NBA 2016/17
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Butler can play SF, so it will either be Wade @ 1 with BUtler @ 2, or Wade @ 2 and Butler @ 3 ... Both will stay.
Didn't they sign Rondo too ?
So it'll be:
Rondo - Wade - Butler - Mirotic/Gibson - Lopez
Rondo, Wade and Butler all play inside the paint. Neither Rondo or Wade have a 3 point shot. Butler can hit them, but isn't a fan of them. There will be zero spacing on that team.
Maybe Thibs gets Butler
So it'll be:
Rondo - Wade - Butler - Mirotic/Gibson - Lopez
Rondo, Wade and Butler all play inside the paint. Neither Rondo or Wade have a 3 point shot. Butler can hit them, but isn't a fan of them. There will be zero spacing on that team.
Maybe Thibs gets Butler
Forgot about Rondo! Yah, so wade @ 2 and Butler @ 3.
That's not a bad team at all - Rondo is a pass first guard, so he'll ensure Wade and Butler get enough shots. Butler won't leave, he was recruiting Wade from what I've read.
A non shooting point guard and a shooting guard that can't hit a three isn't a good combo. Adding them to Butler who thinks taking a three is taking the easy way ouy ? A bit dangerous if you ask me.
Having them all out there together means defences will sag and crowd the paint. They'll find it tough on offence, and that backcourt is going to leak badly on defence
Having them all out there together means defences will sag and crowd the paint. They'll find it tough on offence, and that backcourt is going to leak badly on defence
They have no size or teeth down low though, Wade, Rondo and Butler with Noah to mop up boards and play interior defense would have been ideal.
And I agree, the East is looking a little better.
Detroit is signing my main man Boban Marjonovic, he became a bit of a folk hero in San Antonio last season with local commercials like this gem:
And I agree, the East is looking a little better.
Detroit is signing my main man Boban Marjonovic, he became a bit of a folk hero in San Antonio last season with local commercials like this gem:
“San Antonio Spurs forward Tim Duncan today announced that he will retire after 19 seasons with the organization,” the statement begins. “Since drafting Duncan, the Spurs won five championships and posted a 1,072-438 regular season record, giving the team a .710 winning percentage, which is the best 19-year stretch in NBA history and was the best in all of the NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB over the last 19 years.”
And thats how he retired with a simple press release.
And thats how he retired with a simple press release.
What a fucking unreal humble giant of a player.
His team consistently destroyed mine - the Mavs - and I had nothing but respect for him and his team. They were pure class, and what he's done since he was drafted (I was just in HS) is infuckingcredible. Props to Timmy D, who could have easily gone on for another year but decided to quietly leave the game he loved, the game he dominated and the game where he'll always be talked about as one of the greats.
His team consistently destroyed mine - the Mavs - and I had nothing but respect for him and his team. They were pure class, and what he's done since he was drafted (I was just in HS) is infuckingcredible. Props to Timmy D, who could have easily gone on for another year but decided to quietly leave the game he loved, the game he dominated and the game where he'll always be talked about as one of the greats.
Read this great story about Timmy D.
Green (yes, the same Golden State cunt) said that in his first year, when they were playing the Spurs, he started talking shit to Duncan. Duncan just stared back at him. Green kept on going, and Duncan continued to stare:
"At that point I realized during the rest of my career that I might as well not talk to him. Either, one, he is not going to talk back because he has no respect for me. Or, two, he is not going to talk back because that is who he is. Or, three, both. I figured then that was the last time I would talk junk to Tim. And that was the last time."
Green (yes, the same Golden State cunt) said that in his first year, when they were playing the Spurs, he started talking shit to Duncan. Duncan just stared back at him. Green kept on going, and Duncan continued to stare:
"At that point I realized during the rest of my career that I might as well not talk to him. Either, one, he is not going to talk back because he has no respect for me. Or, two, he is not going to talk back because that is who he is. Or, three, both. I figured then that was the last time I would talk junk to Tim. And that was the last time."
You mean arrested, and released on a measly $200 bond. It's a non-story in. Slow sports news week.
Tim Duncan, greatest Spur ever, hopefully he'll get a statue outside of the AT&T Center. The first title in 1999 was the year I graduated high school, I remember thinking of the Spurs before Duncan as a perennial playoff team, but one we always knew would not win a title. He changed all that, incredible player.
One of the funniest Duncan moments I remember:
And the Tim Duncan shot that always stands out:
One of the funniest Duncan moments I remember:
And the Tim Duncan shot that always stands out:
When I lived in Austin, I used to travel down to San Antonio to watch the Spurs play number of times. Lucky enough to watch Duncan destroy the Suns and the Mavericks live 🙂
I remember in years past when asked about when he would retire from coaching, Pop would always say he would retire about 5 minutes after Timmy retires.
In other news, the NBA tweaked the current rule on away from the ball fouls, instead of applying to the last 2 minutes of the game, they will be applicable to the last 2 minutes of each quarter. So basically, we will not see intentional away from the ball fouls during the last 2 minutes of each quarter as opposed to not seeing them at the end of the game.
I am not one for a rule change because some players can;t shoot free throws, as Mark Cuban said of the rule change, "Rewarding incompetence is never a good business strategy."
All they need to do is introduce a one and one rule, like in college, for non shooting and away from the ball fouls, that will clear the problem right up by resuming play if the player misses the first free throw, I have no idea why this is never even discussed when talking about cleaning up intentional fouls.
I am not one for a rule change because some players can;t shoot free throws, as Mark Cuban said of the rule change, "Rewarding incompetence is never a good business strategy."
All they need to do is introduce a one and one rule, like in college, for non shooting and away from the ball fouls, that will clear the problem right up by resuming play if the player misses the first free throw, I have no idea why this is never even discussed when talking about cleaning up intentional fouls.
I hope they win it now - would be a great story.
Westbrook is gonna come close to average a triple double imo.
They should call all the intentional fouls flagrant the last two mintues of the game. That would end the intentional foul problem. Many of them are already flagrant but they get away with it because everyone do it the last two minutes. Then they call it intentional instead.If they did it with four minutes remaining then it would be a flagrant foul.
Amen
Towns and Davis aren't the only ones. I think there's going to be a bit of a resurgence of the NBA bigman in the next few years.
Cousins,Towns and Davis are the obvious ones. Gobert and Drummond are both proving themselves to be rebounding monsters. Then there's Jokic at the Nuggets. And Embiid of course, who finally made his debut for the Sixers after 2 years of injury.
Embiid for me is the most tantalizing prospect I've seen since LeBron. I really hope he doesn't go the Greg Oden way.