Alan:
So am I the only non-guitarist on Knickerblogger Dot Net?

The Honorable Cock Jowles:
You and Z-man.

Add me to the non-players list. Haven’t played an instrument since 7th grade, and that was a base drum.

I’mma need this new Last Chance U season to come out so I can flash my 15-minutes of fame (or at least 2 minutes) and get my weight up with you physically fit, internationally flavored, musically inclined literary laureates. Otherwise, I may have to change my handle to “Stuy-High Slacker” or something 🙂

Brian Cronin: Gotta love it when players take demonstrably false positions and somehow don’t really get called on it (at least not to their faces).

I’m never surprised when professional athletes show a real lack of introspection. To try to play basketball while literally millions of people watch you and boo you and post things about you on social media and write newspaper articles and blogs about you…you have to have some kind of pretty effective defense mechanism. If you start questioning yourself in that circumstance it’s pretty easy for me to imagine how quickly you could fall apart under that stress. Deflecting blame/criticism away from yourself has to be a key part of a lot of these guys mindsets, even (or maybe especially) if the criticism is totally deserved.

That said there’s really no need for him to speak on it publicly. And it’s a doubly bad look not only because he’s wrong as a matter of objective fact but also because the new coach was the #1 assistant last year.

Jimmy Guitar’s influence is much bigger than we think

Alan:
So am I the only non-guitarist on Knickerblogger Dot Net?

I’m a drummer, and slowly learning to sing (badly) while I play.

PG13’s throwing Doc under the bus is appalling. Doc is not my favorite, but George has no one to blame but himself for his putrid playoff performance. So glad that whining primadonna isn’t on our team.

Gotta love it when players take demonstrably false positions and somehow don’t really get called on it (at least not to their faces).

Hahaha. Kind of. Except that post moves are not ubiquitous, unlike finger picking.

“Doc was trying to play me as a Ray Allen or a JJ Redick, all pin-downs,” George said. “I can do it, but that ain’t my game. I need some flow, I need some mixes of some pick-and-roll and post ups.”

The Big Lead pointed out some flaws in his reasoning. For one, George should have known he was going to play with a ball-dominant player in Leonard and would have to play off the ball – which in Rivers’ system means using pin-down screens. That was always bound to happen when he chose to leave Oklahoma City and join Leonard in the offseason.

Additionally, The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connell pointed out that George did in fact play a ton in the pick-and-roll – 33% of his plays, to be exact, which is far and away a career high.

his usage remained the same…looking at his stats now – i can’t see (other than bpm and vorp) in what area he significantly regressed in…

other than speaking…

The Honorable Cock Jowles:
You and Z-man.

I’ll hold my own at the inaugural KB open mic zoom call…