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RCarr posted:Only the truly great players can tell when they are on a fast break. Sheriff posted:J.R. Smith seems like he'd be a fun friend to have but maybe take an Uber Lol Brolander fucked around with this message at 17:34 on May 2, 2017 |
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Sheriff posted:J.R. Smith seems like he'd be a fun friend to have but maybe take an Uber
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May 2, 2017 17:13
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Tae posted:I think the bigger issue for the Spurs is that they shot less than 40% against the Rockets defense. Sometimes it's not your night, and then it's not your night for three other nights and you lose and uh that hurts a little I guess but it's a new era so whatever
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May 2, 2017 17:25
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I was daydreaming figuring out how Utah could match up with gsw and thought I figured it out. Then I remembered gsw has Kevin Durant hahaha
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May 2, 2017 17:26
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People think LeBron is cool for pretending to drink from a beer during a game? "Miles Davis" would like a word
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May 2, 2017 17:36
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euphronius posted:I was daydreaming figuring out how Utah could match up with gsw and thought I figured it out. Then I remembered gsw has Kevin Durant hahaha The only issue that I could even theoretically see is Durant gumming up the offense with his ball-stopping (which I always thought ironic how talking heads talked about Russ not wanting to share the ball and not having a pass-heavy offense in OKC where Durant often does the same in GS, but w/e). But even then you're having the ball stopped by like one of the top 3 offensive dudes in the league so it's still kinda whatever. They're almost a comically stacked team. Also, why doesn't Lue and the Cavs coaching staff get any credit for their high-powered offense? You hear tons about Dantoni, and Kerr and others but the Cavs coaches never seem to come up, even though their offense is obviously top tier and they gun threes as much as anybody. Is it just because everyone assumes it's all Lebron's doing or what?
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May 2, 2017 17:54
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alansmithee posted:Is it just because everyone assumes it's all Lebron's doing or what? this is correct. Lebron is the coach.
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May 2, 2017 17:55
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I think Lue got his fair share of credit for the championship, but at least in terms of three-pointers and efficiency it's the same thing Blatt was doing. Kerr is in a similar situation but A) coaching the best (regular-season) team of all time gets you a little more shine and B) Jackson was a more famous rear end in a top hat than Blatt and the hockey subs were dumb
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May 2, 2017 18:19
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alansmithee posted:The only issue that I could even theoretically see is Durant gumming up the offense with his ball-stopping (which I always thought ironic how talking heads talked about Russ not wanting to share the ball and not having a pass-heavy offense in OKC where Durant often does the same in GS, but w/e). But even then you're having the ball stopped by like one of the top 3 offensive dudes in the league so it's still kinda whatever. They're almost a comically stacked team. Your team's star often serves as a synechdoche for the team and vice versa. Since lebron isn't a long range gunner like Curry and Harden it doesn't quite gel in people's minds that his team is all in on threes. For the same reason GS doesn't have a rep that emphasizes their D like, say, Memphis or SAS despite being better than one and almost as good as the other. Cleveland seems to be thought of as a continuation of Lebron's Heat, though they are way different teams.
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May 2, 2017 18:36
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Brolander posted:People think LeBron is cool for pretending to drink from a beer during a game? "Miles Davis" would like a word Is that Vin Baker? 
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May 2, 2017 18:50
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Was the media sympathetic to Vin when he went public with his problem? I don't remember much about it at all.
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May 2, 2017 19:07
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I remember people just calling him fat and out of shape combined with the usual stuff about throwing away millions.
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May 2, 2017 19:08
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Vin baker opened a steakhouse in the town he grew up in, which I lived near and it sucked. This is my Vin Baker Story
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May 2, 2017 19:10
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Was the media sympathetic to Vin when he went public with his problem? I don't remember much about it at all.
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May 2, 2017 19:20
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dumb question: if N/V is News/Views, what is a G/V
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May 2, 2017 19:27
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Turdsdown Tom posted:dumb question: if N/V is News/Views, what is a G/V Lowtax isn't happy with the cash coming from people buying red text avatars anymore. So he decided to have the NBA thread be sponsored by Gatorade.
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May 2, 2017 19:31
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How you know you're old as gently caress: when you pass up free Cavs tickets for Wednesday to go to your daughters preschool art show. It's like that Talking Heads song except my house sucks and my automobile is a minivan
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May 2, 2017 20:02
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milk milk lemonade posted:How you know you're old as gently caress: when you pass up free Cavs tickets for Wednesday to go to your daughters preschool art show. A pre-school art show? Wtf is that?
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May 2, 2017 20:22
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A place where they show off the art of preschoolers.
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May 2, 2017 20:25
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All the kids get to do performance art pieces like protesting the Trump presidency by shoving crayons up their noses
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May 2, 2017 20:26
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in the midst of all the espn bloodletting they resigned mark jackson  https://twitter.com/briancmahoney/status/859481122018906116
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May 2, 2017 20:26
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Vertical Lime posted:they resigned mark jackson I wish  Turdsdown Tom posted:dumb question: if N/V is News/Views, what is a G/V The NBA signed a sponsorship deal with Gatorade to rename the "D-League" (basically their attempt at a minor leagues, the D stands for Development!) to the "G-League" so the thread title was changed to make fun of it.
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May 2, 2017 20:32
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Vertical Lime posted:in the midst of all the espn bloodletting Good news to fans of teams looking for a new coach this offseason. Bad news to fans of every other team. In other news. https://twitter.com/JoshEberley/status/859428526482628608
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May 2, 2017 20:41
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Vertical Lime posted:in the midst of all the espn bloodletting How does ESPN not know that their entire audience hates him? Mark Jackson has to be the consensus worst color commentator in basketball right?
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May 2, 2017 20:47
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Reggie Miller is my pick
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May 2, 2017 20:49
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MalarkeyToboggan posted:How does ESPN not know that their entire audience hates him? Mark Jackson has to be the consensus worst color commentator in basketball right? Many of ESPN's choices over the past week have been questionable.
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May 2, 2017 20:49
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MalarkeyToboggan posted:How does ESPN not know that their entire audience hates him? Mark Jackson has to be the consensus worst color commentator in basketball right? MAMA, THERE GOES THAT MAN
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May 2, 2017 20:50
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Jota posted:Reggie Miller is my pick I'd contend that Reggie is less harmful overall simply because he spends less time trying to do stuff like whatever the gently caress Jackson was trying to accomplish by going after the Warriors.
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May 2, 2017 20:52
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IcePhoenix posted:The NBA signed a sponsorship deal with Gatorade to rename the "D-League" (basically their attempt at a minor leagues, the D stands for Development!) to the "G-League" so the thread title was changed to make fun of it. lol I totally knew about the D-League but I had no idea Gatorade sponsored it and changed it to the "G-League" hahahahaha that's amazing
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May 2, 2017 20:56
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I live in the Netherlands so I watch a lot of NBA games with Dutch commentary. For years we had an announcer who kept loving up players names. He would call PG13, George Paul and Ibaka was Iboko. Giannis was an incomprehensible gurgle. It became a fun drinking game. I miss that guy a lot.
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May 2, 2017 20:57
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MalarkeyToboggan posted:I live in the Netherlands so I watch a lot of NBA games with Dutch commentary. For years we had an announcer who kept loving up players names. He would call PG13, George Paul and Ibaka was Iboko. Giannis was an incomprehensible gurgle. It became a fun drinking game. I still think they should hire that pair of crazy summer league announcers.
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May 2, 2017 20:59
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I still want Bill Walton and Mike D as the announcers for all NBA games.
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May 2, 2017 21:03
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MalarkeyToboggan posted:How does ESPN not know that their entire audience hates him? Do they? I know people in this thread do, but is there any evidence that the basketball viewing public in general hate him?
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May 2, 2017 21:08
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Spacebump posted:Good news to fans of teams looking for a new coach this offseason. Bad news to fans of every other team. Anyone else still call him Nene Hilario in their heads? Not sure bench rotation in the NBA reaches the customary Brazilian mononym threshold. And now I see the tweeter agrees with me.
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May 2, 2017 21:07
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Redgrendel2001 posted:I still think they should hire that pair of crazy summer league announcers. I watch summer league every year hoping these two make a triumphant return
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May 2, 2017 21:09
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I have a confession: I like Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy as announcers.
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May 2, 2017 21:23
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Wait, have any coaches been canned yet? I feel like we usually hear something around this time. Only thing I can recall is Larry Bird stepping down but that's at the exec level
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May 2, 2017 21:33
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No coaches have been fired. Probably because no one's been toxic at a terrible level like George Karl and a lot of coaches were fired last year, so there's a lot of new, expensive deals that started.
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May 2, 2017 21:33
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Count Mippipopolous posted:I have a confession: JVG is awesome. Mark Jackson sucks, but he's nowhere near as god-awful as we make him sound in here.
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I'm not sure there's a color guy in the NBA that approaches how terrible color commentators in the NFL are.
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