MikeyFL

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Struss should have been in earlier

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The cavs just inexplicably went surrender cobra. Players like Strus at least give strong defensive effort and could grab a key offensive rebound.

Especially since the Knicks' entire strategy over the past few minutes was to drive with anyone that Harden was defending.

Fathers reject their 11 year old sons like that. Not NBA athletes.

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The game just hasn’t been the same for a long time for various reasons already stated. When you give these freak athletes the ability to take numerous steps either to free themselves for a shot or to get to the basket, then it makes defense almost irrelevant. They walk/travel/carry whatever you like constantly.

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I'll agree with this.

I don't think we truly appreciate how much allowing these bunny hops backwards improves three-point shooting percentages.

If you watch games from the early 2000s and earlier, players dribbling forward had to stop forward their momentum and shoot while falling backwards, lest they get called for a travel. A handful of players like Jordan, Kobe, and Wade perfected this ability to make it reasonably efficient, but it required exceptional body control and jumping ability to avoid a strip or a block. Even really good fadeaway shooters like Carmelo Anthony were never consistently efficient with the shot.

Players today can pick up the ball and literally jump backwards with both legs to land in a shooting position, even if they do a three step shuffle to get set. This gives them a completely stable lift point during the shot, and the degree of difficulty is much, much lower.

Having said this, players to their credit have also maximized their ability to shoot from 3 point range because they know they'll have more open opportunities. It would be interesting to see how many points dead-eye midrange shooters like Drazen Petrovic, Wesley Person, Jeff Hornacek, Dale Ellis, and Mark Price would have scored in the modern NBA. Price is an especially intriguing player because he literally invented the idea of splitting double-teams and always looked like someone who belonged in a more wide-open game.

For those who are already watching, do yourself a favor and re-watch Episode 4. So many reactions and lines from various characters are completely transformed once you know the reality of what's happening at Patricia's cocktail party.

In fact, it becomes quite hilarious at times, especially with the reactions of initial visitors, comments about Patricia's tiara, and Rosemary's nihilistic attitude about the whole situation. :lol:

Just as we thought. Hachimura carrying the Lakers in the fourth quarter :lol:

What the fresh hell is this

Caruso is such a wizard at jumping into passing lanes and disrupting things.

The NBA has been just absolutely stupid the past couple of days with one-sided halves of basketball.

Smart needs to find a Houston dentist