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quote:The real story here isn’t the game itself, but that it offered a glimpse into a world where McCollum is the man. McCollum has played 11 games without Lillard, and in those games, he’s averaging 28.4 points, 5.6 assists, and 4.9 rebounds on a 55.3 effective field goal percentage, via StatMuse.com. To put those numbers into perspective, only 21 players all time have ever posted averages of 28 points, five assists, and four rebounds in a season (via Basketball-Reference) — and only five of them have done so with an effective field goal percentage of 54 or higher: Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, LeBron James, Durant, and Curry. McCollum wasn’t at his most efficient on Wednesday against the Dubs, but his overall performance with Lillard out has been tremendous. There's no way Portland would trade Lillard, right?
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Jan 5, 2017 14:03
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Do Unicorns need The Look, or is it kind of built in?
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Jan 5, 2017 14:05
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Spite posted:I'm always amazed at how well GSW hid how much of a dick Bogut is. I loved Bogut during his time in Milwaukee even though he never lived up to his draft position. He bought a couple of rows of season tickets and gave them out for free to fans as long as they would cheer for the team to keep the crowd energy up. He did this like every year he was there.
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Jan 5, 2017 14:25
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Whooping Crabs posted:I loved Bogut during his time in Milwaukee even though he never lived up to his draft position. He bought a couple of rows of season tickets and gave them out for free to fans as long as they would cheer for the team to keep the crowd energy up. He did this like every year he was there. That's because they were all white
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Jan 5, 2017 14:33
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I think the lesson to learn from Giannis is that super athletic players that just started playing competitive basketball that show promise and coordination are better bets than people like Joe Alexander, Jonathan bender, or Gerald Green.
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Jan 5, 2017 15:05
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Bogut is basically an above average center for one third of an NBA season and if your team can float that risk then he's worth signing. If you are desperate for a reliable post anchor and sign him hoping for that like Dallas then you end up like 2017 Dallas.
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Jan 5, 2017 15:43
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Libertine posted:Bogut is basically an above average center for one third of an NBA season and if your team can float that risk then he's worth signing. If you are desperate for a reliable post anchor and sign him hoping for that like Dallas then you end up like 2017 Dallas. When he plays he is one of the best defensive players in the NBA, even if his stats aren't gaudy. The "When he Plays" thing is the problem. The other problem is he is a relentless rear end in a top hat. However, he kept making fun of Mark Jackson on twitter for years so that is endearing. Almost makes up for him being a pizzagate believer.
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Jan 5, 2017 15:47
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Jack's Flow posted:There's no way Portland would trade Lillard, right? There would be riots in the street. But what this season has proven is that the Lillard/McCollum backcourt simply isn't working with this team. You need serious rim protectors and actually decent wing defenders so the the black hole on defense is negated. You also can't trade Lillard because the odds of getting equal value in return is slim and even though McCollum is having a great couple of games, Lillard is better in almost every way. No team is going to trade a superstar for McCollum so the Blazers gain basically nothing.
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Jan 5, 2017 17:15
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Lockback posted:When he plays he is one of the best defensive players in the NBA, even if his stats aren't gaudy. The "When he Plays" thing is the problem. The other problem is he is a relentless rear end in a top hat. However, he kept making fun of Mark Jackson on twitter for years so that is endearing. Almost makes up for him being a pizzagate believer. Bogut getting people to believe this was the best Twitter trolling of 2016
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Jan 5, 2017 17:44
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tanglewood1420 posted:Giannis got brought up exactly four times in the 65 page long pre-draft thread. To say he was under the radar is underselling it. It is mostly arguing about whether Oladipo or McLemore were more likely to develop a consistent jumper and everyone desperately hoping their team doesn't draft MCW. I asked about Zach Lavine when he was coming out because I noticed he was an insane athlete and the basic response was he's ok but a fringe NBAer. Now he's winning dunk contests and shooting 3's at an above 40% clip. I guess the point is that we're long past the days of the top 5 being the only good basketball players in the draft and we should start giving more hype earlier to mid-round picks (Free Papa G from the D league!)
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Jan 5, 2017 17:47
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MalarkeyToboggan posted:There would be riots in the street. Bunch of Blazers fans tipping over bikes
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Jan 5, 2017 17:51
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Curry for Lilliard straight up bring Dame home, baby
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Jan 5, 2017 17:51
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Ramadu posted:hey metapod lol Westbrook's passing accuracy 
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Cool Buff Man posted:Bunch of Blazers fans tipping over bikes
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Jan 5, 2017 18:27
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Enes Kanter starting to look like a 7 foot tall Freddie Mercury is weirding me out
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Cool Buff Man posted:Bunch of Blazers fans tipping over bikes After spilling some perfectly fine cold-drip coffee from Chile.
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Jan 5, 2017 18:35
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Paul George and Cousins are the only 2 (realistic) options that I would take in exchange for CJ. And that's not likely because I think both teams are understandably going to try to re-sign their star players. Otherwise you are looking at trading CJ for non-star players which only ever works if you get young players and are trying to rebuild which Portland isn't. And trading Dame is a non-starter. I think it's more likely Portland keeps both and tries to upgrade elsewhere.
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Jan 5, 2017 18:41
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Why are Lillard and McCollum such bad defenders other than just a de facto observation that they are? Do they not give the defensive effort? Coaching? Are they just out-bodied by guys they have defend? Like it seems to me that the easiest solution would be for them both to not just be such a collective disaster defensively but I don't know how you correct that. It seems like usually massive coaching staff changes are the only thing that reverse long-term bad defensive players, but I don't know if that's just my selective memory either.
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Hashtag Banterzone posted:I think the lesson to learn from Giannis is that super athletic players that just started playing competitive basketball that show promise and coordination are better bets than people like Joe Alexander, Jonathan bender, or Gerald Green.
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Jan 5, 2017 18:52
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Doltos posted:I guess the point is that we're long past the days of the top 5 being the only good basketball players in the draft and we should start giving more hype earlier to mid-round picks (Free Papa G from the D league!) That hasn't been a thing and shouldn't be since the 2011 draft, the best overall draft class since the Lebron one. Klay Thompson (11th), Kawhi Leonard (15th), Jimmy Butler (30th), and Isaiah Thomas (60th) all came from there as all-stars and/or all-nba players. Then you round it with Kemba, Parsons, both Morris brothers, Tobias Harris, TT, Jonas, etc. Even the lovely Bennett draft had Rudy Gobert at 27th, McCollum at 10th, and Steven Adams at 12th. The Bucks basically only still exist as a not-lovely franchise because John Hammond is the best drafter in the league, with the negative being loving awful at everything else GM-related.
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Jan 5, 2017 18:54
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Libertine posted:Bogut is basically an above average center for one third of an NBA season and if your team can float that risk then he's worth signing. If you are desperate for a reliable post anchor and sign him hoping for that like Dallas then you end up like 2017 Dallas. Dallas has a bad record because 6 of their top 8 players were injured for the first monthly two.
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Jan 5, 2017 19:09
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Spacebump posted:Dallas has a bad record because 6 of their top 8 players were injured for the first monthly two. Yeah I'm not saying it's just Bogut. I live in DFW so I hear all the hottest takes about the Mavs season, but yeah it just mostly comes down to them being brutalized by injuries all over the roster. I was just saying that for a roster to accommodate Bogut they have to have a lot of more post depth, because you know from about a decade of experience that he's probably going to miss 15-20 games.
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Jan 5, 2017 19:18
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I feel like half the team thought they were in a zone.
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Jan 5, 2017 19:19
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The main reason why the Mccollum/Liliard backcourt won't succeed is that, even if they are average defenders, they give up too much size. It's a relatively short backcourt.
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I feel like he should get a point per shot for hitting the same spot on the backboard each time
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Holy poo poo they pull the Rondo special and don't even guard him past 15 feet
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He's playing the long con. Come playoff time they won't guard him and he will average 45 points on 11-11 from 3 every game.
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TBeats posted:He's playing the long con. Come playoff time they won't guard him and he will average 45 points on 11-11 from 3 every game. *The bulls finish 40-42, miss the playoffs.
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The last two made me say holy poo poo out loud. That's solid brickwork.
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quote:After suffering a challenging, 115-107 loss to Milwaukee, Ezeli, in street clothes, addressed the team in the locker room with a stern speech centered on playing with urgency, sources told ESPN. Then two games later, after a crushing defeat in Memphis, Ezeli once again started giving a team speech, but he was cut short.
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Jan 5, 2017 20:27
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Redgrendel2001 posted:https://twitter.com/NBAAllStar/status/817083734059089921 I'm loving dying at Zaza. To be honest I pretty much agree with these if you replace Wade with Derozen and Zaza with the Brow.
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Redgrendel2001 posted:https://twitter.com/NBAAllStar/status/817083734059089921 Ummm, what How is Zaza Umm Sorry, this broke my brain a bit How the gently caress?
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