Free Claver!

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  1. jlprk

    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    Good video. Koponen #8, Claver #10, Monia #12. The bearded Claver makes a great block, later shows a stance he didn't show here with legs wide apart to get leverage. Monia shows up later in the video. Koponen's there the whole video through.

    I like European and D-League games almost better than NBA. The plays are slow enough for me to analyze.
     
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  2. riverman

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    Video was great but I really never could stand those cheesy fart sounding synth tracks.
     
  3. jlprk

    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    Yeah, I turned off the sound early.
     
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    Rastapopoulos Well-Known Member

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    Claver gets a nice dunk here, but didn't even play in two games against his old Spanish team. Khimki Moscow is pretty loaded: Tyrese Rice was the Euroleague Final Four MVP last year and they signed him for more than Real Madrid was offering. Petteri, of course, is good, but they've also got Tyler Honeycutt and veteran American-in-Europe Paul Davis. Oh, and Sergey Monya, of course.
     
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    I guess some people just have a hard time of letting go of the past.
     
  6. Boob-No-More

    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    Free Claver? That seems to be the going price.

    BNM
     
  7. jlprk

    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    This is like Sergio.
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    Europe: young up-and-coming star

    NBA
    Year 1: exhuberant, talented.
    Years 2-3: humiliated, beaten down dog, unlearns talents to become a role player

    returns to Europe
    Year 1: thinks like a role player, defers to others, bow-wows when called
    Year 2: slowly unlearns NBA inhibitions
    Years after: returns to pre-NBA talent level, howls like a wolf
     
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  8. BBert

    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    Zing! Kapow!
     
  9. Rastapopoulos

    Rastapopoulos Well-Known Member

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    Good one! Yes, I'm sure Claver went to Moscow to play for free.
     
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    Rastapopoulos Well-Known Member

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    Victor at work against Babbit's old team. Petteri helped:
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    Also this ex-Blazer:
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    PDXFonz I’m listening

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    So Claver went to play for the isle of misfit Blazers? Or is that Minnesota?
     
  12. Rastapopoulos

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    Victor's play is clearly the best, but they have to give Monia #1 because he's Russian, I guess:



    Now they're off to play Viktor with a K in the finals for the Russian League (VTB)
     
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    That "Arena" in those pics look like a High School gym.
     
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    Ugly result, but some good stuff here from Claver (and Petteri, and Monia)

     
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