New Album & The Beginning of Basketball Season
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Steve Williams
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Man, when the Clipps are firing on all cylinders and the dynamic duo are back they seem unbeatable
Clipps had a 32-6 run as well as an 11-0 run'Luka looks bothered now on his ankle. He's hurting
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Clipps had a 32-6 run as well as an 11-0 run'Luka looks bothered now on his ankle. He's hurting
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Mavs getting a little testy tonight. Couple of dirty fouls commited against Paul George.
I think it is time to put Joakim Noah in the game to send a message to Hardaway.
Steve Williams
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Well if the western conference final is Clips and Lakers, it should be a very good series but I still don't think Lakers can beat the Clipps who are so deep
Let's hope both tems get there. Will be a battle royale if it happens.
Have to say the Lakers have looked better than the Clippers since the playoffs started. Clippers had a couple of real stinker games before tonight...but Mavs were missing Porzingis and Luka wasn't 100%.
Have to say the Lakers have looked better than the Clippers since the playoffs started. Clippers had a couple of real stinker games before tonight...but Mavs were missing Porzingis and Luka wasn't 100%.
Steve Williams
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my bet is nothing happens and it'll be game time although there could be a protest briefly at the game
Steve Williams
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I was happy to see this although I was hoping AD had shot at it...
Giannis Antetokounmpo wins NBA Defensive Player of Year in landslide
Fresh off a 15-point Game 4 playoff victory over the Orlando Magic on Monday, Milwaukee Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer couldn't contain his excitement.
As he delivered some breaking news to reigning MVP Giannis Antetokounmpowhile surrounded by players and coaches in the locker room, he jumped on a table after sharing the details.
One day later, the NBA officially announced that Antetokounmpo was named the 2019-20 NBA Defensive Player of the Year.
"Usually when Coach wants to talk to us after a game, somebody messed up or somebody did something," Antetokounmpo said Tuesday. "So in my head, I'm like, 'OK.' I'm looking around like, 'Who did something?' Because I know I didn't do nothing."
Antetokounmpo won the award in a landslide, receiving 75 first-place votes from a panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters and earning 432 points total.
The 2018-19 NBA MVP, Antetokounmpo becomes the fifth player to win both MVP and Defensive Player of the Year in his career, joining Kevin Garnett, Hakeem Olajuwon, Michael Jordan and David Robinson.
The Buck Stops Here
Giannis Antetokounmpo allowed the lowest field goal percentage in the NBA as the closest defender among 137 players to defend at least 550 shots.
GIANNIS ANTETOKOUNMPO 36.3%
Anthony Davis 38.9%
Rudy Gobert 40.4%
Jrue Holiday 40.5%
>>>minimum 550 FGA defended
Los Angeles Lakers forward Anthony Davis came in second with 14 first-place votes (200 points), and Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert, who won the award each of the past two seasons, finished third with six first-place votes (187 points).
Antetokounmpo, 25, anchored the best defensive team in the league in the Bucks, averaging 13.6 rebounds, 1 block and 1 steal in 30.4 minutes per game. Milwaukee allowed only 96.5 points per 100 possessions with Antetokounmpo on the court, giving him the lowest defensive rating among the more than 300 players who averaged at least 15 minutes per game.
"At the end of the day, when you go out there and compete and when you have guys behind you and next to you that compete as hard, awards like this can come," Antetokounmpo said. "At the end of the day, what I get from this is that you have to win. You have to do whatever it takes every day to go out there and put yourself in a position, put your team in a position to win, and good things are going to happen, and everything is gonna take care of itself."
According to Second Spectrum data, the Bucks superstar held opponents to 36.3% shooting when he was the closest defender during the regular season. That is the lowest field goal percentage allowed by any player in a season since Second Spectrum started tracking the stat in 2013-14 (minimum 525 field goal attempts).
Antetokounmpo sees this year as his best defensive effort yet.
"Obviously, I think I can get way better. I can be more active. I can block more shots. I can be in the passing lanes more," he said. "But going back again, having the best defensive team in the NBA, making your team being the best defensive year, I think it's been my best year, but you can always get better. You can always improve."
Antetokounmpo is the presumptive favorite to win MVP again this season. Only Olajuwon (1993-94) and Jordan (1987-88) won both the MVP and Defensive Player of the Year awards in the same season.
Defensive Player of the Year has been awarded since the 1982-83 season. Antetokounmpo is the first Bucks player to win the award since Sidney Moncrief won in the 1982-83 and 1983-84 seasons.
"It's certainly meaningful. I think trying to create an identity and trying to instill in a team and an organization this is what we want to be about," said Budenholzer, whose Bucks took a 3-1 lead in their Eastern Conference first-round series with the Magic in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. "To have your best player in Giannis lead the way and be honored and become the Defensive Player of the Year, it's really who we want to be and what we want to be about."
Giannis Antetokounmpo wins NBA Defensive Player of Year in landslide
Fresh off a 15-point Game 4 playoff victory over the Orlando Magic on Monday, Milwaukee Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer couldn't contain his excitement.
As he delivered some breaking news to reigning MVP Giannis Antetokounmpowhile surrounded by players and coaches in the locker room, he jumped on a table after sharing the details.
One day later, the NBA officially announced that Antetokounmpo was named the 2019-20 NBA Defensive Player of the Year.
"Usually when Coach wants to talk to us after a game, somebody messed up or somebody did something," Antetokounmpo said Tuesday. "So in my head, I'm like, 'OK.' I'm looking around like, 'Who did something?' Because I know I didn't do nothing."
Antetokounmpo won the award in a landslide, receiving 75 first-place votes from a panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters and earning 432 points total.
The 2018-19 NBA MVP, Antetokounmpo becomes the fifth player to win both MVP and Defensive Player of the Year in his career, joining Kevin Garnett, Hakeem Olajuwon, Michael Jordan and David Robinson.
The Buck Stops Here
Giannis Antetokounmpo allowed the lowest field goal percentage in the NBA as the closest defender among 137 players to defend at least 550 shots.
GIANNIS ANTETOKOUNMPO 36.3%
Anthony Davis 38.9%
Rudy Gobert 40.4%
Jrue Holiday 40.5%
>>>minimum 550 FGA defended
Los Angeles Lakers forward Anthony Davis came in second with 14 first-place votes (200 points), and Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert, who won the award each of the past two seasons, finished third with six first-place votes (187 points).
Antetokounmpo, 25, anchored the best defensive team in the league in the Bucks, averaging 13.6 rebounds, 1 block and 1 steal in 30.4 minutes per game. Milwaukee allowed only 96.5 points per 100 possessions with Antetokounmpo on the court, giving him the lowest defensive rating among the more than 300 players who averaged at least 15 minutes per game.
"At the end of the day, when you go out there and compete and when you have guys behind you and next to you that compete as hard, awards like this can come," Antetokounmpo said. "At the end of the day, what I get from this is that you have to win. You have to do whatever it takes every day to go out there and put yourself in a position, put your team in a position to win, and good things are going to happen, and everything is gonna take care of itself."
According to Second Spectrum data, the Bucks superstar held opponents to 36.3% shooting when he was the closest defender during the regular season. That is the lowest field goal percentage allowed by any player in a season since Second Spectrum started tracking the stat in 2013-14 (minimum 525 field goal attempts).
Antetokounmpo sees this year as his best defensive effort yet.
"Obviously, I think I can get way better. I can be more active. I can block more shots. I can be in the passing lanes more," he said. "But going back again, having the best defensive team in the NBA, making your team being the best defensive year, I think it's been my best year, but you can always get better. You can always improve."
Antetokounmpo is the presumptive favorite to win MVP again this season. Only Olajuwon (1993-94) and Jordan (1987-88) won both the MVP and Defensive Player of the Year awards in the same season.
Defensive Player of the Year has been awarded since the 1982-83 season. Antetokounmpo is the first Bucks player to win the award since Sidney Moncrief won in the 1982-83 and 1983-84 seasons.
"It's certainly meaningful. I think trying to create an identity and trying to instill in a team and an organization this is what we want to be about," said Budenholzer, whose Bucks took a 3-1 lead in their Eastern Conference first-round series with the Magic in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. "To have your best player in Giannis lead the way and be honored and become the Defensive Player of the Year, it's really who we want to be and what we want to be about."
Steve Williams
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and this reality check.....
This Lakers offense still shouldn't scare anyone
After enduring a scary loss in Game 1, the Los Angeles Lakers woke up, snapped back into shape and rattled off three straight wins in their first-round series against the Portland Trail Blazers. On Wednesday, they look to close it out and continue their march through the Western Conference.
These aren't your typical playoff Lakers. After watching Magic Johnson, Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant overpower helpless defenses with incredible offensive prowess, it's strange to watch this season's team lean on defense to win games.
Head coach Frank Vogel and his staff deserve some shine for taking last season's middling defense and reshaping it into a group with the third-best defensive rating in the NBA, along with the best defensive indicators in the loaded West. While those numbers are encouraging, Lakers haters can still point to a few potentially serious flaws on the other end of the court.
A piece of Kobe tech is in the NBA playoffs and on every bench
From afar, watching Lakers-Blazers with Trevor Ariza
This offense shouldn't be scaring anyone right now. Even though L.A. has posted a respectable 113.2 offensive rating in the playoffs, it's doing so against a Blazers squad whose seven most-used three-man lineup combos in the seeding games all gave up at least 120 points per 100 possessions. This is one of the worst defenses in the league, making it difficult to claim these Lakers have really figured out how to regularly score in the postseason.
Let me give you three quick reasons why the Lakers' offensive performance could cost them a title, even if they easily get by a Blazers squad that's now without Damian Lillard.
Since the restart, the Lakers' offense ranks 19th out of 22 bubble teams in scoring efficiency, with a below-average 108 points per 100. That's worse than the Grizzlies and Pelicans, who have already left the bubble in defeat.
The Lakers' have ranked 20th out of 22 bubble teams in pick-and-roll efficiency since the restart. Only the Pacers and Wizards have been worse in that category.
They not only rank last in 3-point percentage (31.7%) since the restart, but they also have been one of the worst jump-shooting teams all season long -- ranking 27th in the league in effective field goal percentage (eFG) on jumpers during the regular season and last in that category since the restart.
That last one is particularly troubling. It's hard to fathom how a championship run is feasible when all but two players on the team (Kyle Kuzma and Markieff Morris) are posting eFGs worse than 50% on their jumpers, per Second Spectrum tracking.
Looking back over the past 10 squads to make the Finals, all 10 of them ranked in the top five in jump-shooting efficiency that season. All 10! Either these Lakers are going to shatter that baseline, get unexpectedly hot or watch their bricklaying tendencies end their season.
When the Lakers' jumpers are falling, they look unstoppable, but those kinds of games have been the exception. They won 23 of 25 games this season when they made at least 38% of their 3s, but they've done that in only three of their 12 games since the restart. They've been just as likely to be heinous from downtown, hitting fewer than 16% of their 3s in three of their 12 bubble games. That's too many stinkers, and if this team is going to win it all, it absolutely must tighten up its long-range consistency.
The Lakers' overall jump-shooting mediocrity is the result of a few bad apples. Only one of the team's most active shooters is even converting jumpers at league-average rates (51.3 eFG% in the bubble), and that's Kuzma. The other four guys on this list below aren't pulling their own weight. Unless some of them heat up, the Lakers' chances to come out of the West are slim.
This Lakers offense still shouldn't scare anyone
After enduring a scary loss in Game 1, the Los Angeles Lakers woke up, snapped back into shape and rattled off three straight wins in their first-round series against the Portland Trail Blazers. On Wednesday, they look to close it out and continue their march through the Western Conference.
These aren't your typical playoff Lakers. After watching Magic Johnson, Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant overpower helpless defenses with incredible offensive prowess, it's strange to watch this season's team lean on defense to win games.
Head coach Frank Vogel and his staff deserve some shine for taking last season's middling defense and reshaping it into a group with the third-best defensive rating in the NBA, along with the best defensive indicators in the loaded West. While those numbers are encouraging, Lakers haters can still point to a few potentially serious flaws on the other end of the court.
A piece of Kobe tech is in the NBA playoffs and on every bench
From afar, watching Lakers-Blazers with Trevor Ariza
This offense shouldn't be scaring anyone right now. Even though L.A. has posted a respectable 113.2 offensive rating in the playoffs, it's doing so against a Blazers squad whose seven most-used three-man lineup combos in the seeding games all gave up at least 120 points per 100 possessions. This is one of the worst defenses in the league, making it difficult to claim these Lakers have really figured out how to regularly score in the postseason.
Let me give you three quick reasons why the Lakers' offensive performance could cost them a title, even if they easily get by a Blazers squad that's now without Damian Lillard.
Since the restart, the Lakers' offense ranks 19th out of 22 bubble teams in scoring efficiency, with a below-average 108 points per 100. That's worse than the Grizzlies and Pelicans, who have already left the bubble in defeat.
The Lakers' have ranked 20th out of 22 bubble teams in pick-and-roll efficiency since the restart. Only the Pacers and Wizards have been worse in that category.
They not only rank last in 3-point percentage (31.7%) since the restart, but they also have been one of the worst jump-shooting teams all season long -- ranking 27th in the league in effective field goal percentage (eFG) on jumpers during the regular season and last in that category since the restart.
That last one is particularly troubling. It's hard to fathom how a championship run is feasible when all but two players on the team (Kyle Kuzma and Markieff Morris) are posting eFGs worse than 50% on their jumpers, per Second Spectrum tracking.
Looking back over the past 10 squads to make the Finals, all 10 of them ranked in the top five in jump-shooting efficiency that season. All 10! Either these Lakers are going to shatter that baseline, get unexpectedly hot or watch their bricklaying tendencies end their season.
When the Lakers' jumpers are falling, they look unstoppable, but those kinds of games have been the exception. They won 23 of 25 games this season when they made at least 38% of their 3s, but they've done that in only three of their 12 games since the restart. They've been just as likely to be heinous from downtown, hitting fewer than 16% of their 3s in three of their 12 bubble games. That's too many stinkers, and if this team is going to win it all, it absolutely must tighten up its long-range consistency.
The Lakers' overall jump-shooting mediocrity is the result of a few bad apples. Only one of the team's most active shooters is even converting jumpers at league-average rates (51.3 eFG% in the bubble), and that's Kuzma. The other four guys on this list below aren't pulling their own weight. Unless some of them heat up, the Lakers' chances to come out of the West are slim.
The Lakers and Clippers both had big wins in their most recent games.
However, both teams faced opponents that had been diminished by injuries.
Not quite sure how to judge either team at the moment.
However, both teams faced opponents that had been diminished by injuries.
Not quite sure how to judge either team at the moment.
Steve Williams
Site Founder, Site Co-Owner, Administrator
Wow was I wrong
ALL games are boycotted today and for the foreseeable future.
Good for the players
Stay strong
ALL games are boycotted today and for the foreseeable future.
Good for the players
Stay strong
Steve Williams
Site Founder, Site Co-Owner, Administrator
Today will go down as a greatl day in sports (Basketball for sure) history
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