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     Saarang Pilla Bewarse Username: Saarang Post Number: 435 Registered: 04-2015 Posted From: 206.29.176.75 Rating: N/A |
23 win Grizzles ni perinneal Western conference play off team chesadu...one of the very few people that is above Pop, Phil and Riley. aa murugantalo Doc gaadu unnatha sepu kastam...aadini tevataniki oka first round pick iccharu Celtics ki malli aadi son kosam inko pick to Celtics...ala dikkumalina trades anni chesi saantham naakinchesadu. Daani repair chesadu ante NBA biggest success story avutaadu Jerry West. https://www.si.com/nba/2017/06/15/jerry-west-clippers-warriors-lakers-doc-rivers -chris-paul-blake-griffin Consultancy is perfect for him. West is not the sort of executive to be around the team constantly, though his voice is always heard when it matters. He brings clout, experience, and most of all: intelligent dissent. West is not the sort to ever be shut out or quieted. Bluntness comes standard, and to some West is taken as adversarial. Former Warriors coach Mark Jackson was so put off by West’s demeanor that he requested that West not attend practices or team functions. Yet in the collaborative environment fostered by Kerr and Warriors general manager Bob Myers, West brought a valuable, counterbalancing skepticism. The Warriors might never have become the Warriors if not for West advocating, with full fire, for every move he felt was right. You’re unlikely to find any greater booster of Klay Thompson, whom West famously advocated keeping against the prospect of trading Thompson in a package for Kevin Love. Thompson would go on to play a crucial role in three straight Finals runs—including punching the Warriors’ ticket in 2016 with an all-time playoff performance. Beyond that, Thompson has turned into the exact sort of cross-matching guard Golden State needed alongside Stephen Curry, a perfect mechanism for Kerr’s motion-heavy offense, and just the sort of person who can make good on a fluctuating role behind two former MVPs. Part of the reason West was so confident in Thompson is that he isn’t sentimental about the game he used to play. It is typical of today’s NBA legends to revere the league of their time at the expense of the modern game. Post play is eulogized as if more advanced defensive schemes didn’t wound it. Volume three-point shooting is frowned upon as if expansion in that area hadn’t resulted in some of the greatest offenses in league history. NBA basketball looks radically different than it did even five years ago—much less 50 years ago, when West was in his prime. Still, West speaks to how much the sport has changed in a way that conveys complexity and evolution. “It’s not only different but a more difficult game,” West said of modern basketball on the whole, per the Register-Herald. What could be a signature voice in the crotchety ex-players division of the NBA discourse was instead a collaborator in building a championship team fully symbolic of its era. Acceptance of the league around him is just a part of West’s job. He is not a visionary so much as a realist. The Clippers could use that. West is a prestige hiring for a franchise without much of it—both around the league and within the region. His name means something. His input means even more, particularly for a franchise that could use a little dissent in its ranks. |