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09-16-2017 , 09:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Seadood228
34 year old Lebron on a supermax deal Is not going to be fun after the first couple years, and there is still little championship equity with the Warriors in their prime. It's all about the economics, unless you feel Lebron will take a discount or NOT sign a massive long term deal next summer, in which case I disagree. I see no reason to overpay him now after underpaying him his whole career.
I'm not sure about this, Lebron has already proven to be a great post player. You would think that when he declines athletically a bit he could shift his game more into the post. Also, it's not like there's many bigs out there that could wear him out defensively on the court either.

Obviously it would come down to whether or not Bron would be willing to do that, he was so good at it in Miami and then just said, **** it I'm Lebron James, when he got to Cleveland.
09-16-2017 , 09:39 PM
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Originally Posted by THAY3R
Old Lebron worst case scenario is like a much better Dray
yeah, what he said.
09-16-2017 , 10:55 PM
If that's the case then sign me up. I'm just having a hard time picturing him passing the ball and then cutting to the hoop.

I mean it's certainly plausible. Right now he demands the ball most of the time, but he's always the best option out there to initiate the offense. There's no evidence that he'd defer as he gets older so maybe he will. Perhaps I'm jaded by watching Wade/Kobe and to a lesser extent MJ's decline.
09-17-2017 , 12:13 AM
Mood:



Kyrie Irving and the Celtics are ***** made and are gonna get swept by the Cavs next off season.

Last edited by OmgGlutten!; 09-17-2017 at 12:18 AM.
09-17-2017 , 12:34 AM
i think there's plenty of scope for boston to improve kyrie's effectiveness, basically changing his shot distribution so he's shooting more off the ball should do plenty to earn him and brad well deserved praise. in particular, kyrie is a really good 3pt shooter who doesn't shoot enough of them, his attempts could go up by 20-30% imo
09-17-2017 , 12:46 AM
these is bloooody shoes
09-17-2017 , 03:34 PM
Dragic 26 pts at half in the Eurobasket final
09-17-2017 , 05:00 PM
grats Slovenes itt (:if any exist: )
09-17-2017 , 05:22 PM
We used to have one.

They posted a pic of their town covered in ice, I forget who it was. It was our Euro basket aficionado.
09-17-2017 , 05:40 PM
hmm - pretty sure one of the football posters is a Slovene living in Hungary or smthg :shrug:
09-17-2017 , 05:50 PM

Last edited by tchaz; 09-17-2017 at 05:51 PM. Reason: last seen March 2015 :( .. iirc a decent enough poster
09-18-2017 , 02:44 AM
was just reading about that. he'll plead the cruz defense
09-18-2017 , 03:02 AM
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Originally Posted by mcb33f
i think there's plenty of scope for boston to improve kyrie's effectiveness, basically changing his shot distribution so he's shooting more off the ball should do plenty to earn him and brad well deserved praise. in particular, kyrie is a really good 3pt shooter who doesn't shoot enough of them, his attempts could go up by 20-30% imo
There is a decent chance they go up by more.

IT had 5.2 3PA per 36 minutes in Sacramento, 7.8 as a Celtic, so his attempts went up by 50%. And he had 9.1 his second season in Boston.

Irving had 5.2 3PA per 36 minutes in Cleveland.

Some of IT's increase just comes from taking more shots, but the percentage of his shots that were from behind the arc went from 36.2% to 39.8%. Irving has taken 28.6% of his shots from three-point range for his career. That number has been increasing, so he was at 31.1% last season.

One interesting thing about Irving is how his eFG cratered in the 4th quarter last season. Here is how it was split last season by quarter: .548/.551/.547/.468. How much of that was caused by being next to Lebron or by bad coaching and how much was caused by Kyrie's flaws as a player? How much was due to randomness?
09-18-2017 , 04:00 AM
IMO,

Kyrie > IT2 as a player last year
Kyrie >>> IT2 as a player going forward

Kyrie is going to have a very hard time duplicating what IT2 did last year, and it's more because what happened with Isaiah's game was somewhat of an anomaly.
09-18-2017 , 05:18 AM
09-18-2017 , 06:21 AM
Lollll Katie
09-18-2017 , 07:19 AM
No wonder Katie fits in so well on the warriors
09-18-2017 , 08:05 AM
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Originally Posted by ReddBoiler
Imagine if he shot the 3 well
09-18-2017 , 10:25 AM
Denver signs mason Plumlee 3/41, what is this crap I might have to root for another team.

Lol Denver
09-18-2017 , 10:40 AM
I was half right lol Denver
09-18-2017 , 10:59 AM
Tell us more about how you won that trade dood

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09-18-2017 , 11:13 AM
1. Trade a good player for a crappy one
2. Witness the good player killing it with his new team
3. Overpay the crap you got so you psychologically don't trade the good player for nothing
4. Lol Denver
09-18-2017 , 11:17 AM
katie isnt even mad, she's actually laughing

      
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