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DeimosRising posted:I thought we were talking about reseeding after upsets, eliminating conferences is a different thing. That’s a dumb way to describe it but I shoulder some blame for being too lazy to click the article It's about reseeding the conference finals specifically, which would be pretty funny if the conference finals teams are e.g. LAL/LAC and BOS/PHI
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Strawberry Panda posted:I kind of like this Boston team. They need to get bigger to beat the sixers Maybe they will miss the sixers in the playoffs tho at this rate
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big boi posted:It's about reseeding the conference finals specifically, which would be pretty funny if the conference finals teams are e.g. LAL/LAC and BOS/PHI What a weird proposal to begin with
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Wooop https://twitter.com/chrisbhaynes/status/1214637115289456640?s=21
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The Knicks are back in it !!!
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Jan 7, 2020 20:59
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He's coming home he's coming home tell the world he's coming home
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Don't see why he would stay if they don't win this year. Hes not getting the press, or the mvp hype he wanted, the parasite is.
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Jan 7, 2020 21:05
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Femur posted:, the parasite is. Hahahah. Come on
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Wouldn't he just turn around and get a super max instead? I thought it was pretty much guaranteed he wasn't going to extend on his current deal.
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Doltos posted:Wouldn't he just turn around and get a super max instead? I thought it was pretty much guaranteed he wasn't going to extend on his current deal. Yeah, it's a big deal of nothing. He would always get more by opting out instead of extending.
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Doltos posted:Wouldn't he just turn around and get a super max instead? I thought it was pretty much guaranteed he wasn't going to extend on his current deal. Yeah he’s probably not leaving but this leaves it open
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The script is set he gone
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It's a nice comparison but you have to look at some of the details here before you just willy nilly compare simmons to a hall of famer.
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DeimosRising posted:What a weird proposal to begin with So its the closest they can get to eliminating conferences. You can't just take the top 16 for the first round of the playoffs because it would cause huge scheduling problems (ignoring the travel complaint, which is also valid). Say you have 6 of the 8 hosting teams in one timezone or within an hour of each other (which would have happened in PST in the recent past). You'd either have to start games at weird local times (like 5pm in PST or 9:30pm in EST) or you'd have a bunch of games directly on top of one another and pushing each other off NBATV, TNT, etc. The latter option is really the only choice and it means less TV revenue and makes it harder for fans to watch out of market matchups. Reseeding for the conference finals is weird, but it means you're less likely to have the "real" NBA finals happen in the WCF. If the two best teams happen to be in the West I'd rather have them in the Finals against each other than them steam roll some East team there.
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Yeah, it was the only bit of the league's weird proposal I actually liked so of course it's the one that gets nixed
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Femur posted:Don't see why he would stay if they don't win this year. Hes not getting the press, or the mvp hype he wanted, the parasite is. man you really hate Alex Caruso
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Vertical Lime posted:https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1214650552598061056?s=21 Normally I would say something mean like they should retire his lovely goatee over those stupid chipmunk jowls but I remembered that he is a Good Dad and Cool so I hope he enjoys the ceremony. 
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WhyteRyce posted:Rivalries are cool. But in the NBA they generally are short lived things, certainly nothing like the legacy rivalries that college sports, NFL, or MLB. So why avoid changing changing how the playoffs are structured because of it.
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I wish the NBA playoffs were the best 16 teams and then the top seeds picked who they want in round 1 like the G-League does (or did. too lazy to see if they still do it.) Teams calling out other teams would be create rivalries faster than normal. It'd also be hilarious to see an overconfident 1 seed pick a 2 seed missing a player then lose the series.
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Fast Luck posted:Remembering the Toronto/Brooklyn rivalry. What a beautiful thing. It ended immediately when Paul Pierce retired though Every good rivalry needs a Paul Pierce type.
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SunshineDanceParty posted:Every good rivalry needs a Paul Pierce type. Nate Robinson
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Metapod posted:He couldn't get 1 rebound? theres no rebound if you make every shot m'pod chunkles fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Jan 8, 2020 |
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Cool Buff Man posted:Then the Suns should model themselves after the Mavs and hit on more people imo loving lmao im dead
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The OKC/Warriors rivalry was fun before Kevin Durant defected Even Heat/Nets was pretty fun we've just forgotten about them because we have no memory. The super short contracts from the new CBA don't help
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chunkles posted:theres no rebound if you make every shot m'pod As a brodian, theres always a rebound
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Shaq waited until he got paid to get massively fat. Good on Jokic for "Samo jednom se živi"
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I feel like NBA rivalries are constantly in flux and not decided my region. The Heat and the Knicks used to be rivals because of the 90s and the Melo Knicks, but now that's over. Now the Heat are rivals with the 76ers because of Jimmy Butler leaving that team and the 76ers having eliminated the Heat in the playoffs two years ago.
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Femur posted:Don't see why he would stay if they don't win this year. Hes not getting the press, or the mvp hype he wanted, the parasite is. The Lakers are 14 points better when LeBron is on the floor than without man. At worst he's a symbiote
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I always preferred Celtics-Philly to Celtics-Lakers, as far as rivalries go. They've produced some fantastic fuckin games over the years.
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Rick posted:The Lakers are 14 points better when LeBron is on the floor than without man. At worst he's a symbiote Lebron is forcing Vogel to play him with the best 5-man units to pump his on/off stats, open your eyes my friend
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So I'm trying to figure out why Kuzma feels like he is dissapointing this year and I after a lot of digging through stats, and I really feel like Vogel's just isn't using him right. I did a deep dive into his scoring by play type on NBA.com, looked at 82 games, and a bunch of other things. His spot up shooting is much better and his isolation numbers are improved (I would not have expected this). On the other hand, he even though his effiency is up on most things, he is taking less efficient shots more often. He is spotting up almost 50% more than year (30% of his possessions this year vs 22% last year), but his PPP is still only 1.06 on spotups. His FG% on drives to the basket have dropped 10% this season and he isn't driving as much (about 50% less). He is getting half as many transition opportunities. His defense is fine, a DRTG of 109 is basically league average and is the same as good defensive player KCP (though they're both the worst among rotation players on the Lakers) Basically AD stole his minutes and his opportunities from his favorite spots, but AD is even better at scoring from all of those places. The offense doesn't have room for him to get his easy layups that he has gotten the last 2 seasons. He is scoring the same per 36 as he was last year, despite taking significantly less efficient shots. So yeah, I think he will probably do very well if he gets traded since he is basically more efficient at almost everything he is doing, he is just being asked to do less efficient things
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Dejan Bimble posted:The OKC/Warriors rivalry was fun before Kevin Durant defected But that's the point. It's a thing for a short amount of time and then the players move on or the team changes. There is no point in not mixing up the teams up to make playoff improvements because you remembered that like a billion years ago the Suns and Spurs put on some really entertaining playoff series.
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I don't think an average DRTG is enough evidence to call a guy fine/good at defense, it's a team stat
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The Glumslinger posted:So I'm trying to figure out why Kuzma feels like he is dissapointing this year and I after a lot of digging through stats, and I really feel like Vogel's just isn't using him right. I did a deep dive into his scoring by play type on NBA.com, looked at 82 games, and a bunch of other things. His spot up shooting is much better and his isolation numbers are improved (I would not have expected this). On the other hand, he even though his effiency is up on most things, he is taking less efficient shots more often. He is spotting up almost 50% more than year (30% of his possessions this year vs 22% last year), but his PPP is still only 1.06 on spotups. His FG% on drives to the basket have dropped 10% this season and he isn't driving as much (about 50% less). He is getting half as many transition opportunities. To me (stupid) it looks like they mostly give him the ball only when Lebron and AD are out and whatever they try and do at those times always looks horrible. In other words I believe this is somehow Rondo's fault
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lmao if you think kyle kuzma inefficiently chucking is a coaching decision, he's tall jordan clarkson.
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Cool Buff Man posted:I don't think an average DRTG is enough evidence to call a guy fine/good at defense, it's a team stat DRTG for a player isn't a team stat, it's a way of assigning points on an individual looking at a bunch of box score stuff. Player DRTG and team DRTG are different (though somewhat related) stats. However, DRTG is pretty bad for a couple of reasons and not a good way of measuring defense, in addition to trying to compare a big like Kuzma and a guard/wing like KCP. I think Kuzma will look better on a different team too, but if he can't look decent playing as a 5th option/bench guy I don't really know what all he'll be in this league.
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