NBA season 2019/20

voodoo

@ACT-Crusader said in NBA season 2019/20:

@voodoo Stockton was one of my favourite players. He might look like an IRS accountant, but he was a fierce competitor that knew how to win with the pieces around him. I would watch hours of how he played the 2 man game with Malone. The detail of when to dribble, when to take the step off the screen, what holes presented for the pass.

I was fortunate to play a lot of ball when I was younger with a Samoan mate who was the teenage equivalent of Karl Malone. Big, strong and a beast around the basket.

I probably played against more of those guys than with - unfortunately! I was the classic undersized forward at school.

Ahh, the memories! A mate of mine put our schoolboys national final on YouTube for all to enjoy a few years back, I tried to get my kid to watch it but it's fair to say he was underwhelmed by the spectacle...

canefan

@ACT-Crusader said in NBA season 2019/20:

@Bovidae said in NBA season 2019/20:

And how about Hornacek stroking his face 3 times (for his 3 children) before every FT attempt. It was so funny to watch but the ball usually went through the hoop.

Sure did, 88% career FT shooter.

I love some of the FT rituals. Some might remember the Harold Miner routine when he was USC. I was a dribble three times and spin the ball in both hands two times guy...

Best FT from the 90s was MJ answering Mutumbo's trash talking by shooting with his eyes closed and making it

voodoo

Good old Magic, going out on a limb again...He has to have the worst player/analyst ability ratio going around.

Silly to leave Kawhi out (over Curry for me), but otherwise he has just picked the 5 best guys!

shark

None of them are shooting guards so that's helpful for a start.

voodoo

@shark dunno if it was meant to be a "team" or a "top 5", but either way its classic Magic, just kowtow to the current stars.

canefan

@voodoo said in NBA season 2019/20:

@shark dunno if it was meant to be a "team" or a "top 5", but either way its classic Magic, just kowtow to the current stars.

Great player, shit coach and GM

voodoo

@canefan said in NBA season 2019/20:

@voodoo said in NBA season 2019/20:

@shark dunno if it was meant to be a "team" or a "top 5", but either way its classic Magic, just kowtow to the current stars.

Great player, shit coach and GM

It also kills me that he gets kudos , along with other sports stars to be fair, for being an "amazing businessman".

It's so dumb. The guy gets presented a thousand deals a year that go through multiple layers of vetting before he even sees them (if he ever does). But your average bloke with his head screwed on, doesnt get to see any of these opportunities.

voodoo

Anyone think we are getting a resolution to the season this year?

canefan

@voodoo said in NBA season 2019/20:

@canefan said in NBA season 2019/20:

@voodoo said in NBA season 2019/20:

@shark dunno if it was meant to be a "team" or a "top 5", but either way its classic Magic, just kowtow to the current stars.

Great player, shit coach and GM

It also kills me that he gets kudos , along with other sports stars to be fair, for being an "amazing businessman".

It's so dumb. The guy gets presented a thousand deals a year that go through multiple layers of vetting before he even sees them (if he ever does). But your average bloke with his head screwed on, doesnt get to see any of these opportunities.

He still has to pick and choose the right deals. The sports landscape is littered with retired sportspeople that lost all there money on a succession of deals gone bad. But you are right, he has massive opportunities, albeit won on the back of a stellar career

voodoo

@canefan for sure he does. But half the battle is origination of opportunities. And he would see 50x more deals than the average bloke, and would have a solid team aound him doing the real work. Its a privileged position, and he's not some investment savant because of it

canefan

@voodoo said in NBA season 2019/20:

@canefan for sure he does. But half the battle is origination of opportunities. And he would see 50x more deals than the average bloke, and would have a solid team aound him doing the real work. Its a privileged position, and he's not some investment savant because of it

Nope. He ain't Warren Buffett

ACT Crusader

@canefan said in NBA season 2019/20:

@ACT-Crusader said in NBA season 2019/20:

@Bovidae said in NBA season 2019/20:

And how about Hornacek stroking his face 3 times (for his 3 children) before every FT attempt. It was so funny to watch but the ball usually went through the hoop.

Sure did, 88% career FT shooter.

I love some of the FT rituals. Some might remember the Harold Miner routine when he was USC. I was a dribble three times and spin the ball in both hands two times guy...

Best FT from the 90s was MJ answering Mutumbo's trash talking by shooting with his eyes closed and making it

My favourite FT of all time is Bo Kimble shooting a left handed FT in the first round of the NCAA tourney after his friend and team mate Hank Gathers died. What a tandem they were.

ACT Crusader

@voodoo said in NBA season 2019/20:

Good old Magic, going out on a limb again...He has to have the worst player/analyst ability ratio going around.

Silly to leave Kawhi out (over Curry for me), but otherwise he has just picked the 5 best guys!

I reckon both Leonard and Paul George would be successful back then. I see similarities in both their games with Pippen.

junior

@voodoo said in NBA season 2019/20:

@canefan for sure he does. But half the battle is origination of opportunities. And he would see 50x more deals than the average bloke, and would have a solid team aound him doing the real work. Its a privileged position, and he's not some investment savant because of it

This. Also, a lot of these guys are already fucking loaded, so they don't need to take the riskier opportunities presented to them. They can literally afford to wait for the next sure thing to come along.

voodoo

@ACT-Crusader said in NBA season 2019/20:

@canefan said in NBA season 2019/20:

@ACT-Crusader said in NBA season 2019/20:

@Bovidae said in NBA season 2019/20:

And how about Hornacek stroking his face 3 times (for his 3 children) before every FT attempt. It was so funny to watch but the ball usually went through the hoop.

Sure did, 88% career FT shooter.

I love some of the FT rituals. Some might remember the Harold Miner routine when he was USC. I was a dribble three times and spin the ball in both hands two times guy...

Best FT from the 90s was MJ answering Mutumbo's trash talking by shooting with his eyes closed and making it

My favourite FT of all time is Bo Kimble shooting a left handed FT in the first round of the NCAA tourney after his friend and team mate Hank Gathers died. What a tandem they were.

I'm no Kobe fan generally, but it's pretty hard to go past him making a pair on a busted achilles

Hooroo

@canefan said in NBA season 2019/20:

@ACT-Crusader said in NBA season 2019/20:

@Bovidae said in NBA season 2019/20:

And how about Hornacek stroking his face 3 times (for his 3 children) before every FT attempt. It was so funny to watch but the ball usually went through the hoop.

Sure did, 88% career FT shooter.

I love some of the FT rituals. Some might remember the Harold Miner routine when he was USC. I was a dribble three times and spin the ball in both hands two times guy...

Best FT from the 90s was MJ answering Mutumbo's trash talking by shooting with his eyes closed and making it