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Is Exum The Worst Player in The NBA Who Gets Minutes?

NAOS said:
How the **** is it changing the subject? Essentially, you're saying that you don't need to watch someone play basketball in order to evaluate how well they play basketball. You're fully living up to your avatar name.

You're a ****ing joke.
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NAOS said:
Some people use national writers AND their experiences WATCHING ****ING BASKETBALL GAMES. You seem to skip that last part and just re-heat other opinions. Badly, at that.
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Are you mad bro?
 
National writers do have inside lines to important people within organizations. Doesn't make them right all the time, but it means they often have more information than pretty much all fans.
 
I'm rooting for Exum, but with all this playing time I think he's hit the rookie wall a little harder than most...
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Siro said:
That's exactly what I said when we talked about Kobe. You said he sucked his rookie season. I said he was always aggressive, and he always played with a lot of fire, regardless of how raw he was when he entered the league. I don't remember you being so agreeable then.
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I don't remember saying dante didn't need to be more aggressive, but I do remember thinking kobe sucked his rookie season.

The two big differences at this point, a month or so later than we talked about dante v kobe last, are first that kobe really picked up his game midway through the season, while dante is basically stuck behind the great rookie wall. Second, Dante doesn't draw fouls at all. Kobe got free throws. I remember you mentioning that, but it seems to have gotten worse lately.

I am concerned about dantes development, but I think this year is not at all about normal development for him. Hopefully we see some good signs by the end of the season, and after he has an offseason of real training at p3, we will see a more confident player. I know he has the physical gifts, he just needs the confidence. But that is a big if.
 
Cy said:
National writers do have inside lines to important people within organizations. Doesn't make them right all the time, but it means they often have more information than pretty much all fans.
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The article implied Lavine and Stauskas are terrible. I strongly disagree. That's all. It's not a big deal. I'm entitled to my opinion. If NAOS or anyone wants to play the attack game over that, then I can too. This is so easily avoidable.

I can have the opinion that sports writers are often wrong, cause the truth is they are. That's not even debatable. It's a fact. Nobody is right all the time. I really see no need in believing everything that's written by popular sports writers.
 
Me when reading Hack's post about Stauskas

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Bodhi said:
Rep party to the person that finds that play a few games back where Dante gets by his man with a straight path to the hoop and then just turns back around and starts over......and makes a GIF of it.
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I don't know which one you mean, but it happens almost every game... I remembered this one in the game vs the Wizards and got it instead:

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I don't know if it's as bad as the one you are referring to...
 
stitches said:
I don't know which one you mean, but it happens almost every game... I remembered this one in the game vs the Wizards and got it instead:

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I don't know if it's as bad as the one you are referring to...
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Yeah, that is a srs wtf moment. Combination of him not even looking at the rim and being scared of bodies in the paint (bodies that are terrible shot blockers at that).
 
Cy said:
Does he airball the jumper?
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Umh... unfortunately, no... he doesn't even take the jumpshot... he gets scared and passes it to Evans ... who somehow managed to get the and-1 in traffic...
 
Hack said:
The article implied Lavine and Stauskas are terrible. I strongly disagree. That's all. It's not a big deal. I'm entitled to my opinion. If NAOS or anyone wants to play the attack game over that, then I can too. This is so easily avoidable.

I can have the opinion that sports writers are often wrong, cause the truth is they are. That's not even debatable. It's a fact. Nobody is right all the time. I really see no need in believing everything that's written by popular sports writers.
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So stAuskus shoots 34%, 26% from three, has a 5.8 per, plays no defense, but does not suck?
 
stitches said:
His handle is pretty mediocre indeed, but I don't agree that it's the main culprit right now. I think the main problem is between his ears. But I agree that I'd rather him work on the handle before he works on the shot...
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Or between his legs. Dante needs to grow a pair,
 
b_line said:
I don't remember saying dante didn't need to be more aggressive, but I do remember thinking kobe sucked his rookie season.

The two big differences at this point, a month or so later than we talked about dante v kobe last, are first that kobe really picked up his game midway through the season, while dante is basically stuck behind the great rookie wall. Second, Dante doesn't draw fouls at all. Kobe got free throws. I remember you mentioning that, but it seems to have gotten worse lately.

I am concerned about dantes development, but I think this year is not at all about normal development for him. Hopefully we see some good signs by the end of the season, and after he has an offseason of real training at p3, we will see a more confident player. I know he has the physical gifts, he just needs the confidence. But that is a big if.
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Kobe showed everything he had his rookie season. He even had that shoulder shake baseline post up fade away as a rookie. If this is all Dante has to show then we've struck out again. I don't think it is though, he's stupid timid for some reason. It might have something to do with being overprepared/matured by his high class bball upbringing. Maybe his father has taught him to be too cautious and too much of a team player.
 
It is all he's got... Just like Kobe never got better than his rookie year, Dante will be the exact same. He'll always be a no strength streaky 3 point shooter who can't finish. We're screwed, plus we're stuck with Gobert who gets pushed out of the paint like a feather in the wind, can't finish and only occasionally blocks a shot. I'm going to stop watching.
 
freakazoid said:
The fact that you don't understand the difference screams agenda to me. You've been on this trash Exum mission for quite a while...
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I guess my "agenda" is with those that post here that somehow Exum's stats "don't matter" because he is "just 19" and/or a rookie. There are plenty of other NBA players that have put up dismal stats like Exum and were "just 19" and/or were rookies. They have a lot in common: the overwhelming majority were busts. If Exum finishes this season with a 6.6 PER and negative VORP and win-shares, and then goes on to be an all-star, his career would be one of the greatest outliers in NBA history. But hey, here's hoping.
 
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Spaniard said:
We're screwed, plus we're stuck with Gobert who gets pushed out of the paint like a feather in the wind, can't finish and only occasionally blocks a shot.
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Gobert was actually good as a rookie, nevermind Corbin didn't play him. He put up a 12.9 PER, and he even drew 5.4 FTA per 36min. Exum is getting a comical 1.1 FTA per 36min, and that has somehow been dropping.

Keep trying.
 
franklin said:
Kobe showed everything he had his rookie season. He even had that shoulder shake baseline post up fade away as a rookie. If this is all Dante has to show then we've struck out again. I don't think it is though, he's stupid timid for some reason. It might have something to do with being overprepared/matured by his high class bball upbringing. Maybe his father has taught him to be too cautious and too much of a team player.
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Admittedly, this is my main memory of rookie Kobe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSe80qSgXVA

I don't remember much else. I could not see Dante doing this though, and that is a bad thing. Hopefully Dante would have the guts to take those shots if we needed him to.
 
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