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FiveThirtyEight: Why the NBA abandoned Roy Hibbert

Discussion in 'NBA Dish' started by Carl Herrera, May 19, 2018.

  1. Carl Herrera

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    #1 Carl Herrera, May 19, 2018
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    He did not want to go to the GLeague for the Rockets. That's what he got for it.
     
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    He's out of the league because he has hands of stone. If he could catch and finish even close to Capela or even Nene, he would have a job.
     
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    Paul George killed him
     
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    amazing how many players can say, “Free agency has been tough because I feel like, in some ways, the NBA has given up on me.”
     
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    A lot of these players get to the league and they stop getting better.
     
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    Weird he got mentioned. In that Dream vs Shaq thread, I compared his style as a broken man's Shaq and how Shaq wouldn't be as great in this era.

    Jazz destroyed Shaq early on with constant pick n rolls and forcing him out the paint.

    Sure he developed a passable midrange, but doing that at a high level to justify statistics would be an issue.
     
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    Shaq would still be great in this era as he is too big and strong to be contained. If Embiid can still be dominant then Shaq will be even more so.

    Hibbert is a good defender but he sucks at everything else he was scoring at like 40% and averaging 6 rebs tgats why he doesnt have a job.
     
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    who is he developing at the sixers team? what skills does he have to pass down to the young brehs?
     
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    Spinorama Juke
     
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