It is the years 2018-19 in the National Basketball Association (NBA) - The Regular Season

Opposing defenses have always sagged off Draymond Green, but, starting in Utah the other night, they're taking it to an extreme. This is before four misses today. pic.twitter.com/jUILAe1XUx

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) December 26, 2018

I was so right about Zubac

lonzo shoots from the wrong side of his head

― lag∞n, Tuesday, December 25, 2018 10:33 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Continue to wonder if the real diagnosis for a lot of these favorite oddshot players is due to cross eye dominance that forces them to mangle their shooting form (and keeps them from managing / changing). A few players, Larry Bird and LeBron IIRC, have always shot with their off-hand, which I think accounts for Bird's funky over-the-head form, which just kept his hands/ball outside out of his field of vision, rather than just trying to evade a shot-block; Bron's shooting has improved the higher his shot release has gotten over the years as well.

Not sure how effective dominant eye training is, but wonder if at some point NBA teams/players might invest in having an optometrist around. Like, it's no suprise that Ben Simmons is cross dominant as well, as are a ton of the other disgusting shooters.

Also very curious if there's ever been a more competitive conference over a season than this year's WC. Almost at the halfway point and basically every non-Suns team is not only in contention for the playoffs but honestly also within striking distance of Golden State (Pellies only 7.5g back atm).

yeah well

76ers center Joel Embiid: ‘I don’t like shooting 3s’ https://t.co/43AQNqVcEE

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) December 26, 2018

simmons really fucks up phillys whole ability to scheme

they cld eat off the jimmy/joel pnr except theres a guy on the court the defense can cheat off of so instead they use the stagnant laborious embiid post up and hes exhausted by the 4th quarter

he really shd be the best (or second best) roll man in the league but philly runs the pnr the least of anyone

#tradesimmons

literally their point guard cant do the pnr cause he cant shoot

A few players, Larry Bird and LeBron IIRC, have always shot with their off-hand, which I think accounts for Bird's funky over-the-head form, which just kept his hands/ball outside out of his field of vision, rather than just trying to evade a shot-block;

― ヽ（´ー｀）┌ (CompuPost), Wednesday, December 26, 2018 11:18 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was just thinking about birds funky off center form, stockton shot his 3s over his shoulder too, fwiw using yr off hand as more than just a guide aka thumbing is way more common in good shooters than the purists wld have u think, just watched a bunch of birds shots and he def didnt do it all the time more of a situational adjustment which also give the lie to the shoot the same all the time rule which is ridiculous as it doesnt account for context like yr gonna need to do different stuff to get a shot off in different situations

i do get some scott brooks/OKC vibes off the way the sixers play at the end of games, but brett brown is in an unenviable situation in that regard in several ways

yeah good chance this is his last season w the team not sure its his fault tho

i mean this is their bench

https://i.imgur.com/nkU963I.png

celtics werent guarding mcconnell from 3 either

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--njRMffTK--/c_fill,fl_progressive,g_center,h_900,q_80,w_1600/wnt79mde5ooqfbkzptyq.jpg

#tradesimmons

― lag∞n, Wednesday, December 26, 2018 12:10 PM (fifty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what if they traded simmons and some stuff for KD and dray

butler-joel-kd-dray wld be an incredible collection of lunatics ill give u that

and simmons wld actually be perfect on the dubs.......

i find it hard to believe that a better and/or more creative coach couldn't work around ben simmons' shooting deficiencies in late game half court situations. and work to his strengths too!

the one thing i will allow brown tho is that most star players don't actually want to run plays at the end of games, and he has three of them. for as much as embiid will gripe about being a floor spacer he just wants the ball in the post at the end of games which is a bad play also. and jimmy just wants to iso and shoot a fade away, which is not great either. good luck to brett brown.

simmons just like isnt a good halfcourt player, sorry!

and simmons wld actually be perfect on the dubs.......

― lag∞n, Wednesday, December 26, 2018 1:09 PM (twelve minutes ago)

yeah I know I've been thinking about this for like a week

*if he cld play center hed prob be good as a roll man, not sure why philly doesnt try using him that way some, cld just run some plays he doesnt have to actually be "playing" center, tho he is an utter farce as at point guard in a set offense

there's gotta be be plenty of ways to initiate good offense with ben simmons handling the ball in the halfcourt that don't start off with him stationary dribbling the ball above the 3 point line waiting for a pick and roll, imo

maybe but the already difficult situation is compounded by the fact that hes not their only player who doesnt shoot good

this is true... they need to find a saric replacement who is better than muscala

on the play in between the two kyrie overtime threes simmons gets the ball on the baseline w the shot clock winding down and just pointlessly holds it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79jjX_gfBfQ

hubie "cmon you have ta"

nagl for serge

Hassan Whiteside, The PG 👀pic.twitter.com/FlY9eX4uf4

— MyNBAUpdate (@MyNBAUpdate) December 27, 2018

OG anunoby is impressive

i find it hard to believe that a better and/or more creative coach couldn't work around ben simmons' shooting deficiencies in late game half court situations. and work to his strengths too!

Totally. Do the Sixers run post-ups for Simmons now that they can use Butler up top yet? Simmons has such a nice bunny hook game with both hands iirc, seems like they could rack up some points. Even if he'll never be a better shooter than, say, Rondo, there must be sets they can run that don't give teams the option of sagging off of him at any point.

When Lowe talked to Brooke Lopez a few weeks ago, Lowe asked him if he was a bit sad about launching 50 3s a game now and not banging down low. Kinda cool that Embiid would rather bang inside.

Embiid is full of shit about this

Probably wouldn't be talking like that if he were shooting 10% better :/

Wish Jamal Murray could shoot

At a certain point Monte Morris is the best guard on the nuggets

justice winslow doin stuff

winslow did some stuff in that game i didn’t think he could do

the raptors are good

compelling end 4th qtr brklyn/char, going ot

Wish Jamal Murray could shoot

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, December 26, 2018 9:08 PM (fifty-seven minutes ago)

I'm worried about him, he's been genuinely awful this year

I see jokic is having another one of those games where he doesn't score

lmao clock malfunction end of 2nd ot nets/hornets

great nets win jeez

If Jamal Murray can’t shoot what is he

amal murray ldo

lol

Kudos

we got a good one in houston tonight

some kinda game for sure

celtics are losing the bench minutes which is nagl

horford might be washed idk