DS17Fanboy

No suprise. No it is not suprising. I brought it up in the "early thoughts on Schröder" thread few days ago. FYI

Dont forget Teague. PG D is today completely underrated. We are talking 6 foot something dudes. There is an insanely huge pool of dudes who can play great with the basketballs, but having D is increasingly rare. All while team D starts just there most of the plays and when the little one in front of you hustles you cant hide as big.

i would not trade away howard, unless its for another super big. howard is underrated

They could use Splitter.

Yeah, I see him making TO passes in to the post all the time. But he has a good passing game. TO numbers dont tell the whole story at all. High risk passes offer high rewards. One could also say higher or slightly higher risk passes. Its all about the equilibrium of whats sound. Needless to say we are a passing team and need to move the ball. Which means more TO's but also higher rewards...

Some thoughts on Dennis: 3pt% at 39.4% and FG% up as well.

Plz not more of those sawft euro players like Moose, Thabo and Dennis.

I'd love to switch between them as starters all over the place, depending on our opponent.

Confusius says "tanking is winning"

These are tough games mentally because of beating CLE and not being able to rest on your laurels for some time, but instead go back to come out next day motivated again. And we did, starting great. Somehow Butler and Wade allowed them to stay in there and it seemed the gastank whas kinda empty later on, but still managed to pull the W out. Thats actually what great teams do "the next day".

No way one can overreact enough after last game vs CLE, because even if we had lost it in the second half, it showed that we found a way to stick it to them and not get sticken to much on our own. There whas a reason we had a 11 game losing streak and it didnt look like any of that that game. It whas something completely new and cause for allot of optimism.

Oh boy. To put it in the words of Hillary Clinton "I came, I sa...", no thats just it. I had one of these very rare but super intense sportsorgasms. High level championship play. Lebron didnt know what happened. This will be a great season. Now Im getting me something to eat and some sleep.

There never whas any consistency all these years. Every year, new core. Also didnt pay not resigning proven core players, like Nash, Finley and Chandler. OK they won a title after letting Nash and Finley go, but I'd argue they could have become a dynasty winning several titles would they had not. Multiple 60+ win years and sucking the playoffs.

Only if they throw Lance in the package.

Boy Koen Korver. I knew he is Dutch. Koen is short for Cornelius in Holland. Congrats and props for doing the ancestory thing.

i like korver paired up with howard. hes getting allot more looks because of it and it started well

f*** harden and f*** houston

It is defintly still wait and see. I never understood Bazemore really, outside his physical potential and age, but I get Thabo is to fragile to play extended minutes. Baze is a bit streaky though, so he might make a turn around and secure his spot. But surely when this keeps on much longer, Prince needs to see allot of real-time NBA basketball this year. As far as Korver goes, be careful with what you wish for regarding THJ. His D is awful at times. I could only watch the 1st quarter the other night, but there he straight jumped to his left on a pretty obvious headfake. You can be beat by a headfake at times, but dont jump without chance to recover and most certainly not to the left of things. U know childlike D like that you dont see Korver do. At least he has a knack about everything he does. It is still wait and see to me. But surely things can not continue in this way.

Look! A baby hawk. Just ignore the bad guy.

All their guards where playing at whatever top-level they individually have, outside maybe their best player Russel(but who also played well, but not as crazy as the others). So pick your poison. I wouldnt be to worried about this loss. The team understimated the opponent and thought to get away with being half arsed. Well that might work with Denver or whatever, but the Lakers have allot of young legs and some streaky shooting and they made the best of that.

Hawks where beat by themselves. In the 2nd quarter I already thought they play maybe at 80% against this scrub Lakers team and that continued troughout, if not even getting worse, thinking we will get them anyway. And when then all their guards start making trickshots on top of their already good play, then you end up taken by suprise late in the game and it becomes hard to go from 80% to 110%. We should have demoralized them in the first half and take a 20 point lead. Oh well, sometimes such losses early in the season are good to get on planet earth again and conetemplate.

1. He doesnt gamble and stays marked on his man for most of the time(Glove like, but a poor mans version still). 2. He hustles whenever, going after loose balls. 3. He has a elite natural instinct of whats moving behind him. Screeners, cutters, or shooters in the courner. 4. He hast elite cat like motions that are able to avoid screens and usualy he goes over them. 5. He has by now an more often than not elite feel for rotations. 6. He plays without significant fouling. This sort of "being pushed around" stuff, is all about a situation with Temple getting in the paint by force and finishing. Well, those are just very obvious situations, that you cant miss watching a game, but how many of those are there? B-ball is a game about the long-run, not a basket or two.

The issue that have with posts like yours is that it is unwarrented critisism to put everything in such general terms. Delany has one alley-hoop and suddenly he's "the expert on Dwight". Dennis on two consecutive plays is waiting on Kyle to get past a screen in the paint two games ago and suddenly he's "just standing around all the time"(while in the second it got Embiid his 4th foul but nvm...). Thats the only time I seen him just standing around. Dennis his game is all about extraordinary speed and it causes all sorts of direct and indirect problems for opposing teams and those plays are just more turnover-prone and bound to get u in more difficult spots. That comes with the territory. Dude has to still learn a few learnable things and some might be better at it. Maybe Teague is/whas, but I see him making far more headscratching drives lately. The sort of actions you speak about have far more to do with PnR's not working out and when ur deep in the paint it is hard to get out of the situation, so you end up finishing one way or the other. Also how many times have those been rebounded by Dwight, because he usualyswaits till he gets back in rebounding position(which is actually quality of Dennis). And also, Dennis has a truckload of hockey assists to open shooters with Millsap in the mids, tacking over that role from Horford. Does Dennis his play with Millsap, Korver, Baze and Moose look bad to you? Dennis is not standing around

What does "not getting others involved" even mean? Back it up with something. And Dennis is a scoring point-guard if you like it or not. Ur pretty stringent there all on your own. Your demands will not be meat. Deal with it.

Oh stop it. Delaney brought them back in to the game with Lawson and Temple abusing him. Delaney has a very polished offensive game and his co-team mates are very allround guys who it is easier to play with. Dennis needs to work on that PnR game with Howard & Co and the work is done during regular season basketball. So what happens are miscues and waiting for guys to move, then getting there to late or not at all, ending up taking a bad shot yourself etc. Thats gonna not look "flowing" etc, but that is what working on things is...his game with Korver and Millsap is very productive. What matters much more as a team-leader is reckognizing where the game is at, to go familiar routes when needs be, and that is what Dennis did again last night, doubling the lead in the 4th for instance. Dennis is actually a very smart player and a true starting PG.