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Tommy bilfiger;7683404 said:
Says it all right here.
https://twitter.com/mr_jasonjones/status/551924688570421249
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Says it all right here.
https://twitter.com/mr_jasonjones/status/551924688570421249
detcatinva
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Tommy bilfiger;7683404 said:The kings fired Malone the Only coach who reached your franchise player and cousins been low key been actin out ever since.Dumb ass indian cac shoulda invested in 7 eleven franchises or gas stations instead of an nba team.
if they wanted to own a sports team they should have bought a cricket franchise
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Firing Malone was the dumbest shit ever. Now niggas don't give a fuck on the court. Shit is sad b
Tommy bilfiger
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Thunder @ Warriors tonight on nbatv
Beta;7683475 said:Yo what do back spasms feel like? I think I got that shit
Like being poke with bunch of needles in back. Short of breath due to severe tightness. Hard to walk. uncontrollable twitching in the lower back.
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Beta;7683239 said:"Right now, the NBA is in the midst of a point guard era. The level of play at that position has been elevated so high that the performance of the primary ball handler often dictates which team will win a game. But this wasn’t always the case. Go back five or six years and the NBA was dominated by some of the most talented and physically dominant wing players to ever play this game. And most nights, I was in charge of figuring out how to stop them on defense.
I’ve faced many, many gifted players throughout my career, but in my opinion, these five guys were the toughest to guard:"
Kobe Bryant:
I still remember watching his 81-point game. I think everybody who watched that game remembers where they were — it was one of those special moments in sports. I was sitting in my basement with my friends playing dominos and I looked up at a TV and saw what was happening and said, “Hold on, we gotta watch this!” I couldn’t believe my eyes.
Kobe has the mentality of a basketball serial killer. He’s going to come at you every single way possible and he’s not going to let up. His mentality — his killer instinct — is what separates him from the other guys on this list, because once Kobe knows he has you, he’s going to keep attacking you. He’ll throw you down, beat you up and even when you’re knocked out, he’ll keep hitting you.
Kobe wants to destroy his opponent every night, and his desire to do so is second only to Jordan. I never had to play against Michael when he was with the Bulls, so Kobe is the closest I’ve come to facing that type of determination in my career.
One of the toughest games I remember playing against Kobe happened in Boston. I think he made seven or eight shots in a row on me. So we come into the huddle during a timeout and Coach is looking at me with a face that I knew meant he wanted me to switch off of Kobe. And the rest of the guys on the team could see what was happening and they were looking at me too. Finally they bring up that maybe we should switch and put a different guy on him, and I yelled, “Hell no! I’m going to guard him! I got this!”
He ended up missing the last nine shots of that game with me on him, and we won. But the stat sheet is still vivid in my mind. Kobe took 47 shots. Forty-seven. No one has ever taken 47 shots on me. Most games a team will get up 81 to 89 shots.
What you have to understand about Kobe’s game is that by taking that many shots, he’s meticulously wearing down the defender until he breaks them. He’s made a career out of making guys lose confidence in their defense and then continuing to attack them. He’s won five rings doing that.
If you want to have any defensive success against Kobe, you can’t break. That’s much easier said than done.
Tracy McGrady:
Tracy is a point guard in a small forward’s body. He’s 6-9, has long arms and can jump out of the gym, so every time he went up to shoot there was no point even trying to block it.
Attempting to stop him always came down to how could you bother him. With some guys you can bother their shot by playing them really tight. But every time Tracy elevated to shoot, he got so high up that you were pretty much at his will. With those type of guys, you really just have to hope they miss.
Since there was no way to stop Tracy’s shot, you just had to do everything you could to make sure he didn’t get in a position to shoot. So I would always do my best to deny Tracy the ball and be physical with him. I always knew that I couldn’t allow easy points in transition against him because then he might heat up. And if a guy with an unblockable shot heats up, well, that’s not good. But limiting transition points against a guy with the physical talent of Tracy was just a nightmare. He was such a tremendous finisher. He’s fast, he’s long and he could jump higher than anybody. And if that wasn’t enough, he was one of the better ball handlers in the league.
He’s a rare talent, and when you were up against him, you knew you were in for a tough game because he always had the green light.
Well, that’s something all these guys have in common.
Vince Carter:
This term gets thrown out a lot to describe NBA players, but with Vince it absolutely fits: This guy is just an athletic freak. In the late ’90s and early 2000s we had some serious battles.
Nobody wants to be on a Vince Carter highlight. In his prime, you knew he was going to get four or five highlights every game. And I’d always be thinking about that before we played against him. My mission would always be not to make the Vince Carter highlight reel, so before the game even started, he was already in my head.
From a defensive standpoint, he put you in such a tight spot. He’s hell to guard out on the perimeter because of the elevation on his shot. But you were so afraid of him blowing by you and throwing down a dunk that would be all over SportsCenter that you would allow him space to shoot. Then he would get hot from three-point range and at that point … what do you do?
LeBron James:
A 6-8, roughly 260 lb point guard/shooting guard.
How ridiculous is that?
And at his size, he’s still hands down the most athletic and fastest player in the league. Who ever heard of a guy that’s 6-8, 260 lbs being faster than everybody else in the NBA — and stronger?
Like a lot of top players, you just have to hope LeBron isn’t feeling it the night you face him. Once he takes his first step off the dribble, if he gets to the side of you, there’s no staying in front of him. He’s just too strong when he gets his shoulder into your chest. And he’s also one of the best finishers with his left and right hand that this league has ever seen.
And when he’s not physically dominating his opponents, he can also pick your team apart with his passing.
His style of play just wears you out over the course of a game. He’s constantly drawing fouls and getting and-one opportunities. The only way to stop LeBron from getting an and-one is to straight up tackle him. Slapping down on his hands simply won’t work — he’s too strong.
He’s just a caliber of physical specimen that this league has never seen before. A lot of the other guys I talk about on this list are tall, wiry, skinny athletic types, but LeBron is just as athletic as they are, but he’s also stronger and faster.
You can bet that after you guard LeBron, you’re going to be sore all over for the next few days.
Carmelo Anthony:
If I had to single one guy out who is the most difficult player to guard in the league, it would have to be Carmelo. He’s a unique blend of being big, strong, and athletic while also having a world-class shooting touch and a natural ability to get to the rim. That’s what sets him apart — every facet of his game is elite.
Some great players will have one or two particular skills that make them special. But Carmelo can do everything, which puts you in a baaad situation as a defender. A lot of guys might shoot better from certain areas, so you try to force them elsewhere on the floor. Carmelo doesn’t have a spot on the floor where he can’t consistently hit shots.
In my opinion, his combination of physicality and shooting touch is unmatched in the NBA. You can’t take one second off when you’re matched up against him.
Kobe is one of the best scorers in NBA history, but I don’t have as much trouble with him in the post as I do with Carmelo. LeBron is a great post-up player, but if you get him to settle for the jumper on some nights, you might be able to slow him down if his shot is off. That’s not the case with Melo. If you give him space to shoot, he’ll make it many more times than he misses it.
To put it plainly, he’s not a fun assignment on defense.
But then again, none of these guys are.
Ill write up would love to see more of these player perspective write ups
MeTaL;7683512 said:Beta;7683475 said:Yo what do back spasms feel like? I think I got that shit
Like being poke with bunch of needles in back. Short of breath due to severe tightness. Hard to walk. uncontrollable twitching in the lower back.
Thanks okay I don't got this shit..just general back issues then. I'm too young for this
Here's a read a couples week back on December 15 on the suspected reason of Malone getting fired. Look like this shit was over mike not wanting Josh Smith.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/the-do...kings-and-coach-michael-malone-175201188.html
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/the-do...kings-and-coach-michael-malone-175201188.html
Michael Malone had been pining for a backup point guard, but Sacramento Kings management had a different idea for their coach a year ago: Royce White. Here was the beginning of the end for this doomed partnership, a disagreement that widened the gulf between them.
White was out of shape, had no interest in playing basketball – which had been clear when the Houston Rockets released him. He had been awful in the Development League, a malingerer, and done nothing to deserve a call-up to the Kings.
"Pretty soon, they're telling [Malone]: Why aren't you putting him in the games?" one organizational source told Yahoo Sports. "That's when it really started to get bad between him and the guys upstairs."
General manager Pete D'Alessandro had to be the messenger to Malone on several unpopular directives, but there was long a sense he was often carrying out the will of his owner, Vivek Ranadive. Management goes beyond the owner and GM too, including influential consultant Chris Mullin. Too many voices, too little common ground.
D'Alessandro didn't hire Malone, the owner did. The GM hiring came two weeks later in 2013, and that was a rookie mistake for the owner. D'Alessandro and Malone had no history together, no trust and, ultimately, no chance together.
After Malone's first season, there were discussions about letting him go. Those died down, but it was clear Malone would start this season on notice, and he did. Management didn't believe in Chris Jent as his top assistant, and went out on its own and interviewed two ex-head coaches, Alvin Gentry and Kurt Rambis, for the staff.
Malone suspected they were trying to hire his eventual successor, and pushed to get ex-Utah Jazz coach Tyrone Corbin hired in the job. Corbin's the interim coach now, and had been loyal to the end for Malone.
The front office-coach relationship became increasingly strained through the Las Vegas summer league in July, especially once Ranadive and D'Alessandro made a play to trade for Detroit forward Josh Smith, sources said. The owner told people outside the franchise that, no, his coach didn't want Smith, but Ranadive didn't care. He wanted Smith's talent, and it was on Malone to make it work.
Most of the coaching staff struggled to believe Smith could fit with DeMarcus Cousins and Rudy Gay, and management differed. Talks with the Pistons shut down quickly, because Stan Van Gundy didn't want to make the proposed deals, sources said.
"The Smith situation caused everyone to take sides: Management against coaches, coaches against management," a source told Yahoo Sports. "Things only got worse."
The hard feelings lingered. Malone traveled to the World Cup of Basketball in Spain for a week in August, spending time with Cousins and Gay on Team USA. He had been building closer relationships with them, and part of that translated into a strong training camp and a solid start to the season. Once Cousins went down, the Kings lost seven of nine games to drop to 11-13, and the organization had its chance.
All around the organization, everyone agrees: The Kings were waiting for this opportunity, and pounced with the losing streak. "They should've done this in the summer, and brought in the coach and style that they wanted," one league official close to D'Alessandro and Malone told Yahoo Sports.
Before the Kings hired him as head coach, Malone had a reputation for a volatile temper and personality. In recent years, that cost Malone opportunities to be considered for head-coaching jobs elsewhere. As his two seasons as a Golden State assistant pressed on, some GMs refused to even interview Malone for head-coaching openings. Malone knew it, and worked to change his disposition and perception.
He had grown in the Kings job, worked to curb those shortcomings and built a strong bond and trust within his locker room. Malone was a major reason Gay signed a contract extension to stay in Sacramento, and played a significant role in Cousins' development on and off the court. Malone leaves Sacramento with an increased respect around the league, a chance to recycle as a head coach again.
As one rival general manager said late Sunday night, "How is Cousins having viral meningitis Malone's fault? With [Malone] gone, that's one less well-prepared team to worry about now."
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In the end, this was a doomed partnership – whatever the franchise's record this season, whatever happened. Management expects to let Corbin coach the term of the season, but who knows if the Kings will get uneasy and hire George Karl sooner.
Karl is D'Alessandro's old coach with the Nuggets, and the clear frontrunner to become the Kings next head coach. Karl has tried to get himself involved in almost every possible vacancy in the league – where there are openings, and where there were simply vulnerable coaches. Karl wants to break Don Nelson's record for career victories, and needs to be back on a bench soon to have a chance.
How Karl would deal with Ranadive will be fascinating, too. The owner played the part of a fantasy league owner, treating the Kings like a science experiment. He shared tactical experiences with Malone about coaching his child's youth team, and pressed him to consider playing four-on-five defense, leaking out a defender for cherry-picking baskets. Some semblance of that strategy is expected to be employed with Corbin now, a source told Yahoo Sports.
The Kings are constructed around a powerhouse post player, Cousins. They aren't built to play fast, but this is ownership's mantra. The Kings are playing a version of the fast-break game with their Reno affiliate in the D-League, and it's a window into the owner's futuristic vision for the Kings.
For now, the Kings owe Michael Malone $4 million-plus on the way out, and an explanation to a confounded fan base on who they are now, and what they're trying to become. Ranadive had been celebrated as the owner responsible for saving the Kings in Sacramento, and disposing of the dysfunctional culture of the Maloof ownership group.
Well, the Kings are still in Sacramento, but so is the dysfunction. Michael Malone isn't a perfect coach, but he never stood a chance in this climate. That's on the owner, and how he operates this franchise. Eventually, he'll learn. Most do. For now, the biggest changes Vivek Ranadive needs to make aren't with the coach's style, but his own.
MeTaL;7683544 said:In the end, this was a doomed partnership – whatever the franchise's record this season, whatever happened. Management expects to let Corbin coach the term of the season, but who knows if the Kings will get uneasy and hire George Karl sooner.
Karl is D'Alessandro's old coach with the Nuggets, and the clear frontrunner to become the Kings next head coach. Karl has tried to get himself involved in almost every possible vacancy in the league – where there are openings, and where there were simply vulnerable coaches. Karl wants to break Don Nelson's record for career victories, and needs to be back on a bench soon to have a chance.
How Karl would deal with Ranadive will be fascinating, too. The owner played the part of a fantasy league owner, treating the Kings like a science experiment. He shared tactical experiences with Malone about coaching his child's youth team, and pressed him to consider playing four-on-five defense, leaking out a defender for cherry-picking baskets. Some semblance of that strategy is expected to be employed with Corbin now, a source told Yahoo Sports.
The Kings are constructed around a powerhouse post player, Cousins. They aren't built to play fast, but this is ownership's mantra. The Kings are playing a version of the fast-break game with their Reno affiliate in the D-League, and it's a window into the owner's futuristic vision for the Kings.
For now, the Kings owe Michael Malone $4 million-plus on the way out, and an explanation to a confounded fan base on who they are now, and what they're trying to become. Ranadive had been celebrated as the owner responsible for saving the Kings in Sacramento, and disposing of the dysfunctional culture of the Maloof ownership group.
Well, the Kings are still in Sacramento, but so is the dysfunction. Michael Malone isn't a perfect coach, but he never stood a chance in this climate. That's on the owner, and how he operates this franchise. Eventually, he'll learn. Most do. For now, the biggest changes Vivek Ranadive needs to make aren't with the coach's style, but his own.
Smh @ Josh Smith singlehandedly trying to ruin three franchises at the same time.
Tommy bilfiger;7683404 said:The kings fired Malone the Only coach who reached your franchise player and cousins been low key been actin out ever since.Dumb ass indian cac shoulda invested in 7 eleven franchises or gas stations instead of an nba team.
I don't think that Indian dude knows WTF he doing, he the one who suggested the Kings to play 4 on 5 defense leaving a player in the backcourt to be a cherry picker =))
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Chi-Town Bully
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That sucks, no parent should have to bury their child
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9TRAY;7683606 said:Tommy bilfiger;7683404 said:The kings fired Malone the Only coach who reached your franchise player and cousins been low key been actin out ever since.Dumb ass indian cac shoulda invested in 7 eleven franchises or gas stations instead of an nba team.
I don't think that Indian dude knows WTF he doing, he the one who suggested the Kings to play 4 on 5 defense leaving a players in the backcourt to be a cherry picker =))
Choosing Collison over Thomas was stupid, I'm still think Stauskas will be a good pro, I'm not giving up on him. Firing Malone was dumb, Owners shouldn't be meddling, just sit court side and eat popcorn Vivek
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Sad shit abut the Kupchak kid. Like @"Chi-Town Bully" stated no parent should have to go through that.
Mike Malone will bounce back I think because he showed what he could do in his short stint out there and he helped Mark Jackson while in Oakland on the defensive side of the ball. If anything it might be a blessing he got let go by the meddling owner in Sacramento. Maybe he will get a better job with a more competent owner
Mike Malone will bounce back I think because he showed what he could do in his short stint out there and he helped Mark Jackson while in Oakland on the defensive side of the ball. If anything it might be a blessing he got let go by the meddling owner in Sacramento. Maybe he will get a better job with a more competent owner
