Post#1132 » by Fotis St » Fri Jan 22, 2021 7:39 pm
Alot of you are asking what is on Giannis head recently with the 7 turnovers and 0 assists in halftime ?
This is my opinion on what is in Giannis head and in any playmaker's head.
I was/am a point guard and this is my speculation, my opinion.
Get yourself into Giannis shoes for a bit. Imagine yourself outworking the whole NBA players and making your self a basketball freak of nature a man has never seen. Yes, I was gifted with genes, but there are thousands 7 fters out there, not being able to do half of what I can, ok ? I worked my a$$ off to be the player I am right now, in fact not only my a$$ but my whole soul, sleeping in the stadium in order to work more hours. U feeling me a bit ?
OK, since you are feeling me, I want you to imagine yourself, showcasing all your sweat and blood and bruises , on to the basketball court. So I am literally forcing with my gravity a double, a triple and sometimes a 5 man wall.... and all my hard work interprets itself that exact moment ... so I am a basketball player and I pass the ball to the wide open man at the 3pt line...right ?
You feeling me, u following me ? Yes, right, so ... now I am happy cause my teammate is wide open to take a shot .
You feeling me ... ok , then you watch your teammate shoot the 3, he Lets it Fly ... and I watch the ball spinning mid air travelling towards the basket ... you following me guys ... yeah .... and I already tight my fist out of happiness for making a play and my teammate took a really good shot ... so the ball is almost through the basket to complete this beauty right ?
Yeah ..... CLANK
My teammate missed the shot BUT that is basketball right ? So I tap him in his back and tell him "Don't worry, shoot it again with zero hesitation next time ok ? You will make it !!! " ....
So I continue with good spirit and being a good teammate on to the next possession ... and I watch all this shots , the basketball spinning mid air ... and CLANK , CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK .....
Some days we are rocking , but some meaningful games I hear and watch this CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ,CLANK ....
So that troubles me most of the time ... what do I do then ? Opponents and Coaches are hacking me every day. Doubles, Triple, Walls, flopping in front of me and I am disgusted by the refs ... rewarding floppers just kills my strength, kills the OG Basketball Gods we all worshiped. This is when I decide to either force my way through the opponents all just shoot 3s since even my teammates can't make any, I will just shoot it myself. One more troubling thing that hurts me is when they hesitate and don't shoot it and dribble or pass meaningless and it is 5v5 game again, resetting our offense to the absolute zero, this is were someone can feel that all his hard work these years, gets zeroed.
So I get really frustrated in general cause I don't see a plan working and I don't see a plan B working. All I see are some blue boxes and a new one under the basket, it is called the dunker box. I don't know why we call it that way cause I see Jrue there and sometimes Pat and it certainly hasn't generated dunks from them so what do I know right ?
Draft picks: '15 Jerian Grant, '16 Thon Maker, '17 Isaiah Hartenstein/*John Collins, '18 TD Devonte Graham, Hamidou Diallo, '20 Sam Merrill, Killian Tillie, '21 Joe Wieskamp, '22 TU C.Braun/G.Procida '23 Tristan Vukcevic/Maxwell Lewis