Do you think Kerr benches him for 1 time violation? Dude sat out until Butler injury forced him back to rotation.
Looking off a guy is disrespect. If JC looks off Cody thats one thing, but to look off Steph you gotta be a moron.
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Looking off a guy is disrespect. If JC looks off Cody thats one thing, but to look off Steph you gotta be a moron.
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I would argue that building a team like the Knicks and Pacers did is ENTIRELY the conventional, most reproduceable way to build a team.
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I was just going off what you said.
Anywho there was this dude name Kobe that raped someone, and a dude named Malone who did some stuff with a young girl and didn't take care of his many kids and many other dudes with some serious transgressions on and off the court.
I'm willing to give a dude who looked off a teammate a second chance as I dont see that as an unforgivable sin that can't be corrected going forward but like I said, to each their own. For you that is unforgivable and behavior that is permanent and for me it's forgivable and may be correctable.
Gobert 2nd straight conference finals.
What unconventional about them?
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They both are defensive-oriented teams who developed their star point guard (Brunson / Haliburton) after they acquired them and then built a solid team of role players around them by churning their roster. Both teams became contenders by having “their guy” and then using their resources to build around him quickly.
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That sounds like the most basic way to build a championship team. The Lakers did this with Kareem and to a lesser degree Magic. The bulls did this with Michael. Spurs did this with Duncan and their big 3, so they were a bit less conventional as they had a big 3. A few other teams had their big 2, Jazz, Bulls including Pippen, Lakers with Shaq and Kobe. But generally speaking the teams that they there find their guy (or a couple of guys, often falling into their lap), then use their assets to build the secondary level players and churn the roster to fill in the gaps. That's like the most basic way a winning team is built in the NBA.
Unconventional would be like the Pistons with no real "the guy" or "big 3" or anything winning the championship on united team play or LeDouche deciding where to take his buddies to win his next ring, or the Lakers being gifted players for scraps (Luka, Gasol, Magic). Those are highly unconventional.
I would say that the similarity with IND and NYK is that they both traded for guys who then leveled up to all stars.
The same thing happened with us with Lauri, but instead of leaning in to it we tore it down.
The same thing happened with us with Lauri, but instead of leaning in to it we tore it down.
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The Knicks signed their guy in free agency, but otherwise, I totally agree with you.
That sound fairly conventional to me. And the Pacers are definitely not a defensive oriented team.
Besides the title and label, it’s just not as easy to draw a direct line. With tanking, it’s easy to process the line of thinking. Be bad, get good draft pick, draft good player, be good.
You can’t really “plan” what the Knicks or Pacers did besides saying that you need to make good moves from all different methods to improve. It’s something we all know needs to happen, but there is no step by step guide to execute it.
Tanking is simpler, wouldn’t say it’s necessarily easier or more effective.
Also I think the Celtics comeback and win the series.