Nate Griffin: 'Back the day, every NBA team had THIS, starts with an E ends with a R'

Draymond Green says hi.

Whole Grizzlies teamed curled up. Wonder what the other option was, DB being radio silent and just getting beat? On some level you gotta respect the fearlessness.

 

I’m a huge believer in enforcers, regardless of team sport. I like hard nosed players.

i think Brooks is a little dirty, but I’m okay with it if he’s a Houston Rocket. The big problem I have is that he doesn’t seem to know his role. Maybe that’s changed since signing the contract, but the track record tells another story. If he can stay in his lane (lock down D and the occasional catch & shoot 3-pointer), there’s a chance I could even become a fan of his. But he can’t pull that sh#t he was doing in Memphis.

enforcer, yes! Chucker, no!

 

Owwww the whole league is scared of Draymond Green. Nobody in the NBA is scared
of anyone. Refs won't let anyone throw more than one punch. It's dumb....like NFL
players punching guys with helmets on. It doesn't accomplish anything.

It's easy to be aggressive when you have Steven Adams and DPOY
Jaren Jackson jr backing you up. But the Grizz took Steven Adams out
and moved JJJ to center because the Lakers moved AD/Vanderbilt to center.

Rockets don't have Steven Adams or JJJ.
Not the last time I looked.

If DB is going to run his mouth off in the press and call players old....
He better back it up. Otherwise he is writing checks his @$$ cant cash.

Dillon vs Lakers in playoffs:
Game 1: 100 ORtg.....131 DRtg
Game 2: 83 ORtg......106 DRtg
Game 3: 59 ORtg......112 DRtg
Game 4: 106 ORtg....116 DRtg
Game 5: 55 ORtg......107 DRtg
Game 6: 92 ORtg.......130 DRtg

Good thing Dillon was an enforcer intimidating everyone.....things might have gotten ugly

 

He doesn't need to do anything, he found a sucker and got his money. He's gonna be terrible and will likely never get a deal above the league min (which is basically what he's worth now, in his prime)

 

He thinks he shoots like Scottie Pippin on offense....
problem is he thinks Houston believes that too because
they paid him so much. Which means he is going to
continue to shoot 16 inefficient FGA's per game.

A wild card Ime is going to have to control....good luck with that.

 

The great emancipator would fourscore every night baby

 

World Peace faints.

 

I never commented on him stepping into the shower nude with Kobe, that and go on CF were bold moves back in the day.

 

Draymond still did not like Chris Paul.

 

Draymond isn't an enforcer. He's an agitator. In hockey you have enforcers to deal with those guys. The league doesn't let people get away with swinging but they do let Draymond get away with enough that an enforcer needs to take that guy out some nights. They won championships off of other teams not being able to squash that undercutting, eye poking, ball kicker.

 

I'm waiting for the video of Draymond punching Chris Paul in practice.

 

Yes, Popovich. What has Popovich done since Duncan retired?

Again, we are pulling up guys before the rule changes put in place
to take toxic masculinity out of basketball.

As the video pointed out Dillon received so many technicals that
he had to sit twice.

There is smart and cunning and then there is bonehead and dumb.

Draymond is a defensive extroadinaire.....Dillon is just, Dillon.
Pest. Larger version of Patrick Beverley. I remember Ariza had to
leave his assignment to back up Harden and Beverley both.

Ariza SF opponents would then go off.....because their FG% were
through the roof.....Ariza was tagged as a bad defender. Not everything
is cut and dry. Especially when talking about defense.

In fact, most talk about NBA defense can be attributed to, "who those around
you are.... teammates."

 

Yes and in baseball, one pitcher hits a batter, then the other pitcher has to
hit a batter.

Lame, boring, accomplishing nothing.

Rules win......you won't get away with Jailhouse rules.

No matter how much you try over glamourize it.

Flagrant 1 and Flagrant 2 fouls can take all the momentum and shift it in favor
of the other team in a heartbeat.

 

Eldridge Recasner?