Nicholas Batum
by prostofen on Sep 4, 2011 11:19 AM PDT
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PrintI just want to share with you that today France achieved a difficult victory over Italy 91:84(20-23;21-25;19-19;31-17) in a game of the European Basketball Championship.
Nic Batum had a significant contribution to the success - 20 points, 5 rebounds,4 steals.
In the last few minutes, he had several key plays.It was nice to see Nic so active.Tony Parker played poorly.Another key player was B. Diaw - 21 Pts.
Tomorrow France plays against Serbia.The match starts at 11 AM.
You can find a link to the game here - www.sportlemon.tv.
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Batum looked like a totally different player.
He was really going at whoever was guarding him. Parker was really struggling and actually sat while France made a run in the fourth. If Batum played like this every game (a little cocky, a little pissed) he’d be an all star. But the same could be said of Diaw, who really delivered in the clutch. It’s a French thing, I guess.
(Batum had a huge block from the weak side on Bargnani, who also looked great.)
oui oui
Jeff Pendergraph:
FGM - 3
FGA - 111
Min - 30
Reb - 10
by Tofu Anonymous on Sep 4, 2011 11:56 AM PDT up reply actions
He's the same player,imo.
The competition is what’s different.
<3 that kid. Arms go on forever !
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You hit the nail on the head
Problem is we only see this Batum once in a while. Imagine a starting pitcher who has the potential to throw a shutout, and does so once in a while but a fair amount of the time gets lit up like a pinball machine. Meanwhile another pitcher has less potential for throwing a shutout, but rather consistently delivers good starts one after the other. Which would you prefer? Me, I take Mr. Consistent every day of the week. Which is why, I must adieu to Monsieur Batum (if we could get a consistent, proven player).
Would you still take Mr. Consistent
If he was 38 and and the Mr. Potential was 23? If there’s one thing that improves with age, it’s consistency. Will he become the next Pippen? Very unlikely. But Prince is definitely within his reach.
by Batumshakalaka on Sep 5, 2011 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions
That's a fair point
But if some of the rumors of the past few years are to be believed potential trumped relatively young consistency with the Blazers. I would argue this was to our detriment.
Yeah, Parker injured himself in the second play of the game when
he got kneed in the thigh
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by thankyouforblaze on Sep 4, 2011 12:34 PM PDT reply actions
I think Serbia's gonna be tough.
Even tougher if Parker ain’t up to snuff. It’s going to take big time games from Batum, Diaw, and Noah if that’s the case. I’m sad I missed today’s game, and even sadder I’ve got to miss tomorrow’s.
Diaw is so funny: one night, he’s this fluid presence, materializing just in time to complete a play with a mind-bending outlet pass, then next night, he’s a tubby pile of suck. Truly amazing how one man can vacillate between such extremes.
Batum has been Steady Eddy for Les Bleus, and I’m glad to hear he took it up a notch and got pissed.
Joakim Noah needs to hit the boards harder. He’s averaging 7.5 in the tournament after a 10.4 season. It was infuriating to watch all the 2nd chances Les Bleus gave Germany, and some of that blame is on him (also Treore/Seraphin is a poor substitute for Turiaf).
With some luck, I’ll be able to catch a few minutes of tomorrow’s game. Allez, Nico!
Doers & Makers > Movers & Shakers
Aren't the games more possession oriented and/or low scoring?
Rebounds become less prevalent.
Being a Blazer fan is not exactly healthy.
His TRB% for the 4 games is roughly 22.8% so far. That’s higher than the 18.5% TRB% he had as a Bull last season. He’s only playing 24 minutes per game in Eurobasket rather than the almost 33 minutes per game in last season.
Even in the Germany game, statistically allowing 4 offensive rebounds in 28 opportunities would be extremely good defensive rebounding in the NBA. The boxscore may be a little off, but I can’t it imagine it being off by a ton.
My point exactly.
Not that I really made one.
But although his Rebounds look low at 7.5, He’s grabbing a higher TRB% than his play in the NBA.
To be crude, If there were only 10 total rebounds in a game, either by high turnovers or high FGM%, then 7.5 rebounds would be 75% of total rebounds caught. Sure, it’s no double-double but you grabbed a high # of rebounds in relation to how many were available.
Being a Blazer fan is not exactly healthy.
fun game,
what’s with Nedad Kristic dominating? Noah should be doing better against him, though a few times it’s looked like batum ended up on him on defense. Will he still be on the thunder next year? SOme nice shots from batum, Man watching this makes me really hope the NBA works out and we see some basketball. Watching Batum play makes me realize that he’s still young with room to improve. It also makes me glad we didn’t trade for Tony Parker. Not that he’s bad at all, he’s great, but I see slippage in his future.
…what’s with Nedad Kristic dominating? Noah should be doing better against him…
Maybe there was a row of chairs within reach…
Doers & Makers > Movers & Shakers
Nice
I totally forgot about that! Great picture. Yeah, Noah knew there were plenty of chairs around.
I've probably posted that pic 5 times now...
He just looks so wicked—kinda like Gargamel. Also, the Greek girls in the background are hilarious.
Doers & Makers > Movers & Shakers
It is a bit unsettling...
Crash. Coming soon to an arena near you.
by BubbaJackson on Sep 5, 2011 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions
It's werid how they show the playbacks so quickly
During the continuing play they show the basket that just happened. I’m watching the serbian feed, don’t know if they are all like that.
Great stuff, I'm getting a good basketball fix here.
Hope It won’t have to last me too long. Let have some ball Owners and players!
He looks ok, maybe he'll be more agressive with a little brain damage
He’ll think less and drive more. Sorry, bad joke.
overtime
20 secs left, parker shots foul shots to put france up one! Serbia misses a shot right at the rim and its’ over!
Good job Twggyy. Wish i had noticed this earlier, i would have joined you.
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Thanks!
I was just having fun entertaining myself, It was a great game to watch. I’m for sure going to try to catch more of them. Batum with the bandage, so hardcore! Lots of great plays by him. He’s really a personality on the team, not like portland, really expressive and fun.
*Nicolas*
not Nicholas
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by thankyouforblaze on Sep 19, 2011 10:57 AM PDT reply actions
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