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prekida se tekma na 02.59 do kraja, lebron i russ na ferku se lemaju dok se svi igrači na terenu formiraju u ring držeći se za ruke. to vreme lemanja se ne meri i onda se nastavlja tekma. miki, ne taj kontinuitet, nego kontinuitet u rezultatima ekipe za koju igra. ne mora da osvaja još titula ali bi bilo dobro da ne ispada u prvom ili drugom kolu ako je već to što se tvrdi.

svakako post igra više nije tako intenzivna ali tu i jeste njegov forte u odbrani, kao i kod većina centara njegovih gabarita. ono što sam hteo da kažem je da je napredovao odbrambeno - od očaja do neke podnošljivosti. naravno da će njegove mane biti izložene na izvol'te kada mu je ekipa desetkovana, pa na perimetru igra kampaco 30 minuta a druga opcija je da gordan paunović brani pleja. nije dobro ali je bolje nego što je bilo ( :

jokić? napredna statistika kaže da je sada podnošljiv u odbrani, odnosno, da je napredovao u nekim segmentima gde je očajan a postoje uglavnom 1na1 situacije na postu gde je zapravo i dobar. nemoj da mi tražiš samo podatke, slušao sam to kod bill simmonsa i zach lovea kada su pričali oko njegovog mvp kejsa ( :

wbrook je baš idealan primer da se pokaže neko ko je opterećen statistikom i ličnim dostignućima. malo su mu taj poriv i amplifikovali u oklahomi u onoj prvoj sezoni bez duranta gde im je trebao neki hajp. hoće i luka ponekad da zabaci asistenciju i uzme skok ako mu zafali na kraju, svaki igrač hoće (osim jokića, on čeka da se završi tekma) ali westbrook je baš 1/1 onoga što zovu stat-whore a da pri tome čak nije ni dovoljno dobar, pogotovo u poslednjih 3 ili koliko sezona gde ga izdaje atletika a košarkaške tendencije odlaze od njegovog pristupa igri. kao što je jasno svakome ko odgleda par ozbiljnih tekmi da je lillard > wbrook, tako je isto očigledna razlika između toga kako ova dvojica dolaze do TD a kako russ. ja inače volim njegovu energiju i to ali on jednostavno nikada nije bio na nivou ovoga što igra lillard. niti je bendovao tekma-realnost na način na koji to rade dončić i jokić.

sve se to računa & zaista je sjajno: zove se greatest moments in the history of nba finals i nema veze sa presecanjem nakon toga da je neko najbolji evropljanin ikada, najbolji evropljanin trenutno ili najbolji igrač po nba pravilima. za sve to navedeno je potreban kakav-takav kontinuitet, koji je janis možda upravo krenuo da gradi.

obzirom na to da je sada leto 2021, mogli ste i nesto kasnije. npr pre pete tekme ja samo kazem da se ovde a i diljem interneta sve gleda kroz aktuelni uspeh ili neuspeh. sledece sezone sve iznova, dnevna goat lista.

problem je u tome sto wbrook ocigledno nije bolji igrac od lillarda, nego se to sad ponavlja da bi se opravdao basket objektivizam u kojem titule i personalna priznanja cine da je x igrac bolji od y igraca a zabavno mi je da janis nije pomenut u ovom kontekstu otprilike nikada ovde do pete tekme finala, sto samo govori o tom instant priznavanju, koje ce isto tako nazalost nestati prvom bitnom prilikom u kojoj sutira sa slobodnjake u svom proseku a ne 17-19

slatki mali naivni sektore. da je oprostio novac koji je nezasluženo dobio ugovorom, on bi pokazao svoju veličinu i materijalno se pokajao a samim tim dokazao koliki je cigan. ono što je važno, je da su ta tri meseca pakla iza nas i da smo ušli u period oporavka od ćelave kataklizme i da bi do 2023 mogli da konačno stanemo na zdrave noge i nastavimo sa uspesima u evropi, koji su u tom sušnom, tromesečnom periodu izostali.

ne znam miki te tanane forme košarkaškog objektivizma, vidiš da tek pokušavam da po'vatam osnove ( :

naravno da ne može. najbolji plejmejkeri svih vremena su onda 1 bob kuzi 2 medžik džonson 3 stef kari 4 ajzeja tomas za 5o mesto bih morao da guglam i merim odnos titula + fmvp + mvp -- kod te top 10 liste moraš da staviš bil rasela na prvo mesto, pa onda jedno prazno, pa jordan na drugo pa dva prazna, pa da vidiš između jabbara i lebrona ko je gde, pa eventualno magik, kobe, shaq. ostali su po kriterijumu na kojem insistirate nebitni - a ovi bitni su jasno poređani, nema tu sad cile-mile & đuture.

daklem, objektivna lista najboljih plejmejkera ne sme uzeti u obzir john stocktona, steve nasha, chris paula i james hardena - pošto oni nikada nisu osvojili titulu niti bili FMVP. ali ukoliko harden u narednim sezonama osvoji - ulazi na listu, doduše, ispod irvinga, koji će svakako imati neku titulu više. osim ako harden ne bude fmvp, onda je nerešeno? takođe po istom kriterijumu, lebron je objektivno plafon treći najbolji igrač svih vremena a verovatnije 5i - 6i, u zavisnosti od toga da li se više ceni mroj titula ili broj fmvp.

meni je teorijski interesantan vrlo taj kessler edwards, koji je kod veceniea tek 51. a na strick.land-knicks oriented draftu 23. https://www.thestrick.land/strick/2021-nba-draft-profile-kessler-edwards

preferiram SAO smith

hocu da pitam, da ako radonjic ispusti plasman u cetvrtfinale do kraja decembra, da li cemo ga zvati kosmato govno?

meni samo ovde smrdi. od ova dva saleta mi je sve okej.

šut verovatno nije sporan, čak i da je malo zarđao, doći će pre ili kasnije na svoje. međutim, offball kretnje, bilo u odbrani ili u napadu je ono što predstavlja zadršku nakon njegovih povreda, pogotovo u ovim godinama u kojima je. pa to je isto dinastija. ne znam na osnovu čega tvoj komitet za procenu dinastije nipodaštava titule dubsa sa durantom. jel' su dinastije samo ekipe koje se nisu pojačavale od prethodne titule? takvih ima verovatno nula ili jedna kad se igralo na šljaci (a i to je pitanje)

mislim da ni klay lično ne zna kako će izgledati nakon prve ili dvadesete tekme u sezoni

upravo tako. sad smo džiberi krvavih kolena i svima to trljamo na nos (što krvarimo, džiberstvo se vidi i sa solidne distance : ))

‘I’m here sitting at the top of the top’: Giannis’ championship drive was part fable, all powerful David Aldridge 4h ago The thing about fairy tales, of course, is their audacity, their stretching of reality. And, indeed, NBA championships are the stuff of fairy tales. So very much has to go right for them to occur that it’s hard to keep track of it all. Think of everything that had to fall into place for Giannis Antetokounmpo to be on that stage Tuesday night, cradling the Larry O’Brien Trophy and the Bill Russell Finals MVP Award like they were Gatorade bottles in his hands, after going for 50 points, 14 rebounds and 5 blocks in the Bucks’ 105-98 win over the Phoenix Suns to secure the franchise’s first title in 50 years. First, he had to somehow first navigate a life in which he and his brothers were on the streets of Athens, Greece, unseen and uncared about by many of his fellow Athenians because his family was of Nigerian descent. Think of their fight, over years, simply to be recognized as Greek citizens. Then he had to take up and master enough basketball as a teenage boy that he could be drafted in the first round in 2013 by a team in a midwestern city in the United States whose citizens couldn’t pronounce his name. “My mom was selling stuff in the street,” he said after dropping that 50-burger. “And now, I’m here sitting at the top of the top. And I’m extremely blessed. I’m extremely blessed. If I never have a chance to sit at this table ever again, I’m fine with it. But, like, I hope this can give everyone around the world hope, and allow them to believe in their dreams.” Think of the 180 Antetokounmpo’s presence — his joy — being in Milwaukee was from five decades ago, when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who’d won everywhere he’d played the game his entire life, said Milwaukee just wasn’t providing him enough cultural stimulus for him to be comfortable in the city — even though he’d won a championship there in just his second season in the league. And how painful that must have been for the Bucks general manager at the time, the first Black man in league history to get a GM job, Wayne Embry. Milwaukee is, still, harshly segregated. And the pain of the past flares up in the city in awful ways. Former Buck Sterling Brown just finalized his settlement with the city in April, which paid him $750,000 following a 2018 incident with police in which Brown was confronted by an officer after parking across two parking spots outside a Walgreens. Multiple police officers tackled and tased Brown after he didn’t comply with their requests. The city also had to apologize to Brown. Brown left town, but the franchise’s commitment to social justice, to look outside the court and become more engaged in the community, intensified. There’s no title if Jon Horst doesn’t become the team’s GM in 2017. And Horst only became the GM after the Bucks weren’t able to get Artūras Karnišovas, now the Bulls GM, from Utah, and opted to promote from within. “I think in a long-term view, ‘championship or bust’ is our mantra,” Horst said to me in his first year at the helm. “We fully intend to be a team that competes for championships for a long period of time, and hopefully wins championships. We want to do that. … Between that stage and a championship is a lot of really critical and important steps. You have a short window, and you want to maximize every part of that window.” Horst hired Mike Budenholzer as coach in 2018, and retooled the roster around Antetokounmpo and Khris Middleton, adding Brook Lopez and Pat Connaughton. Then, in November, Horst pushed all his chips in, getting Jrue Holiday from New Orleans. There was urgency in his moves, an urgency felt up and down the flow chart. But Horst’s work helped convince Antetokounmpo to eschew free agency this year and commit to a supermax deal with the Bucks. Giannis was fiercely loyal to the city that drafted him, to be sure. But he also had to believe he could get a real shot at a ring there, too. There’s no title for Giannis in Milwaukee, either, without Fiserv Forum, which opened in 2018. Because without Fiserv, the Bucks would have left town and wouldn’t have generated the revenue necessary to pay big contracts to the likes of Antetokounmpo and Middleton. And it took a lot of work — a lot — for the public-private partnership that committed $250 million in state funds — along with $200 million from the team’s current owners and former owner Herb Kohl — toward construction of the new arena to be approved in 2015. In 2014, several counties steadfastly opposed spending their dollars for a building in Milwaukee, arguing that few of their constituents would ever come to the city to attend events there. Which was its own story. The Racine County Executive at the time told me that he was a basketball fan, but he was dead set against spending for the new building. “In our particular case, the objection is that there’s no economic value to our county,” he said then. “We don’t get people staying in our hotels; we don’t get people eating in our restaurants; we don’t get people going to our bars. The economic value is to Milwaukee and Milwaukee County, in the sales tax. The value to our county is non-existent — I would say minuscule to non-existent. As a result of that, if Milwaukee and Milwaukee County want to provide public financing, that’s fine. I’m not arguing that. But they get all the benefits.” Tuesday, there were 65,000 people outside Fiserv, in what the team now calls the “Deer District,” counting down the final seconds of the clincher. Most, I’m guessing, were not from Milwaukee or its nearby suburbs. But they spent their money in the redeveloped part of downtown by the arena – which wouldn’t have happened if the Bucks were still playing at Bradley Center. But there’s no title for the Bucks, either, unless they failed the way they did the previous two postseasons. They blew a 2-0 lead to Toronto in the 2019 Eastern Conference finals, then got run over in the bubble last year by Miami. The team’s heart was elsewhere; the Bucks were the first NBA team to refuse to play in the postseason in August after the police shooting of Jacob Blake in nearby Kenosha. But it was that failure in Orlando, Florida, that forced Budenholzer to change the team’s offense and defense after two years of rigidly sticking to his old systems. Cue the dunker spot and more switching on defense. “COVID, the new schemes, things like that, new players — a lot of that uncertainty, those differences, they made all the difference,” Lopez said. “That’s what made us better — going through all that, absolutely, prepared us for this journey. We had our backs against the wall multiple times. And I think we can absolutely look back on those earlier moments of the season and see where we grew as a team, and as individual players. And all of that paid off in the long run.” So much had to break the Bucks’ way, too – up to and including Kevin Durant’s sneaker being about 2 inches too big in Game 7 of the second round. But every NBA champion gets some lucky breaks, too. That shouldn’t for one second take away from what Antetokounmpo and his team accomplished, against a worthy opponent, in a competitive and fun championship series. Giannis’ performance in these Finals was no dream or made-up story. It was the stuff of legend.

retki su igrači čiji legasi ne dodiruju ere, pravila, patike. durantbi dominirao u svakoj eri. po svim pravilima, makar i na terenu za basket u nečijem kraju. ako se neko može imenovati terminom "unicorn", eto ga .

plus nije ni evropljanin, što mu olakšava put do one-minute-grejtnesa.

onda jednostavno pogledaš na kraju sezone: - janis je uzeo titulu, mvp finala = on je najbolji evropljanin ove sezone. - jokić je bio reg season mvp = on je drugi najbolji evropljanin ove sezone - luka je bio u light conversationu za mvpa, kao i janis = on je treći najbolji evropljanin ove sezone. za rangiranje u kontekstu sezone, sve već postoji, zato što je kratkoročno i zato danas jesi, sutra nisi. tviter zabava. mislim, nemam ništa protiv ali ne vidim ni poentu za diskutovanje kad sve lepo piše.