PBA 49th Season

[thatweirdguy2]

The reason why NBA and FIBA didn't even tried to have 4 pt line since it was useless and no excitement to be used it at the first place...

Curry, Dame, etc would be too much. You'd be giving the offence too much advantage. There's a reason why despite the NBA changing it's rules to make the game more visually pleasing to casuals ie allowing teams to score more, dunks, 3s etc hasn't done it.

 

[ja.he2]

Curry, Dame, etc would be too much. You'd be giving the offence too much advantage. There's a reason why despite the NBA changing it's rules to make the game more visually pleasing to casuals ie allowing teams to score more, dunks, 3s etc hasn't done it.

Actually, it's an eyesore seeing NBA teams can score at 120 or more on a regular basis with defense literally put at disadvantage.

 

[Joe Yabuki2]

Career high for William Navarro. 31 points 5 rebounds. 12/20 FG

Just harvest him already to bgk / smb to fast track him to Gilas

 

[IPC2]

Just harvest him already to bgk / smb to fast track him to Gilas

Hope he goes to a team which will play him at 3 if he's gonna be traded. The 3 is his FIBA position, and neither Oftana nor Malonzo have shown to be good man defenders (although they're good team defenders). He's been bringing up the ball since last season. Hope his shooting keeps up, though. He shot 25.9% from 3 last season, should bounce back.

 

[JAMSKIE2]

Hope he goes to a team which will play him at 3 if he's gonna be traded. The 3 is his FIBA position, and neither Oftana nor Malonzo have shown to be good man defenders (although they're good team defenders). He's been bringing up the ball since last season. Hope his shooting keeps up, though. He shot 25.9% from 3 last season, should bounce back.

Its good to see that it seems Will Navarro is hardly affected by the ACL injury he suffered last year. Well, as what I've said, in our modern time, ACL injuries are usually not that career threatening nor they have much detrimental effect on the quickness/speed & the leaping ability of the player. Perhaps that is the benefit of the advancement of modern sports medicine.

 

[IPC2]

Its good to see that it seems Will Navarro is hardly affected by the ACL injury he suffered last year. Well, as what I've said, in our modern time, ACL injuries are usually not that career threatening nor they have much detrimental effect on the quickness/speed & the leaping ability of the player. Perhaps that is the benefit of the advancement of modern sports medicine.

His game isn't that dependent on athleticism anyway. Just smart moves on offense (although he showed shot creation last night), and staying on his man or being in position on defense.

 

[JAMSKIE2]

His game isn't that dependent on athleticism anyway. Just smart moves on offense (although he showed shot creation last night), and staying on his man or being in position on defense.

Actually since playing for Northport, Navarro seems to have really improved his ability to create his own shot & he really has really been more assertive in offense. Sa Ateneo & Gilas (underr coach Tab) kasi, he was more of a role player, more like a defensive specialist. It is really at Northport in which his offense game is showing.

 

[JAMSKIE2]

Speaking of Northport, kung sana hindi na galawin ang current lineup ng Northporth, this team is competitive specially in import-laden conferences. They have Arvin Tolentino as its go-to-guy, then it got a strong supporting cast like Joshua Munzon, Will Navarro, Abu Tratter, Flores, then it got young promising point guards like Fran Yu & Evan Nelle. Maganda ang matertales ng team eh kung titingnan natin.

Sadly, it's an SMC farm team so we should expect the key players like Tolentino, Navarro would be harvested by either SMB or Ginebra or Magnolia. Si Lucero eh kaka harvest lang ng Magnolia.

 

[JOI2dWorld2]

Bro, picture this: a PBA team with competent wings, fours & guards that could match up that of SMB (perhaps even slightly better than SMB), but that team only has 6-5/6-6 centers whom Junmar & Mo Tautuaa would easily outmuscle inside the shaded lane. Remember, despite his age, Junmar seems to be getting even more unstoppable inside the shaded lane.

Now what if teams are allowed to have import w/o height limit. That team with short local centers will probably hire an import standing at least 6-foot-10 who wud be playing as center. On the other hand, SMB would probably be hiring an import playing as a "four" instead of an import who is natural center becoz SMB already has two formidable local centers in Junmar & Tautuaa. With that, ma neutralize yung edge ng SMB sa center position. It would create some mismatch in the four position becoz SMB's import is playing that position while the opposing team only has local players to match up at the 4 spot. But I think the impact of a mismatch in the 4 position isn't as much as having a mismatch in the center position. It's not a coincidence that SMB is the most dominant team in the PBA for several years now. Malaking bagay that SMB has a junmar fajardo while the rest of the PBA teams (perhaps except Ginebra with Standhardinger) has no local player who can match up Junmar. I mean in gave SMB a significant edge that it has the best center rotation in the league with Junmar & Mo Tautuaa.

but still if fails they can still have an option to hire a taller import, Junemar can now play with another big if you will base it with his partnership with Kai in Gilas, if SMB can hire a big that can stretch the floor while can also play interior defense, then it will be advantageous for them so i don't see the logic that PBA do not want to remove height restrictions to cater for SMB especially for Junemar, next conference there will be no height limit so we will see, the last time that PBA implemented a no height limit for imports, it was during the rookie season of Junemar with Balkman, they were leading up until to that sakalan incident, and who won the championship that time Alaska bannered by Dozier, Rain or Shine with a 7ft import lost in qf

 

[hmbopbaduwap2]

RJ couldn't get his rhythm

 

[JAMSKIE2]

but still if fails they can still have an option to hire a taller import, Junemar can now play with another big if you will base it with his partnership with Kai in Gilas, if SMB can hire a big that can stretch the floor while can also play interior defense, then it will be advantageous for them so i don't see the logic that PBA do not want to remove height restrictions to cater for SMB especially for Junemar, next conference there will be no height limit so we will see, the last time that PBA implemented a no height limit for imports, it was during the rookie season of Junemar with Balkman, they were leading up until to that sakalan incident, and who won the championship that time Alaska bannered by Dozier, Rain or Shine with a 7ft import lost in qf

Oh good to hear that in the Commissioner's Cup, there's no height limit on the imports. That will be the chance of teams with small centers to challenge SMB. I feel teams like TnT, Meralco, Magnolia, Phoenix & ROS will get to benefit with this rule.

We'll see.

 

[lem0nadi2]

I wonder if playing good in PBA (which he is doing right now) makes a case for Lemetti to get an invitation to play for his Swedish National Team lol.

 

[r1ck2]

This ROS team is giving off vibes similar to that Red Bull champion team with Antonio Lang. No real big name star but they have good size in all positions, knock down shooters and hard working defensive players.

 

[sajubeads2]

I wonder if playing good in PBA (which he is doing right now) makes a case for Lemetti to get an invitation to play for his Swedish National Team lol.

well Lemitti outplayed Gilas starting PG Thomposon and former Gilas star Abarrientos...

 

[CoJ2]

Candon arena looks nice

 

[IPC2]

That's why PBA is against the idea of lifting the height limit of import in the Commissioner's Cup & is also against the 2-import format. They know that the advantage that SMB & Ginebra in the big man position would vanished or at least mitigated if those innovations are implemented.

how will it vanish if they can also hire imports without height limit? not unless only the ten others will be allowed to have unlimited height import while ginebra and smb were capped at 6'6"

Bro, picture this: a PBA team with competent wings, fours & guards that could match up that of SMB (perhaps even slightly better than SMB), but that team only has 6-5/6-6 centers whom Junmar & Mo Tautuaa would easily outmuscle inside the shaded lane. Remember, despite his age, Junmar seems to be getting even more unstoppable inside the shaded lane.

Now what if teams are allowed to have import w/o height limit. That team with short local centers will probably hire an import standing at least 6-foot-10 who wud be playing as center. On the other hand, SMB would probably be hiring an import playing as a "four" instead of an import who is natural center becoz SMB already has two formidable local centers in Junmar & Tautuaa. With that, ma neutralize yung edge ng SMB sa center position. It would create some mismatch in the four position becoz SMB's import is playing that position while the opposing team only has local players to match up at the 4 spot. But I think the impact of a mismatch in the 4 position isn't as much as having a mismatch in the center position. It's not a coincidence that SMB is the most dominant team in the PBA for several years now. Malaking bagay that SMB has a junmar fajardo while the rest of the PBA teams (perhaps except Ginebra with Standhardinger) has no local player who can match up Junmar. I mean in gave SMB a significant edge that it has the best center rotation in the league with Junmar & Mo Tautuaa.

Bro, picture this: a PBA team with competent wings, fours & guards that could match up that of SMB (perhaps even slightly better than SMB), but that team only has 6-5/6-6 centers whom Junmar & Mo Tautuaa would easily outmuscle inside the shaded lane. Remember, despite his age, Junmar seems to be getting even more unstoppable inside the shaded lane.

Now what if teams are allowed to have import w/o height limit. That team with short local centers will probably hire an import standing at least 6-foot-10 who wud be playing as center. On the other hand, SMB would probably be hiring an import playing as a "four" instead of an import who is natural center becoz SMB already has two formidable local centers in Junmar & Tautuaa. With that, ma neutralize yung edge ng SMB sa center position. It would create some mismatch in the four position becoz SMB's import is playing that position while the opposing team only has local players to match up at the 4 spot. But I think the impact of a mismatch in the 4 position isn't as much as having a mismatch in the center position. It's not a coincidence that SMB is the most dominant team in the PBA for several years now. Malaking bagay that SMB has a junmar fajardo while the rest of the PBA teams (perhaps except Ginebra with Standhardinger) has no local player who can match up Junmar. I mean in gave SMB a significant edge that it has the best center rotation in the league with Junmar & Mo Tautuaa.

but still if fails they can still have an option to hire a taller import, Junemar can now play with another big if you will base it with his partnership with Kai in Gilas, if SMB can hire a big that can stretch the floor while can also play interior defense, then it will be advantageous for them so i don't see the logic that PBA do not want to remove height restrictions to cater for SMB especially for Junemar, next conference there will be no height limit so we will see, the last time that PBA implemented a no height limit for imports, it was during the rookie season of Junemar with Balkman, they were leading up until to that sakalan incident, and who won the championship that time Alaska bannered by Dozier, Rain or Shine with a 7ft import lost in qf

It's not just the height, it's also the position of the import. 6'8"-6''10" height, but it turns out he's a 3/4, not really a big.

As for SMB, they pick mostly 4's as Commissioner's Cup imports. Balkman, Rhodes, Boatwright, so yes, they'd still pick bigs. They won't displace June Mar like that.

With that said, I think it's just easier to do single coverage on June Mar, and just timing doubles if you have a big enough center against him. Stopping him's not a guarantee, but at least you can do more single coverage and the other 4 players take care of the shooters around him. He might still do well, either way.

 

[hmbopbaduwap2]

RJ's PBA debut: 2 pts. 2 rebs. 1 ast. 1/15 fg in 29 minutes of playing time. -7 in + -

 

[Joe Yabuki2]

Lemetti is a fucking steal, RJ was attacked on defense by Caracut.

 

[greenarcher2]

So does RJ doing well in Korea mean their guards suck?

 

[Athrunzala2]

Well, that is what is wrong with RJ even when he was playing in Korea, on bad shooting nights he still keeps on shooting even when he does not have the touch, it has become an eyesore