Rebounding and defending can be found on the cheap, with both skills being among the easiest to develop. It may be too late for him, but Okafor’s scoring skillset is a nice place to start for a development project.
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Getting useful minutes from Spencer Dinwiddie and Joe Harris in the absence of Lin and Russell is otherworldly.
I say this without snark or sarcasm, I am excited to watch some Brooklyn Nets basketball.
Kinda OT, but Kenny Atkinson has done one of the more unfathomably good coaching jobs in the league so far. I mean, you look at this Nets roster and wonder how exactly they’ve won more than say 2 or 3 games at this point.
Speaking of seeming like forever ago, it was just a year earlier that Stauskus went #8. Of all of Ranadive’s moves, that’s probably going to end up as the disruptiest.
Omega hasn’t worked any Indies other than going to PWG for the tag at BOLA, though. In the grand scheme of things, yes, I’m sure you’re right, but the shows he’s been drawing on were, by definition, not indie wrestling. So I felt weird calling him the biggest indie draw. Biggest non-WWE draw in the US? Probably, but…
Bix - You see any way they hit 10,000 without Punk or Bryan on the bill? The NJPW shows in California were essentially indy super shows and they did, what, 3000?
That Parsons signing was garbage the minute the ink dried. He’s played 25 minutes exactly twice this year and averages 9, 3, an 2 rounding up. The fucking Luol Deng contract looks like a steal next to this diaperboy.
Reporter: “Do your team’s struggles have anything to do with the fact that you signed a ‘Big 3’ of Mike Conley, Marc Gasol, and Chandler Parsons to swallow nearly 2/3 of the payroll; that Mike Conley has been injured for half of the season; that this team is so top heavy it makes Dolly Parton jealous; and that Dillon…
Does every team have a Bikerstaff clone on ice, or in plastic to bring out for an interim stint?
I will permit Fizdale to bench Giannis for a quarter if it means Jason Kidd is no longer the coach. Giannis’ knee could use the rest, anyway.
Austin Rivers fell onto Blake Griffin’s knee
I’m glad Drummond is playing better, because it’s fun watching a damn unstoppable force, but also for the very random reason that it allows Van Gundy to keep his job longer and continue to say cool shit in public.
They still are relying too much on ISO scoring late in the 4th but the defense only gets stronger as the game goes on. Huge credit to Bradley there he’s a monster. Not having to pull Drummond off the court late in games for being a liability at the FT line is a big part of that as well. There was a play that basically…
Seriously this.
Jason Kidd is a REALLY bad coach.
42 wins means 40 losses. Not a whole lot of difference between that and 9-9.
Anyone have a transcript for all of us reading at work? Or even a couple of relevant lines?
Both the Rivers need to go, and that is NOT a new problem. They should’ve been out last season, and it kills me that we’re still somehow stuck with both of them.