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Hashtag Banterzone posted:I hope someone picks Larry Sanders up off the scrap heap and gives him a chance to turn things around. The Bucks probably want to avoid trading him to a rival East coast team, and not many teams in the West need a center. Plus I'm not sure what MIL would want back, a PF maybe? http://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on-basketball/25061913/bucks-larry-sanders-suspension-not-over-after-10-games Hopefully he stays in Milwaukee and leads them to an upset over the Cavs. For now he's still suspended. Maybe until he goes to rehab or something, no one's spilling the beans.
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Igor Strelkov posted:http://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on-basketball/25061913/bucks-larry-sanders-suspension-not-over-after-10-games The Bucks signed Jorge to another 10 day so I'm guessing it will be that much longer at least. What happens if he comes back and puts them at 16 active players? Do they have to waive someone?
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Can Cousins or Davis break Kevin Love's record of 47WS without making the playoffs? The Brow is currently at 26.5WS and Cousins is at 21.3. If NO doesn't make the playoffs next season AD will come close, but I expect them to make the playoffs next year. Cousins on the other hand is under contract with the Kings until 17-18, so he's very likely to shatter Love's record.
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dokmo posted:It's like the time that guy got Iverson charged with assault by claiming that AI threatened him with a bulge in his pants. When I tell my grandkids about Allen Iverson I'm going to start with that.
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WhyteRyce posted:@MarkSchanowski It's all moot because he's gonna end up with the Cavs anyway. Illinois Smith fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Feb 9, 2015 |
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Igor Strelkov posted:There's finally a concrete timeline for Dwight Howard 6-8 weeks was the guess by Dwight, the doctor interjected and said it was basically week by week. I'm at the point with this where I don't trust anything they say. Hashtag Banterzone posted:Houston don't really have the salaries to make this trade work. Papanikolaou and Terry, it's actually really easy  That said I'm not sure I want to trade for a man with a crippling pot addictiondokmo posted:I know it's fun to say this, but the only person who said anything about Griffin masturbating is the guy whose car got hit, who had an incentive to make it look worse. I kinda skimmed this thread and assumed we were implying that Blake Griffin's elbows are all messed up because he jacks it too much chunkles fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Feb 9, 2015 |
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Feb 9, 2015 18:50
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Faxanadu posted:I love that man We need to get Boogie to re-team up with Hassan Whiteside in Miami. Spoelstra would kill himself mid-season, but I'm okay with that.
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Crazy Ted posted:Apparently SlamBall is making a return...in China.  
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chunkles posted:Papanikolaou and Terry, it's actually really easy You are right that they can make it work. I probably should've said something more along the lines of "Houston would have to gut their bench again to get Sanders, and would then have $33m tied up in 2 centers who can't play together".
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i like my pot addictions like i like my crossfaces--crippling
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/kings/2015/02/09/vivek-ranadive-pete-dalessandro-kings/23125543/quote:According to the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the private nature of the process, Kings majority owner Vivek Ranadive and D'Alessandro met on Sunday's at the team's Sacramento facility and full backing was given to the team's top basketball executive. Considering D'Alessandro is known to have been leading the way in pursuit of Karl, and also the fact that the two sides were known to be close on contract terms as of Sunday, it would seem to appear that Karl will likely be the coach. Never thought I'd be glad that George Karl would coach the Kings but I guess that's where we are
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:Can someone post that other Suns buzzer beater that rattles around and when it goes in all the players instantly deflate on the floor. No don't 
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Robin Lopez must be stopped http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=12299128&ex_cid=espnTW
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chunkles posted:Robin Lopez must be stopped
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I really wish I was in Dallas tonight so I could be nerdy and get a Mavs Star Wars night shirt. This page is great and terrible at the same time. "DIRK SKYWALKER...HANTA SOLO...ANAKIN SKYPARSONS...TYSON CHEWBACCA...RONDO CALRISSIAN...R2DEVIN2...RICHARD JEFFERSON-3P0...BOBA FETT AMINU...ADMIRAL CHARLIE VILLANU-ACKBAR"   http://www.mavs.com/star-wars-night-aac-yes-really-happening/ Spacebump fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Feb 9, 2015 |
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straight up brolic posted:chest pass to the loving face bitch That's a nice crisp hate crime right there. None of that bounce pass silliness
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Spacebump posted:I really wish I was in Dallas tonight so I could be nerdy and get a Mavs Star Wars night shirt. "a line of storm troopers hold up German 3-signs" I'm not sure storm troopers and Germans is the wisest association to make
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Hashtag Banterzone posted:I hope someone picks Larry Sanders up off the scrap heap and gives him a chance to turn things around. The Bucks probably want to avoid trading him to a rival East coast team, and not many teams in the West need a center. Plus I'm not sure what MIL would want back, a PF maybe? Milwaukee needs a Larry Sanders. They cannot let him go. If they do I will drive over to their offices and make them an offer they cannot refuse. Edit: I'm serious, they need a hardcore ball swatting maniac center right now. Gianis is getting the hang of swatting balls, but Sanders can muscle the dudes Gianis cannot. Philthy fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Feb 9, 2015 |
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TheFallenEvincar posted:China gets our best...again. I get so happy everytime I see this picture.
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Grantland with a piece on Whiteside. Sample size be damned, I love it:quote:You’re not supposed to come out of nowhere in the NBA. Player development is supposed to be a painfully gradual process. The league is full of apparatuses designed to ensure it locates, nurtures, and pays all of the world’s most worthy basketball players. There are 30 little intelligence agencies competing against each other to help make sure that guys like Whiteside, who can put up the numbers he puts up, don’t fall through the cracks. Whiteside is exceptional, and lest you think “taking the NBA by storm” is a little hyperbolic, check this out: http://grantland.com/the-triangle/hassan-in-wonderland-the-heat-center-on-his-breakout-season/ Also, it makes me feel really old because Whiteside sees the Miami Heat as an iconic brand because of their past. Jack's Flow fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Feb 9, 2015 |
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Hassan Whiteside should have signed with the Bucks. I mean, just look at him, he was clearly put on this earth to play for this current Bucks team.
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Jack's Flow posted:Grantland with a piece on Whiteside. Sample size be damned, I love it: If Whiteside had been a heatman last year and broken out, do you guys think Lebron would have stayed?
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Jack's Flow posted:Grantland with a piece on Whiteside. Sample size be damned, I love it: I'm glad I'm as old as I am, because this will forever be my brain's answer to hearing the words "Miami Heat" 
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So if Whiteside has been the best player in 2015, why aren't the Heat winning very much? Clearly, Whiteside is a good player who deserves minutes and all that, but the Heat games I watch he seems to sell out for Rebounds a LOT and crashes the offensive glass A LOT that requires other players to cover transition D. He does finish around the basket really well and he is a super-high motor guy, for sure. But this sorta looks like someone who is getting overrated by advanced stats by a healthy margin. I wonder if he'll be a "pump and dump for assets" guy?
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Their transition D isn't that bad though, and I think whatever he's doing to hurt it is probably outweighed by having a dude getting them so many extra chances at points. He is almost certainly overrated and there are sample size issues, but he's been legit really good. That team has the worst point guard play in the league and needs shooting bad.
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The New York Times on the Knicks:quote:If Anthony wants to contribute something potentially meaningful this atrocious season, he should shut down the knee after next week, let the Knicks’ summer league roster scrap as it did Saturday night and continue to lose, and in doing so enhance the likelihood of landing the No. 1 pick in the 2015 draft. The Mecca!
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Igor Strelkov posted:If Whiteside had been a heatman last year and broken out, do you guys think Lebron would have stayed? Yes. Lockback posted:So if Whiteside has been the best player in 2015, why aren't the Heat winning very much? I've been wondering this as well. Looking at his numbers, he actually has a negative OBPM. Not sure how that works out, though.
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MourningView posted:Their transition D isn't that bad though, and I think whatever he's doing to hurt it is probably outweighed by having a dude getting them so many extra chances at points. He is almost certainly overrated and there are sample size issues, but he's been legit really good. That team has the worst point guard play in the league and needs shooting bad. For sure, he's clearly a net asset, that's not hard to understand. He's a great defensive rebounder and that's almost always a huge plus regardless. The question is, why don't you see team success with him? It could just be the effect of an otherwise meh team (though if Hassan was a real all-star level player the Heat should good). With Linsanity you saw the effect with a real good run by the Knicks during that stretch.
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The Heat have some good talent at forward/center and the worst guard rotation in the league by a mile. They can't get into any sort of coherent offensive set without Wade and he still has some heroball tendencies being the leading scorer on the team. It's been so bad that Tyler Johnson is getting playing time because he can apparently run some semblance of an offense. I also think the effect of a single all-star big man is overrated in terms of producing wins because that guy still needs someone to get him the ball where he's effective. A dominant guard is going to need less support around him. nachos fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Feb 9, 2015 |
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Yeah outside of Wade they have absolutely nothing on the wing, I don't know if them being bad has much to do with Whiteside. They lost all their shooting in the offseason and LeBron did a lot to mask their point guard issues.
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nachos posted:The Heat have some good talent at forward/center and the worst guard rotation in the league by a mile. They can't get into any sort of coherent offensive set without Wade and he still has some heroball tendencies being the leading scorer on the team. It's been so bad that Tyler Johnson is getting playing time because he can apparently run some semblance of an offense. Why isn't their defense better?
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Lockback posted:For sure, he's clearly a net asset, that's not hard to understand. He's a great defensive rebounder and that's almost always a huge plus regardless. The question is, why don't you see team success with him? It could just be the effect of an otherwise meh team (though if Hassan was a real all-star level player the Heat should good). With Linsanity you saw the effect with a real good run by the Knicks during that stretch. It's also because the Heat have been reluctant until recently to play him much. The Heat have lost many games in the third quarter because Spo didn't play Hassan at all.
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nachos posted:I also think the effect of a single all-star big man is overrated in terms of producing wins because that guy still needs someone to get him the ball where he's effective. A dominant guard is going to need less support around him. I don't agree with this at all. Whiteside is an obvious example. Even with terrible guard play he can still produce.
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Strawberry Panda posted:It's also because the Heat have been reluctant until recently to play him much. The Heat have lost many games in the third quarter because Spo didn't play Hassan at all. But playing him doesn't seem to help either. In games where they played him 28+ minutes they are 2-4, including losses to Minnesota, Milwaukee and Detroit, all games they (on paper) should have won if Whiteside is a all-star level player. Its just weird they find the breakout player of 2015 and it means they lose their playoff spot.
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Lockback posted:So if Whiteside has been the best player in 2015, why aren't the Heat winning very much? Clearly, Whiteside is a good player who deserves minutes and all that, but the Heat games I watch he seems to sell out for Rebounds a LOT and crashes the offensive glass A LOT that requires other players to cover transition D. He does finish around the basket really well and he is a super-high motor guy, for sure. But this sorta looks like someone who is getting overrated by advanced stats by a healthy margin. I wonder if he'll be a "pump and dump for assets" guy? This is all wrong. They have sucked because everyone has been injured leading to zero consistency. Wade, Bosh, Whiteside, Birdman, McBob, Deng and Chalmers have all been injured. In fact, not a single player on the roster has played in every game this season. He moves very well for a big guy. Look at this sexy, sexy block: http://www.nba.com/video/games/clippers/2015/01/11/0021400559-mia-lac-play5.nba/ EDIT: Also, in a large portion of that that 2-4 record when Whiteside was playing at an All-Star level, he was still being worked into the rotation OR returning from an ankle injury and only played 24-28 minutes. When he and Wade are on the floor together, the offense and defense are a completely different beast. PantsFreeZone fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Feb 9, 2015 |
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MourningView posted:Yeah outside of Wade they have absolutely nothing on the wing, I don't know if them being bad has much to do with Whiteside. They lost all their shooting in the offseason and LeBron did a lot to mask their point guard issues. Is Deng really that bad?
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Tae posted:Is Deng really that bad? He's definitely slower and less effective. But he's still above average.
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