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PostPosted: Sun Jul 16, 2017 11:16 am    Post subject:

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Did not know the dude can dunk


From earlier in the thread: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oDtS1wg077E

holy (bleep)


Carusmatic!


They called him AC Fresh in college! Can he just sign with BBB and get his own sub brand already?!
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 12:46 pm    Post subject:

Uhm, Dude, we're going to need another performance from you.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 12:50 pm    Post subject:

supermegamen wrote:
Chronicle wrote:
levon wrote:
Baron Von Humongous wrote:
PHILosophize wrote:
Did not know the dude can dunk


From earlier in the thread: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oDtS1wg077E

holy (bleep)


Carusmatic!


They called him AC Fresh in college! Can he just sign with BBB and get his own sub brand already?!


get your Fresh pair of Caruscos
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 12:53 pm    Post subject:

My favorite quote from last nights telecast.
Luke walks into practice before summer league. Sees Caruso and asks, "Who is the 50 year old guy trying to make the team?"
I love Luke.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 1:30 pm    Post subject:

Omar Little wrote:
Uhm, Dude, we're going to need another performance from you.



The quarterly reports would have to wait. Alex Caruso carefully placed the cap back onto the Bic ballpoint pen and tucked it into its spot in his well-worn cannella brown leather briefcase. He slid the clipboard into one of the pockets and snapped both briefcase locks closed with his thumbs.

Reaching over to the phone on his desk, Caruso pressed the DND button. He held down the Windows key on the keyboard, pressed L, then clicked off the monitor.

One final, slow sip of the lukewarm chai tea latte and he rose to his feet.

He grabbed the sides of his ripaway khaki slacks and with a quick yank pulled them off and threw them to the floor. A white dress shirt landed on top of them a second later. He had never changed out of his jersey the night before. Just no time.

And time is all he thought about now.

Game time.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 1:33 pm    Post subject:

maybe he is one of those guys that just plays better without having to look over his shoulder....and will ball out again knowing Lonzo is in street clothes
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 1:35 pm    Post subject:

DancingBarry wrote:
Omar Little wrote:
Uhm, Dude, we're going to need another performance from you.



The quarterly reports would have to wait. Alex Caruso carefully placed the cap back onto the Bic ballpoint pen and tucked it into its spot in his well-worn cannella brown leather briefcase. He slid the clipboard into one of the pockets and snapped both briefcase locks closed with his thumbs.

Reaching over to the phone on his desk, Caruso pressed the DND button. He held down the Windows key on the keyboard, pressed L, then clicked off the monitor.

One final, slow sip of the lukewarm chai tea latte and he rose to his feet.

He grabbed the sides of his ripaway khaki slacks and with a quick yank pulled them off and threw them to the floor. A white dress shirt landed on top of them a second later. He had never changed out of his jersey the night before. Just no time.

And time is all he thought about now.

Game time.




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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 2:20 pm    Post subject:

DancingBarry wrote:
Omar Little wrote:
Uhm, Dude, we're going to need another performance from you.



The quarterly reports would have to wait. Alex Caruso carefully placed the cap back onto the Bic ballpoint pen and tucked it into its spot in his well-worn cannella brown leather briefcase. He slid the clipboard into one of the pockets and snapped both briefcase locks closed with his thumbs.

Reaching over to the phone on his desk, Caruso pressed the DND button. He held down the Windows key on the keyboard, pressed L, then clicked off the monitor.

One final, slow sip of the lukewarm chai tea latte and he rose to his feet.

He grabbed the sides of his ripaway khaki slacks and with a quick yank pulled them off and threw them to the floor. A white dress shirt landed on top of them a second later. He had never changed out of his jersey the night before. Just no time.

And time is all he thought about now.

Game time.


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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 2:32 pm    Post subject:

adkindo wrote:
maybe he is one of those guys that just plays better without having to look over his shoulder....and will ball out again knowing Lonzo is in street clothes


More likely - and this is for people who will be quick to piss all over him if he doesn't carry the team to victory with another great performance - he's just a good role player who is going to have a breakout game every now and then, but in between those games avoids laying major eggs.

Maybe he does have another breakout game in him tonight. But if he doesn't, and they don't win, I think he can still be seen as a good acquisition. I look at the non-breakout games and see that he hasn't had a game where he really played bad. He's usually good for a couple of solid plays each game, even if nothing was worthy of the highlight reel. To me, that's a pretty decent role player.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 2:39 pm    Post subject:

MickMgl wrote:
adkindo wrote:
maybe he is one of those guys that just plays better without having to look over his shoulder....and will ball out again knowing Lonzo is in street clothes


More likely - and this is for people who will be quick to piss all over him if he doesn't carry the team to victory with another great performance - he's just a good role player who is going to have a breakout game every now and then, but in between those games avoids laying major eggs.

Maybe he does have another breakout game in him tonight. But if he doesn't, and they don't win, I think he can still be seen as a good acquisition. I look at the non-breakout games and see that he hasn't had a game where he really played bad. He's usually good for a couple of solid plays each game, even if nothing was worthy of the highlight reel. To me, that's a pretty decent role player.


He's a solid addition but the real point is that he, like all the others are missing the Ball effect.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 2:41 pm    Post subject:

LakerDYnasty72 wrote:
MickMgl wrote:
adkindo wrote:
maybe he is one of those guys that just plays better without having to look over his shoulder....and will ball out again knowing Lonzo is in street clothes


More likely - and this is for people who will be quick to piss all over him if he doesn't carry the team to victory with another great performance - he's just a good role player who is going to have a breakout game every now and then, but in between those games avoids laying major eggs.

Maybe he does have another breakout game in him tonight. But if he doesn't, and they don't win, I think he can still be seen as a good acquisition. I look at the non-breakout games and see that he hasn't had a game where he really played bad. He's usually good for a couple of solid plays each game, even if nothing was worthy of the highlight reel. To me, that's a pretty decent role player.


He's a solid addition but the real point is that he, like all the others are missing the Ball effect.


huh?
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 2:43 pm    Post subject:

adkindo wrote:
LakerDYnasty72 wrote:
MickMgl wrote:
adkindo wrote:
maybe he is one of those guys that just plays better without having to look over his shoulder....and will ball out again knowing Lonzo is in street clothes


More likely - and this is for people who will be quick to piss all over him if he doesn't carry the team to victory with another great performance - he's just a good role player who is going to have a breakout game every now and then, but in between those games avoids laying major eggs.

Maybe he does have another breakout game in him tonight. But if he doesn't, and they don't win, I think he can still be seen as a good acquisition. I look at the non-breakout games and see that he hasn't had a game where he really played bad. He's usually good for a couple of solid plays each game, even if nothing was worthy of the highlight reel. To me, that's a pretty decent role player.


He's a solid addition but the real point is that he, like all the others are missing the Ball effect.


huh?


Just saying we'll miss Ball tonight.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 2:43 pm    Post subject:

It's Caruso time tonight: http://i.imgur.com/quXuVs0.jpg
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 2:44 pm    Post subject:

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It's Caruso time tonight: http://i.imgur.com/quXuVs0.jpg


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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 2:50 pm    Post subject:

DancingBarry wrote:
Omar Little wrote:
Uhm, Dude, we're going to need another performance from you.



The quarterly reports would have to wait. Alex Caruso carefully placed the cap back onto the Bic ballpoint pen and tucked it into its spot in his well-worn cannella brown leather briefcase. He slid the clipboard into one of the pockets and snapped both briefcase locks closed with his thumbs.

Reaching over to the phone on his desk, Caruso pressed the DND button. He held down the Windows key on the keyboard, pressed L, then clicked off the monitor.

One final, slow sip of the lukewarm chai tea latte and he rose to his feet.

He grabbed the sides of his ripaway khaki slacks and with a quick yank pulled them off and threw them to the floor. A white dress shirt landed on top of them a second later. He had never changed out of his jersey the night before. Just no time.

And time is all he thought about now.

Game time.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 6:55 pm    Post subject:

we gave a contract to a PG who cant bring the ball up court
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 6:57 pm    Post subject:

Gave the contract to the wrong person. Blue and Thomas are more deserving. Caruso is trass.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 8:10 pm    Post subject:

he is scrappy and makes winning plays, just need to polish some of his game, almost had a triple double in the final. im ok with him having a two way deal
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 8:11 pm    Post subject:

anyone else concerned that we turned to Blue to run the PG in the 2nd half? Blue has some skills, but operating at the #1 is not really one of them, but it seemed like they didn't trust the ball in Caruso's hands.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 10:22 pm    Post subject:

adkindo wrote:
anyone else concerned that we turned to Blue to run the PG in the 2nd half? Blue has some skills, but operating at the #1 is not really one of them, but it seemed like they didn't trust the ball in Caruso's hands.


Probably just giving him a chance to rest on the court. He wasn't ineffective, 9 ast to 5 to., almost 2 to 1.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 10:25 pm    Post subject:

DancingBarry wrote:
Omar Little wrote:
Uhm, Dude, we're going to need another performance from you.



The quarterly reports would have to wait. Alex Caruso carefully placed the cap back onto the Bic ballpoint pen and tucked it into its spot in his well-worn cannella brown leather briefcase. He slid the clipboard into one of the pockets and snapped both briefcase locks closed with his thumbs.

Reaching over to the phone on his desk, Caruso pressed the DND button. He held down the Windows key on the keyboard, pressed L, then clicked off the monitor.

One final, slow sip of the lukewarm chai tea latte and he rose to his feet.

He grabbed the sides of his ripaway khaki slacks and with a quick yank pulled them off and threw them to the floor. A white dress shirt landed on top of them a second later. He had never changed out of his jersey the night before. Just no time.

And time is all he thought about now.

Game time.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 10:29 pm    Post subject:

Somebody around here mentioned Kirk Hinrich, and I think that is a good comparison for Caruso to aspire to.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 7:33 am    Post subject:

bballchinaski wrote:
he is scrappy and makes winning plays, just need to polish some of his game, almost had a triple double in the final. im ok with him having a two way deal


The first play of the game last night is all you need to know.

How do you lose your man right after the tip-off leading to half-court offense? By doing extra (bleep), yelling to prove how vocal a leader you are and then proceeding to double on a player across the court, back to the basket. This lead to a wide open 3.

The most unbelievable part is that he thought made the right play. It wasn't that he was being hyper aggressive and thought he could get back to his man. It was a remarkable play, not a winning play.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 7:35 am    Post subject:

MickMgl wrote:
adkindo wrote:
anyone else concerned that we turned to Blue to run the PG in the 2nd half? Blue has some skills, but operating at the #1 is not really one of them, but it seemed like they didn't trust the ball in Caruso's hands.


Probably just giving him a chance to rest on the court. He wasn't ineffective, 9 ast to 5 to., almost 2 to 1.


but he seems to struggle handling the ball when pressure is applied
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 11:13 am    Post subject:

gr818 wrote:
bballchinaski wrote:
he is scrappy and makes winning plays, just need to polish some of his game, almost had a triple double in the final. im ok with him having a two way deal


The first play of the game last night is all you need to know.


Actually, there's a lot of other, favorable plays that are pretty relevant, too. And no, I don't feel like just dismissing them for this one, because there are more of those than of the one you described.
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