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i mean it’s possible ad thought he wanted out (and to la specifically) and then watched los angeles’ season go up in flames and is having second thoughts as a result
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Kibner posted:Make it so a foul on even 3pt shots results in only two free throws. that’ll definitely speed up the game
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Apr 18, 2019 13:07
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Kibner posted:Make it so you foul out after five fouls, too. man that’s gonna be a miserable overtime
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Apr 18, 2019 16:29
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NickRoweFillea posted:Can someone get me excited for the Grizzlies hiring Cho he drafted kemba and tobias harris (whom he traded on draft night), acquired jeremy lamb in a deal that was pretty okay overall, and uh that’s kinda it he traded for nic batum who was good until they extended him but other than that it’s mostly mediocre draft picks and trading spare parts to make sure they could field a starting 5
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Apr 18, 2019 19:47
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man i remember when Doughy Kevin Love was a meme
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Apr 22, 2019 17:08
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Shrimp or Shrimps posted:I'm Battlefield 5, not an electronic sport but an electronic world War 2 game, there was a significant portion of people loudly complaining why they couldn't dress like real Nazis did, why there were non-white player characters, and why there were women in the game. online culture has always had a vested interest in using that anonymity and impersonal feel to violate taboos, as you can see if you pay for archives access the gaming community has a decidedly technolibertarian bent where any censorship and any rules not related to competitveness are automatically Bad; the majority of them are not bigots or actively malicious people but fall into the common category of “racist in an oblivious/insensitive way” i think anyone who chooses to identify a hobby as a personality trait is ultimately a fuckin antisocial weirdo though
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Apr 27, 2019 02:03
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SamuraiFoochs posted:I honestly think it probably is in terms of the whole and this thread is just using anecdote as fact. i mean ask a woman or a person of color how their online gaming experiences are going and get back to me
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Apr 27, 2019 13:23
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R.D. Mangles posted:the best basketball team of all time is the bulls team when nate robinson defeated the brooklyn nets those ultra scrappy bulls teams with joakim, taj gibson, and a rotation of random plug and play undersized gunners at pg were way more fun to watch than they had any right to be
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Apr 28, 2019 06:04
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Katana_Warrior posted:Do Wizards fans have something to hope for again? i doubt he can trade for kawhi leonard again
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May 1, 2019 17:30
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Lockback posted:Kemba and Lonzo could play together, but I think Lonzo was signalling hard to get out of LA. his dad was angling for phoenix so he could be A Starting Point Guard but tbh i think he and lonzo are on the outs at this point and lonzo just wants a fresh start i dunno if the pelicans have a ton of interest in the lakers trade package for ad or if it was mostly spite but i think ad gets moved to boston or (wildcard) brooklyn although that bounty of first round picks looks pretty lovely going into the draft
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May 2, 2019 16:04
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that’s extremely underwhelming but i guess they could’ve done worse
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May 3, 2019 19:12
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Rick posted:Stephen Jackson's not the only example of Pop losing the locker room. LMA's first year, the mess around Kawhi and not to mention that all of those dudes hated him when he was GM and pretty much ignored him when he took over as coach. Obviously it's easy to blame the involved players, because all the examples are locker rooms with guys who are notorious, but I think that's illustrative of my point, which is that coaches only have so much control over what type of culture the locker room has. If anything this is a GM thing more than anything. ty lue makes sense for a lebron team; he’s very much a player’s coach and isn’t going to get cute with x’s and o’s or trying to call plays
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May 3, 2019 23:05
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if kyrie leaves do the celtics try for kemba amd basically just recreate their flawed 2019 team with a more emotionally stable pg? also it’s loving wild how the celtics situation deterioriated between 2017 and now
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May 9, 2019 13:56
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BWV posted:already started http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/26702069/kyrie-irving-failed-leadership-tells-story-celtics-failed-season sometimes i wonder if boston media has to be fed the stories or if they’re just circling the upcoming FAs like sharks then again kyrie did himself basically 0 favors all season long so who knows
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May 9, 2019 15:18
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cp3 for butler probably would’ve been a good trade a few months ago but that’s only with the benefit of hindsight
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May 11, 2019 19:20
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Redgrendel2001 posted:Caron Butler? like if houston had beaten philly to the punch
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May 11, 2019 21:28
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Lockback posted:Would be a weird window for the 76ers. I don't think you're wrong but it shifts a "peak in 2 years" to "win right now" which might be tough. i like philly as a destination but don’t know that they’d move butler so soon after acquiring him but he does shore up a lot of problems i figured cp3 would be a good “straw that stirs the drink” for minnesota and foster the development of their big men
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May 11, 2019 23:21
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hifi posted:felony escape sounds like bullshit, and lol at booker/ayton/oubre all being there in the vip section trying to escape from bullshit charges, for shame young man, should’ve had his nose in the playbook
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May 13, 2019 21:34
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Spacebump posted:Suns have had 3 top 5 picks in a row, how many more do they need? the last five drafts they’ve picked in the first round: -alex len -nemanja nedovic -tj warren -tyler ennis -bogdan son of bogdan -devin booker (hey good job) -dragan bender -georgy papajohn’s -skal labissiere -josh jackson -deandre ayton (looks like a hey good job but too soon to tell) -technically zhaire smith one that’s a shitload of first round picks wow but two maybe three of those guys are quality nba starters; you just gotta keep giving the suns high picks and hope they work out
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May 15, 2019 00:29
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Dejan Bimble posted:Why are half of these kings guys? Did they have a big trade that i'm forgetting? yeah; i think a lot of the mentality is lottery picks are just that, lottery tickets and that more picks = better chances the suns ended up trading a lot of those dudes very early on (some on draft night) so it might not be fair to grade them based on that but they sure are bad at improving their team
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May 15, 2019 05:02
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The Big Jesus posted:Also they've all been talking for weeks beforehand so it doesn't matter yeah i think it allows them plausible deniability vis a vis tampering, which is something they care about now i guess?
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May 16, 2019 00:03
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honestly just watch the third one and if you love it go back and watch the first two it’s a gunkata fever dream
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May 17, 2019 02:39
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it turns out that i am way more willing to accept cryptofascist "kill the bad guys" bloodshed fantasies if it's because they killed a dog
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May 17, 2019 05:43
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#4 + lonzo + ingram + kuzma is better than any offer they're gonna get aside from maybe the knicks (and that depends on how much you like dennis smith jr/kevin knox and whether or not they want to trade mitchell robinson while his value is at its peak) i think the celtics have overplayed their hand vis a vis tatum and brown, and depending on how things shake out over the next season, the grizzlies pick might not be a very good one once it's conveyed
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May 17, 2019 19:41
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Lockback posted:I think you could absolutely play Jrue and Lonzo together in the backcourt, and it might be the best defensive backcourt in the league (for what that's worth). That may be the way to get the best out of Lonzo, really. i actually really like the pairing and think if zion hits the ground running they could be playoff dark horses
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May 17, 2019 22:23
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I didn't know Magic discouraged Ingram shooting from deep. i think if they can keep lonzo they will since big baller brand and by extension the lavar ball circus has quieted down and he’s still pretty young and does look really good on defense and in transition
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May 18, 2019 01:51
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“How are the Lakers gonna afford a max contract for Josh Hart?” -josh hart
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also one time he dunked on lebron when that meant something and then nike tried to confiscate the tapes
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May 28, 2019 18:42
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i can’t imagine them getting fair value for capela unless they moved him for like ad or something it’d be stupid to replace him with an inferior version just so they can have, like, paul george or something
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May 29, 2019 19:43
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Lockback posted:You have a very, very high opinion of Capela. Not that this would happen, but you trade Capela for, like, Gorgui Dieng + PG13 every day of the week. he’s an ideal pick and roll finisher, rim runner, rebounder, and interior defender for the scheme the rockets are running short of grabbing gobert or 2009 dwight howard you aren’t going to find a better piece for the system d’antoni is running
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May 29, 2019 20:39
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i’m mostly poo pooing morey panicking and screaming out for more stars every offseason like he’s the nemesis from re3; paul george is definitely better than capela in a vacuum but i feel like that hypothetical dieng trade would make the rockets worse
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May 29, 2019 20:41
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gordon would be a good sixth man for a contender and has good name recognition; you could move him pretty easily
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May 29, 2019 22:43
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Dejan Bimble posted:Is translating this to "Lebron does not ever want to switch onto bigs or small fast guards" going too far? nah i think that’s pretty accurate, i think lebron’s got too many miles to chase dudes through screens around the perimeter for 82 games a season and as such any reasonable aggressive switching scheme would have him probably at the 4 or 5 for most of the game on defense but yeah vogel sounds like a loving pushover who hasn’t paid attention to the direction the nba is trending
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May 30, 2019 13:20
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feel bad for the cool rear end rockets fans but daryl morey is a false fuckin prophet and sucks
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May 30, 2019 22:31
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DeimosRising posted:Hahahah morey is melting down that their window is closing and he went all in with no future flexibility and he’s going to scuttle the whole thing they have one (1) extremely tradeable asset in capela’s contract and i guess an expiring gordon but they’d have to replace two very significant rotation pieces and also find someone to take on cp3’s monster contract which lmao signing cp3 looked okay at the time but in hindsight was a bad call with harden coming off a great season running point under d’antoni
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May 30, 2019 23:43
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Redgrendel2001 posted:Bazemore, Plumlee, #8 and/or #10 works. even though this is a weak draft, two firsts is a bit much for a 30 year old blake griffin who will be pretty far out of his prime by the time they’re ready to contend also that collins/griffin frontcourt would be v bad defensively
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Jun 3, 2019 05:19
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Chairchucker posted:If Rubio gets traded to the Bulls I'm probably not gonna bother watching the NBA next season rubio’s going to either the lakers or the knicks as a splashy backup signing
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Chairchucker posted:He'll probably go to the Celtics to replace Kyrie when Kyrie goes to the Knicks and I'll be a bit disappointed but less than if he'd gone to the Bulls. rubio’s, like, the worst possible replacement imaginable for kyrie
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Quizzlefish posted:I saw a SBNation article about the Blazers trading Meyers Leonard and Mo Harkless plus a late first for Kevin Love. It seems pretty pie in the sky but think that the Cavs would give up Love just for expiring contracts? it’d be a good move for the blazers just for depth he also fits into their offense nicely as a dude who can crash the boards and hit threes even if he’s not the guy he used to be
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Quizzlefish posted:Blazers would be a lock for first round home court with him even if they rested him loads. It could work right? you’re assuming the lakers and clippers strike out in free agency (very possible) and that okc treads water in the regular season without making any moves (less likely) and also that the jazz don’t get any better i guess
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