NBA Offseason G/V: Let Me Hear You Post It

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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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Kilometers Davis: Jul 9, 2007; They begin again

Kibner posted:

This is a good thread for rehabilitation and learning to love basketball again.

I'm trying man. I miss the gently caress out of the league and coming back in while the last few months of bonkers stuff pops off has been so fun.

Thanks for almost ruining my love of basketball D12. All that childhood ptsd from Shaq came back full force lmao

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bring back cornrow melo
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please do not stress white america further, we already have to witness the protests

# ? Sep 27, 2017 22:45

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# ? May 17, 2024 14:28

Icy Penguigo: Nov 7, 2010

WhyteRyce posted:

Oh for fucks sake melo

So how fat is Carmelo now? Will he play in a hoodie all season to hide it?

# ? Sep 27, 2017 22:48

Shear Modulus: Jun 9, 2010

The Silicon Valley hoodie chic makes perfect sense for the First Digital Athlete

# ? Sep 27, 2017 22:50

WhyteRyce: Dec 30, 2001

If McBuckets is allowed to wear a shirt under his jersey I bet he'd be good again

# ? Sep 27, 2017 22:56

Brolander: Oct 20, 2008; i am but a vessel

i wore a shirt under my jersey in 5th grade, some tight bugle boy design iirc and wouldn't you know it i got made fun of

# ? Sep 27, 2017 23:00

AggressivelyStupid: Jan 9, 2012

SamuraiFoochs posted:

Wait WHAT?

yep

# ? Sep 27, 2017 23:02

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.

Melo going from cosplaying an 1869 miner into cosplaying an 8th grade boy is a marked improvement.

# ? Sep 27, 2017 23:09

Mr. Mambold: Feb 13, 2011; Aha. Nice post.

Rick posted:

Melo going from cosplaying an 1869 miner into cosplaying an 8th grade boy is a marked improvement.

Wait til he and Russ do a presser together. Good times.

# ? Sep 27, 2017 23:14

EvanTH: Apr 24, 2004; i like to express my inner pain by being really boring on the phone
or just when i'm kickin it
that's me though
i'm kind of oddddddd

ChickenMedium posted:

I hope someone does hire him. So many "15 seconds" jokes the world has yet to hear.

I've still yet to see a 15 seconds joke funnier than the fact that Rick Pitino swore in a court of law under penalty of perjury that he came down his leg in 15 seconds or less

# ? Sep 27, 2017 23:21

nachos: Jun 27, 2004; Wario Chalmers! WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

I'm having flashbacks to Wade and Westbrook's postgame fashion duel in the 2012 finals

# ? Sep 27, 2017 23:21

Brolander: Oct 20, 2008; i am but a vessel

EvanTH posted:

I've still yet to see a 15 seconds joke funnier than the fact that Rick Pitino swore in a court of law under penalty of perjury that he came down his leg in 15 seconds or less

he'll never match my "SSOL offense"

# ? Sep 27, 2017 23:22

AggressivelyStupid: Jan 9, 2012

https://twitter.com/cavs/status/913159848711176192

# ? Sep 27, 2017 23:25

Zogo: Jul 29, 2003

Cool Buff Man posted:

TT has a small superpower in that he's an amazing offensive rebounder, which makes him uniquely valuable and important to the Cavs. Faried is more of a bog standard board getter. TT is also a better rim protector than Faried

Faried has higher career ORB%, DRB% and TRB% numbers.

Libertine posted:

The Knicks are a terrible team who need all the talent they can get and they have been desperate for over a year to find a way to get rid of Melo. Like how does that speak to his talent in any way?

ESPN and others are now putting out stories that these sickly OKC/CLE Frankenstein teams are on GSWs level.

Kibner posted:

ooh, this is actually a pretty big scheme change for the Pels:

https://twitter.com/ScottDKushner/status/912374622322126848

They're emphasizing something that's not even important.

Niwrad posted:

https://twitter.com/SBN_Ricky/status/912384953673011200

This guy wrote articles saying Gar and Pax are not good at their jobs. Guess who didn't get credentialed.

# ? Sep 27, 2017 23:47

Zogo: Jul 29, 2003

kingcobweb posted:

I have a $100 bet with a friend on Minnesota: I have over 48.5 games, he has under

He thinks it's absolutely comical that Butler will change the team that much, I think that the other players will continue improving and the team wasn't actually as bad as their 31 wins, thoughts??

The team is probably better than 31 wins but the jump from 31 to 49 is BIG. There's virtually no precedent for it occurring. It's possible if everything goes perfectly (unlikely).

scuz posted:

[list][*]Our bench has improved (it was impossible for it to get worse)

Yea, MIN was 29th out of thirty last year:

code:

Tm	2016-17 Cumulative Bench GmSc/48
LAL	16.11
DEN	15.93
HOU	15.86
GSW	15.2
SAS	15.16
CHO	15.02
MIL	14.85
MIA	14.75
DET	14.54
DAL	14.16
BRK	14.03
NYK	14.02
PHI	13.91
NOP	13.79
ATL	13.77
IND	13.75
SAC	13.55
LAC	13.3
PHO	13.28
BOS	13.21
MEM	13.07
OKC	13
TOR	13
CHI	12.7
ORL	12.49
UTA	12.28
WAS	12.15
POR	12.14
MIN	12.13
CLE	11.38

Not much room to get worse.

OzFactor posted:

Zogo, assuming you're going to set up your yearly poll, can you have us all guess as to how many regular season games Wade will play?

AggressivelyStupid wanted a poll question on who would play more minutes between Kyrie and IT. But now that IT seems injured I could throw Wade into the mix as well.

# ? Sep 27, 2017 23:57

chunkles: Aug 14, 2005; i am completely immersed in darkness
as i turn my body away from the sun

Bucket of Rockets updates:
- James Harden has lost 12 pounds, didn't say but I assume he is at -5% bodyfat and in the best shape of his career
- Nene is back ahead of schedule and will do training camp
- Onuaku said he left Louisville in part because he thought investigations would come down on the school
- They signed George de Paula

# ? Sep 28, 2017 00:43

NickRoweFillea: Sep 27, 2012; doin thangs

Who worked out with Hakeem

# ? Sep 28, 2017 00:45

Kibner: Oct 21, 2008; Acguy Supremacy

NickRoweFillea posted:

Who worked out with Hakeem

I did. We bonded over basketball and cooking anime.

# ? Sep 28, 2017 00:54

chunkles: Aug 14, 2005; i am completely immersed in darkness
as i turn my body away from the sun

the whole team flew to jordan to learn the finer points of hadith from him

# ? Sep 28, 2017 00:54

isme: Oct 13, 2004; ZombiePugs

So the ringer article also had an article about Laker's media day and they mentioned the Laker's WiFi password is "champs16x".

# ? Sep 28, 2017 01:01

Spacebump: Dec 24, 2003; Dallas Mavericks: Generations

Dexo posted:

https://twitter.com/HopToonPodcast/status/912775345060945925

I'm here for this Kyrie.

Mr. 4th Quarter? How soon they forget about their all time leader in ppg the King in the Fourth. Also, man that GE ad is ugly. Can't wait to see how bad jerseys look in 10-15 years when they have even more ads.

# ? Sep 28, 2017 01:03

The Glumslinger: Sep 24, 2008; Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?; Hair Elf

Rick posted:

Melo going from cosplaying an 1869 miner into cosplaying an 8th grade boy is a marked improvement.

Remember when Kobe pretended to be Amish for that photoshoot? :allears:

# ? Sep 28, 2017 01:17

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

Pretended

# ? Sep 28, 2017 01:17

EvanTH: Apr 24, 2004; i like to express my inner pain by being really boring on the phone
or just when i'm kickin it
that's me though
i'm kind of oddddddd

NickRoweFillea posted:

Who worked out with Hakeem

There's been so much actual news there's a surprising lack of meaningless bland news. So far the coaches who say the team to run more counter sits at a shocking 0 :wth:

I've barely seen any of the sophmores putting on 15 pounds of muscle

# ? Sep 28, 2017 02:02

R.D. Mangles: Jan 10, 2004

EvanTH posted:

There's been so much actual news there's a surprising lack of meaningless bland news. So far the coaches who say the team to run more counter sits at a shocking 0

I've barely seen any of the sophmores putting on 15 pounds of muscle

what about niko putting on 27 pounds of muscle

# ? Sep 28, 2017 02:03

Noctone: Oct 25, 2005; XO til we overdose..

not sure how i feel about steve curry suddenly being kinda woke

# ? Sep 28, 2017 02:20

de curry GOAT: Oct 23, 2005

niko putting on 27 pounds means hes going to shoot 27 feet further than usual

# ? Sep 28, 2017 02:27

verbal enema: May 23, 2009; onlymarfans.com

AggressivelyStupid posted:

https://twitter.com/cavs/status/913159848711176192

dude is cheesin

# ? Sep 28, 2017 02:36

Bashez: Jul 19, 2004

Kibner posted:

I did. We bonded over basketball and cooking anime.

This avatar literally made me shiver.

# ? Sep 28, 2017 02:38

Mr. Mambold: Feb 13, 2011; Aha. Nice post.

chunkles posted:

the whole team flew to jordan to learn the finer points of hadith from him

hadith at make you feel

# ? Sep 28, 2017 02:56

AggressivelyStupid: Jan 9, 2012

chunkles posted:

the whole team flew to jordan to learn the finer points of hadith from him

Which hadith

# ? Sep 28, 2017 03:00

The Glumslinger: Sep 24, 2008; Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?; Hair Elf

EvanTH posted:

There's been so much actual news there's a surprising lack of meaningless bland news. So far the coaches who say the team to run more counter sits at a shocking 0

I've barely seen any of the sophmores putting on 15 pounds of muscle

You haven't been following the Lakers, plenty of talk about Lonzo pushing the pace more, Ingram putting on 15 pounds of muscle (he actually looks like he did), a bunch of guys losing tons of weight, a bunch of BS super single digit body fat percentages, bigs adding 3 pointers

I'm not even joking, they are literally hitting all of the cliched

# ? Sep 28, 2017 03:10

Kibner: Oct 21, 2008; Acguy Supremacy

Bashez posted:

This avatar literally made me shiver.

rude

# ? Sep 28, 2017 03:27

the mean lunch lady: Jun 24, 2009; went mad at sea
lots were drawn
Kroenke didn't survive
he was delicious

Noctone posted:

not sure how i feel about steve curry suddenly being kinda woke

He's been woke

# ? Sep 28, 2017 03:43

Carlosologist: Oct 13, 2013; Revelry in the Dark

Blake Griffin is actually kinda funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZOMLKaxf4M

# ? Sep 28, 2017 03:54

zoux: Apr 28, 2006

Dexo posted:

https://twitter.com/HopToonPodcast/status/912775345060945925

I'm here for this Kyrie.

https://mobile.twitter.com/KofieYeboah/status/913236296872710145

# ? Sep 28, 2017 04:06

R.D. Mangles: Jan 10, 2004

if wade and rose are good for the cavs i am going to fake my own death and then haunt the united center like the phantom of the opera

# ? Sep 28, 2017 04:08

Tae: Oct 24, 2010; Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!

Define "good," because they're basically replacing bench corpses from last year and their real effectiveness only matters in the finals.

# ? Sep 28, 2017 04:12

R.D. Mangles: Jan 10, 2004

Tae posted:

Define "good," because they're basically replacing bench corpses from last year and their real effectiveness only matters in the finals.

demonstrably better at basketball than they were for the bulls GOSH

# ? Sep 28, 2017 04:14

Tae: Oct 24, 2010; Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!

R.D. Mangles posted:

demonstrably better at basketball than they were for the bulls GOSH

Well they're going from Rajon Rondo to Lebron as point guard so probably

# ? Sep 28, 2017 04:19

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# ? May 17, 2024 14:28

R.D. Mangles: Jan 10, 2004

i wonder if, as a hazing ritual, lebron made rose dance to the intro music to the 2012 all star game

# ? Sep 28, 2017 04:20

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