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Quizzlefish posted:Fresh Prince of Bel Air when his dad doesn't show up is the ultimate tear jerker, followed closely by the scene where they sleep in the public toilet in the Pursuit of Happyness. Maybe I just love Will Smith (I do). Denver's fun and you can root for Plumdog
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RaySmuckles posted:the spurs, obviously.
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Mar 7, 2017 16:37
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The only SW Division team I can ever root for in good conscience is the Grizzlies. gently caress off Texas professional sports teams.
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Spring Break My Heart posted:Absolutely not. Hahah. Seconding Denver, learn to love Jokic
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Spring Break My Heart posted:Absolutely not. why not? they're a quality team with a history of self-made success, good team culture, cool players with great stories, and none of the bullshit hype. what's not to love? they're too good at running a professional basketball organization? just lol
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Mar 7, 2017 16:46
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They're slow paced and defensive minded, they've won a billion times already, their star player's schtick is that he has no personality, which comes after 20 years of their previous star's schtick being that he's boring, and who the gently caress cares about LaMarcus Aldridge? RaySmuckles posted:they're a quality team with a history of self-made success, good team culture, cool players with great stories, and none of the bullshit hype.
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Did some actual look up of Pelican stats since the All-Star break/Cousins trade. %FGA Open (defender 4-6 feet away): 28.2% (13th best, just behind the Spurs); 23.6 open fga p/gm FG% on Open shots: 32.7% (worst, by far) eFG% on Open shots: 38.5% (worst, by far) %FGA Wide Open (defender 6+ feet away): 20.5% (tied for 8th with the Spurs); 17.1 wide open fga p/gm FG% on Wide Open shots: 35.0% (worst) eFG% on Wide Open shots: 46.3% (tied for worst with Clippers) So, yeah. They are getting a healthy amount of open looks, but aren't knocking them down. Pulled stats from stats.nba.com. They are getting 41 shots p/gm that are basically uncontested and they are making 14 of them. That's roughly 34%. Cousins is the third best 3pt shooter for the Pels since the break at a blistering 28.6%. Moore is at 60.0% and Cunningham at 36.4%.
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Spring Break My Heart posted:You sound like you're describing a financial services company. quality basketball that you can trust guaranteed returns on the playoffs Spring Break My Heart posted:They're slow paced and defensive minded, they've won a billion times already, their star player's schtick is that he has no personality, which comes after 20 years of their previous star's schtick being that he's boring, and who the gently caress cares about LaMarcus Aldridge? defense is literally 1/2 of the entire game. being good at defense shouldn't be considered a negative quality, and they also have a top 5 offense so its not like they're only playing defense. they play both and they play both well. winning a billion times already? twice in the last 10 years isn't exactly "winning a billion times." on the other hand they preform well consistently which it think is a good thing. their star player's schtick is that he's an MVP candidate who is also the reigning 2xDPOY carrying a solidly mediocre team to 2 games back from the superest super team ever created. and he does it on both ends of the floor which is something virtually none of the other front runners can say. the guy is a top 3 player in the league right now. this is on the back of tim duncan, an obvious top 10 player of all time. sorry if you think that's boring, i thought it was awesome. its weird that when considering basketball teams you seem to be far more concerned with what the players are doing out of the game than what they're doing in it. but, hey, its whatever! support who you want and sports hate who you want. its all gravy under the bridge. RaySmuckles fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Mar 7, 2017 |
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RaySmuckles posted:the spurs, obviously. C'mon man the Spurs have several Hall of Famers and like 7,000 combined Rings on the team right now. Their all-star ratio is off the charts even if you don't count LaMarc Gasoldridge as 2. Also now that Durant is out I'm seein' a strong Kawhi Leonard MVP push, helped out by him becoming Jordan: https://streamable.com/n89xj https://streamable.com/4lihr RaySmuckles posted:defense is literally 1/2 of the entire game. yeah the boring half EvanTH fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Mar 7, 2017 |
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Mar 7, 2017 17:27
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Lmao chill the gently caress out, the guy doesn't want to root for the Spurs.
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Defense is for nerds
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EvanTH posted:C'mon man the Spurs have several Hall of Famers and like 7,000 combined Rings on the team right now. Their all-star ratio is off the charts even if you don't count LaMarc Gasoldridge as 2. the spurs had 1 all-star this year. washed up hall of famers are kinda nice, but they're not exactly playing like hall of famers right now. not even like all stars! look, i love the team, i think they're great fun, but "hall of famers" and combined rings doesn't exactly paint an honest portrait of old stars in the twilights of their careers. i tend to think of defense as the part where you don't pull your hair out because your team is letting the other make up every shot you just made. good defense leads to less stress and more enjoyment. good defense makes good offense more enjoyable because the offenses sticks. i say this as a fan of a team who's last 4 games were insane last play/OT games and who have a history of blowing huge leads all season. defense is cool and not boring. i don't understand why people think this. Cool Buff Man posted:Lmao chill the gently caress out, the guy doesn't want to root for the Spurs. i'm not "freaking out, man" just talking basketball. everything's totally cool. also, the guy i'm talking to isn't the guy who asked who to root for. seriously, type more than 6 words and everyone thinks you're having a meltdown. RaySmuckles fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Mar 7, 2017 |
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Mar 7, 2017 17:35
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Root for the Raptors, we are both fun and often bad, but also often good, but only by a little. We used to play no defense but now we play JUST ENOUGH defense to not be terrible but also not boring.
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Mar 7, 2017 17:36
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LMA is not in the twighlight of his career, he's still really good.
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local man doesn't get why people don't like his sports team, more at 11
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Lockback posted:LMA is not in the twighlight of his career, he's still really good. Even Pau is still excellent offensively, he just no longer gives a solitary poo poo about defence. Which is why he is perfect in his current role spearheading the second unit. e: since coming back from injury in his new second unit role, his averages are 14.7 ppg, 7.5 rebs on .634 TS% in 25 mpg tanglewood1420 fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Mar 7, 2017 |
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Mar 7, 2017 17:45
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EvanTH posted:yeah the boring half That's why everyone loved the All-Star game, in which zero defense was played. BTW go for the Wolves, they won't win much but Rubio is dreamy.
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tanglewood1420 posted:Even Pau is still excellent offensively, he just no longer gives a solitary poo poo about defence. Which is why he is perfect in his current role spearheading the second unit. its been really fun having pau back. the guy can do some really cool stuff on the offense end. and yes he's a bad defender, but he's been getting a couple blocks the last few games, so that's cool
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:Is Melo a hall of fame candidate? that's a good question! my guess is he'll get in because he was so famous/hyped during his career, but i don't necessarily think he deserves it
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Mar 7, 2017 17:52
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Without Melo the USA would have fewer Olympic gold medals, he absolutely deserves it.
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:Is Melo a hall of fame candidate? The basketball HoF is relatively easy to get into and he is famous enough and he scored enough
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Someone here compared his career to Alex English a while back. Plenty of volume scorers who never won in the Hall.
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RaySmuckles posted:that's a good question! Bruh. Look at the names in the Basketball Hall of Fame. Carmelo is a easy no doubter first ballot hall of famer. Almost off the strength of his college and Olympic play alone. Much less his scoring titles all pro's and all star appearances.
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:Is Melo a hall of fame candidate? He'll get in easily.
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Henchman of Santa posted:The Bucks have both Giannis and Gus Johnson. Hmm thanks for all the good suggestions guys. I'm not really interested in watching another bad non-playoff team / 8 seed and I've seen enough lamarcus Aldridge long range 2s in my time already. Giannis it is. Let's see if he's as fun as the highlight videos suggest.
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nachos posted:Plenty of room on this heat bandwagon baby Remember when Dion rejected OKC's offer and everyone lolled at Dion for being a cluck and ending up signing with Miami for a couple mil?
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Quizzlefish posted:Hmm thanks for all the good suggestions guys. I'm not really interested in watching another bad non-playoff team / 8 seed and I've seen enough lamarcus Aldridge long range 2s in my time already. The Bucks don't fit your first criteria, and you will hate the Bucks because Jason Kidd hates having consistent line-ups. If you want to watch a streaking team,the Wizards have had the best record in the east since the new year and they have no major injuries unlike most of the other teams.
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Tae posted:The Bucks don't fit your first criteria, and you will hate the Bucks because Jason Kidd hates having consistent line-ups. wizards are a good choice. hard nosed team, too.
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Quizzlefish posted:I need some help guys. I'm a Blazers fan and I have league pass. But watching Portland has been excruciating this season. Who should I get behind and watch this year? I feel like I could have posted this. Nurkic has made it fun to watch lately though. I was watching Sacramento because Cousins, but now it's like "why bother" so now I guess I'll be watching New Orleans or the lovely Bulls. Or any team with a white dude who does nothing but shoot threes (Joe Ingles, Luke Babbitt, Doug McDermott, etc)
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Mar 7, 2017 18:08
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Jason Kidd is also a wifebeating drunk driver, so there's that.
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Theres this young scrappy team called The Golden State Warriors too
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Watch the cavs just for LeBron and Kyries transcendent offensive skills
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Best bandwagon playoff team is probably OKC imo followed by the Wizards.
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lol kawhi got "randomly selected" for a drug test after last night's game
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Shear Modulus posted:lol kawhi got "randomly selected" for a drug test after last night's game nothing but diesel oil and hydraulic fluid.
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Shear Modulus posted:lol kawhi got "randomly selected" for a drug test after last night's game People will never understand that random selection means you can be selected at any time, not that they're drawing your name out of a hat.
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I just want to chime in and laugh at the lack of awareness that's required to suggest that a Portland fan root for the team LMA ran off to.
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IcePhoenix posted:I just want to chime in and laugh at the lack of awareness that's required to suggest that a Portland fan root for the team LMA ran off to. lol, that's a good point touche
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