Playing two midgets on today's NBA.
Yeah, that wouldn't get royally ed by the Warriors and pretty much every other decent team on the league.
I don't get this. The league is smaller than ever. It's fine not to like it (I wouldn't have liked it either), but to act like it would be an archaic approach is just weird.Playing two midgets on today's NBA.
Yeah, that wouldn't get royally ed by the Warriors and pretty much every other decent team on the league.
The league is smarter than ever at exploting weak defensive links. Teams nowadays have several resources to exploit bad defenders and/or midgets.
If Parker is still the player he was in the playoffs he can still be big for this team. The question is what are we going to do with Fatty Mills? He makes too much money these days to just towel wave.
Parker hasnt been the player he was in the playoffs in 3-4 years. That flash in the pan performance he had in the playoffs, was likely just a flash in a pan. Its silly to me how fans think that performance is sustainable and what we should expect from him at 35 yrs old.
Yes, the league is going smaller/ more versatile but theres context. The league is actually getting longer in the back court, and smaller/ more versatile in the front court -- especially at the 4.
Teams are not playing two small PGs together. If they do, its a small wrinkle based on matchups that doesnt happen very often.
He won't be
I was about to say this... League is getting smaller in the frontcourt only...
From the games last night and Monday night, I counted eight teams that started two guards 6-4 (rounded up and plus the in that NBA players get, of course) and under, a multiple others where the starting two was like a 6-5 shooter who isn't going to body smaller guards for scores either. This ignores teams where their sixth man is a combo-guard with PG size like Houston, Boston and New Orleans. Then you have teams like Toronto and Phoenix with will run three PG lineups for long stretches.
And I know, 6-3 folks are giants compared to Parker's 6-2. Regardless, with the move to small-ball, most of the larger wings have become at least occasional power-forwards, and the guys who take there place are often not bigger than the wings of old. Legit 6-4 guys like Brandon Paul are playing the three like it's nothing now. Maybe getting longer is the gold standard, but it's not the reality.
Pop has always preferred to start traditional, both in terms of bigs and wings. Besides, a Parker-Paul back court is just not tenable on a full time basis, especially against starters.
Off the bench, it's not that Parker and Mills are PG's, it's that physically they're not compatible. Murray can work fine next to Mills and if he continues to hone his spot up 3-point shooting, maybe even Parker.
Just like Gasol supposedly wasn't going to start. Never underestimate how much politics factor into decision making in professional sports.
Murray has Summer game. Summer good and Summer bad. That's just the way its going to be until he develops a jump shot. Not 15 foot, one handed floaters.
He made some really nice passes and played well in other areas, he made reads in the PnR that were very vet like.. but yes, he needs a jumper.
Well how the mighty have fallen.
Are we really going to do this guys?
As long as the defense and rebounding are there, he is making good passes, scoring is a bonus
Damn might've been given the kiss of death with this thread....
First Bertans, then Pitty Mills....
Hope I'm wrong
He didn't score tonight, but I saw something that further fed my enthusiasm: his pick and roll game. He was running it like a vet out there. Specially at the beginning of the game.
But yes, he needs to work on that 15/17 foot Tony Parker jumper. He needs to come out off that screen with a decisive mindset. Thinking "now I'm going to set my feet, shoot this 17 footer and make it".
Lot of parts to his game that need improvement. Rome wasn't built in one day. He needs to improve his decision making on the pnr and straight off the dribble. His rebounding is off the charts. His defense is good right now. Could be better with more experience. Moving him away from the basket right now would not be a good thing.
Well that was fun while it lasted.. Murray still in feast or famine mode and that's not going to cut it..In particular, his lack shooting is beginning to loom large..
Kiss of death OP
Working his magic as per usual
Op is right, this isn't a big game. Good call dabom. Also Patty "I only shoot good when manu sets me up" mills
The last two games he has been pretty bad.
Lol, Murray is better than Parker was at the same age. Lol.
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