Boozer who?
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gregbroncs
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half of the players you mention rarely go to the low post. Boozer, Amare, Duncan and Bosh all play at the high post and mid post more than the low post. Duncan can and does go to the low post but no where near as much as he used to. Boozer rarely goes to the low post. He just does not have the size or athletic ability to play down there at all. The only 2 that go to the low post on a consistent basis and carry their team are Yao and Gasol. Bynum is more of a garbage and cutting big playing off of Gasol and Bryant. Dwight is also more of a slasher though he is definitely improving in his low post game.
chemdude1232
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Personally I think 2814 is hilarious.
And no, we are not the same person.
And no, we are not the same person.
You completely ignored the facts that zone D was reinstated and teams don't run low post schemes as much as they used to. Zone D makes it hard to obtain usable low-post positioning. One guy steps in front and all that banging work is gone.
gregbroncs
Well-Known Member
He asked for a list of low post players. You attempted and failed to give him one. Though a zone defense was implemented very few teams consistently use it.
Just the act of going to the low post and being a threat from there opens space for other players. That one player who steps in the way is leaving somebody else wide open. There is a reason that Orlando's shooter's are consistently wide open. Same can be said for the Lakers. Their team have legitimate low post threats that have to be defended. There bye making it easier to get open if your a 3 pt shooter.
Just the act of going to the low post and being a threat from there opens space for other players. That one player who steps in the way is leaving somebody else wide open. There is a reason that Orlando's shooter's are consistently wide open. Same can be said for the Lakers. Their team have legitimate low post threats that have to be defended. There bye making it easier to get open if your a 3 pt shooter.
twentytwo
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Every now and then a kid in AP English with a big head finds this site.
We are all worse off for it.
jazzrule
Well-Known Member
As a known Loozeer lover is heard from. lol
chemdude1232
Active Member
I think 2814 is beyond some angst-ridden Dawson's Creek-esque neurotic character (aka AP English student).
In case you were inferring that I am the AP English kid, uh, no. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt...all about 10 years ago.
twentytwo
Active Member
I meant him, haha.
Hopper
Banned
Nobuddy thinks you're the same person as 2814, eh, Chem?
We just think you're the same person as One Brow, that's all.
Wait...that would make you the same as 2814, wouldn't it?
Lemme study on this here perplexity for a spell, and Imma git back to ya, eh?
Hopper
Banned
OK, Chem, I gotz it figured out now, eh? That there post gimme the clue I was lookin for. Purty simple, actually, aint it?
2814 is Kicky, and Imma git bizzy stalkin til I proves it.
chemdude1232
Active Member
Some board members are pretty good at sleuthing out dual identities, Hopper. They could give you some results gratis - if you ask nicely of course. haha
It would be nice if you could keep this thread updated...throughout the season.
JAZZFAN_2814
Active Member
I don't necessarily agree with the initiating assumption: that the post is important but not central. It's a central presence, inherent, like Orson Welles in 'The Third Man'.
The team will be broken without it. Sloan demands this, which is why so many Kirilenko nob slobberers lost their marbles around 2007: the broad basis and ideal was back on the court, in Williams and Boozer.
On a broader basis, the league has softened, tried to attack post play, in the contexts and carry-through of the type of player imported and the types of rules that have been implemented.
Yet, the fact remains, that bigs define high-level play, no matter how much Steve Nash is falsely hyped through rule changes and pace controlling (him), the Suns were never truly elite, much like Nash himself. Smallball as a mirage, and Nash as a charlatan exposed by pace and his inability to play within a post-up offense.
The reason Kobe's winning championships in LA, while LeBron had to leave Cleveland, directly relates. Guys like Gasol, Howard and even broken-down guys like KG and Shaq (not now, but say in 2006) are as or more important than the guards hyped on their own teams or in the matchups they see in the playoffs.
SubZeroJazz
Banned
Got it. Would you give the mailman a reach-around if he asked? I know you like the way he looks in those Sketchers.
jhenderson008
Member
5 years of pick-n-roll AND being ambidextrous will do that.
twentytwo
Active Member
It's like Buzz Killington trying to talk basketball.
Yes, because I gave a list of low post players. Or did I say teams don't use players such as Amare as they would have in the '80's - '90's, and specifically say "most of the really dominant low post players are over the hill right now". The only fail is your reading comprehension skills and apparent lack of concentration. To heap it on a bit, you credit two from my list as low-post threats, while ignoring AJ, and the ability of others to go low post IF the offensive schemes were still 80's-90's. Typical punt. Put up or shut up.
chawx
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fixed