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Top: Kaman!! Der hat nen Platz im Allstarteam verdient :thumb:
Baron Davis schießt die Celtics ab!
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- Kevin Durant
- Yi Jianlian
- Gerald Wallace
- Marc Gasol
Eigentlich müssten solche Spiele einen Fan immer traurig machen, denn sie zeigen, welches Niveau Baron Davis eigentlich haben könnte. Er hat einen guten Körper (Athletik, Größe/Gewicht), alle spielerischen Fähig- und Fertigkeiten (vorne, wie hinten), eine enorme Kreativität, Selbstvertrauen und dicke Testikel - eigentlich das volle Paket. Alles vorhanden um mit den besten Aufbauspielern/Guards der NBA in einem Satz erwähnt zu werden. Aber die Möglichkeiten werden nicht konstant genug abgerufen. Woran liegt es? Fehlende Selbstkontrolle oder fehlende Motivation?
Aber diese Frage kann man sich bei anderen Spielern natürlich auch stellen.
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-Zach Randolph
denke mal, 90 % der clipps fans würden sagen: Mike Dunleavy
der lässt Baron nicht/kaum im open court spielen. is nen kontrollfreak und Baron braucht denke ich die Freiheit auch mal riskante Sachen zu machen, die evtl in Turnover enden
bei david west ganz schlimm. der brüllt prinzipiell bei jedem körperkontakt in korbnähe "and one" durch die halle - unabhängig davon, ob er überhaupt treffen könnte und/oder gefoult wird.Flop: Dieses ganze reflexartige And1-Gerede. Da trifft ein Bayless nicht mal den Ring und verlangt ein "And1". Ja, nee ist klar. :laugh2:
denke mal, 90 % der clipps fans würden sagen: Mike Dunleavy
der lässt Baron nicht/kaum im open court spielen. is nen kontrollfreak und Baron braucht denke ich die Freiheit auch mal riskante Sachen zu machen, die evtl in Turnover enden
You saw it, I saw it, the world saw it: the 2007 Playoffs, a glorious 11-game run in which Baron Davis was completely, utterly unstoppable on both ends of the court. He averaged 25.3 pts, 4.5 reb, 6.5 ast and 2.91 stl on .513 FG% in that postseason. It was really one of the more dominant displays of point-guard play that I've seen, with a box-score production level of 26.8 PER in a career which never topped 21.0 in a single season (and is 18.1 for his career) or 21.4 in another postseason.
As much as that performance stands as the great aberration of Baron's career, I feel like it should have been something closer to the norm. Baron Davis was blessed with quite possibly the best body for playing point guard which has ever been doled out, an impossible combination of power, speed and explosiveness wrapped in a frame listed at 6-3, 210 in its ideal form.
I still remember one episode of Inside the NBA in which Kenny Smith relayed a conversation he had once had with Baron Davis, which went something like this (paraphrasing from memory here):
Kenny: "On offense, is there anyone who can stop you on the basketball court?"
Baron: "No."
Kenny: "On defense, is there anyone who you can't stop on the basketball court?"
Baron: "No."
Kenny: "Then why aren't you one of the ten best players in the league?!?!"
Kenny touches upon the underrated aspect of Baron's lost potential: defense. In 2008, Devin Harris was asked about which point guards were the best at different elements of the game (best shooter, best penetrator, best handle, etc.). For best defender, part of his answer was this: "Baron is a major pain when he's motivated." Indeed, dude was an absolute terror on the ball - the equal of smaller players in terms of speed and quickness, but with overwhelming strength - when motivated. When motivated.
On offense, Davis has hampered himself with a horrendous shot selection, a crippling willingness to repeatedly settle for ill-advised three-pointers ahead of going to the basket. For his career, Davis has a field-goal percentage of .409, with five seasons under 40%. Perhaps the most damning statistic of his career is that he has attempted 5.3 three-pointers per game, and just 4.3 free throws per game.
Yes, Baron has had some injuries along the way, but they have been more of the variety of nagging injuries - quite probably produced in part by being out of shape - than major structural problems.
You may be thinking that Allen Iverson had a similarly bad field-goal percentage, but consider that even The Answer is at .425 for his career, with just two seasons under 40% (and one of those was at .398), and more importantly, Iverson has always compensated for it a little just because of the frequency with which he's gotten to the line: his ratio is 3.8 3PA career vs. 9.0 FTA. With his body, Baron Davis should have a similar ratio, and if he did, I dare say we'd be talking about a Hall of Famer.
Instead we're left with the memory of the Warriors run in the 2007 Playoffs - maybe the most exhilarating basketball we saw all decade, when Baron Davis was a force of nature unlike any other point guard - but little else. Two All-Star games, and one All-NBA Third Team nod in 2003-04. It's a shame.
[One note: one way in which Baron did not underachieve was in the category of facial hair. Dude had the beard of the decade. That thing was a force of nature all of its own.]
Zach Randolph
terry ass compt schrieb:quark...redemption bezieht sich ja auch auf Barons gesamte Karriere
bei david west ganz schlimm. der brüllt prinzipiell bei jedem körperkontakt in korbnähe "and one" durch die halle - unabhängig davon, ob er überhaupt treffen könnte und/oder gefoult wird.