The OFFICIAL 2013 NBA Playoffs Thread

Serious on Bayless? He is their weak link

 

Yeah... but we had to trade ZBO so he wouldn't poison aldridge!!!!!

hoop fam

 

I agree. Bayless is not very good.

 

Did Charles Barkley just say that Jerryd Bayless' dad is his psychiatrist?

EDIT: Michael B Bayless, PHD is Chucks psychologist. Never knew that...

 

Zach is tougher than Aldridge, but purging all our tough players is what some Blazer fans demanded, so we got our current 15 years of purgatory.

 

Haha, I'm a fan of Patty Mills, but that made me laugh. Reminds me of when my man Mateen Cleaves was unofficially the "highest paid cheerleader in the NBA."

 

I got that Mills sentence from this thread. I forgot where. Maybe someone can find it.

I love Patty.

 

I wish the Grizzlies had made a move for Mills. It took the coaching staff and management a good 3/4ths of the season to realize Bayless is better as an off-guard, and so our answer to bring in a true point guard back-up at that point was Keyon Dooling, which just shines a light on how bad the Tony Wroten pick was for a team that was looking like a potential contender. Just to think, we could have had Draymond Green...

 

That was me.

 

What exactly happened with Wroten? Does he have potential to get better? Everyone knew he came out too early. What does he suck the most at?

 

Tony Jr. (which is what we've been calling him because Tony Allen is our team leader, and well, he is actually Tony Wroten, Jr.) has a ridiculously high ceiling, but he's not NBA ready yet, and that's really the biggest problem I had with his selection. Three years from now, I could be looking back at the selection as a great pick, but realistically, we already had a similar project in Selby, and he flamed out for similar reasons that Tony Jr. could. It's hard to develop a point guard with his weaknesses (mainly decision making) when they don't get playing time, and when they do, it's in the NBDL where they're allowed to jack up as many shots as they want to.

We've been a contender for a few years, and in the late first round, drafting a player that could actually contribute, make smart plays, play defense, and rebound would have been ideal. We worked out Draymond twice (I think), yet we still passed over him for yet another project. It's hard to develop a project when they're splitting time on the end of the bench and in the D-League. I essentially saw passing on Draymond as the management saying, "we're not quite there yet," even though Draymond would have instantly shored up our bench, as a multi-positional, high bball-IQ, defensive minded, rebounding role player.

As far as Tony Jr.'s actual game, he's really developed a lot more than I would have expected, but he's still not a good decision maker. That's his biggest problem out of all of his flaws, and that's probably the last thing you want in your backup point guard. To his credit though, he has actually become a pretty decent FT shooter this season, was a pretty good on-ball defender, but also forced the issue too much every time he was in important games and kept getting lost on rotations. He still has too much of a scorer's mentality, which would be fine if he played in Charlotte or Orlando, but playing for a contender, Tony Jr. showed poor court awareness in crucial moments this season.

It's pretty telling when management doesn't have enough faith to play their first round pick to the point that they actually have to un-retire a coach (Dooling) to play back-up minutes for them in the playoffs.

 

But Tony Jr doesn't play for a contender. No one takes the Grizzlies serious as a title team.

 

It took me one Summer League game, while all others were beside themselves praising his selfishness.

Good quote. Whats-His-Name was asking.

 

NOVoodoo. Good guy.

 

That could very well be. It's is hard to project how hard a player will work to get better. With the one and done's especially. It is easy to fall in love with his size (and his cross over) He won PAC-12 Freshman of the Year and narrowly missed out on PAC-12 Player of the Year, so I was glad he left Washington early. (being an Oregon fan) But like I said before he should of stayed. And like you said it is hard to get better sitting on the bench.

He could be another Jrue Holiday. Or a waste of talent who left too early.

 

The Pacers are killing the Knicks. J.R. Smith and Tyson Chandler are both lost in their own heads right now.

 

Tyson Chandler, last year's DPotY, can't handle Hibbert one-on-one on defense, and it's crushing the Knicks.

 

McGrady sighting!

 

T-Mac... what a fuckin gangster... waving for Jefferson to come D him up.