.
Instead of draft orders being determined by weighted lotteries that take previous records into account, each team would pick in a specific first-round slot once every 30 years without repetition.
From Lowe:
This is essentially a three-decade-long cycle, where numeric sequences determine your draft order in advance.Each team would simply cycle through the 30 draft slots, year by year, in a predetermined order designed so that teams pick in different areas of the draft each year. Teams would know with 100 percent certainty in which draft slots they would pick every year, up to 30 years out from the start of every 30-year cycle. The practice of protecting picks would disappear; there would never be a Harrison Barnes–Golden State situation again, and it wouldn’t require a law degree to track ownership of every traded pick leaguewide.
For example, under the proposed system, a team that has the No. 1 pick would draft 30th overall the next year, 19th overall the one after that and so on and so forth until they've cruised through all 30 positions.
Per Lowe, the system is also set up so "every team would be guaranteed one top-six pick every five seasons, and at least one top-12 pick in every four-year span," basically ensuring that at no point in the "wheel" are teams forced to endure years of unfavorable draft spots.
That's the general idea of this proposal. Lowe's article is worth an entire read and gives a pointed, blow-by-blow breakdown of various scenarios.
He also notes that this is in the very early stages of development and couldn't be implemented until all current draft debts have been fulfilled, which could take up to a decade.
But while the idea has gained "traction" throughout the NBA, it's met by opposition too. And it will inevitably meet even more detractors along the way.
No system is perfect, including this one. Just as the current lottery caters to teams terrible by design, this one has its own flaws that must be addressed.
One such concern is how this impacts collegiate players' decisions.
By knowing which teams select where in advance, college athletes could tailor their draft declarations accordingly, ensuring they wind up on a team or in a market of their choosing.
This idea also could ultimately reward contending teams or—to a more drastic extent—NBA champions. Theoretically, a franchise that just won a title could be drafting in a top-five slot.
Supporting this may potentially punish teams that are actually rebuilding as well. The NBA is basically saying, "Here are your next 30 draft picks. Plan your reclamation projects accordingly."
Is that necessarily fair? Injuries creep up and free-agency shockers abound, forcing teams into sudden rebuilds. That top-six pick every five seasons exists for parity's sake, but it's not a cure-all.
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This system is met to deter tank jobs like the one Golden State embarked on in 2011-12.
I'm also wondering how this impacts future trades. Does this mean teams can trade draft picks up to 30 years in advance? If it does, fans of the first-round averse New York Knicks are in trouble.
Lowe notes the proposal accounts for some of these glitches, including contraction, expansion and initial placement within the cycle. But there are still plenty of kinks to work out.
Imperfections and all, this is still an interesting course of action to consider and further proof that the NBA is readily aware that tanking is a problem.
"Our team isn't good enough to win and we know it," one anonymous general manager told ESPN the Magazine's Jeff Goodman in October. "So this season we want to develop and evaluate our young players, let them learn from their mistakes—and get us in position to grab a great player. The best way for us to do that is to lose a lot of games."
Years from now, if this system or some version of it is in place, losing a lot of games will no longer have the advantages it does now.
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HMMMMMMMMM. Interesting. I like it in theory.For example, under the proposed system, a team that has the No. 1 pick would draft 30th overall the next year, 19th overall the one after that and so on and so forth until they've cruised through all 30 positions.
Per Lowe, the system is also set up so "every team would be guaranteed one top-six pick every five seasons, and at least one top-12 pick in every four-year span," basically ensuring that at no point in the "wheel" are teams forced to endure years of unfavorable draft spots.