NBA thread. V..4? Tibaldumz is scared

[Revolver]

The complete absence of logic here is astounding.

Sure, he’ll bully those guys at 285 lbs...but his career will also deteriorate at 25. What value does he provide if he’s playing 20 games/season and having constant knee surgeries?

Yea because none of these skinny cans never have constant knee surgeries. lol

 

[Revolver]

He should have a serious talk with Charles Barkley and ask Charles what the biggest regret of his NBA career is. Charles has a similar build and played at least 75 games in 6/8 seasons with Philly (3 times top-5 MVP voting, including a runner up to MJ), but he was actually in shape for most of that. Then he got the trade he wanted at age 28, played 76 games (won MVP) and reached the Finals his 1st season in PHO, then got fat and happy and never played more than 71 games in a season the rest of his career. At age 29. Never saw another Finals or top-5 MVP voting again

If Charles is honest with Zion I have to presume he'd touch on the importance of conditioning/diet

back then without peds most of the players were washed up by the time they reached 29-31 years old.

 

[faustian]

back then without peds most of the players were washed up by the time they reached 29-31 years old.

MJ, Magic and Malone all won multiple MVPs in their 30s. Hakeem and Robinson both won one in their 30s

EDIT: Magic was 29 for one of his and Robinson was 29

 

[Jesus H. Sherdog]

back then without peds most of the players were washed up by the time they reached 29-31 years old.

Good point. Zion just needs to consistently hit up the lab. Just avoid compounds that dry out your ligaments and he’ll be good to go.

Dr. A.C prescribes a regiment of blood doping alongside cycles of deca durabolin and anastrozol. Supplement with corticosteroids as needed.

 

[Ken Fresno]

Gtfo noob. My knowledge of The Beautiful Game is beyond reproach, particularly mid-late 90s when I was obsessed with the NBA. The question here is whether YOU were actually watching those seasons IWB was referring to. Malone's game went from overwhelming opponents with athleticism-based bully ball and fast breaks to almost exclusively halfcourt pickNrolls/pickNpops with Stock and midrange turnarounds interspersed with occasional slow low post backdowns (that aren't even allowed today) for little hook/push shots in the lane

Malone won MVP in '97 and '99. The Assisted On % stat only goes back to 2000-01 but in his 4 seasons where the stat was tracked and still a 20+ ppg scorer Malone was assisted on over 80% of his FGs lol. The style of game Malone was playing that IWB is referring to was heavily dependent on system, and Malone had the GOAT facilitator running that system

Oh you're metrics and Wikipedia guy. Makes sense.

Malone would bust Barkley's ass and I would bust yours. In any era. Take that for data.

 

[MarkyMcFly]

Does that count as a steal or a block?

I didn't know so I just looked, he didn't have a single recorded steal in the game. So block it is

 

[faustian]

Oh you're metrics and Wikipedia guy. Makes sense.

Malone would bust Barkley's ass and I would bust yours. In any era. Take that for data.

Cool story. Look, I can't force you to go back and watch 90s game film so I have to settle for posting objective stats that back up my takes

And I'm 206-0 in streetfights so good luck with whatever you want to do with my ass

 

[iwhoopedbatman]

Oh you're metrics and Wikipedia guy. Makes sense.

Malone would bust Barkley's ass and I would bust yours. In any era. Take that for data.

Lol. Prime Barkley in Philly and early Phoenix was way better than any version of Malone. Malone stayed good a lot longer, but he was never the impact player Barkley was.

 

[Ken Fresno]

Cool story. Look, I can't force you to go back and watch 90s game film so I have to settle for posting objective stats that back up my takes

And I'm 206-0 in streetfights so good luck with whatever you want to do with my ass

Lol. Prime Barkley in Philly and early Phoenix was way better than any version of Malone. Malone stayed good a lot longer, but he was never the impact player Barkley was.

love Barkley, but I’m picking Malone. Regardless, saying Malone would be obsolete is ridiculous. And guarantees I would bust your ass in basketball. Not sure what else ur trying to do with ur ass.

 

[monster zero]

Just saw some Zion highlights. I forgot how explosive and thicc he is. Seeing him spin it honestly looked like Tyson bobbing and weaving. Got damn.

 

[Crawler89]

Zion deff needs to shed a few pounds, and its not just saying it, plenty of analysis's are too - but im giving him a pass. coming back from surgery, hell get into playing shape.

Hes never gonna be thin but he is still looking pudgy. dudes a fucking unit though

 

[HunterSdVa29]

The only player that even kinda resembled his size and build was Larry Johnson?

And that's a stretch

 

[PRESIDENT TRUMP]

East All Start Starters

Kemba
Trae Young
Siakam
Yannis
Embiid

West All Star Starters

Doncic
Har_en
Kawhi
LeGoat
AD

 

[Razor]

LUKA

 

[kuromusha]

Dope for Trae. Dude is money

 

[spin]

what i want to know is when they pick teams, how will LeBron deal with picking Ingram.

with a teammate, you have to pick them right away.


but what about an ex-teammate, that was specifically traded for your now teammate and the guy that was your first pick........

 

[faustian]

The only player that even kinda resembled his size and build was Larry Johnson?

And that's a stretch

LJ was way leaner than Zion, who still carries around a lot of babyfat for an NBA player

 

[PRESIDENT TRUMP]

Dope for Trae. Dude is money

Seems like they went against traditions with Traes pick. His team is awful, and he only plays one half of the game. This was the reason for omitting Booker for the last couple years. Team success has always played a role in all start selections. In all honesty, id replace Pascal with Butthead and Trae with Lowry.

 

[PRESIDENT TRUMP]

what i want to know is when they pick teams, how will LeBron deal with picking Ingram.

with a teammate, you have to pick them right away.


but what about an ex-teammate, that was specifically traded for your now teammate and the guy that was your first pick........

There's a possibility he doesn't make it. Gobert and Jokic are more deserving ..

 

[faustian]

Dope for Trae. Dude is money

Maybe if the money you're talking about is denominated in Zimbabwean dollars

(Yes, Zimbabwe's central reserve bank actually issued a bill for 100 trillion dollars lmfao)

Dude is reinventing the concept of empty stats