THEE OFFICIAL 2019-2020 NBA OFFSEASON THREAD: VICTORY LAP

[BIG LEEMELONE]

Kerr took the Carlisle pill and wants to leave flailing in 2019

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Good player. Reminds me a bit of Celtics Jae Crowder.

Yes sir, DFS and Royce Oneale are two of the most salt of the Earth/intangibles types who have both improved their jumpshots as well. They won't really get too much recognition but yeah

 

[lawdog1]

Pg13 has been terrible lately

He shot poorly in this one, but was one assist shy of a trip-dub with 3 steals. I’d call it a good all-around game for him.

 

[lawdog1]

Kerr took the Carlisle pill and wants to leave flailing in 2019

The James Harden Influence...

 

[addict4sneakers]

waiting for that PJ tucker meme

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Luka's having an interesting game so far

 

[ill steelo]

Agreed.

Oan

There's a big different between catching the ball with 15 feet between you and the basket and catching the ball with 1 or 2 feet in the paint. If kp started out with better positioning and didn't settle for fade away jumpshots, he'd be much better in the post. No reason to not get a great shot off if you're 7'3 with a 6'9 or smaller player guarding you.

It's not about the play having no value, it's about not teaching it the right way to begin with.

And so much other good things happen from just throwing the ball in. Gsw won multiple titles throwing the ball in the post and having klay/durant/curry screen for each other

no matter who it is, you're not gonna have much success 15 feet away from the hoop settling for fadeaways

The last thing you want is MORE spacing on the floor when you’re playing LeBron or Kawhi. Porzingis is several inches over 7 feet. He can’t let teams stick guards on him.

On December 31, no less @nickmaz96

This is their 4th game in 6 days. This was probably identified as a load management night before the season began.

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Haven't heard Chris Paul in any All Star discussion but as of now he probably deserves it over the other 2 Thunder guards. Just looked at their numbers, didn't realize how similar they looked

 

[everysingletime]

You can't look at a player and say 'oh he's 7'3, he should be posting up'

It's not about the height of the player, it's about how good the player is, at posting up

That's why in my other post I said it depends on the player

For posting up, I'd say the ability to handle physicality > height. Porzingis was not made for the post.

 

[lawdog1]

You can't look at a player and say 'oh he's 7'3, he should be posting up'

It's not about the height of the player, it's about how good the player is, at posting up

That's why in my other post I said it depends on the player

As addict4sneakers pointed out, the most effective post-up players have strength. It’s actually even more important than height. That’s the problem for KP.

 

[HOU$TON]

17 point lead down 3
Rockets trash out of halftime
Russ shooting midrange out of a post up

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

You can't look at a player and say 'oh he's 7'3, he should be posting up'

It's not about the height of the player, it's about how good the player is, at posting up

That's why in my other post I said it depends on the player

For posting up, I'd say the ability to handle physicality > height. Porzingis was not made for the post.

Nah. It's not ok for a guy who can dunk without jumping to not be able to play close to the basket. He has to figure it out

 

[Moheezy]

Family....

Let us take a minute to appreciate

The real goat


.. that last pic has me in literal tears.

There will never be another.

The World needs more people like Klay.

 

[everysingletime]

Nah. It's not ok for a guy who can dunk without jumping to not be able to play close to the basket. He has to figure it out

He just doesn't have it

To put it simply he is just too soft

The mavericks would just be wasting time trying to make him a low post player. You either got it or you don't.

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

He just doesn't have it

To put it simply he is just too soft

Right. And that's not ok. Dude has a max contract. Tallest rotation player in the NBA. Gotta figure it out.

 

[everysingletime]

Right. And that's not ok.

But I never said it was ok. It's just the reality. He is what he is.

And I feel you on the contract. I personally would've never signed him for that much money I'm not into tall, finesse players. It's like they have the worst of both worlds. They lack the mobility of the shorter players. But they lack the physicality to play to their height.

I would never try to build around KP

 

[amitt5504]

Sooo we know it ain’t Embiid he talking about lol

 

[HOU$TON]

Malone left Jokic on the bench too long

 

[HOU$TON]

Run these boys out the bity

 

[Retroballer]

Having Eric Gordon back>>

 

[pums]

Hartenstein is solid

 

[HOU$TON]

Quality win over Denver
Harden 35&6
Westbrook had a rough lil stretch in the 3rd but played a great game. 28&7 on 50%FG
Big Clint with 16&10
Former G League finals mvp Hartenstein finally getting added to the rotation. No more Gary Clark at the 5 foolishness
EG welcome back
About to hit the streets, happy New Years NT
Health and wealth for 2020

 

[B Sox]

Rockets scary when the two are both on.

 

[100027]

KP actually showed plenty of post up moves when he was on the Knicks, especially his first couple seasons. I’m surprised that people are saying it’s impossible for him.

Was he efficient from there? Probably not, but he didn’t look lost there.

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

KP actually showed plenty of post up moves when he was on the Knicks, especially his first couple seasons. I’m surprised that people are saying it’s impossible for him.

Was he efficient from there? Probably not, but he didn’t look lost there.

The vid cited that he was like 16th or something in efficiency for guys who posted up a certain number of times (also that was the year where he got hurt so that sample size was perhaps a bit inconclusive)

The narrative on him coming in was that he would get shut down by guards, particularly Marcus Smart. So idk