Paris 2024 Summer Olympics

[MultiVerse]

Derrick White today: 6 Minutes 0pts. And Tatum is going through a shooting slump. His perimeter shot is off. He's air-balled quite a few wide open looks in the games he has played in.

[alpinevibes]

Paris 2024 Summer Olympics

Sydney M-L just absolutely CRUSHED the field. New WR... made it look easy!

USA just STACKING medals again!

Syd delivered, Bol crumbled. She (and maybe Bol) should be splitting 47-low on her anchor leg this weekend. I wish we could see Syd race more.

Holloway! Roberts! Cockerel! Tara-Woodhall! Heptathlon was great, Hiltz and Elle St Pierre were solid in the w1500

[PNWbrit]

I think he said this is last Olympics, I don’t think he’s done commentating as of this week

Back in the early eighties Liggett was commentating at an u16 criterium I was racing in that was on the undercard of a pro race.

I got dropped off a breakaway and as I was freewheeling along for the pack to catch me I took my hands off the bars.

Liggett yelled at me to, "put your hands back on your handlebars, this isn't a bloody stunt show!"

[54-46]

Kerr's starting line up is weak on D. I get playing Lebron and Steph out of respect, but get Booker out of there. White and Tatum are far superior defenders. Serbia shot well on a high volume of 3's. The US had only 2 blocks. That's the way you can beat the US. I also get playing Embid againts Jokic. But we should see more White, Tatum and AD in the finals. Those are the guys that contest shots all over the floor.

There’s a reasonable answer. Thanks.

I didn’t like Serbia how was involving Embiid and Curry in PnR early, but then the US did more pre-switching and late help on Jokic and that helped. Embiid was scoring well but defensive rebounding for shit. Need more mobile AD against Wemby.

IMO, with Wemby able to sit in the key on D, the US will need Booker’s 3-pt shooting more than Tatum’s D on French wings. Guess we’ll see…


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[mcski]

Derrick White today: 6 Minutes 0pts. And Tatum is going through a shooting slump. His perimeter shot is off. He's air-balled quite a few wide open looks in the games he has played in.

Steph said post game the big issue was the guys were all deferring to each other on shots. Once they started playing ball and just taking their open shots the game turned around. Plus Serbia is really fukin good.

[mcski]

In other news, Noah Lyles has Covid

[alias_rice]

It's a team sport. We're talking about reigning NBA Champion Jason fucking Tatum. Not Brian Scalabrine.

https://hardwoodhoudini.com/posts/bo...-2024-olympics

This is why I love the internet. 54-46 give a well thought out post and the response is screaming that Tatum isn’t Scalabrine. ?

Basketball is not my sport of choice, but I know enough to guess that Steve Kerr has a better idea of what he is doing than the local dentists here.

[plugboots]

I don’t recall a ski off and don’t know what the fuk you are talking about w your imagined persecution. All I know is u don’t know fuk all compared to Kerr

Don’t you know, stalefish was at all the practices and saw all the team dynamics.

[54-46]

In other news, Noah Lyles has Covid

Perspective and changed expectations. Dude said he was happy and proud to get bronze. I don’t like his meta game, but appreciate the effort.

The track events have been fire this Olympics!


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[Diamond Joe]

That hoops game was so exciting I rewound it and watched the entire 4th quarter again, so I could actually enjoy it and not be screaming at the screen as Serbia grabbed offensive rebound after offensive rebound...

Curry mugging and celebrating BEFORE he actually hit the free throws to ice it (US was only up two!?) was a little over the top, although he did personally will the US to the W with the huge late 3 to take the lead and the steal/coast-to-coast layup near the end....

[stalefish3169]

Don’t you know, stalefish was at all the practices and saw all the team dynamics.

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/jayson-tatum-team-usa-steve-kerr/

"He's a total pro. He's First-Team All-NBA three years in a row. I felt like an idiot not playing him," Kerr said.

[bennymac]

That was 11 days ago

[I've seen black diamonds!]

IMO, with Wemby able to sit in the key on D, the US will need Booker’s 3-pt shooting more than Tatum’s D on French wings. Guess we’ll see…

Tatum is a significantly better 3 point shooter than Booker. More attempts, higher percentage.

[mcski]

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Did you even read the reasoning - on a game commentary from
A game almost 2 WEEKS ago ?

So you will sit KD in favor of Tatum and you think that’s gonna change the game?

Keep doubling down on beating the Tatum boner you seem to have. Kerr’s point is everyone is really fuckin good, not that he made a mistake by not giving Tatum more minutes

[54-46]

Tatum is a significantly better 3 point shooter than Booker. More attempts, higher percentage.

I checked because you got me curious - and last season:

Tatum 37.6% on 8 3PA/game from NBA line and 47% from 2

Booker - 36.4% on 6 3PA/game from NBA line and 49% from 2.

Maybe you’re dead on balls accurate?

The difference may or may not be significant for FIBA games. Maybe shorter FIBA 3P line more significant than NBA stats?

More nuanced thought:

Maybe Booker better without the ball since LBJ is ball dominant for Team USA and Tatum is also ball dominant in his Celtics role? (Someone above - not ISBD - was saying it’s a team game.)

Too small of a sample size in a couple games to really know for sure.

I get your point though and I’m sure that Celtics fans and Tatum fans would love to see Tatum play more. He’s an excellent player. That’s totally fair. Bummer when good dudes don’t get their run.



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