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Welp, looks like we live here now. Hell of a season. Three yakked games in a row though. Blazers need another weapon and some luck with the health.
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harperdc posted:Welp, looks like we live here now. No money, no owners, ain't gonna happen.
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at least the blazers found their third star Meyers Leonard
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Welcome Portland Trailblazers fans. Your team showed a lot of heart getting this far but the Warriors swallow sweet stories whole. I expect the Blazers to be back next year in the playoffs when I was not saying that at the end of last season.
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harperdc posted:Welp, looks like we live here now. A part of me really thought Lebron would've been perfect for that team until I saw him on the Lakers
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Lebron on the Blazers with all those shooters, and they'd roll over the regular season west until the Warriors punished them for also being the worst defensive team in the league.
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How many of those 17 point leads do the Blazers give up with Nurkic?
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DeimosRising posted:How many of those 17 point leads do the Blazers give up with Nurkic? Maybe 1
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DeimosRising posted:How many of those 17 point leads do the Blazers give up with Nurkic? Hard to say. Definitely he would have helped on the rebounding front, although one of the most effective things the Blazers did to the Warriors was make them chase Collins and Leonard around at the three and Nurkic doesn't do that.
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I'd take Nurk against bogut any day of the week. Nurk averaged 20/10/3.5 against the warriors during the regular season. Not saying they would have won, but it would have been a better series, for sure
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https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1130939511477874693
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Someone more objective tell me how excited I should be about Michael Porter Jr’s rookie year. Are there recent cases of draft picks missing their first seasons when they weren’t first overall picks? Am I crazy for thinking he has a good shot at first team rookie (because let’s be honest Zion is practically a lock for RoY)?
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kingcobweb posted:Someone more objective tell me how excited I should be about Michael Porter Jr’s rookie year. Are there recent cases of draft picks missing their first seasons when they weren’t first overall picks? Embiid, that worked out pretty well. kingcobweb posted:Am I crazy for thinking he has a good shot at first team rookie (because let’s be honest Zion is practically a lock for RoY)? Let's maybe see if he can get through an NBA season first. He wasn't able to get through the combine-process without having to tap out, so first things first.
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kingcobweb posted:Someone more objective tell me how excited I should be about Michael Porter Jr’s rookie year. Are there recent cases of draft picks missing their first seasons when they weren’t first overall picks? Am I crazy for thinking he has a good shot at first team rookie (because let’s be honest Zion is practically a lock for RoY)? a one joel embiid e: dang beat.
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Lebron's favorite Laker? Eddie Jones (Lebron apparently wants to finish his career with the Lakers, still). https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/lebron-james-reportedly-happy-in-los-angeles-wants-to-play-there-for-the-rest-of-his-career/ Obviously not the sort of thing that one puts too much stock in, but it's still nice to hear.
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Rick posted:Lebron's favorite Laker? Eddie Jones (Lebron apparently wants to finish his career with the Lakers, still). I liked Eddie Jones. Good all-around game.
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getting a really strong feeling that the bulls will somehow reacquire cam payne
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R.D. Mangles posted:getting a really strong feeling that the bulls will somehow reacquire cam payne 👀👀👀👀
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they're gonna roll into the season with kris dunn, cam payne, and some marquis teague-caliber draft pick and paxson is going to say "we love where we are with position"
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kingcobweb posted:Someone more objective tell me how excited I should be about Michael Porter Jr’s rookie year. Are there recent cases of draft picks missing their first seasons when they weren’t first overall picks? Am I crazy for thinking he has a good shot at first team rookie (because let’s be honest Zion is practically a lock for RoY)? Red shirting seems to be great for players. He would have been a top 4ish pick in a very good Drafff. He gets buckets. He is very tall. He could average 15 points next year. They're so small on the wing that he should get a lot of playing time. They saw how much trouble an exclusively small wing rotation has in the postseason. We see something similar with Toronto's bench. These small guys just can't do as much when the game is more intense and physical. They have every reason to play him, because they know they're good, and they need to get what they can out of him while he's still cost controlled (don't ban me for using economo jargon about an NBA player, I'm sorry).
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The Rockets fired Bzdelik, the assistant coach supposedly responsible for defense. I'm pretty surprised. Of course it's impossible for us to quantify an asst coaches impact from the outside but the fact that the Rockets started out trash poo poo garbage and then ended up putting together an alright defense after he came back seems like a fairly strong signal. Capela turning into a pumpkin is probably the big reason they couldnt keep it together in the playoffs Also phone posting is insane how do you people do this
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chunkles posted:The Rockets fired Bzdelik, the assistant coach supposedly responsible for defense. I'm pretty surprised. Of course it's impossible for us to quantify an asst coaches impact from the outside but the fact that the Rockets started out trash poo poo garbage and then ended up putting together an alright defense after he came back seems like a fairly strong signal. Capela turning into a pumpkin is probably the big reason they couldnt keep it together in the playoffs I can’t remember the last time I posted from anything larger than a tablet.
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My phone has a physical keyboard which makes posting on it easier for me.
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https://twitter.com/mcten/status/1131053519480344577 All those contracts were expiring and the only person they retained is the guy that KAT has been working with one-on-one ![]()
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chunkles posted:The Rockets fired Bzdelik, the assistant coach supposedly responsible for defense. I'm pretty surprised. Of course it's impossible for us to quantify an asst coaches impact from the outside but the fact that the Rockets started out trash poo poo garbage and then ended up putting together an alright defense after he came back seems like a fairly strong signal. Capela turning into a pumpkin is probably the big reason they couldnt keep it together in the playoffs They FIRED the guy who retired, and then returned mid season when they begged him?
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DeimosRising posted:They FIRED the guy who retired, and then returned mid season when they begged him? That seems rough.
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scuz posted:https://twitter.com/mcten/status/1131053519480344577 I'd like to get to know Dice Yoshimoto. He sounds like a real been around the world type of guy
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NickRoweFillea posted:I can’t remember the last time I posted from anything larger than a tablet. Yeah but you're a poet and a scholar mate
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chunkles posted:Yeah but you're a poet and a scholar mate Just one character at a time mate
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https://twitter.com/TeresaMWalker/status/1130957506438733824 Smitch comes home, KG and Glen make amends, KG's number gets retired. I mean, or something, idk.
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DeimosRising posted:They FIRED the guy who retired, and then returned mid season when they begged him? I dunno if they begged him or he decided retirement wasn't for him and wanted his spot back. Either way I guess it wasn't working. I know Harden made some cryptic dramatic statements after their elimination, maybe he hated ol Jefferino or something, we'll probably never know
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I'm the guy who gave Harden a first team all-defense vote btw
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I'm increasingly getting excited for which new all defense no offense player presti will add and who is going to pay noel too much money
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Metapod posted:I'm increasingly getting excited for which new all defense no offense player presti will add and who is going to pay noel too much money MKG could theoretically opt out
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Between this and the comments about Vogel yesterday, I don't think Jason Hart wants to be there any more. https://twitter.com/LakeShowCP/status/1131372352653029376?s=19 Redgrendel2001 fucked around with this message at 03:10 on May 23, 2019 |
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Redgrendel2001 posted:Between this and the comments about Vogel yesterday, I don't think Jason Hart wants to be there any more. Did he think they were gonna cap out extending their current roster?
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“How are the Lakers gonna afford a max contract for Josh Hart?” -josh hart
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