The Next Official All things Frank Ntilikina Thread

TheScout31 · Post #1041 » by **TheScout31** » Sat Sep 7, 2019 4:09 pm

Wasn't a great game from Frank. He had a few opportunities to get to the paint/rim, but only attacked twice. Weird game from the refs with some of the fouls they called, but that's part of it.

Wasn't a fan of the elbow jumper he took, but the no-hesitation 3 was nice. Also had 2 nice movements off ball moving to the open spot, though he didn't get the ball either time, they created space for the open shot / showed good instincts. Also had a nice rotation on Sabo's drive from the perimeter, but was too small to contest that.

Two favorite clips were the spin/missed layup (nice burst, nice timing on the attack, and he was hell-bent on getting to the rim) and the assist he had to Rudy in transition.

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HarthorneWingo · Post #1042 » by **HarthorneWingo** » Sat Sep 7, 2019 4:59 pm

mpharris36 wrote:
NYKnickerbocker wrote:Damn forgot u can goaltend the **** out of shots lmao

i think that was illegal. You can't hit the rim which Gobert did. France got lucky

Imagine Manute playing in FIBA :lol:

Post #1043 » by **Capn'O** » Sat Sep 7, 2019 5:13 pm

remi_222 wrote:Why dont he uses his amazing body to draw contact slowing down then provoke fouls ????!!!!!!!!!

that's the big question

Post #1044 » by **Thugger HBC** » Sat Sep 7, 2019 5:51 pm

Capn'O wrote:
remi_222 wrote:Why dont he uses his amazing body to draw contact slowing down then provoke fouls ????!!!!!!!!!

that's the big question

Some basic aspects of the game Frank is still learning how to play. Imagine if we could give Franks body size to Zo.

thebuzzardman · Post #1045 » by **thebuzzardman** » Sat Sep 7, 2019 6:12 pm

Capn'O wrote:
remi_222 wrote:Why dont he uses his amazing body to draw contact slowing down then provoke fouls ????!!!!!!!!!

that's the big question

Which is a big part of how RJ and Iggy play. Hopefully he can learn a thing or three

Richard4444 · Post #1046 » by **Richard4444** » Sat Sep 7, 2019 7:07 pm

thebuzzardman wrote:
Capn'O wrote:
remi_222 wrote:Why dont he uses his amazing body to draw contact slowing down then provoke fouls ????!!!!!!!!!

that's the big question

Which is a big part of how RJ and Iggy play. Hopefully he can learn a thing or three

That is my biggest concern towards Frank. I am afraid he is too sensible and smart to excel in NBA. He worries about not getting hurt and avoid trying to pass with a ball between giants. He is too normal...

To excel in NBA, you have to have a kind of "suicidal instinct" and not care like running into moving walls. You have to be irresponsible with your own body and enjoy taking hits. You have to be kind of a stupid.

Fat Kat · Post #1047 » by **Fat Kat** » Sat Sep 7, 2019 7:35 pm

Richard4444 wrote:
thebuzzardman wrote:
Capn'O wrote:
that's the big question

Which is a big part of how RJ and Iggy play. Hopefully he can learn a thing or three

That is my biggest concern towards Frank. I am afraid he is too sensible and smart to excel in NBA. He worries about not getting hurt and avoid trying to pass with a ball between giants. He is too normal...

To excel in NBA, you have to have a kind of "suicidal instinct" and not care like running into moving walls. You have to be irresponsible with your own body and enjoy taking hits. You have to be kind of a stupid.

So players that succeed in the NBA are stupid, but Frank might be too smart to make it? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds?

DaGawd · Post #1048 » by **DaGawd** » Sat Sep 7, 2019 7:42 pm

Lol.....

3toheadmelo · Post #1049 » by **3toheadmelo** » Sat Sep 7, 2019 7:46 pm

Richard4444 wrote:
thebuzzardman wrote:
Capn'O wrote:
that's the big question

Which is a big part of how RJ and Iggy play. Hopefully he can learn a thing or three

That is my biggest concern towards Frank. I am afraid he is too sensible and smart to excel in NBA. He worries about not getting hurt and avoid trying to pass with a ball between giants. He is too normal...

To excel in NBA, you have to have a kind of "suicidal instinct" and not care like running into moving walls. You have to be irresponsible with your own body and enjoy taking hits. You have to be kind of a stupid.

G_K_F · Post #1050 » by **G_K_F** » Sat Sep 7, 2019 8:01 pm

Richard4444 wrote:
thebuzzardman wrote:
Capn'O wrote:
that's the big question

Which is a big part of how RJ and Iggy play. Hopefully he can learn a thing or three

That is my biggest concern towards Frank. I am afraid he is too sensible and smart to excel in NBA. He worries about not getting hurt and avoid trying to pass with a ball between giants. He is too normal...

To excel in NBA, you have to have a kind of "suicidal instinct" and not care like running into moving walls. You have to be irresponsible with your own body and enjoy taking hits. You have to be kind of a stupid.

Definitely a weird take in all of this. You've reached the point of apologizing too much for Frank.

Clyde_Style · Post #1051 » by **Clyde_Style** » Sat Sep 7, 2019 8:06 pm

Fat Kat wrote:
Richard4444 wrote:
thebuzzardman wrote:
Which is a big part of how RJ and Iggy play. Hopefully he can learn a thing or three

That is my biggest concern towards Frank. I am afraid he is too sensible and smart to excel in NBA. He worries about not getting hurt and avoid trying to pass with a ball between giants. He is too normal...

To excel in NBA, you have to have a kind of "suicidal instinct" and not care like running into moving walls. You have to be irresponsible with your own body and enjoy taking hits. You have to be kind of a stupid.

So players that succeed in the NBA are stupid, but Frank might be too smart to make it? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds?

Hmmmm, let me take this logic for a test drive:

I'm too smart and still alive, because I didn't go down to Guyana and drink Jim Jone's kool-aid

:guitar:

FKF · Post #1052 » by **FKF** » Sat Sep 7, 2019 8:06 pm

Bad game for Frank. In these tight and decisive games, you either produce quick or you’re out. The French, we, couldn’t afford him learning to play under such pressure, and to be honest, we didn’t need him with Fournier and De Colo torching the Lithuanians.
He’ll redeem himself against Australia.
This France-Lithuania was highest level of basketball Frank has never met yet, even in the NBA.

god shammgod · Post #1053 » by **god shammgod** » Sat Sep 7, 2019 8:34 pm

Hes_On_Fire wrote:
Richard4444 wrote:
thebuzzardman wrote:
Which is a big part of how RJ and Iggy play. Hopefully he can learn a thing or three

That is my biggest concern towards Frank. I am afraid he is too sensible and smart to excel in NBA. He worries about not getting hurt and avoid trying to pass with a ball between giants. He is too normal...

To excel in NBA, you have to have a kind of "suicidal instinct" and not care like running into moving walls. You have to be irresponsible with your own body and enjoy taking hits. You have to be kind of a stupid.

Definitely a weird take in all of this. You've reached the point of apologizing too much for Frank.

thread been crazy

Sark · Post #1054 » by **Sark** » Sat Sep 7, 2019 8:35 pm

He's still young, and learning. You can't expect him to make veteran plays all the time, especially since he barely gets to play with his pro team.

Richard4444 · Post #1055 » by **Richard4444** » Sat Sep 7, 2019 9:54 pm

Fat Kat wrote:
Richard4444 wrote:
thebuzzardman wrote:
Which is a big part of how RJ and Iggy play. Hopefully he can learn a thing or three

That is my biggest concern towards Frank. I am afraid he is too sensible and smart to excel in NBA. He worries about not getting hurt and avoid trying to pass with a ball between giants. He is too normal...

To excel in NBA, you have to have a kind of "suicidal instinct" and not care like running into moving walls. You have to be irresponsible with your own body and enjoy taking hits. You have to be kind of a stupid.

So players that succeed in the NBA are stupid, but Frank might be too smart to make it? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds?

To excel in NBA in guard position you have to get used to taking hits, to colide with really strong and fast players.

You have to be really brave. And everybody who is really brave is kind of a stupid. You have to turn off that part of your mind whitch tells you that driving to the basket is too risk and you can be seriously hurt if you miscalculated.

In Other words, I think Frank is almost so coward than me and the average Joe...

B8RcDeMktfxC · Post #1056 » by **B8RcDeMktfxC** » Sat Sep 7, 2019 10:00 pm

Richard4444 wrote:
Fat Kat wrote:
Richard4444 wrote:
That is my biggest concern towards Frank. I am afraid he is too sensible and smart to excel in NBA. He worries about not getting hurt and avoid trying to pass with a ball between giants. He is too normal...

To excel in NBA, you have to have a kind of "suicidal instinct" and not care like running into moving walls. You have to be irresponsible with your own body and enjoy taking hits. You have to be kind of a stupid.

So players that succeed in the NBA are stupid, but Frank might be too smart to make it? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds?

To excel in NBA in guard position you have to get used to taking hits, to colide with really strong and fast players.

I see the league's leading PG - Steph Curry - doing this all the time.

Probably why he had so many injury problems his first few years in the league.

Lucky that Giannis/Bron/whoever hooked him up with the good PEDs so he's now robusto.

:crazy:

DaGawd · Post #1057 » by **DaGawd** » Sat Sep 7, 2019 10:01 pm

Richard4444 wrote:
Fat Kat wrote:
Richard4444 wrote:
That is my biggest concern towards Frank. I am afraid he is too sensible and smart to excel in NBA. He worries about not getting hurt and avoid trying to pass with a ball between giants. He is too normal...

To excel in NBA, you have to have a kind of "suicidal instinct" and not care like running into moving walls. You have to be irresponsible with your own body and enjoy taking hits. You have to be kind of a stupid.

So players that succeed in the NBA are stupid, but Frank might be too smart to make it? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds?

To excel in NBA in guard position you have to get used to taking hits, to colide with really strong and fast players.

You have to be really brave. And everybody who is really brave is kind of a stupid. You have to turn off that part of your mind whitch tells you that driving to the basket is too risk and you can be seriously hurt if you miscalculated.

In Other words, I think Frank is almost so coward than me and the average Joe...

He's soft in other words.. Not smart... Just soft

B8RcDeMktfxC · Post #1058 » by **B8RcDeMktfxC** » Sat Sep 7, 2019 10:11 pm

Actually, Richard, lmfyp:

Richard4444 wrote:To excel in NBA in guard position you have to get used to faking taking hits on at most ephemeral contact and learn to be supreme at flopping-like-the-beard

B8RcDeMktfxC · Post #1059 » by **B8RcDeMktfxC** » Sat Sep 7, 2019 10:14 pm

DaGawd wrote:
Richard4444 wrote:
Fat Kat wrote:
So players that succeed in the NBA are stupid, but Frank might be too smart to make it? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds?

To excel in NBA in guard position you have to get used to taking hits, to colide with really strong and fast players.

You have to be really brave. And everybody who is really brave is kind of a stupid. You have to turn off that part of your mind whitch tells you that driving to the basket is too risk and you can be seriously hurt if you miscalculated.

In Other words, I think Frank is almost so coward than me and the average Joe...

He's soft in other words.. Not smart... Just soft

The words in your post collectively make no sense. But I couldn't tell if you were simply trying to clarify Richard4444's lol-post or actually have that idiotic opinion yourself.

Fat Kat · Post #1060 » by **Fat Kat** » Sat Sep 7, 2019 10:15 pm

Richard4444 wrote:
Fat Kat wrote:
Richard4444 wrote:
That is my biggest concern towards Frank. I am afraid he is too sensible and smart to excel in NBA. He worries about not getting hurt and avoid trying to pass with a ball between giants. He is too normal...

To excel in NBA, you have to have a kind of "suicidal instinct" and not care like running into moving walls. You have to be irresponsible with your own body and enjoy taking hits. You have to be kind of a stupid.

So players that succeed in the NBA are stupid, but Frank might be too smart to make it? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds?

To excel in NBA in guard position you have to get used to taking hits, to colide with really strong and fast players.

You have to be really brave. And everybody who is really brave is kind of a stupid. You have to turn off that part of your mind whitch tells you that driving to the basket is too risk and you can be seriously hurt if you miscalculated.

In Other words, I think Frank is almost so coward than me and the average Joe...

Perhaps his intellect and wingspan would be better suited on a tennis court.