What would you tell the players to do over summer?

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BBert said:
Dame: Rest
Nurkic: Being patient when he has the ball in the post and working for a good shot instead of hurriedly flicking up a flaming bag of shit. Post moves WITHOUT putting the ball on the floor. Electric shock to his nipples if he can't make a move in the paint without dribbling first. Stop dribbling in the paint. Stop it. And free throw shooting.
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I'm not sure, but I'm guessing that violates the CBA on some level.

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Mediocre Man said:
Celebrate PASSover. Get a PASSport. Listen to PASS the Dutchie. Get a movie PASS. Rent tge movie hall PASS. Maybe evem visit PASadena
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They should become more PASSionate too.

Wait, should the be more PASSive or less PASSive?
 
Mediocre Man said:
Celebrate PASSover. Get a PASSport. Listen to PASS the Dutchie. Get a movie PASS. Rent tge movie hall PASS. Maybe evem visit PASadena
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PASS gas. Buy a ComPASS.

Don't bogart that joint, my friend
PASS it right over here....
 
Nurkc: Get a big man coch and become one of the best centers in NBA. IMO he is often off balence and is leaning. Needs to work on his leg strength. Pause and fake once in a while as well.

Dame will come back better than ever as he always has in the last 6 years. The kid is a mchine! Take a page out of Rondo's book and learn to pass better.c
Baldwin: Learn to shoot threes very well. Dribble practice. Learn the play book if coach is the same and where to be on defene. Kid will be a steller player I believe.

CJ: Learn to pass out of your moves, not just ways to score. Can be one of the best I blieve.

ED: learn to use the right hand some as well.
 
dviss1 said:
What move can be done without taking at least one dribble?

Even a regular drop step needs one dribble.
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A Catch and shoot. Catch and pass. Catch and call time. In the paint, rebound and quick dunk/lay up. I always thought it was stupid to dribble when you have the ball with established position in the paint for quick rebound and put up. Keep the ball chest high never below the belt (Turner did that last year). When I coached, we had a big kid that always dribbled when he could use his advantage without wasted motion. Finally broke his habit after he ran the court perimeter in practice. That's all I can think of now.
 
I'd also advise players to time pregnancies so the baby will not be due when they have to play basketball.....
stampedehero said:
A Catch and shoot. Catch and pass. Catch and call time. In the paint, rebound and quick dunk/lay up. I always thought it was stupid to dribble when you have the ball with established position in the paint for quick rebound and put up. Keep the ball chest high never below the belt (Turner did that last year). When I coached, we had a big kid that always dribbled when he could use his advantage without wasted motion. Finally broke his habit after he ran the court perimeter in practice. That's all I can think of now.
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Alley oop.....we suck at those
 
stampedehero said:
A Catch and shoot. Catch and pass. Catch and call time. In the paint, rebound and quick dunk/lay up. I always thought it was stupid to dribble when you have the ball with established position in the paint for quick rebound and put up. Keep the ball chest high never below the belt (Turner did that last year). When I coached, we had a big kid that always dribbled when he could use his advantage without wasted motion. Finally broke his habit after he ran the court perimeter in practice. That's all I can think of now.
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None of which should be done in a post up situation with defense. You're asking him to shoot quicker when he should slow down.
 
That's my biggest complaint about Nurkic (who I hope we keep). He receives the ball one step from the hoop, and feels indecisive because his man is 2 feet away, so he kills time with a dribble. Almost always, the defender swipes it away, but then Nurkic shows his strength by struggling almost at floor level and getting it back. Then he finally puts it up and it goes in. He does it the hard way, but he has the strength to get away with it.
 
riverman said:
I see us trading our draft pick and packaging it with our TPE and maybe a veteran for an upgrade...I'm sure we'll see changes...I just don't think they'll be rookies getting traded
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Whatever upgraded w in this scenario would be negligible and not worth trading our pick for. Who did you have in mind?
 
I would tell them all to grow 3 inches and get better at being athletes and play basketball more betterer.
 
BonesJones said:
Who did you have in mind?
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This is the big question....we need a Paul George type talent and I don't follow enough other teams to keep up on who's available...Mirotic would be great on this team...I think the landscape will change for free agents after the playoffs so I'd wait and see who wants to be traded for one....Kawhi does but I read Pops won't trade him to a western conference team....Holiday would be great....I see Neil finding a guy the way he did Mo...disgruntled player with a lot of upside.
 
riverman said:
This is the big question....we need a Paul George type talent and I don't follow enough other teams to keep up on who's available...Mirotic would be great on this team...I think the landscape will change for free agents after the playoffs so I'd wait and see who wants to be traded for one....Kawhi does but I read Pops won't trade him to a western conference team....Holiday would be great....I see Neil finding a guy the way he did Mo...disgruntled player with a lot of upside.
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We do need those guys, I was advocating for Holiday as our 3rd guard a couple years ago. I was just thinking of who you wanted to acquire with the TPE since most of the guys you listed are making more than that.
 
BonesJones said:
We do need those guys, I was advocating for Holiday as our 3rd guard a couple years ago. I was just thinking of who you wanted to acquire with the TPE since most of the guys you listed are making more than that.
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Boogie Cousins is intriguing but he'd have to want to cut a reasonable deal and be here..Derek.Favors...maybe Will Barton a lot depends on if we keep Nurk..right now we need 3 pt shooters and 2 way players
 
riverman said:
Boogie Cousins is intriguing but he'd have to want to cut a reasonable deal and be here..Derek.Favors...maybe Will Barton a lot depends on if we keep Nurk..right now we need 3 pt shooters and 2 way players
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Impossible Boogie ain't signing for $5M a year haha. Even if we could offer the max he'd still likely resign in NO. Derrick Favors probably gets more than $10M. That's the problem with being capped out right now. This is the market to have cap space in. Too bad we had it in 2016.

I'd love Will Barton. Hes exactly what we need off the bench. But he's gonna make at least $8M. We'd have to clear salary to get our full MLE (because, as it is, were to close to the tax line).

But that's the problem with this offseason... we don't have the flexibility to add what we need. It's gonna be tough.
 
BonesJones said:
Impossible Boogie ain't signing for $5M a year haha.
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If you don't pay Nurk....you pay somebody...and as I said...he'd have to make it doable...he's a risk now...that lowers the paycheck most of the time...I don't think this will happen though.
 
Demand to be traded. Then we won't feel bad about the necessary Sixers-style rebuild.
 
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