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What is going to be your favorite offseason storyline?
This poll is closed.
The Big3 Tourney 67 22.41%
Will Lakers draft Ball 40 13.38%
Where will the Pauls go 54 18.06%
Will LeBron jump ship to the Spurs or ?? 41 13.71%
Will every team in the league just pivot towards tanking 97 32.44%
Total: 210 votes
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Spoeank
Jul 16, 2003

That's a nice set of 11 dynasty points there, it would be a shame if 3 rings were to happen with it

WhyteRyce posted:

Peja is here, professed my love out loud like old times. He ignored me like old times

ask him if he knows he is younger than VC

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WhyteRyce
Dec 30, 2001

Tried getting a Lonzo Ball chant going. Not successfully

Tae
Oct 24, 2010

Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!
The Cavs want a 1st rounder!

https://twitter.com/JeffZillgitt/status/883474196726071296

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy

WhyteRyce posted:

Peja is here, professed my love out loud like old times. He ignored me like old times

Dawww :3:

WhyteRyce
Dec 30, 2001

hey Corey how you get 50 points in a game that's amazing?

WhyteRyce fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Jul 8, 2017

kingcobweb
Apr 16, 2005
Lonzo is a good passer in a boring Stockton/Andre Miller way, not a cool Rubio/Rondo/Magic way. Dislike until further notice.

Noctone
Oct 25, 2005

XO til we overdose..
I pity the fool who thinks an alley-oop lob pass is boring.

MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?

kingcobweb posted:

Lonzo is a good passer in a boring Stockton/Andre Miller way, not a cool Rubio/Rondo/Magic way. Dislike until further notice.

what the heck

Metapod
Mar 18, 2012

kingcobweb posted:

Lonzo is a good passer in a boring Stockton/Andre Miller way, not a cool Rubio/Rondo/Magic way. Dislike until further notice.

everything about this is wrong

kingcobweb
Apr 16, 2005
I watched Andre Miller for years. He was a good lob passer.

Dude passes like Andre Miller.

AggressivelyStupid
Jan 9, 2012

Who is this balding guy playing in the summer league for the lakers and why is he in the summer league he's clearly like 35?

ScooterMcTiny
Apr 7, 2004

euphronius posted:

That was a good pass

Looked exactly like his shot (sick burn)

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

ScooterMcTiny posted:

Looked exactly like his shot (sick burn)

Wrong shoulder

AggressivelyStupid
Jan 9, 2012

AggressivelyStupid posted:

Who is this balding guy playing in the summer league for the lakers and why is he in the summer league he's clearly like 35?

dude has a comb over

WhyteRyce
Dec 30, 2001

Clipper Darrell just lost to LiAngelo in a shooting contest. I love summer league

chunkles
Aug 14, 2005

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

WhyteRyce posted:

The question of who is the best Morris is interesting because it seems to ping pong

it's marcus #teamfoe.

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy

WhyteRyce posted:

Clipper Darrell just lost to LiAngelo in a shooting contest. I love summer league

Darrell wasn't even shooting half the time. He would make a couple shots then turn and watch the Ball kid before attempting another shot. Was funny as hell.

AggressivelyStupid
Jan 9, 2012

Brice Johnson is good

pubic works project
Jan 28, 2005

No Decepticon in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/883473101735854080

Niwrad
Jul 1, 2008

Fire GarPax billboard is going up in a couple weeks.

https://www.blogabull.com/2017/7/7/...dit-lake-racine

Cool Buff Man
Jul 30, 2006

bitch

Good day for Jazz fans

AggressivelyStupid
Jan 9, 2012

https://twitter.com/JoelEmbiid/status/883521086058622976

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009


So say we all

Cool Buff Man
Jul 30, 2006

bitch
Crossposting from summer league thread cuz I can't stop giggling

https://twitter.com/BSO/status/883520999916019712

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
D'Angelo, come back :(

de curry GOAT
Oct 23, 2005

d'angelo is counting down the days, and hell, i am too

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Latinx posted:

d'angelo is counting down the days, and hell, i am too

https://twitter.com/Lakeshowtalk/status/883514871656071168

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010




hahahahaha

AggressivelyStupid
Jan 9, 2012

https://twitter.com/LakersSBN/status/883479985759019009

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



LaVar Ball bullying the Lakers into drafting Lonzo and booting D'Angelo off the team is one of the most ridiculous things to happen in sports in years.

Cool Buff Man
Jul 30, 2006

bitch
https://twitter.com/MarkG_Medina/status/883524120499036160

true

hitze
Aug 28, 2007
Give me a dollar. No, the twenty. This is gonna blow your mind...


Checked the box score, shoooooo weeeeee boy

Rick
Feb 23, 2004
When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

Shear Modulus posted:

LaVar Ball bullying the Lakers into drafting Lonzo and booting D'Angelo off the team is one of the most ridiculous things to happen in sports in years.

It'd be better if the Lakers were bullied into it and this wasn't Earvin's own idea.

Lockback
Sep 3, 2006

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

Metapod posted:


I understand that the data says that but I truly believe that the data is wrong. Rebounding is a fundamental part of the game to say that it has no correlation to winning is just inaccurate

I think the data is overreacting to a couple teams, but at the very least you can be a very successful team without being good at rebounding, you can even be bad at it! That doesn't mean this is always going to be the case. A basketball strategy is impenetrable until it isn't.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

ScooterMcTiny posted:

Looked exactly like his shot (sick burn)

https://mobile.twitter.com/World_Wide_Wob/status/883517747677732867

WhyteRyce
Dec 30, 2001

Magic gave a slow clap after that which I kept making fun of

chunkles
Aug 14, 2005

i am completely immersed in darkness
as i turn my body away from the sun
Zhou Qi is god :china:

Real talk I like what I saw from him. He doesn't hesitate to bang around despite being a twigman, it bodes well for after he gains some real weight.

Metapod
Mar 18, 2012
https://twitter.com/HoopingHeaven/status/883529719601385472

Declan MacManus
Sep 1, 2011

damn i'm really in this bitch

Lonzo Ball looks like a really good passer and a really terrible everything else; going 2/15 is worthy of a paddlin'

Lockback posted:

I think the data is overreacting to a couple teams, but at the very least you can be a very successful team without being good at rebounding, you can even be bad at it! That doesn't mean this is always going to be the case. A basketball strategy is impenetrable until it isn't.

I meab rebounding is a part of The Four Factors TM so it's at least representative of some skill that affects wins and losses (second chance points generated/prevented? commitment to defensive schemes and player positioning? pulchritude?) idk it seems like a ridiculous conclusion to me

The original question was can the Celtics avoid getting killed on the boards because there is at least one player (Tristan Thompson) who will make life very difficult for them if they do not; no amount of analytics is going to make up for the fact that in the actual Game of Basketball the Celtics have punted on stopping teams from getting aggressive on the boards which will more than likely end up haunting them

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R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004


Zogo posted:

If that guy leaves the Bulls are going to be nearing 1999-2001 territory.

OH HELL YEAH

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