In The Zone '98
Superstar
Wemby shooting 4-13 from 3 every night Is a more effective strategy than post touches?
He's a 90 percent FT shooter. He's wasting his time gunning 3s
Enough is enough
Why is NBA Media so much worse than other Major Sports
Wemby shooting 4-13 from 3 every night Is a more effective strategy than post touches?
He's a 90 percent FT shooter. He's wasting his time gunning 3s
Enough is enough
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
no. Not 9 of them. What he needs to do is establish a hook shot that's unblockable. I can see why Wemby's trying to work on his three point shot because having one would make him impossible to guard, but Wemby doesn't wanna commit to puttin in work in the paint because he's too frail to live there.
Diondon
Thanks to the lawyers uh, I marbled the foyer
Maybe he can try a hook three
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
now that you mention it...Maybe he can try a hook three
Skyhook 3 would be the final evolution of shot selection
As a big fan of indie music, I don’t know why people are so concerned about NBAs national viewership if they themselves like it.
Some people on the coli worry more about ratings, tv deals and media personalities contract details than the actual sport
Some people on the coli worry more about ratings, tv deals and media personalities contract details than the actual sport
Wemby needs to grow into his body first and get stronger before he gets consistent post touches. He doesn't get respect from the officials yet, so smaller defenders are allowed to get away with more physcality, which he's had a hard time contesting with.
The fact that he's a 90% FT shooter, is the reason why he's shooting 3s. I watched a game of his recently where he managed to get two defenders to bite on his 3, allowing him to drive into the lane, so him taking 3s is already paying dividends because defenses are already treating him as a threat from behind the arc.
Spurs are taking their time with him and rightfully so. He's a long way from being a finished product.
The Amerikkkan Idol
The Amerikkkan Nightmare
Who the fukk wants to go back to the pace of the LATE '90s???It makes no difference where they’re shooting from when nobody could create good looks, took forever to get shots off, and when nobody could shoot anyway. Outside of Shaq’s Magic & Lakers teams & the Bulls, the game was unwatchable because nobody moved the ball anymore, nobody pushed the pace, and nobody could shoot. We had a finals series go 7 games where a teams best and 2nd best player shot 36% and 36.4% on the series, and those were some of the best teams of the era. By the end of the decade the finals were being played at a pace of 82 possessions per game with a team averaging 80 points and it’s 2nd and 3rd best players averaging less than 21 points put together. Imagine how bad the average team was to watch. @Gil Scott-Heroin linked this game earlier in another thread. This was the kind of ineptitude you’d find regularly. Jazz vs SuperSonics, February 16, 1999 | Basketball-Reference.com
Teams barely playing 90 possessions per game, teams struggling to crack 90 points regularly, garbage ball teams being considered contenders all decade. Teams don’t shoot 3’s because they’re pretty. They shoot them because they’re an efficient way to score. It’s like comparing a vhs tape to Blu-ray or cassette tapes to cd’s. Dead tech that’s not coming back because something that works better replaced it.
Literally nobody's making that fukking argument.
Just that we want the BALANCE, dummy
Watching motherfukkers launch 80 threes a game is not entertaining, I don't care how much you motherfukkers advocate for that shyt.
It's weak ass basketball.
We all know the NBA was getting hard to watch in the late '90s because the game got TOO PHYSICAL.
That's an EXTREME that we don't want, either & the ratings post-Jordan showed that fans were tuning out, especially after the "Malice in the Palace".
There is a sweet spot that we hit in the mid '80s-early '90s and again around 2010 before Golden State fukked everything up that we should be trying to get back to.
Mantis Toboggan M.D.
Drink wolf cola
There was no balance in the 90’s, just a severe lack of talent on offense as the league expanded which made it obvious that it expanded too fast. It was unwatchable because every other team ran the same struggle post up based offense while relying on guys who didn’t have the talent to make anything happen. It was by a sizable margin the oldest and slowest the league has ever been. If teams coached by George Karl, led by old Karl Malone and old John Stockton, led by Reggie Miller, a team whose 2-4 scorers were John Starks, Charles Oakley, & Charles Smith, or led by 3 guys in their 13th season or later (not to mention how old the bulls were by the 1997-98 season), all were making deep playoff runs, it’s a sign that something was wrong. Even the following season (1999-2000) saw the lakers play at a pace of 87 for the conference finals vs Portland and a pace of 92 vs Indiana. There’s no other era in the history of the game besides the early to mid 90’s going through the mid 2000’s where it was played that way.Who the fukk wants to go back to the pace of the LATE '90s???
Literally nobody's making that fukking argument.
Just that we want the BALANCE, dummy
Watching motherfukkers launch 80 threes a game is not entertaining, I don't care how much you motherfukkers advocate for that shyt.
It's weak ass basketball.
We all know the NBA was getting hard to watch in the late '90s because the game got TOO PHYSICAL.
That's an EXTREME that we don't want, either & the ratings post-Jordan showed that fans were tuning out, especially after the "Malice in the Palace".
There is a sweet spot that we hit in the mid '80s-early '90s and again around 2010 before Golden State fukked everything up that we should be trying to get back to.
The mid 80’s to early 90’s were played at the same pace as the present day except nobody rotated or play much help defense or did a good job in transition defense.
In The Zone '98
Superstar
Agree to disagree
Trojan 24
Veteran
NFL Media has to buy into "Protecting the Shield" or they cooked, similar to baseball and hockey isn't relevant enough. NBA has agents pretty much buying media personalities to push their narratives
In The Zone '98
Superstar
I don't necessarily disagree about Inside The NBA and the negative effect it has on the discourse, but that's more a reflection of something that already existed. The league's popularity has always been more about the players than the actual teams, and because hoops is naturally a more personalized sport where it functions through 5v5 and 1v1, showmanship and gamesmanship is its fuel.
It's why you had Wilt near the end of the 70s, into the 80s and 90s shytting on the players and product, because the league's popularity grew and championed players over him. You had the likes of Snapper Jones and Bill Russell shytting on the 80s saying defense was non-existent.
Inside the NBA isn't saying or doing anything differently to what talking heads have always done about the product.
It's why you had Wilt near the end of the 70s, into the 80s and 90s shytting on the players and product, because the league's popularity grew and championed players over him. You had the likes of Snapper Jones and Bill Russell shytting on the 80s saying defense was non-existent.
Inside the NBA isn't saying or doing anything differently to what talking heads have always done about the product.
I don't know or even think it can be stopped.
It's been ingrained in NBA discourse for decades now.
