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marson wrote:3ammy3uck3ts wrote:Weren’t the Wolves begging to send us Naz for Strus last year at the deadline?
link?
MettaWorldPanda wrote:Considering Bam’s limitations as a true stretch player i still believe the front court partner we place with him has to be able to shoot. Love the Isaiah Stewart pairing or possibly it’s going to have to be Filipowski, Ware, or da Silva in the draft.
spectrec130 wrote:Gratz to Minny! Will be rooting for DAL but I'm all for any WCF..... Now if NYK or Indy can make a series on BOS!
DayofMourning wrote:Bishop45 wrote:DayofMourning wrote:
I think the age old formula always wins if done right. This small ball **** is a joke. A joke.
The Heat beat plenty of bigger teams in just the past few years. League always going to be about talent and match-ups.
‘The League is changing…’ is a red herring for the fact that all teams are going to work to match-up with the current champs. We need to get our talent up and folks need to contend someday with the fact that Bam being small is part of what has made us successful in certain matchups, not all on Spo
Bam has been excellent for us. Imagine him with legit bigs to play next to. Might work eh? Guess we could still max out with Bam playing with 6'5" post players and talk about how far we reached.
Team Small Ball contract wrote:DayofMourning wrote:Bishop45 wrote:
The Heat beat plenty of bigger teams in just the past few years. League always going to be about talent and match-ups.
‘The League is changing…’ is a red herring for the fact that all teams are going to work to match-up with the current champs. We need to get our talent up and folks need to contend someday with the fact that Bam being small is part of what has made us successful in certain matchups, not all on Spo
Bam has been excellent for us. Imagine him with legit bigs to play next to. Might work eh? Guess we could still max out with Bam playing with 6'5" post players and talk about how far we reached.
If we move Bam to the 4 spot to add size in the front court we will kill our spacing and our offense will suck worse because Jimmy won't be able to get near the paint. We'd be taking our best offensive player out of his best spot.
DayofMourning wrote:Bishop45 wrote:DayofMourning wrote:
I think the age old formula always wins if done right. This small ball **** is a joke. A joke.
The Heat beat plenty of bigger teams in just the past few years. League always going to be about talent and match-ups.
‘The League is changing…’ is a red herring for the fact that all teams are going to work to match-up with the current champs. We need to get our talent up and folks need to contend someday with the fact that Bam being small is part of what has made us successful in certain matchups, not all on Spo
Bam has been excellent for us. Imagine him with legit bigs to play next to. Might work eh? Guess we could still max out with Bam playing with 6'5" post players and talk about how far we reached.
contract wrote:DayofMourning wrote:Bishop45 wrote:
The Heat beat plenty of bigger teams in just the past few years. League always going to be about talent and match-ups.
‘The League is changing…’ is a red herring for the fact that all teams are going to work to match-up with the current champs. We need to get our talent up and folks need to contend someday with the fact that Bam being small is part of what has made us successful in certain matchups, not all on Spo
Bam has been excellent for us. Imagine him with legit bigs to play next to. Might work eh? Guess we could still max out with Bam playing with 6'5" post players and talk about how far we reached.
If we move Bam to the 4 spot to add size in the front court we will kill our spacing and our offense will suck worse because Jimmy won't be able to get near the paint. We'd be taking our best offensive player out of his best spot.
Bishop45 wrote:DayofMourning wrote:Bishop45 wrote:
The Heat beat plenty of bigger teams in just the past few years. League always going to be about talent and match-ups.
‘The League is changing…’ is a red herring for the fact that all teams are going to work to match-up with the current champs. We need to get our talent up and folks need to contend someday with the fact that Bam being small is part of what has made us successful in certain matchups, not all on Spo
Bam has been excellent for us. Imagine him with legit bigs to play next to. Might work eh? Guess we could still max out with Bam playing with 6'5" post players and talk about how far we reached.
I don’t think Bam is ready to be a four, which puts us in the hard position of finding a rare four that plays like a five. AD/Kristaps/Wemby, maybe someone like Horford. But those mixes don’t always work (ala Embiid/Horford, and every five that has been attempted to be paired with AD/Wemby)
I like Randle this off-season, not huge, but talented with some size on the boards
3ammy3uck3ts wrote:So it’s likely KAT/Gobert get a championship or the Celtics get one, IM FUXKED
After getting the Nuggets general manager job, Booth had his staff study all the teams that made the Finals since 2008 to find out their average wingspan and weight. They took the top eight rotations, exempting the smallest player in the group since it'd skew the averages, and found that the average player had a wingspan of 6-foot-11 with a weight of 228 pounds.
If a team's rotation didn't hit one of those two thresholds, they weren't in the Finals-except for the 2013 Heat. "One of the most athletic teams of all time. LeBron. D-Wade. Shane Battier. Chris Bosh," Booth said.
"And so, seeing that, I don't like trying to be the exception to the rule."
Kobewade11 wrote:Fwiw the timberwolves start a 28.6% and 0% shooter from 3 (playoffs).
marson wrote:Bishop45 wrote:DayofMourning wrote:
Bam has been excellent for us. Imagine him with legit bigs to play next to. Might work eh? Guess we could still max out with Bam playing with 6'5" post players and talk about how far we reached.
I don’t think Bam is ready to be a four, which puts us in the hard position of finding a rare four that plays like a five. AD/Kristaps/Wemby, maybe someone like Horford. But those mixes don’t always work (ala Embiid/Horford, and every five that has been attempted to be paired with AD/Wemby)
I like Randle this off-season, not huge, but talented with some size on the boards
If Riles and Cronin somehow still have a civil relationship, then I would take Jeremi Grant over Randle.
I just can't trust Randle shot selection sometimes.
marson wrote:Bishop45 wrote:DayofMourning wrote:
Bam has been excellent for us. Imagine him with legit bigs to play next to. Might work eh? Guess we could still max out with Bam playing with 6'5" post players and talk about how far we reached.
I don’t think Bam is ready to be a four, which puts us in the hard position of finding a rare four that plays like a five. AD/Kristaps/Wemby, maybe someone like Horford. But those mixes don’t always work (ala Embiid/Horford, and every five that has been attempted to be paired with AD/Wemby)
I like Randle this off-season, not huge, but talented with some size on the boards
If Riles and Cronin somehow still have a civil relationship, then I would take Jeremi Grant over Randle.
I just can't trust Randle shot selection sometimes.
they lost and while they were winning by 20?
eddieheatfan wrote:they lost and while they were winning by 20?
wow at minny, i'm gonna watch the youtube reel to what the hell happened there
edit: unreal they really came back from 20 and won the game seems like murray was a non-factor tonight.
