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Randolphkeys said:
I don't go on Reddit for hoops. Great Minds think alike, I guess! I remember I took my family to a Mexican place that serves stiff margaritas for that game expecting a win over the Dubs bench. My evening took a turn, for sure!
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That day cemented JBB as a bottom five coach in the league. If I remember right someone put a grand down for the Cavs to win thinking it was free money, oof!
 
Even the best teams have losses to bad teams like that which seem inexplicable.

Lot of the time they’re on west coast swings, or against better coaches, teams they underestimated with a guy or two who goes apeshit, off nights for multiple top players. Stuff like that. Often multiple factors at a time.

To me, it’s trends. Playoff series are a great place to confirm trends that we think we’re seeing in the regular season.

The Knicks series confirmed that JBB is a poor tactician and that the Cavs are a soft team. The first one is squarely on him. The second is on the nature of the players and his inability to get them to play more physically as a team/respond to their opponent’s physicality.

The addition of the new players is a good thing in that it’s more perimeter talent, but I remain concerned it’s just more rope for the coach to hang himself with.
 
It is truly incredible how fucking great professional athletes are. Marvel to watch them even practice.

That’s an end of the bench player right there, and the execution is just wild.
 
The Oi said:
It is truly incredible how fucking great professional athletes are. Marvel to watch them even practice.

That’s an end of the bench player right there, and the execution is just wild.
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You have to be top 400 in the world to be signed to a contract before season. I think a few people from Asia/Europe likely would overtake back of bench NBA players and maybe there’s some overlooked players that have problems and don’t fit into nba, so let’s be hyper conservative and say 500.

We never really have the privilege to see people in competitive fields demonstrate their abilities in such an understandable way. A hedge fund manager may get crazy returns (this measure is only thing allowing us to rank them , but frankly is not a persistent measure), but their day to day actions + ability is less scrutinizable to the common man and studies have attributed short periods of performance to luck.

Many other fields like doctor or construction worker would not have such a clear talent filter so we sort of remain in the dark as to what an elite performer looks like. Teachers have possibly student test scores, but no one is saying “this is the best teacher in the world and this is how she/he operates.”

It is one of the things that I think makes sports fascinating, you have direct proof of the greatness and competition, which leaves no mystery as to who is among the best. It is the rare nearly perfectly competitive field.

I believe most management measurement in fields except for the rote fail to be meaningful or become abused over time, but if we made success and excellence more visible and appreciated, I think a great many professions would solve their recruiting problems and raise performance.
 
According to legend Brian Scalabrine (the end of bench Celtics role player) once said to a civilian challenging him to a game at a gym “I’m closer to Lebron than you are to me”. Very accurate.
 
cavsfever said:
According to legend Brian Scalabrine (the end of bench Celtics role player) once said to a civilian challenging him to a game at a gym “I’m closer to Lebron than you are to me”. Very accurate.
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He said it very publicly and then did this:


Out of all of the rounds against these guys, I think the other bball players scored like 4 points. One had played in college, and the others were pretty damn good.

The “worst” NBA player is the best any of us have ever been on the same court with.

Their fundamentals are near perfect and they have ways to score that they don’t even use in game because it isn’t part of their role. A guy like Scal can post up, make mid-range shots and do anything he wants on the regular guy. Shaq used to be able to crossover and make all kinds of different shots.

It’s the fundamental stuff and execution that stands out to me at first though. The footwork and ball-handling is so impressive. Even Scal’s is impressive considering that wasn’t his role at all.
 
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cavsfever said:
According to legend Brian Scalabrine (the end of bench Celtics role player) once said to a civilian challenging him to a game at a gym “I’m closer to Lebron than you are to me”. Very accurate.
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Having played a game of one on one against Brad Miller back when I was in shape and could play basketball....that statement is so true, lol
 
Lee said:
Having played a game of one on one against Brad Miller back when I was in shape and could play basketball....that statement is so true, lol
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Brad miller was underrated back in the day I thought he was a beast
 
bleedwineandgold03 said:
Brad miller was underrated back in the day I thought he was a beast
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I am 5'9 and about 220 lb at the time, i played 1 year of basketball in high school and 4 years of football.

That said, we were good friends in college and Brad was allot better than me.

Favorite part of the story is I only lost 21-18.

ofcourse he also spotted me 18 points, lol
 
Lee said:
I am 5'9 and about 220 lb at the time, i played 1 year of basketball in high school and 4 years of football.

That said, we were good friends in college and Brad was allot better than me.

Favorite part of the story is I only lost 21-18.

ofcourse he also spotted me 18 points, lol
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You ain't ever play no Brad Miller.
 
The Oi said:
He said it very publicly and then did this:


Out of all of the rounds against these guys, I think the other bball players scored like 4 points. One had played in college, and the others were pretty damn good.

The “worst” NBA player is the best any of us have ever been on the same court with.

Their fundamentals are near perfect and they have ways to score that they don’t even use in game because it isn’t part of their role. A guy like Scal can post up, make mid-range shots and do anything he wants on the regular guy. Shaq used to be able to crossover and make all kinds of different shots.

It’s the fundamental stuff and execution that stands out to me at first though. The footwork and ball-handling is so impressive. Even Scal’s is impressive considering that wasn’t his role at all.
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Pretty sure the first guy in this video (Tomaszewski) played D1 ball at Syracuse, although he was a benchwarmer
 
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