2011-2012 NBA Season

[UMFan83]

yes, because kobe bryant is the baseline for judging a player's peak

 

Ugh, who do you want me to use then?

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/110128&sportCat=nba

 

Here is a Simmons article where he does an excellent job breaking down when various players started to leave their peak.

 

Sift through NBA history and you'll notice that, for modern superstars, The Change occurred somewhere between the 900th and 1,200th career game (including playoffs)

 

Melo has played 659 games including playoffs. If the above is true, he has between 3-6.5 seasons left until his skills decline.

[Ryne Ween]

Amare and Melo only have about 2 more years before they begin to noticably decline.

 

You know Melo is only 6 months older than LeBron and came into the league in the same draft right? He's got at least 4-5 years at peak performance left and then probably another 2-3 years until any decline is particularly noticeable.

 

 

Well I said "amare and melo" because I was talking about them as a Tandem and not really when each would decline individually as I obviously expect them to depreciate on different schedules. Amare has already lost a lot of explosiveness from his suns days.

 

On melo, Your ranges put him at about 34-36 before noticeable decline and that's just not reasonable in today's NBA.

[Ryne Ween]

yes, because kobe bryant is the baseline for judging a player's peak

 

Melo has played 659 games including playoffs. If the above is true, he has between 3-6.5 seasons left until his skills decline.

 

I respect Melos game a ton but I don't group him among top tier of NBA and simmons is discussin the best players of their generations, all guys who maintained productivity levels close to their peaks as their physical skills diminished through evolving their games and developing more intelligent appraoches. I just don't know melo to be on those guys level. He's on Vince Carter and cwebbs.

 

He's a great wing scorer but I expect his efficiency to decline within 3 years and his d to deteriorate from a starting point that isn't ideal. That said he has a great post game and is a good shooter so he may be great longer than I expect.

[illiniguy]

yes, because kobe bryant is the baseline for judging a player's peak

 

Melo has played 659 games including playoffs. If the above is true, he has between 3-6.5 seasons left until his skills decline.

 

I respect Melos game a ton but I don't group him among top tier of NBA and simmons is discussin the best players of their generations, all guys who maintained productivity levels close to their peaks as their physical skills diminished through evolving their games and developing more intelligent appraoches. I just don't know melo to be on those guys level. He's on Vince Carter and cwebbs.

 

He's a great wing scorer but I expect his efficiency to decline within 3 years and his d to deteriorate from a starting point that isn't ideal. That said he has a great post game and is a good shooter so he may be great longer than I expect.

 

He reminds me of a bigger Paul Pierce, I think his game will hold up better as he doesn't rely so much on athleticism. I could be wrong though.

[JonJayCutler]

Holy crap Turkoglu cannot play PG. Come back Nelson.

 

Good win though.

[Theo]

Holy crap, Russell Westbrick let's old man Parker go off for 42!

[17 Seconds]

its funny because brick is a term associated with missing shots

[Banedon]

http://cdn2.sbnation.com/imported_assets/975101/KEVIN-LOVE-RICKY-RUBIO-DX-SUCK-IT.gif

[Theo]

Was that after he stomped Scola's face?

[Ryne Ween]

But that was after scola threw the ball off his sloop john Bs.

[imb]

I wonder how much portland will beat us by tonight? I always think of felton, batum and aldridge as thunder killers. camby will probably pull down 12 offensive rebounds.

[Ryne Ween]

Portland at home is awesome.

[Ryne Ween]

Ive already read 3 jeremy lin articles today and am sad about how happy its gonna make me when he fails. the knicks are an absolute joke. They are going to run the offense through jeremy lin? We are 2 weeks away from the the mid season and they are now gonna give Lin the ball and 30 minutes a night for the foreseeable future. This is great. Its extremely unlikely but if Kyrie Irving's legs hold up all season or if Milwaukee can keep wining their home games there is a chance the Knicks will not make the playoffs.

 

I believe Houston gets their pick unprotected as well. Jeremy Lin at the helm, Dantoni has completely lost it.

[Theo]

Their pick is top 5 protected.

[SpongeWorthy]

Yeah, that won't end well but it should be fun to watch.

[Ryne Ween]

Their pick is top 5 protected.

 

Ok thats still good though. A 6 pick would a dream come true for me.

[SpongeWorthy]

I'm amused that the dumbest franchise in the league (NYK) has a starting backcourt from Harvard (Lin) and Stanford (Fields).

[SpongeWorthy]

Kobe completely jagging the game against Philly. The Lakers offense consists of Kobe "posting" from the 3 point line instead of Bynum posting from 8 feet away from the rim. They get all the quality shots they want when they dump it into Bynum instead Kobe jacks up a bunch of contested shots. Hilarious.

[Guest]

Kobe completely jagging the game against Philly. The Lakers offense consists of Kobe "posting" from the 3 point line instead of Bynum posting from 8 feet away from the rim. They get all the quality shots they want when they dump it into Bynum instead Kobe jacks up a bunch of contested shots. Hilarious.

 

Kobe 1/11 in the 4th quarter. Sounds about right.

[SpongeWorthy]

Jeremy Lin getting MVP chants at MSG (lol, get it?).

 

He really is getting MVP chants though.

[SpongeWorthy]

http://i.imgur.com/Xg2vM.gif

[SpongeWorthy]

Lin is the new Tebow.

[SpongeWorthy]

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r31/nybombers3/GSUMAD.jpg

[Ryne Ween]

you cant fake it in the NBA for very long. Jazz suck ass on the road and nets just suck ass. Let's see what happens when a team breaks him down, makes him go left and and doesn't just high trap and let Chandler slip into the lane.

[Ryne Ween]

Jamal Crawford is fun as hell.