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Rick posted:I like conferences for the purpose of making sure roughly 70% of your team’s games are on at a time friendly to your time zone but I have come around to not really seeing the point for playoff seeding anymore. Conferences impose meaning on place. Geographically-delimited playoff brackets let the emerging teams not just be division champions or finalists, but also the representatives of some certain area. They’re the best of the East, or representing some area of the upper East coast. This is good and far more valuable than the superficial parity of eliminating conferences, seeding, or any other geographic ordering.
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Dejan Bimble posted:Ost lmao, how do the Hawks have as bad a record as the Pels? They were absolutely built to start winning this season.
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Feb 28, 2021 15:12
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triple sulk posted:this is infuriating I laughed pretty hard once I figured out who I was watching and how completely meaningless the play was. I'm still on the verge of laughter, minutes later, just thinking about it.
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verbal enema posted:Go The Cleveland Cavaliers It was nice to see them able to weather a comeback, a couple games ago the 6ers would've just came back and held the lead til the end.
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Veryslightlymad posted:I laughed pretty hard once I figured out who I was watching and how completely meaningless the play was. I'm still on the verge of laughter, minutes later, just thinking about it. It was a good video. You go from, okay someone made a three? To oh, Benjamin Simmons made a three! And it was a deep one! To oh, Ben Simmons jacked up a three only when the games literally out of reach 
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Feb 28, 2021 16:49
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Raptors probably not playing more games until after the ASG. https://twitter.com/LeoRautins/status/1366052164834107395?s=20 edit: what he said
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Feb 28, 2021 16:49
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https://twitter.com/BrandonTierney/status/1366031803249811457?s=19 Knicks hit .500 and the most horrific takes start to form
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Feb 28, 2021 17:00
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Getting rid of conferences would be a problem if like 6 of the 8 first round games were all in the West/Mountain time zone. You'd either have to play those games at horrible local times or canabalize your own TV schedule and just say screw you to a bunch of people in the US who want to watch playoff games live at a reasonable hour. Same problem if there's a bunch of East Coast teams with the best record but lol
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Feb 28, 2021 18:02
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AggressivelyStupid posted:https://twitter.com/BrandonTierney/status/1366031803249811457?s=19 This feels like a bizarre comparison to even try to make, unless I'm missing something about the two players.
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Feb 28, 2021 18:35
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But also regardless of position or era or role or whatever Julius Randle isn’t and won’t be better than Chris Bosh
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Feb 28, 2021 18:49
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Covid robbing us of an epic battle for home court between the Raps and Bulls. Shame.
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Feb 28, 2021 18:51
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Randle has had one good season and bosh had a decade of all star performance. What the hell kind of take is that?
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Lockback posted:Getting rid of conferences would be a problem if like 6 of the 8 first round games were all in the West/Mountain time zone. You'd either have to play those games at horrible local times or canabalize your own TV schedule and just say screw you to a bunch of people in the US who want to watch playoff games live at a reasonable hour. This country has become far too divided. We need to heal and come together as one, and that is why I propose we all join God’s preferred time zone of Pacific Standard Time and rename it American Standard Time.
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Feb 28, 2021 19:19
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Randle was very good in New Orleans too but yeah Bosh was like a top 20 player in Toronto and then completely changed his game to become a key part of a title team after that. He's going to easily make the hall of fame. It's a dumb comparison. For as much poo poo as Lakers fans deservedly get no one in the league is ever more overrated than any half way decent Knick.
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MourningView posted:Randle was very good in New Orleans too but yeah Bosh was like a top 20 player in Toronto and then completely changed his game to become a key part of a title team after that. He's going to easily make the hall of fame. It's a dumb comparison. Nah, it was super reasonable for someone to pay $20K for a Jeremy Lin rookie card
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Feb 28, 2021 19:32
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Bosh and Dwight used to have amazing games against one another. Part of me wants to look up the game logs but I also don’t want to ruin the few fond (on court) memories I have of those Raptor teams.
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Feb 28, 2021 19:33
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Lockback posted:Getting rid of conferences would be a problem if like 6 of the 8 first round games were all in the West/Mountain time zone. You'd either have to play those games at horrible local times or canabalize your own TV schedule and just say screw you to a bunch of people in the US who want to watch playoff games live at a reasonable hour. An easy solution is to just reassign teams to new cities. Too many wins in the west? The Suns are now the Orlando team and we ship the Magic the Phoenix.
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Feb 28, 2021 19:38
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BWV posted:Bosh and Dwight used to have amazing games against one another. Part of me wants to look up the game logs but I also don’t want to ruin the few fond (on court) memories I have of those Raptor teams. I know you said in this very post I'm quoting you didn't want to see game logs but this did get me curious and I looked some of them up and saw a 2008 game where Dwight and Bosh combined to go 27/32 for 77 points. Holy moly
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Feb 28, 2021 19:40
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I have mentioned this a few times, but Zion just doesn't get the respect from refs I believe he should. For example, I don't believe the Spurs were called for a flagrant foul on this play: https://twitter.com/PootieWayne/status/1366083073985642504?s=20 Kibner fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Feb 28, 2021 |
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Feb 28, 2021 19:51
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Most young stars are on the "when will the refs start giving you every ticky-tack call" waitlist, Zion was on the "when do the refs start treating you like Shaq and let the other team foul just to make it fair" waitlist. And not for very long.
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Feb 28, 2021 19:53
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yeah part of being so strong that guys just bounce off you like they're not even there is that the refs treat it like they weren't even there
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I could see the Bosh/Randle thing if you squint at just the on-paper counting stats and you also highlight and underline the "peak" thing to emphasize it means any one season. But that still isn't looking at defense, where Bosh was pretty underrated for much of his career. And also, I'd be interested to see what Bosh could do in the "new" NBA, where they might actually run the offense through him more overtly. Sure, Randle has more than double Bosh's best ever assist per game total, but I would hesitate long and hard before saying Bosh couldn't have done it if given that responsibility. At any rate, even the stats argument basically falls apart if you take like, twelve seconds to dig into even some basic advanced stats. Bosh's best years were really efficient. So there's really no comparison. I'm still baffled why, of all the guys to call out, you call out specifically Bosh. Is it because as a Third Star, he looked like an easy target? Because they nominally play a similar position? I do not get it. Bosh was cool and had a gut-wrenching end to his career. Don't hate on Bosh. What's wrong with you. Insane takes like this bother me a little less than they could because basically everywhere outside of Knick fandom seemingly underrates just how good of a season Randle has had, and he definitely earned his spot this year. It's just kind of nuts to me that you don't seem to have a middle ground between "Eh. Randle's OK. gently caress the Knicks" and "God drat, Randle is better than a future hall of famer's best ever season".
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Feb 28, 2021 20:13
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It's also only like 34 games
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Kibner posted:I have mentioned this a few times, but Zion just doesn't get the respect from refs I believe he should. For example, I don't believe the Spurs were called for a flagrant foul on this play: that's pretty, pretty bad
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I totally forgot about that white kid who created a loving anthrax scare and campus lockdown just cuz he did the lebron pregame. Poor bastard https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ucf-building-evacuated-student-pulls-lebron-james-stunt-article-1.3847178 quote:The man is accused of standing up inside of a classroom, which he was not a student in, and throwing baby powder up in the air. He also allegedly yelled, "I'm taking my talents elsewhere. I'm going to Miami," as he threw the powder.  Definitely one of the greatest knights of lebron. Was trying to find out how much trouble he got into but there's not a lot on him.
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Karl Anthony Towns gets hosed over so much on calls. Yes I'm still watching the Timberwolves and I'm mostly crying.
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Feb 28, 2021 20:43
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From watching Jokic the last few years, all you need to do to get more calls is go \ / at the refs whenever you take a contested shot every single time, make or miss, for 250 consecutive games. Easy!
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Veryslightlymad posted:I could see the Bosh/Randle thing if you squint at just the on-paper counting stats and you also highlight and underline the "peak" thing to emphasize it means any one season. But that still isn't looking at defense, where Bosh was pretty underrated for much of his career. And also, I'd be interested to see what Bosh could do in the "new" NBA, where they might actually run the offense through him more overtly. Sure, Randle has more than double Bosh's best ever assist per game total, but I would hesitate long and hard before saying Bosh couldn't have done it if given that responsibility. a lot of it is that most people only remember third option miami bosh (who was still really loving good and the biggest reason they could play small and switch everything on defense) and forget that he was once a very good first option in Toronto.
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MourningView posted:Randle was very good in New Orleans too but yeah Bosh was like a top 20 player in Toronto and then completely changed his game to become a key part of a title team after that. He's going to easily make the hall of fame. It's a dumb comparison. He had a few stinkers mid-February, but Barrett does look like he's actually coming around. https://twitter.com/NYSportsFanCush/status/1365849198386642948?s=19
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Feb 28, 2021 21:11
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what the gently caress is 22.5 games
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Hand Knit posted:Conferences impose meaning on place. Geographically-delimited playoff brackets let the emerging teams not just be division champions or finalists, but also the representatives of some certain area. They’re the best of the East, or representing some area of the upper East coast. This is good and far more valuable than the superficial parity of eliminating conferences, seeding, or any other geographic ordering. Of course this is your take, you're enjoying the 4th seed instead of missing the playoffs like you would in the West. That's how poo poo this is, currently only 3 teams in the east have a record good enough to make the playoffs in the West.
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Feb 28, 2021 21:21
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Declan MacManus posted:what the gently caress is 22.5 games 
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MourningView posted:a lot of it is that most people only remember third option miami bosh (who was still really loving good and the biggest reason they could play small and switch everything on defense) and forget that he was once a very good first option in Toronto. Just flying too high to the sun, Knicks fans. Julius Randle is currently playing like a rich man's Antoine Walker. There's your realistic comparison against a former NBA All-Star.
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Declan MacManus posted:what the gently caress is 22.5 games https://twitter.com/NYSportsFanCush/status/1366080315928825857?s=19
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understandable but also dumb as poo poo
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I guess Randle and Bosh have that "face-up PF with ball-on-the-floor skills", so its not ridiculous to compare them but without getting too mad at a stupid tweet, it was a really dumb tweet. I even like Randle a lot but he has a LONG way to go before he gets to All-NBA guy or "3rd option on a historically great team" level. Randle is going to shine as the guy on a bunch of .500 teams, which is still really good and everything but let's not get crazy.
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i am a moron posted:It was a good video. You go from, okay someone made a three? To oh, Benjamin Simmons made a three! And it was a deep one! To oh, Ben Simmons jacked up a three only when the games literally out of reach Ha yeah took me so long to get it. At first I was so confused by the jerseys - I thought it was the Timberwolves.
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I liked it in my minds eye where he went like 1/15 from 3 in the first half 23 games ago.
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