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Same thing I said KD needs to do more of and basically what Barkley was saying last night... these guys need to get off the 3pt line and learn to do more than just shoot 3s

As he grows, he's got to get to the basket more. He relies too much shooting the 3s. He needs to get to the basket, learn how to post people up, and even if he doesn't score, draw the double team and get other people open.

[Drewski]

Same thing I said KD needs to do more of and basically what Barkley was saying last night... these guys need to get off the 3pt line and learn to do more than just shoot 3s

Don't have anything to add but nodding my head furiously to this.

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Its the truth man and I blame the NBA for breeding this culture

Its at the point now where they've decimated the PG position and turned it into a combo guard type ... and a defacto PG position where the PG NEEDS to be the scorer now to be considered great

Just all kinds of wrong going on, and I see why I dont enjoy alot of things the more I look..but basketball aint broken, its what they keep doing to it now.

Steve Novak can and always was able to only shoot 3s. Even in the 90s Steve Kerr was able to play some defense, and even defend the pick and roll well.

The gap is noticeable

[OSUFan_88]

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Man, with the way the modern NBA is, I think Tragic Langdon should get another shot.

And no, that's not a misspell. That's what Cleveland fans call him.

[AnnihilusLivius]

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Never noticed dude was so ugly, TNT crew will abuse of this guy lol

[The 24th Letter]

I agree that natural distributors at the point position seem to be thinning out, but logo of the league itself was a combo point guard lol....

[ScoobySnax]

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Never noticed dude was so ugly, TNT crew will abuse of this guy lol

I sure wish you'd post a picture of your mug, since you're so quick to call someone ugly. Nothing frustrates me more than this.

[23]

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Hilarious

[AnnihilusLivius]

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I sure wish you'd post a picture of your mug, since you're so quick to call someone ugly. Nothing frustrates me more than this.

Are you sure you want that? I'm afraid you will fall in love

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Among players and coaches, however, Crawford was more notorious than famous. The young Crawford developed a reputation as a hothead, a quick-trigger referee with little restraint or patience. It is a tag that still follows him.

I can honestly say, I have no idea who I gave my first technical to. I have no idea. I gave so many of them. I hate to say it, but when I first started, it was like giving candy.

Once, I threw out Don Nelson for staring at me. He just folded his arms and looked at me. He called a timeout to do it. Looking back on it, I was not happy with that.

I have people in Cleveland who stop me at the airport and they say that they were there when I threw out Brad Daugherty and Larry Nance for laughing. They were sitting at the end of the bench. There was something that I did that they didn’t like and they wouldn’t stop, and I just went: “You want to go? Go. Go.” Boom. It wasn’t good.

One night, I hit Bill Fitch with a technical so hard, I broke my finger. My finger was all swollen. I slammed my whole hand down on it when I gave the signal. That’s why I changed my signal to a little one-finger tap — because I broke it once the old way.

Honestly, I think after that whole mess was the first time I called the sports psychologist.

Most players and coaches were wary of Crawford’s quick temper, but they also appreciated his acumen and his outgoing personality. Crawford rarely initiated conversations — he wanted to let the participants in the game have their space — but he reveled in the relationships he built as he ran up and down the court each night.

Charles Barkley might have been my favorite player to be with on the court. He was one of them at least. Charles used to get a lot of technical fouls, but the thing about Charles was that he didn’t take things personally. The next game was the next game. I always appreciated that about him.

Moses Malone was one of the funniest. We were in Denver, I think he was playing with Philly at the time, and that day, a reporter had done a top-10 referee list and my name was in there. So my first call of the night is like a loose-ball foul on Moses, and Moses just turns and says, “That is not a top-10 call.” I had to laugh.

You know who else was funny? Manute Bol, God bless him. He would knock down a 3, and I’d give him some kind of look as we were running back. He’d catch my eye and he’d hold up one crooked finger and say, in his broken accent, “No. 1 center in league — Manute Bol.”

Some of the guys liked my signals. For an easy offensive foul, I just go like this, with one little finger out pointing like a gun. That was Joe West’s old called-strike pose, and I liked that call so I did it. Damon Jones, who is out of the league now, used to make me do it before games: “Come on, Joe! Give it to me!” So I’d do it for him.

I think this is interesting, too: Magic, Michael and Larry. They almost never said anything, good or bad. Most players in sports believe they actually know something about officiating. And they don’t. But those guys, they very, very rarely said anything to me. Isn’t that amazing? Because there’s three guys that had the ball, what, 75 percent of the time? They had more important things to worry about.

Crawford did not hesitate when asked if he had any regrets. There are two, he said. The first is regarding his actions that led to a guilty plea of falsely stating income in 1998 after an I.R.S. investigation into several referees’ pocketing cash from downgraded airline tickets. The second is an incident in 2007 in which Crawford and the San Antonio Spurs star Tim Duncan had an on-court verbal altercation. Duncan said Crawford challenged him to a fight.

The tax thing, I was petrified, to be honest with you. It was the worst. If they wanted to scare you, they did. If that’s what they wanted to do, they did. They did it. I was so grateful to get the chance to come back.

The Duncan thing probably changed my life. It was just — you come to the realization that maybe the way you’ve been doing things is not the proper way and you have to regroup, not only on the court but off the court.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/sp...pagewanted=all

[ScoobySnax]

Lol @ 24 with the Clips avatar.


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[Eman5805]

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It's like there's someone in the arena with a sniper rifle whenever Griffin plays.

[SidVish]

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[Rawdeal28]

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[SidVish]

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I was reading an article on deadspin about how BSPN used the word fire extinguisher more than Kobe Bryant last week. Sports journalism...wait can we even call it that anymore?

http://deadspin.com/5908563?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow