theignoramus
Member
but neither of those guys stop the Lakers from giving up an awesome night to guys like Evan Turner, Aaron Afflalo, Marqis Daniels and Trevor Ariza.
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
2013 April NBA |OT| Pipe Dreams
- Thread starter reilo
- Start date
Red Blaster
Member
so then why has it been argued the last page that the lakers roster is garbage outside of 4 players
d'antoni has to play his best guys huge minutes because the team wouldn't win games otherwise
Lets ignore every other position on the team because it fits your narrative better. lol
Every team has garbage players in the rotation. You play one or two garbage players 4-5 minutes when the other team is doing so as well.
Black Mamba
Member
Because that's totally what is being argued! Avatar totally fitting. Same type of logic.
Zeus Molecules
illegal immigrants are stealing our air
The salt lol
Jim Buss ain't better than Dolan anyway.
friskykillface
Banned
I thought Meeks was gonna be huge for LA but hes been awful
Meeks gonna Meeks
Celtics will lose in 5(maybe 6 if the heat are lazy in the first round) if they are dumb enough to "tank" to face the heat.
Knicks/Celtics series would be 5/6 games for either team
die and live and live and die JR could fuck the Knicks up
Hawks should just skip the playoffs, if they beat the Pacers then i will be mad, Hawks are a waste
Meeks gonna Meeks
Celtics will lose in 5(maybe 6 if the heat are lazy in the first round) if they are dumb enough to "tank" to face the heat.
Knicks/Celtics series would be 5/6 games for either team
die and live and live and die JR could fuck the Knicks up
Hawks should just skip the playoffs, if they beat the Pacers then i will be mad, Hawks are a waste
theignoramus
Member
what narrative? lakers D has been garbage all season and the reason they suck. I think you can win more with an average offense and like 30 minutes a game of really good D
Duncan would be asked to play on the perimeter. You forgot who's coaching the team.
They would never play good D with Antoni.
Syphon Filter
Member
celtics might go to 7 as usual.
i hope he enjoys the Jim Buss years
theignoramus
Member
dude is a tool of a coach, but I mean, does Memphis play great D cause of Lionel Hollins or cause of Tony Allen and Marc Gasol being great at positioning and communication...
Adam Blade
WWKC
Wow, both Griffin and CP3 went 24/12/5 against the Lakers today.
Lionel Hollins is way better than Pringles. Also, a head coach doesn't have to be brilliant to field a team that plays mediocre defense, you just need to put emphasis on it during practice. Watch tapes and point out the players' errors. Pringles has never done that in his career and he never would.
CreepingFear
Member
Good to have Noah back, but I hope they didn't rush him back too soon. He's more important in the playoffs.
Psychological Intellect
Banned
of course pringles does this but when you only have one player on your team that can play defensive it doesn't matter. Your D is gonna suck.
Forceatowulf
G***n S**n*bi
Annnnnd I'm back from playing Demon Souls. Yeah, not for me. In my gaming prime I would have fucking loved it. But Old-Force is not about that life anymore...
I'm not a fucking soothsayer but I don't see how Timmy under the exact same circumstances would have fared much better.
Do Howard/Nash/Pau miss the same amount of games as well? Is Duncan, at the age of 34, playing in his 17'th season in the league too?
I'm not a fucking soothsayer but I don't see how Timmy under the exact same circumstances would have fared much better.
They way you troll, someone would think you Dick ride a team worth shit
And you know this by watching basketball for all of 3 seasons, right?
Clarks d on crawford was amazing today
Zeus Molecules
illegal immigrants are stealing our air
haha keep on believing that bruh. Pringles is trash man.... just trash who had a great roster in PHX and couldn't come out of the west with them.
Black Mamba
Member
Gratz on the first division title. Only 2 more teams in the NBA left to go.
Wonder if they'll hang the banner up.
Adam Blade
WWKC
Heh, yeah.
There was an article a couple days ago which stated that Griffin only wants championship banners up whereas Butler is okay with hanging up the division banner.
Psychological Intellect
Banned
3 seasons? you wish. bball fanatic since june 2012 baby!
but you seriously believe that pringles doesn't talk about defense at all?
Sho_Nuff82
Member
Watching today's game I'm having a real hard time justifying why OKC is that much better than NYC, and why Durant is that much better than Melo.
Wait until the first round of the playoffs and it won't be that hard.
Sho_Nuff82
Member
Knicks stomping old-man Celtics and OKC sweeping the Rockets would prove...what?
Talking and putting emphasis on it are two different things.
You don't care about defense when you ask your 7 foot PF to play outside.
Watch more basketball. Seriously.
Psychological Intellect
Banned
hey now. I'm not saying pringles isn't garbage on defense but he is. You said that he didn't even talk about it in practice or film sessions which I beleive he does and the lakers only have one decent defensive player.
I don't see where I'm wrong. You just made it sound like Pringles is afraid to utter the word defense.
RedAssedApe
Banned
i would like to see cousins hit a game winner lol
theignoramus
Member
ron artest is a good defender and Bryant can be when he isnt being an asshole of a teammate who doesnt play help D.
Because when your coach tells you to spend your energy on offense rather than on defense, players generally do that.
Coaches who care about defense would repeatedly hammer a defensive mindset into their players.
Coaches who care about defense with an old roster would tell his team to slow it down on offense so their players would have the energy to run back on defense.
Psychological Intellect
Banned
I'm not arguing with any of that?
RedAssedApe
Banned
LOL...cousins...jumping up and down pouting
Black Mamba
Member
hey Best-GAF, can I get some quick pc help?
I'm using chrome on my laptop and youtube won't go fullscreen. It's goes like 3/4 and I can't use any of the controls llike pause or volume (must hit ESC or double click to exit fullscreen).
Works fine on firefox. Never had this issue before, i think chrome just updated. cleared cache and cookies, no change.
I'm using chrome on my laptop and youtube won't go fullscreen. It's goes like 3/4 and I can't use any of the controls llike pause or volume (must hit ESC or double click to exit fullscreen).
Works fine on firefox. Never had this issue before, i think chrome just updated. cleared cache and cookies, no change.
UGH.
You said it doesn't matter when you only have 1 decent defender.
Yes it does.
You can only win by outscoring your opponents when you have a young team, and even then the team will fail in the playoffs.
Watch more basketball.
ItWasMeantToBe19
Banned
Why are we giving Al so many isos...
Melo is an averagely efficient player.
Durant is the third most efficient scorer in NBA history.
Melo is an averagely efficient player.
Durant is the third most efficient scorer in NBA history.
Have you switched youtube to use html5 or are you using flash still?
if you're using flash, uninstall flash then re-install.
don't just re-install flash, actually uninstall it first.
Psychological Intellect
Banned
I was probably exaggerating when I said it didn't matter but when your second best defender is Kobe, your defense can only be so good. but yea dantoni doesn't help.
What's the top 5 look like?
ItWasMeantToBe19
Banned
I think it's just Barkley and Dantley for guys who have been more efficient than Durant has been this year for multiple seasons and Dantley was an asshole who passed at the end of the shot clock to his teammates to protect his efficiency (checking it, McHale had multiple years above as well...)
Then again, that implies that Durant will keep up a 64/65% TS% which may not happen so I may be expecting too much...
Regardless, there's a pretty huge gap in scoring effectiveness between Durant and Melo even if Melo can really hot in some stretches.
Similar threads
- Locked