IST: NBA Finals Thread: Thunder VS Heat

[FirstTimer]

Being lazy when it comes to typing out my thoughts on an internet forum =/= "being terrible at using words." PS- The word structuring of "being terrible at using words" would make any English teacher cringe.

PPS- If I know jack-shit then I wouldn't have picked Miami to win the series and said that they are the better rebounding team.

1. That doesn't really mean a lot. I know plenty of stupid people that have made correct "picks". You're like the girl winning the NCAA office pool based on picking teams with pretty colors.

2. Your reasoning for it sucked. Also, find where I claimed that OKC was the better rebounding team as you stated earlier? :rofl:

 

[clonetrooper264]

40>10

you don't have to go through 500 pages

you're jokes are bad and you should feel bad

I actually don't mind scrolling through a few pages. :dunno:

And my jokes are hilarious...you just have no sense of humor. :elephant:

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

Maybe you could've saved us all grief and server space by just saying that "Player X was assigned to match up with Player Y but obviously it wasn't working because Player Y was scoring all kinds of points, so now Player Z was brought in as a hopefully better matchup"... :lol:

this..i'm pretty much done with this argument because i've said what is needed to have been said

the whole point is that thabo doesn't play PF on defense, there isn't a separate 1-5 position on D

it's nitpicky..but it's important to know

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

I actually don't mind scrolling through a few pages. :dunno:

And my jokes are hilarious...you just have no sense of humor. :elephant:

well i can't argue with :elephant:

you found my weakness....well done sir

 

[Rice Cube]

this..i'm pretty much done with this argument because i've said what is needed to have been said

the whole point is that thabo doesn't play PF on defense, there isn't a separate 1-5 position on D

it's nitpicky..but it's important to know

...and knowing is half the battle.

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

I didn't know that, thanks :lol:

 

[BNB]

40>10

you don't have to go through 500 pages

you're jokes are bad and you should feel bad

 

[RamiTheBullsFan]

there really isn't a defense that even assigns you to a 1-5 position(zone kind of depending on the variation, but zone is not thought of as PG,SG,SF,PF, and C)

again, in man to man you are assigned to a person, not a position

you're trying to circumvent by playing the semantics card..

i've done it too, trust me

That is all relative. Some things generally don't change- power forward and centers gather most of the rebounds. Especially when it comes to big positions, you want to assign a defender to a person based on other reasons other than straight-up man-to-man defense. Putting Ibaka or even Nick Collison on LeBron James could have gotten OKC plenty of second-chance opportunities and elimated a lot of James'/Bosh's offensive rebounds (along with being able to play better interior defense as a team by having a second shot-blocker/contest-er on the court.

For a scorer like LeBron James, it is tough to say that you want to put a player on him for reasons other than preventing him from scoring/generating offense but that is what I believe Scott Brooks should've done. It could've very well (at least indirectly) stopped/stalled Miami from scoring.

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

I have to seriously question whether Rami has ever played, coached, participated in, etc any sort of basketball structure.

I have no idea how someone can have such absurd ideas about the game.

Pretty impressive to think that during all my years of watching, teaching, and playing screen and rolls that during my hedge out I went from being one position to another in a matter of nano seconds..then back again, depending if we switched.

It seems I was even more versatile than Boris Diaw.

Impossible.

 

[clonetrooper264]

Bring forth the grammar police!

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

you are jokes?


dude...if only my life was a series of punch lines

like a comic strip...except without the extemporaneous attempt to be pretentiously sophisticated

 

[clonetrooper264]

you are jokes?


dude...if only my life was a series of punch lines

like a comic strip...except without the extemporaneous attempt to be pretentiously sophisticated

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

Never heard "play power forward on defense"

definitely heard "guard your man on defense" or "switch off"

defense isn't positional lol

the basketball position labels used derive from their offensive purposes...the position is difficult to define defensively because it doesn't really exist

Most defensive plays predicate on flexible strategy, where guys might have to continually switch off or help in reaction...there's no real position on defense...

The whole positional part of basketball has kind of gone by the wayside, imo, no need to really designate anybody as anything.

 

[Deng Defense Force]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pbrgc7zaLvs/Tv4u83_t20I/AAAAAAAAA6U/E_OZBBuhAdE/s1600/i-dont-know-what-the-****-is-going-on.jpg

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXxH_8Ep_ms[/ame]

 

[RamiTheBullsFan]

this..i'm pretty much done with this argument because i've said what is needed to have been said

the whole point is that thabo doesn't play PF on defense, there isn't a separate 1-5 position on D

it's nitpicky..but it's important to know

Well, in all fairness, Thabo was assigned to a player who was doing what PF's are supposed to do offensively. LBJ was posting up, over-powering, and even in some cutting action off of the pick-and-roll (and grabbing offensive rebounds and scoring easily off of them). Thabo is not best served being assigned to a player at the PF position which is what I was saying. He is better guarding (purely) perimeter players for more reasons than one.

 

[clonetrooper264]

Well, in all fairness, Thabo was assigned to a player who was doing what PF's are supposed to do offensively. LBJ was posting up, over-powering, and even in some cutting action off of the pick-and-roll (and grabbing offensive rebounds and scoring easily off of them). Thabo is not best served being assigned to a player at the PF position which is what I was saying. He is better guarding (purely) perimeter players for more reasons than one.

So when Chauncey Billups posted up guard was he a PF because he did what PF's did by posting up and overpowering weaker guards? By your logic he would be.

 

[RamiTheBullsFan]

The whole positional part of basketball has kind of gone by the wayside, imo, no need to really designate anybody as anything.

Not really true. The game as a whole has become more perimeter-oriented but it isn't all just a helter-skelter mesh.

 

[RamiTheBullsFan]

So when Chauncey Billups posted up guard was he a PF because he did what PF's did by posting up and overpowering weaker guards? By your logic he would be.

Well, no because generally if a PG or SG is posting up then that is apart of isolation offense anyway. There are still generally at least two players on the court who are battling for position on the boards who would fall closer to the PF/C position in their role.

 

[inactiveuser1]

1. That doesn't really mean a lot. I know plenty of stupid people that have made correct "picks". You're like the girl winning the NCAA office pool based on picking teams with pretty colors.2. Your reasoning for it sucked. Also, find where I claimed that OKC was the better rebounding team as you stated earlier? :rofl:

For about the past 5-10 minutes i've been searching youtube for a clip of that SNL skit where they pick the bracket pool and the chick with no substance behind her picks wins it all. I couldn't find it. i suck

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pbrgc7zaLvs/Tv4u83_t20I/AAAAAAAAA6U/E_OZBBuhAdE/s1600/i-dont-know-what-the-****-is-going-on.jpg

What the **** is going on? - American dad - YouTube

:lmao:

 

[BNB]

you are jokes?


dude...if only my life was a series of punch lines

like a comic strip...except without the extemporaneous attempt to be pretentiously sophisticated

I was pointing our your error... not correcting you