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Euro ball is the same in Australia. That’s why guys like LeMelo are coming to Australia to play in the National league before their draft year. They get to play against big bodies and get that experience of playing against grown men. Team ball structure. And then they still have the same skills they grew up with at home which they can only add to their game. It’s not a bad apprenticeship before going into the NBA
Give AI a bit more credit. He was incredibly fun to watch and needed more support. His game 1 performance against Shaq and Kobe was memorable and he didn't get to the line once in G 2 of that series. Pretty weird.
defensive ratings were close 104.4 for Gobert and 105.8 for Wemby, i think what hurt Wemby statistically is that he averaged close to 4 turnovers (don't laugh nor be an ignoramus, go online and see that turnovers are factored in a player's defensive rating). having said that, their close defensive ratings were not reflected in the media votes where Rudy got 72 1st place votes vs Wemby's 19, and that I can't really understand. the only logical explanation i can offer is that there seems to be an unwritten rule for a rookie to win a major award other than the ROTY.
he actually plays BASKETBALL....not 3pt looking for a free throw with ZERO D. bird was the same. bird who is the goat. name one player who bird would not destroy and tell him exactly how he was going to destroy him before he does it
shaqs entire premise is so stupid lol. he's just bitter about losing the mvp to nash all those years ago, and he hates that jokic, a big man who is the clear best player in the league, is winning the award (something he feels like he deserved). his entire argument is based on "sga should win, based on the criteria that allowed nash to win". except shaq has spent the last decade chirping about how he was robbed of that mvp, so according to his own ACTUAL criteria, jokic is the mvp (just like he believes he was) lol. he should have just been happy that the right player won, but he couldn't control his jealousy and tried to undermine jokics moment and make it about himself. that was not objective analysis, that was a vendetta and a grudge. pure narcissism from a man child😂 as far as your analysis, i assume this is just a contrarian take to hopefully drum up some drama in the comments. all the examples you pointed to as validating sga as mvp are all the historically bad examples of when the mvp was given to the wrong player lol. jokic is the clear mvp this year. just like shaq was when nash won, just like jordan was when barkley won. i'm just glad they got it right this year.
stop looking for the next Michael Jordan already... there aint going to be anyone like him... ever again. Its not just the rings, the stats, the titles.... its his personality his impact, his retirements, his comebacks, his injuries... everything. Stop looking.
Defense is not all about blocks. Blocks are just a part of defense. You also need to look at the individual defensive rating of the player bro. That gives you the overall picture.
That’s just a stupid stat to judge someone’s defensive ability Steph curry out here looking like a good defender in 2016 if you use bs stats like that (He literally had a better defensive rating than rookie wemby lol)
Cap much? 😆 I mean yeah since last year he improved from 24.5 points to 25.9(1.4 points) FG 45.9% to the amazing 46.1%(0.2%) 3PT % is actually worse by 1.2% rebounding is down 0.4 from 5.8 to 5.4 and assists are up by 0.7 I wouldn't say this even worth of mention bruv. However since you made the video the Mavs went up 2:0 and Ant is like 20PPG on 33%FG for the last 5 games, so I'm still waiting for that maturity to show up and to stop being the only player I can remember to be gassed as f*ck every game in the Conference finals... Not to mention that Doncic in only his 4th season took the Mavericks to the WCF with much much worse roster 2 years ago while being the same age or I guess 5 months older if we are going for specifics but I guess you forgot about that right? Only Deander Aiton made the finals? Cap a bit?
Because he got sooooooooooooooo many L's...... W's actually mean something vs paper.... Harden would be considered the best player to ever play if we have wemby the DPOY Hope this helps the kids
Why do you have to shoot 3's to average 43.. Luka shoots 3's and can only average 34. AI was so freakin good he averaged 33 without the 3"s and MJ averaged 37 with out 3's.. So how important are the 3's.. it is just one more bucket a quarter with a couple and 1's without having to shoot a three
I don't want to hear anymore about Jordan son and the face of the NBA bs nonsense..Edward is a good player but no Jordan orm a prime LeBron ...even lukas who is 2_0 and is the leading scorer this season 33.9 nobody else came close is not jordan or a prime LeBron 😊😊😊
Eeeasy with the MJ comparisons, man. Ain't nobody, NO.BODY like Mike. Let Ant be Ant. If he makes a name for himself, cool. Don't try and compare him to the GOAT. That's not fair.
Rudy and Minnesota got exposed by #6 Seed Mavs for game 2 last night, it never fails Rudy Gobert always chokes some point in da playoffs... Rudy Gobert and Minnesota are in jeopardy of being swept by the Mavs😂😂😂
There's a crazy "metric" to sort this all out. It's very simple. You watch a lot of basketball and see which player is superior defensively. Not only was Wembenyama by-far the most impactful defensive player of 2024, he is one of - if not THE - most impactful defensive player I've ever seen. And I've seen Pippen, Ben Wallace, Mutombo etc. This is a historically bad snub, but the voters couldn't grasp the right decision, because it's so unconventional (rookie on a bad team).
Early season lack of minutes. Per minute I don't think Gobert even comes in 2nd. I think Homgren from OKC played better overall defense as he had a bigger impact on the total defensive capabilities of OKC than Gobert did for Minnesota. Gobert had pretty much the best defensive starting five in the NBA (although Boston is a close 2nd there) around him when KAT was healthy. Wemby... well... yeah... nobody other than him was or is really a 'top shelf' defender in that starting five. Next year I think Wemby runs away with DPoY (assuming he stays healthy of course) and Holmgren gets the number 2 nod.
