Jazz players at the World Cup

[ema]

Actually you can see how he lifts the foot that's further away from the basket first. This means he's jumping off one leg.

In practice Exum should have been smart enough to know that he goes reverse vs Gobert and use the rim as protection to get his shot to the backboard.

Agreed to disagree then. That's perfectly within the lines of two leg jumping for me.

 

[BTP]

Agreed to disagree then. That's perfectly within the lines of two leg jumping for me.

Nope you jump off two legs when they lift at the same time. You can see a half second gap where he first uses one leg to accelerate further to the basket and then the other one to lift off the ground. By that he tries to evade the rim protector with his length, leaning to the basket and a quick release.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Nope you jump off two legs when they lift at the same time. You can see a half second gap where he first uses one leg to accelerate further to the basket and then the other one to lift off the ground. By that he tries to evade the rim protector with his length, leaning to the basket and a quick release.

Whatever it was, it was super awkward and wasn't effective.

 

[ema]

Nope you jump off two legs when they lift at the same time. You can see a half second gap where he first uses one leg to accelerate further to the basket and then the other one to lift off the ground. By that he tries to evade the rim protector with his length, leaning to the basket and a quick release.

You can't agree to disagree? You are better than that.

I've already said my opinion about the timing of the feet.

It isn't necessary to have both feet in the air at the same time for it to be a jump off of two feet.

It's absolutely not necessary to have your both feet cut from the ground at the same time in order to get force from both of your feet which he clearly did in his jump in the video.

Btw, your half a second is pretty short.

 

[Joe Bagadonuts]

He was not getting past Rudy no matter how many legs he jumped off of on that play. The correct move would have been a reverse layup using the rim as protection, or an assist to an open player once he pulled the bigs to the basket.

I'm sure happy that Rudy is a Jazz man.

 

[jumpin bean]

He was not getting past Rudy no matter how many legs he jumped off of on that play. The correct move would have been a reverse layup using the rim as protection, or an assist to an open player once he pulled the bigs to the basket.

I'm sure happy that Rudy is a Jazz man.

or jump into Rudy to draw a foul and throw the ball up after the contact for a possible and one ala tony parker.

 

[Joe Bagadonuts]

or jump into Rudy to draw a foul and throw the ball up after the contact for a possible and one ala tony parker.

I watched the play again as a result of your comment but I cannot imagine how Exum (or even Parker) could have pulled that off on this particular play. Gobert was slightly following the play.

BTW, notice how wide open #7 is at the three point line. I have no idea if he's a good shooter, and it would have taken a hell of a pass to get the ball to him, but what a play it would have been if he had made it work. I believe Exum is capable of those sorts of great passes, and could eventually deliver them on a routine basis.

 

[stitches]

Croatia vs Lithuania is on. It's going to be interesting to see Ante Tomic vs Valanciunas and Montejunas

I don't like how Tomic matches vs Valanciunas. Valanciunas is abusing him like crazy.

Saric impresses me every time I watch him.

 

[Karadrys30]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDFm_v0FqiE

Seriously, can anybody tell me why does he jump off of both feet on those? He does it a lot. Even his dunks... they are mostly off of both feet. It's so weird... I think it'd be much easier and quicker to finish off of 1 foot in a situation like that one in the video.

Part of it could be his volleyball training. In blocking drills you jump off both feet to limit drift in the air in order to prevent coming down on someones foot.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

He was not getting past Rudy no matter how many legs he jumped off of on that play. The correct move would have been a reverse layup using the rim as protection, or an assist to an open player once he pulled the bigs to the basket.

I'm sure happy that Rudy is a Jazz man.

Meh, Rudy was too far behind if Exum actually got the ball to the glass directly instead of trying to float it up. Took off way too early and way too slowly. He has a weak body right now.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Exum probably maybe got a foot off the ground on that layup attempt. He is probably tired as hell right now and his legs are dead. Pretty crazy that he went from playing 0 competitive basketball to playing 3 straight weeks of 4-5 games (if not more) per week.

 

[ema]

I have yet to see a single post in this thread saying something good about what team usa has done in any game so far....... yet they are destroying every team, every game.

Just seems like alot of hatin for our own country team goin on

Brazil was the only real competition for the team. DR and PR should have been blown out by more.

I partially agree with you fish, but orengello has a valid point too.

Turkish NT this year have the worst team of maybe the last 30 years and they are with 1W - 7L so far in the preparation games. And guess what, the only game they won was against Puerto Rico that have scored 86 points against USA.

Yep, once again Turkey beat Puerto Rico 94-73. Only 2 wins in 9 games and both of them against PR. That should say something about the US prep games.

Fortunately though, USA won't face a serious opponent in the tournament too since all the top Euro teams having problems as lastly Lithuania have lost their PG. The only teams left that I see as possible threats to USA are Spain and maybe to a degree Serbia.