drake probably licks a lot of pussy when he's on tour.

Drake probably throws perfect ten models at the Raptors players to **** and or make sandwiches for them.

He just chucks models that he no longer wants. Dude bangs Rihanna. He's got a surplus of vagina to go around.

At one point Gotham introduced his seven-year-old son to Kobe. Afterward, Kobe turned to Gotham and said, "I'm thinking of creating one of those," as if a son were a product.

KOBE

lol, guy isn't pulling his punches

i dont think you can have one without the other. if you dont dreb well that means you are allowing the other team to OREB better.

maybe the correlation comes into effect because typically the better rebounding teams are the teams that are doing a better job at preventing shots around the rim, so it's not really DREB%.

Not a bad thought but it doesn't look like it. Here's the top ten DREB% teams from last year and where they ranked in terms of at-rim attempts (lowest opponent attempts = 1st):

Bobcats- 29th
Pacers- 3rd
Kings- 11th
Spurs- 23rd
Warriors- 4th
Cavs- 9th
Grizzlies- 2nd
Wizards- 7th
Thunder- 22nd
Magic- 14th

That's not pace adjusted, obviously.

I think it's more that DREB% is important because allowing an offensive rebound is very bad. There is just so much more noise when it comes to OREB%. On defense it's simply stop the ball from going into the net and get the ball. You can obviously see why rebounding missed shots is so important. On offense the objective is slightly different as your actions can contribute to allowing points in ways that the reverse doesn't apply. Many great teams are great DREBers and poor OREBers, and I am pretty certain that there are no examples of the reverse.

This is quite clearly more about strategy than skill. Someone who is "better" at offensive rebounding is clearly better than its exact equal who is a poorer offensive rebounder. Clearly. DAJ2.0 is better than DAJ1.0. The huge gap comes in glorifying oreb% without considering complete context. Should players work on their offensive rebounding skill? Of course! Should players work on increasing their OREB%? I'm not sure, there really is no evidence of this, and their are logical reasons for why this may not be the case. Do you want your big, slow post defender who hangs around the perimeter on offense crashing the boards on offense? I certainly didn't think so back when KLose was leading the world in OREB% and Losses, and I haven't seen any evidence to change my mind. In fact there's been fairly clear evidence of the opposite.

Bledsoe for Love and Martin

PSA: At 7pm EST, USA Basketball exhibition tonight vs. Puerto Rico

DRose plans to play.

this is just attempts at the rim right not completion percentage at the rim?

Embiid just killin twitter

Is this guy guaranteed all star or real up in the air project ?

guaranteed is prettay strong, but he's a mega-elite prospect if you ignore any injury concerns. With the injury concern, it's hard to say because who knows how serious they are, and if he'll win the russian ACL roulette or whatever.

usa/PR about to kick off. There's a reasonable puerto rican fanbase in the crowd it seems, makes sense in NYC.

Puerto Rican Day Parade is fringe bucket list material, depending on tastes in women and mayhem.

just bc its worth mentioning again.. paul millsap will not be playing for team usa, but plumlee, drummond and rudy gay will be.

hope that little sniveling, rat looking, cock sucker coach kaids retires from int'l ball after this is over.

Surprised they went with 4 bigs. I actually don't mind Rudy Gay in there, as from a skillset viewpoint he's pretty good. He's only terrible because he loves chucking long twos, but in a team where he isn't allowed to do that he's a pretty good complementary player. Can defend 2-4, is athletic, can shoot and finish. He's a bad A or B player because he doesn't create for others, but I think he's a pretty solid 4th/5th option when he only needs to finish and defend.

Agree Millsap would have been better though.

Happy Demar made it though

lol

Gay is terrible at basketball. Can't shoot and is a complete ball stopper. Doesn't matter what role he plays he's gonna suck.

Drummond being in the roster is even worse than Gay imo

He literally cannot be on the floor ever because everyone will immediately foul him

Demar made it!

This is going to be great for his NBA career! He's looked great for them.

coach k is literally an idiot. sending home korver and parsons for demar and gay. Just lol.

And wtf can I get boxscores to these games?

http://statsdmz.nba.com/pdfs/2014082...822_PURUSA.pdf

^ First result on google after typing USA Puerto Rico boxscore.

And yea lol coach K

Pretty sure he's just cutting the white guys for recruiting metagame purposes, no other reason why his teams normally just bomb threes but now he's cutting everyone who can shoot.

Demar was getting like 6 assists per game, efficient scoring, good d, good 3 point shooting...he was looking very good. He's going to be playing against inferior opponents from now on. Look for some key Derozan moments in big games!

Maybe because black guys are better than white guys at basketball?

Lol at keeping gay and lol at defending gay

This team may very well lose now

Lost the two most important players and cut most of the best bench players