Quick writes about what everyone has been thinking but too afraid to admit

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    A little calm....Quick wasn't saying Dame hadn't hit big shots. Not one place in that article does it say anything like that. It just points out the factual data of 4th quarter and crunch time percentages. Why shoot the messenger? Quick has had nothing but extreme praise for Dame but apparently if he dares point out anything that isn't glowing, he is a horrible reporter? Come on people....a little balance.
     
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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    My comments were meant more for your choice of thread titles. (Which I'm the first to admit, I make thread titles all the time to provoke reactions, lol.) I honestly don't believe for an instant that Lillard is afraid to admit he isn't doing as well as he demands from himself. If Batum or LMA had half the drive that Lillard does they could be superstars. Lillard continually exceeded people's expectations of him at every level of basketball by working his ass off.
     
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    Quick is right. Stotts isn't playing the percentages, and should design better end-of-the-game plays.
     
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    Maybe some of these guys aren't running the plays Stotts designs.
     
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    Coach needs to do his job. His post-game quote regarding this was something along the lines of "Just get the ball to Dame and he can do what he wants. Six seconds is a lot of time." What a fucking joke.
     
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    obviously this is Aldridge's fault. Aldridge leaving has turned Lillard into a soft player. 100% blame Aldridge.... Lillard will never recover from the influence of Aldridge.
    curses.
     
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    Except Quick doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt. He loves to pretend that he sees things nobody else can see, and to drag a player or the entire organization through the dirt any chance he gets. He's a slightly smaller pile of shit than Canzano. Even when he's right he's wrong.
     
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    I guess we have to agree to disagree. He has been almost completely effusive in his praise for Dame and one article where he points out the reality of 4th quarters and 'crunch time' shots does not seem like dragging a player down any chance he gets.
     
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    Haha that's what I'm saying. In fact Quick LOVES Dame all he does is praise that dude for his professionalism and everything. Lol
     
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    10% of Quick's are articles are good. In the other 90% he whips out his dick and Blazerbates to a mirror before "writing" it.
     
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    When I was coaching 8th grade basketball I had an extremely long kid named Ira on my team. He reminded me of a young Kevin Garnett. Long, tall, slim, and athletic. He was very headstrong and confident. At times too confident in his abilities. When teams would go into a 2-3 zone we would go into "Zone Break" with my PG at the top of the key, 2 Wings and a baseline runner. I would put Ira in the best scoring position possible, (the soft spot in the zone) right around the free throw line. Half of the time he caught the ball there after swinging/skipping it around the perimeter he could turn and get a lay up. If we executed the play correctly, teams would have to come out of their zone because I had two wing players that were solid 3-point shooters. Ira sometimes wanted to do things his way and would not go to that soft spot in the zone. He would be too close to the baseline runner or too close to one of the wings and spacing became an issue. I would tell him over and over to go to his spot. One time I told them to go there and he decided to do his thing. We turned the ball over. I called an immediate timeout and told him exactly why that turnover happened. At the end of the time out he remained on the bench. We ran the play four possessions in a row after that. We scored on three of those positions because everyone was in the right place. I then told him I was not going to put him back in the game until he ran the play correctly. He learned that day.
     
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    See Dviss' post right above this.
     
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    Hah, I hear a new chant coming - Design or Resign! lol
     
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    Doh!
     
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    meh...when you dislike a media journalist...balance is just overrated
     
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    I want to thank Quick for writing this.
     
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    Looks like Dame read the article, or saw the stats himself, and watched film, whatever. Only one questionable shot in the fourth. Progress
     
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