lawdog1
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Jrue is interesting. He’ll have a game where he puts up a smooth, efficient 35 and it makes you wonder why he doesn’t average 20+. But that’s not the kind of player he is.
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Moheezy
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lol my bad fam.
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Y'all maxing Drummond its inevitable
Moheezy
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He's been mad inconsistent this season, he'll have game where he puts up 31, 8, 9 with 2stls and a block but others were he shoots 4 for 15 with high turnovers.
It might also be because of an undefined role? He's played PG, SG, and SF this season.
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In my mind this is what I think goes down
Knicks: hey we got some garbage for you
Every other team: Cool we got some trash.
Knicks: hey we got some garbage for you
Every other team: Cool we got some trash.
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exactly this all facts. Dudes talking about just LAL and LAC only to get WASHED by MIL in the finals. Knowing my Rockets that’s exactly what would happen too
do work son
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it's february against a team that lost 11 games in a row. rockets came out and didn't try in the first quarter and lost the first quarter 34-22. gotta give it to young teams like the hornets. they try hard.
then the rest of the game happened. the rockets won the 2nd/3rd/4th quarter 103-76. in the 4th, the hornets had 1 offensive rebound. playing small is not without faults, but when you have roster and cap limitations, you have to make calculated trade-offs in places. the rockets have decided they will trade-off rebounding for insane floor spacing because it accommodates Russ/James getting to the rim freely and all the role players to have wide open 3s if a big sags into the paint to help.
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What kinda phone you got
Moheezy
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It's not an illusion, it's been done multiple times, heck, even Atlanta was trying to do what GSW did. But it comes in trends and takes one team to change things up.
Miami copied Boston with the Big 3 blue print, GSW (sort of) took Miami's blue print of small ball and took to the next level, LA is mixing things up now with GSW out of the picture and may set a new trend.
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It was his age, legal problem, and getting kicked off Illinois
lawdog1
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Yeah, I was thinking lack of clear role definition might be part of it. Gotta be a challenge figuring out how much to defer to guys like BI and Zion and how much to try and get his.
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Meanwhile the Sixers are tryna have 4 PF/C and want em all to be snipers from 3 lol
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I get it. Rockets have to swing for the fences & go with what works.
But realistically, where will this get them in a 7 game series with the likes of AD, Jokic, Gobert, Greek, etc.
Depending on what other moves they make, Rockets are a PJ Tucker injury away from a 1st round exit.
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There is no small ball team besides GSW (f you wanna call them that) that has won a championship. These are facts.
The truth is you need a couple above average centers and power forwards who do the dirty work, in order to win titles in this league. Always has been.
That "Big 3 blueprint" of the 08-10 Celtics was not the "blueprint." What the C's did by acquiring KG and Ray to pair with Pierce was done simply to counter the league's elite teams at the time - SA, LAL.
Big 3's have been around since the 80s and 90s. HOU with Hakeem, Barkley, Pippen. But the experiment failed.
2000 POR assembled an All Star team (a legit Big 5 with Mighty Mouse, Pippen, Sabonis, SSmith, and Sheed) because it was their only chance to compete against LAL.
I can name countless other Big 3s. Run TMC anyone? Or how bout Bird, McHale, Parish or Magic, Worthy, Kareem. Or Moses, Dr. J, Dawkins/Cheeks. MJ, Pip, Dennis. Duncan, Ginobili, Parker. I can go on and on.
What the Lakers are doing with their roster isn't new. They're built like The Showtime Lakers. Just with more 3 point shooting, cause that's the times we live in today.
The KEY imo is to build on the team's strengths with sights on creating the matchups you need against the top 2-3 elite true championship contenders in the nba. Not copycat a gimmick. Small ball ain't gonna work when the best players on the 3 elite teams are all bigger than 6'8"-6'9" (Giannis, Middleton, Bron, AD, PG, KL)
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Sixers need to feature Ben Simmons and get a more mobile big man to play next to him. Embiid is not the fit with Ben. Joel would thrive elsewhere.
everysingletime
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When he's good, he's really good. When he's bad, he's really bad. I'm concerned that there's no in between with him.
I wouldn't mind the bad days if he takes a step back and let Ingram and Zion have more usage, especially in the fourth..but that's not the case with him.
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End of the day I can’t fault the Rockets moving on from Capela. How you get outplayed by Kevin Looney?
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Capela's time was up in Hou the moment they stopped utilizing PNR as their primary
Capela will absolutely thrive in Atlanta.
I like what I'm seeing from the Hawks. They bout to make some real noise in the East next season
Capela will absolutely thrive in Atlanta.
I like what I'm seeing from the Hawks. They bout to make some real noise in the East next season
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I should report you for this level of disrespect
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These guys literally have all the resources in the world and still getting these jailhouse tats.
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Kawhi got dem Jordan hands
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I don't think it'll beat the lakers because they have AD, Dwight, and Javale. I've already said we'll have to play some traditional centers during that stretch to combat them. We'll do the same a little with Denver because Jokic can actually score on the block, but we've always just run him off the floor. We just beat the jazz playing small without harden, russ, or capela.
it's easy to say we're a first round exit if tucker gets hurt. on that note, the lakers are a lebron injury from being the pelicans. the bucks are a giannis injury from being the 2014-2015 hawks. there's only so much we can do with roster/cap limitations, so we're maximizing our best trait: russ/james' ability to drive and finish in an empty lane or kick to a 3 point shooter. i can't knock them for that.
do work son
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this looks like that old NT photoshop thread. some of y'all know what i'm talking about.
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