No, what's stupid is you questioning what another person does for motivation and then you use MJ as an example. Who some would say would befriend other players and use that to help take advantage of them on the court (JVG said the same about LeBron befriending guys like KD and PG). Did you not read the article and see what this kid had to go through... And I'm not just talking about his difficult road to the NBA but his difficult road through life. Never question the mindset of an individual when you have not had to walk in their shoes... That's stupid.
It's a great thing you bring that up. I use that to fight the LOF when they plead his case all the time lol. :grin:
Love this guy. So strikingly similar to Mario Elie in that they were both plucked out of seemingly nowhere and started on contending teams.
Larry Bird refused to befriend anyone he played against. He talked about in the Magic and Bird documentary. He felt that if he was friends with someone he might not be able to give it his all. That guy's career turned out pretty well.
Yea... Jeremy is real friendly. I remember last year around when Beverley first joined the team and they were beating the breaks off GSW, Mark Jackson told his team to start fouling guys so the Rockets wouldn't break the 3 point record. Beverley had a monster dunk and stared down the GSW bench taking up for his new team and Jeremy was apologizing for it in the media after the game all nice and soft like. And then Beverley did the same thing a few games later... Lol.
I remember that moment well. Beverley was still an unknown and he threw down a monster in garbage time. He was T'd up for the stare down but I liked the message he was sending. To me that was a big turning point for this team picking up some toughness. Love this kid.
He should have kept to vague generalities. And not give away technical details of your team defensive strategy, in particular: I hope I'm wrong that this is disastrously dumb to say. Now every point guard will be ready, and in addition take it as a public challenge to hang 30 on Beverley.
^^ They'd have to be crazy to not have noticed that by now. Almost every outlet who has covered a Rockets game in the past couple of months has noticed that one of his biggest assets is picking his opponents up as soon as the ball is inbounded and thus, frequently not allowing the opposing PG to get into his offense until half of the shot clock has been exhausted. I don't think he's exposed anything resembling a secret -- I think it's more just the fact that most PGs don't bother really picking up their opponent until they get past halfcourt, much less as soon as the ball is inbounded. I don't think him saying it in an interview allows an opponent to avoid that ball pressure.
Every opposing point guard's gonna have this article printed out for them before each game, and handed to them as a warning and as a challenge. It's gonna be scanned and viewed on the high resolution big screen in every team's pre-game prep.
I think making a general statement like the following is okay: But sharing a fundamental part of the team's defensive strategy?? Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
The fact that you are the only person flipping out over this should tell you something. Again, I fail to see how it is a secret that you'd like to pressure the ball the moment it's inbounded, to keep your opponent from setting up their offense very early in the shot clock. ETA: And it logically follows that if you leave fewer seconds on the shot clock, there will be fewer screens and fewer passes.
I don't think it's a big deal. That's like Harden saying he's going to attack on offense. Well, yea. Ya think? Pat has been hounding players all over the court since day one. It doesn't take much film to figure out what he's going to do. And it's easy to say, "Yea, I'll just do this or that but when the time comes and he's in your face it's a whole different story.
Dude they already know all of this stuff from the scouting report. I get the point you're trying to make, but if opposing teams don't already know all that information then their terrible at preparing. C mon dude lol...
Patrick Beverley is the real deal. This article does a good job of conveying that. Thanks for posting, OP. Let's keep him for a really long time.
Yes. NBA teams with their scouts, thousands of hours of film and mountains of stats will undo Bev's defense now that he has revealed his revolutionary secret to great defense...full court pressure. Reminds me of how the league completely shut Nash down after D'Antoni admitted that they tried to get shots off in seven seconds or less.
