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| Date | Title | Body |
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| 33 weeks 1 day ago | The Game |
Against Jay Z and Kanye but you find The Game entertaining? Must be a westcoast rap fan... /s |
| 1 year 8 weeks ago | Incomplete info |
Need to know turnovers/game for a more complete assessment. |
| 1 year 11 weeks ago | Do you know who is |
Do you know who is officiating today? |
| 1 year 12 weeks ago | Yea Minnesota plain stinks |
Yea Minnesota plain stinks w/o Nolen. Smack them, beat msu, win the first B10 tourney game, and then we're probably on a neutral court playing for a tourney bid. |
| 1 year 13 weeks ago | You're allowed to have a |
You're allowed to have a dominant hand and still be a successful basketball player. Darius's right hand is dominant and he prefers to finish with it, but he has the ability to finish left when necessary. And really we don't even need Darius to be able to finish left as well as he finishes right. As long as he can beat a defender going left he'll continue to draw fouls or draw help defense and create space for shooters.
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| 1 year 13 weeks ago | Exactly |
And that's why it's so baffling that so many people can misdiagnose a perceived weakness. Basketball is not rocket science. Darius could not put up his numbers without a strong left hand. |
| 1 year 13 weeks ago | I think it's ridiculous to |
I think it's ridiculous to say he has no left. He could not have so many assists and so few turnovers without 2 reliable hands. Otherwise opponents could just force him to go left and let the mistakes flow from there. Obviously that doesn't happen. It makes me chuckle when announcers say things like "ohhh, teams are going to catch on that he has no left hand and that'll show up in scouting reports" as if they picked up on some weakness before the other B10 coaches did. You can't force Darius to go left because his first left step is quick enough to beat his defender to the lane, and bad things happen from there for the defense. And that's really my point in the context of Darius's NBA stock: scouts won't care so much how well he finishes with his left. As long as it's solid enough that he can't be forced to lose vision, lose control, make mistakes, i.e., as long as he has a high assist to TO ratio (he does) he'll be a serviceable NBA guard. Nobody drafts a player like Darius to score 20 ppg. They draft him because he creates a mismatch against smaller guards and can potentially avg 8 apg; his left hand doesn't prevent either from happening, so it isn't the reason Darius needs to come back next season.
I never defended his jumper because I don't think it's that good. That needs more improvement than his LEFFFTTT HANDDjfdsaf |
| 1 year 13 weeks ago | Now that Hoffarber's |
Now that Hoffarber's been forced to take a bigger role Minnesota is as bad as anybody in the B10. If we can't beat them, even on the road, we'll have a hard time winning the other 2. |
| 1 year 13 weeks ago | I doubt Hightower holds a |
I doubt Hightower holds a particular grudge against Michigan, but he seems to like some coaches more than others and lets those preferences preclude objectivity. He likes Tom Izzo. Maybe he didn't like Bill Freider. He's also a people-pleaser so he'll make bad calls to win the home crowd's favor. That's how it seems anyway. |
| 1 year 13 weeks ago | He has no left hand right |
He has no left hand right now? Hmm, i'll have to keep an eye on that... But I'll certainly take your word for it, BTN announcer/NBA scout. |
