"We teach our bigs to start like guards and finish like bigs," Calipari said in a phone interview.
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"I drove to school once to drop the bigs off and back again a little later to drop off the stuff the bigs forgot," she wrote.
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While the league's young bigs are changing the idea of what a center can and should be, this free agency period showed that the league still values its old guard, or older bigs.
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Chasen Shreve's in the bigs right now with the Yankees.
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Three problems hinder efforts to tackle the new Mr Bigs.
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Their bigs are so skilled, it is a tough matchup.
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I can rebound as well as any of the bigs.
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Bigs and Littles A battle of the bigs is something every basketball fan is familiar with, and rather than riff on this term in a totally literal way, we're taking it a step further.
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I absolutley believe in his ability to play in the bigs.
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Mike Trout beat that in his first season in the bigs.
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"I give a lot of credit to our bigs," Russell said.
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"He will rotate off Giannis and their other bigs," Stevens said.
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Paul Gosar, Chip Roy, Andy Bigs, Ralph Norman, and Steve King.
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Several bigs before Porzingis have extended their shooting range beyond the arc.
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Switch, and he'll turn your bigs into the star of a GIF.
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But Griffin remains one of the better playmaking bigs in the league.
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It starts with the bigs, but it was a total team effort.
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So I try to get in there and help my bigs out.
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We started to settle down and allow those bigs to get position.
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So can these two bigs play together when the Warriors go small?
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I'm still not sure what to expect from the bigs not named Happ.
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He made open shots, and he made contested shots over bigs and guards.
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Yeah, the bigs ... KS: There's no Sheryl, Sheryl ain't trotting herself out there.
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He's the best defender among the Thunder bigs, too, especially around the rim.
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"We got stretch bigs and we got downhill guards," the shooting guard said.
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They invert the floor, forcing opposing bigs into uncomfortable territory on the perimeter.
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For bigs, that's Nene, Mike Muscala, Donatas Motiejunas, Spencer Hawes, or Marreese Speights.
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Even the older generation of current N.B.A. bigs can do things like this.
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Against Notre Dame (35-267), the bigs once again came up — well — big.
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San Antonio only spent about 233 minutes with two bigs on the floor.
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Oklahoma City slowed the game and allowed their bigs to work in the paint.
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He slithered into the paint and uncorked soft layups while bouncing off of bigs.
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It's well known that we at The Verge are bigs fans of sick Lambos.
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Love and Frye obviously are stretch bigs and Love can go in and out.
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Lineups that feature both bigs are absolutely conquering the offensive and defensive glass, too.
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Once it was done, Cotroneo gave him a warm, welcome-to-the-bigs hug.
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Right now, only a handful of bigs consistently pull it off in a helpful way.
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He also singled in the third for his first hit in the bigs since 2012.
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Medina: I'd always tell him, You better not forget me when you're in the bigs.
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Add in the glutted market for NBA bigs, and his trade value was predictably low.
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Let's start with Anderson, who's fine defending physical bigs but an open sore in space.
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We're already limited in our bigs anyway, so we even get a lot smaller now.
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Kanter, in particular, could be a whale to deal with for San Antonio's backup bigs.
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Guards can't handle them on switches, and most bigs aren't agile enough to stop them.
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Honestly, he's probably one of our best perimeter shooters on our team — guards and bigs.
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The second is a flat screen, in which the two bigs stand hip to hip.
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The list of bigs who are capable of this versatility at one end is short.
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"They junked the game up again putting bigs on smalls," Cavs coach Tyronn Lue said.
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Rather, it's transferred to every discussion the women have about Bigs and Aidans and dissatisfying relationships.
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Their other true bigs—Amir Johnson, Kelly Olynyk, and Tyler Zeller—aren't exactly stalwart defensive rebounders.
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When you put three or four bigs in foul trouble every night, it speaks for itself.
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Would they keep him in the bigs but keep his outings short and skip occasional starts?
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Kentucky is a woeful shooting team, often playing two bigs who can't really stretch the floor.
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It's the bigs off the pine who Pop considers the bench's saving grace this year, though.
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Several business bigs want to know what happens when interests of various stakeholders come into conflict.
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He's adept at delivering on-target pocket passes to his bigs, but scoring himself is an issue.
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Employing seven natural bigs, four point guards, and Bruno Caboclo leaves the team with just three wings.
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Toronto can space the floor with their shooting bigs and create wider driving lanes for their stars.
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We didn't follow the scouting report in that we let their bigs catch the ball too low.
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The list of bigs who can do it offensively and defensively fits on a post-it note.
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They've got to be one of the bigs ones, they're going to jump right into this, right?
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Davis struggles against bigs who can shoot, too, forcing the Grizzlies to late switch or surrender open threes.
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"We play through our bigs, especially in the second unit," shooting guard Anthony Morrow told the team's website.
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The Washington Mystics, under Mike Thibault, have long emphasized perimeter shooting from all of their players, even bigs.
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Then, I thought our bigs were getting too deep defensively, and Max Bielfeldt hurt us with some shots.
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Now we have some promising bigs come into the game, starting to change the game a little bit.
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Of course, playing mobile defensive bigs isn't nearly as effective if they can't provide some rim protection, too.
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"One of the things is that coach allows our bigs to handle the ball a lot," Horford told reporters.
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If their guy is not underneath the basket, get in the paint and help our bigs get the basketball.
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Meanwhile, the art shown is largely just placeholder stuff; most of the bigs, be it Apple/Google/Facebook/etc.
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The last number makes him a possible fit in Kenny Atkinson's system, which places a premium on shooting bigs.
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The 44-year-old spent 19 years in the Bigs -- and tells TMZ Sports he underwent SEVEN knee surgeries.
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Everything falls into place when Doncic is surrounded by wings and bigs who provide enough space and defensive versatility.
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OG (Anunoby) and Pascal (Siakam), all those three bigs did an excellent job rebounding, running the floor and defending.
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Whether he can own the glass against multiple long, physical bigs with little help has yet to be seen.
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Pedroia has also reached base safely in 22-straight games, tied with Joe Mauer for longest in the bigs.
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They should also go small by subbing Crawford (or Tyus Jones!) in for one of their bigs more often.
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Leonard has already shown great chemistry with the Clippers bigs in the pick-and-roll, particularly with Montrezl Harrell.
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They'll even try dropping their bigs deep into the paint and having James' defender go well under ball screens.
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He's had three traditional franchise bigs in each of his three stops (Shaquille O'Neal, Dwight Howard, and Andre Drummond).
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I'm a lot quicker than most of the bigs in the league and I used it to my advantage.
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Set pitch delivery time limits starting in the low minors so prospects reach the bigs with efficient work habits.
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He's fluid, strong, and packs a delightful spin move that bigs around the league have yet to figure out.
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But I think to your point, I think companies have gotten really good, especially the bigs ones, at adding accessibility.
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In the clip below, the Heat run one of their favorite actions, a double high screen with their two bigs.
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They dropped bigs on the pick-and-roll, stayed home, and did a pretty good job limiting three-point attempts.
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This year's different, there are quite a few guys you could see playing in the bigs as hitters or pitchers.
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We've been playing Dario (Saric) at some 'three' and so you roll out those bigs, and it's a big team.
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He relies on the bigs behind him a fair amount, and the Wildcats have been better defensively when he sits.
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Giambi made a TON of cash during his nearly 20 years in the Bigs ... raking in a reported $133 MILLION!!!
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If not, just be prepared to take the smalls out a minute or two before the bigs to avoid overcooking.
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Health-care battles in Washington, D.C. are fought among the bigs: big insurance, big pharmaceuticals, big employers and big government.
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Khyri Thomas and Marcus Foster might be the two best guys on the court, but Creighton struggles to defend bigs.
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Then, in March, she was contacted about a new initiative at Bigs & Littles that matches mothers with their own mentors.
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Defenses that switch bigs or even mobile wings and expect to keep him at bay are a special kind of toast.
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So much of Cleveland's Game 5 success was predicated on Bogut and Golden State's other bigs being unable to contain Irving.
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The problem with dealing either or both of those bigs is that lineups with Davis at center haven't fared well defensively.
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It was difficult not to notice that during crunchtime, Johnson and Meeks, the two starting bigs, were both on the court.
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IF Susan Collins votes to confirm Kavanaugh, and IF she runs for re-election—two bigs ifs—she will be defeated.
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As Oladipo said, teams are dropping bigs and switching on the perimeter, trying to throw him off balance while preventing penetration.
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"If you look around the league, you still got your bigs and you still got your smalls," he told VICE Sports.
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Rather than a steady diet of post-ups, bigs now subsist on things like pick-and-rolls, cuts, and rim runs.
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And he isn't doing this against just bigs, either: The Magic routinely play him against the opposing team's biggest offensive threat.
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Chicago Bulls: De'Andre Hunter, F, Virginia Bigs have been the trend recently for the Bulls with Lauri Markkanen and Wendell Carter.
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Behind them are three-point marksmen, on-ball bloodhounds, and bigs who take pride in understanding the geometry behind a solid pick.
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In a perfect world, both his bigs would space the floor and widen the passing and driving lanes that let him hum.
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But a third-round pick is still only a few percentage points more likely to reach the bigs than a fifth-rounder.
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Ramirez, on the other hand, hit the disabled list a handful of times in 2010, his last full season in the bigs.
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The Spurs love to play two bigs at the same time, an alignment that more teams actively shun with each passing season.
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Santana played seven years in the bigs, never hitting much and sometimes fielding enough to make things more or less even out.
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He could handle the ball and pass like a guard, shoot like a wing, play inside with the bigs, and defend anyone.
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Both have been matched with mentors through Bigs & Littles NYC Mentoring, an affiliate of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York.
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Even with two formidable bigs, the Jazz' youngest player, Trey Lyles, is making a strong case for playing time as a rookie.
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While Nurkic's rim protection numbers are ugly, he's a solid fit for the Blazers' conservative defensive scheme, which relies on bigs hanging back.
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When players of this type—bigs with some ball skills—flame out, it's almost always because they drift too far in one direction.
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"Those two guys, Lillard and McCollum are very dangerous shooters so the bigs had to be up," Knicks rookie forward Kristaps Porzingis said.
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And many of the league's most exciting young players — Minnesota's Karl-Anthony Towns, Philadelphia's Joel Embiid and the Knicks' Kristaps Porzingis — are bigs.
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The bruising, defensive-minded bigs of the Baylor Lady Bears against the spread-the-floor, pick-and-roll, 23-point-launching Oregon Ducks.
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With Kevin Love out with a shoulder injury, Cleveland was forced to start two non-stretch bigs in Tristan Thompson and Timofey Mozgov.
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This geometry, body as lever, is somewhat anachronistic relative to the low, wrecking-ball approach so many other bigs use to hold position.
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That's one thing I kind of complain about, because like the rock culture bigs up the Rolling Stones–they go to their concerts today.
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He was no longer athletic enough to provide the vertical spacing necessary from non-floor-stretching bigs in a spread pick-and-roll attack.
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Devote too much attention to him and the bigs, though, and he'll fire a pass to KD or an open shooter in the corner.
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Conagra has closed several of these acquisitions over the past two years: Blake's All Natural Food, Frontera Foods, and Duke's meat snacks / BIGS seeds.
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Amazon has also said that developers have now created more than 1,400 skills for Alexa, including new skills from bigs like Honeywell and Lyft.
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Generally speaking, Magic head coach Steve Clifford wants to funnel ball handlers into the paint, towards dropping bigs who cement themselves near the basket.
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Solid, to be sure, but Baseball America never ranked him in the organization's top 10, even as he made quick progress toward the bigs.
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The official program still included some cabinet bigs like Steve Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross, but it felt like much fewer than the 2017 edition.
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The first is a basic stagger screen, in which the two bigs are separated by a few feet, one in front of the other.
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"There's very few bigs in the league compared to 20 years ago," Warriors Coach Steve Kerr said, referring to the Pelicans as an anomaly.
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"We knew that we were bigger on the inside and we just wanted to play in the post and attack their bigs," Davis said.
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Turner is not the fastest of the rookie bigs, nor the one with the flashiest numbers, the highest ceiling, or the biggest cult following.
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He's firmly among the very best bigs in the league, and by next year he should push to be a top-10 overall player.
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Through a bank of windows, the team — separated by the coaches into "bigs" and "littles" — could be seen going through drills several stories below.
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Griffin is one of very few bigs that are encouraged to rumble up the floor, invert pick-and-rolls, and post up with impunity.
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Even when the big men get, well, bigger in the coaches' and commissioners' selections, the games stay more varied than traditional bigs like Drummond.
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But with Boogie gone, coach Dave Joerger had no choice but to give his young bigs a shot, and the results have been quite impressive.
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She's at nearly 67 percent from two this year, efficiency usually found only among bigs who get most of their shots on putbacks and dunks.
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Hairston knows what he's talking about -- he played in the bigs from '98 to '13 and won a World Series with the Yankees in 2009.
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Other teams take a more nuanced approach: they want their wings to get back on defense, but send their bigs to the offensive glass hard.
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Even in the small-ball era, skilled bigs are still kings, and the Pelicans just paired two of the biggest and most skilled guys around.
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Mazara is only 30 days into his first year in the bigs, and that is not enough time to redeem or rewrite recent Rangers history.
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And if he is anything like prior Kentucky bigs like Anthony Davis and Karl-Anthony Towns, he will be a good value at this spot.
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Ms. Ramirez first reached out to Catholic Charities about a year and a half ago when she signed Edwin up for Bigs & Littles NYC Mentoring.
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It's also yet another sign that Uber wants to be passed among tech bigs like Google, Apple and Microsoft whose interests range beyond a single domain.
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His two months in the bigs were so insane that he became a viable candidate for Rookie of the Year, but finished second to Michael Fulmer.
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At June 30, 2016, Fitch estimates that BIGs accounted for approximately 14% of BCI's consolidated bond portfolio and approximately 13% of the company's capital and surplus.
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"I think they do a lot of double-teaming and tilting with the bigs so that allows LeBron to just pick the guys apart," Lue said.
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Nobody makes his man second-guess himself more than Leonard, especially against bigs who aren't used to being guarded by athletic wings in the first place.
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"They've got two bigs that go to the boards every time and that kills your pace, especially if they come up with offensive rebounds," Kidd said.
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A battle of the bigs featuring Baylor's 216-foot-230 center, Kalani Brown, and Iowa's 211-229 center, Megan Gustafson, awaits if Baylor and Iowa advance.
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One of this postseason's most unstoppable plays occurred each time one of those two bigs set Thomas up with a high screen 20.75 feet from the cup.
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It's a reflection that PE bigs aren't scared off of record-high public equity prices, or at least that they believe a correction is around the corner.
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But there is also a counter-argument, expressed to me this week by two U.S. business bigs who aren't separating themselves from Saudi, either financially or rhetorically.
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The non-bigs here are exactly who you'd expect: T.J. McConnell, Kyle Anderson, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, Shaun Livingston, Tony Allen, Ish Smith, Kidd-Gilchrist, Dejounte Murray, etc.
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DHOs are a staple of the modern NBA, and bigs who can read them properly are able to put an incredible amount of pressure on opposing defenses.
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And very little of this matters if Aldridge and San Antonio's other bigs can't generate efficient offense in the post, should Gregg Popovich choose to stay big.
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Above-average point guard play makes life easier for everyone else, from Hield to emerging bigs Willie Cauley-Stein and Skal Labissiere to head coach Dave Joerger.
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New bigs are bringing entirely new skill sets into the league while the old guard is adding new tricks to try and keep up with the times.
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And it's true that, at least since LeBron entered the league, players have steadily become more versatile, with the bigs passing better and the littles rebounding more.
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Few bigs are more dangerous rumbling through the paint after setting a high screen, and keeping him off the offensive glass can be a two-man job.
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The approach plays out as such: When offensive bigs run up to set ball and flair screens, Milwaukee's defenders will drop back and stay in the paint.
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Ideally, RoCo would get far more minutes at the four than he's afforded in Philadelphia, while Harris is able to slide up and take advantage of slower bigs.
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The press and the refs might give him some problems, but the Blazer bigs—bless the bruised and sunken chest cavities where their hearts used to be—can't.
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This basically fits Anunoby to a T. Take a look: In the three possessions above, Anunoby defends three different NBA prospect-level player types: bigs, wings, and guards.
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Roberson can't eliminate the best scorers in the league from the equation, but he can sour their experience in ways that make life easier for bigs behind him.
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His rebounding is almost non-existent, and he is unable to guard the Cavs bigs on the perimeter, which is a problem for Indiana since Cleveland plays small.
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Immobile, paint-filling defensive bigs are out; agile, quick-footed defenders who can challenge perimeter shots, show on screens, and cover large swaths of the floor are in.
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The base option for the two bigs is to have Zeller roll to the rim and Kaminsky pop out to the three-point line after setting the screen.
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He's the invaluable wing who can knock down open shots, create a little bit off the bounce, and defend multiple positions (including the beefy bigs who scare George).
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Sampson doesn't fit into this legacy of bigs with perimeter skills because he's simply far bigger than any other comparables, except maybe the mythologic young/skinny Arvydas Sabonis.
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Last night, in the fifth inning of Baltimore's game the Red Sox, Orioles first baseman Trey Mancini stepped to the dish for his second plate appearance in the bigs.
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The Pelicans know what kind of players would most augment Davis' talents: penetrating ball-handlers, three-point snipers on the wing, and mobile bigs that can defend in space.
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I also get pleasure from twerking, the act of moving your bigs to shake your butt quickly because it makes me feel good about my body and dancing skills.
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"They have got two tough bigs down there who are athletic, so we knew we had to win the rebound fight," said Cook, who led Oregon with seven rebounds.
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It's a fantastic decision that allows Detroit to play as many guards/wings as they can, while creating as much space as possible for two bigs who need it.
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He also advised me to stay in school, though I was 11 at the time and was not really thinking about quitting to try my luck in the bigs.
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He pointed to trends in seeds and meat snacks, two categories Conagra has bought into earlier this year with Thanasi Foods, maker of Duke's Meat Snacks, and BIGS Seeds.
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Along with fellow Perth-born pitchers, Warwick Saupold (Detroit Tigers) and Liam Hendricks (Oakland Athletics), the 22011-year-old is one of only three Australians currently in the Bigs.
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The most intriguing bigs send that point-scoring coin spinning on end, which manifests as a massive man whirling to the basket, front to back and back to front.
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This team is already forcing a ton of turnovers and bringing bigs up to double ball screens more than most teams, but would Spoelstra ratchet that up even more?
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Meg Whitman, CEO of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and chairwoman of HP, has joined a growing number of tech bigs who are commenting on President Trump's executive orders on immigration.
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Morey's play this year was to accentuate Harden's strengths by surrounding him with as many three-point shooters and diving bigs as possible, which obviously wasn't a bad idea.
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It used to be that sending one or two bigs into the paint was an acceptable strategy, but even that has become a self-defeating approach against most teams.
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The "bigs," Boeing and Airbus, have acquired or partnered with smaller firms, while automakers—who bring expertise in mass-production if not flying—have mainly stayed on the sidelines.
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Edgar Renteria was already in the bigs for the Florida Marlins, and lesser lights Alex Gonzalez and Rey Ordonez were on the rise in Toronto and New York as well.
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They could bully them in a slower environment, exert control on the boards, and not feel any pressure to downsize thanks to the rare skill-sets found in their bigs.
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He swoops in to tag rolling bigs, then sprints out to the perimeter with his hand high and his legs positioned to contest a shot or cut off a drive.
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Adonis Garcia has done a great job of defying the odds to even make it to the bigs, but he's probably reached his peak as a consistently below average player.
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He's one of the most efficient bigs in the entire league, an exceptional finisher around the basket who also spaces the floor, and can do damage as a screen setter.
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Due in part to the college game's shorter three-point line and the schemes campus coaches tend to use, most college bigs aren't consistently put on islands against quick guards.
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Instead of fighting for deep post position, he's no longer bothered by smaller, peskier defenders and drives by bigs, getting to the line nearly twice as often as last season.
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If they had highly skilled bigs who could move their feet well enough to keep up defensively when the opposition goes small, coaches would keep those players on the floor.
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Her rep released a statement saying that Hill never confirmed that she was performing with The Weeknd at the Grammys and that Recording Academy bigs jumped the gun by announcing her.
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Most of these foul are committed by undersized bigs attempting to fight around him for rebounds, and weak-side defenders trying to get in his way on rolls to the rim.
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There's more shooting on the floor now (partly due to the timely addition of Nikola Mirotic), and bigs who do nothing but run and jump with maximum effort at all times.
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His quickness attacking off a ball screen still catches opposing bigs off balance, and Miami's admirable drive-and-kick identity feels like it's mutated into something even more distinct than before.
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More often than not this team defends ball screens with aggression, keeping bigs up high to encourage ball movement while peripheral defenders are positioned to scurry around and induce controlled chaos.
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Plumlee also joins Green as the only bigs averaging at least six assists per 36 minutes or assisting on at least 323 percent of their teammates' baskets while on the floor.
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This skill is especially useful in today's pick-and-roll-heavy league, where even the most mobile bigs look foolish trying to hedge or show on a ball screen against him.
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His numbers are monumental, but Whiteside's sinister rim protection would have been that much more valuable five or ten years ago, back when opposing bigs weren't so comfortable on the perimeter.
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Longtime major leaguer Jason Marquis, who could use the WBC as an entree back to the bigs, allowed two hits over three scoreless innings and left with a one-run lead.
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Sure, the Cavaliers can "hide" one of their bigs on him and play the they prefer, but Bogut does do a great job of keeping guys like Tristan Thompson off the glass.
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With backup bigs like Jakob Poeltl and Bebe Nogueira ready for extended minutes—and Serge Ibaka needing to spend more time at the five—Valanciunas has never felt more like a luxury.
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As he enters his 16th season in the bigs, Sabathia is no longer that pitcher, but his significance, to me and many other people, goes beyond what he does on the mound.
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Then the lads got hold of "Inspector Norse" and Terje became the kind of artist you might see at a festival which bigs up the food popups over the musical acts playing.
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Teams that can't match up with a small are forced to put their bigs in a compromising situation on the perimeter, dancing a treacherous tango between the paint and three-point line.
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With the Sixers playing without bigs Jahlil Okafor (torn right meniscus) and Richaun Holmes (right Achilles soreness), coach Brett Brown knew his young and undermanned team was in trouble in the paint.
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"We felt we had an advantage going into the game, especially with their bigs out, so we wanted to take advantage of it and get the ball into the paint," Rondo said.
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Even though not every team has someone like Steph Curry or Damian Lillard, an off-the-bounce firecracker who turn immobile bigs into sushi, Nowitzki's vulnerability on defense remains a back-breaker.
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After vowing to go small and stay small for as long as he could, Brey was back to playing with two bigs — Colson and Martinas Geben — less than seven minutes into Tuesday's game.
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Even before the Hawks surround him with more blue-chip talent, Young will take advantage of the room Atlanta figures to create with its three-point shooting bigs, vertical spacers, and athletic swingmen.
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Mat Latos -- an ex-MLB pitcher who made $20103 mil in the bigs -- has been ordered to stay away from his ex-girlfriend after allegedly slashing her tires and threatening to kill her.
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This is a debilitating flaw in today's NBA, where bigs who can space the floor, create their own shot, and provide some type of plus presence on the defensive end are increasingly precious.
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Today's NBA is dominated by quick guards and offenses built around high ball screens, which means defenses are looking for long, mobile bigs who can protect the rim without being liabilities in space.
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The bad news is that whether it's random or correlated to there being two more traditional bigs in the frontcourt, they allow 153 percent shooting from deep on 27.8 attempts per 100 possessions.
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Most bigs would be content running a sharpshooter off the line, but Griffin stays low and disciplined, with his hands up and his twitchy feet at attention to slide back or spring forward.
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Can you explain what you did, what you actually did to show this was not the case that ... Largely Google, Amazon, Facebook, all the bigs were not listening in on you per se?
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The San Antonio Spurs were the first team to aggressively switch their bigs onto Curry in pick and rolls, and soon plenty of other teams—notably the Utah Jazz, Thunder, and Cavs—followed suit.
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Matching up that way pushes Durant onto Draymond Green, allowing OKC to switch the ever-dangerous Curry-Green pick-and-roll without asking one of their bigs to hang with Curry off the dribble.
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Due to how their team was built, the Pelicans are still handcuffed to playing two bigs at once, cramping the floor and preventing ball-handlers, namely Holiday, from getting where they want to go.
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"I always think the best bigs are the ones who can jump second when they go to block shots," Morey said in a telephone interview from Spain, where he was on another scouting trip.
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Williams spends a good portion of his time thanklessly battling larger, stronger bigs, never complains, and while trade rumors surround his team's best player, is quietly having a career year at 31. Salute. 10.
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Radinsky hit the bigs in 290, pitching as a LOOGY and notching a 298-250 record (2000 ERA+ notwithstanding) in the same bullpen as Bobby Thigpen during his pre-K-Rod save-record season.
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Houston at San Antonio, Wednesday, 2117:297 Eastern, ESPN The Rockets are 53-25 and have a balanced roster, with plenty of bigs, young and old, to make up for the departed Dwight Howard.
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Also known as unpledged delegates or "automatic" delegates, these are the party bigs -- congresspeople, governors, senators and former presidents -- who aren't tied to any particular candidates regardless of what happens in their state primaries.
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Others argue that since he's been through the revolving door between the elite firms and big government, he's actually been soft on Wall Street bigs, charging them penalties but not actually holding them responsible.
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And with Olynyk and Horford still around (potentially), IT will have complementary bigs who space the floor and make his life so much easier in ways that don't directly show up on a stat sheet.
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The NBA's small-ball revolution (which includes its embrace of the three-point line and a faster tempo) closed the door on cinder-block-footed bigs like Asik from being able to contribute meaningful minutes.
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"Tonight was another one of those games where I made a couple plays to help us get a win, but it was definitely our two bigs (Love and Thompson, who) set the tone," James said.
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Westbrook controls the ball more than any other Thunder player, and he most often works off ball screens from Steven Adams, Ibaka, or Kanter, a trio of talented bigs with whom Westbrook shares good chemistry.
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"It just started with ... getting into the paint, having our bigs be aggressive down low and just finishing down low," London Perrantes - who scored all 12 of his points on four 3-pointers - told reporters.
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Before West was the cagey veteran that was always in the right place (defensively), bodied-up opposing bigs, and held things down behind slighter second-unit defenders, Anderson Varejao did the same (though less successfully).
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Mets left-hander Jason Vargas, who hadn't pitched in the bigs since suffering a left hamstring injury May 5, allowed one run on five hits and three walks while striking out three over five innings.
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The roster is littered with versatile, long defenders, from bigs like Elizabeth Williams, Jessica Breland (the league's leader in defensive rating) and Imani McGee-Stafford to perimeter shutdown experts like Brittney Sykes and Tiffany Hayes.
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Specifically, earlier this month, it announced a partnership with Stephen Silver Fine Jewelry, which sells timepieces to many monied Bay Area VCs and other Silicon Valley bigs at stores in Redwood City and Menlo Park, Calif.
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He had reached the majors in 1939 on a mission to prove himself the greatest hitter of all time, and had already gone a shockingly long way toward doing so after four years in the bigs.
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Westbrook's primary option off their screens is to jet to the basket, but he's also more than willing to hit the brakes and pull up, or to thread the needle to hit his bigs in stride.
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A Marion impersonation on defense would probably be a bit of a stretch as well, for Cauley-Stein or any other living human, but the way in which Cauley-Stein defends bigs suggests even wilder possibilities.
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James Harden recorded a 40-point triple-double and Clint Capela won the matchup of talented bigs as the Houston Rockets rolled to a 118-108 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday night in Houston.
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James Harden recorded a 40-point triple-double and Clint Capela won the matchup of talented bigs as the Houston Rockets rolled to a 1123-108 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday night in Houston.
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The San Antonio starters pretty well walloped Oklahoma City in Game 1, getting rid of most doubt by midway through the second quarter, and in the hectic second game the bench bigs played only a few minutes.
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Against a pair of All-Star bigs in LaMarcus Aldridge and Pau Gasol, he has looked like the better player for much of the series, running them weary in transition and out-leaping them on the glass.
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He wants his bigs to stay in the paint and let his guards and wings chase shooters up top, usually over screens in an attempt to take away the shot and funnel them towards waiting rim protection.
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Gravity doesn't affect Smith Jr. like most human beings; he's equally explosive off one leg or two, and packs enough energy in his 195-pound frame to convince shot-blocking bigs to retreat and live another day.
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Williams, the engine of a Connecticut defense that led the country in defensive points per possession, is 5'11'', with the kind of leaping ability that allowed her to shut down bigs far taller than she all season.
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He has been grimacing up and down the court, but that has not stopped him from banging with Toronto's bigs under the basket and even drawing a key foul from Kyle Lowry — Lowry's fourth of the game.
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The bigs are there on the help side if the guy goes by me and I'm able to switch to other offensive players and all the other guards on my team to guard the best offensive player.
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Gonzaga's director of basketball operations, John Jakus, credited "the ability to switch ball screens, Zach and Przemek and the rim protection, the guards' willingness to guard bigs after switches and box out, " according to The Spokesman Review.
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Their bigs still drop back near the elbow when defending a pick-and-roll, and once more they're forcing opponents into a ton of long twos while holding them to league-low shooting percentage at the rim.
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Kobe only put up a decent 12 points, and was benched with an iced shoulder for the end of the game, but the Lakers and their bigs looked spry as they took down Steph Curry and crew.
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Tim Tebow's doing all the right things to make it to the Bigs, but he's still got a looong way to go -- so says Brian Jordan, a guy who used to pull double-duty for MLB and NFL!!
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Vince Carter, JaMychal Green, James Ennis, Wayne Selden, and a couple Grizzly bigs who had to switch out on the perimeter—all bit the dust trying to keep Leonard at bay, or even simply deny him the ball.
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In Aldridge and Duncan, the Spurs have two traditional, skilled bigs who have the potential to play a better version of the bludgeoning inside attack that both Memphis and Cleveland deployed against Golden State in last year's playoffs.
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For every time he rocks the rim with a left-handed clap of thunder (as he did in a tie game with two minutes to go against the Brooklyn Nets), there's a struggle to blow by plodding bigs.
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Still a seven-footer and still one of the best shooters on the planet, he has enough gravity behind the arc to make pick-and-roll containment all but impossible for both traditional centers and more mobile bigs.
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Cousins' outside shot can relieve pressure by dragging opposing bigs out to the perimeter, but he's also a huge fan of going one-on-one, and will usurp touches from one of the world's most lethal shot makers.
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DeMarcus Cousins, who had been so strong at the end of Game 2, is looking like a liability for Golden State, with absolutely no lift on his attempts under the basket, and Toronto's bigs are handling him easily.
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When Nydia turned 7, Ms. LaRosa enrolled her in Bigs & Littles NYC Mentoring, an affiliate of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, one of the seven organizations supported by The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund.
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Vucevic is an excellent, traditional center, but his presence has kept Gordon, along with young bigs Mo Bamba and Jonathan Isaac, from getting significant time developing as the kind of stretch 5s most teams around the league deploy.
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They change their algorithm, they change their policies around what kind of stories are trending, and they try to work with all publishers, especially the bigs ones, about how can we best serve each other kind of thing.
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Oh boy… He opens Instagram and is met with 300,000 notifications on a picture where he bigs up "my section gunners" and confirms he is the first Canadian artist to be signed to BBK, finished with Union Jack emoji.
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The Magic say they want to keep all three of their bigs and rotate them through, which means either Biyombo signed up to be a very well-compensated backup or Vucevic is about to become an overqualified bench scorer.
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Some players, especially skilled bigs, are good at making passes in controlled settings—off of post-ups, or as the ball handler in pick-and-rolls—but they lack the ability to make quick touch passes and swing passes.
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While he's still bashful beyond the arc (particularly from the corners), Hollis-Jefferson has become more confident and effective taking slower bigs off the bounce, and either pulling up from 24 feet or displaying refined touch at the rim.
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His pick-and-pop game is such a ridiculously advantageous tool for the Indiana Pacers, able to lure even the smartest bigs just a step in the wrong direction to unbolt driving lanes for Victor Oladipo and Darren Collison.
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Oklahoma City's ultra-big lineup of Steven Adams and Enes Kanter absolutely befuddled San Antonio's big men, preventing the double teams they thrive off of—San Antonio's bigs pass out of the post better than anyone in the league.
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Even though the Sixers have quite a few bigs and may not need Wood, it seems rather likely the team would rather have him on a minimum deal for the next three seasons than the dignified husk of Brand.
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He averaged 4.0 assists two years ago, but in isolation plays and when he's driving to the rim, the reads are much quicker now, opening up other scoring opportunities for the bigs down low and shooters on the perimeter.
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But there are still unanswered questions, from the status of Candace Parker (out three to 5 weeks with a hamstring strain) to how their group of bigs — Parker, Chiney Ogwumike, Nneka Ogwumike and the rookie Kalani Brown — can coexist.
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His height (6-foot-8) and wingspan (6-foot-8.25) have him at a disadvantage against a lot of bigs, but he has a nose for offensive rebounds and blocks, both of which should help keep him on court.
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While the Baylor-Oregon game was a study in contrasts — the bruising, defensive-minded bigs of Baylor versus the pick-and-roll, 3-point launching of Oregon — the championship game is expected to be more of a looking glass.
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On defense, bigs who in college relied on height and leaping ability are now forced to contest their athletic equals at the rim, or show on ball screens against point guards who are faster and more skilled than anyone they've seen.
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No one is totally sure what the post-Boogie Kings will look like, but with their two young bigs making the most of their newfound playing time, one can't help but wonder if the rebuilding effort already has two key pieces.
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The glow-in-the-dark features of the fungi tricks insects into coming into contact with the fungi so that the bigs will spread its spores all over the place which means more fungi will grow in previously unreachable places.
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Pelicans head coach Alvin Gentry is plenty confident in Holiday's ability, enough to stick him on top scoring wings (like Jimmy Butler and Harrison Barnes) or switch him onto bigs without the need to send help (like Porzingis and Kevin Love).
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The Knicks don't re-screen to get their guards going downhill and most of their bigs are perfectly fine popping just above the elbow, catching a pass, and doing the defense a favor by taking the first open look they have.
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If the rookie bigs can take a few extra steps forward and the team can manage to stay competitive through that, then they'll be better for it later in the season, or if either is called upon in the postseason.
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The options for the Bulls this offseason regarding Butler would be to either put the ball in Butler's hands and surround him with secondary playmakers who space the floor, alongside mobile bigs who dive, execute myriad pick-and-roll schemes, and rebound.
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In the NBA, bigs have to learn how to attack the rim with purpose and finish through contact that would be considered a foul in the NCAA—and the rare young player who already knows how to do that enjoys a significant advantage.
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Young bigs usually take some time to develop, and if Poeltl can come back as a sophomore having added strength in his lower half and improved his ball skill some, he should at least be able to provide steady-to-good backup minutes.
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Elsewhere, last season Bogdanovic made over 40 percent of his threes and posted a 60.5 True Shooting percentage (both career highs), while Turner is already one of the league's most intriguing young bigs, a shot-blocking madman who can roll or pop.
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Couple that with Wall's inconsistent shooting, and defenders are able to sag off in isolation, go under screens on 1-5 pick-and-rolls, and help with rim-protecting bigs since Gortat is much more comfortable popping or short rolling off of screens.
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He still has a lot of work to do on both his body and game, however, and franchises should be careful not to overreact to his performance against South Carolina—a team that plays two bigs, both of whom are shorter than Collins.
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"Vince was able to get some good looks from 3, and when you are playing bigs, he and (guard) Dakota Mathias allow us to run good offense," said Painter, whose team bounced back from an 84-70 loss this past Sunday at Illinois.
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That he increased his minutes per game from 17.6 to 26.1 without a drop-off in performance means not only is he stronger; he's also improved his lateral movement, which helps him avoid the kind of foul problems that can often sideline bigs.
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It was the willingness—and dexterity—to bound down court faster than other bigs, the fearlessness to snatch rebounds in any sort of scrum, the capability to spring back in the air nearly as soon as his feet touched down on the floor.
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Now that he's making outside shots—a quarter of all his attempts are "wide open" threes and nearly half go in—and forcing bigs to close hard, Gordon can afford to subsist off action that's generated by a teammate's pass or penetration.
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Depending on which of their bigs is involved, when up against a ball-handler who can shoot, Boylen wants the screener's man to either stay level or show and recover, forcing a pass towards back-line defenders who're ready to secure the paint.
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Minnesota can weather the storm if one of the non-Towns bigs has to sit, and can possibly do the same if it's a wing missing time, but an injury keeping Towns or Rubio out for any extended stretch could spell doom.
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With Joel Embiid entrenched as the Sixers starting center for the forseeable future and Nerlens Noel emerging as one of the game's most efficient supporting bigs, Okafor has become an afterthought; in his last seven games, Okafor has picked up three DNP-CDs.
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It's too soon to say if this is small-sample-size theater or just one player's overnight transformation into Spider-Man, but Parker is allowing the fewest points per possession in isolation among all non bigs in the entire league, per Synergy Sports.
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In contrast, health care proposals that actually benefit the public, sometimes at the expense of Big Insurance, Big Food, and other "Bigs", seem destined to be shuffled from committee to committee for years without ever being openly debated in Congress and in front of America.
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Against a team that loves to play small, switch their bigs onto the perimeter and get out in the open floor, the Warriors have been vulnerable on the glass in ways that Cleveland absolutely has to exploit if they want to avoid a sweep.
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It's easy to explain exactly why old-timey bigs don't show up much anymore—rule changes that allow teams to play zone defense, mostly—but your Shaquille O'Neals and your Charles Barkleys will paint the end of the old-fashioned big as a tragedy regardless.
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How he fits: The Pistons already have two big men in Andre Drummond and Blake Griffin, but Griffin is handling the ball so much that Doumbouya can slot into the power forward role while learning from bigs who know their way around the league.
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"I think when he's here, it's important for our bigs to take advantage of him being out here on the floor, because he brings so much to the table and has so much to offer for the game of basketball," Clippers assistant coach Mike Woodson told reporters.
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Michael Ynoa, the 6-foot-7 24-year-old who came over from Oakland in a trade for Marcus Semien, has made it to the bigs and still has the stuff to be a dominant reliever, if not much in the way of command just yet.
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Ask six-foot-four Nebraska freshman center Jessica Shepard, the best of the new class of bigs in women's college basketball, about playing in the post, and she'll give you an involuntary half-frown, followed by something between a shrug and a shake of the head.
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But they also want to keep offenses off the glass and contest shots without fouling, two objectives harder than they have to be when trying to pull off a game plan that demands continuous rotations, pulls bigs out to the perimeter, and sucks guards into the paint.
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But Hoiberg made good with a minor twist by using Mirotic and Lauri Markkanen, two bigs who can score from all three levels (beyond the arc, in-between, and near the basket), then unleashing them as the play's true threat after Justin Holiday sprints through the screen.
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The Suns did him few favors in the limited time he's already spent on the court, stuffing him into lineups that featured two other bigs (like Alex Len and Chriss), alongside ball-handlers that weren't focused on setting up a teenager, and wings with iffy range.
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Lukas Meisner, a 21-260 forward who had 22015 points and a career-high 216 rebounds in the win over Longwood, is the only starter over 22-33, and he'll have his hands full with a trio of Penn State bigs that stand 23-266 or taller.
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More and more players are extending their range and improving their accuracy, and the future of the league looks to be set by bigs capable of doing it all, like Breanna Stewart in Seattle, Elena Delle Donne in Washington, and Nneka Ogwumike, the league's reigning MVP, in Los Angeles.
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According to Gentry, the presence of those aforementioned wings—along with flexible bigs like Terrence Jones and Dante Cunningham—have allowed the Pelicans to shift to a smaller, quicker lineup on a near full-time basis, which the coach feels has improved the team's defense in specific situations.
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A Brooklyn drag and burlesque collective that proclaims itself "queer in every sense of the word," Switch n' Play was founded in 2006 by Mr. Peter Bigs, Maximum Satisfaction, Trey Baise, and Chaz Del Diablo to challenge preconceived notions of what gender is, both onstage and in life.
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Wings and smalls tend to be better with the ball in their hands than bigs, and getting an extra one of those players on the floor allows for one more creator—one more player who can keep the line moving and make something happen when the ball swings around.
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Unlike uniquely useful yet limited stretch bigs like Kelly Olynyk—someone who will pump fake his way into a phone booth whenever a defender's closeout gets too close for comfort—Chicago's rookie combines his height with crackling wrists and enough confidence to fire away even when he isn't wide open.
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"I don't think there's any bigs in this league that can guard me off the bounce, so I'm quick enough where I can get past big dudes and strong enough when there's a little guy on me I can just take him in the post," Cauley-Stein told the Sacramento Bee.
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Games against the Pacers and Thunder are a small sample size, but we already knew that Crawford and Shabazz Muhammad aren't answers on the defensive end, while the Timberwolves' assembly of bigs aren't flexible enough to switch on the perimeter or even directly line up against teams that go small.
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This isn't the worst thing in the world, since he's quietly one of the best shooters in the league, but the Pacers aren't able to access every nook and cranny of their franchise player's skill set when there are two bigs instead of three (or four) wings on the floor.
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But Tess arrives in New York at about the same age Carrie did, in her back story, and the scene she observes — one of the show's defining traits as a drama is that she's more of an observer than an actor — is populated by Mr. Bigs, toxic bachelors, gay husbands.
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Bigs with wheels are the prized attractions, from Arizona's DeAndre Ayton and Duke product Marvin Bagley III, to Texas' one-man swat team Mo Bamba and Michigan State's 6-foot-11 Jaren Jackson Jr. All have star potential for vastly different reasons, with backgrounds as close to opposite as one could imagine.
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Kaminsky is ostensibly a pick-and-roll threat whose outside shot can force a defense into uncomfortable decisions, but opposing teams don't seem to care how open he is on pops behind the three-point line, and bigs don't have much trouble recovering back to stop him on hopeless dives to the rim.
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" (Parker could not be reached for comment.) Despite such tensions, "Weeds" was a hit, and although it never got the acclaim that some prestige-cable bigs did, it had its own sticky allure, a rude verve and a destabilizing female protagonist long before "Girls" or "Scandal," and a portrait of drug dealing before "Breaking Bad.
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To better match up with the Warriors, a team that's been built to dominate through the rest of LeBron's prime, the Cavaliers are most in need of versatile, athletic perimeter defenders that can shoot, and defensive-minded bigs who can protect the rim and hog-tie slippery ball-handlers 25 feet from the basket.
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Thunder-Rockets: OKC's pick-and-roll defense During the regular season, NBA defenses discovered that the best of a bunch of bad options against James Harden pick-and-rolls was switching—provided you had bigs who were light on their feet and could do at least a passable job of hanging him off the drive.
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Waiters also played some exceptional defense when matched up against a wide array of Warrior bigs, a critical component of Billy Donovan's strategy to switch every screen on D. Oh, and you better believe Waiters took four of those nine shots in crunch time—he had as many field-goal attempts in the fourth quarter as Westbrook.
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Ceciliani somehow dislocated his shoulder on the swing—if I were him, and retelling the story of my cup of coffee in the bigs, I would absolutely tell people I swung so hard, and the ball went so far, that I popped my shoulder out of its socket—and now he's headed to the disabled list.
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As a result, their smalls got beat back door by Draymond Green (Westbrook was repeatedly victimized); their bigs got beat off the dribble by Stephen Curry (eight of his 13 baskets in Game 7 were made over Ibaka or Adams); and everyone got beat by Klay Thompson from beyond the arc (he had 17 threes in two games).
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The pairing of two skilled and powerful big men should unleash every idea he's got in his brain, from simple things like Cousins ducking into the post while Davis slashes through the paint on a dive to rarer actions like a monster-sized 4-5 pick-and-roll that should prove nearly impossible for opposing bigs to defend.
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The recent surge may not augur some great career turn—his previous career high in homers was 28, and the list of middle infielders who found all-world power just before their 30th birthdays is a short one—but this is someone living the last-place life the right way, bringing beer-league softball strategy to the bigs.
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The thing that intrigues the most about the New Orleans Pelicans' late Sunday night trade for DeMarcus Cousins is that, in a league that has been trending smaller and quicker for years, the Pellies are going all in on big ball—but with two bigs so agile, flexible, and versatile that they can both stay on the floor against those smaller, quicker lineups.
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Plus, he's drawing opposing bigs to the arc as a trailer in transition, and in the half court his new-found range opens up things for his teammates: When opponents—knowing he's their only real threat—attempt to double and triple-team Gasol, he has the vision to spot the open cutter: Gasol is one of the most valuable defensive players in the league, too.
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He's the guy who sizes up the young prospect playing high-school or college ball, gets to know him away from the diamond, and draws on many years of experience hanging out with professional ballplayers to decide what the chances are that this one will make it to the bigs—and therefore what his price point should be for the club that signs him.
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Craig The Jays will need to see Pompey and Alford healthy first before they can make that determination (and I think it's still probably a little early to be putting Alford in the bigs, since he missed so much development time during his college football career, and really was only promoted to the big leagues because of guys getting injured ahead of him on the depth chart).
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It used to be that a homegrown kid like Robinson Cano—a lightly regarded prospect who miraculously developed into a superstar player just as New York's core was starting to age out of effectiveness—could at least get a season or two in the bigs before folks like YES broadcaster Michael Kay started incessantly ripping him for not running out every routine grounder like Derek Jeter.
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In the clip below, watch how Jokic plays possum with Eric Bledsoe, drawing him into a double team and perfectly timing the kick-out for a wide open three-pointer: Efficiency-wise, kick-outs on three-pointers and cuts to the rim are much more valuable than post-up shots themselves, and very few bigs have the knack for drawing double teams the way Jokic does.
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Which brings us to the next issue ... Reasoning: Overwhelm him with size and lengthDrawback: Not many bigs are mobile enough to hang with him, and the only time this has worked during the last two seasons is when he was (at least slightly) injured If this sounds familiar, it's because—like stacking the lineup with size—it's a tactic that teams attempted against Golden State down the stretch of last season.
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Every purgatorial season was like every other purgatorial season, with various haunted lottery picks affixing a thousand-yard stare at the end of their rookie contracts and slowly shuffling forward and a host of defective vagabonds—able-bodied bigs with hands like buttered oven mitts, grave Slavic big men who regarded rebounding as unclean, stringbean perimeter gunners who d'ed up with all the command and purpose of a toddler trying to play bagpipes—orbiting wanly around them.
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New head coach David Fizdale slid Zach Randolph to the bench in favor of JaMychal Green; he encouraged Marc Gasol and the other Grizz bigs to shoot threes; he became the third straight coach to talk about pursuing more early-offense looks; and he placed more of the offensive responsibility than ever before on the back of Mike Conley, who was handling that responsibility beautifully until he suffered a back injury against the Hornets and did not return.
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Different types of soil are conducive to growing different types of grapes, which in turn become different types of wine; certain types of high schools in the American northeast—Catholic schools named after monsignors and monks and the better-known saints, public high schools in gray gnawed-down cities like Kingston—produce a certain type of stumpy-brash point guard, certain kinds of oblong or gangly bigs, certain kinds of white-haired men in sweaters who yell at them.
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The Warriors had plenty of success after they went small in that game, but should these two teams match up in a seven-game series, his ability to single-handedly create second-chance opportunities will not only keep the Warriors from leaking out in transition, but force Steve Kerr to weigh how often he wants Kevin Durant and Draymond Green to exert energy wrestling this dude when one of their true bigs (JaVale McGee, Zaza Pachulia, Jordan Bell, Kevon Looney, or David West) should probably do it instead.
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