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HookShot posted:as well as checking out the Coach Nick videos. If you do that please also watch Russell Westbrook highlights and form your own opinion about the man
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Metapod posted:If you do that please also watch Russell Westbrook highlights and form your own opinion about the man Will do! Penisaurus Sex posted:I like the Thinking Basketball videos as well. I came back to basketball after quite a while away from following it seriously and they were digestible and interesting way to look at how modern basketball is played. Sweet, thanks!
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If you end up liking Breaks of the Game, Playing for Keeps is Halberstam's followup a few decades later. Seven Seconds Or Less is also a good look into the origins of modern basketball. Also re: faceguarding https://twitter.com/BradBallisLife/status/1359975887563816966?s=20 morestuff fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Feb 11, 2021 |
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The worst thing you can do to understand a player is watch them The truth of them lies in statistics
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if you hate coach nick’s presentation, you can find a bunch of old red auerbach videos on youtube (some from his basketball fundamentals video, some from his “red on roundball” series) and they are also very good old timey looks at the very foundations of basketball also some of them have larry bird and pete maravich in them if you’re into that sort of thing
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And search the forum for dokmo‘s highlight reels of NBA players doing stupid poo poo. He’s a truth teller.
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euphronius posted:The worst thing you can do to understand a player is watch them Statistics are not even real. You can't hold them and you certainly can't look them in the eyes and know if they have The Goods.
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Athanatos posted:https://twitter.com/WorldWideWob/status/1359741011778494464 This is probably the best example of how illegal defense rules changed defense even when they're not in an actual zone. Spacebump posted:Was not calling a foul on WCS at the end of last nights Hawks/Mavs the right or wrong move? I think a no call here is right. There's contact, which is normal for screens, and Trae tries to sell it IMO. There's not excessive contact trying to bully through the screen.
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Feb 11, 2021 23:09
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Theres no stat that shows how saucy a player gets
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kingcobweb posted:I'd guess it probably does work, you need to see the basket to shoot unless you're Steph Eh, try doing what Dort was doing with your own hand, you can probably read the thread through it. It is annoying and can throw you off one play (and Lebron is kinda weak to that as proven by Lance Stephenson's ASMR defense on him) but it's not particularly difficult to play around it, I recall Duke elemental Shane Battier didn't actually affect the % of the stars he was guarding despite his reputation.
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kingcobweb posted:This is pretty funny: jokic is obviously angry that MPJ took that three, pouts about it instead of going for the ORB, then immediately shoots the three and yells something like "shoot it like that" at MPJ Jokic currently has 36% of the Nuggets WS which is a big amount. The announcer said that 34 is the record for consecutive double-doubles to open a season. They have not heard of Wilt. Stevie Lee posted:the honeymoon has ended for me. he's not good, plus he's annoying It does appear that Howard has finally hit the wall somewhat. Just in time to sabotage Benjamin Simmons' title aspirations. Bashez posted:Is there a website that tracks interconference records? The current EC cumulative SRS is -12.2 The current WC cumulative SRS is 10.66
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R.D. Mangles posted:gimme the hot sauce!!!!!!! Zach is now #2 in NP. Trailing only Curry. JackBandit posted:I feel like it’s gotta have some impact, like even if it just makes your man 10% worse at finding the open man, it’s useful. Sometimes it works:  mastershakeman posted:Zach/coby are the new Steph/klay 
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Zogo posted:Jokic currently has 36% of the Nuggets WS which is a big amount. For some reason, they date it to when the NBA started keeping official track of "double-doubles," which makes no sense, since we have records of assists and rebounds. I checked a few Wilt seasons, and he had one game in his rookie year where he didn't get a double-double, then one in his fourth year. Seems like he left both games pretty early.
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Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert call out Utah school allowing Black History Month opt-outs https://sports.yahoo.com/nba-donovan-mitchell-rudy-gobert-black-history-month-call-out-utah-school-allow-students-opt-out-213247733.html Senator Drinksalot posted:Also that lee greenwood song Ladies and gentlemen, here's a sneak peek of the 2021 ASG halftime show courtesy of Adam Silver and Mark Cuban: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgdyJX1jaUI FYI LBJ will be taking over James Cagney's role. euphronius posted:Yeah . He gets great press coverage and It’s a “big hall” so he’s still got a good chance Curry currently has a 1 in 909 chance of not making the HOF.
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Fast Luck posted:my dad had a tattered well-read copy of "A Sense of Where You Are," the book about Bill Bradley, that he used to reference sometimes when i was little, and i never read it but the impression young-me came up with, based on the title alone, was that good players know where they are on the court at all times, and I believe that to be true even though the book probably wasn't about anything liek that. Put your hands over their eyes, they'll still know where their feet are on the court and exactly how far they are from the basket and how to shoot it. They've done Sports Science poo poo where players have to do stuff in the dark. Klay Thompson shot 8-10 from 3 in the dark, which sounds impressive but he's someone who can knock down 50+ wide open 3pt shots in a row in the gym. It's not whether they can hit a shot with a hand in their face, it's whether that hand has any influence on their percentages or not.
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LBJ recently joined an elite club:code:
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JackBandit posted:I feel like it’s gotta have some impact, like even if it just makes your man 10% worse at finding the open man, it’s useful. This is forcing me to post an all time great NHL clip of Sean Avery "Face Guarding" Martin Brodeur for a bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec_2oKWe2Gw
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HookShot posted:Will do! Give Roundball Rock by John Tesh a couple of listens, too, fairly certain that probably pops up in a trivia task of some form. And also it owns*. *However, it is also the anthem of demented tough guy 90s stans who want a return to the (misremembered) halcyon days of every team having Charles Oakley-alike "enforcers" body slamming people onto hardwood.
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euphronius posted:The worst thing you can do to understand a player is watch them *podcasts
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cisneros posted:Eh, try doing what Dort was doing with your own hand, you can probably read the thread through it. It is annoying and can throw you off one play (and Lebron is kinda weak to that as proven by Lance Stephenson's ASMR defense on him) but it's not particularly difficult to play around it, I recall Duke elemental Shane Battier didn't actually affect the % of the stars he was guarding despite his reputation. lebron utterly dominated lance everytime they played what are u talking about lol. hes probably averaging like 35/10/10 on lance all time lmao
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Athanatos posted:https://twitter.com/WorldWideWob/status/1359741011778494464 goddamn dort does indeed own
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MourningView posted:*podcasts Yes that’s where i get my stats
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nikosoft posted:oh and like you wouldn't gently hiss into Lebron's ear if given the chance? I would ask him if NBA players ever get self conscious at the beach about their gnarly rear end feet.
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Shrimp or Shrimps posted:I would ask him if NBA players ever get self conscious at the beach about their gnarly rear end feet. I'd ask if I could ride around on their shoulders for a minute, like some sort of Master Blaster situation
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Shrimp or Shrimps posted:Give Roundball Rock by John Tesh a couple of listens, too, fairly certain that probably pops up in a trivia task of some form. And also it owns*. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM2X5QlJCHk I saw this the other day. Screens in the 90s are like filibusters. You don't actually have to do it, everyone just agrees that it's done.
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Shrimp or Shrimps posted:Give Roundball Rock by John Tesh a couple of listens, too, fairly certain that probably pops up in a trivia task of some form. And also it owns*. i want to go back to the halcyon 90s days when the chicago bulls won the title all of the time and humiliated pat riley and karl malone instead of being the laughing stock of the national basketball association.
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HookShot posted:Hello basketball thread! I'm a Canadian who has watched maybe 20 minutes of basketball combined in my life (and ten of that was the end of the game when the Raptors won the basketball Stanley Cup a couple years ago) and I would like to learn more about your fine sport, mainly for education and trivia purposes. Can you guys recommend me a book or two to read that can get me caught up on the basics of basketball and it's history? our fine sport, report first thing in the morning for your mandated dosage of heritage minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiJJIacdF-E
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Really all you need to know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_h7Lm7C9Nk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLVmqix8EKM
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Zogo posted:LBJ recently joined an elite club: Now we can all finally admit that LBJ is elite.
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Zogo posted:LBJ recently joined an elite club: This is one of the few all time stats that will be interesting to see where players from the current era onward will end up. Unlike almost every stat is probably up in this era from the last except minutes per game. At some point improvements in modern medicine/science + playing less minutes in a season will lead to players getting enough extra seasons to careers to not make it matter.
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Athanatos posted:https://twitter.com/WorldWideWob/status/1359741011778494464 This defense... suffocation.
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Spacebump posted:This is one of the few all time stats that will be interesting to see where players from the current era onward will end up. Unlike almost every stat is probably up in this era from the last except minutes per game. At some point improvements in modern medicine/science + playing less minutes in a season will lead to players getting enough extra seasons to careers to not make it matter. Interesting. I wonder how many extra seasons a player gets by playing fewer minutes, and how many minutes overall that adds. Fewer minutes might indicate better teammates, which would lead to (inevitable regardless IMO) expansion, which would have an effect as well. You can’t discount the sheer amount of playoff minutes LeBron has logged. The best players are hopefully going to play the longest and the most and the most playoff games.
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i feel like bron is the worst player in the league to try to block the vision of, since he just knows where everyone is at all times (past, present, and future) in his mind palace. love seeing guys try really hard on d though, this moment is up there with the sexman doing this. https://twitter.com/WorldWideWob/status/1019044598461546496
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creamcorn posted:i feel like bron is the worst player in the league to try to block the vision of, since he just knows where everyone is at all times (past, present, and future) in his mind palace. He knows the offense and player tendencies and the defense so well I can totally see him having a clear mental picture of the entire floor. He still needs to see though, for situations when one of his teammates goes JR Smith on him.
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