|
Really wish Utah had won last night to get homecourt but they were going to get stuck with OKC in the first round either way so I guess it doesn't change a ton in that respect. I think Utah was probably the better team this year on balance, especially once Rudy got healthy, but I really hate having to play against star players with tons of playoff experience like Russ and Playoff Paul George. Gun to my head I think I'd say OKC in 6 or 7 but should be a really good series
|
#
¿
Apr 12, 2018 17:34
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 18, 2024 13:36 |
|
|
Thats a definite concern, especially if Rubio's shooting regresses to the mean but my bigger worry is that trying to get away with playing guys like O'Neal and Exum in the playoffs is going to be really rough. Exum especially seems like a disaster waiting to happen
|
|
#
¿
Apr 12, 2018 19:25
|
|
|
scuz posted:Nobody calls the Trailblazers the T-Blazers, what's up with T-Wolves? This is a thing people, including fans of the team, have called them for as long as the franchise has existed 
|
|
#
¿
Apr 12, 2018 19:47
|
|
|
Rick posted:That map is interesting, although if you use a car and go by distance to drive it's at least slightly different. I would say probably south of Casa Grande in Arizona, it takes about an hour less to drive to San Antonio, and it's a direct route on a freeway, as opposed to Salt Lake forcing one to either brave highway 89 (which is always one crash from total closure and subject to God's ire in the way of sinkholes and floods that often create multiple hour detours--at which point Golden State ends up closer than Salt Lake City) or dip west into Nevada which takes an additional hour as well. Haha I was thinking that there are lots of days where I could probably get to SLC faster than I can get to Oakland
|
|
#
¿
Apr 13, 2018 02:46
|
|
|
pubic works project posted:DeAndre Jordan? I don't know if he does it regularly but I've seen him hit them while goofing around in warm ups
|
|
#
¿
Apr 13, 2018 20:38
|
|
|
Dejan Bimble posted:Ohh I'm 100% before a return of boxing to sport of kings status. Boxing and MMA all the way. Boxers knew about dementia pugilistica at the turn of the century, no misdirection, everybody knows what's going on coming in. I seriously doubt that's true
|
|
#
¿
Apr 14, 2018 02:48
|
|
|
Dejan Bimble posted:Research into brain damage as a result of repeated head injuries began in the 1920s, at which time the condition was known as dementia pugilistica or "punch drunk syndrome" --source, wikipedia I agree it's a thing people have known about for a long time, I don't buy that every broke teenager getting into it is aware of that
|
|
#
¿
Apr 14, 2018 03:13
|
|
|
You can just say you like watching boxing, man, you don't have to pretend that watching two guys give each other dementia for your entertainment is somehow moral. I still watch football I'm not in any position to judge
|
|
#
¿
Apr 14, 2018 03:26
|
|
|
Dejan Bimble posted:
Look I don't blame you for not watching the Jazz in November or December but I can promise you this is extremely not true
|
|
#
¿
Apr 14, 2018 07:32
|
|
|
R.D. Mangles posted:nick saban on guitar Way too tall. I will never fail to respect just how much the Flamboyant Confederate General playing the fiddle loving goes for it
|
|
#
¿
Apr 14, 2018 20:04
|
|
|
patonthebach posted:Wow like one elite and two or three good players in that draft. crazy. You have some unrealistic expectations for what a good draft is if you think Giannis, Gobert, Dipo, McCollum, Adams, Porter, and several other solid starters isn't really good.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 16, 2018 01:24
|
|
|
The Glumslinger posted:Its more that the top of the draft doesn't have the talent, and its spread out Yeah the distribution of it is really weird but there are still a lot of good players in there. Like if you redrafted the top 3 would be guys who went 15, 27, and 10
|
|
#
¿
Apr 16, 2018 01:29
|
|
|
Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Healing up is one thing and I cant blame him for that. Even if no one actually knows what his injury is even more. maybe he doesn't like it there
|
|
#
¿
Apr 16, 2018 07:05
|
|
|
Like you said, KAT is on another level from most of the league but yeah part of the reason Harden's been less of a trainwreck on defense than usual is that they figured out that he's pretty good at defending in the post and started hiding him on big guys a lot
|
|
#
¿
Apr 17, 2018 01:02
|
|
|
mitchell being a fan of a similar style player who was really good when he was in grade school seems very normal but it owns how many ProcessWars dudes are taking offense to this and getting mad in his mentions MourningView fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Apr 17, 2018 |
|
#
¿
Apr 17, 2018 04:37
|
|
|
Rick posted:He was legitimately not cleared by concussion protocols until late today so I could understand them not playing him today but man if they're doing their overcautious thing now it makes no sense. In theory it's still really early in their window but yeah this is as winnable as the east could be in awhile depending on what happens with LeBron and what Boston can add and obviously who knows what happens in the future with injuries. I can see why they'd think they'd be fine against Miami without him given how game 1 went though. It would be hard to predict 2018 Wade going off like that
|
|
#
¿
Apr 17, 2018 04:48
|
|
|
If you can listen to Kobe talk about anything for more than like five minutes without your eyes rolling out of your skull you're a much more patient person than I
|
|
#
¿
Apr 17, 2018 04:57
|
|
|
RaySmuckles posted:its a tough situation because everything will be viewed through the lens of the kawhi dilemma. Yeah Aldridge has been a fringe MVP candidate and carried their offense all year, Pop should be complimenting him. It doesn't need to be a shot at anyone
|
|
#
¿
Apr 17, 2018 14:34
|
|
|
Paul Zuvella posted:Ignoring that for some reason you think that these people are above manual labor (which, like what the gently caress is that point). You don't get to just decide what you want your profession to be, and above that you cant decide if you are going to make a full years livable wage doing that if you decide to try to make it in a cut throat profession. It's not the 60s, being a professional athlete is a year round committment even if the season doesn't go year round. They can't really go get a part time job if they actually want to have a shot at getting to the NBA eventually
|
|
#
¿
Apr 17, 2018 19:39
|
|
|
Cool Buff Man posted:Kobe's last game is the Rorschach test for NBA fans This is unfair because if it'd been almost literally any other legendary player I'd have thought it was funny and cool even coming against Utah but Kobe is an obnoxious trash person.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 17, 2018 23:06
|
|
|
Cool Buff Man posted:Well that kind of proves my point doesn't it!!!!! I figured you meant in the sense that it took him like 95 shots to get to 60. DeimosRising posted:The two biggest shoe deals in the league were signed by a guy in Cleveland and a guy in OkC. both of whom left those teams in FA after they go those deals, then tbf got bigger deals but I’m not so sure it had anything to do with the SF and Miami markets. There are rumors about Secret Contract Clauses in every shoe deal driving star players to New York or LA and usually everyone here correctly laughs at them, I have no idea why this is the one people have decided is real.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 17, 2018 23:13
|
|
|
Rick posted:Only a few (mostly long gone) people here ever argued with me against this so I'm not exactly saying I told you so, are you sure
|
|
#
¿
Apr 17, 2018 23:21
|
|
|
euphronius posted:Raise the luxury tax limit so smaller market teams feel less constrained. dump the salary cap entitely imo I think the supermax can be a deterrent to re-signing lots of guys but not someone like Leonard who was a legit MVP candidate as recently as last year
|
|
#
¿
Apr 17, 2018 23:59
|
|
|
DeimosRising posted:How would that have the effect in question dunno but salary caps are bad
|
|
#
¿
Apr 18, 2018 00:01
|
|
|
MalarkeyToboggan posted:Being an All-Star this year is the worst thing that could have happened to Dame. He needs to feel slighted in some way. He played by far his best basketball of the season after being named to the team Y'all should be ashamed of this Colin Cowherd rear end conversation.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 18, 2018 16:00
|
|
|
MelancholyMark posted:https://twitter.com/MrMichaelLee/status/986821901648584704 He does the zipper face guy before literally every game
|
|
#
¿
Apr 19, 2018 06:11
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/ESPNStatsInfo/status/986800327210029057?s=19
|
|
#
¿
Apr 19, 2018 06:25
|
|
|
Dr.Radical posted:I mean the “evidence” Got noticably larger and more muscular late in his career (Jordan going from a hyper athletic slasher to someone who bullied smaller guards in the post is basically the basketball equivalent of Bonds going from a skinny all around star to a slugger in his late 30s), played baseball at the height of the steroid era, notriously competitive and desperate for any edge, a known cheater at cards and other games, prone to wild mood swings MourningView fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Apr 19, 2018 |
|
#
¿
Apr 19, 2018 14:37
|
|
|
euphronius posted:I can’t believe we are back to counting up points. it is literally a game decided by who scores the most points
|
|
#
¿
Apr 19, 2018 14:40
|
|
|
euphronius posted:So Allen iverson is good again ? This goes both ways, do Philly fans now think that Allen Iverson was bad? I literally did not mention Ben Simmons a single time yesterday, it is hilarious how y'all somehow take Jazz fans being excited about a really good rookie on their team as a slight Who exactly on Utah do you guys think Mitchell should be deferring to as a shot creator? If they can't generate a wide open three or lob he's basically the only guy on the team who can score MourningView fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Apr 19, 2018 |
|
#
¿
Apr 19, 2018 16:42
|
|
|
Kibner posted:Cool thread about Mitchell: WHY DO YOU HATE BEN SIMMONS????? (seriously this is a really good point, and something Mitchell does a lot)
|
|
#
¿
Apr 19, 2018 16:50
|
|
|
Cool Buff Man posted:That's only his second best troll in the thread, the first is when he claims that by adjusting for era MJ would be Rudy Gay. WHiteryce you were a lil devil I am almost positive I was the first person to accuse Jordan of PED use because I am a petty jerk but the degree to which some of y'all ran with it was very inspiring
|
|
#
¿
Apr 19, 2018 16:54
|
|
|
Ingles and Gobert are extremely efficient scorers so clearly the offense should be built around isoing the balding unathletic math teacher and the center who can't dribble or shoot.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 19, 2018 18:38
|
|
|
Cool Buff Man posted:It's cool and unique to see a successful team give so many shots to a rookie but I feel like Gobert once again has been lost in the shuffle, he's the real reason they're in playoffs, not Mitchell. Jazz looked like poo poo without him Niwrad posted:Gobert is their best player and it's not even close. Gobert is really good. Who is disputing this? Gobert is clearly their best player but it's also true that they wouldn't be able to score at anything close to an acceptable level without Mitchell. The defense carries the team and is the biggest reason they're as good as they are but you still have to be able to score points. They're both really important players
|
|
#
¿
Apr 19, 2018 19:19
|
|
|
Cool Buff Man posted:It was because the person I was originally responding to made it sound like Mitchell was the reason they made the playoffs. You need to relax a bit about Donovan Mitchell I would not have to keep defending him if it weren't for the fact that literally any compliment of him sparks like seven Philly posters throwing a fit. The post you were responding to mentioned the defense! It said they relied on Mitchell to score, which is true
|
|
#
¿
Apr 19, 2018 19:34
|
|
|
Cool Buff Man posted:I just want it to be known I have nothing against Donovan Mitchell and I think he'll be a perennial all-star, I'm just sick of RUDY GOBERT not getting CREDIT and I won't take it anymore. No way. Even if it means stepping on some toes you know what jerk I am actually glad Hayward horrificially broke his leg and think he deserved it how is that for stepping on toes
|
|
#
¿
Apr 19, 2018 19:44
|
|
|
Niwrad posted:Don't the Lakers have to find someone to take Deng's contract? No
|
|
#
¿
Apr 19, 2018 20:18
|
|
|
I assume they're gonna waive and stretch Deng, which knocks off at least a bit, but they have a ton of space after the Clarkson and Nance trade
|
|
#
¿
Apr 19, 2018 20:25
|
|
|
euphronius posted:Nate Duncan - who now loves Mitchell for his ability to chuck and get points per game - said last year (and I’m paraphrasing ) that he doesn’t even look at traditional stats like ppg and raw points and instead on looks at efficiency stats and ratings when he evaluates a player. Age of the bucket getters. Honestly i think it's mostly a context thing where they recognize that he has to play like that for Utah to have any offense. Or maybe they just got yelled at about Ben Simmons so many times it broke their brain and now they think eFG% is a lie, I dunno. Lowe voted Simmons btw, he just also thinks Mitchell is very good
|
|
#
¿
Apr 19, 2018 21:12
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 18, 2024 13:36 |
|
|
euphronius posted:You don’t need to convince me Mitchell is having a very good rookie year then why do you do this yeah but field goal percentage thing every time that's pointed out?
|
|
#
¿
Apr 19, 2018 22:20
|
|