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

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im curious if matt armstrong even thinks tim duncan is a power forward or he was just super psyched to point out that duncan often tho not nearly always played with guys who were roughly his size

his size is C btw

im curious if matt armstrong even thinks tim duncan is a power forward or he was just super psyched to point out that duncan often tho not nearly always played with guys who were roughly his size

I believe he is a player who has played the majority of his career at power forward and to argue that this somehow doesn't mean he's a power forward is...... Pedantic!?!?!?

i dont think its true that hes played the majority of his career at pf especially when u consider defense, i think it would be more accurate to say he often played in unusually large line ups where it was unclear who was the center then the rest of the time he played center

also he is center sized and his game fits the mold generally associated with an nba center

anyway matt i wld like to apologize for any and all personal comments i made itt, that was uncalled for and i didnt really mean it i just let my frustration get the best of me which is sad lame

sad and lame

Camby v. Duncan

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/07/sports/college-basketball-camby-sparks-umass-victory.html

i dont think its true that hes played the majority of his career at pf especially when u consider defense, i think it would be more accurate to say he often played in unusually large line ups where it was unclear who was the center then the rest of the time he played center

When I think of Tiago, Rasho, d rob, Nazr I do not think of them guarding PFs more than duncan did. Maybe Tiago because he's fairly versatile. I mean who guarded KG all those years?

anyway matt i wld like to apologize for any and all personal comments i made itt, that was uncalled for and i didnt really mean it i just let my frustration get the best of me which is sad lame

It's cool man

cool

i dont recall who guarded kg but just speculating usually spurs usually had a smaller line up they cld use to account for someone like him, duncan chasing kg around the perimeter is not exactly ideal, not saying he didnt do it but if he did he wld be... playing out of position

I'm willing to listen to the argument that he's a center who played out of position, but people don't acknowledge the can of worms this opens. Bird was only a 3 because Auerbach got Mchale and Parish, magic only a 1 because of imaginative coaching etc.

Magic also played some center iirc

Andre Drummond had 22 and 27 with 17 OREB

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2015/03/11/stabbing-reported-boston-celtics-game/ZN2ObRuWFnu5W4YAKNur4O/story.html

Apparently they were arguging about whether Tim Duncan was a Center or aP ower Forward

both wearing rondo jerseys

I'm willing to listen to the argument that he's a center who played out of position, but people don't acknowledge the can of worms this opens. Bird was only a 3 because Auerbach got Mchale and Parish, magic only a 1 because of imaginative coaching etc.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, March 12, 2015 1:43 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

duncan obvs had some positional flexibility as do many players, which is and undervalued skill imo, but even when he was "playing power forward" he still played like a center, and had the body of one, and the disposition, the hair line, is a center

bird wldve been a pretty unconventional pf for his day fwiw w all his shooting distributing and ball handling skills

both wearing rondo jerseys

― lag∞n, Thursday, March 12, 2015 10:56 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://deadspin.com/video-brawl-leads-to-man-being-stabbed-at-celtics-game-1690979217

was prob a intra-gang leadership struggle

noel is good at d http://grantland.com/the-triangle/nerlens-noel-the-other-rookie-of-the-year

big question i see w him is he has the body of a pf hes really quite slight but his best offensive role is prob as an exclusively roll man like tyson chandler which is more of a center thing, hes def a game changer on D either way tho

maybe it doesnt matter but its just hard to imagine him handling say marc gasol one on one

embiid can shoot so maybe they can make it work

dang whats up with manu's stomach gastroenteritis sucks

big question i see w him is he has the body of a pf hes really quite slight but his best offensive role is prob as an exclusively roll man like tyson chandler which is more of a center thing, hes def a game changer on D either way tho

― lag∞n, Thursday, March 12, 2015 11:59 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe it doesnt matter but its just hard to imagine him handling say marc gasol one on one

― lag∞n, Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:00 PM (1 hour ago)

they can always just trade him lol

get some draft picks

Grizz resting everyone but jeff green tonight lol

Way to bone the tnt game man straight out of the pop playbook

http://i60.tinypic.com/357hg90.jpg
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lol nice

Shved vs. Lin tonight, the future vs. the past

the future of, like, bad vs. the past of unsustainable-but-entertaining-while-it-lasted good?

Shvedsanity will never end

Juiceman thing is !!!!!!!!!

smh lin is so much better than shved

SMH = Shaking My sHved

Lin had his doubters too. Enjoy the ride.

yeah and he's not good right now, and is still better than alexy fucking shved

I can tell you like championing underrated/unsung players man but this one seems like it will not end well! idk but to each his/her own of course

he just lost a big chunk of change cos of him!

Yeah I'm just joshing, we all know how shved is

Drew Gooden about to show out on national tv y'all

Feel like spurs-cavs should be good

both teams playing well yeah

yeah i'm stoked for that one

Gobert with a double double in the first quarter

lebron is so bald

the headband-less lebron thing is so disorienting

It's weird I had a hard time picking him out for a second