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Tae posted:Rockets, what the gently caress he's annoying but the rockets aren't spending that money on anything else and he's an actual nba player
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Any of you folks know anything about this Moses Brown fella? He had a nice game in summer league, although apparently Chicago sent out a pretty undersized lineup according to the writeup I read A third string center.
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Declan MacManus posted:he's annoying but the rockets aren't spending that money on anything else and he's an actual nba player Does Dillon Brooks play the 3-4? The Rockets have a logjam of guards between FVV/Green/Thompson/KPJ/Whitmore.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Any of you folks know anything about this Moses Brown fella? He had a nice game in summer league, although apparently Chicago sent out a pretty undersized lineup according to the writeup I read the d&d mod?
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Forrest on Fire posted:Does Dillon Brooks play the 3-4? The Rockets have a logjam of guards between FVV/Green/Thompson/KPJ/Whitmore. he plays small forward yes
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Paracaidas posted:Some folks (myself included) have thought that this is the league starting slow and once the tournament is more established, throwing guaranteed playin spots or a lottery entry into the mix as well. I think a reasonable one would be that winning it is an automatic tie breaker for all things lottery and playoff seeding if you are tied in record with another team
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Didn’t we all collectively gnash our teeth at the play-ins, which is thought to be perfectly fine now?
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CoolRanch posted:Didn’t we all collectively gnash our teeth at the play-ins, which is thought to be perfectly fine now?
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CoolRanch posted:Didn’t we all collectively gnash our teeth at the play-ins, which is thought to be perfectly fine now? A lot of the same people who complained about the play in are concerned about this, yes.
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To me it's crazy that Leo Miller didn't get drafted in the first round. A guy with those tools with touch like that, just because he's not a center?? and because he can't take guys off the dribble? sometimes you have to look past the archetype and just see the guy
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This is largely whatever lol. I'm not like champing at the bit for it, but like also, it's just literally one more game for 2 teams lol. It's not worth getting worked up about. It's just a marketing exercise for the league lol.
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Yeah, the only change besides the extra game for 2 teams is the different graphics packages on random regular season games. TNT will have to add "In Season Tournament Game" somewhere to some overlays. It's a weird thing to explain at the start since it seems like it's some huge change, but really it's just some regular games labeled something else...and a single bonus game. Gives folks more people to talk about and debate and yell about, A+, content is king. Skip in 8 months: "Does sitting out of this In-Season Tournament Game HURT Lebron's legacy??!?" Fake edit: They need a drat catchy name for it though, typing "In-Season Tournament" every time stinks!
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Jul 9, 2023 18:39
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I thought the play-in was a great idea at first and still do! I thought the in-season thing was dumb at first but am considering that it may be fun. Why not care a little more about early season games?
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Just let the winners of the tournament wear the WWF king of the ring gear during pregame introductions and the other team needs to prostrate during them, why is this so hard, GOD.
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Jul 9, 2023 19:09
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The MVP of the in season tournament playoff should be eligible for a super super max
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a new study bible! posted:The MVP of the in season tournament playoff should be eligible for a super super max Embiid is already on a super max.
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The in-season tournament will also have separate jerseys and court designs, so I think that will give it a fun flavor. I’m surprised they didn’t wait till after the Super Bowl to do it. That seems like when tanking goes into effect and the hope would be this serves as an anti-tanking measure.
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Chronicles posted:I thought the play-in was a great idea at first and still do! I thought the in-season thing was dumb at first but am considering that it may be fun. Why not care a little more about early season games? I've also been pretty high on the play-in, but I think your question contains the answer: why indeed care more about these early season games? If the games had some sort of win multiplier, or had additional draft implications, then sure there would be reason to care. But as I understand it, they're just regular games with some additional overlays in the broadcast. Teams already have like 4 different uniforms, additional kits are cool but hardly make the outcome of a game matter more or less. Idk, it all feels very astroturfed to me, like the league just saying "Care more about these random games" by fiat. The tourney final game will be interesting for the chance for minimum players to get like a 20%-50% salary bonus, but unless every tourney game has some sort of cash/other additional incentive I'm not sure why I'd care more than any other game.
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Which West teams have not improved in the offseason?
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Play-in sucked when the Heat were about to lose against the Bulls but was fun when they beat the Bucks in the first round.
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Strawberry Panda posted:Play-in sucked when the Heat were about to lose against the Bulls but was fun when they beat the Bucks in the first round. Yeah that ruled
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Spacebump posted:Which West teams have not improved in the offseason? Denver, Phoenix, Dallas, LAC, maybe the Pels
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IcePhoenix posted:Denver, Phoenix, Dallas, LAC, maybe the Pels I feel like Dallas has at least slightly improved unless you really believe in Wood.
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Spacebump posted:Which West teams have not improved in the offseason? Nuggets, clippers, wolves? Kings maybe? Blazers in the short term. Did the Pelicans do anything?
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Wolves have a better bench and healthy Towns, but I guess healthy player probably doesn't count since he was healthy to start the season last year too. Dallas is better because they have their team actually set to start the season.
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Lockback posted:Wolves have a better bench and healthy Towns, but I guess healthy player probably doesn't count since he was healthy to start the season last year too. I was just counting the upgrade from the Wolves bench as "improved" yeah, not factoring injuries into any of them. Similarly, I didn't count Kyrie starting the season with Dallas as an improvement either, he was there before he's still there now.
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DJ_Mindboggler posted:I've also been pretty high on the play-in, but I think your question contains the answer: why indeed care more about these early season games? If the games had some sort of win multiplier, or had additional draft implications, then sure there would be reason to care. But as I understand it, they're just regular games with some additional overlays in the broadcast. Teams already have like 4 different uniforms, additional kits are cool but hardly make the outcome of a game matter more or less. People give a poo poo about the CarQuest Bowl, sports and sports fans are dumb and want to care about even arbitrary stuff. It’s fun
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Also more tourny chat. The pool games I'm guessing most fans won't even realize it's pool play during the games. Those will just be regular games, maybe a couple teams will push hard just because. The knockout part I think will have some juice. Some teams may not care but I think the idea of sending other guys home will add something for most guys.
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Yeah I don't care about the tourney either way but I've come around to the play-in being good and fun chaos so we'll see.
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Dejan Bimble posted:To me it's crazy that Leo Miller didn't get drafted in the first round. If he continues to learn the fundamentals on the offensive and defensive end and can rework the shot, he could be a starter and even a top-3/top-4 guy on a finals team. If he doesn't, he's an energy big on the bench who'll grab a board or three. I'd take that over a number of this year's first rounders, but he's the epitome of a draft pick who gets a GM fired.
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Something cool happening in sports in mid-november is a welcome and good change Of course, if the players dgaf about winning the IST, then it'll be a joke
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The tournament will be cool if players care. If players do not care, it will not be cool. That is the entire equation.
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