Phil89 wrote:He only gets tattoos where he can hide them so that he can keep his "good guy" image going.
He's always had horrible taste in tattoos. This one was just like his crowing achievement.
NovU wrote:Now days post up plays are one of the least effective way to score.
Uh, no, bro. Look at the points per possession. Especially for stars. (Unless you're talking about the old style post ten feet from the basket and pound the ball into the floor until the shot clock is at 3 seconds.)
Durant, Curry, Kawhi, LBJ, CP3, unibrow
That's six you dope.
air gordon wrote:Is today's "brand" of basketball "fun" to watch? Pace and space is the en vogue thing but most teams do not the talent on both sides of the ball
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Hasn't the NBA been more or less isolation ball or pick and roll..especially in the playoffs??
Pace-and-space is actually an evolution of the standard pick and roll. Only unlike the past, it demands the other three players also move, and sometimes utilize multiple picks.
Pace-and-space actually isn't new in the last couple years, the Suns "seven seconds or less" was essentially the same thing. The primary difference between how the Warriors have done it and how the Suns did it is that the Warriors "Death Lineup" has multiple ball handlers, including two of the roll guys in Green and Iguodala. (Even Bogut!) This means unlike a Stockalone pick n' roll or Nash-Amare/Marion one, a second pass is not only a high probably event but a dangerous one. If the defense cuts off the roll, it's not up to Curry to pass the ball like it was Stockton or Nash, Green can get it to one of the corners and the Warriors can rotate the ball around the outside until the defense can't follow OR they can drop right back into yet another pick and roll. (The Divac Kings were similar except they had no deliberate system to it, it was based on situationals. Which is an Adelman thing.)
The Heat and Cavs' offense under the New LeBron Era (where he's basically playing the role of a point-center with Love/Bosh playing more like a SF) is similar and why it becomes just as deadly when they aren't cramping the court with Wade/Mozgov and how Irving learned to play better off the ball. (And why Allen/Lewis/Jones/Miller/Battier/Shirtless/etc. all play way above their value simply because the defense had to stay pulled in that direction.)
Basically what happened is that Thibs' overloading D caused this trend. Everybody copied that and so you couldn't run a traditional pick and roll anymore, you needed to seed the other side of the court with threats (even if temporary like a Battier or Harrison Barnes or what have you) so overloading stretched the defense too much that it couldn't recover in time. (Miami's blitz defense was the other side of this coin. Everyone knew how to break it, but they
couldn't because LeBron is a demigod. "Pace-and-space" solves this because it adds at least one extra rotation to everything.)
The Pacers were, as Shane Battier noted, the one team that
could get away with this because Hibbert was an ungodly backstop who was quick enough to recover, George was simply illegal, they could switch everyone on the perimeter and David West was great at predicting the rotations. (An underrated role KG played on the 2008-2010 Celtics defensively.)