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Bill and Jalen's Jazz Preview
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Nah me ranting fills out more space. I'm just sharing how entertained I am by these rants
Well, here's one more for youNah me ranting fills out more space. I'm just sharing how entertained I am by these rants
You are right about this getting more attention than it deserves and this driving the "story" up unnecessarily, but it still pisses me off. This is obvious homerism. I doubt he'd be even mentioning anything about Exum if they drafter Randle instead of Smart. Let alone if Utah drafted Smart and Boston drafted Exum.
The summer means ****, especially when you are talking about a prospect who was specifically drafted as a long term project rather than as an "impact now" guy and a guy who hadn't played in the last 8 months before summer league. How is it serious from "two of the most respected basketball critics" to be gloating about how Marcus Smart is going to kill him and Utah will regret getting him, because there are so many better players that were drafted after him, before he(or any of those other so much better prospects) have even played a single official NBA game? Not one! What did we see over the summer that we didn't know already about Exum? The one thing is that he's hesitant to drive to the hoop, but they didn't even mention anything specific about him - it was all generalities and "Can't wait for Smart to kill him". I doubt either of them has seen even a single full game of his and are probably going by stats only. So he had 3/3/3(or whatever it was exactly) WC in 12MPG. How much better was the next Kevin Durant/Magic Johnson for Greece with a full season of experience and hype behind him? You wanna know? 6/4/0(11% from 3) in 16MPG? So who had the better WC? Exum or Giannis? Are you worried about Giannis' prospects Bill or is he still the next super star? How about the best euro prospect in next year's draft Mario Hezonja? How did he fare with his several years of men basketball experience(something Exum has never been faced with)? Oh 13 minutes? No, not per game... for the entire championship! Worried about him? Are you going to have him out of your lottery next year, Bill?
I really wish people would stop overreacting... We will know what kind of careers we can expect from all those players in a few years time. Now is time for harnessing the potential and developing it into effective basketballing machines, eliminating weaknesses, strengthening the good points. If there's one thing those prospects have it's potential and time... well, unless Bill declares them busts before they've played a single game, that is...
/rant
P.S. I actually love both Giannis and Hezonja, but unlike Bill I understand that in international play coaches want results now and rely on experience and physical play to deliver that, something that 19 year olds usually don't have, thus much less talented players get more minutes simply because they can deliver NOW, at this WC, not 3-4 years down the road.
Haha thanks for the followup. Would've repped if it allowed me to.
I think the reason why they're cheap shotting Utah is simple. On the NBA landscape the City of Utah represents this weird unpopular nerd who does uncool things all the time.
So it's easy to cyberbully them. And most fans of other teams won't care and view it as entertainment.
Also it would be pretty boring if they hyped every rookie and lauded every roster and wished them a good record, improvement, the playoffs and whatever.
So they went all negative on Utah and they were like: Bashing on them leaves the least amount of salty fans if we just go by inhabitants of the city in which they play.
I don't think their projections and preparation were detailed or well prepared. But if Utah exceeds these low expectation by a significant margin at any point of the season, they'll backpedal and say they were wrong, they didn't see it coming and point out the positives.
I think the reason why they're cheap shotting Utah is simple. On the NBA landscape the City of Utah represents this weird unpopular nerd who does uncool things all the time.
So it's easy to cyberbully them. And most fans of other teams won't care and view it as entertainment.
Also it would be pretty boring if they hyped every rookie and lauded every roster and wished them a good record, improvement, the playoffs and whatever.
So they went all negative on Utah and they were like: Bashing on them leaves the least amount of salty fans if we just go by inhabitants of the city in which they play.
I don't think their projections and preparation were detailed or well prepared. But if Utah exceeds these low expectation by a significant margin at any point of the season, they'll backpedal and say they were wrong, they didn't see it coming and point out the positives.
Jose_Ortiz_fan
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Meet any other cities' NBA fans.
bash simmons all you want, but he is the best writer right now and dude really knows what he is talking about. he is a true basketball nerd. yes, outsiders have us being a bottom feeder. they don't follow us 24/7 like we do.
we are very optimistic on our team and love what we are seeing from preseason. but at the end of the day it's just a preseason. we can easily be 23 win team. or surprise everyone by winning 40. fact is that no one really knows who we are.
but we will soon find out. i welcome haters. simmons can hate us all he wants. more hate means bigger the middle finger
we are very optimistic on our team and love what we are seeing from preseason. but at the end of the day it's just a preseason. we can easily be 23 win team. or surprise everyone by winning 40. fact is that no one really knows who we are.
but we will soon find out. i welcome haters. simmons can hate us all he wants. more hate means bigger the middle finger
He has a lot of knowledge as far as NBA history is concerned, and he's entertaining, but it's pretty obvious when he and Lowe do their podcasts that Lowe knows a lot more about basketball than Simmons. Simmons basketball analysis is generally quite awful.
This was also before he saw Exum play in FIBA and SL.
Not that Exum did bad, but it definitely calmed the hype on him.
Agreed, but Simmons doesn't really follow teams that are that bad, especially bad teams on the West Coast.
Only thing that makes me bad is when they talk about us losing "All-Stars" in Sap and Jefferson. The only reason any of those guys became All-Stars is because they played in the East. No offense to Millsap, he is great, but he would probably never be an All-Star in the West (maybe now that Love is gone though).
The Fresh Prince
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true - there are many people who knows more basketball than simmons. eh, all those ex-coaches for example. simmons is great at what he does. history, trades, evaluating talents, analogies, and etc. but he isn't x's and o's breaking down tape guy.