Breaking -- The human race has waived Josh Smith: 2014-15 regular season thread part 2

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shved does not seem to be what you'd call reliable for night to night moneymaking fan duel performances, idk

Nazr Mohammed: another very large human that plays close to the basket, which is weird if duncan is always the closest and biggest on court

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:21 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

u r being pedantic and also not coincidentally wrong, the spurs have used a lot of huge twin towers type lineups over the years, they have also used a lot of not twin towers lineups in which tim duncan is never the pf, but regardless duncans game is just by many factors more centerish than it is power forwardy

You said he's always the biggest and closest and it's not even close to the dawg. I mean Rasho is about as centery as it gets.

btw was just loling at "the petulant russian" tough beat matt condolences

if we are doing a bigness comparison...duncan is bigger than nazr.

You said he's always the biggest and closest and it's not even close to the dawg. I mean Rasho is about as centery as it gets.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:31 AM (7 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

youre just taking one off handed example and grinding it into the ground for some reason and its not a very good or compelling argument?

wau LMA

shved does not seem to be what you'd call reliable for night to night moneymaking fan duel performances, idk

Utah hasn't given up 90 points in like 3 months but they can't stop the guy who looks like he does harry potter cosplay

if we are doing a bigness comparison...duncan is bigger than nazr.

hollins 2.0 must have had an off night xp

man lemme tweet at nazr real quick about his weight 10 years ago hold up

You said he's always the biggest and closest and it's not even close to the dawg. I mean Rasho is about as centery as it gets.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:31 AM (7 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

youre just taking one off handed example and grinding it into the ground for some reason and its not a very good or compelling argument?

It was the entirety of your argument distinguishing Mchale and duncan. It's also not really an example in any way, it's a definitive statement about Duncan's career which is incorrect.

greatest PF ever should prob call a timeout now

blazers are playing decent defense again this is nice to see. kaman's looking spry.

hollins 2.0 must have had an off night xp

To get super dfs about it, it was probably them giving burke the spot start. Shved also hit threes which is just variance.

btw duncan is a good 4 and 5, he plays both sometimes in the same game, yall are both correct, shake hands

It was the entirety of your argument distinguishing Mchale and duncan. It's also not really an example in any way, it's a definitive statement about Duncan's career which is incorrect.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:35 AM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

now ur just making stuff up sorry u lost in pretend basketball poker but plz fool

Wasn't Nazr fat as fuck that year

hard to tell w those slimming black unis

Duncan is a guard

ive seen him run the break, hes a p good PG, he was better at it than gary neal was

he guards other guys think abt it

duncan is omnipositional

always struck me as more of a kick returner

It was the entirety of your argument distinguishing Mchale and duncan. It's also not really an example in any way, it's a definitive statement about Duncan's career which is incorrect.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:35 AM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

now ur just making stuff up sorry u lost in pretend basketball poker but plz fool

Nazr, Rasho, d rob, where are the smaller guys who "usually" play with duncan? Other than bonner there really haven't been many stretch 5s. Throw in Tiago who is a low post guy too and he's played the majority of his career with guys as big or bigger who are primarily low post players.

my main argument is DUNCAN IS A NATURAL CENTER which is obvious to anyone who either a. understands basketball or b. is not a grumpy man picking stupid fights on a message board cause he is sad about gambling

batum is doing pretty well, seems to have crawled back from that cliff edge

oberto/elson years were peak "duncan is a C" time

For whatever reason popovich thinks centers should play alongside duncan and that they should guard centers a lot.

my main argument is DUNCAN IS A NATURAL CENTER which is obvious to anyone who either a. understands basketball or b. is not a grumpy man picking stupid fights on a message board cause he is sad about gambling

Right but Mchale is a natural center too. Very similar players in fact.

im sorry duncan played in a lot of twin towers lineups i retract the part of the offhanded statement you have chosen to pedantically pick at

How lag admits defeat

idk, splitter guarded dirk, LMA, and bosh a lot, as did diaw. a lot PFs are too far from the basket for timmy. duncan spends a lot of his d effort in and around the bucket waiting for fools to try him at the rim.

batum's turned it around recently yeah, but still has off games now and then where it seems like his head isn't screwed on right. he might cost portland a loss in the playoffs just by like forgetting how to play basketball for a half xps

How lag admits defeat

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:44 AM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

matt go to bed you never considered my argument at all

idk, splitter guarded dirk, LMA, and bosh a lot, as did diaw. a lot PFs are too far from the basket for timmy. duncan spends a lot of his d effort in and around the bucket waiting for fools to try him at the rim.

― brosario nawson (m bison), Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:44 AM (51 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ i suspect matt armstrong knows this

btw i deeply regret bringing up the best pf ever argument

like i get the argt that duncan is sometimes more of a PF offensively because he does start sets on the elbow and tiago is more high post low post right in the middle, but that doesnt flow on d and duncan is usually your trad C on D and has been since forevers ago

batum's turned it around recently yeah, but still has off games now and then where it seems like his head isn't screwed on right. he might cost portland a loss in the playoffs just by like forgetting how to play basketball for a half xps

― Clay, Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:45 AM (23 seconds ago)

i like how portland continues to give him (and lillard) free reign to work out their kinks, almost have to

duncan plays center on D and his offensive game can only marginally be considered power forwardish in the largest lineups

yall seein this "the gunman" film preview right now? the movie appears to be about men with guns it is living up to its billing.

D

How lag admits defeat

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:44 AM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

matt go to bed you never considered my argument at all

Well I did and then you called it offhanded or whatever. What are the non offhanded arguments that i should focus on

I mean if you didn't want me to contest the "usually biggest and closest" thing idk maybe use an offhand tag or something

xp seems like a reasonable proposition for a film

Well I did and then you called it offhanded or whatever. What are the non offhanded arguments that i should focus on

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:49 AM (1 second ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you literally responded over and over to one sentence of about 100 ive written on this by now

#offhand so sorry you were OFFHANDED i did not intend any offhanse

pat bev is a luantic

ban beverly

It was a sentence written in direct response to me and it's incorrect now who's being pedantic

can we just talk about happy things like how good gallo looks lately

It was a sentence written in direct response to me and it's incorrect now who's being pedantic

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:52 AM (4 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its you you are being pednatic

brewer can't be stopped!