He is on a minutes restriction currently, coming back from injury, playing an average of 20 minutes per game. He played 36 minutes a game on average in the BOS series.
This will forever be my reply when people ascribe that loss to some psycho babble stuff about being front runners or not wanting it enough or being mentally soft or whatever. What do you do when a role player suddenly turns into Larry Bird for 7 games and immediately turns back into a pumpkin?
Fine. How about this 7 game sample?
I'm sure this won't happen again.
Yup, standing by my theory. Dude just wrecked himself on his bike, panicked and came home and told a story about being hit by a car.
The fact that the police couldn't find footage of the accident was kind of telling. I know cameras aren't everywhere but in a major city like Philly, they are everywhere. My guess is that if there is footage of that accident, its on a GoPro or Insta360 that's probably sitting in the back of Oubre's closet right about now.
Dude’s good. You’d expect all that height to be a huge disadvantage (bigger/heavier bike, high center of gravity).
Spo is in a class by himself in getting the most out of his players in the NBA. When has Pop or Kerr had success when they haven't had elite players? Pop seems like Belichick in this regard as he handled those teams perfectly but hasn't done much when he hasn't had one of the best teams in the league (not overlooking how great he was at getting the most out of great players to win together) while Kerr is on my pedestal of most overrated coaches in any sport and not to use the Brady reference again but without Curry his teams have performed pretty badly. So does coaching continuity lead to great teams or do great players lead to coaching continuity on great teams?
I agree and Oubre comes off well in the clip. Also, maybe he really was hit by a car but this was made in the past few months. Just seems "sus" as the kids say
Yeah, I mean it's not as bad as a clip where he's competing in the Audi Nines but there's definitely smoke there
Jackson was anywhere from 3 to 7 on Duncan/Parker's team depending on who you ask with everyone else filling a role around the NBA's MVP. He played his role well but saying he was the second best player on a championship team is disingenuous. The Spurs haven't won more than 34 games in a season or been to the playoffs since the 2018-19 season. That's my point....you have the MVP, you win. He handled top end talent extremely well.
The Pop/Belichick comps have looked pretty solid for decades, especially as the Pats bottom out this year. It's kind of remarkable how little people have cared about Pop and the Spurs being completely invisible since Zaza undercut Kawhi a full 7 years ago.
If you want to know the difference between fanbases simply do a study on these two post-stars retiring.
Said this before to the whiners and was chastised. Why look in the mirror to self reflect when you can spew anger without recourse of providing a solution or owning your terrible analysis when it’s proven wrong?
The irony is that if anything, Belichick deserves more credit than Popovich for their respective successes. Belichick inherited a team on a downward trend, had the foresight to draft Brady (after every team in the league passed multiple times), kept him on the roster for a year as the 4th QB when no one does that, and developed him from a guy on the fringe of the league into the GOAT. Pop inherited a top 75 player at the end of his prime, then had the good fortune to be terrible and lucky exactly the right times (when the two best prospects of the last 30 years, after Lebron, were available).
Who are you even trying to burn here? Euclis said nothing that I could even remotely construe this as a reply to.
1/2 of the borderline unreadable Pats threads on this board? It’s almost impossible to have an actual discussion. Same as a Celtics thread after any playoff loss.
44pts is like the waxing Steve Carrell received in the 40yr Old Virgin
I don't think the Spurs are too upset with losing 12 straight this year. Adding a top talent to Wemby - might be frightening.
The org probably isn't too broken up about it, but I doubt Pop is happy seeing just how far away they are. 74 is pretty freaking old (75 in January).
If Pop really cared, he might end the Sochan as PG experiment. (E.g.). He might also play Wemby at C more.
No idea. But you'd think that with a top 3 or so draft pick, they'd be able to get a pretty good player.
Do people still believe this? I guess it depends how you define mediocrity. Many recent championship contenders never went through a hard tank period. Denver, Milwaukee, Boston (do we count the pre smart years?), Miami. I don't know if even executives believe it.
The Celtics got the Nets to do their hard tank for them. The Lakers are playing with other people's #1 picks, does that count (and they certainly did their best to tank, getting back to back to back #2 overall picks)? You could make an argument that the only teams currently in the top 10 in the title odds that really tanked their way to contention are the Sixers and Cavs.
For the record, not that it would have mattered but the Lakers were without 3 rotation players who get 23+ mpg tonight.
Has to be the most embarrassing loss for anyone so far this season, right? In LA, no Jokic, Murray, Gordon, DEN on a back to back coming from DEN, LA with a day in between home games and with all four of their antique superstars playing.
Can anyone who watched this game explain what the heck LeBron James was doing? He has the strangest line. He played 29:32 and didn’t grab a single rebound, or commit a foul, and took only two FTs. 8-12 from the floor, but took only three, making it. Only 18 points, and a game leading minus 30. Was he an unengaged as his stat line suggests?
Weird for sure. Only 4th game in his career without a rebound? Breaks a streak of 1,097 games in a row getting at least one? Gotta happen sometime, I guess.
The Sixers shotmaking deflated everyone on the Lakers who pretty much went through the motions as it was but every time they would get some offense going Philly would counter. Complete no-show by LA but credit to Philly who never gave them a chance to be in the game.
After I posted, I saw a video clip that mentioned the ridiculous amount of threes that Philadelphia hit and that was my thinking that maybe they just gave up. Even with the demoralizing shotmaking, I expect LeBron to get to the line a lot more than just for two free throws in that many minutes. Not getting a rebound is just bizarre.
That is pretty much the basis for an entire podcast industry (simmons, etc). Just all fake trades and roster tear downs like we're playing madden or nba2k.
You're of course right that there's several different 'blueprints' among contenders. One reason people still raise the 'hard tank' is that unlike the other ones, you can control fully whether you start it. Denver drafted an MVP in the secound round; Celtics got a once in a generation trade to gift them two top-3 picks; Milwaukee got an MVP in mid-1st round. A team who is, say, looking at a 30-52 season can't control whether any of those things happen, and they surely are trying for all of them, but they can decide we're going to blow it up AND hope that gives us more chances to get those great draft picks.
And a major thing that has changed in recent years is that the truly elite players are not hitting free agency, they are being traded for significant assets, which includes both draft capital and promising young players. Clearing out cap space and pitching your team to a free agent isn't the way to go anymore.
Confirmed by the LA Times.
Now about 1-2000 more of those calls for all of the flops in his career and we’ve got a good start..
