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Lol at rose. Stats tonight were garbage. This is crazy man
 
yuyuza1 said:
Absolutely ridiculous to make them go through the charades of all these publicity stunts (rally at the parks, photo sessions, etc etc) if you don't even the play them in the game. Why take 15 if you're gonna play 11
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What if they actually like that stuff? And what if they're professionals and appreciate that the coach gets to decide?
 
Treaty_of_Batum said:
Drummond is a better player, Plumlee is a better fit. :)
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Lot's of validity to this. 'Fit' is one reason Colangelo got involved with USA basketball.He is trying to put together a team of working parts. Parts that can work together. I would say that his record to thus point speaks for itself.

Damian will get his shot. He can do it this year if he is able to set himself apart. He has a lot of things going for him. He needs to make it known to the coaches.
 
OneLifeToLive said:
Lot's of validity to this. 'Fit' is one reason Colangelo got involved with USA basketball.He is trying to put together a team of working parts. Parts that can work together. I would say that his record to thus point speaks for itself.

Damian will get his shot. He can do it this year if he is able to set himself apart. He has a lot of things going for him. He needs to make it known to the coaches.
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You make valid points. But I also think that he was playing on something Tone said about Mo and Blake. lol.
 
jlprk said:
A couple of weeks ago, we read that Lillard had improved his defense because playing 5-minute spurts, he doesn't need to pace himself. Now, they just said Irving has discovered the same thing. Bad news for Lillard making the team.
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Here's what I took away from this game.

1. Thibodeau's Boston Mafiaesque personality influences K to make Rose the #1 option and play too many minutes.

2. A theory died--that K will play all players a few minutes and not tire them out. He stuck with his core during the long blowout.

3. Getting zero minutes (players to be cut) were Drummond, Hayward, and DeRozan. Lillard played 1 minute. Even with a long garbage time.

4. The only reason Lillard played was that Rose got a cut on his forehead and went to the locker room.

5. Lillard was soon replaced by Korver. This means that K categorizes them together and views Lillard as a shooter, not a PG.

6. With a minute left in the half, K needed a top shooter in case of a clutch opportunity. So he replaced Lillard with Korver. This means that K views Korver as the man for that role, not the undersized Lillard.

7. With this bad news for the coming game threads, Denny has been forced to go on another diet.
 
With all 6 of my feeble internet search skills depleted, I still couldn't find a box score for this game and I refuse to become an ESPN insider as a matter of principal. I think the coaches wanted to get the starters in a rhythm against Brasil and later we'll see more bench play. I'm not disappointed Lillard only played a minute. He's getting a coach Thibs defensive clinic everyday he practices with this team. Damian has a future with USA ball and he still might make the team but limiting his minutes is not necessarily a bad thing going into the preseason. Given that Boogie can't play and Durant opted out, Damian's lack of size is not going to help his cause. Korver, Hayward, Plumlee and Faried are making this team. People diss coach K for using Plumlee but his game is suited to Euro ball. FIBA is not famous for half court slugfests with dunk after dunk. Being a shooter is what they value.Davis, Plumlee and Faried are by far the fastest bigs on the team.
 
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jlprk said:
Anyone have a box score?
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riverman said:
With all 6 of my feeble internet search skills depleted, I still couldn't find a box score for this game and I refuse to become an ESPN insider as a matter of principal. I think the coaches wanted to get the starters in a rhythm against Brasil and later we'll see more bench play. I'm not disappointed Lillard only played a minute. He's getting a coach Thibs defensive clinic everyday he practices with this team. Damian has a future with USA ball and he still might make the team but limiting his minutes is not necessarily a bad thing going into the preseason. Given that Boogie can't play and Durant opted out, Damian's lack of size is not going to help his cause. Korver, Hayward, Plumlee and Faried are making this team. People diss coach K for using Plumlee but his game is suited to Euro ball. FIBA is not famous for half court slugfests with dunk after dunk. Being a shooter is what they value.Davis, Plumlee and Faried are by far the fastest bigs on the team.
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http://archive.usab.com/mens/national/14_mnt_exh_01_box.html

11 free throws for harden :MARIS61:
 
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I can't believe that it's in coach K's game plan for Thompson to take that many shots...I'd rather see parsons get those shots/minutes
 
eff/min x 100…eff…player

100 26 Davis, Anthony
87 13 Plumlee, Mason
86 25 Harden, James
79 11 Irving, Kyrie
74 17 Faried, Kenneth
58 7 Gay, Rudy
33 8 Rose, Derrick
28 7 Thompson, Klay
18 4 Curry, Stephen
0 0 Lillard, Damian
0 0 Parsons, Chandler
-33 -1 Korver, Kyle

Sorted by efficiency points per 100 minutes. Plumlee will make the team. It seemed like Korver played more minutes than 3.
 
Scrimmage today at 5 on NBATV. Dame should play much more in this one, maybe he will get a chance to impress.
 
Does anyone know how much dame payed in the scrimmage? Is this worth watching?
 
I checked at about 6:02 right before posting and they had a shooting skills challenge for individuals, not a team scrimmage. I'll look again.
 
I'm all for Denny, Sly or whoever to link team USA, French and Spanish games and practice footage to the boards here.
 
jlprk said:
I checked at about 6:02 right before posting and they had a shooting skills challenge for individuals, not a team scrimmage. I'll look again.
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Scrimmage was only like 10 minutes I guess, disappointing. All they seem to be doing now is showing interviews while we miss all the action going on during the games the players are playing in the background.
 
My pet peeve for the last few years, especially in Summer League. Long interviews during games, because they think we tuned in because we're bored by watching games. Stupid and egotistical.
 
jlprk said:
My pet peeve for the last few years, especially in Summer League. Long interviews during games, because they think we tuned in because we're bored by watching games. Stupid and egotistical.
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One thing people need to notice is they don't care about the actual game. They only care about advertising and sucking people in with extra curricular stuff (Aka fluff). It's all about telling a story on the fly, and they adjust to what the people (think) want... they'll take the sport out of the equation and focus on other things.
 
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