Even though I think that it is a coach’s job to place his players in a situation that allows them to excel and best utilizes their talents, once the ball is tipped and the game is underway, all a coach can really do to affect the outcome of a game is make subs and call timeouts…The players HAVE to execute whatever system or scheme they find themselves in, especially one that COULD make this team a nightmare offensively if they can only grab a foothold on how best to run it.
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Harden is, hands down, one of the most impressive all-around shooting guards in the NBA. Not only is he 12th among SG’s in the NBA in PER (Player Efficiency Rating), but he accomplishes all of his Top 15 and Top 20 rankings in, again, a paltry 21.2 minutes a game.
It is the age old question that every fan, team and front office wrestles with when you combine a promising young player with a glaring position of need in the team’s composition: Do you sacrifice immediate team success to speed up the promising player’s development?
Well, that got a little more exciting than it needed to be but the Thunder held on to a nice road win in Utah, primarily through another third quarter offensive explosion and a fairly
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Sunday Discussion – What Does It Mean to You?
To remind us of what we’ve known all along, that it might just be a game, a simple sport involving a ball and a hoop, but that the effects of what takes place on that court and within a team overwhelm the game itself and transform what is in essence a meaningless game into something that we as individuals so desperately long for and find meaning in: a bond.