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Post#121 » by Bologna Smasher » Sat Dec 19, 2020 5:49 am

How are you guys liking A-Pok so far? He's the player who I thought had the highest potential in the draft. He's looked pretty good so far, he's actually further along than I thought he'd be out of the gate.
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Post#122 » by Mickey8 » Sat Dec 19, 2020 7:17 am

Markkanen is the legit seven footer and Pokusevski looked taller than him to me, just to put away theory that Pokusevski is shorter than Lyles and Aldridge.
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Post#123 » by Old Man Game » Sat Dec 19, 2020 1:06 pm

Mickey8 wrote:Markkanen is the legit seven footer and Pokusevski looked taller than him to me, just to put away theory that Pokusevski is shorter than Lyles and Aldridge.
I still thought it looked questionable. Maybe it's because he's so thin and I'm watching these games on a **** stream that my eyes are playing tricks on me. He looks closer to 6'10" to me.

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Post#124 » by Mickey8 » Sat Dec 19, 2020 1:39 pm

I am telling you , he's 7 foot tall , and even if he wasn't , if he was 6'11 or 6'10 thats still good height for the wing and PF, but he needs to put some weight somehow in the future.
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Post#125 » by ThunderBolt » Wed Dec 23, 2020 12:17 pm

Nice to see Poku getting some national recognition.
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Post#126 » by Mickey8 » Sat Dec 26, 2020 10:53 pm

Today is Aleksej's birth day, I hope he makes his debut tonight and at least score the point or two :)
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Post#127 » by Jstock12 » Sun Dec 27, 2020 9:28 am

Mickey8 wrote:Today is Aleksej's birth day, I hope he makes his debut tonight and at least score the point or two :)


He was close. Just off by 1 point.
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Post#128 » by spearsy23 » Sun Dec 27, 2020 1:51 pm

Cole Anthony looking intriguing
“If you're getting stops and you're making threes and the other team's not scoring, that's when you're going to see a huge point difference there,” coach Billy Donovan said.
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Post#129 » by mr570 » Sun Dec 27, 2020 6:29 pm

Rough game for Poku. Loved the block/steal though. He's learning to use his length.
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Post#130 » by timO » Mon Jan 4, 2021 12:40 pm

first five games he looks like a total scrub

he needs to play in dleague...
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Post#131 » by bbms » Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:50 pm

+5.4 On-Off per BBRef.
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Post#132 » by spearsy23 » Mon Jan 11, 2021 6:38 pm

bbms wrote:+5.4 On-Off per BBRef.

Our offense Is 14 points worse with him on, but defense is 19 points better.

Teams he's played against:
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Brooklyn is the only one not in the bottom 20 offensively (and they were shorthanded), and outside of Utah the rest are 24+ with bad benches.


Not to be too much of a downer, but the offensive problems are clearly largely because of how bad he'd been, and I don't believe the defense is performing well because of him.
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Post#133 » by jambalaya » Sun Feb 21, 2021 7:24 pm

I dunno if this has mentioned before but Pokusevski only played like 300 minutes of professional ball over 3 pre NBA seasons. That can be taken different ways ultimately. But it Is incredibly light prior experience.
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Post#134 » by spearsy23 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 10:55 pm

He may legitimately be the worst offensive basketball player of any first round pick ever
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Post#135 » by jambalaya » Sun Feb 21, 2021 11:37 pm

Big game for him today.
https://stats.nba.com/game/2022000061/

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Post#136 » by ThunderBolt » Mon Feb 22, 2021 1:10 am

Seeing him attack the basket is encouraging.
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Post#137 » by jambalaya » Tue Feb 23, 2021 3:07 am

Pokusevski went from horrendous in NBA to horrendous in G league to amazing in G league (at least on highlight reel). Couple steps to go... but I think it has good chance of working now.
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Post#138 » by jambalaya » Tue Feb 23, 2021 5:32 am

Pokusevski's "game" is mostly on ball, mostly open court. That is where the highlights were coming, along with some half court plays with bad to no defense. I am glad to see highlights; but, on second look, need to remind myself about context and the difference between that context and typical context. It does suggest things about when / how and with whom he should play.
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Post#139 » by spearsy23 » Thu Feb 25, 2021 11:50 am

The vipers don't have a player over 6'9 on their roster. May have contributed to his willingness to go to the basket.
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Post#140 » by slick_watts » Thu Feb 25, 2021 1:12 pm

i'm unenthused.

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