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Rick posted:Week 6 Power Rankings Lol i love you rick, and i like your approach of ranking each week separately
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chunkles posted:Earl Watson reveals that he is a total loving square and pushes gateway drug theory in response to Steve Kerr's comments I saw Earl and my mind auto-corrected to JR Smith and I was confused.
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Dec 5, 2016 13:06
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Panzeh posted:I don't know why you guys have such a hardon for Bogut- he played 20mpg last year. He wasn't that important a player for them. They took him out of games all the time if they thought they could get away with it. He was the lone actual big guy with arms that blocked shots and he's a very good passer. They lost a lot of games in the playoffs once they started using him less so it's not that outlandish to think that he had a substantial impact. I hate his rear end but he was really good for that team, whos rear end I also hate
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Dec 5, 2016 13:11
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chunkles posted:Earl Watson reveals that he is a total loving square and pushes gateway drug theory in response to Steve Kerr's comments Lol yuck, its always alarming when someone actually names their chosen logical fallacy to begin their argument
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Dec 5, 2016 13:24
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Lockback posted:They definitely played him situationally which is important, and the team was frequently able to build leads in those 20mpg he played. He wasn't the most important player by a long shot, but he gave them an option for a defensive identity when he was out there and it was part of what made the team able to hit those high defensive notes. Speights is defensively quite bad and Ezeli and Mcgee are very similar players.
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Dec 5, 2016 13:33
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We're all just spectators in an Ish Smith world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3_e-N-2IxE&t=19s edit: New thing on The Ringer: quote:“We’re never going to have NFL-style parity in this league,” NBA commissioner Adam Silver said during the Finals, and he’s right. Standard deviation of both team record and net rating throughout the league show that the NBA’s “competitive balance” in 2016 is not significantly different than it has been over the last 10 seasons. But through December 4, there were 21 teams with a net rating between plus-five and minus-five, compared to an average of 17.6 teams over the last five seasons through that date. The league still has its handful of clear contenders, but every tier beneath the elites has improved, and most teams are still admirably fighting for legitimacy. The league feels healthier than it has in a long time, and it’s largely due to how robust the NBA’s middle class has become. https://theringer.com/nba-middle-class-milwaukee-bucks-boston-celtics-4d9427a48a38#.24yx26m3c Jack's Flow fucked around with this message at 14:47 on Dec 5, 2016 |
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Dec 5, 2016 14:07
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Panzeh posted:I don't know why you guys have such a hardon for Bogut- he played 20mpg last year. He wasn't that important a player for them. They took him out of games all the time if they thought they could get away with it. yeah i don't know about the statistical specifics or anything like that, but i do know that several people, myself included, immediately predicted the warriors would lose the finals the second he went down and we were all right. there's something the eye test says about bogut that i think helped define his unsung role as facilitator. bogut was a tremendous defender, pick setter, and decent passer.
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Dec 5, 2016 15:16
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Panzeh posted:Speights is defensively quite bad and Ezeli and Mcgee are very similar players. While true, Speights wasn't very good defensively, but it does affect your defense having a whole new big rotation. McGee is averaging a whopping 7 minutes per game. He hasn't replaced poo poo yet. As the frontcourt gets more time playing together their defense will improve, it's already happening. But when you give up all those guys it will definitely have an effect. RaySmuckles posted:yeah i don't know about the statistical specifics or anything like that, but i do know that several people, myself included, immediately predicted the warriors would lose the finals the second he went down and we were all right. there's something the eye test says about bogut that i think helped define his unsung role as facilitator. This too, even if the minutes weren't huge he did do a lot of things uniquely well. I think the Warriors can simultaneously be just fine and also miss what Bogut did.
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1) fuckign count this what the hell DEATH TO REFS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmzQS5XxkOs 2) I'd be willing to give Watson the benefit of the doubt overthere. He says a few times "I'm not a doctor". I don't think he's not talking about marijuana being inherently dangerous, he's talking about how dangerous it is for youth to get caught up in the criminal justice system. Like here in NYC we still got the massive systemic policing policy problems that winds up with black kids arrested 7 times as often for low-level marijuana possession even though every statistic says white kids are far more frequent users. We got all sorts of crazy poo poo with straight-up immoral outcomes, like, you're living with your grandmother in public housing--you get caught a single joint, she knew nothing about it and she can lose her house. A friend of mine who works for a charity ( https://www.nyfoundling.org/ great program, basically they intervene with judges who are about to send some 13 year old off to a juvenile facility [with the associated heartless ~80% recidivism rate those programs produce] and instead get them and their parents into family counseling sessions) was telling me about a certain stretch of months where the entire Bronx PD managed to arrest exactly 1 white person for marijuana possession. So yeah I read Watson's comments as less "I'm sure this devilweed is bad", and more like, be careful when you go around saying this is acceptable because it might be acceptable to you and everyone you know, but you aren't the police and people (who you might not be seeing because enforcement policies tend to be neighborhood-specific) still get pure hosed because of the drug, and you don't want to be encouraging risky behavior amongst a group which is already targeted and at-risk. Anyhow weed owns but jail is real and the prison industrial complex is one of America's great ongoing sins, everyone stay safe out there.
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I didn't even know that people were arguing whether or not Bogut would be missed. What the gently caress? He's a very good defender, rebounder and passer, who also happens to be a grandmaster rear end in a top hat with a honorary degree from Yale that celebrates his studies in the field of dirty as gently caress moving screens. I wish he was still on the team.
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Dec 5, 2016 15:38
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Lockback posted:They definitely played him situationally which is important, and the team was frequently able to build leads in those 20mpg he played. He wasn't the most important player by a long shot, but he gave them an option for a defensive identity when he was out there and it was part of what made the team able to hit those high defensive notes. If Bogut doesn't get injured last year, the Warriors win that series. I am 100% confident in this statement.
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Dec 5, 2016 15:51
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Serge owning the Pistons on Reggies season debut brings me great joy
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Dec 5, 2016 16:09
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Matt Barnes is currently wanted for questioning by the NYPD for choking out a woman in a nightclub Nice job dickhead
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Dec 5, 2016 16:15
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Cool Buff Man posted:Matt Barnes is currently wanted for questioning by the NYPD for choking out a woman in a nightclub Matt Barnes might be a dickhead, but NYPD also has a long storied career of getting a hard-on going after black athletes in clubs so I am going to be cautious before casting a decision about this.
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Lockback posted:Matt Barnes might be a dickhead, but NYPD also has a long storied career of getting a hard-on going after black athletes in clubs so I am going to be cautious before casting a decision about this. There's a video of him after the fight (which allegedly started cuz of the choke and involved a dude too) and DMC is in it yelling about how Matt really clocked the guy good so there's stupid poo poo going on at the very least
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Cool Buff Man posted:There's a video of him after the fight (which allegedly started cuz of the choke and involved a dude too) and DMC is in it yelling about how Matt really clocked the guy good so there's stupid poo poo going on at the very least Boogie is also rubbing his knuckles talking about punching some dude.... lol Kings
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Might be a dickhead? MSG might've set Barnes off with a vocal "De-rek Fish-er" chant.
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Dec 5, 2016 17:01
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Matt Barnes drove about hour and a half, one way, to fight Derek Fisher
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AggressivelyStupid posted:Matt Barnes drove about hour and a half, one way, to fight Derek Fisher The kind of one-way trip that looks suspicious on an itinerary.
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AggressivelyStupid posted:Matt Barnes drove about hour and a half, one way, to fight Derek Fisher Derek Fisher won the fight by not meeting him and going on vacation with his ex-wifes family instead It's like Fisher took an offensive charge in real life
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Dec 5, 2016 17:20
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Is Javale just not the same since his injury? Or did his defensive stats just look good because he was playing on a pretty good Denver team? I know he was never amazing, but he looked like an average starter to me and now he's barely playing.
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Dec 5, 2016 17:23
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Hashtag Banterzone posted:Is Javale just not the same since his injury? Or did his defensive stats just look good because he was playing on a pretty good Denver team? He's been playing more recently, but he's always been kind of a screwy player and I'd definitely be cautious on playing him if I were the Warriors. RPM thinks he's ok defensively but a net negative offensively, which sounds about right. He hasn't played real minutes since 2012 so let's not pretend like it's incredible he's not getting major burn this year.
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Dec 5, 2016 17:38
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we talkin about this javale right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IBuv26ZErI
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Hashtag Banterzone posted:Is Javale just not the same since his injury? Or did his defensive stats just look good because he was playing on a pretty good Denver team? JaVale couldn't get minutes over a 29 year old rookie by the end of last season. That was on a team that desperately needed rim protection. To really highlight it the Mavs did better with old Dirk playing defense at the center position.
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Barnes and Boogie started a bender in Philly with the Henny and it just kept rolling into NYC
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https://twitter.com/MarcJSpearsESPN/status/805812688613875712 Speculation? Late to the team bus? Told Hoiberg to go fly a kite?
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:https://twitter.com/MarcJSpearsESPN/status/805812688613875712 It begins
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:https://twitter.com/MarcJSpearsESPN/status/805812688613875712 Probably called Hoiberg a six-word chain racial/sexual slur and walked out of practice.
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Dec 5, 2016 17:54
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oh no what will the Bulls do without Rondo on the court.
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Dexo posted:oh no what will the Bulls do without Rondo on the court. Probably have an exceptional +/-
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efb ^ We couldn't bear to lose his ability.
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Dexo posted:oh no what will the Bulls do without Rondo on the court. Every time they bench him, they become a watchable basketball team. It's like flipping a switch.
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https://twitter.com/WindhorstESPN/status/805796179401441280quote:"Kobe had an aura around him when he was on the court; he intimidated all of us. I was inside a video game," DeRozan said. "I'd watched him growing up. I watched Kobe do everything. His shot. His footwork. How he works in the post. Everything growing up was Kobe. I tried to emulate the tough shots he took, his pump fake. There's nothing you can show me that Kobe has done on a court that I don't know about or have tried. I practice almost all of them."  OLD SCHOOL BASKETBALL
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Libertine posted:Probably called Hoiberg a six-word chain racial/sexual slur and walked out of practice. https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/805821643285209088
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Also https://twitter.com/celtics/status/274296542888865792 https://twitter.com/BostonGlobe/status/288401271394824193 https://twitter.com/Talk_NBA_/status/570704236608151552 https://twitter.com/NESN/status/675465719371403264
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Remember when there were rumors of Rondo teaming up with Boogie.
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Metapod posted:Serge owning the Pistons on Reggies season debut brings me great joy Thunder or ex-Thunder players are buoying a full 1/6th of the league's teams. Thunder fans can tune in regularly to watch their current or former stars square off. welp, back to work, thunder up, oladipo is good now.
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wow who could have seen this coming
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Was it Gar's boy Randy Brown? I bet it was Randy Brown.
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Bush Did Outer Heaven posted:Thunder or ex-Thunder players are buoying a full 1/6th of the league's teams. Thunder fans can tune in regularly to watch their current or former stars square off. 
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