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How are there no highlights out there yet?
 
Rob said:
How are there no highlights out there yet?
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You know it's the D-League when there's not even a 2-3 min. game highlight video on Youtube yet :chuckle:
 
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Daniel89 said:
You know it's the D-League when there's not even a 2-3 min. game highlight video on Youtube yet :chuckle:
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To be fair, how often do people make D-League highlight videos to begin with? :chuckle:
 
gaitano said:
Short article on Sander's game last night with some quotes, pretty much verifying what everyone is saying here:
Larry Sanders takes another positive step in his process
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Most encouraging thing in that write-up was how mature and grounded Sanders sounded when speaking - reasonable expectations and a willingness to work/do whatever is necessary.

It should be remembered that it is nearly three months until the Finals. That should be enough time for him to get his legs under him, and even get back some timing.

Obviously, no chance he's 100% until after an off-season conditioning program.
 
I can't wait until this summer when Sanders get's to work with Cavs trainers to improve his game. The Cavs made a good investment hopefully everything pans out.
 
Welcome Sanders.. Now go help the cavs win a ring for Bogut!
 
Surprised how nice his jumper looked there. Maybe he won't be as much of a liability at the line as he used to be.
 
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honestly I'm not sure he'll help this year but I am excited for next season
 
MrX said:
Whiteside went from bad to reasonable. It can happen. 60% would help remove some of that hacka Shaq
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Indeed. To avoid the hack a Shaq all you need to do is be able to hit ~57% of your free throws consistently for it to on average be a bad strategy against us. That's because we average 1.136 points per possession on offense.

57% on average from the line results in (.57)*(2)=1.14 points per possession when fouled.

Now it's important to remember that's just an expected value and if there's a lot of variance in the free throw shooters percentage (i.e. they have a lot of times where they miss both cancelled out by a lot of times making both) then it can still be an effective strategy in spurts, but it is little more than rolling the dice for a guy who can hit 57% over a large span

So it's really not a high bar. And tbh it slows the game down which our guys prefer anyway. No long rebounds leading to transition offense. So there are definitely negatives to the strategy even with bad FT shooters
 
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