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The Big3 Tourney |
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67 | 22.41% |
Will Lakers draft Ball |
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40 | 13.38% |
Where will the Pauls go |
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54 | 18.06% |
Will LeBron jump ship to the Spurs or ?? |
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41 | 13.71% |
Will every team in the league just pivot towards tanking |
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97 | 32.44% |
Total: | 210 votes |
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Cool Buff Man posted:Get him on the Jazz. Get your GM on the horn and make it happen. Would very happily take him but Utah doesn't have anything close to equal value outside of Gobert, who is the one guy I wouldn't trade.
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zoux posted:Are you a cop He has to tell you or the bust won't hold up in court, right?
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MourningView posted:Kyrie is good Unless you are 5'6"
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Hahaha zoux posted:Is Kyrie's issue effort or some lack of skill *clears throat* He's obviously seeking new horizons
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MourningView posted:Kyrie is good I agree but I guess given that fact my question is euphronius posted:Good enough to win a championship against the warriors. Whose isn't? What point could you swap for Kyrie that would have made the Cavs lose but NOT because of a downgrade in offense? Based on this euphronius posted:Unless you are 5'6" You presumably think IT. I disagree but are there any others? Or do you think IT is the only point with defense that bad (among good offensive ones, obvs)
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Mr. Mambold posted:He has to tell you or the bust won't hold up in court, right? You have to ask twice in two different ways.
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Lebron's hitman is out in full force https://twitter.com/ESPNCleveland/status/888529617623101440
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NBA has the undisputed best off season. This off season is better than the Decision off season. One team has broken the entire league.
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Lmao https://twitter.com/FCHWPO/status/888855906833670144
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Cool Buff Man posted:Lebron's hitman is out in full force They probably still could've traded Kevin Love for Paul George though, I don't see how Kyrie changes that.
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dunk driving loving owns
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chunkles posted:They probably still could've traded Kevin Love for Paul George though, I don't see how Kyrie changes that. It also doesn't make much sense when you compare it to the other "reported" storyline which claims that Kyrie asked for the trade before the draft, that's partly why I said Lebron has his hitman out in full force. He's spreading propaganda!!!
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lol
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Drive by dunking is the best thing
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If Kyrie doesn't want to play on a team with LeBron anymore he should just wait a year.
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Cool Buff Man posted:Lebron's hitman is out in full force Haha don't put that in the minds of Cavs fans
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zoux posted:Haha don't put that in the minds of Cavs fans Hey I had to hear all about how the Celtics could have Jimmy George and Paul Butler too if only they had tried a little harder so I'm happy to make some other people feel the same sort of annoyance
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https://twitter.com/Scott_CEOofSUH/status/888902206472151040![]()
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chunkles posted:They probably still could've traded Kevin Love for Paul George though, I don't see how Kyrie changes that. Nah love ain't no dipo and sabonis E: Lmfao LeBron Metapod fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Jul 23, 2017 |
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This is loving hilarious, I never want this offseason to end
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Fuckinng lol
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Cool Buff Man posted:Lebron's hitman is out in full force Should I believe this if ESPN Cleveland doesn't have a checkmark owns hahahahaha
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I hope he bought them a new hoop ![]()
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Shear Modulus posted:Should I believe this if ESPN Cleveland doesn't have a checkmark He said it on the TBA podcast too
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MourningView posted:I hope he bought them a new hoop He's basically the nicest guy in the world so if it broke instead of just getting knocked down a couple of feet I'm sure he did ![]()
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Doltos posted:Imagine being Wiggins caught in a tempest thrown back and forth between Cleveland and Minnesota forever It's Kirk Hinrich passed between Atlanta and Chicago like a blunt all over again.
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The article is pretty complimentary of James and his positive effect on his fellow NBA players, so if this is a hit piece, it must be some of that 80 dimensional chess I've been hearing about. ShaneB posted:So what, exactly, is forcing the Cavs hand here? They have Kyrie under contract for 2 years. I've never really heard of NBA players holding out like NFL players threaten to. Nothing is "forcing" their hand, but him saying he wants a trade is also him saying that he won't resign with them when his contract is up in 2 years - it would behoove them to trade him now as opposed to when he's in his last year because they have more leverage with other teams when he has 2 full years on his contract, as opposed to the trade deadline in 2019 when he's a few month rental. Him saying he has a few teams he would prefer to go to is just him stating his preference, it's not a demand. I don't see anything "insane" about it - you're allowed to say what you would prefer when it comes to your career, regardless of whether or not you control it. More relevant to the conversation, however, the teams that aren't on his preferred list are not likely to go hard after him and offer alot to Cleveland, because they know he isn't likely to resign with them if he didn't really want to be traded there in the first place. So he does have some influence on the matter, because this isn't the 60's where the players have to do whatever management tells them to.
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MourningView posted:I hope he bought them a new hoop it's too late to pump the brakes on dunking over kids now. edit: unless you're literally pumping the brakes, on your car, to stop and dunk over kids, in which case that's okay.
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oh my god
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i love this man
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Irving's getting traded for Melo and the Cavs are going to be much worse for it
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What an offseason. https://twitter.com/NBAonTNT/status/888906089374339072
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Spacebump posted:What an offseason. Sacramento: How I took back control and turned my life around
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Why do NBA players have to be so drat cool.
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Everyone says "point guard defense doesn't matter" but I'm not sure that's the best way to look at it. Bad defense against most teams in the league means you have 2 guys on the floor that can't defend the pick and roll. If you do that those two will get picked on and you will have to trap. Good teams will punish the traps and your defense gets blown up. See also the Team USA lineups last summer that had Kyrie and Melo on the floor.
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drat this is awesome.
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Not being able to shut down a perimeter player 1:1 away from the hoop is not a huge liability. Being a target for PNR is a problem though
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It's not that it doesn't matter, only that it's the easiest spot to cover for. Any good defensive 2 or 3 can cover the majority of 1s both as an assignment and on a switch. Some 4s and 5s too. No point in the league can switch onto 4s or 5s unless you count Giannis and Lebron
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WhyteRyce posted:Not being able to shut down a perimeter player 1:1 away from the hoop is not a huge liability. Being a target for PNR is a problem though The Wolves defensive scheme/Jimmy Butler would do wonders to hide Irving but he wouldn't be able to play next to Wiggins (although in that scenario Wiggins is most likely moved anyways)
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# ? Jun 10, 2024 16:25 |
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https://twitter.com/SInow/status/888433914624315394
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