lol boogie cousins was also on some dumb podcast just 2 days ago with matt barnes and stephen jackson saying how this lakers team is unlike any team he's ever been on, that they do everything together and are like a family. hahahah and now he gets waived. couldn't happen to a better person, and also shows how much of a phony lebron really is. the same lebron who criticized the rockets for waiving his bff melo... and yet wouldn't touch melo with a 10 ft. pole even with all the empty roster spots lakers had all of last year and the past offseason.
huh? zones are allowed in the nba now. that's what is making it hard for low post play. the only thing that is illegal for a defense is for one defender to be parked in the key for more than 3 secs without engaging an opposing player. either way, zone defense is allowing defenders to crowd the paint area. if you want big men to be relevant again, you need to make zone defense illegal and require teams to play man defense again. just like how the nba was before the 2004 athens olympics dream team debacle.
I said teams don’t do this very often and then said buyout guys end up free. Like what is the point of even challenging that? so weird
Did Cousins really get waved? If so, the Rockets should sign him pronto. Would be foolish not to go after a big man that can shoot from the outside and draw double teams down low. I know tue Rockets are playing small ball but you never know when you’ll need a guy with his size in certain matchups. And he’s only 29 years old. Hell, why would we keep a guy like Chandler sitting on the bench at the age of 37 if we’re completely abandoning the role of a big man? Id rather have a 6’11” dude that can rebound and shoot from the outside than a 37-year-old that can’t shoot and barely get up and down the court. Cousins was a borderline all-star just a 2-3 years ago before getting injured.
lol... tyson may be 37, but i'd even take a 70 year old tyson chandler over boogie cousins right now. tyson provides positive veteran leadership and has always had one of the highest defensive iqs in the game, and i'm sure if we are really in a pinch, he can spot 5-10 mins in a playoff game. boogie is and has always been a brooding, malignant cancer wherever he's been and with all the injuries he's had the past year, probably the worst liability on defense in the nba.
Markieff Morris ....Houston Brad Turner tweeted: Markieff Morris will speak to representatives of Lakers. Interested in Toronto and Houston as well. (Approx 4 hrs ago) BimaThug retweeted
Happened to find this, updated about Markieff's D But, he is hot tempered…he and emotional brodie might too much for refs.
Click on that link, the data there is very comprehensive. Below average finisher and perimeter defender. Above average to very good everywhere else. His numbers are better than Kuzma on offense, but dead even on defense. Not good. But man he is destroying it from 3, everywhere around arc, not just corners.
Cousins signing with Clips? Pat Pat trying to recruit Boogie. https://clutchpoints.com/clippers-news-patrick-patterson-recruits-demarcus-cousins-lakers-waive-him/
I just got a quick look at that. based yr on yr data, imho, his ability of D declining (eps 1,2,4,5 positions), but offense-wise he even got improved a little bit. what I care about is his invisible impact on/off court, like his emotion control.
https://www.brightsideofthesun.com/...-again-this-time-in-golden-state-phoenix-suns Bender and Chriss together again.
Yes, fit is important to maximize a player. Chriss did not fit with us, better with GSW. Bender ball handling, passing, 3ball and decent perimeter D fits better with us.
For Rockets, being thick and strong just as important as length (wingspan) for switch everything defense. This allows our shorter players to efficiently defend low post. 6'5 James Harden 220 6'11 wingspan 6'5 PJ Tucker 245 7'0 wingspan 6'3 Eric Gordon 215 6'9 wingspan 6'6 Danuel House 220 6'8 wingspan 6'8 Jeff Green 235 7'1 wingspan Rockets should sign 3-D disruptor Justin Anderson (6'6 240 7'0 wingspan 43" vert). https://www.netsdaily.com/2020/2/21...n-scores-11-in-team-usas-win-over-puerto-rico https://www.ridiculousupside.com/20...re-with-the-long-island-nets-gleague-brooklyn Shooting 37% from 3 in G League. And Marcus Morris hates his ass because of his in your face defense.
how do they compare to Jeff Green numbers? Not that I would cut Jeff Green after 10-day contract. Options......keep both and maybe cut Clemons?? M Morris just might be the final piece (small ball center) to a championship title. Worth going over the tax and repeater tax (watch) window begins
By adding mm, we gonna smoothly transfer from a all-guard team to a all-foward team, 8 out of 15 are s/p forward. EDIT: after seeing AD crunched down in the pain against MEM, i think its super super urgent to landing a defensive C w/ great mobility say biyombo or o'quinn
Well, we remember that 2004 debacle differently. What I saw was a group of NBA players that could not buy a perimeter shot and could not play team defense. Carmello Anthony, Wade, LeBron, Iverson, and Richard Jefferson failed on the perimeter--on both offense and defense. They could not buy a basket in losses to Puerto Rico, Lithuania, and Argentina. Other countries made clutch shots, spaced the floor, and shredded defenders off the dribble who were more comfortable with the NBA's hand check oriented defense. Interestingly enough, immediately after the 2004 Olympics, USA Basketball decided to build a multi-year program and the NBA reimagined itself with its no-hand check rule. It took some time but the game has evolved when freedom of movement met the three-point line. Steph Curry practiced against elite competition as USA Basketball came together to win, and he found his game. The same could probably be said for Harden. What I'm thinking now is that bigger players are complete liabilities and practically unplayable because the rules prohibit true help. If 7-footers were given the freedom to patrol the paint on D, we would see these unreal stepbacks AND the blocked shots. Even the great Hakeem would look somewhat silly trying to stay in front of a smaller player 27-feet from the basket. And almost all of his elite shot-blocking skill would be lost. (Though if anybody could do it, Hakeem would find a way.) If players have freedom on defense and coaches are allowed to draw up any scheme, I think you have a better game. It's not a post-up/play inside-out/pull-up jumper game (the past) or a lay-up drill/dribbling exhibition (the present). What would emerge is team defense and re-birth of team offense.
