Miggs
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LogGrad98’s write-up
Got bored during a conference call and went nuts on my bench guys. I don't think I need much else for the starters anyway, with Curry, Sap, Green and Davis being known quantities. Here you go:
Depth Chart
Steph Curry – Lonzo Ball
Danny Green – Donte DiVincenzo
Dillon Brooks. - Larry Nance Jr.
Paul Millsap - TJ Warren
Anthony Davis - Aron Baynes
I feel bad for Rubashov, he has one of the better teams in this thing. Too bad he gets matched up against the best team right in the first round. He has some nice pieces, and the greek freak is always a concern,but I have the players to negate pretty much any positive he has, and he will have a nightmare of a time containing the pairing of Curry and Davis. Let's get into this, shall we?
The starting 5 needs very little write-up,everyone knows what they can do. Theyare centered around high-octane offenseand strong defenders at all positions, and anchored by an MPV and DPOY and MVP candidate. Brooks might be the one weak link, who was still a passable and improving defender who will make the opposing wing work on D himself and can score in bunches. Davis and Curry are obviously all-world and complement each other so well, with strong shooting and excellent positional D surrounding them, they will look to eat other teams alive. My starting 5 is beyond reproach, with a solid Millsap augmenting the DPOY performance ofDavis, Curry lighting it up from everywhere, Green locking down opposing wings and taking wide open 3s as defenses focus on Curry and Davis, and Brooks providing a strong park and youthfulexuberance that has shown him to be one of the fastest improving players in the league.
https://dailymemphian.com/article/9975/dillon-brooks
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And don’t forget the bench.
First off the bench depends on matchups, but Warren provides a scoring punch. He has been the leading scorer for the Pacers this season, while taking on the toughest defensive assignments, with much improved D. Scoring is not an issue, and a strong 2-way player off the bench just pushes the lead.
http://global.nba.com/news/t-j-warren-making-impact-on-defense-for-pacers/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonyea...indiana-pacers-scoring-art-form/#5297ea8d3013
T.J. Warren recently showed the world, on national television, how well he is playing basketball this season. The Indiana Pacers took on the NBA’s best team, the Milwaukee Bucks, on ESPN just a few weeks ago. Warren dominated, pouring in 35 points on just 19 shots while leading the Pacers to a 118-111 victory.
35 points is a huge night, especially on a Pacers team that typically shares the ball equitably. But that wasn’t even Warren’s biggest scoring outburst this season. In early January, the scoring wing dropped in 36 points in his home state during a win over the Charlotte Hornets. “My teammates did a good job of finding me and putting me in [my] spots,” Warren said after that game.
Big scoring nights that fly under the radar have been common for Warren this year. He’s scored more than 30 points in four different games; he only did that five times in his entire career prior to this season.
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Lonzo can control the offense and makes everyone around him better, and is showing triple-double ability. He just does the things it takes to win.
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/...ming-the-player-he-was-always-supposed-to-be/
Ball is a good player, and he still has great-player potential. Since being reinserted into the starting lineup, he's posted three triple-doubles and the Pelicans have won 10 of their last 14 games. [/QUOTE]
Nance is a gritty player who does the tough things it takes to win. His defensiverebounding is elite, and he scores in more ways than 1, with a career high 3 ptpercentage this season.
https://kingjamesgospel.com/2020/02...jr-continues-prove-teams-best-all-around-big/
Nonetheless, Nance, factoring in both ends of the floor, continues to prove that he’s Cleveland’s best all-around big man. Nance has again shown he’s the Cavs’ top bench player this season.
Plus, Love is nowhere near the defender as Nance, who is so as active as a help/weak side defender and is always wreaking havoc in passing lanes and is much morepositionally-sound when needed inswitchouts than Love, who has lateral quickness limitations and provides little in terms of altering shots near the paint as a rotator.[/QUOTE]
DiVincenzo as one of the younger guys on the team is still impressive in hiscommitment to defense. He is a tough tenacious defender who can hit the 3 and bring a ton of energy and team-firstattitude to the game.
https://stats.nba.com/articles/defe...ncenzo-matisse-thybulle-and-deanthony-melton/
Donte DiVincenzo leads all players with a defensive rating of 96.9. The Bucks defense is 5.2 points better when DiVincenzo is on the court compared to when he sits (102.1).
DiVincenzo ranks 15th in the NBA in steals(1.5 per game) and 31st in deflections (2.6 per game) while averaging just 22.7 minutes per game. He has forced his individual matchups into 52 turnovers while allowing them to shoot 44.5% from the field. He spends nearly three-quarters of his time (72.9%) defending fellow guards, which shoot just 41.5% from the field against him, but have found success from beyond the arc (46.9%).
One place opponents have not found success against DiVincenzo is on ball screens. Of the 141 players that have defended at least 300 ball screens this season, no player allows fewer points per possession than DiVincenzo at 0.915. He switches off a ball screen only 13.1% of the time, which is the second-lowest switch frequency of those same 141 players.
DiVincenzo, of course, became a national star when he had a game for the ages in the 2018 NCAA Championship, when he scored 31 points to lead Villanova to the title and was named the tournament’s outstanding player.
“I’m just really happy with how he’s playing, but most importantly that he’s healthy,” Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said. “He’s playing with a ton of confidence, and he’s a great athlete and a great competitor when he’s healthy.”
“He’s amazing,” Antetokounmpo said of his young teammate. “He looks really, really good. He’s definitely going to help this team. He’s going to make shots and he’s going to defend. It’s fun to have him back. It’s fun to see him out there competing hard.”
DiVincenzo said the support of his teammates, including their best player, helped him get through the hard times he endured last season and early in this one.
“He just builds confidence in me every day,” he said of Antetokounmpo. “I can miss 10 shots in a row and he’s still going to give it to me and tell me to shoot the 11th one. To have that confidence from somebody of that caliber is amazing. It just builds my confidence every day.”
Middleton is expected to miss another couple of weeks and there’s no question that when he returns from his injury he’ll be back in the starting lineup and DiVincenzo will be back on the bench. But he has established himself as a valuable role player for one of the NBA’s best teams, and once again the future is bright for Donte DiVincenzo.
https://townsquaredelaware.com/2019/11/25/divincenzo-breaks-into-bucks-starting-lineup1/
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But the most important piece off the bench may be Baynes. He can shoot the 3, score in other ways, rebound the ball, and is a serious plus defender to spell off the DPOY.
Pistons were ranked 12th overall). Baynes has been a center piece in four top 3 defenses in his 7 years in the league, including the 2018 Celtics who were not only the 1st overall defense in the NBA but also the 1 seed in the Eastern Conference.
Continuing on, every team that Aron Baynes has joined has seen a vast defensive improvement immediately upon his arrival. The Spurs jumped from 11th overall to three straight years of top three defenses, including two straight Finals runs, and a championship. The Pistons improved from ranked 19th the year before Baynes arrived to 12th and even lower to 8th in his final year in Detroit and lastly, the aforementioned Celtics improved from 13th to 1st, before dipping back to 7th.
Baynes started to gain confidence in his three-point ball with the Celtics last season, but he’s taking it to new levels this year. More than 44 percent of his field-goal attempts have been threes. He’s made 22 threes through the first 10 games of this season after making only 25 threes in entire career before moving to Phoenix.
There are two other big pieces to Baynes’ offensive improvement. The first is that he’s finishing at the rim better than ever before. Baynes is making 69.4 percent of his shots within three feet this season after making only 56 percent of them the last two years in Boston. With the ball in his hands more often, he’s also growing as a passer. Baynes had never posted an assist rate above 9.9 percent before this season. Now he’s assisting on 20.5 percent of Phoenix’s buckets when he’s in the game.
Baynes is taking 80 percent of his shots at the rim or from three-point range this year. He’s more comfortable making passes than ever before. His true shooting percentage of 71.6 percent is the second highest in the entire NBA, behind only Dwight Howard. This is how a career role player takes his offense to unseen levels.
https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2019/1...uns-most-improved-celtics-trade-deand
Rubashov’s write-up
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Bojan Bogdanovic
Clint Capela
Joe Ingles
Zach Lavine
Patty Mills
Bogdan Bogdanovic
Royce O’Neale
Goran Dragic
Demarcus Cousins
My team is loaded with shooters surrounding Giannis, My starting 5 has three guys that can generate their own offence, an elite glue guy and one of the best rim protectors in the League. Looking at the bench, it has shooting in spades, bench specialist Patty Mills, lights out shooting from Bogdan, another elite 3 and D player in Royce, a crafty veteran in Dragic and Cousins, I hate the guy but he can play.
Got bored during a conference call and went nuts on my bench guys. I don't think I need much else for the starters anyway, with Curry, Sap, Green and Davis being known quantities. Here you go:
Depth Chart
Steph Curry – Lonzo Ball
Danny Green – Donte DiVincenzo
Dillon Brooks. - Larry Nance Jr.
Paul Millsap - TJ Warren
Anthony Davis - Aron Baynes
I feel bad for Rubashov, he has one of the better teams in this thing. Too bad he gets matched up against the best team right in the first round. He has some nice pieces, and the greek freak is always a concern,but I have the players to negate pretty much any positive he has, and he will have a nightmare of a time containing the pairing of Curry and Davis. Let's get into this, shall we?
The starting 5 needs very little write-up,everyone knows what they can do. Theyare centered around high-octane offenseand strong defenders at all positions, and anchored by an MPV and DPOY and MVP candidate. Brooks might be the one weak link, who was still a passable and improving defender who will make the opposing wing work on D himself and can score in bunches. Davis and Curry are obviously all-world and complement each other so well, with strong shooting and excellent positional D surrounding them, they will look to eat other teams alive. My starting 5 is beyond reproach, with a solid Millsap augmenting the DPOY performance ofDavis, Curry lighting it up from everywhere, Green locking down opposing wings and taking wide open 3s as defenses focus on Curry and Davis, and Brooks providing a strong park and youthfulexuberance that has shown him to be one of the fastest improving players in the league.
https://dailymemphian.com/article/9975/dillon-brooks
Click to expand...
And don’t forget the bench.
First off the bench depends on matchups, but Warren provides a scoring punch. He has been the leading scorer for the Pacers this season, while taking on the toughest defensive assignments, with much improved D. Scoring is not an issue, and a strong 2-way player off the bench just pushes the lead.
http://global.nba.com/news/t-j-warren-making-impact-on-defense-for-pacers/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonyea...indiana-pacers-scoring-art-form/#5297ea8d3013
T.J. Warren recently showed the world, on national television, how well he is playing basketball this season. The Indiana Pacers took on the NBA’s best team, the Milwaukee Bucks, on ESPN just a few weeks ago. Warren dominated, pouring in 35 points on just 19 shots while leading the Pacers to a 118-111 victory.
35 points is a huge night, especially on a Pacers team that typically shares the ball equitably. But that wasn’t even Warren’s biggest scoring outburst this season. In early January, the scoring wing dropped in 36 points in his home state during a win over the Charlotte Hornets. “My teammates did a good job of finding me and putting me in [my] spots,” Warren said after that game.
Big scoring nights that fly under the radar have been common for Warren this year. He’s scored more than 30 points in four different games; he only did that five times in his entire career prior to this season.
Click to expand...
Lonzo can control the offense and makes everyone around him better, and is showing triple-double ability. He just does the things it takes to win.
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/...ming-the-player-he-was-always-supposed-to-be/
Ball is a good player, and he still has great-player potential. Since being reinserted into the starting lineup, he's posted three triple-doubles and the Pelicans have won 10 of their last 14 games. [/QUOTE]
Nance is a gritty player who does the tough things it takes to win. His defensiverebounding is elite, and he scores in more ways than 1, with a career high 3 ptpercentage this season.
https://kingjamesgospel.com/2020/02...jr-continues-prove-teams-best-all-around-big/
Nonetheless, Nance, factoring in both ends of the floor, continues to prove that he’s Cleveland’s best all-around big man. Nance has again shown he’s the Cavs’ top bench player this season.
Plus, Love is nowhere near the defender as Nance, who is so as active as a help/weak side defender and is always wreaking havoc in passing lanes and is much morepositionally-sound when needed inswitchouts than Love, who has lateral quickness limitations and provides little in terms of altering shots near the paint as a rotator.[/QUOTE]
DiVincenzo as one of the younger guys on the team is still impressive in hiscommitment to defense. He is a tough tenacious defender who can hit the 3 and bring a ton of energy and team-firstattitude to the game.
https://stats.nba.com/articles/defe...ncenzo-matisse-thybulle-and-deanthony-melton/
Donte DiVincenzo leads all players with a defensive rating of 96.9. The Bucks defense is 5.2 points better when DiVincenzo is on the court compared to when he sits (102.1).
DiVincenzo ranks 15th in the NBA in steals(1.5 per game) and 31st in deflections (2.6 per game) while averaging just 22.7 minutes per game. He has forced his individual matchups into 52 turnovers while allowing them to shoot 44.5% from the field. He spends nearly three-quarters of his time (72.9%) defending fellow guards, which shoot just 41.5% from the field against him, but have found success from beyond the arc (46.9%).
One place opponents have not found success against DiVincenzo is on ball screens. Of the 141 players that have defended at least 300 ball screens this season, no player allows fewer points per possession than DiVincenzo at 0.915. He switches off a ball screen only 13.1% of the time, which is the second-lowest switch frequency of those same 141 players.
DiVincenzo, of course, became a national star when he had a game for the ages in the 2018 NCAA Championship, when he scored 31 points to lead Villanova to the title and was named the tournament’s outstanding player.
“I’m just really happy with how he’s playing, but most importantly that he’s healthy,” Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said. “He’s playing with a ton of confidence, and he’s a great athlete and a great competitor when he’s healthy.”
“He’s amazing,” Antetokounmpo said of his young teammate. “He looks really, really good. He’s definitely going to help this team. He’s going to make shots and he’s going to defend. It’s fun to have him back. It’s fun to see him out there competing hard.”
DiVincenzo said the support of his teammates, including their best player, helped him get through the hard times he endured last season and early in this one.
“He just builds confidence in me every day,” he said of Antetokounmpo. “I can miss 10 shots in a row and he’s still going to give it to me and tell me to shoot the 11th one. To have that confidence from somebody of that caliber is amazing. It just builds my confidence every day.”
Middleton is expected to miss another couple of weeks and there’s no question that when he returns from his injury he’ll be back in the starting lineup and DiVincenzo will be back on the bench. But he has established himself as a valuable role player for one of the NBA’s best teams, and once again the future is bright for Donte DiVincenzo.
https://townsquaredelaware.com/2019/11/25/divincenzo-breaks-into-bucks-starting-lineup1/
Click to expand...
But the most important piece off the bench may be Baynes. He can shoot the 3, score in other ways, rebound the ball, and is a serious plus defender to spell off the DPOY.
Pistons were ranked 12th overall). Baynes has been a center piece in four top 3 defenses in his 7 years in the league, including the 2018 Celtics who were not only the 1st overall defense in the NBA but also the 1 seed in the Eastern Conference.
Continuing on, every team that Aron Baynes has joined has seen a vast defensive improvement immediately upon his arrival. The Spurs jumped from 11th overall to three straight years of top three defenses, including two straight Finals runs, and a championship. The Pistons improved from ranked 19th the year before Baynes arrived to 12th and even lower to 8th in his final year in Detroit and lastly, the aforementioned Celtics improved from 13th to 1st, before dipping back to 7th.
Baynes started to gain confidence in his three-point ball with the Celtics last season, but he’s taking it to new levels this year. More than 44 percent of his field-goal attempts have been threes. He’s made 22 threes through the first 10 games of this season after making only 25 threes in entire career before moving to Phoenix.
There are two other big pieces to Baynes’ offensive improvement. The first is that he’s finishing at the rim better than ever before. Baynes is making 69.4 percent of his shots within three feet this season after making only 56 percent of them the last two years in Boston. With the ball in his hands more often, he’s also growing as a passer. Baynes had never posted an assist rate above 9.9 percent before this season. Now he’s assisting on 20.5 percent of Phoenix’s buckets when he’s in the game.
Baynes is taking 80 percent of his shots at the rim or from three-point range this year. He’s more comfortable making passes than ever before. His true shooting percentage of 71.6 percent is the second highest in the entire NBA, behind only Dwight Howard. This is how a career role player takes his offense to unseen levels.
https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2019/1...uns-most-improved-celtics-trade-deand
Rubashov’s write-up
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Bojan Bogdanovic
Clint Capela
Joe Ingles
Zach Lavine
Patty Mills
Bogdan Bogdanovic
Royce O’Neale
Goran Dragic
Demarcus Cousins
My team is loaded with shooters surrounding Giannis, My starting 5 has three guys that can generate their own offence, an elite glue guy and one of the best rim protectors in the League. Looking at the bench, it has shooting in spades, bench specialist Patty Mills, lights out shooting from Bogdan, another elite 3 and D player in Royce, a crafty veteran in Dragic and Cousins, I hate the guy but he can play.
