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Okay y'all, the nuggets did it, they won the 3 seed so they  don't have to play the lakers first round because the lakers are the 5 seed!! did anything else happen in the other games today i've been busy
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https://twitter.com/cclark3000/status/1388712164358250496?s=19 I think two of those misses were put back in on a second try. Lol
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May 2, 2021 06:25
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Lamelo helped Miles Bridges emerge as the powerful small ball 4 that this very forum's draft experts claimed he would one day be. Thank you Lamelo
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May 2, 2021 06:38
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Kibner posted:https://twitter.com/cclark3000/status/1388712164358250496?s=19 i liked the analogy the announcer used of Zion causing other players to foul out like bowling pins
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May 2, 2021 06:48
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I hope we get LA vs Suns at some point so we can get the next installment of Paul storming the tunnels
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Athanatos posted:The thunder did not deserve that  Deserve's got nothing to do with it.
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I think the Lakers should pull the plug on this season and hope they don't win the lottery so they keep their pick, fire Jason Kidd and get a real offensive coordinator and get LeBron some rest to make one last run next season.
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May 2, 2021 09:25
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Dejan Bimble posted:Lamelo helped Miles Bridges emerge as the powerful small ball 4 that this very forum's draft experts claimed he would one day be. Thank you Lamelo The Hornets are the most entertaining team in basketball this season.
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May 2, 2021 10:53
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Rick posted:I think the Lakers should pull the plug on this season and hope they don't win the lottery so they keep their pick, fire Jason Kidd and get a real offensive coordinator and get LeBron some rest to make one last run next season. I think their chances of winning next year are gonna be lower, even with all the injuries and weirdness. Next year, the Nets will have a year under their belt and the ability to add some more role players. I think they'll be the odds on favorites.
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jackofarcades posted:I think their chances of winning next year are gonna be lower, even with all the injuries and weirdness. Next year, the Nets will have a year under their belt and the ability to add some more role players. I think they'll be the odds on favorites. The Nets are the odds on favorites anyway, or at least they should be. The Lakers are currently a team with no offensive identity and even if they toss Drummond and go back to playing great defense, great defense against teams that are also good at defense in addition to being great at offense (like the Suns/Clippers/Jazz and the no Murray Nuggets) isn't exactly a recipe for success. I guess it doesn't matter much anyway. There isn't much difference between the 16th pick and the 11th pick anyway.
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May 2, 2021 12:09
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Booyah- posted:i liked the analogy the announcer used of Zion causing other players to foul out like bowling pins Hash, yeah. He continued to fouling out three front court players last night. I think players still don't believe how quickly he gets to his spots with the ball or just aren't quick enough to beat him to the spot and end up fouling him with body bumps because they can't establish legal guarding position before contact is made.
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Dejan Bimble posted:Lamelo helped Miles Bridges emerge as the powerful small ball 4 that this very forum's draft experts claimed he would one day be. Thank you Lamelo Definitely helped with his confidence but Miles actually made his biggest strides when LaMelo was out. Finally committing to the PJ Washington / Bridges frontcourt probably helped the most. The more reliable shooting is nice, but his handle is finally there and his passing has been surprisingly good too. Didn’t see it coming, honestly, I would have pegged him for a mid season trade
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MPJ's numbers have been insane since Murray went down. He is averaging 27 points on 60% shooting, 50% from 3. He's the second option even when Murray gets back.
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Did the NBA ever acknowledge why it's chill for the Thunder to sit Horford while giving poo poo to other teams for resting healthy players? Or did they stop complaining about load management enitrely?
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a new study bible! posted:Did the NBA ever acknowledge why it's chill for the Thunder to sit Horford while giving poo poo to other teams for resting healthy players? Or did they stop complaining about load management enitrely? Lol. Remember that tanking is now okay?
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May 2, 2021 15:15
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Yeah the reason the thunder have 1 nationally broadcasted game this year
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May 2, 2021 15:15
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doug bucket hit 6 3s and went off for 31, i am very sorry but the oklahoma city thundermen should be relegated.
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philly fans treating al horford like he was the worst player in the league last year and then acting like he'd single handily carry the thunder to respectability this year is very funny
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Michael "The Hebrew Hammer" Brown coming in with a very passionate anti-Steph Curry rant at the start of the newest Dream Take pod. And hell, I love it. Even the parts that are wrong
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The NBA literally fined the Spurs for resting players 3 weeks ago. I'll resist the urge to be an rear end in a top hat, but pretending like that question has anything to do with Philly is goofy. It's a legit question. I'm asking if the league ever differentiated between the situations. But yeah I guess Al Horford is no better than Charlie Brown Jr. or whatever. That's a sincere position one can hold.
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MourningView posted:philly fans treating al horford like he was the worst player in the league last year and then acting like he'd single handily carry the thunder to respectability this year is very funny You're better than this.
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Okc has no nationally televised games, okc isn't allowing fans in the arena this year, and okc hasn't flaunted to the world that they are tanking so why would the nba care when the decisions okc is making isn't effecting cashflow?
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a new study bible! posted:The NBA literally fined the Spurs for resting players 3 weeks ago. Spurs had multiple healthy players listed as DNP-Rest for an away game, the league policy is to not rest multiple healthy players and to do so during home games. Thunder have said "We have come to an agreement to no longer play a player who is not in the best long-term interest of the team". I'm not defending the leagues rest policy (I think its half-baked), but it differentiation seems pretty obvious. The league wanted the Spurs to rest players on the first night of the B2B (which was at home).
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Metapod posted:Okc has no nationally televised games, okc isn't allowing fans in the arena this year, and okc hasn't flaunted to the world that they are tanking so why would the nba care when the decisions okc is making isn't effecting cashflow? San Antonio vs Phoenix and Orlando vs Toronto weren't nationally televised games. Also, I'd disagree with you regarding the silence of OKC's tank, as everyone knows about the trades and draft capital at this point. I don't care that OKC is in the tank, and teams should be allowed to do it if they want, I'm just curious to what motivated the NBA to fine two teams who are also out of contention for actually resting their players. Asking for logic or consistency from any sports league is too much, for sure, but what was it about April 16th and 17th that made the NBA care so much about something they've mostly otherwise ignored? It's like someone won a "Commissioner for a Day" contest. Lockback posted:Spurs had multiple healthy players listed as DNP-Rest for an away game, the league policy is to not rest multiple healthy players and to do so during home games. Thunder have said "We have come to an agreement to no longer play a player who is not in the best long-term interest of the team". I'm not defending the leagues rest policy, but it differentiation seems pretty obvious. The league wanted the Spurs to rest players on the first night of the B2B (which was at home). Then what's the logic behind the Raptors? a new study bible! fucked around with this message at 15:57 on May 2, 2021 |
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a new study bible! posted:
They rested basically their 3 best players (Siakim, OG, Lowry), which is the "multiple player part". and no B2B or anything. Again, I'm not saying its a good policy but it's pretty obviously different than the Horford thing.
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The NBA's rules about resting players only counts for away games. edit should have finished reading.
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the rest rule is stupid but not playing a guy for like half the season also seems very different than resting them for one specific game without an injury. It's targeted at trying to cut down on DNP-rest and load management and that's not what is happening with Horford
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Senator Drinksalot posted:MPJ's numbers have been insane since Murray went down. He is averaging 27 points on 60% shooting, 50% from 3. He's the second option even when Murray gets back. He's awesome, and yeah he's just a better night to night second option, though Murray will obviously skyrocket to #1 in big chunks of games. I just finished watching the replay. If you only watched the second half of that game you'd think Rondo and Boogie were the two most important players on the Clippers.
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He looks like an extra in a 90s kid show trying to guard the main star who is clearly side dribbling away from the hoop
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indigi posted:why doesn’t every team just lie and put “DNP - tummy ache” on the injury report or whatever It's hard to be as good as Joel.
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indigi posted:why doesn’t every team just lie and put “DNP - tummy ache” on the injury report or whatever This is basically what the NBA is asking teams to do. Also note, 25k fines to teams is absolute peanuts. This is performative and overall it's just "Hey guys, please try to take this seriously". I get why you don't want teams to have an owner who says "rest away games when we don't care about the those fans", that's a tragedy of the commons situation, but I feel like you can work with the NBAPA and figure out a rest budget or something pretty easily.
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indigi posted:why doesn’t every team just lie and put “DNP - tummy ache” on the injury report or whatever Imagining Kevin Durant checking out in the first quarter to take a poo poo and fire off a few tweets. At least that's what i do when i have a tummy ache at work.
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Tangentially related is Kevin Porter, Jr. being fined $50k for going to a club and Sterling Brown not being fined for going to the same club. Obviously there is a bit more to the story and I’m not so heartless to throw insult onto injury but they clearly had a meeting and decided that if you get assaulted and injured then you don’t get fined for violating COVID protocols
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For once I will defend the Philly Poster, it’s definitely ridiculous that what OKC is doing is allowed. Based on previous precedent of what kind of tanking isn’t allowed, choosing to deactivate your team’s second-best player and have the league allow it is genuinely shocking.
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