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Durant would play all 82 games and still not be voted in out of voter spite. Same thing with Lebron and the Heat in year 1, they will take the juicy narrative over a repeat anytime they can.
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The Seattle discussion is kind of super tired, especially when Seattle is almost guaranteed to get a team back in the next 5 years.Tae posted:Durant would play all 82 games and still not be voted in out of voter spite. Same thing with Lebron and the Heat in year 1, they will take the juicy narrative over a repeat anytime they can. Even if Durant played 82 games and was at the level he was playing before Harden would probably still win.
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Mar 21, 2017 20:33
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the_american_dream posted:Also can someone explain to me as you would to a child the difference between Ray Allen to the heat and why that's cool and understandable and why Durant to GS is not -Look it just is. Some things just are the way they are -Because I said so -Please go bother your mother -I SAID GO TO YOUR ROOM -I swear to Almighty God I will spank you in front of this whole store
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Mar 21, 2017 20:34
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Timby posted:Wasn't the bigger issue with them that Gary Payton never figured out how to run the offense, and Shaq and Kobe were back to fighting like spoiled brats? These things were why Malone was essential on that team. He would move the rock and could still shoot turnarounds. He was a buffer between the spoiled brats, a future HOF'er they both seemed to respect enough to put aside me-ball. When he went down team basketball fell apart and that made it easier for Detroit to shut them down. Perhaps Detroit would have done that anyways but there really was an huge drop off in quality of offensive play without Malone.
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Mar 21, 2017 20:35
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BobHoward posted:These things were why Malone was essential on that team. He would move the rock and could still shoot turnarounds. He was a buffer between the spoiled brats, a future HOF'er they both seemed to respect enough to put aside me-ball. When he went down team basketball fell apart and that made it easier for Detroit to shut them down. Perhaps Detroit would have done that anyways but there really was an huge drop off in quality of offensive play without Malone. Slava Medvedenko went like 10/11 from the field afterwards though
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Mar 21, 2017 20:41
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man maybe it's beating the joke into the ground but you really need some smooth curtis mayfield as a backing track for that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B6TKClPFQA Van Vleet is ok (for a d-league call up).
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Mar 21, 2017 20:54
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Lockback posted:I mean, you have to listen to SAS on purpose to know, but the tone is so pitch perfect it may as well be a direct quote. It's a great tweet but this one is even better https://twitter.com/Hegelbon/status/492741034749620224
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Mar 21, 2017 20:57
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attackmole posted:Van Vleet is ok (for a d-league call up). Maybe but he is a hilariously terrible finisher, as seen in his flatfooted vertical layup attempts.
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SHOAH NUFF posted:It's a great tweet but this one is even better This is faaaaaaar better. it's my second favorite tweet of all time, only defeated 6 days ago in the great roger stone bloodbath of 3/15/17.
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Mar 21, 2017 21:18
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Please do not bash the best thing to come out of Rockford IL since like Cheap Trick(gently caress them tho)
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Mar 21, 2017 21:19
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SHOAH NUFF posted:It's a great tweet but this one is even better Sports-related this could be my favorite https://twitter.com/justin_klugh/status/659236511565639680?lang=en
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Mar 21, 2017 21:30
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Adam Silver sent a strongly worded letter about resting players  Please don't turn into Rodger Goodell, Adam
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Mar 21, 2017 21:35
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AggressivelyStupid posted:Adam Silver sent a strongly worded letter about resting players With an addendum of "Yeah the broadcast partners are yelling at me, look I can't really do much, but it would be super awesome if you guys didn't rest people on the National games please, and if you must give me a heads up so I can smooth things over with them or maybe flex another game."
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Mar 21, 2017 21:40
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Make it so NBA players have to miss a minimum of two games if they decide to miss one game.
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I prefer the crab rangoon one because to me the most ridiculous thing about Stephen A. Smith is how he overreacts and starts gibbering over absolutely nothing like the time Durant said he didn't know where SAS got the idea he was going to LA and SAS ranted on his show "You do not want to make an ENEMY of ME!"
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Mar 21, 2017 21:43
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TBeats posted:Make it so NBA players have to miss a minimum of two games if they decide to miss one game. Or just stop having nationally televised games on back to backs
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Mar 21, 2017 21:45
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I don't mind resting players, but maybe don't rest 3 of your starters at the same time? I feel like it probably isn't hard to give your players rest but still put a bit of effort into making sure your fielding a reasonably good team that people are paying to come watch. Sounds like they are going to talk about it in the board of governors meeting coming up.
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Mar 21, 2017 21:48
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This is all a bullshit news story that's a smokescreen for the fact that at least half a dozen teams are tanking worse than anything the Sixers ever did.
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Mar 21, 2017 21:51
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Well it's much easier to rest everyone at once in the marquee matchups because resting one star player when you're a top team playing another top team already makes a loss almost certain, so the only things that make sense are rest nobody or rest everybody. The only thing that can make resting players not an obvious decision is smarter scheduling. Don't make the Cavs, Warriors, Spurs, Rockets, Celtics, Raptors or other teams in that tier play each other without a day or two of rest.
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Redgrendel2001 posted:This is all a bullshit news story that's a smokescreen for the fact that at least half a dozen teams are tanking worse than anything the Sixers ever did. What? Which 6? The Nets are just legit bad, and the Lakers are probably trying to screw with their lineups to figure out what they have. Everyone else has been playing ok the last 10 games or so, or are trying to get into the playoffs but cannot play themselves out of a wet paper bag (RIP 3 Alphas).
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http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/presents18931717/the-nba-secret-addiction Here is the full story about peanut butter and jelly referenced awhile back and holy poo poo just read the whole thing its amazing. But I wanted to highlight one aside in it: quote:Howard's legs tingled, he complained, but she noticed he was having trouble catching passes too, as if his hands were wrapped in oven mitts. Well, he quietly admitted, his fingers also tingled. Shanahan, with two decades of experience in the field, knew Howard possessed a legendary sweet tooth, and she suspected his consumption of sugar was causing a nerve dysfunction called dysesthesia, which she'd seen in patients with prediabetes. She urged him to cut back on sugar for two weeks. If that didn't help, she said, she vowed to resign. 
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Mar 21, 2017 22:01
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Lockback posted:What? Which 6? The Suns are doing it pretty blatantly. Chandler got shut down after the all-star break, Bledsoe got shut down a week ago. They'd probably shut Booker down too but the arena would be empty.
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Redgrendel2001 posted:This is all a bullshit news story that's a smokescreen for the fact that at least half a dozen teams are tanking worse than anything the Sixers ever did. Actually during Philadelphia's tanking years they successfully discovered three capable rotation players: Robert Covington, Richuan Holmes, TJ McConnell Yesterday against the Magic it was funny seeing those three guys and Saric (acquired from the Magic, Philly also got a first) start against and almost beat the Magic. Nik Stauskas got a bunch of minutes and also miight be a rotation player and they got a first and a pick swap for. That was some A+ tanking done right.
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Lockback posted:I don't mind resting players, but maybe don't rest 3 of your starters at the same time? I feel like it probably isn't hard to give your players rest but still put a bit of effort into making sure your fielding a reasonably good team that people are paying to come watch. You have to figure that with a starter out you have a much bigger chance to lose any given game. So for a team chasing playoff seeding, it makes more sense to totally throw away one game and then get back to it, rather than handicap yourself for three games. Also with a throwaway game you can play guys down the bench and see if anyone has a spark of life.
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G-Hawk posted:http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/presents18931717/the-nba-secret-addiction After like a day of that I wouldn't be able to look at chocolate again for like a month
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I can't believe the Trailblazers go crustless. hosed up.Tae posted:Durant would play all 82 games and still not be voted in out of voter spite. Same thing with Lebron and the Heat in year 1, they will take the juicy narrative over a repeat anytime they can. It doesn't really help him that he's not that much better than Steph, whereas Harden+Leonard+Westbrook are clearly much better than all of their teammates
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chunkles posted:I can't believe the Trailblazers go crustless. hosed up. hes a lot better than steph, who sucks
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Vertical Lime posted:Sports-related this could be my favorite Lol
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got some chores tonight posted:hes a lot better than steph, who sucks actually, they both suck, which is why james harden should win
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The league has absolutely no business telling coaches when the can and cannot give a player the day off
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Lockback posted:I don't mind resting players, but maybe don't rest 3 of your starters at the same time? I feel like it probably isn't hard to give your players rest but still put a bit of effort into making sure your fielding a reasonably good team that people are paying to come watch. If you've got 3 games, and three guys who need rest, if you rest all three at once rather than one per game, you only lower your chances of winning one instead of all three.
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AggressivelyStupid posted:Or just stop having nationally televised games on back to backs Yeah, this is on the NBA and the broadcasters. Resting guys isn't new, and since the Spurs showed how effective it is, everyone has jumped on the bandwagon. If the league wasn't/isn't smart enough to figure out how to schedule games to avoid looking bad on national broadcasts, don't blame the teams doing what they need to win in the playoffs.
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Mar 21, 2017 23:25
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Everytime a team has 2 games in a row followed by 4 days of rest, I wonder what in the world is causing that terrible management?
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Tae posted:Everytime a team has 2 games in a row followed by 4 days of rest, I wonder what in the world is causing that terrible management? Scheduling is really loving hard as you have to deal with other things that are scheduled previously for 30 stadiums. edit: https://twitter.com/OldTakesExposed/status/844310389240315906 Dexo fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Mar 21, 2017 |
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quote:But now, on this charter flight, they found nary a PB&J. Concerned glances were exchanged. "Just the fact that it wasn't there shook me a little bit," Stephen Curry told ESPN at the time SHOOK
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Stephen's recent shooting woes were recently revealed to have been caused by an incident in which he saw a bug by the sidewalk near the Warriors practice facility. Curry recalls: "It was a small bug, but it scared me. It shook me."
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Mar 22, 2017 00:44
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They are cutting the pre-season short next year and starting the season earlier right? I think they're getting an extra 7 days through that. I wonder if players would be willing to give up a couple days of the All-Star Break in order to sprinkle those extra days throughout the season and make the scheduling just that much more easier.
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Another reason for MVP Harden: he thinks rest is for pussies http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/18965601/james-harden-houston-rockets-no-plans-take-rest-games-healthy "I'm a hooper," Harden said. "I just want to hoop." 
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chunkles posted:Another reason for MVP Harden: he thinks rest is for pussies enjoy not sniffing the finals, Mr Hooper
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chunkles posted:Another reason for MVP Harden: he thinks rest is for pussies Harden has missed 1 game in 3 seasons and thank god for that because the rockets are probably better with him on one leg than they'd be without him
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