1/2 - Clear the Skies of Thunder
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so is hauser a better defender on sga than JB? At least hauser doesn't open the turnstile for him.
he will go right by hauser to if necessary. jaylen will let sga by him a bit more but has more closing speed (tho hes still not as fast as sga). there's not really a good answer here.
I was being snarky. SGA is elite, and elite scorers are stopped by almost no one.
I watched some of the first half of the UNC game before the Celts tipped and had to turn it off after like 5 minutes. I’m ruined on college hoops.
the refs are kinda terrible and it doesn't matter so far cuz this is very entertaining basketball
Really good Q2 for the Cs although had to cringe at that JB step back in Chet’s face. I feel like both he and JT have been trying to size him up a bit.
Chet just destroyed KP on that. Btw, in response to the earlier posts Sam Hauser did defend SGA well. There is no shame in getting ground to dust by SGA - he kind of does that to people.
That’s a good point - it may well be that Jaylen’s wondering, “can this dude actually block me?”
Reggie Lewis used to keep Michael Jordan sort of human.. tall enough that he couldn't be jumped over, quick enough he couldn't be run by, and a good enough scorer that he couldn't be ignored. And Big Baby had suprising success against Shaq. But the list of stoppers is small.
First time since the Minnesota game I've watched an opponent and thought "yeah, these guys are near-peers with us, we might see them in the spring before it's all over."
The thing we have on OKC is height, up and down the lineup, and it's manifesting in rebounds as well as Porzingis just wrecking shit. I love that we're keeping 2 bigs out there basically at all times. Aside from the Horford / Kornet minutes, it's gone great, Porzingis-plus-anybody-else basically lets us take Chet out of the game and have someone running rampant. Won't work on teams who can put Kornet on skates but OKC only really has one guy who can do that, from the looks of it.
The thing we have on OKC is height, up and down the lineup, and it's manifesting in rebounds as well as Porzingis just wrecking shit. I love that we're keeping 2 bigs out there basically at all times. Aside from the Horford / Kornet minutes, it's gone great, Porzingis-plus-anybody-else basically lets us take Chet out of the game and have someone running rampant. Won't work on teams who can put Kornet on skates but OKC only really has one guy who can do that, from the looks of it.
Not only the quality of the NBA product, I mean even the Pistons can show you aesthetically pleasing basketball time to time via Cade Cunningham. But with the current NCAA transfer portal situation, coaches are spending 90% of the time either keeping a grasp on the guys they have or shopping for underclassmen to join their team. Actual basketball strategy is taking a backseat. It has definitely flipped where the players are running the roost in college, and players have power in the NBA but analytics by the F.O. and coaching staff are letting teams along with their players find a higher ceiling.
