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Still better than the record for your drivel.
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exactly... I win.
I was generous.
Go punch one out if the summerleagues agitate you so.
Why aren't you on the Spurs summer squad then?
Hill's Night To Forget
Whenever my kids act up and I have to discipline them, I usually start off my lecture with something they did right before I hit them with the list of things they did wrong.
I'm going to take a similar approach to describe George Hill's performance against the Hornets.
What went right: The guard had seven rebounds, four assists and for the most part, did a good job directing the Spurs' offensive attack.
What went wrong: He had six fouls, five turnovers, scored just three points and was 0-for-10 from the field. He missed his shots in a variety of ways. He had them blocked, he had layups rim out, he had jumpers hit the back of the rim.
And just when it looked like his night couldn't get much worse, he ran into a Hilton Armstrong screen in the fourth quarter that left him crumpled on the court in pain for about two or three minutes. Ouch.
http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/...ing-Day-5.html
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go stuff yourself minime, you fail at life.. will you please agree to leave any never come back when Hill develops into a solid NBA player... Please can you go to a Laker forum or go to bandwagon.com... It sometimes makes my day when I get to read things posted by ignorant degenerates who have never stepped on a basketball court, judging people, your a fool, a shadow of a person... seriously stop reading box scores and reading blogs and pretending to be a talent expert.. stop pretending you know what a person is capable of based on 2 games... I've seen Hill play 100's of games, hes a scorer, hes a defender, hes a slasher, I've seen him be flagrantly fouled and thrown out of bounds and maintain control of his body and make the shot, I've seen him split Josh Smith and take it to the rim against diwight Howard and convert, I've seen him hold all 6'11 All-americans to 6 points, he was born to play this game from a small homicide ridden area in Indianapolis nick named "murder mile" and be praised for his character, not a street hardened thug like artest..what have you done with your life lately segu.. can you please just STFU and watch the game of basketball with out making a thread about hill every night.. what does it gain you to watch a player on your supposed team struggle and then mock is downfall..
you want to know why you do it .. because it makes you feel better... to make up for all your insecurities... being a pessimist ... mabe you were abused.. who knows.
Hopefully he can forget. He plays hard and genuinely looks like he wants to help this team win.
My biggest concerns was the lack of awareness on double teams.
a rookie plays horribly in his second summer league game???? let's cut him now and trade for summer league superstar nate robinson!!! and then let's fire rc and pop for drafting hill in the first place....
do you ever just shut the up
geez change teams already.
To be honest, I am more "worried" about Ian's play. I mean, he looks good, but has not really grasped how to get good position or how to best use his athleticism on the defensive end. I think enough of this D league for him, he has to be thrown into the mix in order to learn a la Tony P. He should not get a ton of minutes, but should see the floor. I wonder what the rotation will look like when it is all said and done, and how deep our bench will be.
Out of all of our youngsters, Ian is the one who can provide the most for the future imo. He is the one that needs to work out. I like his at ude and Hill's so I think they have it in them. Like I said, even when they did not play well, they looked better than most out there. They definitely belong.
I guess trainers wrap elbows for fun.
Are you implying serious injury
You may very well be the biggest loser on planet earth. Go a donkey.
Not serious, but there was tape.
Can we hire Isiah for drafting purposes
It looks like Hill has pretty "free-rein" out there. Like I said, he does not look bad. Except for the finishing at the rim, everything else looks really good. He is super quick, nice handles, good d, good looking shot (even though they have not fallen) and he gets in the lane very effortlessly. An elbow injury might explain the shooting, but he does not seem to be working on any one thing. You can tell they are trying to get Ian in the low block, Gist is trying to be active, but Hill is doing everything. He looks better than most out there even when playing bad.
The only thing clear from these two SL games is that Hill, Gist, and Ian all have the tools to make it in the NBA, and even the potential to develop into very nice players.
Hill looked like he had a great feel for the game out there even today. His handle is excellent and he sets things up with efficiency and crisp passes. The bad part of his game is that he looks horrible in the paint. He seems to force it way too much when he is driving, and can't seem to find the open man when he is collapsed on.
But a huge part of that is not knowing where your teammates are supposed to be, and not having the structure of a set offense and defense which everyone knows. Trying to play like a true point guard in Summer league is probably the most difficult task of any, all you have is a street ball style game in which everyone is trying to pad their own stats, and no one knows about the set plays or rotations.
Parker could excel in that situation given the type of shoot first guard he really is. George Hill looks very solid if he can have a system in which he knows where to pick his shots and where to find his team mates.
If he works at it he will be an excellent backup that in a few years might even push into Tony's PT.
So far I have no worries about Hill having the goods to make it as an NBA point guard, the thing I am most worried about is that Ian still doesn't seem like much of an improvement over Elson. Ian just isn't skilled enough to be a low energy player, and even though he looks all the world like he could be a superstar in the NBA, he neither imposes his will on a game nor go balls to the wall with hustle. I just don't see him taking his game to the next level.
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He had a bad game and on top of it, he seems to be a tad injured.
Summer League games are the equivalent of scrimmages at the end of February against community colleges for MLB teams.
STFU you snivelling little twerp. It's his second game of summer league, like that is a record to judge him off.
Hopes for Hill have rapidly declined to "hope he turns out decent" from earlier thoughts he was the steal of the draft. Turns out the steals might have come after the Spurs pick.
You just never know if the Spurs coaching staff told him to work on the weak part of his game. You can't tell a player to stop rebounding, so he instinctively got 7 rebounds. But, you could perhaps tell a player not to take jump shots, wait to be trapped, play point or penetrate in traffic. So far, I have yet to see an impressive offensive move by Hill this summer league. You see that he's got quickness and seems to have a great nose for the ball in rebounds but you just wonder if he's being told to limit his offensive repertoire.
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