Anthony Bennett shouldn't be in the league, he has shown her can't stay in shape and can't take skill development seriously, when he bombed out with the Raptors I knew he was done.

Now that the Cavs have the two best 3 point shooters in the east, they'll be able to space the floor that much more opening up for more drives and giving Lebron space when he actually decides to be a scorer (clearly he saves it for the playoffs).

Maybe they won't play the Warriors again in the end after all though. Spurs are looking better this year and they've proven they can beat GSW on the road, so as long as they avoid stumbling like they did the past two seasons I think we could actually see Cavs vs Spurs in the finals.

Golden State put on a clinic

One of the best games this season. Dion Waiters came in clutch.

In other news, Jimmer Fredette (remember him?) has apparently gone to China and exploded into some kind of basketball deity. He's averaging 38 points per game and almost 9 rebounds playing for the #1 Shanghai Sharks in Shanghai (which also happens to be my home base)

http://www.stack.com/a/jimmer-fredette-i...ssociation



Represent!

Vince still got it. A 360 with a purpose besides showing off. This is a mid air spin move:

I remember seeing some video of a porn star saying that DeWight Howard had the biggest dick she had ever seen... I suppose it's only fitting he talks about the D

(01-28-2017 09:25 PM)RealDeal Wrote:  

(01-27-2017 04:55 PM)Fast Eddie Wrote:  In other news, Jimmer Fredette (remember him?) has apparently gone to China and exploded into some kind of basketball deity. He's averaging 38 points per game and almost 9 rebounds playing for the #1 Shanghai Sharks in Shanghai (which also happens to be my home base)

http://www.stack.com/a/jimmer-fredette-i...ssociation



Represent!

While those are impressive numbers, I take them with a grain of salt: I think his performance has more to do with the Chinese players are less athletic and competitive.

Example. He leads the Shanghai Sharks with 4.7 APG. According to the NBA 2017 stats, the league leader is James Harden with 11.6 apg, that's 2.5 times (!) Jimmer's average. If Jimmer were in the NBA he'd only rank 30th with that 4.7 apg. (Source for my info)

Same with boards, there are 16 NBA guys doing more than 8.8. And the CBA three point line is about 6.75 meters, 22ft, shorter than the NBA's 23.7. 6.75 meters is the same distance as the WNBA 3pt line at the top of the key.

Fredette is hardly elite. The players there just make a guy who rode the pine pony look like a combo of Larry Legend and Lebron James.

Or I could be wrong and maybe he's developed into beast and if he has I'd love to see him come back to states. Hopefully he can parlay this success there into celebrity-status and get some endorsements, easy pussy, etc.

(01-29-2017 10:31 AM)Goldin Boy Wrote:  

(01-27-2017 04:55 PM)Fast Eddie Wrote:  In other news, Jimmer Fredette (remember him?) has apparently gone to China and exploded into some kind of basketball deity. He's averaging 38 points per game and almost 9 rebounds playing for the #1 Shanghai Sharks in Shanghai (which also happens to be my home base)

http://www.stack.com/a/jimmer-fredette-i...ssociation



Represent!

While those are impressive numbers, I take them with a grain of salt: I think his performance has more to do with the Chinese players are less athletic and competitive.

Example. He leads the Shanghai Sharks with 4.7 APG. According to the NBA 2017 stats, the league leader is James Harden with 11.6 apg, that's 2.5 times (!) Jimmer's average. If Jimmer were in the NBA he'd only rank 30th with that 4.7 apg. (Source for my info)

Same with boards, there are 16 NBA guys doing more than 8.8. And the CBA three point line is about 6.75 meters, 22ft, shorter than the NBA's 23.7. 6.75 meters is the same distance as the WNBA 3pt line at the top of the key.

Fredette is hardly elite. The players there just make a guy who rode the pine pony look like a combo of Larry Legend and Lebron James.

Or I could be wrong and maybe he's developed into beast and if he has I'd love to see him come back to states. Hopefully he can parlay this success there into celebrity-status and get some endorsements, easy pussy, etc.

You completely missed the point. Nobody is trying to claim that Jimmer is an elite NBA level basketball player.

This dude was looking at a failed career, then gets this China gig and finds another way to keep the checks rolling in. And damn, they gave him a mil on his first contract. The guy is still getting SEVEN FIGURE CHECKS. I wonder what he's going to get as soon as he's back on the market and teams are competing for him.

Not to mention that he's becoming a megacelebrity in the world's second largest economy, and as Fast Eddie aptly put it a "Basketball Diety." He captured so many fans in college, it's amusing to see the same effect, in China, except crank it up a few notches. There are more basketball fans in China than there are citizens of the United States! Too bad he's married. He could be smashing some fine exotic pussy.

And damn, 38 a night, do you know how much fucking fun that would be, in front of sold out arenas? If Jimmer wanted to compete he would have gone to play in Europe.

Love watching Jimmer play. Such a talented and polished offensive player. Pure scorer. You don't average 28.9 a game in Division 1 basketball if you're a chump. (Highest in last 15 yrs.)

He found a great second act I'm happy for him

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/the-second-...31176.html

Quote:Jimmer Fredette is a sensation again. He hadn’t expected this to happen, certainly not in Shanghai, where he signed to play for one of the Chinese Basketball Association’s worst teams. But then came the 40-point nights, Shanghai’s unexpected rise from the bottom to the top and another group of fans halfway around the world was chanting his name.

“Jimo. Jimo. Jimo.”

There is no Chinese way to say “Jimmer,” his translator told him. They are using the word that sounds closest.

It means “lonely,” the translator added.

At first, Fredette was disappointed.

“I thought, ‘Lonely? That’s kind of depressing,’ ” he told The Vertical.

But the translator went on to explain that the conversion from Mandarin to English is not perfect, that the fans were not chanting “lonely” but rather something like “loneliness master” or “loneliness god.” They were saying he stood at such a high level, alone at the top, that he had no enemies. He was, in a sense, the very best.

http://www.nba.com/article/2017/01/31/ch...s-comments

Quote:Charles Barkley laughed off comments from LeBron James on Tuesday as the former superstar and current superstar continued to trade barbs, with Barkley sticking by his criticism of James.

The long-distance exchange started last week, when Barkley said during TNT’s “Inside the NBA” that James was being “whiny” for saying the Cavaliers needed to add a playmaker at the same time Cleveland had the highest payroll in the league.

"Inappropriate,” Barkley said at the time. “Whiny. All of the above. The Cleveland Cavaliers, they have given him everything he wanted. They have the highest payroll in NBA history. He wanted J.R. Smith last summer, they paid him. He wanted (Iman) Shumpert last summer. They brought in Kyle Korver. He’s (LeBron) the best player in the world. Does he want all of the good players? He don’t want to compete? He is an amazing player. They’re the defending champs.”

James fired back Monday, telling ESPN.com: “I’m not going to let him disrespect my legacy like that. I’m not the one who threw somebody through a window. I never spit on a kid. I never had unpaid debt in Las Vegas. I never said, ‘I'm not a role model.’ I never showed up to All-Star weekend on Sunday because I was in Vegas all weekend partying.

“All I've done for my entire career is represent the NBA the right way. Fourteen years, never got in trouble. Respected the game. Print that.”

It was Barkley’s turn again Tuesday during an appearance on the Waddle & Silvy show on ESPN radio.

"I stick by what I said, I'm not going to make this personal… he was all whiny last week," Barkley said. "... I'm good and I'm straightforward, I'm never going to get personal on an NBA player."

Asked if he felt James crossed the line, Barkley said: "I was laughing, clearly he did some homework ... he Googled me and found some things. He was young when I was playing, so I appreciate that, but I'm not upset about it ... my criticism was fair and I'm good with that."

Happy someone finally called out Lebron. Of course Lebron can't take a very honest criticism and has to bring up the past of Chuck. Chuck accepts what he did like a man. Lebron was trying to avoid tarnishing his "legacy", all this does is cement it as a forever whiner and baby Bron Bron.

Lebron is basically the player, captain, coach and GM so if they don't win it's on him.

Look how personal LeBron takes it all, very feminine. Most high level players would ignore the noise from pundits or at most just highlight the fact his fingers get heavy from 3 rings and Chuck would not know the real effort needed to get that job done. That would be a pointed and heavy diss at someone bent critical but Bron does not have the balls to go like that so he just gets petty.

It isn't just Bron being the coach and GM he is also drifting the league towards financial ruin and chaos. He is the players union head people may forget this but he was on that group that pushed for these new player deals because selfishly he felt he was underpaid (you can make that argument that for sure) so the group pulled strings to ensure a boom level cap. Now anybody with a heartbeat gets paid $18 million plus a year and teams now are so out of wacky because you can't find money for stable men 6-8 on your team. You can only pay a collection of starts and then have the bench rot away wuch is exactly the issue the Cavs have now with zero depth.

Bron is dumping gas everywhere as the current system isn't sustainable. Many view this TV money as a bubble and how will you then justify players taking a pay cut down the road? Either a roster spot gets cut off or you end up playing more games to recoup that money value.

Bron is also out of wack poltically. Over estimates his importance and opinions politically as well. He has been gilded since age 16 when he got a Range Rover for his birthday. Dude has been out of touch with reality for half his life but thinks he knows what is real for families in the streets.

Deep down we know this is LBJ's indirect reaction to the coup that GS pulled off last summer acquiring KD.

It's akin to having a puzzling math problem that has stumped you all semester, you finally solve it only to have the teacher hit you with a even more dumbfounding equation.

You'd think the Cavs would realize Kyrie is their best option in crunch time at this point.

(02-07-2017 12:01 PM)JackStraw Wrote:  You'd think the Cavs would realize Kyrie is their best option in crunch time at this point.

If Kyrie wasn't shooting 4 for 20 or whatever it was by the end of regular time and had passed the ball to the guys with the hot hand, there wouldn't have been an OT.

LBJ's been working on his jump shot. He's firing 3's like a guard now. It was tough enough to guard him before in the playoffs, but at this rate he's going to be unstoppable.

Charles Oakley arrested in the stands at a Knicks game.

https://nyti.ms/2k5km99

James Dolan is an absolute cancer to the Knicks organization. You can't show such disrespect to a Knicks legend like Oakley.

In other news, Knicks are straight trash. This Melo situation is just spiraling into chaos, with Phil's tweet about Melo being unable to change.

And here's Spike Lee's response:

Knicks are in total disrepair and the rot starts at the top. Get rid of Dolan, and we're on the way to recovery.

Phil will be the one to get the ax in this situation, as it should be. He gave Carmelo a no-trade, and as much as I don't want to hate Carmelo will never win a championship unless it's as a 38 year old off the bench, he is not good enough to not pass the ball in this post isolation-ball era.

Phil has gone all in on publicly shitting on Carmelo to try and force his hand on waiving the no-trade. He is poisoning the well, disloyalty begets disloyalty and I don't see Carmelo waiving the no-trade because Phil "Coach of teams with GOAT GMs" Jackson is being an arrogant prick once again.

(02-09-2017 10:58 AM)Aer Wrote:  James Dolan is an absolute cancer to the Knicks organization. You can't show such disrespect to a Knicks legend like Oakley.

I saw the highlights on ESPN at the gym, and it was pretty obvious that Oakley was trying to force a physical altercation. Granted, I don't know much about the Knicks. But I think that making bad executive decisions (like you say Dolan has done) warrants a physical attack. Did the owner say something first? Who knows and who cares?

Oakley is a grown man - trying to physically fight during an NBA game - with an NBA owner that's half his height. It's pretty sad, actually.

(02-09-2017 10:58 AM)Aer Wrote:  Knicks are in total disrepair and the rot starts at the top. Get rid of Dolan, and we're on the way to recovery.

True but to Dolan's credit, he has been hands off since hiring Phil.

Let's be honest, Phil has no idea what he is doing. His moves have been terrible. There are just too many to list. He fired a good coach in Mike Woodson and hired Derek Fisher who had no coaching experience.

Phil took a nice fat paycheck and he has not delivered.

The Knicks are a train wreck.