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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% |
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| 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% |
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Jota posted:It's funny seeing other people insist he's the PG though like on r/sixers Wait, so are you saying he is not the point guard? I'm confused. Because he's the point guard. If anything the offseason insistence on it was stupid only because he could have just waited for people to see him play and then nobody would have questioned it.
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Oct 16, 2017 07:01
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So as an Australian with only a passing understanding or interest in Basketball... is Ben Simmons playing Point? My understanding was that offensively he plays that "conduit" role and defensively he guards a bigger player who maybe isn't as fast or something.
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Oct 16, 2017 07:55
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Schlesische posted:So as an Australian with only a passing understanding or interest in Basketball... is Ben Simmons playing Point? The endgame of The Process is a team composed entirely of Point Centers.
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Oct 16, 2017 07:59
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Cloud the Cat posted:So I recently read Jalen Rose's book "Got to give the people what they want" and read all about his falling out with Chris Webber. As someone who never knew about the fab five etc. until recently this was pretty shocking. All I know of Chris Webber is he seems entertaining and cool on TV and he used to play for the Kings. After reading this though he definitely comes off as 'the bad guy' or at least someone who is never able to admit he made mistakes. I suppose it's impossible to know everything that goes on, maybe something else happened and he doesn't feel like he should be at fault for anything?
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Oct 16, 2017 09:43
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Schlesische posted:So as an Australian with only a passing understanding or interest in Basketball... is Ben Simmons playing Point? Point guards don't always defend the opposing team's point guard, depending on the matchup. If we defined point guard as the player who defends the opposing team's point guard we'd be caught in a recursive loop. Ben Simmons is the 76ers' starting point guard. NotWearingPants fucked around with this message at 10:08 on Oct 16, 2017 |
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Oct 16, 2017 10:03
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Schlesische posted:So as an Australian with only a passing understanding or interest in Basketball... is Ben Simmons playing Point? People aren't defining their terms so nobody can agree on anything. Your understating is correct, and some would call that being a point guard and some wouldn't, but whatever we call it doesn't change what he's doing on the court.
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Oct 16, 2017 10:17
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During the preseason, Simmons was the primary ball handler and initiator on offense (more so than LeBron or Giannis are on their teams by comparison). On defense he guarded opposing 4s. Call him whatever you want. As an experiment the Sixers actually tried him guarding Kyrie for a four minutes stretch in one preseason game and whilst not great by any means he was surprisingly not terrible at it. On ball he was athletic enough to stay with Kyrie mostly, but he couldn't stick with him well enough when Iriving was off-ball and having screens set for him. e: The Heat guarded Simmons with Justice Winslow (who he killed, incidentally). Does that mean Winslow is the 4 for the Heat in those lineups? Or the 1? Because Simmons wasn't guarding Winslow on the other end. It's positonless basketball ladies and gentlemen! tanglewood1420 fucked around with this message at 12:06 on Oct 16, 2017 |
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Oct 16, 2017 12:03
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I'm honestly not sure how someone is the primary ball handler more than LeBron
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Oct 16, 2017 12:22
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AggressivelyStupid posted:I'm honestly not sure how someone is the primary ball handler more than LeBron People who handle more balls than LeBron: CP3 Batum Harden Reggie Evans
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Oct 16, 2017 13:35
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tanglewood1420 posted:During the preseason, Simmons was the primary ball handler and initiator on offense (more so than LeBron or Giannis are on their teams by comparison). On defense he guarded opposing 4s. Call him whatever you want. In this equation Winslow is a 0.
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Oct 16, 2017 13:43
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NotWearingPants posted:Point guards don't always defend the opposing team's point guard, depending on the matchup. If we defined point guard as the player who defends the opposing team's point guard we'd be caught in a recursive loop. Ben Simmons is the 76ers' starting point guard. dokmo posted:People aren't defining their terms so nobody can agree on anything. Your understating is correct, and some would call that being a point guard and some wouldn't, but whatever we call it doesn't change what he's doing on the court. My defining term will be how often he shares the floor with two guards, one of which is almost always otherwise playing PG. Simmons will frequently be sharing the floor with Bayless and Fultz, guys who otherwise will be playing point. To me there is a difference between a point guard, and a guy who always shares the floor with a point guard. I don't care as much what you call Simmons, but JJ and Bayless(or McConnell) are Guards and Covington is playing the Wing, Embiid is the Center, so do what you will with Simmons. tanglewood1420 posted:During the preseason, Simmons was the primary ball handler and initiator on offense (more so than LeBron or Giannis are on their teams by comparison). On defense he guarded opposing 4s. Call him whatever you want. I'm not sure how true this will be. How things look in Pre-season don't always match regular season. I suspect he'll play a role more like Giannis.
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Oct 16, 2017 13:45
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less than 36 hours until regular season NBA basketball returns that's pretty cool
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Oct 16, 2017 14:07
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Carlosologist posted:https://www.instagram.com/p/BaSuERQAWDT/ I was hoping to see Jaylen embarrass the dude on D too but that was fun. Much better than the old video of Scalabrine posting up on some barstool sports moron a while ago.
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Oct 16, 2017 15:07
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It doesn't really matter what he calls himself, and what his duties are, if he's the 2nd tallest player in the lineup and he's guarding the other 2nd tallest player in the opposing teams lineup he's probably gonna be listed as a PF.
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Oct 16, 2017 15:24
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It's Steph Curry, he's even more not like regular people than you thought https://twitter.com/anthonyVslater/status/919775000487268352
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Oct 16, 2017 15:32
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yo I'm so hype for ball. I need this. Let Tuesday be now already.
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Oct 16, 2017 15:44
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Salvor_Hardin posted:I was hoping to see Jaylen embarrass the dude on D too but that was fun. Much better than the old video of Scalabrine posting up on some barstool sports moron a while ago. It's insane because Brown totally toasts him but he's only going like 5 or 10%. NBA athletes are really in a different class of human just a little over a day until the season starts!!
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Oct 16, 2017 15:59
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https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/919942794109743104 Memphis 👏 can’t 👏 draft 👏 for 👏 poo poo 👏 E. Lol https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/919943676390006786 NickRoweFillea fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Oct 16, 2017 |
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Oct 16, 2017 16:12
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Libertine posted:It doesn't really matter what he calls himself, and what his duties are, if he's the 2nd tallest player in the lineup and he's guarding the other 2nd tallest player in the opposing teams lineup he's probably gonna be listed as a PF. It's funny, he's listed as PF on the official Sixers site, but on more than one occasion (including the last preseason game) I've heard the announcer introduce the team like: F JJ Reddick F Robert Covington G Bayless/Fultz G Ben Simmons C Joel Embiid It really seems like an ego thing 
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Oct 16, 2017 16:13
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Juaguocio posted:Oh my God, it just hit me- in two days, I'm going to get home from work and watch NBA basketball for 4-5 hours. Hell, yeah! I'm super excited, too!  
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Oct 16, 2017 16:18
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Kibner posted:Hell, yeah! I'm super excited, too! Some day I'll retire back to Boston and do this.  In the meantime, anyone want to go to a Timberwolves game this year? All my twin cities friends are academics who exclusively watch the WNBA (which owns, don't get me wrong).
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Oct 16, 2017 16:24
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NickRoweFillea posted:https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/919942794109743104 What happened with Baldwin? I didn't realize that things were that bad.
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Oct 16, 2017 16:24
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Wade Baldwin will definitely be a Bull
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Oct 16, 2017 16:25
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DMC has the right expression for playing the bulls.
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Oct 16, 2017 16:25
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https://twitter.com/JCameratoNBCS/status/919611184613154818 I'm actually annoyed now that they are having him come off the bench because he should not be playing at all if his shoulder is having this big an impact. That is ridiculous.
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Oct 16, 2017 16:31
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https://twitter.com/CBSSports/status/919916637817581568
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Oct 16, 2017 16:32
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https://twitter.com/InStreetClothes/status/919915636431708160
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Oct 16, 2017 16:37
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zoux posted:It's Steph Curry, he's even more not like regular people than you thought A player on a championship team should commission some more subtle rings for his teammates sorta like how Sheed for custom WWE belts for the Pistons. aBagorn posted:It's funny, he's listed as PF on the official Sixers site, but on more than one occasion (including the last preseason game) I've heard the announcer introduce the team like: Which is funny because point guard is the worst paid position in the league
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Oct 16, 2017 16:41
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I know it's tedious to continually point out dumb poo poo that Bill Simmons says, but he said on the latest podcast with Bob Voulgaris that Larry Bird was a better passer than LeBron.
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Oct 16, 2017 16:42
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In general I think you are what you defend, but it really wouldn't be a big deal if Simmons wasn't being a big baby about it. I'm mostly just confused about what he thinks he's getting out of it, a dude dominating the ball at power forward is still more exciting and novel than "tall PG"
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Oct 16, 2017 16:44
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big boi posted:I know it's tedious to continually point out dumb poo poo that Bill Simmons says, but he said on the latest podcast with Bob Voulgaris that Larry Bird was a better passer than LeBron. Larry Bird was a really good passer and so is Lebron, no big deal
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Oct 16, 2017 16:46
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Hashtag Banterzone posted:People who handle more balls than LeBron: Forgot Sam Cassell.
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Oct 16, 2017 16:51
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always a huge fan of the sultry, over the shoulder, "check out the butt" pose that AD is throwing in the second frame
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Oct 16, 2017 16:57
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NickRoweFillea posted:https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/919942794109743104 Maybe they just really like Rabb. He's more of a Memphis-type player anyway.
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Oct 16, 2017 17:07
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maybe they didn't want a narc on the team
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Oct 16, 2017 17:19
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zoux posted:It's Steph Curry, he's even more not like regular people than you thought What's weird about that? They aren't very attractive pieces of jewelry
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Oct 16, 2017 17:21
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Redgrendel2001 posted:What happened with Baldwin? I didn't realize that things were that bad. Supercop was only drafted because of his long arms, he had a very unremarkable college career, he never showed anything in garbage time or summer league. He would have had to develop a good three point shot to make up for his poor finishing and he would have had to defend the way you'd expect a freak spider monster to defend
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Oct 16, 2017 17:24
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https://twitter.com/SLAMonline/status/919961714598207488 Check under the bed for Lebron
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Oct 16, 2017 17:31
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https://twitter.com/bbanimals/status/919563839154393088 pictured: memphis approaching the modern style of NBA play
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/SLAMonline/status/919961714598207488 for whatever reason NFL Films are much better at this sort of silly LEGENDS ARE BORN ON THE COLD JANUARY GRIDIRON ridiculous mythologizing DeimosRising posted:What's weird about that? They aren't very attractive pieces of jewelry rollin' my eyes so hard I'm causing damage to my optic nerve. Why would I want to wear this piece of jewelry that symbolizes my greatest accomplishment. Also I wanna read your writeup on Orlando, you should finish that! I thought they had one of the worst rosters in the league as of two or three seasons ago and I haven't been watching their games much
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