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Re: NBA Finals
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 8:59 pm
by TucsonClip
Wade shot 38% for the series in transition. He is clearly not the same player.
Re: NBA Finals
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 9:20 pm
by JMarkJohns
Wade is a mid-level player. He's simply not healthy enough to play 30+ minutes over 100 games. Closer to 25 per in 75 games.
Bosh just never meshed with this team. Gonna be interesting to see his career going forward. Still pretty young.
If those two come back at about 15 million total, and they have enough to offer James and Anthony 15 per, then maybe they get to be world beaters again. Really need a rebounder up front as well. And a PG.
Re: NBA Finals
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 9:46 am
by gumby
Beautiful basketball. Glad the Spurs won.
Re: NBA Finals
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 9:59 am
by Olsondogg
gumby wrote:Beautiful basketball. Glad the Spurs won.
Agreed. Although all the talk is not on the "boring" Spurs, but on the Heat.
If the NBA trended toward building teams like the Spurs, and playing the game like them, maybe I'd become interested in the league again.
It won't and I won't...
Re: NBA Finals
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 10:43 am
by KaibabKat
I wonder if it would be possible to build a team that plays like the Spurs using only players that originated from the US and have come up through the usual AAU, NCAA ranks. Somehow I think that it would be extraordinarily difficult.
Re: NBA Finals
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 10:43 am
by Olsondogg
KaibabKat wrote:I wonder if it would be possible to build a team that plays like the Spurs using only players that originated from the US and have come up through the usual AAU, NCAA ranks. Somehow I think that it would be extraordinarily difficult.
Sean Miller is doing just that...
Re: NBA Finals
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:15 am
by CatnapTom
gumby wrote:Beautiful basketball. Glad the Spurs won.
Indeed, true team (euro) basketball, not the one on one 'hero' ball our kids are practicing today.
Re: NBA Finals
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 1:00 pm
by JMarkJohns
KaibabKat wrote:I wonder if it would be possible to build a team that plays like the Spurs using only players that originated from the US and have come up through the usual AAU, NCAA ranks. Somehow I think that it would be extraordinarily difficult.
Not immediately out of it. Too few truly defined roles, too much "waiting" for things to happen.
The talent is there, but it's been deprioritized to the point where it's almost invisible.
It would take 2/3 years of rebooting their settings.
Not sure a coach would get the time.