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  • #31
    Soft Euro wrote: View Post
    I think it might be a symptom of the developmental structure for big (athletic) players. They are so much taller and stronger than their opponents that the coaches and trainers just focus on getting the most out of this mismatch with opposing players. These coaches get their positions, salary and sponsorshipdeals because of the results they produce, not because of how well they develop and prepare young players. The amount of players entering the nba without sound fundamentals is staggering; there is something seriously wrong when big prospect bigs have bad (terrible) shooting mechanics and not a semblance of a post game.
    But big men who are physical tend to live on the free throw line. Shooting free throws should be at the top of the list if a coach is simply honing in on a skill set.

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    • #32
      Garbo wrote: View Post
      But big men who are physical tend to live on the free throw line. Shooting free throws should be at the top of the list if a coach is simply honing in on a skill set.
      Agree. You would think that anyone gifted enough to play in the NBA would have the skill set to learn how to put the ball in the net in a free throw situation, where all conditions are optimum, in the sense that there is nothing varying. Always the same distance, height and angle on the shot. Find something that works with your physical structure and then repeat 10,000 times. Hard to believe it's not possible. A player like Shaq could have increased his career scoring average by 3 points a game, if he could have got his shot to 80% from 53% (http://www.basketball-reference.com/...onealsh01.html)

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      • #33
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        • #34
          RandomGuy wrote: View Post
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          Is that Morse code for Air Ball?

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          • #35
            Waiters and Kryie have zero chemistry but holy crap did Waiters outplay Beal last night. Dude is such a bulldog, i love it.
            @sweatpantsjer

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            • #36
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              Last edited by stretch; Wed Oct 31, 2012, 01:11 PM.

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              • #37
                wrong thread bud
                @sweatpantsjer

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                • #38
                  why do the raptors have shit in game sound effects during games? like when im watching on tv i wanna be able to hear the dunk not just see it.

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                  • #39
                    Lillard is totally the real deal! Would have loved to draft the kid! Against the Lakers tonight, 23 points, 11 assists and 3 rebounds. The only bad thing was that he had 6 turnovers, but rookies usually have more turnovers. It's gonna be a tight race to see who get the ROY award, Lillard or Davis. Sorry Val, but these two are pretty stiff competition!

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                    • #40
                      I don't agree with it but JV did not make the top 5 on the ESPN NBA rookies class rankings.

                      http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/players/rookies/rankings
                      Last edited by stretch; Thu Nov 1, 2012, 08:56 PM.

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                      • #41
                        stretch wrote: View Post
                        I don't agree with it but JV did not make the top 5 on the ESPN NBA rookies class rankings.
                        Just another organization that will be shown to have gotten it wrong by the end of the year. Very few sports magazines/online sites are very good at these predictions (no one is actually...maybe a few individual commentators/journalists).

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                        • #42
                          It's not a prediction. It's a ranking. NBA.com eventually gets around to ranking the rookies also.

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                          • #43
                            lillard is fucking awesome

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                            • #44
                              At this point in this season, all trends seem to be pointing to a Lillard/A Davis battle for ROY. Jeremy Lamb has a PER of 112 but has only played one minute. First round picks Kendall Marshall, John Henson (injured), Mo Harkless (injured), Royce White, Terrence Jones, Fab Melo, John Jenkins, Tony Wroten, Miles Plumlee, Arnett Moultree, and Donatas Motiejunas have not played at all yet.

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                              • #45
                                stretch wrote: View Post
                                At this point in this season,....
                                ...with only 97.5% of the season still to go :-)

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