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tedbrogen wrote:GiannisAnte34 wrote:MikeIsGood wrote:
The pass at 0:07 is absolutely epic. There's no way that wasn't on purpose.
How did Bledsoe get absolutely cooked by Rozier? lol
Playoff Bledsoe was something else.
Ron Swanson wrote:I do have to occasionally laugh at the constant insistence by a lot of people that "NBA so much more skilllllez now" and then I have to watch some 6'1 milkman looking mother **** (Payton Pritchard) score 41-points in a game only because of some arbitrary line drawn on the court 23-feet from the basket. But sure, Bob Cousy, Mark Price, and Tiny Archibald were all just plumbers who couldn't play in today's game.
KnicksGod wrote:Middleton probably the most underrated player in NBA History
Prez wrote:Brunson's foul baiting is infuriating man.
Ron Swanson wrote:I do have to occasionally laugh at the constant insistence by a lot of people that "NBA so much more skilllllez now" and then I have to watch some 6'1 milkman looking mother **** (Payton Pritchard) score 41-points in a game only because of some arbitrary line drawn on the court 23-feet from the basket. But sure, Bob Cousy, Mark Price, and Tiny Archibald were all just plumbers who couldn't play in today's game.
Ron Swanson wrote:I do have to occasionally laugh at the constant insistence by a lot of people that "NBA so much more skilllllez now" and then I have to watch some 6'1 milkman looking mother **** (Payton Pritchard) score 41-points in a game only because of some arbitrary line drawn on the court 23-feet from the basket. But sure, Bob Cousy, Mark Price, and Tiny Archibald were all just plumbers who couldn't play in today's game.
DingleJerry wrote:Ron Swanson wrote:I do have to occasionally laugh at the constant insistence by a lot of people that "NBA so much more skilllllez now" and then I have to watch some 6'1 milkman looking mother **** (Payton Pritchard) score 41-points in a game only because of some arbitrary line drawn on the court 23-feet from the basket. But sure, Bob Cousy, Mark Price, and Tiny Archibald were all just plumbers who couldn't play in today's game.
Sure the 3 pt line does that. But when it comes to skill. Yea, a guy like Pritchard is a better shooter by far than someone like Cousy. Is also probably a better ball handler while being thicker and stronger too. To a degree it kinda proves the point, a guy like Pritchard is a backup role player today, back then he was probably better than an all NBA guy like Cousy. I guess it depends on if you consider shooting a skill, because I definitely do. Nearly every guy on the floor now can shoot and dribble, that just wasn't the case back then. Many bigs could only do big stuff and only a fraction of guys could shoot near the level the guys do now.
To me the big variable on the topic is if someone like Cousy was born to this era would he have been able to hone/practice his skills to the modern style and be just as good if not better than folks like pritchard. Who knows, I guess I'd say probably? But if you straight time dropped 29 year old cousy into todays game he'd likely get run off the floor. Or take a modern solid wing with great athleticism and good shooting, idk maybe Jalen Johnson from ATL and time dropped him into the 60s he'd go from solid starter to one of the best in the league. But take a guy like Bird/Jordan, if brought up in this era you know they would've emphasized the 3 more and been fine type of thing. I'd give the old heads that benefit of the doubt, if raised in this era they would've emphasized shooting more and likely still been good.
MartyConlonOnTheRun wrote:Ron Swanson wrote:I do have to occasionally laugh at the constant insistence by a lot of people that "NBA so much more skilllllez now" and then I have to watch some 6'1 milkman looking mother **** (Payton Pritchard) score 41-points in a game only because of some arbitrary line drawn on the court 23-feet from the basket. But sure, Bob Cousy, Mark Price, and Tiny Archibald were all just plumbers who couldn't play in today's game.
Today I learned Bob Cousy is still alive!
But yea, to your point I'ms sure he would have a role in todays game but would he be a 10 time first team NBA or be considered top 40 all time?
Six NBA titles, 13 All-Stars, 10 All-NBA 1st Team selections, one NCAA title
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Cuban sat down with Jonah Javad of WFFA on Thursday and said this about the trade:
“If the Mavs are going to trade Luka, that’s one thing. Just get a better deal. No disrespect to Anthony Davis, but I still firmly believe if we had gotten four unprotected No. 1s and Anthony Davis and Max Christie, this would be a different conversation.”
Talk to people in other front offices around the league and the Doncic trade is often called a “gift” to the Lakers, with a lot of those people saying their team would have put together a much better trade package for the now 26-year-old Doncic, a top-five player in the world when healthy entering his prime. That market was never seriously explored, outside of a call to Minnesota, which shot down the idea of an Anthony Edwards trade.
“I think the biggest challenge that the Mavs have right now is there’s nobody who’s really outgoing to communicate. It’s not so much what you do, it’s how you communicate why you do what you do — and that’s their challenge without me in front.”
Cuban refused to go down the “Would you have made that trade?” road during the interview and also said he had not spoken to Harrison about the trade since it went down. Cuban also talked about being out of the loop on Mavericks’ basketball decisions.
“I knew five minutes at the most before (it went public)… From a basketball perspective, you know, I hear about it after the fact, I don’t hear about anything beforehand.”
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tsamo wrote:Plossum wrote:Brunson injury didn’t look good.
I swear, NBA is the only sport (that I actively follow anyway), that I see pretty bad looking injuries, thinking the players will be out for months but instead they go "Just kidding!" and are back in like a week or two.
Brunson's injury looked brutal and if you asked me, he'd be out for months at least.
Watch it instead be "only" like 2-3 weeks.
Giannis Antetokounmpo wrote:You're out here reffing like Marc Davis and ****
IrishRainbow wrote:Basketball overlords are absolutely smoking the Mavs in the wake of that trade. Karma comes fast they say.