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Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Everything's Coming Up Minhouse

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 10:35 am
by delgriffith
Lowe has Shabazz(le Dazzle) in his 10 Things: http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/22146666/zach-lowe-10-things-like-including-other-clippers-nba

LeBron's draft pick has finally come into his own after Miami and Orlando gave him away for literally zero basketball assets. (You could make a decent team from guys the Magic lost for nothing over the last five years.) Napier is shooting 48 percent overall, and 43 percent from deep -- career highs by a mile -- and slicing into the lane with a speedy new confidence.

Like Kemba Walker, Napier has discovered that his most obvious limitation -- his height -- can be an advantage. He scrunches through double-teams on the pick-and-roll, hunching so low as he skitters through traffic that he almost vanishes.

This is like the inverse of DeAndre Jordan's vertical spacing. Jordan and his ilk extend the terms of engagement 2 and 3 feet above the rim, where only they can reach. Napier takes the game down to toddler height, where bigger guys can't reach him -- and he can still scan the floor for teammates.

The craft has translated to his shooting. Napier has hit 63 percent of shots within the restricted area after failing to crack even 46 percent -- hideous for a player of any size -- in any prior season.

Napier's leap has unlocked some fun new lineups for Terry Stotts. The Blazers have outscored opponents by 22 points per 100 possessions in 140 with C.J. McCollum, Damian Lillard, and Napier on the floor, 30th among almost 1,900 trios who have logged at least 100 minutes together, per NBA.com. (Seven of the 29 above them are combinations of Golden State players.)


Maybe I was wrong!
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Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Everything's Coming Up Minhouse

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 10:39 am
by Eyeball Kid
You would be forgiven for ignoring the 2017-18 Orlando Magic. They're bad, injured, and not all that entertaining -- a crushing outcome after a promising 6-2 start. But you're missing out on David Steele and Jeff Turner, emerging as one of the league's best all-around announce teams.

They know the game, and they entertain without resorting to exaggerated fake-laughter or the sort of shrill homerism that infects too many League Pass broadcasts.

My favorite new touch: "Is This Anything?" -- a parlor game Steele concocted before the season. In researching each opponent, Steele has a knack for unearthing weird statistical nuggets. The production crew would debate their significance. They decided to incorporate those debates into the broadcast. They just needed a name. The rhetorical "Is This Anything?" was an inside joke in the Steele household, something Steele thinks he subconsciously lifted from David Letterman's skit of the same name.

The Magic version borrows much of Letterman's absurdism. Steele picks some tidbit -- the number of games in which Marreese Speights canned a triple within one minute of entering, Zaza Pachulia's career 0-of-26 mark from deep -- and he and Turner debate over whether it is, in fact, anything. When they are done, the production truck renders a verdict: They ring a bell if Steele has found something, or sound a "Family Feud"-style buzzer if Steele's discovery amounts to nothing.

There are no criteria, and that is part of the fun. Steele plays up a sort of deadpan, hangdog helplessness as he sits at the mercy of an inscrutable judging process. I am all for any game that stokes tongue-in-cheek tension among a broadcast crew. That kind of melodrama has made "Who Am I?" must-watch TV for years on the Nets broadcast.

"It gives us something to talk about in what is becoming another long season," Steele says.


I love David Steele and Jeff Turner

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Everything's Coming Up Minhouse

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 10:42 am
by delgriffith
I know Eyeball Kid repped the Magic broadcast earlier in the season, and I remember enjoying snippets of games I heard during that hot start to the season, but this is amazing:

You would be forgiven for ignoring the 2017-18 Orlando Magic. They're bad, injured, and not all that entertaining -- a crushing outcome after a promising 6-2 start. But you're missing out on David Steele and Jeff Turner, emerging as one of the league's best all-around announce teams.

They know the game, and they entertain without resorting to exaggerated fake-laughter or the sort of shrill homerism that infects too many League Pass broadcasts.

My favorite new touch: "Is This Anything?" -- a parlor game Steele concocted before the season. In researching each opponent, Steele has a knack for unearthing weird statistical nuggets. The production crew would debate their significance. They decided to incorporate those debates into the broadcast. They just needed a name. The rhetorical "Is This Anything?" was an inside joke in the Steele household, something Steele thinks he subconsciously lifted from David Letterman's skit of the same name.

The Magic version borrows much of Letterman's absurdism. Steele picks some tidbit -- the number of games in which Marreese Speights canned a triple within one minute of entering, Zaza Pachulia's career 0-of-26 mark from deep -- and he and Turner debate over whether it is, in fact, anything. When they are done, the production truck renders a verdict: They ring a bell if Steele has found something, or sound a "Family Feud"-style buzzer if Steele's discovery amounts to nothing.

There are no criteria, and that is part of the fun. Steele plays up a sort of deadpan, hangdog helplessness as he sits at the mercy of an inscrutable judging process. I am all for any game that stokes tongue-in-cheek tension among a broadcast crew. That kind of melodrama has made "Who Am I?" must-watch TV for years on the Nets broadcast.

"It gives us something to talk about in what is becoming another long season," Steele says.

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Everything's Coming Up Minhouse

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 10:43 am
by delgriffith
Oh :lol:

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Is This Anything?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 10:53 am
by WAC
You fucked up big time, Del

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Is This Anything?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 10:56 am
by delgriffith

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Is This Anything?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 10:59 am
by nakedlunch
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Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Is This Anything?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 11:04 am
by Bjornie
Came in to post this :(

delgriffith wrote:

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Is This Anything?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 11:07 am
by Hugh
That dude deserves a better team

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Is This Anything?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 11:07 am
by delgriffith
Sorry Bernie.

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Is This Anything?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 11:08 am
by delgriffith
I hope you get a good return for him.

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Everything's Coming Up Minhouse

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 11:08 am
by whatabout tim
tonybricker wrote:
delgriffith wrote:Boogie & AD both making the West starters is a bit :? When was the last time a team just above .500 had two starters in the All-Star game? In the West, no less.

I don't care though.


...they both deserve it though, look at their number and then look at their supporting cast. I'm not mad about it


No way boogie should be a starter

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Is This Anything?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 11:11 am
by Lucky
Boogie should be the captain


Trading Kemba seems like the last thing the Hornets should be doing..

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Is This Anything?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 11:11 am
by Bjornie
delgriffith wrote:I hope you get a good return for him.


I would definitely take that hypothetical knicks offer. I don’t think they will let him go for much less than a decent prospect and a first round pick.

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Is This Anything?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 11:12 am
by Lucky
Get him to the Spurs if he has to go anywhere

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Is This Anything?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 11:14 am
by Eyeball Kid
Ha, I was fixing to say the Cavs are desperate for a point guard upgrade

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Is This Anything?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 11:30 am
by Bjornie
Tom Cruise wrote:
Trading Kemba seems like the last thing the Hornets should be doing..


It has more to do with his upcoming free agency and getting maximum return before they lose him and get nothing

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Is This Anything?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 11:35 am
by WAC
I didn't realize Kemba is the sixth highest paid player on the Hornets. I'm curious to see if they try to maximize the return or sacrifice some of it to dump one of these contracts, or which team would even be willing/able to do that.


Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Is This Anything?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 11:39 am
by Bjornie
if they also want to dump a contract then they’re probably going to have to find a third team

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Is This Anything?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 11:42 am
by swamp angel
oof that batum deal. hope he can get healthy; i can't believe he's only 29, it feels like he's been in the league forever.

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Is This Anything?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 11:44 am
by Lucky
Bernie wrote:
Tom Cruise wrote:
Trading Kemba seems like the last thing the Hornets should be doing..


It has more to do with his upcoming free agency and getting maximum return before they lose him and get nothing


Would he leave rather than sign a max contract? I thought he was building a house there

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Is This Anything?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 12:03 pm
by Milquetoaster Strudels
I want Kemba but I have no idea what the Wolves could possibly offer. Teague/OKC 1st and 2 future first rounders? I imagine they would have to take back that Batum deal.

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Is This Anything?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 12:07 pm
by chandler
why would the cavs want a(nother) ball dominant guard

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Is This Anything?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 12:16 pm
by Bjornie
Yeah there is no way the Cavs want Kemba.

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Is This Anything?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 12:19 pm
by delgriffith
Milquetoaster Strudels wrote:I want Kemba but I have no idea what the Wolves could possibly offer. Teague/OKC 1st and 2 future first rounders? I imagine they would have to take back that Batum deal.

Hey man, better late than never on Batum to the Wolves.

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Is This Anything?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 12:39 pm
by chandler
what teams do we think would seriously be interested in kemba

spurs?
knicks? (lol @ having 60 mil tied up through 2019-2020 season to lee, noah, hardaway, thomas)
clippers?
miami?

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Is This Anything?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 12:48 pm
by Bjornie
Why would Miami be interested in Kemba?

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Is This Anything?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 12:51 pm
by chandler
pretty big upgrade to dragic imo, but they would have to move that contract and don't have a pick so

the market for him is going to be pretty small i guess

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Is This Anything?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 12:54 pm
by Bjornie
I would say teams that will probably have a lot of interest are:
Knicks
New Orleans
Detroit
Indiana

Maybe the Spurs, Clippers, and Wolves

Re: NBA 2017-18 Thread: Is This Anything?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 1:02 pm
by chandler
NOP and Indy have a ton of money locked up for years at the PG spot already. detroit is in a little better shape to move reggie but not sure it's possible