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Love it.

Fucking Tye Lue even took a break from eating corn dogs and nachos to get into this game.
 
The site crashed during the end of the game?

Anyway, Cavs really got screwed on some bad calls at the end. There were bad calls the whole game, but the calls at the end put the nail in the coffin. Like Game 1 of the Finals all over again.

Overall, great game though. Love the passion that Sexton plays with. Hope we give him a lot of room to grow and make mistakes during the season.
 
priceFTW said:
This Svi guy has one of the prettiest shooting strokes you’ll ever see. If that guy was taller and didn’t have T-Rex arms (stroke might have been different, though) he would have been in the league two years ago. He’s looked like a rostionnplayer throughout the summer league—I’m surprised they’re still playing him.

You can Preston’s natural gifts out there. I hope he can hang around here until he figures out how to play. Seems like a long shot, but man the amount of natural talent he has.
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He'll be the second best player the Lakers got this summer.

It's funny, I always thought Svi would be a much better shooter in the pros, and he was a good shooter in college. The college line was just too close for him.
 
Walter White said:
He is 6'7 or 6'8. So he is plenty tall.

I think having a short wingspan is overrated. If that is why he fell, that's weak. Clearly nobody is blocking his shot and his defense seems very solid. Been rebounding well too.

If you can play, you can play. Maybe teams felt he didn't have much potential, but most projects don't pan out anyway. Even if he was just a shooter, they can make quite a lot of money and are very useful as rotation players as you said. He seems to have a better overall game than that though. I mean, even being drafted top of the 2nd round is one thing, but dropping to 47th is crazy.
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Agree that it’s not the be all, end all, but Popovich and Kerr among others have talked about its importance especially in the world of “positonless” basketball when you often have to get stops in unconventional ways if you’re outsized/muscled. Positioning, BBIQ, shooting stroke, etc., all matter, but length helps greatly.

There was a study done that calculated how many more deflections, rebounds, loose balls, blocks, “closer contests,” etc., a player with an extra 1”, 2”, 3”, 4”, 5” over mean wingspan and standing reach should be able to get per 1000 possessions and the difference is quite meaningful. I’m trying to find the study.

Svi shouldn’t have fallen this far, though. Makes me sick that this 20 year old has a higher BBIQ than almost everyone on our roster last year.
 
MirORich said:
NBA really should do 2 minute overtimes. 3 at the most.

5 is stupid
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Playing only 2 minutes gives too much of an unfair statistical advantage to the team that wins the tip (one extra possession) when possessions are unequal.

If a game is played at a pace of 97 possessions per game (last year’s league average), then a 2 minute OT period should see about 8 to 9 total unique possessions (factoring in offensive rebounds).

One team with 5 possessions and another team with 4 means one team has 11% more possessions and that would be unfair. The longer you play, the less advantage the tip-winning team has. In a 5 minute period, there should be 20 to 22 possessions. The tip-winning team then had about 5% more possessions. Not perfect, but better.
 
priceFTW said:
Playing only 2 minutes gives too much of an unfair statistical advantage to the team that wins the tip (one extra possession) when possessions are unequal.

If a game is played at a pace of 97 possessions per game (last year’s league average), then a 2 minute OT period should see about 8 to 9 total unique possessions (factoring in offensive rebounds).

One team with 5 possessions and another team with 4 means one team has 11% more possessions and that would be unfair. The longer you play, the less advantage the tip-winning team has. In a 5 minute period, there should be 20 to 22 possessions. The tip-winning team then had about 5% more possessions. Not perfect, but better.
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That all makes solid statistical sense, but the excitement of 2, maybe 3 minutes appeals to me. Great players and great teams having to make great plays in a shortened final spurt.

I’d take it a step further.

First OT 3 minutes

Second OT 2 minutes

Third OT 1 minute, no jump ball, team that scored last in 2nd OT starts with the ball OOB

4th OT and beyond, no jump ball, 1 possession each
 
MirORich said:
That all makes solid statistical sense, but the excitement of 2, maybe 3 minutes appeals to me. Great players and great teams having to make great plays in a shortened final spurt.

I’d take it a step further.

First OT 3 minutes

Second OT 2 minutes

Third OT 1 minute, no jump ball, team that scored last in 2nd OT starts with the ball OOB

4th OT and beyond, no jump ball, 1 possession each
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5th OT: foul shooting contest. Like penalty kicks, but something closer to the pussy-style ball that Silver wants from the contemporary NBA.

FUCK ADAM SILVER.
 
As it stands right now, I'm giving the Cavs credit on this pick. I don't know what it is. But when it comes to someone looking like they are going to murder someone on the court... Sexton is that guy.
 
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I guess "The Cavs Way" is to be carried by one guy when it all falls down. Good thing Sexton was known for that in college! So happy Cavs got him.
 
Wtf....we got hosed by the refs badly again. We should have won that one without Cedi and Z!

I'm sure that Cedi would have locked either Hart or Svi down badly, and that would have meant a 30 point beatdown by the Cavs.

Fuck, I guess we didn't want to win the SL championship because our team was by far the best.

I guess that if Cedi played we wouldn't have seen Sexton take over the game like that? dunno. It's not about injuries...I don't buy it.
 
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