(ESPN) Harris expected to stay in draft; Hopson a mystery

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hatvol96 said:
Anytime I see the "nobody plays defense in the NBA" comment, I make a mental note to ignore anything basketball related that person says going forward. If there was no defense being played, the final scores would be 171-168 every night.
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:lolabove: Not exactly that would mean everyone would have to shoot 100% and to my knowledge no one has ever done that ( shooting more than 10 or more shots of course) Heck even and1 bball has scores lower that NBA games and they play NO defense either
 
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#53
Look at the playoff teams and the teams that didn't and don't play defense and you can see a direct corrolation. Teams like the Clippers and Warriors don't play strong defensively, yet score well over 100 pts per game and lose 2/3 of their games. Tell me the Lakers, Heat, Celtics, Spurs, Grizz, Bulls, etc don't play defense and I'll kindly tell you that you haven't watched many games.
 
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IMO the defensive intensity starts increasing during the final month or two of the regular season as teams are jockeying for seeds and then again to a whole other level once the playoffs get started.
 
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#57
Saw Tobias at the library today.

Glad to see he is still taking his studies seriously.

If he is going pro, the pressure would be high to neglect the rigors of final exam time.

Maybe just keeping his options open?
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#59
even if you don't like Hopson, we need atleast one of these guys to be a cornerstone for us next year and make us respectable
 
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hallowed_hill said:
Did we actually just have a civil argument on here with a resolution? I'm impressed, gentlemen.

A quick look at the stats shows college teams average ~68 ppg, while NBA teams average ~99 ppg--a 45% increase. I agree with hat, though, that several factors more than make up for this difference. The game is 20% longer, the shot clock is 31% shorter, and the offensive skill in the nba is simply unreal. There are still plenty of posts that can clang an open jump shot, but the majority of guys can really shoot.

I'm not a huge NBA fan, but I've also tried to dispel the myth of "no defense in the nba" with friends. Even more ridiculous are the ones that argue it while holding up the 70's and 80's as the golden age of NBA basketball--when the defense was much, much worse.

My theory is that most casual sports fans are more into hero worship than the games themselves. They haven't embraced the current stars like they did Jordan, Magic, Larry, etc. They use the 'no defense' argument when they haven't watched much nba in a long time. Even though the NBA season seems way too long, the playoffs are usually very entertaining. These guys play incredibly tough, physical defense for sure.
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Some of that is so, but part of what fans see is that offensive skills are preferred over defensive skills, in general, in the NBA. As it relates to the draft, if you have player A who plays great offense but is lousy defensively and player B who plays great defense but is lousy offensively, it's player A who is more likely to get drafted, more likely to get drafted higher, and more likely to play. Doesn't mean that defense doesn't matter or that defensive role players don't exist; just that offense matters a lot more than defense. Put another way, the NBA is the best collection of offensive players in all of basketball more than it is the best collection of just defensive players in all of basketball. Football is substantially different because players are only on 1 side of the ball.
 
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Is that really necessary? From what I hear it is mainly the amount of positive feedback he has received from NBA teams. After evaluating him his stock is rising.
 
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#68
Advisors are usually people the player has a personal relationship with while an agent is a hired consultant, the advisor (usually) isn't paid.
 
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