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Sunday Shootaround on Anthony Davis
Posted on 2/8/15 at 8:10 am
Posted on 2/8/15 at 8:10 am
Feature on SBNation from Paul Flannery on AD
Been waiting for this for a while. Should be great
LINK
ETA- Great. Tons of wonderful quotes. Just a few here. Read the whole thing
Been waiting for this for a while. Should be great
LINK
ETA- Great. Tons of wonderful quotes. Just a few here. Read the whole thing
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"It’s like NBA 2K and you just created the best player," Dante Cunningham says. "Tallest, longest, most athletic. Everything you want in a player is right there. Awesome teammate. Happy go lucky guy, always very constructive and leader-oriented. Very rare for a 21-year-old. He’s way above his age. "
And everyone in the organization swears by him: "He’s a guy that you don’t mind your children idolizing," says David Wesley, the team’s television analyst. "Now that I’m on this side I watch how these guys interact with their fans and with the public and he does it as well as anyone. To be that big of a star, you can still see the connection and that’s fun to watch."
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"Most guys worry about MVPs and scoring titles and all that," Davis says. "For me it was the Community Assist award. I was kind of pissed when Steph (Curry) won. That’s my brother, you know, but man I really wanted that award. Second’s not bad. This year I wanted to do more. I feel like I needed to do more and embrace the situation that I’m in."
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He’ll often text coach Monty Williams and take responsibility for the defeat.
"He’ll call me," Davis says. "He won’t text back, he’ll call me and say, ‘It’s not on you. It’s on us.’ He knows how I can get because I hate losing more than I like winning. It gets to me. He tells me, ‘In a couple of years then it’s going to be on you. But right now just focus on basketball and let me handle the rest.’"
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"I let him be 21. I’m not trying to get him to be 30 right now. Everybody wants to push him to be Tim (Duncan) right now. Tim wasn’t even Tim when he was Anthony’s age. He wasn’t even in the league, so why would we push him to be Tim right now? That’s not fair to him."
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The Pels were constructed with Davis’ evolution in mind. Demps has gone after what he calls, "young vets," talented players like Holiday and Evans who would be ready to play with Davis when Davis was ready to take flight.
"We studied what a number of teams have done in the past," Demps says. "Everybody says you should do like San Antonio did, but we didn’t have a Hall of Famer waiting on him like David Robinson to help him through the process. Everybody says, do it like Oklahoma City. Well they drafted two Hall of Famers in a row. That’s hard to do. What we really wanted to do was understand what kind of player he was going to become.
This post was edited on 2/8/15 at 8:24 am
Posted on 2/8/15 at 8:35 am to corndeaux
I can't say it enough. We are SOOOO lucky to watch a rare talent like this develope in front of our eyes.
I bartend and meet a lot of people from all over the nation and they are constantly giving me props. I remember 13' talking with a group of frat guys from OKC on a bachelor party and we were talking about the redic Numbers Durant was putting up and all agreed and agreed we would see a similar type development with AD and to just enjoy it and how much fun it is.
I bartend and meet a lot of people from all over the nation and they are constantly giving me props. I remember 13' talking with a group of frat guys from OKC on a bachelor party and we were talking about the redic Numbers Durant was putting up and all agreed and agreed we would see a similar type development with AD and to just enjoy it and how much fun it is.
Posted on 2/8/15 at 10:03 am to corndeaux
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On the court, of course, Davis has been spectacular. His numbers are so absurd it’s hard to even know where to begin, but here’s one: His 31.7 Player Efficiency Rating puts him in company with Wilt Chamberlain, Michael Jordan and LeBron James as the only players to crack the 31 barrier, and none of them were 21 years old at the time they reached that level.
Posted on 2/8/15 at 10:16 am to corndeaux
He's on court play has been discussed and dissected to death (and deservingly so) so I'd like to focus on how awesome this part is:
That is as real as it gets
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"Most guys worry about MVPs and scoring titles and all that," Davis says. "For me it was the Community Assist award. I was kind of pissed when Steph (Curry) won. That’s my brother, you know, but man I really wanted that award. Second’s not bad. This year I wanted to do more. I feel like I needed to do more and embrace the situation that I’m in."
That is as real as it gets
Posted on 2/8/15 at 5:55 pm to HeadyBrosevelt
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That is as real as it gets
Posted on 2/9/15 at 9:21 am to HeadyBrosevelt
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That is as real as it gets
That's the type of stuff you can't teach.
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