The 90s bulls era has always peeked my interest. First as fan of the game, then as a person that want to understand the team topology, and why the team(s) was so great. You have Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success, by Phil Jackson that goes on detail on this.
Unguarded is in many ways the same story, but written from a players perspective. The book covers more in detail on a single view and is a nice way to get some of the spice missing from Eleven Rings.
In a way it fits well into the puzzle of Eleven Rings, the Netflix series: The last dance and now Unguarded. I am not sure how many more views we need of this bulls era. The book reuses known facts. It hurts the book that the story has been told many times before.
Be warned: Unguarded is mostly based in stats, and I will not recommend it for non basketball nerds
Keep that in mind, stay strong 💪🏻
Looks like Scottie Pippen is releasing a book about his life/career around the 30th anniversary of their first title. Very interesting, as he wasn't happy with his portrayal in The Last Dance.
Sources:
https://twitter.com/ScottiePippen/status/1402626677142962177?s=20
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=339659374194193&id=100044503986618
I would be lying if I said I don't read the comments on my post that, one way or another, always draw out that don't believe anything I said. The Bible always warns us of scoffers, liars, mockers, unbelievers, etc., and expecting them to come by nature means that we as Christians shouldn't be wasting our time trying to prove anything to them. In my own experience, this is doubly true when you live as a very spiritual Christian. When you're very in tune with the Holy Spirit, Christian or not, your spirit is naturally going to be understood by some and misunderstood by others. That's why I don't bother defending myself from the latter.
Seen a lot of goons saying Pickle is still relative in strength to Yujiro 🤨
"But the truly destructive part of Wiggins’s defense is how much of it there was. In the way that defenders like Draymond Green or an in-his-prime Tony Allen seem to be in all places at all times, challenging seemingly every shot on the floor, Wiggins is omnipresent in his awfulness."
"A quarter of all points from the floor scored on the Lakers’ Team Of The Future were on dunks, as though the goal of the defense was to corral the opposing team into the most efficient route possible on the way to the rim."
"But he also has by far the smallest offensive role on the team. Kevin Love, who has seen his role reduced drastically from his superstar days in Minnesota, got 37.8 touches per 36 minutes. James got 66.8; Irving got 67.2; even Iman Shumpert, who cannot dribble, pass or shoot, got 30.1. Richard Jefferson, who was drafted when Thompson was 10 years old, got 26.8."
"Like Marcus Smart, Thompson has other skills that are important to the Cavaliers. They trust him with important responsibilities. Just not with the basketball."
"Smart contributes in other ways — mainly through being Point Guard Ben Wallace — and his shooting percentage did, briefly, see an uptick in the playoffs. That’s enough to make him useful, at least on a team that gets stomped by the Cavs."
"Thanks to a draft-day trade, Tom Thibodeau is reunited with defensive stopper Jimmy Butler, and not a moment too soon. Butler will be joining forces with the single most catastrophic defender in the league: Andrew Wiggins."
"D’Angelo Russell, Jordan Clarkson, Julius Randle, Brandon Ingram and Larry Nance, Jr. played 108 minutes across 20 games this season — not a huge sample, but not quite nothing, either. By pure net rating, they were the second worst lineup in the league (-28.3 points per 100 possessions), trailing an especially grim configuration of Sacramento Kings."
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-nba-haters-ball/?ex_cid=538twitter
EDIT: Pretty surprised by the response to this post. It was just an article I thought was funny..really just a collection of blurbs with harsh/funny critiques. The idea that Wiggins wouldn't provide an upgrade over empty space made me laugh to myself so I put it as the title. Besides the first quote in the text it's not about him at all lol..I liked the
... keep reading on reddit ➡https://open.spotify.com/track/00W0z4GR2fU8v11dhszOdw?si=C1Rg7z-QR0WQN6S_kxzJ-Q&utm_source=copy-link
