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What is going to be your favorite offseason storyline? This poll is closed. |
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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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Joel "Gearhead from Dundalk" Embiid.
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Aug 6, 2017 06:24
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the chicago bulls are certainly the wire docks of the nba, a faded institution barely clinging to relevance while getting robbed by everyone around them, led by a bald guy who goes around yelling ON MY DOCKS THEY DON'T
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Aug 6, 2017 06:26
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I've only been suffering for the six months or so since Earvin Johnson took over, I was fine before that.
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Aug 6, 2017 06:33
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WhyteRyce posted:Itt compare your team to a location from The Wire The Knicks are those abandoned townhouses where Snoopi hid the dead bodies
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Aug 6, 2017 06:39
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Doltos posted:NBA's parity has unintentionally created a sea of disappointed fans. Unless you grew up a Celtics, Lakers, or Bulls fan you spent most your life either watching your favorite players lose in the most heartbreaking fashion or seeing your team transform into a bandwagon gently caress fest where everyone hates you for living in or near Miami. Going from classmates snickering at me for wearing a Mavericks shirt to school one day in the mid 90's to seeing them win the title in 2011 is still surreal to me, despite the ~15 year gap in-between.
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Aug 6, 2017 06:52
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R.D. Mangles posted:the chicago bulls are certainly the wire docks of the nba, a faded institution barely clinging to relevance while getting robbed by everyone around them, led by a bald guy who goes around yelling ON MY DOCKS THEY DON'T Gar is Ziggy, and this is his duck 
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Aug 6, 2017 06:58
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WhyteRyce posted:Itt compare your team to a location from The Wire coach stan van gundy: pretty okay gm stan van gundy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=409Pjtq7jzY
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Aug 6, 2017 07:00
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Aug 6, 2017 07:01
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bad advice those motherfuckers gave him bad advice
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Aug 6, 2017 07:56
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the wire got the eastern shore 100% right and the most eastern shore team ever was the roy hibbert pacers
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Aug 6, 2017 11:14
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Quinntan posted:Hi, I'm looking for a new team (and sport) to follow now that soccer has truly gone off the deep end with money. However, the soccer club that I support has always struggled with kinda rubbish ownership, retaining any players that show even a glimpse of promise and overall has been a bit of a misery circus after I started supporting them as a kid back in 2000 or so. What team fits that bill in the NBA so I know not to repeat the mistake? Hi, the team you're looking for are the Celtics. We won the most championships (the majority of them back when there was only like 4 teams), our best player is 5'9 and we've recently acquired a guy who looks like Ryan Gosling with Downs syndrome. Also, everyone hates us and we have one of the worst fandoms in sports. Welcome to Celtics Nation.
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Aug 6, 2017 12:17
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Be like me and be a fan of the game as a whole rather a than specific team. That way you can appreciate the unmatched basketball greatness of Golden State whilst also recognising Durant is a bitch and Draymond is a loving annoying rear end in a top hat. It's good just watching the best game every night on league pass, rather than stuck watching Sacramento - Charlotte or some poo poo because of fan obligation.
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Aug 6, 2017 12:46
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Castor Poe posted:Hi, the team you're looking for are the Celtics. We won the most championships (the majority of them back when there was only like 4 teams), our best player is 5'9 and we've recently acquired a guy who looks like Ryan Gosling with Downs syndrome. Also, everyone hates us and we have one of the worst fandoms in sports. Welcome to Celtics Nation. I'm Irish and as a result I hate everything BAWSTON. Sorry. Minnesota looks pretty nice, might go with them.
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Aug 6, 2017 13:24
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tanglewood1420 posted:Be like me and be a fan of the game as a whole rather a than specific team. That way you can appreciate the unmatched basketball greatness of Golden State whilst also recognising Durant is a bitch and Draymond is a loving annoying rear end in a top hat. This is true, sadly. I want my team to be good enough to be worth bandwagoning on. 
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Aug 6, 2017 13:49
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Tell me Kyrie, I'm trying to help you out. Where don't you want to go? Cleveland
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Aug 6, 2017 13:49
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Nice to see Minnesota still has a blah player for people to overly defend after Rubio.
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Aug 6, 2017 14:40
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Hand Row posted:Nice to see Minnesota still has a blah player for people to overly defend after Rubio. I miss the vacillation between "but fancystats!" for Rubio and "but buckets!" for Wiggins. I get that he's had different coaches and defensive schemes every year in the league. On the other hand, he's also been outrebounded by Rubio in every professional season. I don't understand how that's possible.
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Aug 6, 2017 15:32
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Paracaidas posted:I miss the vacillation between "but fancystats!" for Rubio and "but buckets!" for Wiggins. Lavine had the same coaches and even worse odds to become good due to being played out of position for his entire rookie year and he ended up being good so I'm not sure what the Minnesota coaching "argument" proves anyways Cool Buff Man fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Aug 6, 2017 |
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Aug 6, 2017 15:35
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The coaching is a big argument as to why his defense was bad, and LaVine is not a counter to that at all. People were excited about Barnes' offense this year, and Wiggins is comparable but can create better and is a few years younger. He has the right tools to be an excellent defender, but lots of guys have trouble with that at 22 or younger.
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Aug 6, 2017 15:45
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Lockback posted:The coaching is a big argument as to why his defense was bad, and LaVine is not a counter to that at all. People were excited about Barnes' offense this year, and Wiggins is comparable but can create better and is a few years younger. He has the right tools to be an excellent defender, but lots of guys have trouble with that at 22 or younger. The argument was never about his defense specifically, seeing as it started when I said that Wiggins "isn't very good" but if you want to make it about his defense, I'm fine with that because it's more evidence that he's not a "great young wing" All I'm seeing are excuses as to why he's not very good yet, but that doesn't change the fact that he's not very good at the moment. I didn't call him the worst player in the league or terrible or anything, and he obviously has potential Cool Buff Man fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Aug 6, 2017 |
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Aug 6, 2017 15:56
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Wiggins is a professional bucket getter and is good
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Aug 6, 2017 16:03
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WhyteRyce posted:Itt compare your team to a location from The Wire "where's griff. where's griff? huh? dan? where the gently caress's griffin. WHERE'S THE gently caress'S GRIFF, DAN?"
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Aug 6, 2017 16:09
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whats your favorite website to read about sports on?WhyteRyce posted:Itt compare your team to a location from The Wire also Danny Ainge is basically Clay Davis ripping everyone off SHIIIEEEEEEETTTT
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Aug 6, 2017 16:24
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Brolander posted:"where's griff. where's griff? huh? dan? where the gently caress's griffin. WHERE'S THE gently caress'S GRIFF, DAN?"
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Aug 6, 2017 16:29
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Cool Buff Man posted:The argument was never about his defense specifically, seeing as it started when I said that Wiggins "isn't very good" but if you want to make it about his defense, I'm fine with that because it's more evidence that he's not a "great young wing" I'd agree with you that he's not very good right now in the sense that you're comparing him to allstars. He averaged 23 points last year, 20 the year before that at the age of 20, and 17 before that his rookie year. He's becoming less and less efficient but that's over a small sample size of three years. He's 21 years old, he can dunk on guys known for rim protection, he can beat people to his shooting spot, and he's athletic. That's all potential there.
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Aug 6, 2017 16:33
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the small, small sample size of his entire career
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Aug 6, 2017 16:35
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Doltos posted:I'd agree with you that he's not very good right now in the sense that you're comparing him to allstars. He averaged 23 points last year, 20 the year before that at the age of 20, and 17 before that his rookie year. He's becoming less and less efficient but that's over a small sample size of three years. He's 21 years old, he can dunk on guys known for rim protection, he can beat people to his shooting spot, and he's athletic. That's all potential there. I'm interested in seeing if playing with Butler will make him care about defense or if it will make him glum about losing shots. Perhaps both. I need the season to start already cuz I've got like 40 storylines on hold, just waiting for them to develop
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Aug 6, 2017 16:38
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The Raptors are The Wire in that everybody thinks they're good until they get to the playoffs and realize they've been had and are just watching bad plots and boring characters do things at a snail's pace that seem good because if white people love anything it's watching "gritty" dramas about ~inner city life~ and what were we talking about again?
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Aug 6, 2017 17:01
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Mandrel posted:Counterpoint: if you root for the Warriors you are A Chode and everyone will know it especially after you post something like this lol Rick posted:I've only been suffering for the six months or so since Earvin Johnson took over, I was fine before that. lol
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Aug 6, 2017 17:07
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So are we just assuming then that Black people don't also like the Wire?
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Aug 6, 2017 17:09
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Dexo posted:So are we just assuming then that Black people don't also like the Wire? it's a pretty dumb boring loving take isn't it
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Aug 6, 2017 17:12
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Dexo posted:So are we just assuming then that Black people don't also like the Wire? No I'm pretty sure he's saying if you like the wire you are white. Sorry I don't make the rules dexo but you are white now
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Aug 6, 2017 17:14
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Ghost Dog posted:the small, small sample size of his entire career A three year career. Cool Buff Man posted:I'm interested in seeing if playing with Butler will make him care about defense or if it will make him glum about losing shots. Perhaps both. I need the season to start already cuz I've got like 40 storylines on hold, just waiting for them to develop Wiggins and Butler play near identical on offense so unless Thibs hates one of them for no reason they'll get their looks. Jeff Teague might take more shots that Rubio didn't take but the ball will move around the same. His defense loving blows though and is the main thing holding him back besides his array of inefficient long 2's.
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Aug 6, 2017 17:19
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Metapod posted:Wiggins is a professional bucket getter and is good If you think about it rebounds are bad juju for a bucket-getter because how can expect to be in tune with the bucket-getting energies when you're also getting rebounds, aka non-buckets
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Aug 6, 2017 17:19
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Metapod posted:No I'm pretty sure he's saying if you like the wire you are white. Sorry I don't make the rules dexo but you are white now Oh thank God, maybe now I won't get watched by the local cops while looking through my mail outside my own house until I go inside. But anyway gently caress the bulls front office. Zach Lavine has no knees, Kris Dunn is bad and Lauri's peak is loving Ryan Anderson.
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Aug 6, 2017 17:21
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I'm the version of The Wire aired on BET where like 1/3rd of season two is cut until it's mostly D'Angelo In Prison lol
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Aug 6, 2017 17:25
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I only enjoy the Animal Planet version of the Wire where they cut everything except Marlo petting pigeons and Wee-Bey explaining how to care for his fish
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Aug 6, 2017 17:27
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EvanTH posted:I'm the version of The Wire aired on BET where like 1/3rd of season two is cut until it's mostly D'Angelo In Prison lol Please link these edits it sounds like a much better version of season 2
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Aug 6, 2017 17:31
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In this version of The Wire, Dexo goes out in a track suit, grabs his mail from the mailbox, then goes for a brisk jog...... plot edit: He is followed, arrested, frisked, then charged with mail fraud because the D.A. suspects he baited the cops into an illegal arrest for a million dollar payoff Disclaimer: I have never watched the Wire
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Aug 6, 2017 17:32
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Extolling how much you like the Wire is the ultimate in rich white dude virtue signaling understanding the real plight of "the streets" while not actually understanding it at all (see: every Bill Simmons column ever). The Wire is a good show but I've never once met a person talking about it who wasn't obnoxious as gently caress.
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