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JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada17708 Posts
October 23 2017 02:27 GMT
#341
another good defensive PG giving Ball problems.
Ray Kassar To David Crane : "you're no more important to Atari than the factory workers assembling the cartridges"
Twinkle Toes
Profile Joined May 2012
United States3605 Posts
October 23 2017 02:35 GMT
#342
WTF with the LAL game? Even the home crowd is booing them
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Twinkle Toes
Profile Joined May 2012
United States3605 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-23 02:40:27
October 23 2017 02:38 GMT
#343
Crawford saved TT calling timeout after the Melo 3. A true wolves4life indeed!
Looks like an X play. Jamal was just excited
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JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada17708 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-23 03:36:13
October 23 2017 03:35 GMT
#344
welp, Ball is just gettin' roughed up. why is he trying to rebound at both ends of the floor...
clarkson has outplayed ball tonight.. period.. end of story.

Ball has gotten eaten up by elite level defense. it'll be interesting to see if he can withstand above average defense from guys like Lowry and Hill.
Ray Kassar To David Crane : "you're no more important to Atari than the factory workers assembling the cartridges"
Twinkle Toes
Profile Joined May 2012
United States3605 Posts
October 23 2017 04:10 GMT
#345
Wiggins just proved to all fans and haters that he is a max player
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imBLIND
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States2626 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-23 06:54:27
October 23 2017 06:45 GMT
#346
People give Ball crap for his shot, but his defense is even worse than Russell's for some reason. It's almost like you can tell this guy only players pick-up/college game defense. It's almost as bad as Randle's defense. Then again, Laker's defense as a whole is atrocious.

To Ball's defense though, it seems a majority of his mistakes are due to experience and conditioning, both of which are nearly guaranteed to get better the longer he plays.
im deaf
Twinkle Toes
Profile Joined May 2012
United States3605 Posts
October 23 2017 08:30 GMT
#347
How many games do they have to play until we can objectively conclude that we have seen the maximum potential of a rookie?
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ZenithM
Profile Joined February 2011
France15952 Posts
October 23 2017 09:14 GMT
#348
I'm more concerned with Ingram. Does he look like a bust to anyone else here? Every time I see him play I'm really unimpressed. Kuzma is looking better already.
Twinkle Toes
Profile Joined May 2012
United States3605 Posts
October 23 2017 09:30 GMT
#349
On October 23 2017 18:14 ZenithM wrote:
I'm more concerned with Ingram. Does he look like a bust to anyone else here? Every time I see him play I'm really unimpressed. Kuzma is looking better already.

Ingram looks like another question mark for the Lakers. I don't think they can hasten any rebuild within 5 years with this group. Although I wonder how they would look like once some superstars start to come over next year.
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JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
October 23 2017 13:51 GMT
#350
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Jerubaal
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States7684 Posts
October 23 2017 14:02 GMT
#351
We sure are spending a lot of time talking about a player whose ceiling was probably going to be average starter.
I'm not stupid, a marauder just shot my brain.
Twinkle Toes
Profile Joined May 2012
United States3605 Posts
October 23 2017 15:40 GMT
#352
It's all because of the preseason/preNBA narrative. And it's 3 games into the season. He is a rookie with much to learn. Opposing guard assigned to him should not even be in the discussion. Veteran superstar guards like Curry, Kyrie, and CP3 all have trouble with Beverley and similar defense oriented guards, so it less them and more about how he adjusts and whether he has the skills to meet the hype.
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JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
October 23 2017 16:06 GMT
#353
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andrewlt
Profile Joined August 2009
United States7702 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-23 16:09:15
October 23 2017 16:08 GMT
#354
Curry routinely had big games against the Clippers when CP3 was there. Some point guards are sieves on defense, sure, but defending quick pgs is more about team defense rather than individual defense. Ball is counted to be more of a distributor than a scorer anyway.

What is the scouting report on Brandon Ingram during the draft? What is he supposed to be good at? I remember the discussion last year was that he had a similar build to Kevin Durant, who also struggled his first year in the league. But Durant is a good shooter who shot in the high 80s at the free throw line his rookie year. His fg% eventually improved once he got used to the NBA. Ingram was terrible at the free throw line last year.
zev318
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada4306 Posts
October 23 2017 16:36 GMT
#355
On October 24 2017 01:06 JimmiC wrote:
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On October 23 2017 23:02 Jerubaal wrote:
We sure are spending a lot of time talking about a player whose ceiling was probably going to be average starter.


If you are meaning Ball his ceiling at least by "draft pundits" was Kidd. And if you mean Ingram it was a mix of Odom and Durrant. Ball it is way to early to say for sure, I mean it took Kidd a long time to become what he did. But I think with ingram they would be happy if he became a quality starter.


for a guy that they would not trade, i think just a quality starter would be disappointing
JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada17708 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-23 19:08:00
October 23 2017 18:43 GMT
#356
Eric Bledsoe sent home.

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/21127746/eric-bledsoe-sent-home-meeting-phoenix-suns

Cleveland could use a PG.
JR Smith will now start (assuming that reckless driving thing doesn't interfere) and Wade will come off the bench. I think this is a good move by Cleveland. in 2017, Smith > Wade.

the Spurs held opponents to the 5th lowest 3 point percentage and opponents took the 3rd fewest 3s against the Spurs last year. Let's see if the Raptors throw up 40+ 3s tonight.
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JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
October 23 2017 19:14 GMT
#357
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JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-10-23 19:16:15
October 23 2017 19:15 GMT
#358
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andrewlt
Profile Joined August 2009
United States7702 Posts
October 23 2017 19:33 GMT
#359
On October 24 2017 04:14 JimmiC wrote:
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On October 24 2017 01:08 andrewlt wrote:
Curry routinely had big games against the Clippers when CP3 was there. Some point guards are sieves on defense, sure, but defending quick pgs is more about team defense rather than individual defense. Ball is counted to be more of a distributor than a scorer anyway.

What is the scouting report on Brandon Ingram during the draft? What is he supposed to be good at? I remember the discussion last year was that he had a similar build to Kevin Durant, who also struggled his first year in the league. But Durant is a good shooter who shot in the high 80s at the free throw line his rookie year. His fg% eventually improved once he got used to the NBA. Ingram was terrible at the free throw line last year.


I heard Odom and then NBAdraft net said Prince/Durrant. Yikes.

http://www.nbadraft.net/players/brandon-ingram


I think the Durant thing is more about the similarities in their build and body type rather than their game. Ingram doesn't seem like an all-around scorer at all.
cLutZ
Profile Joined November 2010
United States19574 Posts
October 23 2017 19:48 GMT
#360
Also Durant was a sick rebounder at Texas. Its kind of understandable that Ingram was not because duke usually has some good interior guys, but the hope with him was always that he could be an elite (because of his ballhandling) stretch 4 once he filled out.
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