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Re: Jawhawks in the NBA

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2020 10:22 am
by Deleted User 289
What team is Ju on?

Re: Jawhawks in the NBA

Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2020 10:48 am
by pdub
Most improved from ESPN panel:

Bam leads but Vonte gets on the board.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/294 ... nba-awards

Bam Adebayo (9 votes); Brandon Ingram (6); Devonte' Graham (4); Jayson Tatum (1)

Re: Jawhawks in the NBA

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 8:44 am
by Deleted User 289
Not really in the NBA but still noteworthy.

50 points for Mario




Re: Jawhawks in the NBA

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 8:47 am
by Deleted User 310
Just shows how good he still is. And also how hard it is to make it in the nba.

Re: Jawhawks in the NBA

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:08 am
by Deleted User 289
IllinoisJayhawk wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 8:47 am Just shows how good he still is. And also how hard it is to make it in the nba.
I assume you are being serious.
Let's be honest here. He was playing 3 on 3 against pretty much garbage.
Nate Robinson, Derrick Byars, Eddie Basden, Will Bynum, and Eddy Curry are hardly 2020 NBA material.

Re: Jawhawks in the NBA

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:12 am
by Deleted User 310
Grandma wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:08 am
IllinoisJayhawk wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 8:47 am Just shows how good he still is. And also how hard it is to make it in the nba.
I assume you are being serious.
Let's be honest here. He was playing 3 on 3 against pretty much garbage.
Nate Robinson, Derrick Byars, Eddie Basden, Will Bynum, and Eddy Curry are hardly 2020 NBA material.
I was being serious....it isnt so much about who he was playing...it is that a few years ago he was starting on an nba team and now he cant even make a roster, but he is still capable of playing high quality basketball.

I wasnt taking his 50pts to mean he should be starting in the nba and being an all star....just that he is still very good and cant even get a chance.

Re: Jawhawks in the NBA

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:22 am
by CrimsonNBlue
Rio is 34 years old coming off a ruptured achilles. That's as deep as anyone needs to look into it.

Re: Jawhawks in the NBA

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:32 am
by Deleted User 289
IllinoisJayhawk wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:12 am
Grandma wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:08 am
IllinoisJayhawk wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 8:47 am Just shows how good he still is. And also how hard it is to make it in the nba.
I assume you are being serious.
Let's be honest here. He was playing 3 on 3 against pretty much garbage.
Nate Robinson, Derrick Byars, Eddie Basden, Will Bynum, and Eddy Curry are hardly 2020 NBA material.
I was being serious....it isnt so much about who he was playing...it is that a few years ago he was starting on an nba team and now he cant even make a roster, but he is still capable of playing high quality basketball.

I wasnt taking his 50pts to mean he should be starting in the nba and being an all star....just that he is still very good and cant even get a chance.
You said, "just shows how good he still is". I feel it really doesn't.

When Jordan McRae, Pierre Jackson, Dar Tucker, Manny Harris, Morris Almond, Will Conroy, Osiris Eldridge, and Kenny Hayes scored over 50 in "G" League games my first thoughts were not how good they are.

Seems like it was just yesterday. Ok, maybe not.

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Re: Jawhawks in the NBA

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:37 am
by pdub

Re: Jawhawks in the NBA

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:40 am
by Deleted User 289
CrimsonNBlue wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:22 am Rio is 34 years old coming off a ruptured achilles. That's as deep as anyone needs to look into it.
I beg to differ. I feel it's justifiable for people to look a bit deeper.
"coming off" a ruptured achilles? He injured his achilles in 2016. It's 2020.
In 2017/2018 he played 66 NBA games after he reputed his achilles. Right?
So.... I'm being serious in asking these questions - Why isn't he on an NBA roster today? Because of his age? I'm no NBA expert/guru but I would think Mario has to be as good as other guys who sit on the end of benches. Is he not?

Re: Jawhawks in the NBA

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:53 am
by CrimsonNBlue
Grandma wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:40 am
CrimsonNBlue wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:22 am Rio is 34 years old coming off a ruptured achilles. That's as deep as anyone needs to look into it.
I beg to differ. I feel it's justifiable for people to look a bit deeper.
"coming off" a ruptured achilles? He injured his achilles in 2016. It's 2020.
In 2017/2018 he played 66 NBA games after he reputed his achilles. Right?
So.... I'm being serious in asking these questions - Why isn't he on an NBA roster today? Because of his age? I'm no NBA expert/guru but I would think Mario has to be as good as other guys who sit on the end of benches. Is he not?
66 games as a backup when he was 31.

Re: Jawhawks in the NBA

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 10:14 am
by Deleted User 289
Probably/maybe the best site to get some input in to the thinking/logic regarding Mario and reading what he has to say.
I feel someone should give him an NBA job. What do they have to lose in doing it?

https://hoopshype.com/storyline/mario-c ... ee-agency/

Re: Jawhawks in the NBA

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 10:50 am
by ousdahl
If only Mario was former teammates with a player/GM who likes to fill out his roster with past-their-prime vets to play buddy ball with...

Re: Jawhawks in the NBA

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 10:52 am
by CrimsonNBlue
ousdahl wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 10:50 am If only Mario was former teammates with a player/GM who likes to fill out his roster with past-their-prime vets to play buddy ball with...
That never seemed like the greatest playing relationship.

Re: Jawhawks in the NBA

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 10:53 am
by PhDhawk
CrimsonNBlue wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 10:52 am
ousdahl wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 10:50 am If only Mario was former teammates with a player/GM who likes to fill out his roster with past-their-prime vets to play buddy ball with...
That never seemed like the greatest playing relationship.
I mean...it wasn't the worst either.

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Re: Jawhawks in the NBA

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 10:55 am
by ousdahl
CrimsonNBlue wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 10:52 am
ousdahl wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 10:50 am If only Mario was former teammates with a player/GM who likes to fill out his roster with past-their-prime vets to play buddy ball with...
That never seemed like the greatest playing relationship.
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Re: Jawhawks in the NBA

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 10:57 am
by ousdahl
3. Coincidentally the same clapping and face gutter’s ex would make when he confronts the kid at the McDonald’s register about the cheese...

Re: Jawhawks in the NBA

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 10:57 am
by CrimsonNBlue
PhDhawk wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 10:53 am
CrimsonNBlue wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 10:52 am
ousdahl wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 10:50 am If only Mario was former teammates with a player/GM who likes to fill out his roster with past-their-prime vets to play buddy ball with...
That never seemed like the greatest playing relationship.
I mean...it wasn't the worst either.

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That is so great. And, another collapse would be delicious.


Signing Mario does seem like a shrewd LeBron move. It's never materialized--leads you to think Mario is probably just done. A SG in a semi-broken 34-year-old PG body.

Re: Jawhawks in the NBA

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 11:03 am
by ousdahl
Yeah. It’s like the issues you mention would make Lebron paradoxically more likely to do it.

He’s in the convo for GOAT player, not gm.

Re: Jawhawks in the NBA

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 11:43 pm
by Deleted User 310
ousdahl wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 11:03 am Yeah. It’s like the issues you mention would make Lebron paradoxically more likely to do it.

He’s in the convo for GOAT player, not gm.
If the GM reputation is true then he is a top 5 GM of all time.