On May 01 2013 20:36 Existential wrote: Skip Bayless may be onto something when he says Marc Gasol is the best big man in the game.
Eh, I'm not sure.
He has a lot of tools on offense, but he's even worse than his brother in using them. I think he has everything he needs to be a dominant big man, except the mindset.
Now you could argue he's near the top in value because he's 28 and has another 8+ years left, but for best overall I think Duncan is still on top.
EDIT: The silly thing about the Faried trip and is that it was a freaking trip. That play happens in basically every single NBA game, regardless of who the opponent is. In this case they wanted to test Curry's ankle and make him feel uncomfortable, but there's 0% chance he gets injured from that and what Faried did is relatively common in NBA games. There wasn't any Jalen Rose'ing going on there.
On May 01 2013 17:34 RowdierBob wrote: So here's something to chew on. Of the top 10 players recently ranked by ESPN, only one player has never made it past the second round.
Do we need to talk about Chris?
When did ESPN get its own account?
and all this time RowdierBob was actually an account paid by ESPN!!!
That post sounded like it came right off the top of an ESPN article by one of their "analysts."
Speaking as a Mavs fan, I wish deep down that CP3 gets dragged down by his team to a loss and becomes so frustrated with the clippers that he's more willing to explore free agency.
On May 01 2013 17:34 RowdierBob wrote: So here's something to chew on. Of the top 10 players recently ranked by ESPN, only one player has never made it past the second round.
Do we need to talk about Chris?
When did ESPN get its own account?
and all this time RowdierBob was actually an account paid by ESPN!!!
That post sounded like it came right off the top of an ESPN article by one of their "analysts."
If you look at that guy's thread, I called him out on the very first post ^^. Was pretty obvious to me the post was crap...I actually thought it would be closed right away..
Go Grizz..I might have just hopped onto their bandwagon I think. And Odom being the guy that Griffin landed on to get injured again is a little funny to me, don't know why. Sucks though.
On May 01 2013 12:11 Ace wrote: lol what? you think offensive rebounds are the...you know what. fine. Denver was really losing because they couldnt snag rebounds despite Mcgee and Koustas playing 13 and 9 minutes tops in the first half lol.
What are you talking about?
in game 2 mcgee and koufos combined for 28 minutes total
tonight's game
Ok... Denver was WINNING by 20 points in the first half because they had a center for 24 minutes in the game, that's exactly my point. Denver shouldn't give up their rebounding advantage.
Yeah, they were winning because of their rebounding advantage...not because the Warriors got cold and shot 43% from the field and 37% from 3, unlike their 65% mark when they were winning. Makes sense. It couldn't have been a combination of the Warriors hot shooting getting cold (reason 1 why I said not to overreact) and the Nuggets figuring out how to guard GSW, which is what I said they needed to improve. Nor could it be that Faried is warming up coming off injury and so is Lawson. Nope, not at all. It's all because they rebounded slightly better than they did before.
To be less sarcastic, we're both kinda right here. I said to play small if they were playing small, and in the last game GSW played big more. Bogut got more minutes, Karl did the right thing and left Mcgee in.
@CP3 thing- ya'll are acting like they lost already, which it's possible they won't, and that CP3 will be stupid and leave for a FA destination that most likely fields a weaker roster than the Clips(assuming Dallas is the most likely destination).
I liked the physical play/hard fouls segment TNT did last night using shaqtin a fool by the way. Educate these people who think these some of these fouls are hard. Only way to do that is to compare it to actual hard fouls.
He also makes the same point I made earlier about the results of some games being affected by how well certain players are performing on a certain day rather than any coaching changes.
Haters, I was just identifying where the list came from =D
LBJ Durant CP3 Kobe Westbrook Wade Parker Harden Melo Duncan
I'm trying to make a point that maybe CP3 isn't as big a needle mover as some might believe. This is his fifth Playoff series now and his eighth NBA season. He has never made it past the second round and the closest he has come was with the Hornets (the one people called his weakest in terms of supporting cast).
Is CP3's impact over stated?
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On May 02 2013 01:01 DystopiaX wrote: Yeah, they were winning because of their rebounding advantage...not because the Warriors got cold and shot 43% from the field and 37% from 3, unlike their 65% mark when they were winning. Makes sense. It couldn't have been a combination of the Warriors hot shooting getting cold (reason 1 why I said not to overreact) and the Nuggets figuring out how to guard GSW, which is what I said they needed to improve. Nor could it be that Faried is warming up coming off injury and so is Lawson. Nope, not at all. It's all because they rebounded slightly better than they did before.
To be less sarcastic, we're both kinda right here. I said to play small if they were playing small, and in the last game GSW played big more. Bogut got more minutes, Karl did the right thing and left Mcgee in.
@CP3 thing- ya'll are acting like they lost already, which it's possible they won't, and that CP3 will be stupid and leave for a FA destination that most likely fields a weaker roster than the Clips(assuming Dallas is the most likely destination).
EPT
