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TheFuture wrote:

Duke13 wrote:Totally agree with that sediment with Lavine. The camera caught that interaction between him and KAT perfectly. He let him have it and rightfully so. I can't overstate my confidence in Lavine going forward. Watch his touches compared to Wiggins, almost all of Wiggins shots come off of one pass, 4 dribbles and a tough shot. He rarely passes. Zach's rarely touches the ball without making another pass in attempted to share and work the offense. Night and day in my opionion. Zach get a bad wrap for having a bad basketball IQ, I disagree with that opionion and have from the beginning.

What is this dirt on Lavine you speak of?

I think we need to lay off Duke, Future...it's quite evident English is not his first language. Perhaps not even his second...


(that said, I did get a chuckle out of "sediment")

Sentiment. Thx LST. I must admit I'm on my phone. You can come at me, I can take it.

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TheFuture wrote:

AbeVigodaLive wrote:Is it wrong that I felt compelled to watch the video in the link alone. In a dark room. Naked?


[Note: It was sullied, however, by the Magic stuff at the end. Larry Legend is definitely good enough to stand out on his own on his birthday.]

Hahahahah

Not weird at all.

Yup, my all time favorite player too (just ahead of Jeff Adrien and Ricky Rubio, in that order).

Let's review his background: Grew up in a fairly small, backward town and was fairly poor; had older brothers that he played ball with and regularly beat up on him; had an alcoholic dad that the kids would sometimes have to roust up and help get dressed to get him off to work in the morning; dad committed suicide eventually; went to Indiana U but was not comfortable with the size of the place; went back home to work on a garbage pick up crew for a while; eventually went back to play in an environment he was comfortable in at Indiana State; while in the NBA, one of his favorite hobbies was mowing his own lawn.

How many guys on our team went through this kind of journey? Did it have anything to do with the way he laid his body out on the line every damn game?

Kris Dunn is the only guy on our roster that I think has a comparably difficult backstory. We need more guys that know how to go to battle.

Q12543 wrote:

TheFuture wrote:

AbeVigodaLive wrote:Is it wrong that I felt compelled to watch the video in the link alone. In a dark room. Naked?


[Note: It was sullied, however, by the Magic stuff at the end. Larry Legend is definitely good enough to stand out on his own on his birthday.]

Hahahahah

Not weird at all.

Yup, my all time favorite player too (just ahead of Jeff Adrien and Ricky Rubio, in that order).

Let's review his background: Grew up in a fairly small, backward town and was fairly poor; had older brothers that he played ball with and regularly beat up on him; had an alcoholic dad that the kids would sometimes have to roust up and help get dressed to get him off to work in the morning; dad committed suicide eventually; went to Indiana U but was not comfortable with the size of the place; went back home to work on a garbage pick up crew for a while; eventually went back to play in an environment he was comfortable in at Indiana State; while in the NBA, one of his favorite hobbies was mowing his own lawn.

How many guys on our team went through this kind of journey? Did it have anything to do with the way he laid his body out on the line every damn game?

Kris Dunn is the only guy on our roster that I think has a comparably difficult backstory. We need more guys that know how to go to battle.

Belly didn't have it easy growing up in Serbia if I remember correctly. His was a different situation than Bird or Dunn but...yeah probably quite a bit tougher than most of the other guys.

Yeah, I think you're right about Belly's background, monster. I guess we don't know that much about Gorgui's. But we do know Dunn's difficult childhood.

But Q makes an interesting point about the backgrounds of our roster. I have commented before how unusual it is to have almost everyone on the roster growing up with both a mother and father...gives them a distinct advantage in life and explains to some extent the unusually high character of most (all?) of the guys on our roster. But does their relatively soft non-ghetto background give them a competitive disadvantage? Might they not have the kind of fire in the belly Bird had because of his difficult childhood? I don't know, but it's an interesting theory.

Is there a team in the NBA who couldn't use a modern day version of that guy?

TheSP wrote:Is there a team in the NBA who couldn't use a modern day version of that guy?

Yes, Golden State.

And a guy like him would be barred from ever playing for the Lakers.

......And Portland. He can't go there either.

But yes, otherwise, all other teams could use a guy like him.

Q12543 wrote:

TheSP wrote:Is there a team in the NBA who couldn't use a modern day version of that guy?

Yes, Golden State.

And a guy like him would be barred from ever playing for the Lakers.

......And Portland. He can't go there either.

But yes, otherwise, all other teams could use a guy like him.

Golden State doesn't necessarily need Larry Bird, but he'd still be the best player on that team. Kevin Durant and Steph Curry are damn good, even great, but there's only one Larry Bird.

Camden wrote:

Q12543 wrote:

TheSP wrote:Is there a team in the NBA who couldn't use a modern day version of that guy?

Yes, Golden State.

And a guy like him would be barred from ever playing for the Lakers.

......And Portland. He can't go there either.

But yes, otherwise, all other teams could use a guy like him.

Golden State doesn't necessarily need Larry Bird, but he'd still be the best player on that team. Kevin Durant and Steph Curry are damn good, even great, but there's only one Larry Bird.

I agree. The one guy he is clearly not as good as in the league today is LeBron....and may be Kawhi because of how singular of a defensive force he is in addition to becoming an offensive force.

(OK, and may be Westbrook, although Westbrook hasn't really won anything yet).

Genesis24 wrote:This is the reason I would have liked to see Kevin Garnett stick around until we started winning games. I don't believe he would have put up with this crap. There may have been some fighting but someone needs to get pissed off and offended before there is a change.

Amen! I wanted to keep KG badly.