iowamcnabb
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This team is slick
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PorchSurfin
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You can see a LOT of how GS plays tonight vs how the Kings played in preseason. The difference in this game is the Dubs second unit aren't hitting like the Kings did and LBJ and AD and Russ are playing more mins.
PorchSurfin
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As long as it's not Wemb or Scoot I'm fine with it. But the Lakers are hot garbage.
This would have been a more entertaining game if you brought the Kings in for Mike Brown to get his ring and then lead his new team Against his old team. Instead of the Warriors against...an old team. A really OLD team.
PorchSurfin
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Rob Pelinka can get an extension amd Monte can't?
coolhandluke
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Did they rehire Luke Walton?
kb02
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The delta btwn surviving or thriving is zero prior to the real world/nba. One of the reasons why sons of ex-nba players tend to overshoor projections is bcz they’ve known what it takes to be an nba player their entire lives. Poor kids with the physical tools to be nba players, once they get the money, it’s less certain whether they know how to thrive In the league. Bcz the clues that scouts look at for whether they will thrive are the same clues that show someone is able to survive.
That quote by Westbrook is the dumbest thing I’ve read
kingsboi
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someone actually took the time to count the amount of dribbles? what is happening
Maybe. I read it more as a veiled threat along the lines of, "If you make me come off the bench, there's a real good chance I'll keep getting these mild 'injuries' ". We'll see.
kingsboi
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so in your view, do you think a player is better off mentally for the pros if a parent has been through it before them?
kingsboi
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what about keeping warm on a stationary bike like I've seen Curry do?
Which is exactly why I took it the way I did. Every guy who has ever come off the bench has learned how to stay ready for game action. And the fact that Westbrook pulled himself out of the last preseason game and couldn't play any more that night, but was still fine to start last night makes me think he wasn't really hurt.
But hey, if it forces Ham to start him then all the better. The Lakers got 27/6 from AD and 31/14/8 from LeBron and still lost by 14 to a Warriors team that didn't even have a great shooting night (Curry, Thompson & Poole were a combined 8/28 from three and Draymond had 4/5/5 in 25 minutes)
If Westbrook is going to start that team will continue to have terrible spacing and outside of Kendrick Nunn they have pretty much no quality bench depth.
kb02
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I think it's more structural rather than mental.
To me, the NBA is equivalent to the jump from college (or hs) to the real world. If you have parents/siblings/family who have already operated in the NBA (or the real world), the expectations, the structure is different than if you're the first in your fam to jump into that world.
There are other examples, but the best comparison is that of my experiences relative to my wife's. I was the first in my fam to go to college and therefore the first to do that transition from college to a white collar world. My wife's family is full of doctors, attorneys, professors, & generals. Wife's first job was a friend of her fam's. I found mine off of Craigslist after a number of interviews off of CareerBuilder. She went to Cal. I went to UCLA. So the job finding process, all things being equal, should be relatively the same. To lessen the commute for her first job, her dad bought her a condo. I found a sublet, for a dirty ass room, living with a bunch of Sac State dudes. Then later, when she was considering a PharmD, her dad offered to pay for it. While when I was considering b-school, I had to wait a number of years before I could afford to go.
Someone like Klay, after college, his dad likely provided structure that would take any other rookie, from a poor environment and no NBA dad, years to figure out. Some do, some don't, some fail then figure it out later.
Now, to be clear, having structure and privilege doesn't guarantee success. There are plenty of kids from privileged backgrounds, who end up being in really bad shape. I know for a fact that one of the biggest worries of parents in the Penninsula (Palo Alto, Woodside, Atherton...) is the suicide rate. Kids in private schools or ultra competitive public schools where the peer and parental expectations are through the roof.
No magic bullet, but, yes, once kids of former players have gotten to that NBA level, I think they tend to overshoot expectations. Not just because they're mentally more ready, but because they have structural support/encouragment/expectations--guidance on where to prioritize their time that others without former NBA dads do not.
go get Buddy Hield and be 8/40.
macadocious
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Dude, it was BS quote like funky said. He literally checked into the game at 4min mark, and it was like 6 min of real time because there was hardly any stoppages.
Do we agree or disagree with Eric Collins that David Robinson is the greatest left-handed player in history?
Hawks' new backcourt has combined for 22 assists.
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