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steady986:
Just the same way you're trying to blame Lebron for KCP's poor 3 shooting and not credit him for KCP's good long 2 shooting. If a grown man fails to make open 3s, it's not Lebron's fault. Good for him if he made 2 long twos yesterday or torched the Jazz, everybody has his day. It seams all you can do is bring out singular games and incidents to buttress your invalid points

Story. You can't even prove LeNomad is responsible for his good long 2 shooting. Merely judging by the larger sample size it's obvious LeNomad is likelier to be blamed and involved in KCP'S bad 3pt shooting (which I never did anyway, till you tried to credit LeNomad for a good game KCP had) than KCP's good long 2 shooting

I have brought out singular games and if you add those singular games up it makes my point glossier. All you have done is jumble incoherent stats that you cannot even prove LeNomad influenced. Prove LeNomad directly influenced the 39 makes from 16ft to just behind the 3pt line. I just showed you a game he attempted 3 and made 2

Yonce:
I know right.
Shooting all those deep 3s while he was handicapped.

God help us all, If a guy with bad eyesight is making 43% despite taking 800 3's

Yonce:
Apparently, Steph curry has been shooting 3s all these years with blurry vision.
He's been doing the birdbox challenge while playing in the NBA.

Lool you mean he was half blind the whole time?? Jesus Christ

steady986:
You're here whining about the amount, and I'm telling you he's making 49% as opposed to 35% last season. Do you think he just suddenly got better at the long twos? Even Curry that has played almost twice as many minutes as KCP has made only 64 long twos, which is less than one per game. And he's making it at 43% which is less than KCP's 49. Guy, I don tire for this your argument.

Noooooooo. the spirit of LeNomad entered his soul and suddenly he acquired the ability to make long two's. That's why he was able to make 2 last night from 3 attempts even in LeNomad's absence

What makes your point all the more laughable. You're crediting a guy that has missed 26 games for KCP's stat that rounds out at less than 0.5 makes per game. Yet the larger sample size of 3's you're disclaiming because it doesn't favor your guy. This is clowning at its peak

In other news KCP torched the Jazz last night sans LeNomad

GloryIsaac:
Watching the previous fight between Holloway and Poirier caused goosebumps all round. Poirier literally broke Holloway's arm, and probably scarred him mentally for life.

Let's see how UFC 236 goes..... My Predictions with a little bias

Holloway vs Poirier (W)

Gastellum vs Adesanya (W)

Eryk Anders (W) vs Khalil Rountree

Alan Jouban vs Beanie Sigel (W)

Ovince Saint Preux vs Nikita Krylov (W)

Beanie Sigel don join UFC?

steady986:
He's still making a substantial amount of long twos, so whether it reduced or not is not relevant. It also tells that he is probably taking more good look and open twos rather than just taking any shot that comes his way. This is as a result of the double-teaming on Lebron which will make KCP and other teammates freer. Don't you get it? If he goes on at that rate, it will still be 49%.

Lmaooo are you hearing yourself at all? Someone made 37 long two's out of 80 games and you're here writing long story about LeNomad. Do you know what that computes to?

E say substantial amount. Hehehehe he's making less than .5 long two's per game so come and tell me more about how this double teaming is helping the teammates and why it's not reflecting on his 3pt shooting

Can you even prove that those two's came with LeNomad in the lineup? Chale stop wasting my time Biko

steady986:
Lol. It's now about long twos abi, no more rim matter. But as his long twos reduced, so did his going to the rim, which kind of balances it out . And did you know that he is making 49% of his long twos (16ft to 3pt line) this year as opposed to 35% last year, which happens to be his best shot type compared to all the other distances apart from at the rim. Bro, your argument holds no water. I've told you to stop reading stats cos it's clear you don't know how to analyze them.

You're just yarning megedefegede. The point is stop giving LeNomad credit for any improvement with KCP if you will not give him blame for his decline as well.

I knew he was making it at a higher percentage. The page shows the percentage Captain Obvious. My point is the fewer longer 2's you take the likelier you are to be more efficient with it. Common sense!

Are you comparing the drop in longer two's to the drop in shots at the rim? What is your point exactly? Are you disputing the fact that cutting down long 2's generally improve a player's efficiency? Or that KCP has been doing that over the last 3 seasons.

steady986:
Hian, look at the stats again. You claimed KCP is going to the rim more this season thus the 2pt% surge. But the stats say otherwise. He went to the rim more last season than this season. Do we at least agree on this one?

Leave rim matter and focus on the matter at hand. Someone has provided you Garri, you're still asking for Cassava.

The most impactful boost to his FG% over the last two years consisted of him cutting down on long 2's, since this has been unearthed stop taking us back to any rim matter that does nothing for the debate whether right or wrong

steady986:
Lol. Abeg no make me laugh. What was your original argument? Didn't you say he is attempting and making more shots at the rim this season? SMH. You just shot yourself on the foot.

Is this your fallback plan? The original argument is LeNomad should not get credit for KCP'S play (which has not been anything to shout about anyway) but it's been purely down to him. The rim bants you're on about is just you obfuscating the matter.

If you like you can keep clutching at straws. What is evident is KCP taking less longer 2's has improved his efficiency ever so slightly.

Evidence suggests that he's been progressively taking fewer of these shots before LeNomad entered the picture.

steady986:
Mr statistics, do you even know how to read statistics?

I should be asking you.

RexBarkridge:
LOL You've been clowning yourself all over this thread trying to discredit simple facts.

KCP suddenly found out shorter 2s are easier to make when he started playing with lebron.

You disappeared when i pointed out to you that KCP is shooting close to 40% from 3 with lebron playing. But this charlatan brings up his overall 3 pt % just to discredit lebron.

Your hatred for lebron has turned you into a bonafide clown.

Ohh shush it Child! You brought up a meaningless megedefegede stat from one month (February). You haven't even proven LeNomad was directly responsible for those 3's so save this nonsense narrative. We should disregard an entire season workload and focus on February?

The height of fraud and misinformation is claiming playing with LeNomad is the reason Kentavious started taking fewer longer two's when hard evidence suggests he started that process since the previous season.

You clowns claim a player making simple smarter decisions is purely tied to LeNomad. I call BS

RexBarkridge:
You do know hes shooting at closer ranges because of lebron right? Like i said, lebron allows better shot selection for shooters. This just proves his point. Stop arguing with facts.

WTF? What would you credit LeNomad for next? Electricity? This is such a nonsense take its not even funny. Any thinking Basketballer should not be taking that many long 2's to start with.

In 2016/2017 he took 172 long 2's, it dropped to 126 in 2017/2018. This should tell you that the tendency is simply being coached out of his game not any yeye LeNomad factor

The lack of consistency is what nauseates me with you lot. I have pointed to Kuzma and KCP shooting worse from 3's *crickets* you're now attributing someone taking fewer long 2's to playing with LeNomad. When analytics and everything else is simply coaching the long 2 out of shooter's games

Seun has work to do on top this forum. These glitches are becoming too frequent

steady986:
Eh, I want you to link me to the website that told you he is taking less long twos. Or drop a screenshot like me

Shey you can see the difference now, or you just want to waste my time some more?

raumdeuter:
Zagadou is mediocre, and I dont know if there is any upside to him, he is young and big but he makes too many mistakes

even vs Tottttenham

Dortmund need more offensive weapons to peg Bayern back which they are lacking, coming into the game just to contain will be a disaster

That Pako they went to buy that is always injured and can't complete 90mins of football. Only God knows what Dortmund does with all the money they rake in from their transfer fees

raumdeuter:
Hoping we lose the DFB Pokal today and the game vs Dortmund next weekend so Kovacs sack letter can be confirmed

Lol as if these teams are capable of putting up a fight

SmooshCHN:
I wanted raw experience man. China makes everything so easy of which what I needed raw experience. For like #9000 you could do a CT scan and like 20k for MRI. Unlike Nigeria where you'd have to hone your clerking skills because most patients can't afford to splash #60000 on CT scan only for it to come out negative for what you were suspecting. In China, they'd just run a routine tests from cross matching to CT, MRI or PET CT. Learning in an environment where there isn't easy Access to technology would be a blessing when you've mastered the suffer head type of learning and then get the luxury of technology.
Besides there's nothing bad in learning the Nigerian way if I needed a nigerian license. You could pass USMLE and fail the Nigerian MDCN exam (I'm kidding. However, Medicine in Africa is just different from Asia or Europe.)

Ahhhh. Nigerian license? Almost everyone I know in the medical line is running to do PLAB oh. Some of my Doctor mates are even running to Sudan and the Middle East to practice. If PLAB no work out. In the next 20 years I don't know if there would be any Doctors left in Nigeria. Maybe na herbalist we go dey patronize

Khanben:
Giannis had 5 blocks in that game, 4 on Embiid alone

Embiid called himself the most unstoppable player in the game. I'm sure Giannis heard that. He's a taller and more efficient, new improved Westbrook. And he wants all the smoke

RexBarkridge:
36 FG% is what A40 likes to call "torching"

Its not his fault though, hes a kobrick fan, hes all about that "mamba mentality"

That mentality won 5 rings. Put some respeck on it

Khanben:
Embiids back lol

A lot of Coaches have been great this year. Let's not forget what Mike Malone has been doing in Denver.

I like Malone, I think Denver had enough and should have been in the playoffs even last year but he's done a masterful job navigating the West with all those injuries. Having Millsap healthy was a big difference maker. If Harris finds his form somehow then they can make some playoff noise

steady986:
You started the nitpicking na. Show me proof, that's all I ask

Lool what proof do you need? We have established the fact LeNomad improving shooters is myth and urban legend as evidenced by your volume 3p shooters (Kuzma,KCP) experiencing a steep decline in their percentage

We have gleaned that what might be largely responsible for KCP's infinitesimal increase in field goal percentage is merely the reduction in the number of long 2's he takes so what else are you saying?

KCP torching the Clippers with 23 pts sans LeNomad. Someone will soon come here and tell us how the earth revolves around the sun faster when LeNomad plays

birdman:
on ROY, Luka is not really a rookie, which is why he didnt have to "wake up". Dude was a pro already. Trae Young is a real rookie, and you can see as his NBA mind has been developing all season. Having watched many Hawks games this year, Trae is no longer just an assists guy. It is scary how much PG skills he has developed in a season. This guy will at least be as good as Jason Kidd. And he is now comfortable stroking the long ball. And Im saying this as someone who really didnt care for Hawks or Trae.

Naah. Not buying that argument at all. I don't care if he was a pro, he was stepping up from a lower competition at age 19. Age 19

Older players take time to adjust in new environments never mind a 19 year old. So as much as Trae has exceeded the ceiling I set for him what he's been doing since after the All-star break is what Luka had been doing since October

birdman:
On MVP, Im partial to Harden of course. I think Giannis takes it, but Harden has a strong case - for a good chunk of the season, CP3 and Capella were out. Harden held the fort and kept Rockets in the hunt in the Westeros conference.

I agree in large part to this but just for the sheer fact that no one saw the Bucks coming. For his two-way impact (just ask Embiid) and the fact that he's doing it at such a much more efficient level whether the refs blow their whistle or not I'm leaning ever so slightly towards Giannis

It's so much fun watching OKC and San Antone playing Avoid Golden State

steady986:
Let me help you. Last season, KCP attempted 2.5 shots per game from less than 10 ft and made 1.6. This season, he's attempting 1.9 per game and making 1.2. As you can clearly see from the photos. If you were a pundit you'd just be feeding your audience with nothing but made up lies.

Unku. You're just nitpicking stats like beans!

The whole premise of your argument is based on a paltry .7 uptick in Field Goal percentage. Smh

It might look like it but truth be told I don't have time for your tales by moonlight. All I know is he is taking 44% of his 2P at the rim compared to last year's 40%

It also helps that he cut down (from 32 to 26%) on taking probably the most useless shot in basketball. Those long two's beyond 17ft and just short of the 3pt line. Happy? Or we should give LeNomad credit for a player simply using his common sense

Khanben:
Regular season is ending soon. End of season award time.

MVP: In this category I really do think this year's situation is a great reason why the modalities of awards like this, should have allowance for two players sharing the award. But if I have to pick just one I'll give it to Giannis.

ROY: Luka Doncic honourable mention to Trae Young

DPOY: I have Joel Embid ahead of PG13

6MOY: Lou Williams

MIP: Pascal Siakam

COY: Mike Budenholzer

MVP - Divide it into two between Giannis and Harden

ROY - Luka Doncic. Trae Young didn't wake up till after All-star Break. Assists is the only department Trae Young tops Luka

DPOY - Giannis Antetokounmpo. Can guard all 5 positions. Go and ask Embiid's back if you're in doubt

MIP - Pascal Spicy Siakam

6MOY - Lou Williams.

COY - Who had the Bucks as a top 4 seed never mind best record in the league. Honorable mention to Doc Rivers and Nate McMillan but Mike Budenholzer all the way

SmooshCHN:
Deliberately killing another human still shocks me. The sad thing is, that place has a canal where those miscreants stay and it happens from time to time. Knowing Nigeria, nothing will be done. I'm pack my bags once I'm done.
Upon their meagre salary, I can't count how many times I've seen them pay for patients bills. From common #4500 chest x-ray to CT scan of like #60000. They sometimes contribute when patients can't afford CT scan. It's not even doctors alone. The average decent Nigerian deserves a better life and that life is outside Nigeria.

I think say na China you dey. Wetin carry you come back? Far as I know health practitioners here are doing charity work. The bare minimum security and healthcare we don't prioritize at all.

My friend in pharmacology na so them owe her till she go do her Youth service. Salary of less than $300 they can't pay comfortably. I dunno again mehn

CuteRedd:
He would surely get MVP. DPOY i doubt

Who else is more deserving of DPOY? Giannis can probably guard all 5 positions. Dude is a monster and wants all the smoke

SmooshCHN:
I don't know why those f*ckers don't just take what they want and leave.

Why would you even rob a Doc? Their pay is so poor I can't even understand.

CuteRedd:
exactly, his demeanor has been subpar lately...He has this brusque attitude I have noticed. I really think he would leave...it was fun while it lasted maybe we pay boogie the max, keep the core and let KD go and get a solid SF! We will be alright

KD has the thinnest skin of all athletes I've ever seen, even thinner than LeNomad. I mean this was someone creating burner accounts to reply faceless people. I mean you're Kevin goddamn Durant FFS why should you even care??

Lol are you sure you want to pay Boogie max?? Honestly sha if I'm Durant the key would be linking up with another star and going to the Clippers. Imagine if he gave the Clippers their first ring. Even his worst detractors would have no coherent retort against his legacy anymore

CuteRedd:
could care less if he goes. Happy while it lasted. He tried for us but we tried more for him!

Lol I think he needs to see a shrink. I've never seen KD this upset. He has picked up more techs this year than in his 11 years in the league combined. When Boogie is coming to play peacemaker then water don pass garri.

Lmaooo una relationship was symbiotic tbh.

Lmaooooo I lost count of how many times Giannis blocked Embiid last night. If I were voting he'd be my MVP abeg. This dude is the most dominant two way force in the league as we speak.


MVP and DPOY - Giannis Antetokounmpo