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AD with 15 points so far on the way to a 50+ win.
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Thought be good to have all world cup chat in here
AD with 15 points so far on the way to a 50+ win.
Davis with 17 and 4 on 6-8 shooting in only 14 mins.
Curry can dunk :O
Is it really smart to have AD playing in this thing?
Id rather AD start the season fresh, its a long season and hopefully postseason and this guy hasn't had a healthy season yet.
Today, USA will face with Turkey. AD vs. Asik. It will be hard game for Turkey. Absence of Enes Kanter, Ersan Ilyasova, Hedo Turkoglu is problem.
Favorite bucket was midway through the first when they isolated AD on a face up from about 15 feet away from the bucket. He blew by his defender with ease and finished at the rim (thought he got fouled too).
Obvious that he has been working on his ball handling. I can't wait to see his post up game - though I don't think we will much of that in International ball.
He's only going to be playing 15-20 minutes a game due to blowouts and only 40 minute overall game, except he might get 25-30 in the Championship game. So it's not like it's going to wear him out.
Besides, all these guys would be playing right now anyway. They'd be playing pickup games somewhere.
I think this is a common misconception among fans. Davis would be training every day on his own, regardless of his status on the USA team. That said, he is now training with some of the best coaches in the world and against some of the best players in the world. Moreover, players play games all off season, and they are usually organized so that some NBA guys can play against each other with some scrub fillers to round out the teams.
AD would be playing live basketball games no matter what, but I would much rather he play against top tier talent, with top tier coaching and trainers to help him recover. Really, the main source of stress lies in all of the traveling that he is doing, but that's a quick fix.
It is always important to play in events that carry high Importance. Especially, on a team that isn't used to winning.
Harden could care less about his shooting %. He's never seen a shot that he didn't like
People hate on K Irving for no reason. Dude can play
I'd let D Rose shoot jumpers the entire game. His jumper is broken
Asik has been really good. AD hasn't touched the ball so far, and he's generally been a deterrent at the rim and a rebounding machine. Unfortunately, that 3 was a really ugly shot. Asik is not a stretch anything.
Asik might be one of the best pick-ups Dell has made. Bigs bully AD. AD is best suited for the 4 IMO
While he was in... Omer dominated Davis and boogie. Man I'm excited about this season.
USA needs to feed da bigs
Asik with the block
Asik is making Cousins look foolish. Cousins is so used to being able to bully ball and create space. But he throws his body into Asik and he's still right there.
So much of our past success has depended on Kevin Durant and Melo's ability to play off a driving LeBron or being set up by Chris Paul. Or even Iggy.
This team doesn't have anything like a true point guard or table setter to run the show.
Davis and Asik both playing well so far today.
Harden ball watching as usual.
I will say that Asik has struggled with TOs in the 2nd half.
really liked the 2nd half for davis, had 9pts in the first 3mins, up to 18 now
Imagine what Davis will be like if he gets up to the offensive skill level of a Drummond or Cousins!
Stop it, David. God knows we only need one active thread of that sort.
I will say, Drummond could be the second coming of Hakeem for all I know. I don't watch that many Pistons games, Pelicans make me enough of a masochist. But his usage statistics and how he generates his offense don't reflect that.
AD has a more varied offensive game, in terms of how he scores, than almost any big in basketball. I don't really care about the diversity of his moves. He spends at least 10% of each of his offense as iso, post-ups, cuts, transition, P&R, put backs, etc. And he does all of those things at least reasonably well, which makes it hard to take away his offense. It can be done at this stage with a limited supporting cast, at least (see: Grizzlies game from this year), but it takes doing.
Jrue and Tyreke will feast on opposing guards with Asik setting picks.......can't wait!!!!!!!
Asik's screens all game were excellent. However, when his guards turned the corner Davis was waiting so Turkey just wasn't effective.
What a beast Davis was in 2nd half.
Good to see Davis vs asik
Davis continues to look like the clear cut best player on the team.
His work on both ends was the main reason we began to pull away in the second. Though Faried deserves a lot of credit too. Outside of Davis Faried has impressed me more then anyone else on the team.
Observations on FIBA USA vs Turkey:
Glad that Omer Asik and Anthony Davis are on same NBA team because Omer effectively neutralized AD in the first half when the were matched up more often than in the second half.
Omer Asiki:
Rebounded well and had good positioning against AD in first half
Monster relentless rebounder and P & R player
Active feet with good movement
His weak backcourt couldn't deliver the ball on P & R
He went through a stretch in first half where he had 7 rebounds in 7 minutes of play
He beat Cousins on D in 1 one 1
He had no help on D
He beat AD on P & R in second half one on one
He is a bad FT shooter
Best moment was when he beat AD on rebound, scored, got fouled and smiled broadly when he went to line
Anthony Davis:
Took control of game in 2ncd half stretch when he scored on 4 of 5 possessions in a row
Played better when Asik was not on court
Believe he scored 19 pts in second half
Improved on traps and steals
In contention for USA basketball MVP with Ken Faried and (choke) James Harden
BTW
props to Finnish and Turkish fans
Obviously passionate about their basketball and supportive of their national teams and players
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Harden is in midseason form defensively.
One of the aussie commentators was talking about Harden and said how good he was defensively :idoh:
After watching this game, I'm more convinced than ever that C is not AD's best position. He's just not physical enough. Also, when Davis gets better on offense, he's going to be scary. Right now he scores about 75% of his buckets on fast breaks, lobs, and put backs. When he gets an offensive repertoire, watch out.
Aww man, the fourth quarter of this Philippine vs Argentina game has been so damn awesome.