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Total Members Voted: 2

Voting closed: June 01, 2022, 11:20:06 PM

[kidcarter8]

Gus Johnson
Elvin Hayes

Correct

Guys missed included

SWEN NATER
KEVIN LOVE
GEORGE MIKAN

[bodiddley]

I pondered Mikan, but team scoring was pretty low back then.

Should have thought of Love as a possibility.  I remembered someone doing it not too long ago.  But I thought either Cousins or Drummond.  Maybe I got too caught up in C's and didn't think about PF's enough.  One or both of them had a 25-25 game, I believe.

Would never have come up with Swen Nater.
I was thinking maybe Zelmo Beaty, but I know nothing about him except he was Large and Zelmo is a tres cool name.

I call my neighbor's cat Zora (Zora the Explorer).
And my other neighbor's indoor/outdoor cat I dubbed Bix!.
But Zelmo would make a stellar name for the next male cat I get to know/name.

[kidcarter8]

She needs more money?  Good Lord!

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/16/us/vanessa-bryant-therapy-records-lawsuit/index.html

[bodiddley]

A follow-up to the previous question.

Just 4 players have grabbed 30 or more rebounds in a game this century.
Who they?

And a difficult bonus followup:
DET had a pair of teammates rack up 30-30 games in consecutive seasons.
One with a 38 & 32 game v. NYK in 59/60 & the other with 43 & 30 in 60/'61.
Who were they?

One I missed was Robert Parish who had a 30 & 32 game v. NYK in 1979.
I thought I remembered seeing Chief on such a list, but 30 rebounds seemed unlikely next to McHale and Bird.  Chief did it while with GSW.
(btw, Joe Barry Carroll for Parish & McHale might be the worst trade ever).

[kiidcarter8]

Wasnt Drummond

Ben Wallace maybe

Rudy Gobert?

Shaq?

[bodiddley]

None of them ...

[kidcarter8]

Cade Cunningham last 4 games

73 points
34 rebounds
30 assists
9 steals
3 blocks

[bodiddley]

Sacto up 5 with 7 minutes left v. PHI missing all their starters.
Kings go 1-11FG the next 5 mins, with a couple 24 sec violations, a number of bad shots.
Fox finally makes a tough somewhat wild layup.

Fox just wasn't organizing possessions, bricked a pair of 3's as well, lost the ball twice.
Had one drive where he nicely kicked to Barnes who clanked an open 3.
Hield was useless down the stretch, missing a 3 and having another altered by Thybulle.
Otherwise Bulldog Drummond snagged a million O-boards in crunch time, just killing Richuan Homeboy. 

TyH didn't score, but had 9 assists and a +9.
Fox scored 23, but had just 2 assists, 3 turns and a -17.

SacKings 6-12 with a distinct inability to win close games.
Fox & Hield are suspect down the stretch.

[kidcarter8]

MARVIN BAGLEY 10 and 8 in 18 minutes as Kings again solve Blazers.

Portland going nowhere - cant win on the road.

New Kings coach stayed with same formula aside from the bigger Bagley minutes

7-12.  Lets see if they get some traction away from Walton.

[bodiddley]

The Lillard/McCollum backcourt has long been problematic.
They don't defend and don't get others involved enough.
They've tried to bring in defenders such as Covington and Derrick Jones.
And Powell/Nance.  Still hasn't worked.

Reminiscent of the Wall-Beal pairing.
Talented backcourt which couldn't get the team anywhere.
Should move one of Lillard/McC before one gets injured or has a drop in production.
And Lillard aging.
Near peak value for both about now.

Drummond killed Holmes on the boards the other night.
Tristan has played pretty well for them.  Len is serviceable.
But Bagley still has the upside and springiness.
And since the SacKings season isn't going anywhere, as usual (Fox-Hield pairing is poison), might as well development Bagley for the future or to up his trade value.
Look at the Wendell Carter revival in ORL.

[bodiddley]

The PHI-GSW game a case study in why missing starters matters.
'6ers ripped a 19 point lead in the 1st half.
Then gave it all away and lost by 20.
Warriors 2nd unit feasted on '6ers 2nd/3rd stringers, and then the '6er 2nd unit guys who were starting just ran out of gas.  While Dubs just brought wave upon wave of fresh legs and ran the Philly crew off the court.

Toscano was killing the glass, Poole pushing the ball and making nice feeds, Damion Lee in the mix.  Made it easy for the Warrior starters.   Looney outplayed Drummond.  Twice Bulldog D tried to post Looney and got stuffed.  And Looney was running the floor.  Tough game for Drummond as GSW was playing a tad rapidly for his taste.

Btw, looks like GSW went with Gary Payton II as their defensive G, instead of A Very Bradley.  They were both waived on the same day, but Payton brought back cheaply.  Payton has been a stellar defender.  But has trouble with the 3's.  I'd prefer having the vet Bradley and his more reliable 3-ball.  Still seems a blunder to let Bradley go to LAL.  Maybe should have traded him East for a 2nd rounder or something.

[bodiddley]

Watched the 2nd half of POR's loss to SACto.
I wanted to see how Fox did in a rare close W for the Kings.
But then in a tight game, Fox got 2 Techs for arguing on off-foul and ejected.
Meaning TyH ran the show.  TyH was fairly tentative but kept the ball moving and got everybody touches.

Bagley had a nice game.  Popping in a 3 around the 6' mark, then a tip in a few minutes later and a key 3 at the 1' mark.  Missed a 3 in the middle there.  Played with energy, rebounded well.  But I was impressed with Damion Jones.  He played tough and big at C.  A few nice rolls to the rim, a block, some good defense and boarding.  I recall him looking intriguing off the GSW bench a few years back, but then he sort of disappeared.

Credit to Gentry for going deep into his bench.  Holmes was out, Len started but blah.  There's Tristan but Nurk was killing him.  So Gentry dusted off Bags & Damion Jones.

Otherwise, Hield hit a 3 down the stretch, then barely grazed iron on another.  Blah.  Does this guy ever drive?  Lillard was 1-7 on 3's in the 2nd half, including 2 logo misses and another UFO. Anytime he drove, he got fouled and made FT's.  Also was hitting 2's.  Yet he was determined to jack tough 3's.  Dennis Smith was in for a good stretch of the 4Q, and was pretty erratic.  Dribbled out of bounds, looked out of control before a pass or two, etc

McCollum made some late game mistakes, a travel with under 2' and then a 5 sec inbounds failure with 25 secs left and down 4.  That was the end of all hope.  Lillard got jammed up on the play and then doubled, but ya gotta get the ball in or call timeout.

So a rare and weird close-game W for Sackings.  With Fox ejected  (he was playing poorly 4Q) and Holmes out, TyH was conservative and two deep bench Bigs led the way.

I think part of the answer going forward is to limit Holmes minutes.  Let him be high energy for 28 mins a night.  He's not a rim protector, and when he plays mid-30's mpg, he fouls a lot late and can't keep up in the 4Q.  More Bags and Dame Jones please.  Ya got 5 useful Bigs.  Use 'em.  I'd like to see the Harrison Barnes at PF smallball lineup (Fox-TyH-Hield or with Davion Mitch in the mix) with Damion Jones at C.

[kidcarter8]

Blazers suck on road

KINGS (next game, last night) pick up big road win at LAL.  3 OT.  Fox plays 52 minutes.  Tyrese with 5-9 from deep.  Nice contribution from Bagley.

Gentry seems to have the players together.

[bodiddley]

Blazers not a good defensive team.  Lillard favors long 3's.  Hard to win close games just on long J's.

Wow, Bags wound up playing 35 mins.
TyH 19, 9 assists, 6 boards, 5 steals.

3OT game and SACk -20 in Davion Mitch's 17 mins.
Yikes.  Guess that's why Fox was out there for 53 mins.

LeBJ & AD combined 2-18 on 3's.
Was it Westbrook guarding Fox?  A Very played only 12 mins.

[kidcarter8]

Fox numbers climbing after a tough start

Just 25% from 3 but 2 pt percentage up to .491 (.498 career)

Assists per 36 down a tick - and so is of course his PER, well below that of each of last three seasons (15.3 vs combined 19.6 of 2018/19-'20/21)

Rise, young star!