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Have they though? Or was it Lebron? I don't watch much east basketball so take this with a huge grain of salt but my gut feeling is any team out in the east with Lebron is a contender for ECF.  My point isn't that the Cavs would not be mediocre without Love but at least it was an organic team without the Lebron induced changes. A patchwork of a spoilt GOAT candidate's wet dream. Lebron rightly invited much criticism because he dabbled so much off-court matters. On court too really. Could just have been a great player but no he had to be more than that. You think MJ wanted to go trade for Rodman or was he told here we have a new player, deal with it? I dont know.

One thing which i am not sure has been brought up in the LBJ conversation is Rich Paul and LBJ's inner circle dictating LBJs terms and decisions. According to this theory, Lebron completely entrusted his legacy to these unqualified (uneducated, hanger-on-ers, posse whatever you want to call them), self interested people and they've squandered his peak years in a fools errand. Todday reframed LBJ's decision nobly to go back to a racist owner and a hostile fanbase to get them a ring etc but it was a sacrifice that hasn't panned out (never will?). The alternative was entrusting his legacy to Riley and the superior Miami management who would have given him better chances at success than Dan Brown's whatever makes Lebron happy policy in Clevaland. None of us are privvy to the in-s-and-outs of management but it's not hard to see that Lebron has gotten his way in Cleveland and it hasn't panned out the way he would have liked.

To expand, Rich Paul is the common denominator btw Lebron and Tristan Thompson - who some say is vastly overpaid for what he provides to the Cavs. So Lebron at the behest of RP campaigned for TT which got his mate a better deal but put the Cavs in a compromised position to be maximally competitive. When key game are lost and won by a few pts, this is a significant factor in success and failure. Trading for Love is inexcusable to me though. People justify it as a sure thing, trading a maybe for a sure superstar etc. Now maybe to argue otherwise is racist too but i dont know if race is as important in this conversation when ppl who like basketball tend to be more egalitarian in my experience. I just hated to see a budding young core of Wiggins and Irving with a new exciting coach dismantled because Lebron thought he could do better with Love and Lue. Fuck that though. Is having a yes-man as a coach a good thing? Go back to Cleveland, great, but then gut the team and rebuild carelessly to have your cake and eat it too, hard to respect that. I wud respect Lebron a lot more if he had just worked with the team he inherited. I wud still have traded Dion though but Lebron got that decision wrong too. Maybe management wud have done that anyway but Lebron wanted him. It's hindsight now but Dion always sucked. My 2c.

Quote from: LBSS on June 04, 2016, 07:43:51 am

Quote from: adarqui on June 04, 2016, 01:43:47 am

high socks, XC flats, and tons of jumps at a bball court: adarq siting.

yeah but did you bring your knife and beanie?

actually.. yes.. i just didn't mention it. lmao. I didn't have the big bowie knife, but I did have my "tactical" pocket knife which I can clip to my shorts  and I had a black beanie 

nearly full adarq mode.

if i ever get in shape, im def taking an instagram photo with a knife in my mouth .. but running out of time and motivation lol. #reverse #atrophy #then #hypetrophy #2016 #bernie,.

I just wanted to make a note in passing, my 2nd time playing basketball in the states was fun. It was at CSUN, a 5v5 full court pickup game. Had a complete game of passing the ball for assists, rebounds and playing defence (game saving block!). Got props after which was really gratifying!  i know it's a small sample size but i enjoy the way the game is played there. It's a lot more finesse based than brute force (in oz).  It really sucked that i cudnt make friends and keep playing regularly with those guys but what can you do. I'm missing it already.

I also worked on my shooting a bit and i think i have improved on that front too. Maybe just being around good shooters, something rubs off on you? Idk. Not to say we have bad shooters here, im ny local rec league we have decent shooters too .. idk, hard to say.

oh and i cud barely dunk but i landed one between games and one guy said to me "if you could continue not doing that, it would be great" .. lol. american wit I thought how well that hit home cause ive almost never dunked in a game.  But for the most part i didn't see much riposte.. maybe it's the way i come across but i dont get/give easy banter .. i need to figure out why because respect and recognition is nice but i want to beocme a more well rounded person in general

I went from being the biggest LBJ fan to being anti Cavs when he did wrong by my boy Wiggins. Before that I would argue passionately why he was the best ever and he wasn't an asshole like MJ had been. I dont care to anymore, he laid his bed, he has been an awful custodian of his talent and legend. A better man would have more results to show. He could have gone anywhere but the Cavs but once he went back he could have done a lot better than killing his coach and rookie. I don't respect him the same since. Still a pretty good career mind you. Go warriors. I still can't believe how close OKC came

I watched game 5 live at Oracle. One of my lifetime highlights highlights. First NBA game and it was amazing.  Really  tempted to go game 7 but I'm back in LA and it would be a mission to drive back north Cal. I'm routing for okc but i really  respect the Warriors as a team and fan base.  Can't wait!

I just want to clarify im not talking about a LARGE hip angle. It's actually quite acute BUT .. it's it's explosive/athletic/powerful .. think of a shallow jump squat (ignore the weight for now). IT's not deep! Think of a perfect push press, it's not a deep knee bend but a powerful controlled one to initiate the movement. THink of a jumpshot, it's not a big hip angle but a small powerful one. I'm sure we would all agree if we stated our assumptions and the limited range of the angle.

Again please dont get hung up in thinking i'm trying to go for a big dip .. far from it .. just a bigger one than i do normally .. cos that's almost upright. If you saw vid of me shooting you'd agree there is something off in that my setup and release is too upright. I can speak to other shooters mentioned who will have their peculariaties but im not a magic johnson archetype .. have more in common with the build type of most basketball players who do manage to have much nicer form. I shud be able to acquire that .. not going to accept my broken technique which is so unreliable. I get it, if you have ok mechanics, just practice loads, but im not sure i have that.

I need to compare my form to other lefties.. eg manu, harden, etc .. lefties have such nice form .. i hate mine .. self loathing lol

will try to write a proper reply later ..

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Quote from: Coges on May 08, 2016, 05:08:42 am

@toddday great post.

X2!

Shooting is a skill. Skills get improved through practice. Iverson was regarded as a chucker but he still averaged around 30 points a game.

Have a great holiday

Thank you both!   

Re curry, i envy his wingspan, or lack of .. 6'3" is perfect for his shot. I shoot like curry except i have longer arms and my shot is garbage as a result mine is around 6'7" iirc


http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/Stephen-Curry-1170/stats/

edit, also ratios of arm segments are more favourable not just the length of the total arm