Basketball from a
fan’s perspective
Who win's
I wrote this yesterday morning I have no idea which team won last night, despite that fact this is the outcome of the series. Warriors win another championship, can't provide the number of games but they do it again. The Breakdown: Both teams might be even on the defensive side of the ball, perhaps Kawhi might tilt the floor a bit in favor of the Raptors.
On the offense
side the Warriors are clearly better than the Raptors. The reserve side clearly
favors the Warriors, Kerr would send/start a sub, first thought who is that
guy? That/those reserves would clearly outplay the opposition. The X-factor
clearly is KD, if he's able to play at 75% he becomes the game/series changer. I’ve
provided you an opportunity to laugh at me at the end of the series should I be
wrong. On the other hand, naw you won't. 🏀🤔
“Okay, Houston, we've
had a problem here"
Those were the exact words of astronaut Jack Swigert to Mission Control. In the 1995 movie Apollo 13 actor Tom Hanks changed the wording to “Houston we have a problem.” That was a life and death matter this is not that serious, whatever way you state it its clear, Houston we have a problem, feel free to insert Rockets in place of Houston. As my friend presented it, “Last year fans were claiming the injury to Chris Paul derailed their championship effort, they had Paul and the Warriors had no Durant however the results were the same…. Warriors win.”
Those were the exact words of astronaut Jack Swigert to Mission Control. In the 1995 movie Apollo 13 actor Tom Hanks changed the wording to “Houston we have a problem.” That was a life and death matter this is not that serious, whatever way you state it its clear, Houston we have a problem, feel free to insert Rockets in place of Houston. As my friend presented it, “Last year fans were claiming the injury to Chris Paul derailed their championship effort, they had Paul and the Warriors had no Durant however the results were the same…. Warriors win.”
A few in Houston
might claim your Lakers ain’t so hot however there is a vast difference. I can agree with their assessment despite
having LeBron James. What happened to
the Rockets a team built to break the reign of the Warriors? They will return next season; they will
likely have another winning season.
Chris Paul will distribute; James Harden will shoot, and I maintain they
will still come up short. There is a
missing element with this team despite the fact they are abundant in
talent. A missing element I believe is
defense, they are not terrible, but team defense is only average.
Really
Forbes has been a financial publication for eons now, they do a good job in that area. Although salaries are certainly financial sometimes even Forbes can be questioned. Example, they published a list of NBA players a journalist viewed as being overpaid. They utilized several graphs in order to formulate a conclusion. If they concluded James Harden, Tim Hardaway Jr. or Chris Paul we could say okay, including an athlete who rarely played is a slightly different story. Adding the Knicks Mitchell Robinson is an error (in my opinion) of an enormous nature.
Forbes has been a financial publication for eons now, they do a good job in that area. Although salaries are certainly financial sometimes even Forbes can be questioned. Example, they published a list of NBA players a journalist viewed as being overpaid. They utilized several graphs in order to formulate a conclusion. If they concluded James Harden, Tim Hardaway Jr. or Chris Paul we could say okay, including an athlete who rarely played is a slightly different story. Adding the Knicks Mitchell Robinson is an error (in my opinion) of an enormous nature.
Technically he’s no longer a rookie since he played the
entire 2018-19 season. Rookie Robinson
was a reserve player for the bulk of his early NBA career, every single player
on their list is a starter except for Robinson.
I didn’t bother with checking how Forbes came to its conclusion let’s
just say they included a reserve/rookie on their list of Top 25 players they
conclude are overpaid. Hey Forbes stick
to what you do best, finance and not providing a conclusion regarding athletes.
He’s leaving
I have a North Carolina alumnus in KC I could pose the question, what occurred with Seventh Woods? He was highly touted in high school in fact the 6-foot 2-point guard was playing on the high school varsity as an 8th grader. The attraction of a blue-blood program such as North Carolina must have appealed to him, the talent rich Carolina roster witnessed him playing a reserve role as a freshman.
A stress fracture in his sophomore year caused him to miss 17 games so we might guess he looked forward to his junior year. Freshman Coby White (now headed for the NBA) beat him out for major minutes in his junior year. Woods announced he is transferring to a yet to be determined school. He arrived on the Tarheel campus as one of the most highly recruited players in South Carolina history until that other guy came along later. Once he transfers Woods will be forced to sit out a year unless he appeals. Was Woods as talented as we first believed or was it something else that saw him not fulfill the role we perceived.
I have a North Carolina alumnus in KC I could pose the question, what occurred with Seventh Woods? He was highly touted in high school in fact the 6-foot 2-point guard was playing on the high school varsity as an 8th grader. The attraction of a blue-blood program such as North Carolina must have appealed to him, the talent rich Carolina roster witnessed him playing a reserve role as a freshman.
A stress fracture in his sophomore year caused him to miss 17 games so we might guess he looked forward to his junior year. Freshman Coby White (now headed for the NBA) beat him out for major minutes in his junior year. Woods announced he is transferring to a yet to be determined school. He arrived on the Tarheel campus as one of the most highly recruited players in South Carolina history until that other guy came along later. Once he transfers Woods will be forced to sit out a year unless he appeals. Was Woods as talented as we first believed or was it something else that saw him not fulfill the role we perceived.
