it’s not like he was cheating. He stepped to both coaches before the game and told them to just go try to win and he would stay out of the way. It’s suspected he had done it many times before, but this time some media member overheard it and reported him to the league office while writing his story. Neither coach complained
And that still wasn’t it.
And what turned out to be the last straw he basically decided not to eject two guys after getting the third technicals. They were getting chippy and he gave them a double tech. He later said he didn’t know they already had two. You got extras back then. Refs would hand them out, kind of as a warning.
But he didn’t...
In the late 70s when they started trying to modify defenses against the zones, he thought the rules were too arbitrary and basically left it up to each ref to decide how the game would be played. He didn’t want that. He wanted clearly defined rules that put it in the hands of the players and the coaches. So he just went to the coach of the Hawks...
I’d like to tell you a bit about one of many old-school refs from back before they took shit. A great many have good stories but I’m gonna stick to one.
Richie Powers. He was the head of all NBA officials in the mid to late 70s. The league hated him. The other rest ended up, hating him because he wouldn’t back a strike at one point. But all he...
It's fine to get a complex experience for his first head coaching gig. It's a bad idea If you are seriously trying to win a championship. Fortunately LA is not a serious contender. If he manages to not get fired after a year I'll call it a relative success.
Bud has historically been a good coach rs-wise. It's only in the postseason where he's gotten exposed so hard despite demonstrating how elite he can turn a good team into before it started. Because some people can't help but think that top-seeded teams are going to be dominant all-season long (yes including the playoffs), especially if they got...
Every team can shoot 3s, variance is higher.
Offenses have gotten better.
= Streaks are more extreme
Just about every good team has a high powered offense nowadays, capable of scoring in bunches
All the best offensive teams are in the last 10 years
I don't mind him as the top assistant coach but no as the head coach. It's a recipe for disaster to get him as the head coach with no coaching experience.
^this is why at the very least, these shots shouldn’t have been given out at CVS & Walgreens, Duane Reade, etc … but by at the very least, veteran phlebotomists, if not interventional radiologists or another similar expert, who could ensure than MRNA instructions that teach ribosomes to create cytotoxic proteins, don’t enter capillary beds, veins,...
So many collaborative and cumulative causes:
I’ll add several recent:
-Food quality controls and other standards lowering.
-in the unfortunate percentage, when the tip of the needle was in a capillary bed, vein, or artery when the plunger was depressed…Covid shots negatively effecting the immune systems, slowing recovery and healing...
A the author of this thread you've pretty much invalidated your own opinion. FYI ImKobe made the stupid argument that Doncic regular season numbers proved his Playoff grreatness so I pointed out that Embiid had even better averages this year. Does that prove his greatness too? Read your own crap thread.
Reddick certainly has the mental and social makeup to be an effective head coach at the college or pro level, ala Billy Donovan. Reddick can connect to and manage difficult egotistical personalities, and certainly has a deep deep understanding of the modern game, and a vision for the future of it, that would be on display with how he would...
I have no sympathy for Gobert - he deserves the criticism - he's getting paid $205 million for 5 yrs. 4x DPOY and can't be on the court during the biggest defensive possession of the game?
Shaq and Chuck are rightly smirking - probably licking their chops at the thought of Gobert defending them (compared to all the REAL defensive players they...
Which organizations do you think are MOST susceptible (for a myriad of both internal & external reasons) into being conned into hiring underqualified (who on paper on in interview can feign being qualified) and destined-to-fail MF’s ?
Last year or the year before, he even publicly stated something passive aggressive regarding it. Whenever coaching hires and fired come up, Kenny distinctly gets into a certain mode, where it’s painfully obvious he tries to plant seeds to fool dumb organizations into equating himself in some way/shape/form with legitimate coaching staff...
I haven't touched a basketball in years. Am I allowed to practice my jumper every day for a month first? If not, I have 0 shot. If yes, I need to make 4 shots before he makes 30-50 shots. Do I get the ball without having to rebound his misses? Some play with that rule, some keep the ball live on a miss.
If a month of daily practice + I get the...
Another thing I expect to become even more polished and frequent over the next few years, with even greater chemistry and tighter, more decisive timing for an additional 1/4 step advantage :
When Luka’s step back is defended well, and he gives it up quick and cuts immediately, he has created some no dribble give and go scoring threats in the...
Next for Luka is losing body fat and improving his conditioning in general, so he can not take so many defensive possessions off, without negatively effecting his offensive production.
As far as offense itself, what’s next I think for Luka is a willingness to immediately and decisively post-up early and often. If the guy guarding him weighs...