Everybody appreciates ridiculous blocked shots.Man, Gobert is just the funnest guy to see play.
-Things white people say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gpRUw7f7XUI
GTYME finally showing a little attitude.
"Everything was too quiet so I had to stir up something with Washington," Waiters said. "People have been missing the action so I had to stir up something. You know me. But at the end of the day, I'm here. I'm ready. I'm ready for war. I was born ready. We're all ready."
Dion talking more now than he has the last two years combined.
I wonder why...?
Eh, the bigs don't need to be GREAT passers. No one is expecting them to be Lebron, or even Odom or Bird. They have to make incredibly routine and basic passes. It's like high school fundamental stuff. Pass when you get doubled in the block. Pass using high low action. Pass/hand off to cutters.
The real issue is the IQ and the ability to pick up the offense. Gasol had that in spades, he picked it up seemingly the very first week.
It's completely overhyped how skilled you have to be to play in the post in the triangle - in fact it's by far the easiest position to play in that system.
Once 5 gets the ball. He can pass to base line cutting 3. To a right side cutting 2. Or at the free throw line/paint area for 4 as they get a screen from 2. Amare/Melo in that situation would get open 15 footers all day by the free throw line. The shot Bynum and Pau used to always take.
Each of those passes are essentially hand offs or 8 foot passes while standing still.
This is a simplification and there's more to it, but in terms of degree of difficulty on passes that the 5 has to make? not much more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEWGkroBi8c
If you're interested, watch that and pay attention to the passes that Bynum and Pau make. just hand offs and super simple stationary passes. Occasionally they just kick it out to the guard when they're doubled. Everything else is pretty easy.
Knicks-Age watch this. It's probably the best explanation of the Triangle I've seen that covers 90% of the sequences any team running the offense will likely run.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNyKnN9AMIE
If the shit was easy, every team would run the triangle and the Knicks bigs would already be good at it..
The 4 and 5 are interchangeable in the set Pau / Grant / Rodman / Shaq were great passers in the triangle. Before the Lakers got Pau and AB after Shaq left their triangle was trash…
So I would say the bigs need to be great passers (for bigs) and space the floor correctly..
I said a lot but I'll just shorten it. The offense is a 50 year old offense. The skills required are just basic fundamentals. The difficulty is learning something over a 100 options and learning the role of every spot in all 100 of those options. It's a mental strain, not a physical one. Smush/Kwame Lakers ran the triangle super effectively, they just weren't a talented bunch and Smush occasionally broke off the play.
However, most first year teams do just fine by using the 4 primary options and the 3-4 reads off each option. Something like 20 basic sequences covers 80% of the game.
"Everything was too quiet so I had to stir up something with Washington," Waiters said. "People have been missing the action so I had to stir up something. You know me. But at the end of the day, I'm here. I'm ready. I'm ready for war. I was born ready. We're all ready."
Dion talking more now than he has the last two years combined.
I wonder why…?
He's going to be the new Mo Williams
Grantland ran a feature on the GOAT Bob Ryan, and for a minute there I thought he'd died or something. :(
http://grantland.com/features/the-commissioner-bob-ryan-nba-career-boston-celtics-boston-globe-larry-bird-new-book-scribe/
http://grantland.com/features/the-commissioner-bob-ryan-nba-career-boston-celtics-boston-globe-larry-bird-new-book-scribe/
I liked this one better
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/did-the-thunder-screw-up-this-summer/
:lol:
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/did-the-thunder-screw-up-this-summer/
Away from the interior, Morrow and Sebastian Telfair should help,
:lol:
I liked this one betterYou laugh until you realize he is replacing Fisher.
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/did-the-thunder-screw-up-this-summer/Away from the interior, Morrow and Sebastian Telfair should help,
:lol:
I think passing on Hood or Hairston is going to make Presti look foolish.
Andrew Wiggins is like what I was told Wes Johnson was going to be. He can actually shoot, he can actually defend. But his handle isn't as tragic and he's only 19 and not 24.
How's that for positivity.
How's that for positivity.
Andrew Wiggins is like what I was told Wes Johnson was going to be. He can actually shoot, he can actually defend. But his handle isn't as tragic and he's only 19 and not 24.
How's that for positivity.
You should have a fun team to watch this year...maybe not good persay but fun at the very least.
Fun is good, though!Andrew Wiggins is like what I was told Wes Johnson was going to be. He can actually shoot, he can actually defend. But his handle isn't as tragic and he's only 19 and not 24.
How's that for positivity.
You should have a fun team to watch this year…maybe not good persay but fun at the very least.
It's a different kind of rebuild because we already have a couple good players (Pekovic, Rubio, Dieng), we have the prospects (LaVine, Wiggins). So it's more about player development rather than tanking to get a good pick.
So they'll win 27-to-30-ish games, I think, and that's fine as long as LaVine and Wiggins and Dieng are developing.
wolves should be in the running for top tank this seasonAndrew Wiggins is like what I was told Wes Johnson was going to be. He can actually shoot, he can actually defend. But his handle isn't as tragic and he's only 19 and not 24.
How's that for positivity.
You should have a fun team to watch this year…maybe not good persay but fun at the very least.
We have too many good players to be Sixers/Bucks/Celtics tier. We don't need to be running for a top pick, either. We have Wiggins, that's the future.
I'm very excited to watch the Wolves play. I hope they can stay healthy and progress as the year goes on. I think they'll probably get 30 wins too but they'll start slow and finish strong
Now if they brought #8 back to replace Love I would pick them for the playoffs
Now if they brought #8 back to replace Love I would pick them for the playoffs
I'm very excited to watch the Wolves play. I hope they can stay healthy and progress as the year goes on. I think they'll probably get 30 wins too but they'll start slow and finish strongThey gave LaVine his number. The dream is dead.
Now if they brought #8 back to replace Love I would pick them for the playoffs
LaVine, by the way, should never play point guard. He's got a nice stroke, just spot him up, have him cut to the basket, this isn't hard.
@anthonyVslater: Steven Adams just tossed in a silky left-handed hook, then dunked in transition. Adams line: 19 pts, 5 rebs, 4 stls, 3 blks.Hngggggggg
Also, dIEHARD:
Nice bounce back night for Jeremy Lamb. After going 1-14 against the Nuggets, had 19 points, 11 rebounds and four assists and three steals.The Lamb of God's demise has been greatly exaggerated.
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i thought i was reading a little too much into pre-season but you went next-level broYou essentially wrote off his entire career after his first preseason game.
I post with the equivalent of "he had a nice game, way too early to write him off," and I'm the reactionary one?
dude i wrote him off after last season, one pre-season game had nothing to do with it.He won't be a star, but there's no reason he can't be a nice bench contributor.
Jackson went down with a potentially serious wrist injury tonight, so we might be seeing substantially more Lamb during the beginning of the season.
As long as we don't re-sign Caron Butler, that is.
wolves should be in the running for top tank this seasonAndrew Wiggins is like what I was told Wes Johnson was going to be. He can actually shoot, he can actually defend. But his handle isn't as tragic and he's only 19 and not 24.
How's that for positivity.
You should have a fun team to watch this year…maybe not good persay but fun at the very least.
not really... they will be losing but not tanking.
I could see another Baby Bulls like team from them some time
payton is so good
also i have to change my mind on wiggins/parker
wiggins seems much more likely to actually contribute to winning basketball unlike jabari who seems destined to be a crappier melo
also i have to change my mind on wiggins/parker
wiggins seems much more likely to actually contribute to winning basketball unlike jabari who seems destined to be a crappier melo
Brooks is leading a lamb to the slaughter…
Gondo's delusions are so precious. :3
Someone should do a montage of all the lamb of god posts from Gondo.
yea bulls west is probable for them in a couple years but they are gonna get absolutely crushed in the west this yearwolves should be in the running for top tank this seasonAndrew Wiggins is like what I was told Wes Johnson was going to be. He can actually shoot, he can actually defend. But his handle isn't as tragic and he's only 19 and not 24.
How's that for positivity.
You should have a fun team to watch this year…maybe not good persay but fun at the very least.
not really… they will be losing but not tanking.
I could see another Baby Bulls like team from them some time
payton is so goodStop with the shitty prognosticating. And you act like being a shitty Melo is some bad thing. You think players like Carmelo grow on trees?
also i have to change my mind on wiggins/parker
wiggins seems much more likely to actually contribute to winning basketball unlike jabari who seems destined to be a crappier melo
First time I see our team. Bosh looks good. Woah Wade with a three.
The more time goes by the more I get pissed at Lebron, just the things he says and does. Man it is going to be a rough year.
The more time goes by the more I get pissed at Lebron, just the things he says and does. Man it is going to be a rough year.
Jon Barry spent five minutes talking about what could have happened at Wade's wedding between LeBron and Pat Riley. When he was told the Cavs open the season at home against the Knicks, he said its too bad it won't be LeBron at the Garden against Derek Fisher and Phil Jackson's triangle offense lol.Jon Barry is the worst.
Mark Jackson?