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cyclonenum1

cyclonenum1

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For those of you that like to say they never play defense in the NBA, I hope you watched game 7 last night...tremendous defensive effort by both teams.

I will grant you that the defense during the regular season is pretty hit and miss. But frankly, the defense during the playoffs is really good...especially by the teams that are winning and advancing.

I really don't watch much NBA during the regular season but I do watch as much of the playoffs as I can because the quality of the players and the play is so tremendous.

I guess it would be far too much to expect the sort of effort and intensity we saw last night over the entire season...I think they said last night that the game was the 114th of the season for the Lakers...that is a bunch of games for one season.
 
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Game 7 is worth watching the NBA. The rest are not. I'd rather have pre season NFL.
 
cyclonenum1 said:
For those of you that like to say they never play defense in the NBA, I hope you watched game 7 last night...tremendous defensive effort by both teams.

I will grant you that the defense during the regular season is pretty hit and miss. But frankly, the defense during the playoffs is really good...especially by the teams that are winning and advancing.

I really don't watch much NBA during the regular season but I do watch as much of the playoffs as I can because the quality of the players and the play is so tremendous.

I guess it would be far too much to expect the sort of effort and intensity we saw last night over the entire season...I think they said last night that the game was the 114th of the season for the Lakers...that is a bunch of games for one season.
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I think people underestimate how offensively talented NBA players are. When you watch a Kobe or any "scorer" very seldom do they get "easy" looks." I just think that defense is something that an individual levels off at while offense can always be improved.
 
While the defense did play a factor, neither team shot the ball worth a crap. I know you could say that it was due to good defense, but they were missing a lot of wide open looks too.
 
yaman3 said:
I think people underestimate how offensively talented NBA players are. When you watch a Kobe or any "scorer" very seldom do they get "easy" looks." I just think that defense is something that an individual levels off at while offense can always be improved.
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This.

I've been saying this for a while now. The players are just THAT good on offense.
 
The_Architect said:
This.

I've been saying this for a while now. The players are just THAT good on offense.
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you cant give 1 million percent effort on d every day during the long reg season or you will not have legs in the playoffs... they play great d, and yes the offense is just that good... think of all the best players you watch in college, and around the world on the same floor.
 
yaman3 said:
Dwight Howard is doing a pretty good job basically just playing defense. Ron Artest made a career of defense. Dennis Rodman as well. Dikembe Mutombo.
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Nice careers yes, superstars? Household names because of their defense? Probably not.
 
3TrueFans said:
Nice careers yes, superstars? Household names because of their defense? Probably not.
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I would say that Mutombo and Rodman were. I don't know about Howard but I think it is known he hasn't shown a great offensive game and he has made is name through being a beast on the boards and on defense.
 
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Sorry about the change of subject, but take a look at KAJ in the back of the group. He doesn't look very happy does he?
 
yaman3 said:
I would say that Mutombo and Rodman were. I don't know about Howard but I think it is known he hasn't shown a great offensive game and he has made is name through being a beast on the boards and on defense.
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Rodman maybe, but it's hard to distinguish between fame from his game and fame from him being a nutjob. Dwight Howard maybe, but if you ask average people about the NBA none of them are going to talk to you about Dwight Howards monster defense.
 
I don't know why people claim the NBA doesn't play defense. Why do you think slow players can't make it in the NBA even if they are amazing shooters? Because they can't play defense and they can't get their shot off at that level.
 
The biggest winner last night was Ron Artest's post game speech.

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As good as the defense was last night, I still thought both teams were pressing on offense. In earlier games in the series, there was fluid offense with a lot of motion. The Lakers too often last night were content with letting Kobe do something and it wasn't until the 4th quarter that they opened up their spacing.

The Celtics were killing the Lakers with the drive and kick game, and then they completely abandoned it to a post up. IMO, Ray Allen should have touched the ball on every possession in the 4th.

The game was very entertaining, but it was a little sloppy and scrappy (probably because of the D).
 
NBA Defense >>>>>> College Defense

Not all teams but a majority of them play great defense. Scoring in the NBA isn't as high as it use to be and yet people make ridiculous claims about how they no longer watch the NBA because they don't play defense like they use to! How does that make sense when teams score a lot fewer points?!
 
Here's the thing about the NBA. People always complain about the lack of defense, but when a team like Detroit in '04 or any of the Spurs teams win titles, nobody watches and they say they can't stand the boring, slow-down style of play.

I quit listening to NBA haters a long time ago because they don't even watch the games, so there's no reason to waste words with them. It's a great sport with great players that has gotten away from the thugery (Heat/Knicks) and too young "stars" of the 90s. The last 3-5 years has really been a resurgence and renaissance of what the NBA should be, and with guys like D-Wade, Lebron, Dwight Howard and CP3 taking the reigns, I think a lot of fans that left the game will slowly return to it over the next five years.
 
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