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Vox Nihili posted:You can slice and dice the numbers a bunch of ways, but this is their big issue. Defense is more important in the playoffs because everyone is going at 110% and the true contenders almost always field elite defensive units. It's not clear to me if a team can make it through the NBA playoffs without top-end defensive talent. You also have to play elite defense the entire game, not just in the clutch, otherwise the game could be effectively decided by halftime. I’m busy so I will adopt this post. it’s correct now don’t come on here talking about Lebron cavs teams. jokic is not Lebron
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kingcobweb posted:Giannis and KD are in the east, LeBron isn’t making the playoffs. they found ways to stop Kawhi and PG with wayyyyy worse players than they have now. I’m not going to pretend AG and KCP will STOP Luka, but they can hold him and kyrie to being worse than jokic and Jamal. The West is more guard heavy, so it'll be the same question but with guys like Ja, Curry, Fox, etc. Basically who on the Nuggets will be assigned to stop each of the league's top offensive players. I think Bruce Brown at least shows up on the map matched against shooting guards/wings but you'll still have elite players like JJJ or KAT who will be too quick for Jokic and bigger than anyone else on the Nuggets. Even for players like Christian Wood I'm not sure how the Nuggets will match up defensively. It's going to come down to Aaron Gordon and KCP and like I said, I just don't think they're actually very good. Maybe my mental index of these guys is out of date, we will see. Kawhi also looks totally different in the playoffs although I'm not sure he's still one of those top guys. Vox Nihili fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Feb 8, 2023 |
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loquacius posted:Last night LeBron broke the lifetime regular-season scoring record don't sleep on the thunder those guys are gonna be a menace in the west the next few years
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Feb 8, 2023 22:40
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the bitcoin of weed posted:don't sleep on the thunder those guys are gonna be a menace in the west the next few years been hearing this since before the pandemic. it's gotta be true eventually
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Feb 8, 2023 22:54
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fine but where's Zelensky's congrats
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Feb 8, 2023 22:56
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that would be a huge net positive for the wolves
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Feb 8, 2023 22:57
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gently caress yeah, I want that to happen. I thought Conley to the Lakers was a foregone conclusion. Just keep Westbrook away from my team TIA.
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Feb 8, 2023 23:25
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isn't Westbrook getting immediately bought out, I thought I read that that's what most trades involving him were expecting
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indigi posted:isn't Westbrook getting immediately bought out, I thought I read that that's what most trades involving him were expecting That's the theory, but I think that's more that no one wants him on their team at his price. It's possible a tanking team might decide to ride him all the way to the basement.
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Azathoth posted:That's the theory, but I think that's more that no one wants him on their team at his price. It's possible a tanking team might decide to ride him all the way to the basement. I think he takes peanuts to play for the Clippers or Heat
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would he get along with Jimmy? I guess if him and PatBev got along anything is possible, but Beverly seems like a real rah rah team guy who would try to make it work with anyone
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indigi posted:Beverly seems like a real rah rah team guy who would try to make it work with anyone
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Feb 8, 2023 23:43
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kingcobweb posted:I think he takes peanuts to play for the Clippers or Heat I don't see how a contender would want him even at veteran minimum, or whatever he could sign for. He's under the Mendoza line and it's not even close. I won't throw stats around but lmao he is so bad this season. Both teams would be better off literally calling up a G league hustle guy instead both from a culture and an on-court play perspective.
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Azathoth posted:I don't see how a contender would want him even at veteran minimum, or whatever he could sign for. I’d play him over Ish Smith if I was the Nuggets
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lol at embiid being double kontested
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Feb 9, 2023 02:02
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Feb 9, 2023 02:06
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Man I just put my daughter to bed and I already missed a quarter
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euphronius posted:I’ll never be able to watch Celtics Sixers live celtics look pretty bad so far. horford, timelord, and smart being out really impacts the flow of the offense and the defense isnt as good either
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Feb 9, 2023 02:13
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fully sick block by d. white
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So I guess Blake Griffin mostly just launches threes now He's gotta be the oldest 33 year-old out there
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Vox Nihili posted:So I guess Blake Griffin mostly just launches threes now how the gently caress am i older than blake griffin
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Feb 9, 2023 02:21
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triple sulk posted:how the gently caress am i older than blake griffin you were born before him?
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fart simpson posted:you were born before him? seems so the sixers stink
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My Sixers vs Celtics Keys to Victory: Celtics: Hit 40%+ from three, that's it, you win Sixers: Rack up 16+ free throws between Embiid and Harden + hope the Celts miss 60%+ of the open threes they'll be getting
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I’m home tomorrow I will watch it and skip the commercials
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Vox Nihili posted:My Sixers vs Celtics Keys to Victory: if derrick white can rack up 15 more of those sick blocks i think the cs can win it
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Game is dangerously close at half despite the Celtics shooting real well and Sixers somehow only getting 4 FTAs
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Azathoth posted:gently caress yeah, I want that to happen. I thought Conley to the Lakers was a foregone conclusion. Just keep Westbrook away from my team TIA. when I read it the firs time I thought the twolves were getting westbrook and despaired for you
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Vox Nihili posted:Game is dangerously close at half despite the Celtics shooting real well and Sixers somehow only getting 4 FTAs because the celtics offense has no flow tonight
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why does embiid fall down so much? hes like 7 feet tall and 300 pounds
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fart simpson posted:why does embiid fall down so much? hes like 7 feet tall and 300 pounds to become the leading scorer in the NBA
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Vox Nihili posted:Game is dangerously close at half despite the Celtics shooting real well and Sixers somehow only getting 4 FTAs I mean, the Celtics are missing 3 key players and Jaylen is out after a bad start. Any outcome that is close is a moral victory here.
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Salvor_Hardin posted:I mean, the Celtics are missing 3 key players and Jaylen is out after a bad start. Any outcome that is close is a moral victory here. another way to say it is the celtics are missing 4 starters.
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euphronius posted:they still have the refs are you sure? jaylen brown got hit in the face so hard he's out the rest of the game and the refs didnt call it
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