SF position is killing us.
It’s gotten to a point where Moore has to start because Doug, Snell, and Mirotic aren’t cutting it.
Maybe Dunleavy can give us 12-15 ppg once he gets back on the floor.
On the bright side, rose had 30/9/8.
bonus:
"unstoppable, baby!"
Kings thinking about firing George Karl.
Speaking of Shaq…the NBA wants to eliminate the whole “Hack-a-Shaq” philosophy.
Curry isn’t ruining the NBA. The focus should be on players like Deandre Jordan and others who can only dunk and are poor free throw shooters. Those kinds of players are a bad example to the kids and the game itself because they can’t knock down a simple free throw shot. Adam Silver should create a free throw rehabilitation program for those who can’t do the simple shit like a free throw in basketball. You’re a professional and you can’t hit free throws? dafuq
It’s not about basketball though, it’s about ratings.
Dudes should obviously learn how to shoot free throws (apparently DJ is like 70% in practice), but the issue right now is viewers changing the channel when the hacking starts. It’s not fun to watch and they’re probably starting hear from networks and sponsors about it as well.
But yes, we’re all in agreement that professional basketball players should be able to hit free throws consistently enough where this should’ve never been a problem.
Don’t change the rule just to coddle 3 players out of the 450 in the league. The NBA is so soft these days.
Raptors didn’t hack DJ or Drummond last time the teams played. Every foul was during a play. Jordan still went 3-9 and Drummond 1-9 at the line. How about teams teach their C’s to shoot better than 55% free throws because 1.05 PPP is really all you need to stop teams from hacking.
You aren’t listening.
It’s not about basketball. It’s not about if they should be able to shoot. It’s about the money.
That first vid looks straight out of the Della school of “grit & hustle” as Cavs fans adamantly wanted you to make sure and I’m dying at that last vid.
In other news this Rockets team is like that roller coaster ride you want to get off those downs man. Also T-Jones will be out for a bit.
If it was about the money then the NBA wouldn’t have been able to enter a $25 billion TV deal with ABC/TNT nor would the salary cap increase to $90 and $108 million over the next two seasons. Audiences watching players making or not making their free throws didn’t get the league paid. It was guys like Kobe, Lebron, Durant and teams like the big 3 Celtics/Heat and those Lakers-Celtics finals.
Right now the Clippers, Rockets and Pistons are 4th and 7th in the West and 7th in the East. Which means they’re matching up against Warriors, Spurs and Raptors respectively if the playoffs started today. Warriors if Clippers make it to 2nd round. Are people really going to change the channel whenever DJ or Howard are at the line when their opponents are the two of the best teams in the league? What’s the alternative during primetime in Apr/May/Jun anyway? Dancing with the Stars, Big Bang Theory reruns and Hockey playoffs? LOL.
And no one in the States is watching a Pistons-Raptors playoff series anyway so that doesn’t even matter.
Ya’ll are acting like bigs are the only ones affected by hack strategy. Elfrid Payton isn’t a saint. Rondo has never been a saint. Dragic is only shooting 69% at the line this year, but thankfully teams don’t exploit that. And let’s not even get into all the forwards in the league.
There’s a lot of garbage ft shooters around. I don’t know why coaches only target 4-5 bigs every night.
Advanced metrics basically. The league average in offensive rating right now is 105.5. That’s 1.055 points per possession. A player only needs to average 52.75% free throws to equal that production.
Have teams intentionally fouled Whiteside this year? I’m guessing not because despite his 54.5% average that’s good enough for 109 points for every 200 free throws he shoots. The Heat’s Ortg is only 103.1 which means if a team puts Whiteside at the line 100 times in a game he’ll score the Heat more points than if they ran their normal offense.
They were putting Whiteside on the line regularly, which is a big reason he saw limited minutes in 4th quarters for awhile. He made the free throws so it backfired, and no one has tried it since. Plus, he completely changed his ft release recently and has made 9 of his last 14, so it wouldn’t be wise doing it all to him anymore.
Personally I never saw anything wrong with the strategy. Especially now with the rule change, where a team can’t do it under 2 minutes left in the 4th. If the ft release isn’t working, guys should follow Whiteside’s idea. If you’re comfortable shooting a 15 foot shot, then use your jumpshot form at the line. Rondo should have been doing this years ago.
I was gonna reply to your arguments… but I decided not to argue w/ idiots anymore.
If you can’t see this is about money, then I don’t know what else what to you.
The Warriors are unreal. I leave to pickup my family and they’re down 9-0 I come back and they’re up 20 scoring 60 and there is still over 4 minutes left. Do they have permanent God mode on?
The Dubs have Livingston and Speights making Ibaka looking hella free right now.
*Hack-a-player is fine by me. You’re one of the best players in the world playing against the best teams in the world. It’s in the spirit of competition to exploit any weakness your opponent may possess. I also understand that NBA is all about the bottom dollar and making the game more spectator friendly (hi handchecks). But protecting players who can’t make free throws when it matters by banning the tactic is a cop out, intentional fouling is part of the game. *
OKC bench has been pretty horrible. They need KD and Westbrook on the floor to stand a chance.
KD with quietest 21pts ever.
in other news, lakers are beating the spurs right now.
people can complain about the warriors i guess, but the rest of the league is sneaky competitive and people don’t really care about those teams…
Seen more than one OKC game this year where they play that iso ball in crunch time and it always stalls their offense. Don’t know why they didn’t stick with the P&R - it was unstoppable.