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UncleSonny

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  1. Lol, nailed it. Assuming by “capable” you meant, “worst in the league at it”. KP is not capable of getting his own shot and any possession that Rick gives him the ball and clears our space for him is a wasted one.
  2. I appreciate you listing all of the things you would have done differently but I disagree with almost all of them. Any combination of most of them would have resulted in a shorter than 7 game series. 1) Sort of agree on Maxi. When he's not hitting shots early he just doesn't seem to have it and doesn't provide enough value outside of that. Although I'm not sure how feasible giving Powell big minutes was, he has not been good since coming back from the injury. Maybe worth a shot. 2) Love Brunson, but the Clips ate his lunch this series. He had one of the worst NET ratings on the team. 3) See 1, Powell hasn't been that guy since before his injury 4) What a weird conclusion. We were making a point of not crashing the offensive glass and getting back on defense and LA wasn't scoring much in transition. So clearly we could have just starting crashing the offensive glass, not worried about getting back on defense and the Clippers would still not be a threat in transition? 5) You want KP to be that guy, but he's not that guy. 6) I don't see how we could ask Luka to have the usage rate on offense he had and also carry that kind of role on defense. Not to mention he wasn't even 100% the second half of the series. 7) Boban got plenty of time
  3. If it's so easy to refute, by all means refute it. All you are doing is stating conclusions. By the way, I never said the words "jump shooting team". That is meaningless. What I can show you is that you are being reductive and you're wrong. The Clippers shot a higher percentage of their FG attempts from three during the series than the Mavericks did. Empirically. During the playoffs, where according to you should be impossible because of how different things are they were more reliant on jump shots.
  4. No. I'm not saying Malone was inefficient, I'm saying long twos are inefficient relative to three point shots. Because 2 points is fewer points than 3 you see. Not to mention spacing. https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/karl-malone-shot-chart There is not an NBA star with a shot chart that looks like this anymore, because we have a ton of data saying that isn't the best way to score points. If Malone was in the NBA today, when he wasn't in a pick and roll his ass would be parked in the corner behind the arc. And he had better learn to hit that shot pretty frequently. I'm not really sure what you are arguing I guess. Spacing the floor for Luka and letting him finish at the basket or find an open guy for three was a devastatingly effective offense last year. Literally one of the best of all time. We swapped Curry for Richardson and it took a step back this year but it was still good. With the pieces we had this year what could Rick have done differently to have made us a better offensive team/closer to championship level in your estimation?
  5. You are an ocean of terrible takes but I couldn't let this go. You seem to be completely clueless about the modern game. You are reminiscing about inefficient Karl Malone mid-range jumpers and feeding KP the ball 20 times a game with his back to the basket while saying teams don't win games off of shooting? https://www.nba.com/stats/teams/shots-general/?sort=FG3A_FREQUENCY&dir=1&Season=2020-21&SeasonType=Playoffs Six of the last seven champs were in the top 10 teams in the league in frequency of threes, and the 7th was 11. 2020 Lakers 11th 2019 Raptors 5th 2018 Warriors 6th 2017 Warriors 5th 2016 Cavs 3rd 2015 Warriors 1st 2014 Spurs 10th This season 7 of the top 11 of those teams are still playing. I'm going to venture a guess that as a football fan you are a "you have to establish the run in order to pass" believer.
  6. Respect to Bear's business acumen. You know what is better than one bag? All the bags.
  7. Just adorable. I'm sure most of his subs will be able to pick up on the subtext and won't get too far over their skis here. No doubt, we got a 10/10! The difference is everyone here understands he'll visit Notre Dame next, also be blown away on that visit and likely commit there shortly after.
  8. Maybe they really did blow him away but even from their mods' glowing reports I'm not seeing much by way of prediction that they will actually win out. Feels more like they are setting up their story. "The fightin ags did all they could and staged a furious comeback to get back into the mix but due to factors mostly outside of their control they weren't able to beat out the big12 squad." Made up a ton of ground isn't the same thing as took the lead. We're at worst a toss up with our visit still to go. 'If even, we're leaving' corollary applies.
  9. Hook’em Keilan! Formations with Robinson and Robinson and the field at the same time is going to be a problem for DCs. Funny that he was #2 at Bama, I guess when you’ve had the rbs that Alabama had recently even if you are Derrick Henry you don’t get your number retired. I’m gonna guess he goes with “0” in Burnt Orange.
  10. The fuck is up with the high school girl graduation pose on the bottom right?
  11. Awesome news. What is his eligibility, 4 to play 3?
  12. Bumping this thread because I just saw this Patton tweet and it reminded me of my post and what I was trying to get at:
  13. I think this is Gerry saying Ketch’s time is running out, he’s been taking shots at him for months. No complaints if an Ewers flip is imminent though.
  14. I'm going to guess people's mileage may very on him, but I liked Bo Burnham's new special "Inside". He filmed, wrote, shot, and edited the whole thing in quarantine. It's pretty funny at times and also kind of an interesting look at a really smart, creative guy trying not to lose his mind.
  15. Yeah, I'm on the same page and I assume that is part of the pitch. Keilan isn't being recruited to fight RoJo for the leftover carries that don't go to Bijan, he's a player that we can carve out a specific role for: out-wide, 2-rb sets, motions, and in the slot.
  16. Can anybody parse what this means for me?
  17. A few lingering questions:
  18. Nope, you made a blanket statement about how the limiting factor for Thompson declaring early would be his lack of experience. You were given plenty of examples how this is wrong. If you feel like Thompson isn't a risk to declare because of his measurables you should have probably said that. You wouldn't have gotten any pushback on that. The point everyone is pushing back against is the experience part.
  19. Like historically great Mitch Trubisky? Who can forget his storied career at *checks notes* North Carolina. Can't wait for the 30 for 30. I don't think Casey Thompson leaves after this season but mainly because he doesn't have NFL measurables. QBs with limited experience declare early after moderately successful seasons all the time.
  20. Yeah of course, having lots of good options at one position is a good thing. It's just that typically a transfer creates depth via a knockdown effect. The transfer automatically goes into the 2-deep and the guys behind him who would have been there are now quality depth. A guy who's good enough to be a drastic rb3 upgrade is probably looking to transfer somewhere with a clear path to playing time. Not always, if Robinson wants in that's exciting and good for the team. When Ingram transferred the collective response was somewhere between a shrug and "good riddance" even though he would have been objectively good depth. It doesn't square to act like we now have a desperate need to add another guy at the position who probably won't be as good as Ingram is.
  21. Hook'em Paxton. I'd be proud as hell if my daughters grow up to have this kind of courage in their convictions.
  22. Assuming he's not totally asleep at the wheel, I wonder who Jimbo is keeping warm in case that happens. Maybe circle back on Klubnik but he's probably a tough pull if Clemson wants to keep him.
  23. It's funny that posters continue to argue if a position group doesn't have an established all-conference level player at 3rd & 4th on the depth chart that means depth is a huge problem. And it can be fixed by simply adding a big time transfer who's happy to come and be the "in case of emergency" 3rd stringer.
  24. I don't really give a shit if either one of them are official heisman winners, but if they stripped it from Bush shouldn't Johnny's be forfeited as well?
  25. Has he? That seems like his preference but I thought he was a bit more open than that. Maybe it was mostly coach speak but Sark talked playing him both ways and I thought Sanders was pitched on his experience doing that with guys: I guess if you want to overanalyze things (fuck it-it's the offseason) number 3 gives him the option to come into the game in pass rushing situations while being primarily a TE (without having to do the awkward jersey change thing on the sideline). Surprisingly we don't have a '3' on defense after Green left. Of course it's pretty unlikely that he'll be effective enough in that role as a true freshman while spending the majority of practice in the TE room.
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