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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% |
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The Spurs are probably a good team to cheer for overall if you have no team already.
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Oct 17, 2017 00:57
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If you’re moving to Denver the Nuggets are a good choice since they’re on the upswing and have one of the best young players in the league in one Nikola Jokic; passes like a point guard but he’s 6’10 You could also root for the Sixers and erstwhile star but lit tweeter Joel Embiid and the gang
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Oct 17, 2017 01:00
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blue squares posted:Im moving to COlorado soon. Is the Denver Nuggets team any good and worth being a fan of? Good: Unknown Worth being a fan of: Yes They have one of better young centers in the NBA, one of those do everything kind of centers
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Oct 17, 2017 01:05
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blue squares posted:Im moving to COlorado soon. Is the Denver Nuggets team any good and worth being a fan of? Yeah they're the official nerd/hipster favourite team this year tbh, they're on the upswing and play some weird but cool basketball.
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Oct 17, 2017 01:06
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blue squares posted:Im moving to COlorado soon. Is the Denver Nuggets team any good and worth being a fan of? This is a good time to hop on board. The Nuggets were one of the top offenses in the league last year. They play a fast paced, pass heavy style of offense that revolves around Nikola Jokic, who is a goofy, galumphing, completely unathletic Serbian weirdo that was drafted in the 2nd around and turned out to have franchise player potential. He's one of the best playmakers in the league and an extremely efficient post and midrange scorer. The Nugget offense revolves around him, which is pretty unique. Nuggets also just signed Paul Millsap who is a 4 time all star and an extremely versatile Forward who will help shore up their defense, which was godawful last year. Also, they're my team so they are the best team. Here's a dope Jokic pass from preseason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF5lCmxouCg Halfling Wizard Bear fucked around with this message at 01:12 on Oct 17, 2017 |
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Oct 17, 2017 01:09
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blue squares posted:Im moving to COlorado soon. Is the Denver Nuggets team any good and worth being a fan of? 1) don't move to colorado. its full. like all full. no room for anyone else. sorry 2) if you do somehow end up in the area, you could do a lot worse than root for the nuggets. the games are pretty cheap and they're typically a fun, albeit not particularly successful team. there's sadly not too much love for the team in the city, its more of a hockey town. 3) choose the spurs if you want the most professional team that will have a large amount of success and go on a deep run. plus kawhi will win MVP which is pretty cool
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Oct 17, 2017 01:11
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Thanks for the posts. I'll keep an eye on the Spurs and the Nuggets. I'm moving from Texas, so it's an appropriate pair of teams to be interested in 
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Oct 17, 2017 01:18
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Just in time for the Return of Bud. LMA is continually defended as being fine and playing just fine by people in a season where he even admitted to half assing. I don't think that can be considered underrated
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Oct 17, 2017 01:25
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The Kawhi/LaMarcus Spurs are a championship-caliber team in any league where the Warriors haven't broken the NBA so keeping him is fine imo since all the big FAs the Spurs could have got in the next couple years like CP3, Westbrook, etc have found superteams somewhere else and are now off the market so an upgrade has now become impossible short of getting LeBron somehow or this Gasol-Gasol II someone was posting about earlier. I just thought he wanted out bad.Bashez posted:Oh god My opinions on the free speech protests of nazis Shear Modulus fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Oct 17, 2017 |
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Oct 17, 2017 01:25
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blue squares you were born to be a warriors fan
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Oct 17, 2017 01:29
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I'd seriously check out he Knicks. Strong ownership, a young star on the rise, and they're located in the mecca of basketball, NYC.
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Oct 17, 2017 01:31
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BWV posted:I'd seriously check out he Knicks. Strong ownership, a young star on the rise, and they're located in the mecca of basketball, NYC. Let's wait for Frank to play before we call him a young star on the rise
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Oct 17, 2017 01:32
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Ghost Dog posted:blue squares you were born to be a warriors fan i cant pick the best team, that's just lame
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Oct 17, 2017 01:34
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BWV posted:I'd seriously check out he Knicks. Strong ownership, a young star on the rise, and they're located in the mecca of basketball, NYC. Don't do this to the poor man/woman.
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Oct 17, 2017 01:34
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How does one go from watching your team play 16 games per year to watching ~100? It seems like you'd get bored of it midseason, or miss a lot of potentially great games, etc. Do you watch every game, or just when you're free, or what?
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Oct 17, 2017 01:44
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bandwagon the rockets, take a bold stand in favor of the following principles: gently caress defense, and game the rules. they're not even the best team, so you can bandwagon them safely. Hawks signed Isaiah Taylor today. Rockets didn't extend Capela, though I didn't really expect them to.
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Oct 17, 2017 01:45
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blue squares posted:How does one go from watching your team play 16 games per year to watching ~100? It seems like you'd get bored of it midseason, or miss a lot of potentially great games, etc. Do you watch every game, or just when you're free, or what? You really have to be into the psychodrama that is the NBA It basically becomes a soap opera
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Oct 17, 2017 01:46
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blue squares posted:How does one go from watching your team play 16 games per year to watching ~100? It seems like you'd get bored of it midseason, or miss a lot of potentially great games, etc. Do you watch every game, or just when you're free, or what? I guess you start by watching your team play when you can because they're "your team" and you want to see them win or lose. You get to know the players and become emotionally invested. Eventually you fall in love with the little things, and different players that aren't on your team. And you like it so much you watch as much of them as you can. You stay up late to watch random regular season games and spend your weeknights posting gifs with likeminded cool cats on a message board from 1999.
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Oct 17, 2017 01:47
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Oh I guess I should read this thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3836979 also seems weird that there is no NBA subforum
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Oct 17, 2017 01:49
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blue squares posted:i cant pick the best team, that's just lame yeah
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Oct 17, 2017 01:50
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There is a special joy in knowing what the 14th man on your roster is good and bad at There are several games most nights, so as long as you have league pass/illegal pirate streams handy you can just gravitate towards what is interesting. Which is also why posting in GDTs helps because otherwise you're never going to know when some Bucks Kings game goes into 3OT.
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Oct 17, 2017 01:51
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DeimosRising posted:Who's joe? Diamond Gahdamn Joe is who you know who 
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Oct 17, 2017 01:52
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blue squares posted:i cant pick the best team, that's just lame Guess we can rule out that your secretly KD
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Oct 17, 2017 01:52
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Away all Goats posted:Guess we can rule out that your not secretly KD 
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Oct 17, 2017 01:53
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I've been following the NBA since 1987 or so and I'm still learning things and am regularly amazed and astonished
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Oct 17, 2017 01:55
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The best way to pick a team is to watch a random selection of games and find a player or team that looks fun to watch. Trying to slot yourself into a team before seeing them play seems like a bad idea. And to also not pick the Pacers.Away all Goats posted:Guess we can rule out that your secretly KD Nice.
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Oct 17, 2017 01:55
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DeimosRising posted:Who's joe? https://twitter.com/ughitsaaron/status/903268105085968384
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Oct 17, 2017 01:56
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Don't watch Lebron too much He might ruin your perception of human basketball ability
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Oct 17, 2017 01:57
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blue squares posted:How does one go from watching your team play 16 games per year to watching ~100? It seems like you'd get bored of it midseason, or miss a lot of potentially great games, etc. Do you watch every game, or just when you're free, or what? It's not something you can do if you're super into a lot of shows on TV or are a fan of another sport but I dunno, I like to watch basketball and if it's on I'll usually watch it.
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Oct 17, 2017 02:03
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I think 150 games or so a year is reasonable
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Oct 17, 2017 02:04
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euphronius posted:I think 150 games or so a year is reasonable Pretty much. I generally watch all of my team's games, definitely the TNT double-header games on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and most ESPN games. e: it's great to just have on because you can get sucked in or just do something else until the stars get subbed back in
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Oct 17, 2017 02:12
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Yeah the playoff offs are like 30 games minimum
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Oct 17, 2017 02:13
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basically, the regulars in here are extreme degenerates
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Oct 17, 2017 02:13
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Also no 12-6 games.
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Oct 17, 2017 02:16
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The Celtics offseason would be the worst in NBA history relative to assets if they didn’t get Hayward. E: related to this which doesn’t seem to have been posted https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/920046679281356800 straight up brolic fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Oct 17, 2017 |
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Oct 17, 2017 02:17
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Kibner posted:basically, the regulars in here are extreme degenerates
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blue squares posted:How does one go from watching your team play 16 games per year to watching ~100? It seems like you'd get bored of it midseason, or miss a lot of potentially great games, etc. Do you watch every game, or just when you're free, or what? Don't feel like you need to watch every game. Since your team plays 82, it's unlikely a few games will make a big difference like 1-2 games in the NFL can. I walk away from my team(s) for weeks sometimes and usually you can check box scores and get caught up. If you watch even half the games a team plays you'll likely have a ton of insight into all 12-15 players. Also, NBA makes it really easy to coast around the league. Check out the /nbastreams subreddit on random days and you can get a good feel for a team watching even just 1 quarter. I like to roam around and watch a quarter of a bunch of games in a night. Finally, post here. Ask questions, ask "Is Nurkic good or just big?" and "Why do people say Otto Porter can shoot when I have eyes and have seen him?". We razz each other a fair bit but honestly people talking about basketball is sorta the point so even basic questions are welcome. Both the GDT and this thread are good places and honestly the rules are pretty light. Don't mind Bashez.
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Oct 17, 2017 02:35
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blue squares posted:Im moving to COlorado soon. Is the Denver Nuggets team any good and worth being a fan of? Being in Denver owns as a basketball fan because their fanbase isn't the best and you can get tickets for super cheap. Plus all the city is swimming in generational talent.
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blue squares posted:How does one go from watching your team play 16 games per year to watching ~100? It seems like you'd get bored of it midseason, or miss a lot of potentially great games, etc. Do you watch every game, or just when you're free, or what? A thing that makes more home-team games worth watching is when one of the non-stars on the team just appeals to you more than is reasonable. You then start watching games to see them improve and live through their small successes as much as you do from the team winning the game. blue squares posted:Oh I guess I should read this thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3836979 Eh, not quite enough traffic to keep a full sub-forum. You saw the meet the team thread. There are N/V and GDT threads, just like FF. However, we do have a fashion thread, which I highly recommend.
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Oct 17, 2017 02:36
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Spacebump posted:Being in Denver owns as a basketball fan because their fanbase isn't the best and you can get tickets for super cheap. Plus all the city is swimming in generational talent. Oh yeah that's easily the best part of your local team being mediocre. It'd probably be even better if you weren't a Nuggets fan, you can see a lot of high-end teams play for cheap and enjoy it whether it turns out competitive or not.
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