*** Official 2015-16 NBA Regular Season Thread ***
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Like everyone else, I love LaVine's athleticism. But he's so raw, even after one year in the league. The Wolves need to decide if he's a point guard or shooting guard, because he's going to need a ton of reps at one or the other just to develop into a good NBA player.
You guys seen DeAndre Jordan this year? Looks like he actually understands basketball. He has probably been working on his passing with Blake.
I would give him every opportunity to develop, or fail, at pg this year. It's really the perfect time for it, if it doesn't work out, all the experience he has had as a primary ball handler will benefit him as a secondary ball handler at the two. If it costs you some wins that year, well I don't really think that's a bad thing. If Towns is as legit as he's looked through the absurdly small sample size thus far, their timetable to compete in the West just got moved up a year or two. Grab one more high lottery pick, with tons of cap space to fill out the roster with solid veteran roll players and you can push for the eighth spot in 16-17 and then seriously compete starting the following year.
I agree. I think if he has a future in the league it's at the point. Problem is that Rubio is in the first year of a four year extension and he's been playing really well. So if LaVine needs heavy reps at the position, then what to do with Rubio?
Rubio has had enough of an injury history that I think you can justify playing him 28-30 mins a night without much of an issue. LaVine can get 15-20 mins a night at pg, and another 5-10 alongside Rubio. Based on their recent history though, I think the T'Wolves will be much more aggressive about trying to win games this year than I would be if I was in the front office.
130? Yikes! Looks like the Revenge of the Windmill Dunk Whiffer against Hoiberg. He had 20 off the bench.
"We ain't been playing no defense," a frustrated Butler said after the game. "Other teams have just been missing shots to tell you the truth, to be honest. [Shoot] we score enough points, that's not the problem. But when you don't stop nobody, they put up 130 or whatever they did, we got to nip that in the bud now because that's not winning basketball. It will never be winning basketball here and it never has been winning basketball here. We've always prided ourself on playing hard and not being pretty. Tonight, we were pretty, we were soft. Got our ***** whipped."
sounds familiar.
sounds familiar.
He was awesome...25 and 29. Too bad nobody else showed up for Detroit. The Pacers got their first win of the season. The small ball era in Indy is off to a slow start. Unless Myles Turner develops faster than expected and is able to move into the starting lineup to give them some size and offense, they're going to struggle all season with the transition to the small ball lineup. Turner's looked better than I expected so far.