The Official Dwayne Wade <<<<<< you thread

dmize wrote:Played only 2 and half seasons in college due to injury. He was never as ready as people thought. I hate this myth that prospects won't improve because they're 22-24. He will most certainly improve, at worst he was a top 3 defender on the Wolves last year behind Dieng and Rubio. Once Thibs started playing him at SG, he got better.

I'm talking about his age because people wanted us to trade a 20 year old for a 23 year old because the 20 year old hadn't improved during his rookie season.

You might hate people not thinking a 23yo can still improve. Sure they can, more often than not, a 23yo without any offense game isn't just gonna get it like that.

Still find it weird how anyone would trade 20 year olds and 21 years old for rookies who are older than them.

I just don't like these athletic wing and guard defenders who can't shoot. They rarely pan out. Only one who I can think of is Kawhi.

dmize wrote:http://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/19588090/3-3-basketball-added-2020-tokyo-olympic-program


3 on 3 basketball added to the 2020 Olympics. Will basically be played with 21 rules(half court, 1's and 2's, first to 21)

Would be amazing tbh. Will give other countries more of a chance to win tbh.

Next up 2v2 or one on one please

I just don't like these athletic wing and guard defenders who can't shoot. They rarely pan out. Only one who I can think of is Kawhi.

You seem to like Ingram and Nance tho

and there's Butler. Also Avery Bradley sucked early on shooting


I'm not saying Dunn's a great prospect or anything but he's a guy Thibs will always have a use for

Freeza wrote:

dmize wrote:http://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/19588090/3-3-basketball-added-2020-tokyo-olympic-program


3 on 3 basketball added to the 2020 Olympics. Will basically be played with 21 rules(half court, 1's and 2's, first to 21)

Would be amazing tbh. Will give other countries more of a chance to win tbh.

Next up 2v2 or one on one please

I just saw they are using a smaller basketball. So 2pters will be worth twice as much as a 1pter with a smaller ball? They need to move the line back to 33 feet or something or these games will be over in 5 min

edit: math

dmize wrote:

I just don't like these athletic wing and guard defenders who can't shoot. They rarely pan out. Only one who I can think of is Kawhi.

You seem to like Ingram and Nance tho

and there's Butler. Also Avery Bradley sucked early on shooting

Ingram can shoot though. He ended up shooting like 48% after All Star i think. His 3 isn't falling yet, but hopefully it will. His body is still a huge part of it. Kris Dunn was supposed to be the most NBA ready prospect, but he turned out to be one of the least ready from a skill standpoint. Also you're comparing a 19 year old player with a 23 year old.

Nance I have no hope for offensively and he's more of an all round defender. His jump shot if absolutely ridiculous. It takes like 3 seconds for him to make a single jump shot.

From what I can see from Avery Bradley's stats he could always shoot though. 50/40/80 splits in his first full playing season, and he was younger than Kris Dunn was when he was drafted.

But guess we'll have to see. I just can't see him improving enough. Would love to be wrong though. Rather have everyone fullfill their potential. Best case scenario he becomes as skilled a shooter as Jimmy Butler. The chances are so slim though.

Just saw your edit. Dunn can definitely be a great role player for thibs. Atheltic work horses are something he needs when he plays starters so many minutes.

I guess I'm just viewing his abilities in the prism of people keep saying he's much better than Lakers' young talent. I'm protective of the Lakers babies

I wish we had more shooters though. DLo is without a doubt a 40% 3pt shooter skill and ability-wise, but there's just no spacing on this team, and no one to get him open looks. That's why Ball is the only option for this team.

Someone needs to teach Mark Jackson to pronounce Tristan

Draymond literally just hit a guy and cried about it being called. How is that not a flagrant

Refs really making sure this doesn't end tonight 49 points in 1Q. just saw it live sry

dmize wrote:Refs really making sure this doesn't end tonight 49 points in 1Q. just saw it live sry

There was hardly anything wrong with the calls. Standard officiating.

Dahntay Jones useless as always

Also. Bullshit technical

Freeza wrote:

dmize wrote:Refs really making sure this doesn't end tonight 49 points in 1Q. just saw it live sry

There was hardly anything wrong with the calls. Standard officiating.

StAnDaRd OfFiCiAtInG

dmize wrote:

Freeza wrote:

dmize wrote:Refs really making sure this doesn't end tonight 49 points in 1Q. just saw it live sry

There was hardly anything wrong with the calls. Standard officiating.

StAnDaRd OfFiCiAtInG

Really. How has it been that bad? There has been a maximum of 3 blown calls. No shooting foul has been wrongly called imo. Some of the off ball fouls were soft.

Refs making Cavs shoot 12 for 20 from 3

Cavs shooting splits so far: 609/.591/.654

They're actually scoring more point this game when they're not fouled

Ridiculous shooting

So that flagrant

Damn this is the most entertaining game all year. It has absolutely everything

They hit 24 3s

dmize wrote:http://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/19588090/3-3-basketball-added-2020-tokyo-olympic-program


3 on 3 basketball added to the 2020 Olympics. Will basically be played with 21 rules(half court, 1's and 2's, first to 21)

I don't know who cares about 3v3? Seems like a stupid idea.. just like Ice Cube's 3v3 league imo

For me it's 5v5 NBA or nothing.. I'm not spending my time watching anything but the best

Who does this shit in the Finals? #GOAT

How is this not a backcourt violation???

I didn't watch the game but find Freeza's comments pretty odd, because the consensus from BOTH warriors fans and Cavs fans seems to be that the refs were awful and it was one of the worst reffed games of all time lol

CBarca wrote:I didn't watch the game but find Freeza's comments pretty odd, because the consensus from BOTH warriors fans and Cavs fans seems to be that the refs were awful and it was one of the worst reffed games of all time lol

It escalated after I wrote that tbf Got ridiculous at the end.

The two flagrants not called on Draymond, the flagrant called on Love, weird technicals, Cavs getting away with a little too much roughing up, Zaza intentionally stepping on LeBron's ankle, Dahntay _(piece of shit) getting a technical for trash talking with Durant.

It was so crazy after I wrote it.

I was only commenting on the fouls in the first quarter, which I didn't think were as bad as people made them out to be. If people want to complain about quantity of FTs as evidence, maybe they should explain Steph shooting like 15 in a quarter on the first games.

Also Draymond calling people from Cleveland stupid when he believes the world is flat.

He's such a smug idiot