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straight up brolic
Jan 31, 2007

After all, I was nice in ball,
Came to practice weed scented
Report card like the speed limit

:homebrew::homebrew::homebrew:

I can't believe this hasn't been posted it makes me so happy

https://twitter.com/mynameisjohn/status/813607935972671488

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Mr. F!
Sep 21, 2016

Jota posted:

Joel Embiid and DeMarcus Cousins sexually assaulting each other on the court tonight

https://streamable.com/whbe4

The NBA rules.

Time
Aug 1, 2011

It Was All A Dream

Jota posted:

Joel Embiid and DeMarcus Cousins sexually assaulting each other on the court tonight

https://streamable.com/whbe4

Best league

R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004


i can't believe mirotic hit this incredibly terrible basketball shot
https://twitter.com/FanSportsClips/status/813586195011620864

dokmo
Aug 27, 2006

:stat:man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pG2SF-7ae8

BWV
Feb 24, 2005


Watched the game on silent while at a bar. Raps really came up clutch with those offensive rebounds. I love Lowry so much that I don't care if he spends half the game in permanent heat check

chunkles
Aug 14, 2005

i am completely immersed in darkness
as i turn my body away from the sun

everything about this is perfect, from the free throws to his sideburns to the crowd cheering him afterwards

Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

Libertine posted:

The Warriors seem worse this year and I don't really understand why. Even watching them they look decisively mortal. Obviously if they get two hot hands in their lineup anywhere they obliterate opponents from orbit, but if they don't their defense just hemorrhages opportunities.

Basically 1/3rd of the roster is new this year so that's why they're not going to win 75+ games (last year they had a 95% roster continuity). But they're actually more balanced this year so far. #2 in both ORtg and DRtg. Outside of wins and losses they could easily set stronger marks in some team categories.

Also, many just aren't surprised or impressed because it's too soon after 73-9. Maybe if they went 80-2 and won by fifteen per game.

euphronius posted:

Lol no. You have to win to be the Best Team of All Time. IF they were the best team of all time what does that make the team that beat them?

A championship caliber team that was better rested in a weaker conference, opportunistic and lucky. The 82 game regular season is a separate thing from a 7 game series in June.

Tae posted:

any player that talks to a ref after stoppage because of a foul should be suspended. literally no call has been overturned by talking to them a minute after, stop wasting time

They're not trying to overturn it. They're trying to influence and/or intimidate referees into favoring them in future calls.

Zogo
Jul 29, 2003


They really want him in the ASG. :eyepop:

Cool Buff Man posted:

Trade CJ McCollum or something, you can get by with a bad PG defender if everyone else steps it up but dear god McCollum and Lillard are just ghastly together on the defensive end

They're two of the best scorers in the whole league and it's fully negated with their dual trash defense.

R.D. Mangles posted:

i can't believe mirotic hit this incredibly terrible basketball shot
https://twitter.com/FanSportsClips/status/813586195011620864

A Kwanzaa miracle.


Another Kwanzaa miracle!

Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

EvanTH posted:

And I think it's a bad argument! Rim hanging is celebrating a personal accomplishment, a solution to the Man v. Nature equation (the Rim is a natural occurrence) , not man ruthlessly celebrating his dominion over other man (bad sportsmanship)

Players should do more pull-ups on the rim after dunks. I wouldn't mind if they put bars on the side of the backboard and let players climb up there to flex after a big dunk. Just stand on top of the backboard and FLEX.

But I'm sure some trash players and unathletic owners would complain so they won't allow that.

Femur posted:

Curry isn't chucking this year, and he and the Warriors are worse for it, because he is the greatest chucker the game has ever seen.

management needs to get off durants jock and pump up curry again. or don't, whatever it will be funny if the stats nerds take another L.

don't buy into your own poo poo.. yall were great because Curry was an ungaurdable monster, and the rest of the team roleplayers. teamwork is bs. you have a player who shot from half court as his offense. thats not great passing.

Curry's lost some of his chucking power. This year from 30+ feet he's only 4/20. Last year he finished 21/45 from that range.

Lockback posted:

Dirk is probably the biggest defensive liability at the 4 in NBA Finals history and he has a ring (and probably should have another one).

He'd compare favorably with a lot of guys going way back into the annals of NBA history. Especially the 1940s-1960s.

sba
Jul 9, 2001

bae

Jota posted:

Joel Embiid and DeMarcus Cousins sexually assaulting each other on the court tonight

https://streamable.com/whbe4

https://twitter.com/cjzero/status/813626632514703360

WhyteRyce
Dec 30, 2001

In case you thought Karl wasn't trying to burn every bridge left in the league

quote:

Karl in “Furious George: My Forty Years Surviving NBA Divas, Clueless GMs, and Poor Shot Selection:”

We’ve got a more thorough drug-testing program than the NFL or MLB, which we always brag about. But we’ve still got a drug issue, though a different one than thirty years ago. And this one bothers me more than the dumbasses who got in trouble with recreational drugs.

I’m talking about performance-enhancing drugs—like steroids, human growth hormone, and so on. It’s obvious some of our players are doping. How are some guys getting older—yet thinner and fitter? How are they recovering from injuries so fast? Why the hell are they going to Germany in the off-season? I doubt it’s for the sauerkraut.

More likely it’s for the newest, hard-to-detect blood boosters and PEDs they have in Europe. Unfortunately, drug testing always seems to be a couple steps behind drug hiding. Lance Armstrong never failed a drug test. I think we want the best athletes to succeed, not the biggest, richest cheaters employing the best scientists. But I don’t know what to do about it.

chunkles
Aug 14, 2005

i am completely immersed in darkness
as i turn my body away from the sun
I thought they went to Germany for that creepy guy to inject them with weird but non-PED poo poo

Redgrendel2001
Sep 1, 2006

you literally think a person saying their NBA team of choice being better than the fucking 76ers is a 'schtick'

a literal thing you think.

https://twitter.com/MikeSGallagher/status/813621034721099776

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014

Watched Kings-76ers. Ugly as gently caress game, and imo, the Kings should really start Lawson ahead of Collison

WhyteRyce
Dec 30, 2001

Lawson still has a busted jumper but he's looking pretty decent penetrating now. He and Temple coming off the bench really gives us an energy boost

sba
Jul 9, 2001

bae

Yossarian-22 posted:

Watched Kings-76ers. Ugly as gently caress game, and imo, the Kings should really start Lawson ahead of Collison

both teams should burn the footage of that 3rd quarter

BWV
Feb 24, 2005


Terrence Ross left the game early because he hurt his hand while completing a 360 dunk late in the 3rd quarter during a close game. There have been many things I've wanted Ross to change over the years. This is not one of them.

Adun
Apr 15, 2001

Publicola
Fun Shoe

Dejan Bimble posted:

A team that beat them in one game without their defensive anchor and with 7 games of their best player playing hurt

Don't try to diminish history with dumb poo poo about ringz

I dunno I try to be a rational modern sports fan but there's no way I can call a team the "greatest of all time" if they didn't win the championship. Greatest regular season record? A great team? Sure. But not the greatest of all time.

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

¡Hola SEA!


Tokyo Sex Whale posted:

ESPN has an article on how Kyrie Irving got a white woman sex boat:

Kyrie Irving is a big tool and he's very lucky to have ended up on a team with Lebron and Love cause he's definitely not better than the 3rd guy on a great team. And I say that knowing his numbers were better than Love's on the last two Cleveland teams, and that his mediocre first three years were a very young player. He's kind of like an unfunny Gilbert Arenas.

euphronius posted:

Rim hanging is taunting at least that was the argument behind its restriction.

Taunting is cool imo

Every time an nfl player gets a fine for doing a throat slash an old white guy gets his wings.

WhyteRyce posted:

Lawson still has a busted jumper but he's looking pretty decent penetrating now. He and Temple coming off the bench really gives us an energy boost

He could shoot back before his alcoholism got really bad, right?

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
Didn't watch the game tonight but saw Onuaku's granny free throws have finally made it to the NBA. gently caress yes

chunkles
Aug 14, 2005

i am completely immersed in darkness
as i turn my body away from the sun

DeimosRising posted:

He could shoot back before his alcoholism got really bad, right?

He was always mainly a quick driver. His best season was like 36% on 3PA a game, although I also recall him being prone to (and alright at) midrange pullups

Intruder
Mar 5, 2003

I got a taste for blown saves
I thought the deal was he sucked once he got off the sauce

chunkles
Aug 14, 2005

i am completely immersed in darkness
as i turn my body away from the sun
He didn't get off the sauce except for the time he spent at Malibu In-N-Out Rehab for his DUI

xbilkis
Apr 11, 2005

god qb
me
jay hova
I now think the NBA MVP award should go to a high school sophomore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCM5qxwBorw

Juaguocio
Jun 5, 2005

Oh, David...
Terrence Ross is a bad man:

https://streamable.com/94cys
https://streamable.com/vqffn

BWV posted:

Terrence Ross left the game early because he hurt his hand while completing a 360 dunk late in the 3rd quarter during a close game. There have been many things I've wanted Ross to change over the years. This is not one of them.

Worth it IMO

NickRoweFillea
Sep 27, 2012

doin thangs

Tae posted:

I remember when the clippers and grizzlies faced each other in the playoffs like 3 times in a row

I'm glad someone besides me and brolic remembers BLOODSPORT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FItUKEZYVA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NhLaKMHDOQ

Dejan Bimble
Mar 24, 2008

we're all black friends
Plaster Town Cop

WhyteRyce posted:

In case you thought Karl wasn't trying to burn every bridge left in the league

George just read this thread and copied Zogo and I's posts
I need a percentage on his advance and his royalties
I promise I won't spend it on barrels of mysterious powder from china to give american athletes

Femur
Jan 10, 2004
I REALLY NEED TO SHUT THE FUCK UP
What has Karl said about Kemp? the best player he ruined. FU karl.

ElPedro
Apr 22, 2008
On Kyrie Irving - doesn't it seem like he tries to assist his teammates more now? It's been pretty good to see as he often seemed to get pretty selfish with the ball.. I wonder if they've forced him to help the team more.

Lockback
Sep 3, 2006

All days are nights to see till I see thee; and nights bright days when dreams do show me thee.

ElPedro posted:

On Kyrie Irving - doesn't it seem like he tries to assist his teammates more now? It's been pretty good to see as he often seemed to get pretty selfish with the ball.. I wonder if they've forced him to help the team more.

Kyrie and Lebron are basically perfect complements. Kyrie and to share playmaking duties and not give opposing defenses the chance to disrupt him early (which fucks him up because he is all rhythm) has made Kyrie a better off-ball scorer and better at setting up teammates.

Metapod
Mar 18, 2012

xbilkis posted:

I now think the NBA MVP award should go to a high school sophomore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCM5qxwBorw

:prepop:

Tae
Oct 24, 2010

Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!
For as talented as the Cavs are, they really can't win poo poo without Lebron for some reason.

I'm surprised Kyrie even played considering he did 44 the night before.

Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010

Tae posted:

For as talented as the Cavs are, they really can't win poo poo without Lebron for some reason.

I'm surprised Kyrie even played considering he did 44 the night before.

They were also on their fifth game in seven nights and are coasting.

Tae
Oct 24, 2010

Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!
Hence why I'm confused that Kyrie even played. They're not shy about resting their starters, unless they got a letter from Adam Silver for some reason.

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
https://twitter.com/Jim_Eichenhofer/status/813600780016029696

:3:

Jack's Flow
Jun 6, 2003

Life, friends, is boring

xbilkis posted:

I now think the NBA MVP award should go to a high school sophomore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCM5qxwBorw

Steph's legacy is secure.

Also, I'm glad the Rockets are good. The league is more fun with a good D'Antoni team going berserk.

Jack's Flow fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Dec 27, 2016

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

xbilkis posted:

I now think the NBA MVP award should go to a high school sophomore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCM5qxwBorw

His Name is Lamelo Ball.

He is going to be an all-star.

Paul Zuvella
Dec 7, 2011

Dexo posted:

His Name is Lamelo Ball.

He is going to be an all-star.

Him and Lonzo need to be on the same team

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Redgrendel2001
Sep 1, 2006

you literally think a person saying their NBA team of choice being better than the fucking 76ers is a 'schtick'

a literal thing you think.

Paul George is about to lose some $$$.

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/18355713/paul-george-indiana-pacers-laments-lack-foul-calls

quote:

"I've been fined multiple times," George told reporters. "I've been vocal to the point where the league issues [a statement], 'Hey, we missed a call. Hey, we missed that.' Officials do it during games [saying], 'I missed that call, I missed this call. We're sorry. We're sorry.' It's getting repetitive. They see it, they know what's going on. They know what's a foul. They know what's not a foul. It comes down from somewhere else how these games are going, I believe."

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