Your Memphis Grizzlies Basketball Thread III

#531
#531
TBrown said:
James Johnson's -11 was truly impressive.
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Numbers never tell the whole truth ! LBJ had an impressive -8, but yet without him , we would have won by 42. Surely, you watched the game. I'm sure Nick appreciates the rest tho. By the way, how's Special Ed doing ?
 
#532
#532
ArliTnVol said:
Numbers never tell the whole truth ! LBJ had an impressive -8, but yet without him , we would have won by 42. Surely, you watched the game. I'm sure Nick appreciates the rest tho. By the way, how's Special Ed doing ?
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James Johnson sucks any way you wanna spell it.

Ed played well last night.
 
#535
#535
Welp ...all we gotta do to claim the 7 seed is win out.


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#538
Alternative awards: Most valuable tanker, biggest reclamation project and more | The Point Forward - SI.com

Most Valuable Tanker

Tony Wroten, Philadelphia 76ers

Tanking in itself might be an overstated problem on the NBA scene, but there can be no question that the ever-singular Sixers set out this season to lose as many games as possible. More crucial to that effort than any other player has been Wroten — an amazingly athletic, high-variance guard who eats up possession after possession with inefficient return. Wroten could pan out nicely if he ever hones his jumper and settles his game down, though for this season’s Sixers he was a perfect low-cost prospect to carry the tanking banner.

Consider his credentials:

• Wroten has the absolute worst turnover rate in the league for a player of his usage.

• Wroten has been the single worst three-point shooter in the league this season, and is having one of the worst three-point shooting seasons of all time.

• Wroten’s effective field goal percentage is fourth-worst in the league among players of similar minutes and usage.

• On top of it all, the abjectly horrible Sixers have been 3.4 points worse per 100 possessions with him on the floor.

For a player with those qualifications to play some 1,700 minutes is rebuilding in its purest form. There is so little incentive for these Sixers to win games that their time and touches are better spent on a player like Wroten than a more capable veteran. Wroten is, at present, a bad NBA player. His defense is as sloppy as one would expect of a raw 20-year-old playing with other young players in a haphazard system. His right hand collects dust as a function of his left-hand-dominant game. He excels at getting to the rim but seems clueless once he arrives there — a tendency that may well feed his admirable free throw rate by way of mutual confusion between Wroten and his defender. Yet there’s an undeniable spark in Wroten’s drives that isn’t easy to find in a low-cost asset. That warranted deeper inspection and investment for a Sixers team with minutes to spare, setting up a scenario in which Wroten would either pleasantly surprise or actively contribute to the team’s losing.

He’s done more of the latter than the former, though in the process gave coach Brett Brown an detailed and extended look at what he does well and where he needs work. It’s not as if the Sixers need to come to any determination regarding Wroten in the near future, after all; he’s under guaranteed contract for next season with an affordable $2.2 million team option in 2015-16. Philadelphia has a flexible timetable with which to decide how to best make sense of Wroten’s idiosyncracies and an increasingly informed perspective from which to make that decision. Such is the benefit of a deliberate rebuild, where letting Wroten loose was very much a part of a larger plan.
 
#543
#543
kwebbvols2344 said:
Alternative awards: Most valuable tanker, biggest reclamation project and*more | The Point Forward - SI.com

Most Valuable Tanker

Tony Wroten, Philadelphia 76ers

Tanking in itself might be an overstated problem on the NBA scene, but there can be no question that the ever-singular Sixers set out this season to lose as many games as possible. More crucial to that effort than any other player has been Wroten — an amazingly athletic, high-variance guard who eats up possession after possession with inefficient return. Wroten could pan out nicely if he ever hones his jumper and settles his game down, though for this season’s Sixers he was a perfect low-cost prospect to carry the tanking banner.

Consider his credentials:

• Wroten has the absolute worst turnover rate in the league for a player of his usage.

• Wroten has been the single worst three-point shooter in the league this season, and is having one of the worst three-point shooting seasons of all time.

• Wroten’s effective field goal percentage is fourth-worst in the league among players of similar minutes and usage.

• On top of it all, the abjectly horrible Sixers have been 3.4 points worse per 100 possessions with him on the floor.

For a player with those qualifications to play some 1,700 minutes is rebuilding in its purest form. There is so little incentive for these Sixers to win games that their time and touches are better spent on a player like Wroten than a more capable veteran. Wroten is, at present, a bad NBA player. His defense is as sloppy as one would expect of a raw 20-year-old playing with other young players in a haphazard system. His right hand collects dust as a function of his left-hand-dominant game. He excels at getting to the rim but seems clueless once he arrives there — a tendency that may well feed his admirable free throw rate by way of mutual confusion between Wroten and his defender. Yet there’s an undeniable spark in Wroten’s drives that isn’t easy to find in a low-cost asset. That warranted deeper inspection and investment for a Sixers team with minutes to spare, setting up a scenario in which Wroten would either pleasantly surprise or actively contribute to the team’s losing.

He’s done more of the latter than the former, though in the process gave coach Brett Brown an detailed and extended look at what he does well and where he needs work. It’s not as if the Sixers need to come to any determination regarding Wroten in the near future, after all; he’s under guaranteed contract for next season with an affordable $2.2 million team option in 2015-16. Philadelphia has a flexible timetable with which to decide how to best make sense of Wroten’s idiosyncracies and an increasingly informed perspective from which to make that decision. Such is the benefit of a deliberate rebuild, where letting Wroten loose was very much a part of a larger plan.
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NAWWWW !!!! Say it ain't so !!!!!!!
 
#544
#544
kwebbvols2344 said:
Alternative awards: Most valuable tanker, biggest reclamation project and*more | The Point Forward - SI.com

Most Valuable Tanker

Tony Wroten, Philadelphia 76ers

Tanking in itself might be an overstated problem on the NBA scene, but there can be no question that the ever-singular Sixers set out this season to lose as many games as possible. More crucial to that effort than any other player has been Wroten — an amazingly athletic, high-variance guard who eats up possession after possession with inefficient return. Wroten could pan out nicely if he ever hones his jumper and settles his game down, though for this season’s Sixers he was a perfect low-cost prospect to carry the tanking banner.

Consider his credentials:

• Wroten has the absolute worst turnover rate in the league for a player of his usage.

• Wroten has been the single worst three-point shooter in the league this season, and is having one of the worst three-point shooting seasons of all time.

• Wroten’s effective field goal percentage is fourth-worst in the league among players of similar minutes and usage.

• On top of it all, the abjectly horrible Sixers have been 3.4 points worse per 100 possessions with him on the floor.

For a player with those qualifications to play some 1,700 minutes is rebuilding in its purest form. There is so little incentive for these Sixers to win games that their time and touches are better spent on a player like Wroten than a more capable veteran. Wroten is, at present, a bad NBA player. His defense is as sloppy as one would expect of a raw 20-year-old playing with other young players in a haphazard system. His right hand collects dust as a function of his left-hand-dominant game. He excels at getting to the rim but seems clueless once he arrives there — a tendency that may well feed his admirable free throw rate by way of mutual confusion between Wroten and his defender. Yet there’s an undeniable spark in Wroten’s drives that isn’t easy to find in a low-cost asset. That warranted deeper inspection and investment for a Sixers team with minutes to spare, setting up a scenario in which Wroten would either pleasantly surprise or actively contribute to the team’s losing.

He’s done more of the latter than the former, though in the process gave coach Brett Brown an detailed and extended look at what he does well and where he needs work. It’s not as if the Sixers need to come to any determination regarding Wroten in the near future, after all; he’s under guaranteed contract for next season with an affordable $2.2 million team option in 2015-16. Philadelphia has a flexible timetable with which to decide how to best make sense of Wroten’s idiosyncracies and an increasingly informed perspective from which to make that decision. Such is the benefit of a deliberate rebuild, where letting Wroten loose was very much a part of a larger plan.
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I would be interested to hear your response to this article tbrown.
 
#548
#548
No one home tonight with the sixers in town? Oh well, always fun see us go get an easy one wire to wire.
 
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