Around the League - 2019-2020

sixerswillrule · Post #2241 » by **sixerswillrule** » Wed Aug 26, 2020 4:20 pm

Tatum, Murray, Doncic, Mitchell. We're being taunted.

Arsenal · Post #2242 » by **Arsenal** » Wed Aug 26, 2020 4:31 pm

the_process wrote:Toronto's bench put up 100 tonight. NBA record for bench scoring. I don't see them losing to Boston. Amazing they are almost as good as they were last year even after losing Kawhi for nothing. Sixers owners, take note. That is good management.

Not just good, truly fantastic management. It's not fair that they have Masai and we have... whatever we have...

76ciology · Post #2243 » by **76ciology** » Wed Aug 26, 2020 5:05 pm

Celts defense improved when kanter was on the floor

Read on Twitter

Celts were smart to get Kanter. They would intentionally put him on Biid and intentionally replace Kanter with Grant Williams when Al is at C. Because Kanter can defend at the post but they know he has footspeed problems against Cs who would Pop or play PnR.

76ciology · Post #2244 » by **76ciology** » Wed Aug 26, 2020 6:31 pm

Read on Twitter

Ben averages around 12 drives per game

stormi · Post #2245 » by **stormi** » Wed Aug 26, 2020 6:40 pm

76ciology wrote:

Read on Twitter

Ben averages around 12 drives per game

Regular season numbers for some players atl.

Tatum averages about 11, Brown 8.5, Tobias 8.5, Lebron 14, Kawhi 13, Harden 17.6, Westbrook ~21, Siakam 10.3, Giannis 10.5

76ciology · Post #2246 » by **76ciology** » Wed Aug 26, 2020 7:08 pm

stormi wrote:
76ciology wrote:

Read on Twitter

Ben averages around 12 drives per game

Regular season numbers for some players atl.

Tatum averages about 11, Brown 8.5, Tobias 8.5, Lebron 14, Kawhi 13, Harden 17.6, Westbrook ~21, Siakam 10.3, Giannis 10.5

Good find.

I think the guys on that list also run heavy amount of PnR.

Another thing ive learned is Rockets run the least amount of PnRs...

Sixersftw · Post #2247 » by **Sixersftw** » Wed Aug 26, 2020 8:31 pm

Kobe, Coronavirus, the police, our team sucks, and now I respect the Milwaukee Bucks.

2020 sucks.

VDT · Post #2248 » by **VDT** » Wed Aug 26, 2020 8:46 pm

76ciology wrote::lol:

Celts defense improved when kanter was on the floor

Read on Twitter

Celts were smart to get Kanter. They would intentionally put him on Biid and intentionally replace Kanter with Grant Williams when Al is at C. Because Kanter can defend at the post but they know he has footspeed problems against Cs who would Pop or play PnR.

Kanter doesnt have a problm with centers that pop or play pnr. He has trouble staying in front of guards in the pnr, that's why he doesnt fit in Celtics schemes that prioritize the ability to switch. Since the Sixers dont have a guard that can drive (although we tried to do it with Shake and Burks) they were not able to punish him.

Arsenal · Post #2249 » by **Arsenal** » Wed Aug 26, 2020 9:11 pm

Yeah Kanter is solid defending the post. He's bbq chicken trying to defend the P&R on the perimeter. Sadly we have exactly ZERO players who can punish him for that.

76ciology · Post #2250 » by **76ciology** » Thu Aug 27, 2020 6:57 am

Sixersftw wrote:Kobe, Coronavirus, the police, our team sucks, and now I respect the Milwaukee Bucks.

2020 sucks.

I initially thought we’d be making the finals by now. Following the 3 year cycle rule i believe.

I think next window is at 2022.

Dont mind me and my conspiracy theories haha

2020 sucks. This is such a wasted year

76ciology · Post #2251 » by **76ciology** » Thu Aug 27, 2020 8:50 am

Have u guys watched the Jazz-Nuggets series?

These two teams pretty much just run 1-5 PnR. Both bigs drop on defense but Jokic is just worse.

Mike Malone said how the Jazz shoot like 34% on pull up 3s and they are making it at a high rage on that series. That should explain it.

It’s just open 3s or open shots for Mitchell and Conley whenever they run their 1-5 PnR.

76ciology · Post #2252 » by **76ciology** » Thu Aug 27, 2020 11:10 am

Watch on YouTube

I was watching this. And this lead me to see how the Rockets and Celts are the same with how they are going to the extreme in going away from the C position.

The difference between the two teams is Celts is more balanced while Rockets just went to the extreme.

Like both share the principle of a heavy perimeter offense game. But Celts’ scoring is more balanced with 4 guys who can score around 20 a game while Rockets pretty much rely on 2 guys. This is aside from heaving a balanced of Iso and PnR with Rockets going to the extreme of a heavy Iso and famine PnR game

youngcrev · Post #2253 » by **youngcrev** » Thu Aug 27, 2020 2:50 pm

The Sixers could end up being of only 3 teams that have the privilege of being eliminated from the bubble (though I think they'll finish this thing after taking a few days).

76ciology · Post #2254 » by **76ciology** » Fri Aug 28, 2020 5:46 pm

Do you think the players value this 2020 championship that much?

I think most of them are more happy to live their lives outside the bubble. Looking at Dame enjoying his time with his season and Paul George reportedly having some mental health issues at the bubble.

76ciology · Post #2255 » by **76ciology** » Fri Aug 28, 2020 5:54 pm

Read on Twitter

76ciology · Post #2256 » by **76ciology** » Fri Aug 28, 2020 6:13 pm

Nice to see Kork happy with his fam at turkey

76ciology · Post #2257 » by **76ciology** » Sat Aug 29, 2020 5:52 am

Is double combo guard line-up an ongoing trend?

Steph-klay
Dame-cj
Mitchell-conley
Garry harris-murray
Harden-westbrook
Van fleet-lowry
Doncic-Curry

There are still some teams who generate offense from the wing positions. Like the Bucks, Lakers and the Clippers. Double bigs or double big forwards, the one with the favorable match-up will attack on iso.

This is why I find the Raps and Bucks to be good. Bucks can find mismatch with the Khris-Giannis-Brolo with all these 3 being giants. While Raps have a giant frontcourt with a combo guard duo set-up.

Then there are those who still try to generate offense primarily at the C position. Like the Magic and the Sixers :lol:

Pick and roll = guards
Isolation = wings
Post = centers

But primarily the league is heavy on pick and rolls. 1-5 PnR to be more specific.

Kobblehead · Post #2258 » by **Kobblehead** » Sat Aug 29, 2020 2:39 pm

76ciology wrote::lol:

Celts defense improved when kanter was on the floor

Read on Twitter

Celts were smart to get Kanter. They would intentionally put him on Biid and intentionally replace Kanter with Grant Williams when Al is at C. Because Kanter can defend at the post but they know he has footspeed problems against Cs who would Pop or play PnR.

More proof that rim protection is increasingly less relevant.

Just have an elite coach/scheme and swarm with help defenders in the paint.

76ciology · Post #2259 » by **76ciology** » Sat Aug 29, 2020 2:41 pm

Kobblehead wrote:
76ciology wrote::lol:

Celts defense improved when kanter was on the floor

Read on Twitter

Celts were smart to get Kanter. They would intentionally put him on Biid and intentionally replace Kanter with Grant Williams when Al is at C. Because Kanter can defend at the post but they know he has footspeed problems against Cs who would Pop or play PnR.

More proof that rim protection is increasingly less relevant.

Just have an elite coach/scheme and swarm with help defenders in the paint.

So if rim protection and post offense is not that relevant.. what do we do with Embiid?

Kobblehead · Post #2260 » by **Kobblehead** » Sat Aug 29, 2020 2:44 pm

76ciology wrote:So if rim protection and post offense is not that relevant.. what do we do with Embiid?

Continue to enjoy the benefit of his scoring while convincing him to play at 245-255 (like Larry Brown suggested) so he can get back to being able to defend ball handlers on switches like he was able to in college and very early in his NBA career.