FNG wrote:OK, so Rubio may be lighting it up in Japan. But let's not forget that we now have defensive stopper and rebounding savant Taurean Prince. We're so lucky to be able to sit back and watch Rosas playing chess when everyone else is playing checkers.
Yeah Rubio's team lost, he had only 2 assists and was a -23 which was 2nd worst on the team. Dude is a bum. :)
FNG wrote:OK, so Rubio may be lighting it up in Japan. But let's not forget that we now have defensive stopper and rebounding savant Taurean Prince. We're so lucky to be able to sit back and watch Rosas playing chess when everyone else is playing checkers.
Yeah Rubio's team lost, he had only 2 assists and was a -23 which was 2nd worst on the team. Dude is a bum. :)
Bolmaro with another ineffectual performance for Argentina. I'm losing confidence in this prospect! He was on his way to having a very solid year with his club team (Barca), then started to fade and has basically been a non-factor for a few months now for club and country. Not a good sign!
So the guys we are keeping - Okogie and Bolmaro - are sucking wind and the guy we just traded - Rubio - is easily his team's best player and lighting it up. What a disaster.
Q12543 wrote:So the guys we are keeping - Okogie and Bolmaro - are sucking wind and the guy we just traded - Rubio - is easily his team's best player and lighting it up. What a disaster.
We had to trade Ricky to get under the lux to bring Bolmaro here. The Wolves might be better off stashing him away another year.
I'm done with Okogie. He's a less goofy Brewer. I don't know why he's not being shopped given there's a 0% chance he comes back
Q12543 wrote:So the guys we are keeping - Okogie and Bolmaro - are sucking wind and the guy we just traded - Rubio - is easily his team's best player and lighting it up. What a disaster.
We had to trade Ricky to get under the lux to bring Bolmaro here. The Wolves might be better off stashing him away another year.
I'm done with Okogie. He's a less goofy Brewer. I don't know why he's not being shopped given there's a 0% chance he comes back
Remember when Corey Brewer scored 51 points...
How many games would it take Okogie?
[Note: Assuming we're talking NBA game and not just beating up on 5th graders.]
Q12543 wrote:So the guys we are keeping - Okogie and Bolmaro - are sucking wind and the guy we just traded - Rubio - is easily his team's best player and lighting it up. What a disaster.
We had to trade Ricky to get under the lux to bring Bolmaro here. The Wolves might be better off stashing him away another year.
I'm done with Okogie. He's a less goofy Brewer. I don't know why he's not being shopped given there's a 0% chance he comes back
Remember when Corey Brewer scored 51 points...
How many games would it take Okogie?
[Note: Assuming we're talking NBA game and not just beating up on 5th graders.]
FWIW Okogie and McDaniels got votes as young defenders in The Athletic's poll of 13 coaches. Wiggins got a vote for being on a defensive team. Personally I think overall Okogie is going to end up being a better defender than Brewer. The problem is that he is a worse shooter.
It's also worth noting that the international game makes some guys look good and other guys look bad. Some guys may look better in the NBA which is less physical although with more athletic ability and talent.
I stayed up and watched the one and only game I've seen this entire Olympics, with the U.S. beating France. A few observations:
- Kevin Durant is probably the greatest pure scorer in the history of the game. It's funny seeing him out there with these other stars like Lillard, Booker, etc. and it's not even close in terms of who you want the ball to go to.
- Draymond Green is the other guy that will be hard to replace for Team USA. He is all heart and soul. He doesn't take a single shot, yet just fights tooth and nail on every possession and facilitates ball and player movement on offense.
- Like I said, this is the first game I watched and certainly the first international game I've seen in full in quite some time. I forgot how freakin' fast it moves. Besides having shorter quarters (10 minutes vs. 12 in the NBA), the timeouts are fast too. It was a very tidy affair versus the slog of some NBA games.
- Jrue Holiday turned out to be a really key player. He picked up where he left off in the NBA playoffs with his defense and ball pressure.
- Team USA switched everything, which meant a smaller guy was often trying to guard Gobert in the paint. Usually it ended up in an easy 2-pt basket or even more likely a foul. The strategy paid off, as Gobert missed his fair share of free throws while the switching prevented France from getting clean looks from 3.
I know that between Coach Pop and some of the players, Team USA could be a somewhat unlikeable bunch. But I rooted for them and they truly did have to overcome a fair amount of adversity. The fact they were all draping the American flag around themselves after the game was nice to see.
Q12543 wrote:I stayed up and watched the one and only game I've seen this entire Olympics, with the U.S. beating France. A few observations:
- Kevin Durant is probably the greatest pure scorer in the history of the game. It's funny seeing him out there with these other stars like Lillard, Booker, etc. and it's not even close in terms of who you want the ball to go to.
- Draymond Green is the other guy that will be hard to replace for Team USA. He is all heart and soul. He doesn't take a single shot, yet just fights tooth and nail on every possession and facilitates ball and player movement on offense.
- Like I said, this is the first game I watched and certainly the first international game I've seen in full in quite some time. I forgot how freakin' fast it moves. Besides having shorter quarters (10 minutes vs. 12 in the NBA), the timeouts are fast too. It was a very tidy affair versus the slog of some NBA games.
- Jrue Holiday turned out to be a really key player. He picked up where he left off in the NBA playoffs with his defense and ball pressure.
- Team USA switched everything, which meant a smaller guy was often trying to guard Gobert in the paint. Usually it ended up in an easy 2-pt basket or even more likely a foul. The strategy paid off, as Gobert missed his fair share of free throws while the switching prevented France from getting clean looks from 3.
I know that between Coach Pop and some of the players, Team USA could be a somewhat unlikeable bunch. But I rooted for them and they truly did have to overcome a fair amount of adversity. The fact they were all draping the American flag around themselves after the game was nice to see.
That's a good summation.
On Durant the games USA lost I believe he shot very poorly. I'm not suggesting those losses were all on him but it's worth noting that even some of the greatest ever can come up short when you expect better. The USA won gold anyway and there were some pretty good teams they had to beat to get there.
It's interesting, Q...Trent Tucker and Dave Sinikin had a discussion on KFAN this morning about whether Durant was the greatest pure scorer in the history of the game. Tucker wanted to enter inside scorers like Jabbar and Wilt into the discussion, so they narrowed the discussion to only versatile scorers able to score inside and out. They agreed that Durant could be #1 in that category. TT oddly tried to include George Gervin into the conversation, calling him a "shorter version of Durant", but the Iceman really wasn't a very efficient scorer like Durant is.
By the way, I looked up the best eFG%'s of all time, and was pleased to see who was the current player with the ability to score inside and out and averaging over 20 PPG with the highest career eFG%. Yep, none other than our own...
