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Catdaddyhorn

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  1. I think you mean 84. That was the draft with Jordan, Olujuwan, Barkley, Stockton, and a few others whose names I'm forgetting.
  2. I disagree. I think the subtleties in basketball aren't as obvious as they are in football. Thus it's more difficult for laymen like us to clearly discern where coaching makes an impact. Baseball is probably similar.
  3. Jones was working as the VP of Basketball Ops when McDonough made those moves. I'm guessing there's a reason Sarver moved McDonough out and elevated Jones.
  4. Zach Lowe, Kevin O'Connor, and all the other ringer guys have consistently said that Phoenix has been the most well prepared team in the playoffs. And that Williams on the fly coverage adjustments have been flawless.
  5. Why? What did he have to do with hiring Williams or several of the free agents acquisitions Jones has made since becoming the GM (btw Jones was hired in 2017 so he was also there for many of the things you want to give credit to McDonough for. Not to mention he drafted Cameron Johnson who he was absolutely ridiculed for. As for Williams not being a factor in Phoenix recent rise.
  6. I wonder if the knowledge that he won't be playing for Coach K diminish this offer for Black.
  7. You're joking, but I was back and forth between those two when thinking of a comp for him.
  8. Yeah he's a poorer shooting, more score first mentality version of Steve Nash.
  9. If Simmons could escape from his mind fuck enough to reverted to some form of this again: Maybe a team could use him.
  10. I was listening to the most recent Bill Simmons podcast and in discussing game 7 between the Bucks and Nets he started listing other game 7s that went to OT. That discussion caused him to reference the 2006 game 7 of the Mavs/Spurs series where he brought up his book of basketball podcast series and called it the best series of rhe decade. So of course I had to go back and listen to that episode. Fucking A!! I'd forgotten how exciting that win was to me. Despite or the eventual theft that took place in the finals that win over the Spurs still rates highly for me. Anyways it's a good listen if you're interested.
  11. The biggest hurdle he has is just attempting threes. Guys like Lonzo Ball and other bad shooters were at least willing to shoot them prior to improving their shot.
  12. Lopez is actually extremely effective in the post. Budenholzer, in his infinite wisdom, just didn't mix in any post touches for Lopez in his "your turn, my turn" offense.
  13. Think of the butterfly effect of the Nets not trading for Harden which probably results in Philly getting him.
  14. Yeah I get that and despite my post you responded to I generally tend to agree. Only, I'm trying to figure out Griffin's thought process. Everything you said of Gentry was true when Griffin got the job, yet he kept him. So it stands to reason that given their previous relationship and the Pelicans personnel at the time, he kept him for a reason. Probably wanted to employ the D'Antoni Phoenix Suns/ 2012-2014 Spurs hybrid offense akin to what Gentry was doing with Kerr in Golden State. Gentry was the offensive brains behind the Warriors 2014-2015 offense. So given that initial decision what did Gentry do wrong in a season where he had Zion for 24 games and a pandemic break. The Pelicans looked to be on their way towards making the playoffs before COVID season started spring 2020. Fast forward to now, you've now fired 2 coaches 2 years into your 2+ year tenure as GM. Griffin doesn't seem to have much of a plan.
  15. His issue is much bigger than that. Dude doesn't even attempt to shoot. We seriously don't even know whether he's a bad shooter. I've never seen such an enormous mental block in a certifiably talented basketball player. Verifiably bad shooters like Giannis and Westbrook still jack up 3s like there's no tomorrow. His own teammate Matisse Thybulle has launched over 300 3s in his career and came into the league as with the rep of a garbage shooter. Simmons' personality type strikes me as a guy who cant stomach publicly "looking bad" when doing something. Like the kid in middle and high school you played sports with who always went out of their way to "look pretty" while playing. Simmons is the grown up version of that. Style over substance.
  16. Philly went from possibly getting Harden for Simmons, to hoping for CJ McCullough.
  17. The aforementioned Ramey shot 39% from 3 as a freshman.
  18. Half the roster was injured for his entire tenure with the team. The one season where they were halfway healthy he took the team to the Western Conference semis and that was AFTER Cousins tore his achilles. I actually thought Gentry got a raw deal, especially since he and David Griffin (their GM) go way back to their Phoenix Suns days. Zion basically didn't play the one year Gentry had him and Griffin fired him before he ever got a shot and then doubled it up and hired a coach who isn't exactly known for running a cohesive offense or getting the most out of young players. That being said, why are we taking an IG post from Bleacher Report seriously?
  19. Didn't Bird and Wilkins have one back in the 80s?
  20. 2nd best winning percentage over a 20 year time frame ought to correspond with more championships than the Toronto Raptors have.
  21. We shot nearly 36% from 3 last year with less than ideal shot selection. Which was good enough for 80th in the nation and 3rd in the conference. That's pretty good in my eyes. There's a greater than 0 chance that we'll improve in the upcoming year with much better shot selection and more focus on interior and midrange play.
  22. During my years (late 90s to early 00s) there were a good number of mixers between black, white, Hispanics, and Asians Greeks (both East and South Asians) for some reason. It's almost as though as that world opened up compared to what it had been before.
  23. You've gotta remember most of the black sororities and fraternities predate organizations like the NAACP. So while these organizations served many of the same functions for students as white fraternal organizations they took on the additional roles of being organizing hubs for early Civil rights era activities. And then again by their very nature of being organizations encompassing the black bourgeoisie they took on other roles beyond just being a place for kids to join while they were in school so they tend to still have roles beyond college life (although many may argue their importance has diminished substantially).
  24. There have been a number of black football and basketball players at UT pledge fraternities. Earl Thomas Jeremy Hills Marquise Goodwin Eric Davis (bball) and a bunch of others whose names escape me. I remember a couple of our recent middle linebackers were Omegas. There was a white AKA during the 90s at UT and there have been a number of non-black Deltas and Zetas. Shoot, prior to the creation of a number of South Asian Greek organizations you'd have a decent number of south Asians joining black fraternities and sororities. And there have been a shitload of white guys and other non-black ethnic groups who have pledged black fraternities at UT over the past 2 decades as well.
  25. The original Hayward signing was a great signing. It's not Ainge's fault he broken his leg in half his first game with the team. Hopefully Cuban's penchant got wheeling and dealing will rub off on Ainge's hoarding assets tendancies. Regardless Ainge's recent comments about athletes probably makes him a no anyways.
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