Giannis - 2X MVP - FMVP - DPOY - Offseason discussion

Giannis passed (or re-passed?) AD and is now Top 150 all time scoring. Just turned 28.

Will probably end season in 115 range. Will be interesting how his game ages. Some of his length and drive is timeless but big athletic have seem to decline quickly at around age 30. Hopefully he has 2 more ring and a lock top 15 player at that point so the rest is just gravy.

CharityStripe34 · Post #1552 » by **CharityStripe34** » Tue Dec 20, 2022 2:55 pm

MartyConlonOnTheRun wrote:Giannis passed (or re-passed?) AD and is now Top 150 all time scoring. Just turned 28.

Will probably end season in 115 range. Will be interesting how his game ages. Some of his length and drive is timeless but big athletic have seem to decline quickly at around age 30. Hopefully he has 2 more ring and a lock top 15 player at that point so the rest is just gravy.

I don't think he should have a problem aping a version of Old Man Duncan/Garnett defensive anchor that can still pour in 17-20 ppg on good efficiency. And have the occasional 40-ball when needed. My guess is he'll retain his athletic burst until about 32 years old and then he'll start fading a bit, but it won't be a massive drop off either given how much work he puts into his body.

He needs to start spamming hook-shots and his fairly decent 15ft mid-range so he can develop counter moves. He has a weird habit of abandoning those shots for a while. A lot of it has to do with him handling the ball a lot. I prefer letting the guards bring up the ball, which allows him to get better positioning on the wings/block or the FT line. He made fantastic strides last season in this regard but has veered away from those shot-selections.

HKPackFan · Post #1553 » by **HKPackFan** » Tue Dec 20, 2022 3:28 pm

Giannis changed his free throw routine around the bulls game on 11/25. He gave up the phantom shot and his motion became more fluid.

Since then he also in the last couple of games has sped up his new routine to 9/10 seconds vs 13 seconds where he was called a couple times for violations.... I'm not counting that adjustment as he just sped up his new routine.

We are 12 games into this routine, almost a month.

For Dec he's had 8 games so far and his ft % is exactly 70% he had a couple below average games vs memphis and golden state and an overall off game in Houston.

Other than that his free throws are pretty good.

If you add the 4 games of Nov when he first started the new routine his overall FT% is 71%.

If you take out the bulls game wen he first was trying it out he's up to 71.3%

Im actually pleased with 71%. I'd love for him to be up to 75% for the rest of the year and into the playoffs.

I do feel fatigue is a factor in his misses. When he's really tired in the 4th quarter he will start missing them short... I see that tendency. It does make sense why there's a drop off in the playoffs when he's exerted way more energy.

If he can get up to 75% then in playoffs there is the expected decline hopefully it can only go down to 70%.

CharityStripe34 · Post #1554 » by **CharityStripe34** » Tue Dec 20, 2022 3:38 pm

His new FT looks way smoother than before. I like that he's not taking 2 years to shoot it either. Anything 70% or above is fine.

Nightfall · Post #1555 » by **Nightfall** » Fri Dec 23, 2022 4:21 pm

Read on Twitter

KidA24 · Post #1556 » by **KidA24** » Fri Dec 23, 2022 5:09 pm

Nightfall wrote:

Read on Twitter

That should not have made me smile as much as it did.

Milbucks96 · Post #1557 » by **Milbucks96** » Fri Dec 23, 2022 5:57 pm

Seems like they made an effort to represent both Greece and Nigeria in his costumes, at least in the live action part. The actual game costume doesn’t look like the same green though so maybe not. Very cool though.

crkone · Post #1558 » by **crkone** » Sun Dec 25, 2022 6:38 pm

So my daughter is pretty awesome. She painted this for me for Christmas.

HKPackFan · Post #1559 » by **HKPackFan** » Tue Dec 27, 2022 3:21 pm

crkone wrote:

So my daughter is pretty awesome. She painted this for me for Christmas.

This is amazing!

RogerMurdock · Post #1560 » by **RogerMurdock** » Tue Dec 27, 2022 5:07 pm

KidA24 wrote:
Nightfall wrote:

Read on Twitter

That should not have made me smile as much as it did.

Dammit, I might have to make my first purchase from the Fortnite shop.