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What I hope will happen is that when the Mavs get 360 no-scoped by Steph Curry to get knocked out of the play-in tourney, it will cause some kind of jarring realization that most of their 30 MPG guys are 20 MPG guys, and the 20 MPG guys are 10 MPG guys, and the Trey Burke guys are Guys You Shouldn't Give a Three-Year Contract To Guys. It feels like they value all of their role players a full letter grade above where they actually are relative to the league, especially defensively. Like they don't recognize that giant chasm between Luka Doncic and Useful Glue Guys that you're supposed to fill with good starters. What I suspect will happen is the Mavs will sign a decent bench player a la Wright or Noel that will be a perma-DNP-CD by game 35 and prepare to get rejected by Julius Randle in 2022 when Mark Cuban no-shows because he's having trouble getting his new social media-enabled toothbrush to connect to the WiFi and Donnie Nelson falters when Randle asks why the the five-year plan is just a variety of different-colored question marks
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This playoff run got me into the NBA, so much incredible borderline unwatchable basketball https://twitter.com/Charlottean28/status/1383826231192264705?s=20
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Dutchy posted:What I hope will happen is that when the Mavs get 360 no-scoped by Steph Curry to get knocked out of the play-in tourney, it will cause some kind of jarring realization that most of their 30 MPG guys are 20 MPG guys, and the 20 MPG guys are 10 MPG guys, and the Trey Burke guys are Guys You Shouldn't Give a Three-Year Contract To Guys. It feels like they value all of their role players a full letter grade above where they actually are relative to the league, especially defensively. Like they don't recognize that giant chasm between Luka Doncic and Useful Glue Guys that you're supposed to fill with good starters. In this scenario, Cuban reads my complaints on his social media-enabled toothbrush's cyber dust app.
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Apr 19, 2021 04:04
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Unwatchable my rear end. Inject that poo poo into my veins.. Edit Particularly scathing comments cause the tooth brush to extend slightly, inducing the gag reflex.
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Veryslightlymad posted:Unwatchable my rear end. Inject that poo poo into my veins.. every time I watch the clip of Tayshaun murdering Reggie I'm reminded that the final score in that game was 72-67
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Dutchy posted:What I hope will happen is that when the Mavs get 360 no-scoped by Steph Curry to get knocked out of the play-in tourney, it will cause some kind of jarring realization that most of their 30 MPG guys are 20 MPG guys, and the 20 MPG guys are 10 MPG guys, and the Trey Burke guys are Guys You Shouldn't Give a Three-Year Contract To Guys. It feels like they value all of their role players a full letter grade above where they actually are relative to the league, especially defensively. Like they don't recognize that giant chasm between Luka Doncic and Useful Glue Guys that you're supposed to fill with good starters. oh yeah I'm expecting this to happen too
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Apr 19, 2021 04:15
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update on MVP Tiers: https://twitter.com/MagicJohnson/status/1383983703005667332?s=20
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morestuff posted:every time I watch the clip of Tayshaun murdering Reggie I'm reminded that the final score in that game was 72-67 Eh. It's a hard line to spot. Some games had ultra low scores and felt like you watched two desperate fighters scratching out any advantage they could. Some low scoring games make you question why you dedicate so much time to watching other people be rich and successful and exciting.
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morestuff posted:This playoff run got me into the NBA, so much incredible borderline unwatchable basketball Watching them absolutely smother and dominate other teams was incredible. They made the other team regret being born
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Apr 19, 2021 04:32
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Yeah, I love low scoring games when every bucket is a huge victory because the defenses are stamping out everything. When it's two teams clanging lazy jumpers that's different.
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Apr 19, 2021 04:33
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I know no one cares about the Clippers but I find it interesting that they only have 15 games left, less than everyone else in the West, and only a couple of back to backs. So they’ll be relatively well rested heading into the playoffs. And PG has been on an absolute tear lately - arguably the best stretch of his career. So yes expecting a first round exit this time round.
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Apr 19, 2021 05:21
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Rondo gives them an interesting wrinkle, it won't be George and Leonard taking turns shooting iso mid rangers this year.
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Apr 19, 2021 05:33
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Article about people challenging retired NBA scrubs and getting owned:quote:For Scalabrine, the reason he gets his skills continually questioned goes beyond the confidence of the challengers. Featuring Scalabrine, Michael Sweetney, Adonal Foyle, and current WNBAer Cheyenne Parker.
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Apr 19, 2021 05:33
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while watching tonight's ESPN Sunday Night Baseball telecast it finally hit me how funny the concept of A-Rod The Ownership Face of Minnesota Timberwolves is.
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Apr 19, 2021 05:57
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R.D. Mangles posted:update on MVP Tiers: I would be fine if Magic just had the lone binding vote in MVP every year.
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Senator Drinksalot posted:Rondo gives them an interesting wrinkle, it won't be George and Leonard taking turns shooting iso mid rangers this year. One thing I’ve realised is that PG wasn’t anywhere near 100% healthy last year. He’s had at least one sick dunk every game this year and he had maybe one the whole of last season.
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Apr 19, 2021 08:04
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Lakers being above .500 and picking up ground on the Mavs and Blazers over the past couple weeks is comforting. It has helped that so many teams were also hurt or decided to rest. Seems like we might actually get the hallway series this time.
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Apr 19, 2021 09:50
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I heard on a podcast that Bill Walton put five PAC 10 teams in his final four bracket. If that’s true, the man should be the only person allowed to vote for awards.
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if you look at both of these pictures at once and cross your eyes, the hair actually materializes on jim boylen's head instead and it's very good. ty for this mangles
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Apr 19, 2021 10:43
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R.D. Mangles posted:Article about people challenging retired NBA scrubs and getting owned: This was good
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Jack's Flow posted:I heard on a podcast that Bill Walton put five PAC 10 teams in his final four bracket. This is great.
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euphronius posted:Like Paul is clearly worth 15-20 wins or more tho his “advanced stats” don’t reflect that at all. Getting kind of tired of some of these stats honestly. I suppose if you close your eyes his advanced stats do look bad.
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Apr 19, 2021 12:03
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morestuff posted:This playoff run got me into the NBA, so much incredible borderline unwatchable basketball I can’t believe the Michael Redd Bucks had the fourth best offense in the league.
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Apr 19, 2021 13:45
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The Raptors have extended this season's breakout superstar Yuta Watanabe https://twitter.com/BlakeMurphyODC/status/1384108524922232847 https://twitter.com/BlakeMurphyODC/status/1384117641304895488
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Apr 19, 2021 13:52
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Watanabe was a great pickup. I mean, probably just a good low-usage, swiss army knife rotation guy seeing as he's already 26 but getting one of those out of a 2-way is a great investment.
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Apr 19, 2021 14:05
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The Raptors roster his year is the veritable land of contrasts. Locked up FVV for less than expected. Some really nice pickups at zero cost. The trades they made at the deadline, in retrospect, were superb. Except Ujiri got so tiled by Giannis signing an extension that he counted deal with the center position. He signed two tall guys who were available, and did nothing to fix the problem when they turned out to be unplayable bad. Orlando dumps Khem Birch into their lap, and the team just plays so, so much better.
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Apr 19, 2021 15:16
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Don't underestimate the impact of playing a full season on the road does for a team. As funky of a season this was for everyone it was way worse for the Raptors. Their center issues were part of it for sure, but I think this was always going to be a lost season for them. I also think their roster is actually more of a .500 roster anyway and last season they just outperformed by a pretty big margin. I think for a long time Lowry had a much bigger impact on the game than most people gave him credit for, but he just isn't doing that this season and he's 35 now so he's not going to drag teams to an extra 5+ wins anymore.
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Apr 19, 2021 15:23
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Yeah they aren't as bad as they looked at the start of this year but Pascal playing way over his head for the first half of last year probably made them look a little better than they actually were. It's a roster of very good complementary pieces looking for a star
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I said it wasn’t all Boylens fault last year and I was right
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Maneck posted:The Raptors roster his year is the veritable land of contrasts. Locked up FVV for less than expected. Some really nice pickups at zero cost. The trades they made at the deadline, in retrospect, were superb. Masai was smart not to overcorrect and pay too much for a center at the deadline. They've mostly just been incredibly unlucky so far, their expected W-L would have them a game back of homecourt
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Paul Zuvella posted:I suppose if you close your eyes his advanced stats do look bad. My point was the stats simulacrum wasn’t showing how actually valuable he was . Not that he’s has bad simulacrum stats
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euphronius posted:I said it wasn’t all Boylens fault last year and I was right Give Boylen Chris Paul and watch him take a ragtag team to the sixth seed just like Billy. You're comparing oranges (bad coach with a bad team) to oranges (bad coach with a bad team)
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Apr 19, 2021 15:31
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euphronius posted:I said it wasn’t all Boylens fault last year and I was right It's Boylen's, well Paxson's fault you burnt 1-2 years of player development of young players with a dumb motherfucker as a coach. The players also just aren't that good, but dear god was Boylen just hot garbage as a coach
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Katana_Warrior posted:Give Boylen Chris Paul and watch him take a ragtag team to the sixth seed just like Billy. You're comparing oranges (bad coach with a bad team) to oranges (bad coach with a bad team) I see your point but If they had a “good coach” (whatever that is) I don’t think there would be much a difference
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euphronius posted:I see your point but Right, no one can spin "denzel valentine on an NBA court" into a positive outcome.
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https://twitter.com/statmuse/status/1384154174867218435?s=19 really hope his shot keeps improving so he can start and win DPOY
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I would like a 10 minute video breakdown of how the landing stress impact of a dunk like this compares to standard dunks in shoes
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Apr 19, 2021 16:51
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A sport like this would be as stupidly dangerous as it would be totally rad.
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