Domantas Sabonis thread

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He's 26, so he's maturing into a real basketball player, with all his potential in hand.
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This. Sabonis' steady high FG% shows he reached new level. Everything he does now, he does with matured player's precision and it's interesting how further he can still push it. I think we more or less witnessing the ceiling of Sabonis. He does things what prime Ch. Webber was doing (5 times NBA All Star, All NBA First Team).

Welcome to the forum Linas Kleiza.
All the metrics and all basketball people agree that at this point Sabonis is the best of the 3
https://twitter.com/thenbacentral/st...UbG_LdxqtfSICw

"Oh, no, how dear you "bias fan" putting Domas ahead Markannen and Porzingis. It's not what I saw in Eurobasket. Stop writing non-sense"

[Shawshank]

You can read such rating number all you want boys. Yeah Sabonis even in that rating 20,45 to only 19,23 of Markannen wow he is so much better we should take this list very seriuosly

When Markanen will go to 20.46 in December 27th or 29th so that will be a proof he is better?

Mitchell is better than Curry,Booker,Embiid,Morant by that rating? thats ridiculous No GM in right made would trade that.


What happend in any eurobasket was 10 times more important than some offensive ratings from regular season november/december games when i judge europeans best players of that time.


Wanna judge who is best player by november/december regular season games with made one style counting system numbers ok.


I judge by fiba/nba type playoofs/meaningfull games who is best. We simply judge by diffrent criterias

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Dude, if you don't care about NBA competition which happening NOW, just don't show up with your stupid comments. No-one cares what you think about FIBA/PO or what the fuck you think happened in the second world war. We are talking what is happening now, we care about NBA regular season, we care about statistics. If you don't dig it, at least have dignity and minimal amount of brain not to shape up with off topic as some sort of autist. Read the fuck exactly what is written and what's the context of discussion. You're farting here way too much just because you're too stupid to read and understand precisely what are we debating.

I'm sure Lebron is missing games now because he thinks RS is meaningless. And he didn't make PO last season because of the same reason. Duh...It was so easy to make to play offs that he decided not to make it...

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Another thing. Lately Sabonis is pretty good defensively:

https://twitter.com/SacFilmRoom/status/1601818697093423104

https://twitter.com/SacFilmRoom/status/1604241660358971392

https://twitter.com/SacFilmRoom/status/1604261186265960448

Now I can see that we have a piece at 5 when it comes to NT WC 2023. Sabonis won't be great defensively, but it's already something you can live with.

[Shawshank]

All top5, top 10 players is decided in playoofs period.No buts or ifs.

Yes Lebron and other stars resting games now every week because they not think they know is meanningless games now.

Best players is judged what they did in playoofs.

Thats my point no player can be in top 5 elite list with no achievements in playoofs.

If it be diffrently what the point to play games? Lets give best players list to those that dominate the ball.

Ok im going to watch elite player in world cup finals now,nobody cares who scored most goal in group stage there either.


They arent better than Messi and Mppabe that entire wold will watch now.Same in basketball nobody cares about who was balling in december if that player nowhere to be seen in May when everybody watches.

Best players is made in playoofs and those players people will remembered 20 years from now.

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OK, you are literally too stupid to understand that there are RG lists. There are MVP race, rookie race, and plenty of lists and people care about it.

[Svajunas]

He’s not stupid, he’s just ignorant.

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Well coach Brown seems to know Domas well:

https://twitter.com/BrendenNunesNBA/status/1604623103224557568

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You wouldn't expect to see Domas among top 10 rim protectors, but he's there. Domas making guys to shoot 11.7% lower than they usually should under the rim. Giannis makes it even 17% lower. We can see that Domas is competing with Markannen and Porzingis at this point. Anyway, nice to see that Sabonis became better at basically every component of the game:

https://twitter.com/PlaySwoops/status/1603493244410683431

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How about that? Basically Domas needed 44 games with Kings jerseys that he would do crazy thing as such:

https://twitter.com/ballnetwork/status/1605172572328497152

Dude...

Domantas Sabonis this season:
— 18.0 PTS, 12.0 REB, 6.4 PAD
— 62/40/72%
— 1st NBA in double-doubles
— 1st NBA in total rebounds
— 1st NBA in the number of games in 10-10-5 and in 20-20-5

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Sabonis broke Kings 2 games rebounding record. He snatched 44 boards in two games, previously best is DeMarcus Cousins with 41.

Most triple-doubles w/ 20+ REB in NBA (since 1982)

Nikola Jokic - 5
DOMAS SABONIS - 3
DeMarcus Cousins - 3
Russell Westbrook - 3
Mark Eaton - 3
Hakeem Olajuwon - 2
Fat Lever - 2

Domas almost there to top NBA in rebounding. He's No1 in total rebounds.

And look at this. Sabonis gets trippled:

https://twitter.com/SacFilmRoom/status/1605812373570301953

Who's gonna shoot the rock in the NT when Sabonis will attract 2-3 defenders? I know Grigonis can shoot. Hopefully Jokubaitis will be more chilled and accurate with his shot already. Ulanovas shoots 40.6% in EL this season which is promising. Maybe we should also test what Sirvydis got? And please, don't take 15% kinda shooter in the NT R. Giedraitis....He has been trash even since 2019...

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Domas almost there to top NBA in rebounding. He's No1 in total rebounds.

I will correct my self. He's already TOP rebounder in the league. History has been made. Lithuanian is the best rebounder in the NBA. I knew Domas might be special with rebounding thing. If I'm not mistaken he still holds all time FIBA Youth rebounding record with 28.

https://www.landofbasketball.com/year_by_year_stats/2022_2023_leaders_rebounds_pg_rs.htm

[LuDux]

How stealing from the best turned a franchise around - YouTube
How The Sacramento Kings Offense is Breaking the NBA - YouTube
They Should've Never Given The Sacramento Kings De'Aaron Fox & Domantas Sabonis - YouTube

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How stealing from the best turned a franchise around - YouTube
How The Sacramento Kings Offense is Breaking the NBA - YouTube
They Should've Never Given The Sacramento Kings De'Aaron Fox & Domantas Sabonis - YouTube

We need that "Sabinis centric offense" in the NT. 2023 should be the first season when Sabonis starts at 5 and he takes the most shots and FTs in the tournament of all players. We have to build around 3rd best center in the planet (after Jokic, Embiid).

The problem off course ATM is this - we have no shooters. Only Grigonis qualifies as a shooter in entire roster.

Anyway, Domas is incredible ATM.

1st player with 75 rebounds and 30 assists over a 4-game span since Wes Unseld in 1970.
The only other players to accomplish this feat are Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell & Maurice Stokes.

https://twitter.com/ESPNStatsInfo/status/1605795712196820992

Chamberlain, Bill Russell...OK, pretty decent company...

And he shoots 42% threes now...

https://twitter.com/SacFilmRoom/status/1605819797060452352

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Sabonis came to Sacramento and made a trashy team the best offensive team in the league. I mean, dude, how big is that.