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euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

man the nets are loaded with non star good players

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Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

lmao the Suns, that's gonna be a crazy team in the playoffs

as for the Wolves, sidegrade at best. at least Conley can run a competent pick and roll and play the point every day. good pickup for the Lakers since they have LeBron and DLo's ego isn't going to demand he play point over him.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

getting gobert going more on offense should drastically improve them combined with the difference between Conley and DLo on defense

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

plus this solves the having to pay DLo on FA problem

Stevie Lee
Oct 8, 2007
the Lakers still might not even make the play-in

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

euphronius posted:

assuming everyone is healthy I’d have the west power rankings as

warriors
suns
lakers/clippers
grizzlies
the rest

since when do you like the warriors

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

euphronius posted:

getting gobert going more on offense should drastically improve them combined with the difference between Conley and DLo on defense

Yeah, the whole season has basically been "win while DLo is hot and lose while he is cold" because no matter what, he's gonna take his shots, and I don't get the feeling that Conley will play like that.

Also, lmao at the Lakers getting both DLo and Malik Beasley, neither of whom have any inclination to play defense. lmao at the Lakers needing defensive wings and picking up those two

Stevie Lee
Oct 8, 2007

fart simpson posted:

since when do you like the warriors

they won the consolation bracket last year

Amp
Sep 10, 2010

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lonely rear end ben simmons

TDepressionEarl
Oct 28, 2010


I'm trying to win the World Cup
but I'm dummy thicc
and the clap of my ass cheeks
keeps playing Argentina onside


Stevie Lee posted:

fart simpson posted:

since when do you like the warriors
they won the consolation bracket last year

euph likes defense and i think he thinks draymond green is valuable in that respect. wiggins is continuing to fit really well and klay is healthy, two two-way stars. the caveat is "if-healthy," and even then the warriors have choked in quite a lot of close overtime games this year.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Stevie Lee posted:

the Lakers still might not even make the play-in

they should be fine now with Westbrook gone

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

TDepressionEarl posted:

euph likes defense and i think he thinks draymond green is valuable in that respect. wiggins is continuing to fit really well and klay is healthy, two two-way stars. the caveat is "if-healthy," and even then the warriors have choked in quite a lot of close overtime games this year.

he has a gimmick where he pretends the warriors didnt win the title last year

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

the didn’t win the nba championship but they destroyed the west

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

bump :troll:

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

lol

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

kingcobweb
Apr 16, 2005

euphronius posted:

assuming everyone is healthy I’d have the west power rankings as

warriors
suns
lakers/clippers
grizzlies
the rest

that’s cool but the nuggets are better than all those teams

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

kingcobweb posted:

that’s cool but the nuggets are better than all those teams

I don’t see much evidence to support that

I guess we will find out this spring

kingcobweb
Apr 16, 2005

Yossarian-22 posted:

Rob Perez just gamed out the Nuggets trading MPJ and Bones lol

Guessing they wouldn't do that

I hope not. they’ve spent years integrating MPJ into the offense and teaching him defense, and he’s been playing great, and the team is unbeatable when he’s making shots. completely messing with the starters over halfway through the season when you’re the 1 seed doesn’t seem like a good idea. it took two months at the beginning of the season to figure things out, they don’t want to go through that again.

kingcobweb
Apr 16, 2005

euphronius posted:

I don’t see much evidence to support that

I guess we will find out this spring

their record

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

euphronius posted:

I don’t see much evidence to support that

I guess we will find out this spring

?

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

regular season winning record in the 2022-2023 west conference will not be indicative of playoff success at all

ok maybe a bit

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

I don’t think KCP is suddenly going to make Denver a good team


who knows tho . Denver could face a broken team

kingcobweb
Apr 16, 2005

euphronius posted:

regular season winning record in the 2022-2023 west conference will not be indicative of playoff success at all

ok maybe a bit

then how can you make power rankings at all if the games don’t indicate anything

snyprmag
Oct 9, 2005

the last two western 1 seeds lost in the second round

kingcobweb
Apr 16, 2005

euphronius posted:

I don’t think KCP is suddenly going to make Denver a good team


who knows tho . Denver could face a broken team

Watch Their Games

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

kingcobweb posted:

then how can you make power rankings at all if the games don’t indicate anything

you look at the teams and predict how they will perform

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

kingcobweb posted:

then how can you make power rankings at all if the games don’t indicate anything

records are only part of it. the warriors still have post nut clarity and should be regarded as such

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

kingcobweb posted:

Watch Their Games

his head would explode like a robot presented with a logical contradiction in an old scifi serial

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

euphronius posted:

you look at the teams and predict how they will perform

i dont think you have the metnal capabilities to do this

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

like if Denver faces Arizona, you have KcP and Aaron Gordon on one side vs Devon Booker and literally Kevin Durant lol on the other

I’m taking Arizona

euphronius fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Feb 9, 2023

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Denver could still trade for a center I guess

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

kingcobweb posted:

Watch Their Games

why watch games when you can have a stat priest interpret the signals for you?

ex post facho
Oct 25, 2007
it's literally impossible for euph to watch Nuggets games, unless they're visiting the east. wayyyy past his bedtime

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

you say watch the games

no one has seen the lakers or suns play yet !!

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

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TDepressionEarl
Oct 28, 2010


I'm trying to win the World Cup
but I'm dummy thicc
and the clap of my ass cheeks
keeps playing Argentina onside


i have grizzlies, nuggets, and also now the mavericks ahead of the clippers. the ballmer ballers are vaporware until i see them in a WCF. i love kawhi but down that roster is exactly the kind of middle-level guys that make the west look uninspiring when they lose to the markkanen/clarkson/olynyk jazz. i expect the clippers, not the lakers, to be the team that gets beat by sacramento in the play-in.

jokic has one more year in my mind to make jamal murray and aaron gordon work like it did in the bubble.

ja morant is really really really good, and the rest of the grizzlies only need to get a little better. everybody loves steven adams.

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

euphronius posted:

you say watch the games

no one has seen the lakers or suns play yet !!

hes got you there lol

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

AnimeIsTrash posted:

i dont think you have the metnal capabilities to do this

congrats on getting Kyrie 🙏

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euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Dallas should have traded for Claxton instead. he’s probably untouchable tho

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