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Feb 27, 2020 13:19:13 GMT
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Post by Kapitan on Feb 27, 2020 13:19:13 GMT
Meanwhile the KATless Wolves beat the Heat in Miami. Jimmy Butler wasn’t the GOAT, but rather was the goat, last night. So that was pleasant.
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Feb 28, 2020 2:40:01 GMT
Post by Sheriff John Stone on Feb 28, 2020 2:40:01 GMT
Breathing a sigh of relief...no structural damage to Joel Embiid's shoulder. He'll be re-evaluated in a week.
The Sixers barely beat the Knicks tonight. Kyle O'Quinn, after appearing in only 6 of the last 29 games, has done an excellent job filling in for Embiid the last two games.
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Feb 28, 2020 14:01:16 GMT
Post by Kapitan on Feb 28, 2020 14:01:16 GMT
And a nice win last night, not in terms of the competition (I mean, it was the Knicks ... but after the loss to Cleveland you take what you can get), but just in terms of guys stepping up to do what had to be done.
Great to see Harris have a star-level game with 34, 7 and 7. But Shake Milton Furkan Korkmaz and others had nice games as well.
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Feb 28, 2020 14:08:47 GMT
Post by Sheriff John Stone on Feb 28, 2020 14:08:47 GMT
And a nice win last night, not in terms of the competition (I mean, it was the Knicks ... but after the loss to Cleveland you take what you can get), but just in terms of guys stepping up to do what had to be done.
Great to see Harris have a star-level game with 34, 7 and 7. But Shake Milton Furkan Korkmaz and others had nice games as well.
I have a trivia question for you. Who recruited and coached Shake Milton at SMU?
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Feb 28, 2020 14:16:50 GMT
Post by Kapitan on Feb 28, 2020 14:16:50 GMT
Assuming Larry Brown?
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Feb 28, 2020 14:20:36 GMT
Post by Sheriff John Stone on Feb 28, 2020 14:20:36 GMT
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Feb 28, 2020 14:25:52 GMT
Post by Kapitan on Feb 28, 2020 14:25:52 GMT
Presumably he tried to trade him shortly thereafter, retiring immediately upon learning you can't trade NCAA players.
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Feb 28, 2020 14:40:58 GMT
Post by Sheriff John Stone on Feb 28, 2020 14:40:58 GMT
Presumably he tried to trade him shortly thereafter, retiring immediately upon learning you can't trade NCAA players. It is largely forgotten that Larry Brown, at 5'9'', was a three-time All-Star in the ABA, and when he retired, was the ABA's all-time leader in assists.
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Feb 28, 2020 14:52:53 GMT
Post by Kapitan on Feb 28, 2020 14:52:53 GMT
What's funny is, he had actually taken the Davidson head coaching job after two years of his ABA playing career, but in true Larry Brown fashion, he quit before ever coaching a game and took another job (playing elsewhere).
Then he immediately was a head coach upon retirement, if I'm not mistaken.
Great recruiter, great coach, but from what I have observed throughout the years, not worth the effort. He blames everyone but himself, he turns on any- and everyone, he causes turmoil everywhere, he breaks rules, and he skips town as the consequences come down.
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Feb 28, 2020 23:06:10 GMT
Post by Sheriff John Stone on Feb 28, 2020 23:06:10 GMT
So, the Timberwolves were fined $25,000 for resting D'Angelo Russell - that's 24 year-old D'Angelo Russell - under the league's new "player resting" policy.
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Feb 29, 2020 1:43:52 GMT
Post by Kapitan on Feb 29, 2020 1:43:52 GMT
Yep. It is called tanking, whatever the Wolves want to call it. Same reason KAT missed so many games earlier this season for a bruise. I get and support the concept of load management to some degree, but the job is playing basketball. If typical NBA-caliber guys can't play an NBA season, adjust the goddamn NBA season. A league in which the best players aren't playing for preventative measures, that's absurd.
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Feb 29, 2020 16:29:13 GMT
Post by Sheriff John Stone on Feb 29, 2020 16:29:13 GMT
Speaking of load management, or anti-load management, one of the most amazing NBA statistics belongs to Wilt Chamberlain. In 1961-62, Wilt AVERAGED 48.5 minutes per game. Incredible. And this was before advances in sneakers, trainers/doctors, special diets/medication, and flying almost exclusively (as opposed to long bus trips and even car pooling). Check out Wilt's statistics: Season Age Tm Lg Pos G GS MP FG FGA FG% FT FTA FT% TRB AST PF PTS 1959-60 23 PHW NBA C 72 46.4 14.8 32.1 .461 8.0 13.8 .582 27.0 2.3 2.1 37.6 1960-61 24 PHW NBA C 79 47.8 15.8 31.1 .509 6.7 13.3 .504 27.2 1.9 1.6 38.4 1961-62 25 PHW NBA C 80 48.5 20.0 39.5 .506 10.4 17.0 .613 25.7 2.4 1.5 50.4 1962-63 26 SFW NBA C 80 47.6 18.3 34.6 .528 8.3 13.9 .593 24.3 3.4 1.7 44.8 1963-64 27 SFW NBA C 80 46.1 15.1 28.7 .524 6.8 12.7 .531 22.3 5.0 2.3 36.9 1964-65 28 TOT NBA C 73 45.2 14.6 28.5 .510 5.6 12.1 .464 22.9 3.4 2.0 34.7 1964-65 28 SFW NBA C 38 45.9 16.7 33.6 .499 5.5 13.2 .416 23.5 3.1 2.0 38.9 1964-65 28 PHI NBA C 35 44.5 12.2 23.1 .528 5.7 10.9 .526 22.3 3.8 2.0 30.1 1965-66 29 PHI NBA C 79 47.3 13.6 25.2 .540 6.3 12.4 .513 24.6 5.2 2.2 33.5 1966-67 30 PHI NBA C 81 45.5 9.7 14.2 .683 4.8 10.8 .441 24.2 7.8 1.8 24.1 1967-68 31 PHI NBA C 82 46.8 10.0 16.8 .595 4.3 11.4 .380 23.8 8.6 2.0 24.3 1968-69 32 LAL NBA C 81 45.3 7.9 13.6 .583 4.7 10.6 .446 21.1 4.5 1.8 20.5 1969-70 33 LAL NBA C 12 42.1 10.8 18.9 .568 5.8 13.1 .446 18.4 4.1 2.6 27.3 1970-71 34 LAL NBA C 82 44.3 8.1 15.0 .545 4.4 8.2 .538 18.2 4.3 2.1 20.7 1971-72 35 LAL NBA C 82 42.3 6.0 9.3 .649 2.7 6.4 .422 19.2 4.0 2.4 14.8 1972-73 36 LAL NBA C 82 43.2 5.2 7.1 .727 2.8 5.5 .510 18.6 4.5 2.3 13.2 Career NBA 1045 45.8 12.1 22.5 .540 5.8 11.4 .511 22.9 4.4 2.0 30.1
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Feb 29, 2020 17:04:52 GMT
Post by Kapitan on Feb 29, 2020 17:04:52 GMT
That season--'61-'62--is the most amazing season anyone has ever had. Obviously we've seen some of the all-time greats over the past 25-30 years like Magic, Larry, MJ, Hakeem, Garnett, Duncan, Kobe, Lebron, and now the current generation like Steph, KD, even down to Luka and Giannis.
But 50 ppg and 25 rpg. I mean, it's so, so remarkable. Almost unthinkable.
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Feb 29, 2020 17:22:19 GMT
Post by Sheriff John Stone on Feb 29, 2020 17:22:19 GMT
I actually saw the 76ers play the Celtics - Wilt Chamberlain against Bill Russell - at Philadelphia Convention Hall (pre-The Spectrum). I was pretty young and don't remember much about the game. We had good seats and I do have some memories of Wilt and Russell battling for position in the lane for rebounds. They looked huge! It was one of the first professional sporting events I ever attended and I was just blown away by the crowd and the whole spectacle. I think I spent most of the game just watching...people.
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Post by Kapitan on Feb 29, 2020 17:41:56 GMT
Amazing! What a game that would have been.
My first NBA game was in the Wolves' debut season, 1989-90, in the Metrodome. (They played there the first season, before Target Center was built.) As cavernous as the place was, they drew then-NBA records to help fill it that season.
The opponent that day were the LA Lakers: Magic Johnson, Byron Scott, James Worthy, AC Green, and U of MN alumnus Mychal Thompson, with Orlando Woolridge, Michael Cooper, and rookie Vlade Divac off the bench. Minnesota coach Bill Musselman, a much more involved coach than most NBA coaches, was always looking for strange angles on things. That day he put 7-0 Randy Breuer on Magic Johnson in an attempt to block his sightlines, hang back to prevent him from driving, and daring him to shoot. (People forget Magic wasn't a great outside shooter.) However, Johnson got fouled constantly, ending up 16-19 on FT and finishing with 37 points, 5 reb and 13 assists.
The Wolves hung close, though, as they usually did under Musselman. It was tied after three quarters and they ended up losing by just two points, 101-99. Tony Campbell (SG) and Tod Murphy (PF) scored 24 apiece. Speaking of load management--which Musselman would have rioted over--four of the five Wolves starters played 43+ minutes that night. Only one player, Sid Lowe, played double-digit minutes off the bench.
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