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CupWizier said:
Trade rumor floating around is Knicks and Kings in discussion for a swap of Kanter and Randolph.
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PtldPlatypus said:
Yeah, caught that Woj tweet earlier. Crazy thing about that is saying Kanter's out of the rotation in NY. He's been averaging minutes in the consistent mid-20's all season.
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KingSpeed said:
He was taken out of the starting lineup though.
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A month ago I saw that Vonleh was outrebounding Kanter, who is notoriously great at offense, nothing at defense. Aware of stats, Kanter stepped up his rebounding and the rebounding became even, which drove down Vonleh's PER. Lately I read that the Knicks told Kanter that he'll remain a starter. I wondered what that was about. Now on this board, I read the opposite. Call him Vonleh's Victim. Vonleh takes down a giant.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Do we also get to imagine that ET is averaging a triple double?
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I honestly don't see the correlation with averaging a triple double and wether taking 3s when you're shooting sub 25% on them good or bad. he could be averaging 76 points, 54 assists and 90 rebounds and he would still be a stupid shot to take, especially 5 fucking times a game
 
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bodyman5000 and 1 said:
Watch it until you see what happened. He drove, came down with the ball low in both hands. Exploded off of two feet and brought the ball up with two hands. Wanted to finish with one hand and barely brought his left hand off the ball.

There was no "leading" with his elbow. His elbow didn't make any unnatural movement. He didn't do anything wrong. Noel is the one who made the error.
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These people dont know what it's like to dunk off two, right-left with the right hand. That's unavoidable.
 
jlprk said:
A month ago I saw that Vonleh was outrebounding Kanter, who is notoriously great at offense, nothing at defense. Aware of stats, Kanter stepped up his rebounding and the rebounding became even, which drove down Vonleh's PER. Lately I read that the Knicks told Kanter that he'll remain a starter. I wondered what that was about. Now on this board, I read the opposite. Call him Vonleh's Victim. Vonleh takes down a giant.
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Kanter unlike Vonleh however has to both play and scan the crowd at each game for suspicious looking Turkish hit men while Vonleh just has to get another dry towel
 
BonesJones said:
These people dont know what it's like to dunk off two, right-left with the right hand. That's unavoidable.
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You don't know that. I could dunk at one point, it wasn't all that spectacular but Wiggins isn't the only one to ever do it... I said he didn't do anything intentionally, but when he gathers his elbow is indeed out in front of him, thus leading with his elbow.
http://www.nba.com/article/2019/01/08/nerlens-noel-stretchered-vs-timberwolves 6 seconds in elbows in front of his body.
I don't think he did anything wrong necessarily, but the NBA, in my opinion, has ejected or assessed flagrant ones for much less when it comes to contact to the head. I think you could definitely say that it was a natural basketball play and that he wasn't seeking out the contact and for that, I am ok with not an ejection, I just think some level of consistency would be great. It's almost impossible to judge intent.
 
bodyman5000 and 1 said:
I had game. Built like football player, skills for basketball.

My friends I played with called me Sabonis back then.

Realize that is amongst a bunch of slow short white kids.
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I was more of a Bruce Bowen or Wes type...had a decent jumper but I loved defense..always was the most fun getting a steal or causing a turnover....I was terrible under the rim in traffic...I'm naturally claustrophobic...I'll guard the perimeter.
 
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riverman said:
I was more of a Bruce Bowen...had a decent jumper but I loved defense..always was the most fun getting a steal or causing a turnover....I was terrible under the rim in traffic...I'm naturally claustrophobic...I'll guard the perimeter.
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I had 3 pt range. Could post up, loved little hook shots and using the glass like Rod Strickland or Zach Randolph.

My middle name was bounce pass in traffic
 
bodyman5000 and 1 said:
I had 3 pt range. Could post up, loved little hook shots and using the glass like Rod Strickland or Zach Randolph.

My middle name was bounce pass in traffic
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My best shot was the hook shot 3 ft out...or the Lamarcus elbow 18 ft shot..nobody shot 3s much back in my day...was considered a lazy play to shoot a 3 unless it was a shot clock issue..I never looked to score...I looked for the offensive board
 
riverman said:
My best shot was the hook shot 3 ft out...or the Lamarcus elbow 18 ft shot..nobody shot 3s much back in my day...was considered a lazy play to shoot a 3 unless it was a shot clock issue..I never looked to score...I looked for the offensive board
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I became a good 3 point shooter because I was by far the shortest of a family of Giants, several cousins in the 6'6 to tallest of 7'1. Then I got stuck at 5'10...
 
riverman said:
My best shot was the hook shot 3 ft out...or the Lamarcus elbow 18 ft shot..nobody shot 3s much back in my day...was considered a lazy play to shoot a 3 unless it was a shot clock issue..I never looked to score...I looked for the offensive board
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My patented rebound and run out to the left corner three and turn and fadeaway always pissed people off because it almost always hit nothing but net.
 
Giannis playing dodgeball (even better cuz I greatly dislike James Harden):

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When I play pickup games it usually leads to people being pissed. I always want to guard the other teams best player and I face guard, set hard screens, make crafty passes. My jumper is garbage most the time but I can get hot once in awhile from distance. I like to bull my way into the lane, initiate contact, get someone off balance and score on them. I can hang with a good competition, but I'd hardly say I'm a good player. Just play well within a team concept.
 
MickZagger said:
When I play pickup games it usually leads to people being pissed. I always want to guard the other teams best player and I face guard, set hard screens, make crafty passes. My jumper is garbage most the time but I can get hot once in awhile from distance. I like to bull my way into the lane, initiate contact, get someone off balance and score on them. I can hang with a good competition, but I'd hardly say I'm a good player. Just play well within a team concept.
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Ah, you're that guy.
 
Fun fact: if Denver beats the Clips tonight, we've surged past the clump of 4 teams that were all tied yesterday, and have sole possession of 4th in the West.

Note: Denver is up by 13 in the 2nd period right now.
 
OMG....The Celts have 1 less loss than us and they were the run away favorites the East, since James left.
They've had so much more tom work with the last 5 years than any team in the assoc. maybe they should consider that Ainge & Stevens aren't all that great as compared to mediocre guys like Neil & Terry.
 
Hoopguru said:
OMG....The Celts have 1 less loss than us and they were the run away favorites the East, since James left.
They've had so much more tom work with the last 5 years than any team in the assoc. maybe they should consider that Ainge & Stevens aren't all that great as compared to mediocre guys like Neil & Terry.
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I would trade Neil and Terry for Ainge and Stevens ten out of ten times. But I'd trade Dame for Kyrie zero out of ten times.
 
Wizard Mentor said:
Fun fact: if Denver beats the Clips tonight, we've surged past the clump of 4 teams that were all tied yesterday, and have sole possession of 4th in the West.

Note: Denver is up by 13 in the 2nd period right now.
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It happened. We're alone in 4th place!

If SA beats OKC (they're up by 9 in the 4th), then we'll only be 0.5 games back of 3rd. Not bad.
 
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