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Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

That LaMelo pass is loving insane.

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Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

It's a make or lose by 57 league

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

The wizards knocking the nets out in round 1 would be so awesome please please please

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

leftist heap posted:

Jokic looks like a guy who complains about his allergies all the time

I don't remember who said this, but my favorite description of Jokic's game was that it looks like a teenage camp counselor playing basketball with the kids at a summer camp.

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

Yeah, the Jordan Bulls don’t have a Patriots thing going. America would have been happy with them winning even more.

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

Poque posted:

That sculptor always adds worrying vaguely-human shapes to their statues. Michael Jordan is dunking over some kind of dementor amalgamation and the Harry Caray one outside Wrigley makes it look like he's gleefully sending a bunch of babies to hell

I have to post a picture of that Harry Caray statue for people who've never seen it, because it is honestly extremely difficult to exaggerate how insane and creepy it is. I have no idea what is broken in that sculptor's brain, but he should probably not be trusted around sharp objects or human beings.



They're just writhing out of the ether under him, like Botlzmann brains that spawned in a state of agony. WHY ARE THEY THERE AT ALL??

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

He won both of those in his rookie season, too.

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

The Warriors stupidity in the thread extends far beyond euphronius

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

kingcobweb posted:

MPJ being a finalist for MIP is ridiculous. He’s a second year player, of course he got better than when he was a rookie, rookies suck. But even his shooting (which is insanely good, don’t get me wrong) is more of a steady improvement than an out of nowhere leap: 2P% .564 to .628, 3P% .422 to .445, FT% down from .833 to .791. Obviously his team defense is better, but any guy his size who was that terrible on defense last year can learn to defend better than that.

Just make it a rule of MIP that it’s only awarded to players in their third season or later so we don’t have to go through this bullshit every year.

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that Murray went down but Denver kept winning. Jokic got the lion's share of the credit for this, of course, but people are also crediting MPJ. He's being perceived as someone who can be a legit second best player on a contender soon, if not already. That feels significant in terms of narrative.

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

kingcobweb posted:

Delighted that the end result of the play-in is to replace Steph in the playoffs with Memphis. The NBA must be beside themselves

lol


also lol

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013


this is exactly what i've been saying all along

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

Unfortunately it's now clear that LeBron sucks in fact and should be rooted against.

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

https://twitter.com/FreeWoenseI/status/1397576897261887496

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

Dude can summon an orb, slay a loving orc. poo poo is wild.

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

Yeah, they looked really one dimensional last year when Miami was able to keep Giannis out of the paint.

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

Oh no. He's becoming self aware. Pull the plug before it's too late!

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

kingcobweb posted:

d'oh of course. In that case, Phoenix is less favored at home against Denver than Portland was.

There seems to be a lot of people who won't believe in Utah or Phoenix until they are hoisting the O'Brien trophy, and maybe not even then.

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013


Check out the first sentence of Marv Albert’s Wikipedia article. It’s been this way for hours at least.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marv_Albert

In case it gets edited It says his name is Rapist

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

Kibner posted:

I am very disappointed that this is how the Bucks are playing for my Jrue.

If it makes you feel any better, anyone actually watching this garbage and basing their opinion on it will believe that Jrue is the best player on the Bucks.

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013


lol pretty much. Honestly the second best looking player on the Bucks in that half was Lopez, who looked... fine?

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

Visiting Blake Griffin at his nursing home in 40 years and throwing him from his wheelchair like Walter Sobchak

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

Spacebump posted:

I’m confused why I didn’t know fans get one MVP vote. Where did people vote?

I just spent five minutes googling this and all I saw was “online” and one site said “on Twitter”. I’m pretty sure the sportswriters writing these stories about Rose winning the consensus fan vote don’t actually know where or how those votes are cast. I’ve read 10 stories and none clarify that.

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

So, someone on reddit managed to confirm that there was such a thing as a fan vote.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/nvi2ji/conti_derrick_rose_got_a_first_place_vote_for_mvp/h13j6c3/

The NBA made some tweets over the course of two weeks in May that received very little engagement, and (at least the one linked in this reddit post) didn't even clearly state that the vote would count toward the real award.

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

Both parts of that sound so unlikely.

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

This article from last month painted a pretty vivid picture of Bjorkgren. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2942713-inside-the-turbulent-tenure-of-indiana-pacers-coach-nate-bjorkgren

People were literally quitting their jobs to get away from this guy.

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

He had a really good season and really helped them keep winning when Murray went down. Not discounting the incredible play of the MVP, of course. But he really made the leap that was being hyped in the off-season.

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

I wanna see Dame with Jokic.

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

PJ Tucker all putting Durant’s bodyguard in a headlock and beating his rear end like Nolan Ryan

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

A master of simplicity for 40 years running

Yoshi Wins fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Jun 13, 2021

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

I hope he leaves because he’s a pretty cool player and I don’t believe in Dallas ever giving him a good team to work with. Don’t waste your youth, Luka!

But it’s easy for me to say he should turn down psycho gently caress off megabucks.

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

a new study bible! posted:

gently caress a tick, man.

Had one of those bastards dig into my ear canal as a kid. Motherfucker was in there so deep I thought they were going to have to cut him out.

This is horrifying

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

Boo less.

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

Replay had to be tried as an experiment, because if it was good than it’d be inexcusable not to have it. The experiment failed. We know it sucks horribly now. Get rid of it.

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

I would support a dedicated replay ref who has 30 seconds to change a call due to clear and incontrovertible evidence.

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

This is the funniest twitter deflection since the Talking Points Memo guy posted a lesbian porn video and then tried to pretend he did it on purpose to obliquely make a political point.

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

Kurt Eichenwald. That is the other Hall of Famer candidate.

My favorite part of that was all the anime avatars in the replies complimenting his taste in hentai.

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013


i think that’s a different guy

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

Judakel posted:

Blazers should address the fanbase and release what they found.

Seriously. This is just like saying, "Hey, we know some of you are mad, but trust us, it's fine. It's fine! It's fine. Don't worry. Thanks."

Although, there may be NDAs involved, so maybe they CAN'T say anything...

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

I think this is the season that Doc stopped being overrated. I haven't seen anyone say anything positive about him in months. Every take I see is that he's a dumbass poo poo coach rear end in a top hat who fails and throws his players under the bus.

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Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

morestuff posted:

Part of that is just working in Philly

OK, fair point.

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