EPTNBA 2014-2015 Regular Season - Page 93
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rebdomine
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icystorage
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AgentW
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oneofthem
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some amazing lines right now | ||
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Doraemon
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ketomai
United States2789 Posts
On January 14 2015 14:23 Doraemon wrote: what a flop by chandler lol I think that was the first time i've ever seen Tyson flop. That just is a testament to how good boogie cousins was playing...he was an unstoppable monster. Mavs need that backup big ASAP. edit: besides his 9 TO's. Kings couldn't hit shots when he got doubled either. | ||
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icystorage
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On_Slaught
United States12190 Posts
https://vine.co/v/ODjmTVitHPl\ Only saw the first half but the team just looked like garbage with James on the bench. I'm starting to wonder if Irving/Love aren't just born to lose (by their own fault that is). | ||
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cLutZ
United States19574 Posts
On January 14 2015 16:26 On_Slaught wrote: Omen of things to come? (from Lebron the GM) Shocker? Because Jordan the GM and Dumars the GM and Doc the GM and <insert HOF player here> the GM has worked out well. IM sure some HOF players are doing well, just most of the time it seems like jumping ability and team building are not correlated. | ||
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ZenithM
France15952 Posts
On January 14 2015 16:00 icystorage wrote: Mo Williams with the Aomine Daiki shit on the 4th Haha didn't expect that kind of reference here. | ||
Jibba
United States22883 Posts
On January 14 2015 21:56 cLutZ wrote: Shocker? Because Jordan the GM and Dumars the GM and Doc the GM and <insert HOF player here> the GM has worked out well. IM sure some HOF players are doing well, just most of the time it seems like jumping ability and team building are not correlated. To be fair, Dumars was pretty fantastic for a while. Even his drafting, besides Darko, was pretty decent. He just spiraled out of control after a while. | ||
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oneofthem
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
On January 14 2015 21:56 cLutZ wrote: Shocker? Because Jordan the GM and Dumars the GM and Doc the GM and <insert HOF player here> the GM has worked out well. IM sure some HOF players are doing well, just most of the time it seems like jumping ability and team building are not correlated. i wouldn't blame individuals but rather organization structure. having doc/jordan/dumars/isiah/jerry west as a voice is certainly helpful, but not the only voice. no organization at the level of complexity of an nba front office should depend on one guy. | ||
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cLutZ
United States19574 Posts
On January 15 2015 01:47 oneofthem wrote: i wouldn't blame individuals but rather organization structure. having doc/jordan/dumars/isiah/jerry west as a voice is certainly helpful, but not the only voice. no organization at the level of complexity of an nba front office should depend on one guy. My point, really, is that there is no reason to think that a person's ability to be elite at one thing would mean they can be elite at another thing. In fact, in this case, its kind of the opposite because dedicating your time to developing the first (playing basketball) takes away significant time that you could have focused on the other (scouting and building a basketball roster) during the time that most people develop career skills. Its like if Monsanto decided to hire a really good farmer to be the head of their genetics team because they make bug-resistant corn. No one would think that is a good idea, but alas, pro sports seem to universally fail at this basic understanding. The only reason the guys aren't universally terrible is that in sports some choices are really obvious: "Should I draft Lebron? Hmm..." and because the field has traditionally been saturated with people who are equally incompetent (very few owners, probably none now, made their money assembling good sports teams from the ground up). | ||
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oneofthem
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
i'll say this though, the great players are often so egotistical that they run their comfort system and pretend it's the only game in town. this may happen to phil's triangle thing as well but we'll see. | ||
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Scarecrow
Korea (South)9175 Posts
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RowdierBob
Australia13536 Posts
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oneofthem
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Ferrose
United States11378 Posts
The Pelicans are making every shot God damn | ||
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cLutZ
United States19574 Posts
On January 15 2015 09:51 Scarecrow wrote: I'd argue that 10+ years of pro basketball experience is pretty useful for someone looking at scouting/building a roster. Obviously they need to have a head on their shoulders too, but I can't fault an NBA career on their resume. The Monsanto analogy isn't even close. I also do not "fault" the NBA career, but I actually think the Monsanto analogy is closer. At least the great farmer (a modern farmer mind you) has probably demonstrated some managerial savvy, probably has a high level of intelligence, and understands what the farmer would want. The NBA player (who is, by definition, a great basketball player) really would only be proven to have the understanding of what a good player is (in theory, proven incorrect very often by players now in the media). There is a reason that in Pro football, a sport where the coaches have the greatest control, ex-players that are good like Jim Harbaugh are incredibly rare, while weirdo intellectuals that started coaching at age 20 are the norm. | ||
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