At his best, he is truly amazing on both ends. Love to see him play defense with the agility and awareness he has "at his size". Incredible and rare player.
At his worst, he is the most awkward player I may have ever witnessed. Too often he is landing off balance or falling over another player or his himself. My completely uneducated assumption is he grew too fast and has never "grown into" his body. His body perception, balance and body spatial awareness is just slightly off. The man moves like a newborn giraffe at times.
And when he falls he rarely falls gracefully. Some players have the knack, he doesn't! Instead of slides or a pop-up, his falling usually ends with him hitting hard with a "splat". Followed by him writhing around on the ground grabbing a body part. He gets stripped and he reacts like his hand or shoulder were torn from his body.
Thrilled at his best, becoming more and more irritated with his worst. Going to be a long 4 yrs with these highs and lows.
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Posted: Thu May 13, 2021 8:31 am Post subject:
My goodness. Dude dominated the playoffs last year and was falling around like he always does. He deserves the benefit of the doubt for this year's playoffs too. _________________ “You can't be held captive by the fear of failure or the fear of what people may say.” - Kobe Bryant
At his best, he is truly amazing on both ends. Love to see him play defense with the agility and awareness he has "at his size". Incredible and rare player.
At his worst, he is the most awkward player I may have ever witnessed. Too often he is landing off balance or falling over another player or his himself. My completely uneducated assumption is he grew too fast and has never "grown into" his body. His body perception, balance and body spatial awareness is just slightly off. The man moves like a newborn giraffe at times.
And when he falls he rarely falls gracefully. Some players have the knack, he doesn't! Instead of slides or a pop-up, his falling usually ends with him hitting hard with a "splat". Followed by him writhing around on the ground grabbing a body part. He gets stripped and he reacts like his hand or shoulder were torn from his body.
Thrilled at his best, becoming more and more irritated with his worst. Going to be a long 4 yrs with these highs and lows.
You're right. And, yes, he seldom falls gracefully. It reflects a young man who grew really fast, and for the most part, still growing into how his body fits together.
He, like so many other players, is not blessed to be tightly compacted together like LeBron. AD's body type is best described as wirey. Lean to slim, and yet muscularly strong, but it's just not, again, compacted. It's the primary reason he does not want to play the 5 full time. His wirey frame couldn't take that pounding.
Like a baby giraffe he has a longgggg way to go when he falls. He has to be wise the way he uses his body because it's not going to be pretty many times.
He can't be on the ground after every layup attempt otherwise the opposing team could push the ball and if he's not back in time, we'd be playing 4 on 5. At least the last couple of games he's learning to stay upright. He's learning to walk again!! _________________ LeGoat! LeMazing! LeGend!
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2021 9:13 am Post subject:
LakerDYnasty72 wrote:
Four Decade Bandwagon wrote:
Davis is the most frustrating player to watch.
At his best, he is truly amazing on both ends. Love to see him play defense with the agility and awareness he has "at his size". Incredible and rare player.
At his worst, he is the most awkward player I may have ever witnessed. Too often he is landing off balance or falling over another player or his himself. My completely uneducated assumption is he grew too fast and has never "grown into" his body. His body perception, balance and body spatial awareness is just slightly off. The man moves like a newborn giraffe at times.
And when he falls he rarely falls gracefully. Some players have the knack, he doesn't! Instead of slides or a pop-up, his falling usually ends with him hitting hard with a "splat". Followed by him writhing around on the ground grabbing a body part. He gets stripped and he reacts like his hand or shoulder were torn from his body.
Thrilled at his best, becoming more and more irritated with his worst. Going to be a long 4 yrs with these highs and lows.
You're right. And, yes, he seldom falls gracefully. It reflects a young man who grew really fast, and for the most part, still growing into how his body fits together.
He, like so many other players, is not blessed to be tightly compacted together like LeBron. AD's body type is best described as wirey. Lean to slim, and yet muscularly strong, but it's just not, again, compacted. It's the primary reason he does not want to play the 5 full time. His wirey frame couldn't take that pounding.
Like a baby giraffe he has a longgggg way to go when he falls. He has to be wise the way he uses his body because it's not going to be pretty many times.
Why don’t Lamar Odom, Ben Simmons, Giannis, Magic, Jokic, etc. have this problem? _________________ Damian Lillard shatters Dwight Coward's championship dreams:
AD played with passion today. And when we switched and closed with him at the 5, we were really good in that 4th. In fact, if you take the AD minutes at the 5 with Caruso (and Dennis sitting) at the end, we dominated GST in that stretch. That is our formula to win, AD at the 5.
I was really worried about the play ins. I am much more comfortable in a 7 game series and Vogel making adjustments to his lineups and rotations, and our team as well.
This was not ADs night but he willed himself into having a good night.
When Bron, AD and Dennis all shoot the ball poorly, and you still win. You gotta take that and run.
AD played with passion today. And when we switched and closed with him at the 5, we were really good in that 4th. In fact, if you take the AD minutes at the 5 with Caruso (and Dennis sitting) at the end, we dominated GST in that stretch. That is our formula to win, AD at the 5.
I was really worried about the play ins. I am much more comfortable in a 7 game series and Vogel making adjustments to his lineups and rotations, and our team as well.
This was not ADs night but he willed himself into having a good night.
When Bron, AD and Dennis all shoot the ball poorly, and you still win. You gotta take that and run.
At his best, he is truly amazing on both ends. Love to see him play defense with the agility and awareness he has "at his size". Incredible and rare player.
At his worst, he is the most awkward player I may have ever witnessed. Too often he is landing off balance or falling over another player or his himself. My completely uneducated assumption is he grew too fast and has never "grown into" his body. His body perception, balance and body spatial awareness is just slightly off. The man moves like a newborn giraffe at times.
And when he falls he rarely falls gracefully. Some players have the knack, he doesn't! Instead of slides or a pop-up, his falling usually ends with him hitting hard with a "splat". Followed by him writhing around on the ground grabbing a body part. He gets stripped and he reacts like his hand or shoulder were torn from his body.
Thrilled at his best, becoming more and more irritated with his worst. Going to be a long 4 yrs with these highs and lows.
You're right. And, yes, he seldom falls gracefully. It reflects a young man who grew really fast, and for the most part, still growing into how his body fits together.
He, like so many other players, is not blessed to be tightly compacted together like LeBron. AD's body type is best described as wirey. Lean to slim, and yet muscularly strong, but it's just not, again, compacted. It's the primary reason he does not want to play the 5 full time. His wirey frame couldn't take that pounding.
Like a baby giraffe he has a longgggg way to go when he falls. He has to be wise the way he uses his body because it's not going to be pretty many times.
Why don’t Lamar Odom, Ben Simmons, Giannis, Magic, Jokic, etc. have this problem?
It's not just the build, he had a really late growth spurt. He went from 6'2" to 6'10" in a year and a half (part of sophomore into his junior year). It's why he's got some elite perimeter player skills but he still can appear gangly at times. _________________ KOBE
Draymond is such an amazing defensive savant. Had AD shook and confused for half a game.
I'd put that 95% on AD just shaking off rust and still rounding back into shape and 5% due to Draymond. AD has always absolutely murdered Draymond. We're talking Hakeem #'s on him. Draymond can't do jack against a 100% healthy, clicking on all cylinders AD. _________________ KOBE
Draymond is such an amazing defensive savant. Had AD shook and confused for half a game.
I'm going to say this was 5D chess by AD, he knew that if he played like ass against Draymond that it would mean Draymond gets more minutes on the offensive end where the Lakers can leave him open.
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