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Spacebump posted:Can someone that watches the Nuggets explain to me how they haven't seemed to miss a beat after losing multiple rotation guys to injury? The Nuggets are missing Jamal Murray, Monte Morris, and Will Barton, but they still have enough to be a problem: the MVP front-runner in Jokic, and an ascending star in Michael Porter Jr. seizing Murray's No. 2 option role -- and making a late run for Julius Randle's Most Improved Player throne. They are 8-1 since Murray's injury, with a chance to overtake the LA Clippers for the No. 3 seed in the West in a massive head-to-head game on Saturday. There has always been an unpredictability to Jokic's game, but before this season, it was mostly confined to his passing. You never knew where he was going when he surveyed his domain. He imagines passes no one sees -- passes that aren't really available to anyone but him. But you knew he was usually passing. Not anymore. Jokic has bumped his scoring average by almost 6.5 points. He is the league's most efficient high-volume post-up threat, outranking Joel Embiid by a hair, per Second Spectrum. ... The Nuggets will feel Murray's absence more in the postseason; Porter can score like gangbusters, but he's not ready to run a calculated two-man game with Jokic. They are short on shooting around Jokic and Porter right now. In the meantime, Jokic is a deserving MVP favorite. --Zactch Loughwe
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Lamelo helped Miles Bridges emerge as the powerful small ball 4 that this very forum's draft experts claimed he would one day be. Thank you Lamelo
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The spurs were still sort of contenders when they were penalized for resting players during primetime games. The thunder were a rapidly deconstructed team with maybe 1 primetime game all season. I think that's the real distincition
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It makes me smile a bit that Kevin Durant is still a very good player after his achilles tear. He's not post achilles Kobe or Brandon Jennings. It's nice to see and maybe means that it will be less of a career destroying injury going forward.
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May 2, 2021 23:44
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I had covid dead early on in 2020 and it was like 2 months of just feeling like poo poo and having no stamina at all. Novel viruses can really gently caress you up, even if you're a healthy person
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SamuraiFoochs posted:You good now, homie? In terms of covid, fantastic. Otherwise, no comment 
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May 3, 2021 06:54
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https://www.espn.com/nba/player/gamelog/_/id/4278031/oshae-brissett Oshae Brisset has played really well over the last couple weeks https://www.indycornrows.com/2021/4/20/22394405/pacers-oshae-brissett-agree-to-three-year-deal It looks like the Pacers agreed, he got a 3 year some sort of deal after two 10 days. Dejan Bimble fucked around with this message at 07:19 on May 4, 2021 |
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Trez is very undersized as a center and for whatever reason his athleticism does not translate to defense
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SamuraiFoochs posted:Our dog just died days short of her 13th birthday (on my dad's birthday, in fact). It was sudden and unexpected but not entirely shocking if that makes sense. Sorry pardner. Never easy. I moved across the country after my last dog died, partly to get away from the memories. R.D. Mangles posted:Anyone remember when William The Refrigerator Perry joined the GI Joes. I don't remember, but I do rememeber reading about it on x-entertainment and from that I remember he came with a football on a stick
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May 5, 2021 06:32
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DC Murderverse posted:Hypothetically, if you’re Damian Lillard, what’s your next move? Are you good being Dan Marino racking up dough and numbers in a city that loves you or do you attempt to move somewhere that might be able to get you a ring? Is it even possible to win a ring as a team if you have that contract? Smile and know that you're going to have half a billion dollar net worth by the time you retire
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Someday we'll have the next level Onuaku, who's transcended granny shot into automatic rim bounce to teammate rebound
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It's too bad that Michael Gallup didn't play basketball , or you could make a good Smog "Say Valley Maker" reference like so Oh I Kantered out here Now I'm Galluping back
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May 7, 2021 00:23
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I Before E posted:
the trade machine win calculator has been broken for a while. This site works. You can also see the genius level trades the average fellow is making https://tradenba.com/trades/iPxIvMBVN
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https://uproxx.com/dimemag/chris-webber-tnt-future-marv-albert-out-replacements/ Announcer News: Mayce Edward Christopher Webber III may not be back on TNT after this year. Most of you guys don't like him, I never found him that objectionable. Booo
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It's a pointless conversation because there's no objective measurement of better, if you're throwing out teams at random. The 4 seed in the east is the Ny Knicks. The 4 seed in the east is the Denver Nuggets. Two days ago, the Nuggets beat the Knicks so thoroughly that it was hardly a basketball game. And that's without 3 of their former top 5 guys. So what does best mean? My instinct tells me that the finals will be Bucks Clippers, which means they'll both lose in the first round, but they seem like the 7 game series winning types. Dejan Bimble fucked around with this message at 00:43 on May 8, 2021 |
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R.D. Mangles posted:"call rachel nicholes" is a pretty gnarly own, hats off to KAT That has to be all time. There's no way the Heat are winning a playoff series after that.
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The mid to late 90s Jazz had incredible offensive efficiency, their main thing was the Stockton Malone PNR, right? Were other teams not running pnr all the time back then, or were they just incredibly good at it?
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Declan MacManus posted:i should rephrase: he doesn’t care about doing things that would make people like him. he wants the lebron clout where he can do whatever and people will still admire him and make excuses for him, but he doesn’t want to be a goody two-shoes company man like tim duncan I think he wanted to be a melo like beloved cult basketball figure while also being a mcdonalds spokesman type of nationally famous guy. The fact that he isn't seems to gall him much more than anyone would imagine
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gnoma posted:The Jazz offense in the 90s was the same flex offense they used in the 00s. Jerry Sloan started implementing it as an assistant in the mid-80s and it was all he used as head coach. It was very successful at creating layups using off ball screens and cuts. They only ran PNR during crunch time. That's a great video, thanks for sharing it. Thanks to everyone else who responded to this question too. Do you have any idea when the PNR became The play? Is it a development that comes after illegal defense and hand check rules? Was the Suns high pnr with the big setting the high screen what made it the thing, or was that just a smartification of already existing pnrs?
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de curry GOAT posted:This sounds bad The difference between that and a "sprained wrist" is that he's going to need surgery to tie it back together. https://www.assh.org/handcare/condition/scapholunate-torn-ligament
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I have a feeling that if the Bucks get eliminated early on in the playoffs again, it will be because Jrue Holiday gets 2 ticky tack offensive fouls on his elbows out pivoting cyclone drives to the basket, then another quick 2 on defense
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Thanks everybody for the good PNR posts. I'm lucky to post with such wise men. Just gazing at the standings today, with 5 days of games and most teams having between 3 and 4 games left. https://www.nba.com/standings play in team possibilities: I think the spurs could easily win two games against the grizzlies and Lakers/Warriors. Everything changes if lebron and ad are sort of healthy, of course. Over in the east, I think charlotte is by far the best of the play in teams, they might give the nets a couple scary games, especially of jim harden misses any time.
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Orlando magic, 21 wins cleve cavs, 21 wins Oak C Thunder, 21 wins Minn T wolves, 21 wins Detroit Pistons, 20 wins Houston Rock, 16 wins Guess who's playing tonight, T wolves and Pistons. How hard will Minnesota try to lose this loving game?
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Some metrics must have told espn that people care more about awards voting than anything else, because the lowe, windhorst, etc podcasts have been 100% award ranking bullshit for about a month now. Who loving cares Although Lowe making fun of arnovitz for saying "take yes for an answer" for 5 minutes was funny Dejan Bimble fucked around with this message at 23:41 on May 11, 2021 |
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The idea of Minnesota missing out on Cade this year because Ant Edwards is so good and does not know how not to ball hard every night is very cute
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MourningView posted:ant has had a nice month but if you can get cade you don't worry about how edwards fits Right, even if Edwards isn't exactly Klay Thompson or something, he can't use every possession, so having Cade as your 1 and him as 2 would be fine
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Here are our tank champions, all but Houston need to keep losing to secure their positions. I just went through their upcoming games to see which playoff teams play them, to see who'll have auto wins as the season closes and seeding finishes. Houston plays LAL, LAC, and ATL OKC plays UTA, LAC Minnesota plays DEN, BOS, DAL ORL plays ATL, PHI, PHI CLE plays BOS, WSH, BKN DET plays DEN, MIA Denver gets 2, but they're chasing the Clippers who have 3. 2 for Atlanta, helping them keep the 4 seed with the same record Heat One for the Lakers and One for Dallas, which negates the bump for LA. Utah gets one which should keep them in the top seed in the west. Boston gets two, which shouldn't be enough for them to leave the play in. Dallas has one, they have the same record but lose on tiebreaks to portland who isn't getting one of these freebies, so that might matter. Philly has 2, which means they probably won't lose the 1 seed. Washington has one which is a small amount of help if they want to get homecourt for their 9/10 play in game. Miami's tied with Atlanta and has one fewer gimme I'm realizing now that Houston's games might not be auto losses as they gain nothing by losing. They're so bad that they may as well be auto losses.
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Zach Lowe wrote his Luke Walton All Stars column and it was guys you'd expect, Bruce Brown, Cam Payne, Yuta Watanabe, Juan Tuscano Anderson, and so on, and the last guy I swear I've never heard of, and I try and know every single guy on every team, Garrison Matthews.  Anyone ever heard of this guy?
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kingcobweb posted:i tried to look him up on basketball reference but you misspelled his last name so i couldn't. Trap sprung I guess t My bad, I also wonder if anyone here has even heard of Lipscomb university, maybe excluding nickrowe
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Vinestalk posted:While we're lucky we tanked during the covid season, this does seem like a woefully optimistic piece. I love the new guys but they are much more likely to end up as rotation players on another team then stay on the Pistons. Do you mean the the 4 2020 draft pick young guys or do you mean hamadu diallo Josh Jackson etc? Because I can see another team signing hamadu this offseason and Josh Jackson might be going just because it's pretty clear that at best he's a bench gunner and he's really not that great at that.
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Views: The Nets are really good and any playoff series they're in should be fun to watchVinestalk posted:I was talking about the draft picks. I think Josh is going to end up being used in a trade and he knows it. Diallo is tough to nail down because Troy specifically went after him. They bring more energy than the old vets Van Gundy was bringing in, but it's because they're all projects who know Detroit is the only team willing to take a flyer on them. I don't understand your thinking, then. Bey might top out as an okay starter on a decent team, Stewart as a good backup c, and hayes as an okay starter, how does that put their future on another team?
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Marvello is a lot of work for what seems to be an inside joke about an old school NBA minority owner gritty pawn shop chain owner type of guy
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Facu has been awesome this year. I hope Facu wins finals mvp
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Is it possible to bet 1000000 dollars on Denver bowing out of the game against Portland to make sure the Lakers are in the play-in
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Detroit is sitting Isaiah Stewart and the nuggets are sitting everyone. This should be tough
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It looks like Victor Oladipo's done for a very long time https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nb...pot/ar-BB1gJY0g
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The Rick Foxification of Tim Duncan read my article
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He deserves it. Chauncey better be up next and RIP Marv Albert. It's time for him to retire, but he was an all time great
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Hey Lebron... wait til you see my dick (Ying Yang Twins, wait- the whisper song,2021)
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