pretty funny to think about a year ago people were talking about there being SEVERAL franchise players in that draft tho, lol
altho tbf it's hard to judge after just half a season. rookies are becoming less and less impactful in today's NBA. someone on ESPN (i think it was thorpe) hypothesized that AAU had turned into a glorified pickup circuit, and with the one and done rule, college doesn't really teach guys NBA skills, so the learning curve is steeper these days
― k3vin k., Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:12 (nine years ago) link
idk guys used to come out of high school
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:13 (nine years ago) link
rookies usually just arent too good
but i mean rookies ALL suck now, it's weird
― k3vin k., Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:14 (nine years ago) link
aau argument is odd as players are so much more skilled than theyve ever been
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:15 (nine years ago) link
i remember lillard was great straight out of college but he was a 4 year player and has obv improved significantly since then
― Clay, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:16 (nine years ago) link
"You cannot direspect the caterpillar and rave about the butterfly." --Mark Jackson
― polyphonic, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:16 (nine years ago) link
nba transition is probably easier for bigs than wings too
when's the last time a rookie was an impact player? chris paul?
xp duh dame was pretty good
― k3vin k., Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:16 (nine years ago) link
griffin was pretty good in his first healthy season
― polyphonic, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:17 (nine years ago) link
kyrie too
― k3vin k., Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:17 (nine years ago) link
nba game is more complex than its ever been but im not convinced rookies are so much worse than theyve been since guys started regularly coming into the league young, rookies who contribute have always been the exception and the ones who put up big numbers are always chucking on bad teams
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:18 (nine years ago) link
dame was ooold his 1st season tho
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:19 (nine years ago) link
roy was too
― Spottie, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:21 (nine years ago) link
wld benefit both the pro and college games to raise the age limit a year
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:21 (nine years ago) link
smh no
― k3vin k., Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:22 (nine years ago) link
it wld!
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:22 (nine years ago) link
Do not speak ill of the dead
― 龜, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:22 (nine years ago) link
rip
― Spottie, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:23 (nine years ago) link
yeah was gonna bring up roy, but he's another 4 year guy.
durant, lebron, anthony, wade all had big rookie years obv
― Clay, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:23 (nine years ago) link
I feel like we're all living in an alternate reality since the Booker shot
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:24 (nine years ago) link
durant was p awful tbh
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:24 (nine years ago) link
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, January 9, 2015 11:24 PM (19 seconds ago)
yeah it's weird how more is not being made of this
― k3vin k., Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:24 (nine years ago) link
durant just pulled a booker every time he touched the ball his rookie year iirc
― Spottie, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:25 (nine years ago) link
was he? my memory could deceive me b/c i spent that entire season deluding myself into thinking oden would come back from having microfracture at 19 and be just fine xp
― Clay, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:25 (nine years ago) link
Love gonna drop a 20-20 here
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:27 (nine years ago) link
this gonna be one of those games where cleve hangs in then the dubs score 14pts in 50 seconds and its over
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:30 (nine years ago) link
mhm
― k3vin k., Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:31 (nine years ago) link
kyrie really needs to not jack those early shot clock threes like he's steph or dame
he is not
― Clay, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:36 (nine years ago) link
what happened to sage steele?
― Clay, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:44 (nine years ago) link
lol
https://vine.co/v/OpPi0bK2mjZ
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:48 (nine years ago) link
:D
― Spottie, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:48 (nine years ago) link
okay i am climbing on board this nurkic train
― Clay, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:51 (nine years ago) link
who
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:53 (nine years ago) link
mike jones
― brosario nawson (m bison), Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:59 (nine years ago) link
who?
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:59 (nine years ago) link
the variety of incredulous sarcastic hand movements kevin loves uses to complain to the refs is p funny
suns really squandered a big game tonight. Spurs needed that one bad
― Spottie, Saturday, 10 January 2015 05:00 (nine years ago) link
suns held the spurs to 10 in the third and gave up 41 in the fourth
wow monster block by bogut on mozzy's slam attempt
― k3vin k., Saturday, 10 January 2015 05:06 (nine years ago) link
ya sick v strong
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 January 2015 05:07 (nine years ago) link
klay nose broke blood everywhere
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 January 2015 05:15 (nine years ago) link
ugh
― Spottie, Saturday, 10 January 2015 05:16 (nine years ago) link
jackson complaining about the warriors firing him from the booth, nice look for everyone involved
― Clay, Saturday, 10 January 2015 05:34 (nine years ago) link
it's actually weird espn would let jackson do a warriors game
gave em a story is all
― Spottie, Saturday, 10 January 2015 05:35 (nine years ago) link
i just fought @haralabob and won
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 January 2015 05:36 (nine years ago) link
are you at war with all of the nba's twitter elite
― Clay, Saturday, 10 January 2015 05:37 (nine years ago) link
its my mission
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 January 2015 05:39 (nine years ago) link
your definition of tons was a little liberal tho
― k3vin k., Saturday, 10 January 2015 05:39 (nine years ago) link