On December 15 2017 01:48 JimmiC wrote: Lavine is a young player oozing with potential. The question is whether or not he will realize that potential. Worst case, assuming the injury doesnt long term rob him of his explosiveness, he will be a useful change of pave scorer off the bench.
Lavine is going to start and be their best offensive option.
for the first time ever... in the history of the world...
Demar Derozan is now an above average basketball player. he is creating more offense than ever. as a scorer he is more efficient than ever. Derozan's play making continues to improve by leaps and bounds. For the first time in his career his offense more than makes up for his below average defense.
Still doesn't make him worth the contract he signed 17 months ago.. but hey.. u gotta start somewhere.
On December 15 2017 07:13 JimmyJRaynor wrote: for the first time ever... in the history of the world...
Demar Derozan is now an above average basketball player. he is creating more offense than ever. as a scorer he is more efficient than ever. Derozan's play making continues to improve by leaps and bounds. For the first time in his career his offense more than makes up for his below average defense.
Still doesn't make him worth the contract he signed 17 months ago.. but hey.. u gotta start somewhere.
Wrong again, what you should write is "for the the first time the stat I don't fully understand and overvalue now says Demar derozan is above average"
How is he a max contract players? Top two player (by far) on a constantly 50 win team? Allstar? Ranked in the top 50 on those player lists? So on and so forth.
Demar wasn't a below average player like Kevin Love is the 5th best defender of power forwards last year. You still have not explained that.
How do you keep using a stat to justify shit when it is SO CLEAR that you have no clue how it works, what it's draw backs are, hell I don't think you even know its strengths. STFU about it until you figure it out.
On December 15 2017 05:39 JimmyJRaynor wrote: Does over-using your starters result in them being tired and less effective in the 4th quarter? 8 of the 9 worst 4th quarter teams all use their starters substantially more than the 29.75 minutes league average. The 1 team in that "worst 9" uses its starters only 30 seconds less than the league average.
this graph neglects to take into account who is driving the 4th qtr net difference.
houston has terrible 4th qtr net difference because their third string play a lot during their blow outs, which has nothing to do with starter minutes... the Y-Axis needs to be starter plus/minus in 4th qtr
similarly kings probably have really high 4th qtr since they've been blown out already and playing garbage time for the whole quarter
DeRozan has always been a great player who is still approaching his peak. He has flaws that need to be corrected, but he is a legit superstar. Stop it!
On December 15 2017 07:13 JimmyJRaynor wrote: for the first time ever... in the history of the world...
Demar Derozan is now an above average basketball player. he is creating more offense than ever. as a scorer he is more efficient than ever. Derozan's play making continues to improve by leaps and bounds. For the first time in his career his offense more than makes up for his below average defense.
Still doesn't make him worth the contract he signed 17 months ago.. but hey.. u gotta start somewhere.
Sorry to post about this a second time but I think if you walk through these questions we can really help you out.
When you were watching every Raptors game with a scouts eye did you think Demar is a below average player?
Do you think that the raptors GM, a person you have called one of the best, was so dumb that he gave a max salary to below average player already in his prime?
Do you also think that he was so dumb that he bid against himself to get the salary up that high?
Do you think Casey, who you have said is a really good coach, is so dumb that he gives huge minutes to a below average player?
Do you think that the entire raptors organization does not have access to ESPN? Or that they do and just are too dumb to use such a perfect catch all stat?
Do you think that all the raptors analytic people are super dumb and create stats so bad that they show the opposite of this super stat?
Why do other teams bother to even have analytic departments if ESPN has cracked the code?
DO you really believe that all 19 people I have listed below if swapped for demar on the raptors would make the raptors do better?
Why did some of these guys get so much less money in the offseason then demar, are all the GMs so dumb that they too don't use, or understand the super stat as well as you?
Jimmy Butler 2 Manu Ginobili 3 Klay Thompson 4 Bradley Beal 5 Lou Williams 6 Victor Oladipo 7 Vince Carter 8 Danny Green 9 Andre Roberson 10 CJ McCollum 11 Eric Gordon 12 Nicolas Batum 13 Wayne Ellington 14 Nick Young 15 Seth Curry 16 Gary Harris 17 Tyler Johnson 18 Wesley Matthews 19 Jason Terry
I'm not even trying to be a dick here I just think this is so clear I want you to ACTUALLY take some time and CRITICALLY think about this, don't just quote some stats, answer these questions PLEASE~!! Please don't just disappear again for a few days and pop back with the same crap. PLEASE!!!!
When you were watchingare attending every Raptors game on the sidelines at least two hours before the game in order to observe players' techniques and habits that people do not see on tv with a scouts eye diddo you think Demar is a below average player?
If someone else wrote posts that made zero logical sense i would respond, and have. The difference is others dont do it on the daily and they write and defend their post usually come to some sort of agreement. He either argues something different or disappears for a few days and brings up the same shit again.
Other than Kobe X elite and KD 8 elite, these shoes are fire! Fuck there goes my holiday savings I was planning on another thing. Damn I hope it doesn't tag above $150-170
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"Find your zone and just stay fucking locked in. The media is going to ask you what I told you right now (but so what). Just be aggressive every single day. (Inaudible)..it's white noise. That's all it is. Alright?"
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