Official 2013 NBA Offseason Thread

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Beas going to look like a star playing against second units. Hopefully Wade gets him to switch his drug of preference from bud to HGH and Lebron can teach him how to play defense.
 
I'm not denying there's potential the Heat have struck gold on this deal.

But there's a reason he was released from the Suns...y'all really making it seem like they acquired the 6th Man of the Year. He's trash.
 
beasley to miami
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rose minus whale sit out another year
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As far as Beasley playing well, I'll believe it when I see it.
 
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The Glove speaks up about today's point guards and how they're very different to when he played. Pretty interesting read (not much we didn't know already, but yeah). The NBA changes all the time, so it's not to say this is a bad transformation. Some of everyone's favorite players are Rose, Russ, etc.


Gary Payton prefers '90s point guards over today's era
By Sean Deveney (Sporting News)

Three times in the last six NBA drafts, the No. 1 pick has been a point guard, a surprising turn of events considering that the last pure point guard to be taken with the top pick had been Magic Johnson in 1979. Johnson, too, had been the last point guard to win an MVP, in 1990, until Steve Nash changed that in 2004. Now, three of the past nine MVPs have gone to point guards.

In last year’s All-Star game, six of the 25 players selected for the game were point guards—Chris Paul, Tony Parker and Russell Westbrook in the West, and Kyrie Irving, Rajon Rondo and Jrue Holiday in the East. That’s a big number, especially considering former MVP Derrick Rose was injured, certain future All-Star Stephen Curry just missed the cut and Deron Williams was having a down year.

With so many stars at the position, this has been called a golden age of point guards in the NBA. Except one of the all-time greats begs to differ.

“We don’t really have point guards in the NBA right now,” newly minted Hall of Famer Gary Payton told SN. “We got, really, two-guards, and that’s just a fact. They score a lot and things like that. Nowadays, we have a lot of two-guards that’s ones, and they score and that’s what basketball is about right now. Basketball is about excitement and putting up points and that’s just the way it is. In my day, we had a lot of true point guards and we competed with each other every night. It is a little different now, it is different eras.”

Payton said the league has, basically, three legitimate point guards: Chris Paul, Rajon Rondo and Tony Parker. Those are the players who run a team in the mold of Payton or his great rival from the 1990s, John Stockton. Increasingly, as the NBA has adjusted to the 2004 rule changes that eliminated hand-checking on the perimeter and allowed zone defenses, point guards have morphed into hybrid scorers.

Those rule changes were necessary in the wake of the 1998 NBA lockout, which sapped the game of popularity. It didn’t help, either, that the league had become dominated by slow-it-down coaches who preached physical defense. In the season before the new rules, the average NBA team scored 93.4 points per game—last year, that was up to 98.1 points.

“Basketball changed,” Payton said. “It was slow after the first lockout. They had to build it up. David Stern did a great job bringing basketball back because he knew kids wanted to see run-and-gun. They did not want to see defense like the Knicks were doing, setting up defenses and running plays, doing everything slow. Kids were not doing that on the playground so it did not look like basketball to them. We sped the game up.”

But speeding the game up forced unexpected changes to the point guard spot. Seven players in the Top 25 in scoring last year were point guards, and only one player (Greivis Vasquez of New Orleans) topped 700 total assists for the year.

In the nine years since the rules changes went into effect, there have been an average of 2.6 players per season with more than 700 assists per year. In the nine years before the first lockout—the heart of Payton’s era—there were an average of 4.0 players per year with more than 700 assists.

There are an increasing number of star players at point guard. But that doesn’t necessarily mean there has been great point guard play, not in the classic sense of the phrase. It can be argued—and there is no doubt where Payton stands on the question—that the 1990s was a better period for true point guards than what we have now.

“I like my era better,” Payton said. “I went against point guards every year, and we just played tough. You had Tim Hardaway, Kevin Johnson, a lot of them guys who were playing. John Stockton—that’s what I like about my era. We could hand-check, we could do a lot of stuff defensively. We could control our teams, all five guys. We didn’t have to score 25, 26 points. We get 17 points, 10 dimes and three or four steals. That was my era. I loved that era.”
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http://www.sportingnews.com/nba/sto...n-stockton-chris-paul-rajon-rondo-tony-parker
 
im going to go head and say that the heat going to 3peat. Beastly coming off the bench. Can only imagine the line up the heat will have......small ball will be won this year.
 
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I'm not denying there's potential the Heat have struck gold on this deal.

But there's a reason he was released from the Suns...y'all really making it seem like they acquired the 6th Man of the Year. He's trash.
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Probably because it was his 2nd arrest and 3rd incident in only a year there...perhaps?
 
If this doesn't wake Beasley up nothing will. Dude has a great opportunity to shine.


Well see...
 
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Mike Beasley to the Heat -- wow. Wonder if the comments his dad made about him being traded from Miami to Minnesota after LeBron was signed will ever come up. basically his dad said on twitter the reason he was traded was because he looked like DeLonte West and didn't want LeBron to have that reminder everyday....
 
It's not like he was great on the court if not for those arrests, though. He has all the talent, but when he's had to move 3 times in 3 years now, clearly the guy is never going to get it no matter what situation he finds himself in.

I hope I'm wrong. I wanted him to do well in Minnesota.
 
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