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Warriors | 117 | 48.35% | |
Raptors | 39 | 16.12% | |
Bulls | 15 | 6.20% | |
TrailBlazers | 25 | 10.33% | |
Grizzlies | 46 | 19.01% | |
Total: | 242 votes |
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I've long awaited the return of the American Giannis Antetokounmpo, AKA the American Greek KD, I only hope he can live up to our expectations it preserved the ellipsis in the copy paste dangit this won't stand i greatly enjoy that moving picture http://fat.gfycat.com/UnconsciousVengefulIchneumonfly.mp4
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 20:05 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 12:19 |
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Lockback posted:Their two most important players got to sit out a quarter of the season and may be fresher for the last chunk. They may out-perform even last year. If Durant and Westbrook are both able to stay healthy and didn't come back too soon I'd really like their odds of getting into the playoffs. Yeah had they come back in a month this would be over but right now it may in the end be advantageous. Although they also won't have the luxury of rest near the end of the season so the Spurs and Clippers still may be fresher than them in the end (although it doesn't look like rest stopped Chris Paul from being out of gas in the playoffs last year).
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 20:11 |
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I was really hoping OKC would miss the playoffs. They've managed to get some wins I didn't think they would. Also disappointed with OP for trolling with that poll.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 20:31 |
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If OKC is slotted in as the 8th seed as the season winds down, would it be worth it for the top teams to purposefully tank for the 2nd spot?
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 20:34 |
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Mornacale posted:If OKC is slotted in as the 8th seed as the season winds down, would it be worth it for the top teams to purposefully tank for the 2nd spot? Yes. Holy poo poo GSW is gonna be the 1 seed and lose to OKC in the first round.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 20:52 |
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Mornacale posted:If OKC is slotted in as the 8th seed as the season winds down, would it be worth it for the top teams to purposefully tank for the 2nd spot? I wouldn't. You're going to have to go through them or a team good enough to beat them to end up in the finals anyway, might as well make sure you have home court advantage throughout.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 20:55 |
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If you were in the East and OKC was also in the East then sure, but it's not like the separation between 7 seed in the West and OKC is the biggest in the world. Hell the current 7 seed is the Clippers
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 21:02 |
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EvanTH posted:I've long awaited the return of the American Giannis Antetokounmpo, AKA the American Greek KD, I only hope he can live up to our expectations What is the all-nba starting 5 scary coaches of all time? Quinn Synder and.....
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 21:03 |
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Mornacale posted:If OKC is slotted in as the 8th seed as the season winds down, would it be worth it for the top teams to purposefully tank for the 2nd spot? There is no way a coach or team would intentionally give up guaranteed homecourt advantage throughout the conference playoffs.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 21:23 |
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Winning the loving West and then running into quite possibly the best team in the conference at full strength in the first drat round would really suck though.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 21:34 |
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There's going to be no easy series in the first round in the West. It's going to be murderer's row all the way down from 1 to 8.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 21:37 |
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Papercut posted:There is no way a coach or team would intentionally give up guaranteed homecourt advantage throughout the conference playoffs. While intentionally is a bit strong, I would definitely not be pushing as hard as I would otherwise to run into a healthy OKC.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 21:38 |
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Libertine posted:There's going to be no easy series in the first round in the West. It's going to be murderer's row all the way down from 1 to 8. I mean there will be a lot of good teams, but OKC if they play at the level they were at for most of last year is quite a bit better than a normal 5-8 seed in the west would be.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 21:39 |
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It'll be Grizz-OKC in the first round again.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 21:45 |
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Yesterday I said Teague wasn't playing that well when I meant to say Horford. To make up for that, here's bballbreakdown about Teague http://bballbreakdown.com/2014/12/02/keeping-the-drive-alive-jeff-teagues-offensive-emergence/ quote:Teague earns his keep as one of the game’s premier talents at a singular, immensely desirable element: getting to the hoop. By every conceivable measure, from numerical metrics to visual assessment, he is among the NBA’s top drivers and is only improving in his sixth season out of Wake Forest.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 21:49 |
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I just read Zach Lowe's column about fixing the NBA playoffs, specifically about fixing the gulf between the East and West. Is it possible that the NBA change the playoff system midseason? My instinct is to say hell no, but they sure as hell tried to change the draft mid-stride.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 21:49 |
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Of course not and I really haven't seen a decent proposal yet.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 21:57 |
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joshtothemaxx posted:I just read Zach Lowe's column about fixing the NBA playoffs, specifically about fixing the gulf between the East and West. Is it possible that the NBA change the playoff system midseason? My instinct is to say hell no, but they sure as hell tried to change the draft mid-stride. No they wouldn't, but the NBA is pretty good about making changes when they need to, so you could see them decide around all-star break to make a change for next season. Either way though, I don't expect something like this to be done in less than a year. If they do shake things up it'll probably be 2 or 3 years from now.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 21:57 |
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Dexo posted:While intentionally is a bit strong, I would definitely not be pushing as hard as I would otherwise to run into a healthy OKC. There aren't going to be any gimme matchups in the West. A team wouldn't trade home court in the Conference Finals in order to face the Clippers instead of OKC in the first round.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 21:57 |
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joshtothemaxx posted:I just read Zach Lowe's column about fixing the NBA playoffs, specifically about fixing the gulf between the East and West. Is it possible that the NBA change the playoff system midseason? My instinct is to say hell no, but they sure as hell tried to change the draft mid-stride. I don't think it will ever happen, let along happen mid season.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 21:57 |
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joshtothemaxx posted:I just read Zach Lowe's column about fixing the NBA playoffs, specifically about fixing the gulf between the East and West. Is it possible that the NBA change the playoff system midseason? My instinct is to say hell no, but they sure as hell tried to change the draft mid-stride. If the number of votes needed for this to happen is more than the number of votes held by Western Conference teams then it will never happen.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 22:01 |
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It's really just sad because there's no other explanation for it other than for the last 2 or so decades there have been many more chronically mismanaged franchises in the East than the West.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 22:03 |
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Expand league to 42 teams. Everyone plays a home-away series. Take top X teams to playoffs. Done.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 22:10 |
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joshtothemaxx posted:Expand league to 42 teams. Everyone plays a home-away series. Take top X teams to playoffs. Done. The NBA could finally return to Omaha.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 22:24 |
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I liked his point that even if you just reseed it with the current schedule, it's still significantly more fair that what we have right now. I mean you can stand back and say "ehhhh, gotta fix the schedules before we mix the two conferences together" but any schedule disparity is in the east's favour. It's certainly not any more unfair than the seeding as it currently happens and almost definitely competitively better.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 22:26 |
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HMS Beagle posted:The NBA could finally return to Omaha. The Waterloo Hawks of Iowa's long awaited return can also happen.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 22:34 |
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Voted Bulls even thought I know there are no objective criteria by which they are the best at anything. Apologies if this is old news but I just saw it on Facebook, Kwe Parker holy cow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWfvGiMXmAw
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 22:35 |
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Okay, so Justin Bieber really did meet with the Clippers, but the first story from last summer about Blake slapping him around is still a made-up story. Its kind of hard to keep track what stories about Bieber are true or not. Also, the best made-up story would be where Bieber went to a LA Clippers event and Sterling offered his mistresses a chance to see a "beautiful Canadian body".
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 22:40 |
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The problem is that every team in the East other than Philly is trying hard to make the playoffs this season or the next. So none of the those owners would vote for a reseed/rebalance.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 22:40 |
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glowing-fish posted:Okay, so Justin Bieber really did meet with the Clippers, but the first story from last summer about Blake slapping him around is still a made-up story. The best Bieber story is when Orlando Bloom got into a minor fight with him and Leonardo Dicaprio cheered for Bloom on the side.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 22:48 |
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Top sixteen teams by win percentage regardless of conference get split up into four pools of four. (1-2-3-4 / 5-6-7-8 / 9-10-11-12 / 13-14-15-16) one seed from each of those sets is put into a Group A/B/C/D and then we have a basketball world cup format every year. Home and Away in group stage, Top 2 teams advance to the final eight. Top 1 team in each group gets home court. Hell yeah.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 23:06 |
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:It'll be Grizz-OKC in the first round again. please no, I don't know if I can handle that again
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 23:08 |
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Look out Smoothie King Center, you've got some competition
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 23:15 |
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Talking Stick Resort Arena
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 23:16 |
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Let's grab a bite to eat, then head over to The Stick for some professional basketball.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 23:19 |
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It's really loud in The Stick tonight!!!
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 23:20 |
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Golden State is really rocking the instagram game http://instagram.com/p/wHhBIAzfRr/
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 23:25 |
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Some locals are trying to give the Smoothie King Arena the nickname "The Blender". I actually kinda like that.
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# ? Dec 2, 2014 23:48 |
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Kibner posted:Some locals are trying to give the Smoothie King Arena the nickname "The Blender". I actually kinda like that. Those names are fun. Minute Maid Park was called "The Juicebox" for a bit before everyone forgot the Astros existed.
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# ? Dec 3, 2014 00:04 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 12:19 |
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Kibner posted:Some locals are trying to give the Smoothie King Arena the nickname "The Blender". I actually kinda like that. That's pretty nice. I don't mind the stick either. Your official name can be dumb as hell as long as you get a sufficient nickname.
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# ? Dec 3, 2014 00:05 |