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Metapod posted:The blazers over achieved I just don't see them doing as well I tend to agree, but since there hasn't really been a chance to prove that I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt.
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Dejan Bimble posted:This is an endorsement of the ketogenic diet imho gently caress this, no more bread for me. And yeah I want to read these things.
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Ghost Dog posted:an mvp in his prime joining a historically good team has almost certainly never happened in any major american sport? i can't think of anything in basketball or football but maybe im wrong. i dont know what the nba could do to prevent it but it seems less routine than you are making it out to be In the NBA I would say LeBron joining the Heat would be the closest parallel ANd I would guess A-Rod to the Yankees, but I don't know a ton about baseball
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Dejan Bimble posted:This is an endorsement of the ketogenic diet imho hmm, so the lebron heat were the mongols and the warriors are an actual chimera
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Ghost Dog posted:an mvp in his prime joining a historically good team has almost certainly never happened in any major american sport? i can't think of anything in basketball or football but maybe im wrong. i dont know what the nba could do to prevent it but it seems less routine than you are making it out to be the formation of the Three Alphas combined with Doug McDermott
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Oct 25, 2016 05:00
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Lurkers I know you are out there POST YOU FUCKERS
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Beno Udrih is a piston.  BENO UDRIH IS A PISTON I'm excited. I've always loved Beno. I'll take Beno + Ish over Beno + Ray McCallum or Lorenzo Brown. Beno just has one game a week where he looks great, that's probably all they need to hold the line enough to make sure they make the playoffs should Jackson miss 2 months
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The Glumslinger posted:In the NBA I would say LeBron joining the Heat would be the closest parallel that team wasnt really that good till lebron made it good tho, i don't think its similar at all
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Metapod posted:Lurkers I know you are out there POST YOU FUCKERS Lurking in here for about 4-5 years I'm mildly intrigued about the upcoming season. Bought Int. league pass for another year.
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Metapod posted:Lurkers I know you are out there POST YOU FUCKERS I've been lurking in this thread for ages, I have LP but being in Australia the games are all on while I'm at work and I don't have time to watch many and thus can't contribute in a meaningful way. Rest assured pretty much all my basketball opinions are formed from this thread in one way or another, and hoping all Australians in the NBA do well. Except Aaron Baynes
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EoinCannon posted:I've been lurking in this thread for ages, I have LP but being in Australia the games are all on while I'm at work and I don't have time to watch many and thus can't contribute in a meaningful way. Why are you hating on the House o' Bayne? e: also hoping you managed to catch the VPN ILP pass info I posted like 20 pages back to get yourself a discount on the ridiculous $330Au price. Smellyhead fucked around with this message at 05:44 on Oct 25, 2016 |
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Curry and Green are on ridiculously good contracts. I feel like that too often gets left out of the stories of how these Warriors ended up like this, because no one wants to give the douchebag franchise credit. It's not like KD took a mid-level to ring chase, he got his max. If there had been no max salary last year, the Warriors would have been one of the least affected of the competitive franchises.
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Metapod posted:Lurkers I know you are out there POST YOU FUCKERS But then I have to think of things to say! I'm excited for the season. Mostly because I'm buying Windy City Bulls tickets to heckle Jerian Grant in leather seats. I think the Bulls are going to be entertainingly bad this year. I want to see who cracks first, Taj or Portis.
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Stagger_Lee posted:Curry and Green are on ridiculously good contracts. I feel like that too often gets left out of the stories of how these Warriors ended up like this, because no one wants to give the douchebag franchise credit. Why should they get credit for insane luck? Because Curry's situation is pure luck. Good for them, bad for him.
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Niwrad posted:That's the solution right there. And the fairest because stars are vastly underpaid in this league at the expense of role players. Gotta keep the role players happy, that's the power of collective bargaining BABY
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Metapod posted:Lurkers I know you are out there POST YOU FUCKERS I'm always 1000 posts behind on this thread.
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EVIL NOONER posted:lol 40 year old malone that played 20 games for the lakers that season He played half the season and they were really good when he was in the lineup/healthy.
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Smellyhead posted:Why are you hating on the House o' Bayne? I found his incompetence while playing for Spurs embarrassing to my country. Nah I don't hate him, I wish him well, he needs a haircut though
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the bulls are a depressing mess, but i'm excited for Second Year Portis and I'm thinking of adopting Unconditional McDermott Fandom as my 2016 Posting Affectation
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Dr. Furious posted:He played half the season and they were really good when he was in the lineup/healthy. no he played literally 21 games hth
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EVIL NOONER posted:no he played literally 21 games hth http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/malonka01/gamelog/2004/ 42 regular season 21 playoffs hth
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Dr. Furious posted:http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/malonka01/gamelog/2004/ well you're right but that still doesnt really change the fact that lol @ listing 40 year old karl malone like having him made a super team that compares to GSW
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Metapod posted:Lurkers I know you are out there POST YOU FUCKERS Go Dubs
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EVIL NOONER posted:well you're right but that still doesnt really change the fact that lol @ listing 40 year old karl malone like having him made a super team that compares to GSW Agreed that it's not quite the same but even at 40 Malone was pretty good. He averaged 15/10 before he went down after the first stretch of the season. Dude dropped 30 in the first round against the Rockets. Him slowing down by the end of the playoffs was a big part of the Lakers losing to Detroit that season. 04 WCF and the collapse of the Wolves team the year after is probably the peak (trough?) of sports disappointment for me. The Wolves look like they could be really good really soon but I don't know if I can bring myself to trust them.
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R.D. Mangles posted:the bulls are a depressing mess, but i'm excited for Second Year Portis and I'm thinking of adopting Unconditional McDermott Fandom as my 2016 Posting Affectation I'm gonna end up Rooting for MCW or Caanan I think.
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i wish there was another kevin garnett not like, somebody like him. just another one of him. Dexo posted:I'm gonna end up Rooting for MCW or Caanan I think. i will be rooting for maximum rondo
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Metapod posted:Lurkers I know you are out there POST YOU FUCKERS i like hoop ball my favorite team is the south texan boot spikes i hope they play well tomorrow though i expect them to get whooped real good
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Senf posted:Go Dubs It's going to be a wild ride. I hope Kerr can make it work without too much spinning of wheels, and that the 2nd unit can hold its own on most nights.
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Metapod posted:Lurkers I know you are out there POST YOU FUCKERS The Grizzlies are cool and good, but the Titans are lame and bad.
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Metapod posted:Lurkers I know you are out there POST YOU FUCKERS This season I'm looking forward to a continuation of this bizarre Cleveland sports success. I never posted much to begin with, but the Anthony Bennett age sucked away my meager online presence. For their historic championship last year, i watched silently, an old man with a tear in his eye. I intend to do the same thing this year. I already miss Mo Williams (BUT THIS TIME FOREVER.)
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Metapod posted:Lurkers I know you are out there POST YOU FUCKERS I think the Celtics are the second best team in the East and 4th best team in the NBA after the Warriors, Cavs, and Spurs. I think the Clippers, Raptors, Thunder, and Blazers all regress.
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CharlestheHammer posted:Why should they get credit for insane luck? Because Curry's situation is pure luck. Good for them, bad for him. Klay Thompson's contract was not luck at all. And it was a brilliant move.
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Metapod posted:Lurkers I know you are out there POST YOU FUCKERS I love this thread  ! I was actually listening to Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World audiobook yesterday strangely enough, the Great Khan and his empire have always been one of my favorite parts of history to read about. Sadly I won't be able to watch as much basketball as I did the last couple years, will have to stick to just watching Blazers and Spurs games I think.
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Metapod posting with all his burner accounts
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Metapod posting with all his burner accounts including a one Punkin Spunkin, and a one chunkles. of course nobody would ever suspect that a man from oklahoma could successfully impersonate sophisticated cosmopolitans from texas.
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Tim Bontemps sounds so depressed over having gone to the Bay Area to cover the Warriors and it's hilarious It's the divine boredom of the perfect team.
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Ghost Dog posted:i mean the reason its never happened before is probably just cause no one that good at something is usually that loving bitchmade that their only hope at winning is gutting their oppositions main rivals and joining them It's so funny how people that don't get paid to play sports are so adept at telling people who their 'rivals' are. Bashez posted:Klay Thompson's contract was not luck at all. And it was a brilliant move. Exactly, Klay and Dray both signed their contracts knowing full well that the cap was expanding but they were more comfortable taking the guarantee than risking the season the same way that Harrison Barnes did. That's their choice, not this mythical 'luck'. And people can say what the hell they want about Steph's contract but holy gently caress, the Warriors took a calculated risk and it paid off. At the time that they gave him his contract it was generally panned around the bay on the radio and in the news but people begrudgingly said "You just have to take a chance on this kid." Why shouldn't they be allowed to have the benefit of the doubt of taking a chance that paid off? For all the Penny Hardaway and Grant Hill contracts, every now and then someone with a lower leg injury actually does recover and does go on to own. Just a few years ago people were worried about Russell Westbrook's future because he'd had a few knee injuries. The Warriors bought low, Curry's stock zoomed up, and now they're owning. Sweet. TheKevman fucked around with this message at 08:40 on Oct 25, 2016 |
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