Re: Around the NBA: Week 2 (10/27 - 11/2)
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2025 12:46 pm
It's like an algebra equation.
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Re: Around the NBA: Week 2 (10/27 - 11/2)
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2025 10:03 pm
Is Austin Reaves really better than Booker?
Re: Around the NBA: Week 2 (10/27 - 11/2)
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2025 4:52 am
Call me old school, dinosaur or whatever, but I don’t really care for the semantics of the rules: that’s a travel for mine.Split T wrote: ↑Wed Oct 29, 2025 12:43 pmWell there’s no limit on how many steps you can take during the gather, so it’s not that you just count 1 gather step. You can take 10 steps between dribbles if you manage to keep the dribble active. Steps don’t count until he has completed gathering the ball. A gather is determined as:
1. 2 hands on the ball(he only takes 2 steps after this)
2. Ball comes to a rest and with hand under ball
3. Has enough control of ball to pass, shoot, hold, or change hands with the ball.
It’s these last two options that are subjective, but I do think he gains enough possession of the ball right before his left foot lifts which then his right foot comes down(0-Step) and then he goes left, right, left for 3 steps and a travel.
If you determine that left foot was off the floor before he gathered, then then that next left step is actually the 0-step and he only takes 2.
Re: Around the NBA: Week 2 (10/27 - 11/2)
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2025 6:47 am
Re: Around the NBA: Week 2 (10/27 - 11/2)
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2025 7:57 am
Portland won 3 of the last 4. I told you Tiago Splitter would be good, I just won't expect to be so early.
Re: Around the NBA: Week 2 (10/27 - 11/2)
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2025 12:58 pm
That’s fair…I just think it’s important to know the distinction…it’s fine to complain that it should be a travel, but that’s different than complaining that it is a travel that went uncalled…though in this instance it’s actually both I think.Gladiator wrote: ↑Thu Oct 30, 2025 4:52 amCall me old school, dinosaur or whatever, but I don’t really care for the semantics of the rules: that’s a travel for mine.Split T wrote: ↑Wed Oct 29, 2025 12:43 pmWell there’s no limit on how many steps you can take during the gather, so it’s not that you just count 1 gather step. You can take 10 steps between dribbles if you manage to keep the dribble active. Steps don’t count until he has completed gathering the ball. A gather is determined as:
1. 2 hands on the ball(he only takes 2 steps after this)
2. Ball comes to a rest and with hand under ball
3. Has enough control of ball to pass, shoot, hold, or change hands with the ball.
It’s these last two options that are subjective, but I do think he gains enough possession of the ball right before his left foot lifts which then his right foot comes down(0-Step) and then he goes left, right, left for 3 steps and a travel.
If you determine that left foot was off the floor before he gathered, then then that next left step is actually the 0-step and he only takes 2.
Re: Around the NBA: Week 2 (10/27 - 11/2)
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2025 8:04 pm
Portland was going to be good this year with a donkey as a head coach; we knew they were an up and coming team with a stellar defensive lineupFurlanfufi wrote: ↑Thu Oct 30, 2025 7:57 amPortland won 3 of the last 4. I told you Tiago Splitter would be good, I just won't expect to be so early.
Re: Around the NBA: Week 2 (10/27 - 11/2)
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2025 3:59 pm
There goes my idea for an Obi trade
Re: Around the NBA: Week 2 (10/27 - 11/2)
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2025 4:15 pm
Bummer!
Re: Around the NBA: Week 2 (10/27 - 11/2)
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2025 9:01 pm
I told you motherfuckers
Re: Around the NBA: Week 2 (10/27 - 11/2)
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2025 10:30 pm
Yeah Giddey would have been great for us. It's too bad.
Re: Around the NBA: Week 2 (10/27 - 11/2)
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2025 10:47 pm
Was there ever a realistic scenario where the Suns could have gotten him? There was talk on this board but I don't recall any legitimate discussion in the real world about Giddey being a target. Seemed like Chicago really wanted to bring him back, and they were just hassling over what the number was going to be.
Re: Around the NBA: Week 2 (10/27 - 11/2)
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2025 11:51 pm
Suns current PG is averaging 30/4/6.5
*shrugs*
Re: Around the NBA: Week 2 (10/27 - 11/2)
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2025 4:51 am
Re: Around the NBA: Week 2 (10/27 - 11/2)
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2025 7:38 am
This is a nice game-winner.
Re: Around the NBA: Week 2 (10/27 - 11/2)
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2025 10:45 am
The end is nigh
Re: Around the NBA: Week 2 (10/27 - 11/2)
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2025 11:13 am
Re: Around the NBA: Week 2 (10/27 - 11/2)
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2025 11:44 am
I wish we could trade for Ja, but I don't think we could pull the assets together. We'd have to give them Booker probably, and they wouldn't give us Ja AND picks for Book, so it wouldn't really help us rebuild or improve. KD-for-Ja would have been interesting but I don't know why Memphis would have done that, given their roster and timetable.
Re: Around the NBA: Week 2 (10/27 - 11/2)
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2025 11:47 am
Bradley Beal has missed 2 of 5 Clipper games and is averaging 6.4 Pt when he plays.
Re: Around the NBA: Week 2 (10/27 - 11/2)
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2025 12:16 pm
KD would've vetoed a trade to Memphis, anyone would. I think Ja is too toxic at the moment, a lot of baggage. He needs a team where he can just play basketball and reinvent himself - if he's motivated and up to it. Not sure which team has the assets or interest in him.