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EvanTH posted:https://theringer.com/lebron-is-still-painting-his-masterpiece-bdad85037eb0 LBJ has had many signature moments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ4GA3GB3Wk The most common signature LBJ moment is him sitting on the sidelines at the ASG with a reporter asking him if he'll do the dunk contest next year. It happens every year.  tanglewood1420 posted:When will whoever it was that ran the preseason survey (sorry, can't remember which wonderful poster it was) release the results? Hopefully within two weeks. Poll is now closed. 107 total responses so that was good and most ever.
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NickRoweFillea posted:Memphis!!! MEMPHIS Hmmm ever think okc
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Oct 25, 2016 23:46
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Metapod posted:Hmmm ever think okc
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Oct 25, 2016 23:47
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Spring Break My Heart posted:The Panthers went 15-1 and swept through the NFC but now have the 2nd worst record in the league, and the NFC itself hasn't had a lot of continuity as far as the front runners. The best odds any team got before the season was 8:1. The best odds for any NHL team this year were 9:1. Going into last year's playoffs, the best odds any team got were 7:1. The best teams in MLB flip frequently and the playoffs are always a total crapshoot. The best odds any team got before the season were 10:1. A team going 15-1 one season and then starting a season 1-5 is not parity. That's chaos and unpredictability. Parity, by definition, means teams having the same amount of talent and teams having a 50/50 shot to win a game AKA teams all hovering around 8-8, 7-9, 9-7 records in the NFL. This just doesn't happen. The NBA playoff teams are very hard to predict as well going into the season. In three years and over 200 tries here nobody has guessed the eight east playoff teams correctly. Continuity, predictability and parity are different things. There is confusion here because I have seen articles conflate the three as if each team getting a turn in the playoffs proves equality. Some articles I've read equate parity with fairness and fairness with whatever arbitrary/superficial idea pops into the sportswriters head as being fair. e.g. the NBA has had six different champions in the last seven seasons. That is not parity. Flip a coin sixteen times and see how often you go 15-1. You are correct that the MLB playoffs are a crapshoot (not parity) and that's due to the nature of the game more than teams having an equal level of talent. The MLB is insane as it's not uncommon for the team with the best run differential and/or SRS to miss the playoffs entirely. 2014 Oakland A's had the highest run differential and SRS and missed the MLB playoffs. Imagine GSW missing the playoffs last year because they lost a ton of games by one point. That's what happens in baseball. The nature of baseball/football make actual performance more unhinged from wins and losses compared to basketball/hockey. I looked at the colleration between MOV and wins in the big four sports in some seasons over the last twenty years. They were hovering around these averages in each season I checked: NBA .97 NHL .95 MLB .92 NFL .91 The NBA has had near perfect correlation some years. .9 is good but it definitely leaves room for a great NFL/MLB team to be unlucky and open the door for a weak team. Creating a false sense of parity. The spirit of Byron Scott lives on. Sharparoni posted:The NBA is a cool league, my dudes, and even though the Warriors are going to go 96-0, we can all still enjoy random Jazz-Hornets games, probably. Please enjoy the Timberwolves You mean 98-0.
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Oct 25, 2016 23:48
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kiimo posted:I'm not sure he's joking He's been watching Giannis highlights and wants to be better version 
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*bursts in to thread panting* hey everyone! *gasps for air* BASKETBALL!!!!!!!!!!
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Making a post in the new thread for the two or three people who care - I made some print-friendly NBA schedules for this new season for the major US time zones, because I can't find anyone else who does the same thing. Available to download here: http://vrowl.com/2016-17-nba-schedules
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Oct 25, 2016 23:49
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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 We're in uncharted waters as KD to the 2017 Warriors is like putting David Robinson or Shaq on the 1997 Bulls but these are close: -1982 76ers lost in the finals and then Moses Malone joined the team. -1970 Bucks with a dominant KAJ gets Oscar Robertson the next year. -1968 Lakers lost in the finals and then Wilt Chamberlain joined the team. Eltoasto posted:https://twitter.com/joevardon/status/791020370639851521 Doing this to Dan Gilbert over and over: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4FO-M6XxSc tanglewood1420 posted:This time last year people were talking up New Orleans as a possible four or five seed, Davis as an outside MVP candidate and how he's going to win multiple MVPs and be the face of the league for the next decade. And now it's like he's all of a sudden an afterthought. His lack of the 3P shot is going to hurt going forward.
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Oct 25, 2016 23:51
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legit upset that the bulls' dumb twitter thing isn't #ThreeAlphas
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Oct 25, 2016 23:53
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When will you start releasing the poll results
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Oct 25, 2016 23:56
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got some chores tonight posted:i would not expect the knicks or the rockets to have expectionally low dribble numbers cuz i feel like most of their offences were letting superstars work There were some moments last year where we looked like a good team with bad players
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straight up brolic posted:The problem is that Jordan's shot over Russell is literally the only truly "iconic" moment in NBA history. Everything else pales in comparison including this block which was amazing and incredible Bird and Havlicek famously stole balls for Boston in the playoffs. Or are you writing those off as undue Boston homerism? Ghost Dog posted:durant joining the warriors doesnt make then any more of a superteam it just made their competition worse. imagine being a player as good as durant and your major contribution to the team you are on is that you arent on another team jfc Durant joining does make them more powerful. Replacing Harrison Barnes with Durant is big. Curry, Klay and Durant can decide between themselves some games to cruise more and take the night off. This will allow them to retain stamina. I know a lot thought I was joking about championship hunger but it's a real thing and Durant has been accruing it. Tae posted:Why watch, I heard it's already over If the GSW don't win in 2017 I fear for what big signing they pull off during the summer. Metapod posted:When will you start releasing the poll results Hopefully within two weeks.
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Oct 26, 2016 00:08
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Zogo posted:A team going 15-1 one season and then starting a season 1-5 is not parity. That's chaos and unpredictability. Parity, by definition, means teams having the same amount of talent and teams having a 50/50 shot to win a game AKA teams all hovering around 8-8, 7-9, 9-7 records in the NFL. This just doesn't happen. The NBA playoff teams are very hard to predict as well going into the season. In three years and over 200 tries here nobody has guessed the eight east playoff teams correctly. When I say this I don't want to sound like I'm having an insight, but I do think that's why people like the NFL. The general randomness makes it a good TV show, like a soap opera where characters randomly are killed off or revealed to be twins, things just happen, the ball is a silly shape, there are a ton of guys who are allowed to slam into each other but only from some directions and hold but only at certain points, it's really an absurd accretion of rules that leads to wild variance
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Zogo posted:Bird and Havlicek famously stole balls for Boston in the playoffs. Or are you writing those off as undue Boston homerism?
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Oct 26, 2016 00:13
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I'm so happy the NBA is back so I can stop pretending I still care about the NFL.
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Oct 26, 2016 00:13
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Zogo can I change my vote for rookie PER leader to Jamal Murray?
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Rick posted:Zogo can I change my vote for rookie PER leader to Jamal Murray?
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Zogo posted:You mean 98-0. Should be 97-1 at that point
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SunshineDanceParty posted:I'm so happy the NBA is back so I can stop pretending I still care about the NFL. the panthers are 1-5, this was decided for me
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Oct 26, 2016 00:18
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SunshineDanceParty posted:I'm so happy the NBA is back so I can stop pretending I still care about the NFL. The saddest thing was seeing all the NBA twitter media guys pretend to care about baseball and football during offseason Come on guys You only get one team sport
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Oct 26, 2016 00:19
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Shaquille O'Neal: still terrible
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Oct 26, 2016 00:21
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I only watched 1 Rockets game this preseason, but i am in. WCF, MVP. calling it.
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Oct 26, 2016 00:20
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Dejan Bimble posted:You only get one team sport
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Oct 26, 2016 00:21
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Rick posted:Zogo can I change my vote for rookie PER leader to Jamal Murray? I felt like this too after watching him in one preseason game (lol). Dude's either gonna take Harris' spot or score off the bench. Could also play huge minutes if the Nugs trade any or all of: Barton, Gallinari, Chandler.
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Oct 26, 2016 00:24
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straight up brolic posted:stop trying to make this happen I don't think a media person can effectively cover more than one sport A fan might be able to be entertained by more than one
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Oct 26, 2016 00:23
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Kibner posted:gently caress Byron Scott. He said un byronically. Jeez this thread is moving.
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Oct 26, 2016 00:26
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Dejan Bimble posted:I don't think a media person can effectively cover more than one sport
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straight up brolic posted:oooooo compelling. I am not sure if he's good yet but I'm confident in the fact that if he's on the floor he's going to get some stats. Bush Did Outer Heaven posted:I felt like this too after watching him in one preseason game (lol). Dude's either gonna take Harris' spot or score off the bench. Could also play huge minutes if the Nugs trade any or all of: Barton, Gallinari, Chandler. Hahah, I'm basing it off of TWO preseason games.
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Oct 26, 2016 00:31
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then again, PER is biased against rookie guards and strongly in favor of bigs.
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Bush Did Outer Heaven posted:I felt like this too after watching him in one preseason game (lol). Dude's either gonna take Harris' spot or score off the bench. Could also play huge minutes if the Nugs trade any or all of: Barton, Gallinari, Chandler. He'll get a lot of minutes if Jameer or Mudiay go down for any period of time, too I implore y'all to check out a few Nuggets games this year. They aren't gonna be good but they will be a lot more fun to watch than the garbo Shaw teams. Malone's trying a twin towers thing with Nurkic and Jokic and they are both great passing bigs, and Jokic might be really good, and Nurk talks a ton of poo poo. Don't watch for Mudiay though he's a scrub
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Rookie PER is going to Embiid c'mon. It was 28.2 this preseason. vvvvv Or that. kiimo fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Oct 26, 2016 |
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Oct 26, 2016 00:42
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Zogo posted:Bird and Havlicek famously stole balls for Boston in the playoffs. Or are you writing those off as undue Boston homerism? Link me to the poll again I have to take it please
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I enjoy watching the NBA. New poster here. Growing up in Central IL I got into the NBA around the time Jordan retired once, the Rockets were winning, and the Magic had Penny/Shaq. I was a Magic fan, since I felt like a bandwagon Bulls fan if I cheered for them, and the Magic were new. Now that I live in the Chicago suburbs I want the Bulls to do well, but the Magic are still what I consider "my team". Excited for another season of mediocrity! Edit: Charlotte Hornets are also cool in my book because Kendall Gill (University of Illinois player) played for them, and Muggsy Bogues was cool as poo poo. americanzero4128 fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Oct 26, 2016 |
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Oct 26, 2016 01:24
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This owns https://www.500level.com/collections/sagerstrong
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Oct 26, 2016 01:52
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chunkles posted:post more. i need other people to help me spread lies about how james harden plays good defense. I won't say 'good' but meet me at 'adequate' and that's a lie I'll spread and believe.
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Oct 26, 2016 01:52
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Zogo posted:If the GSW don't win in 2017 I fear for what big signing they pull off during the summer. If they were truly light years ahead they'd convince Thibs to trade KAT for Zaza
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Oct 26, 2016 01:56
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Zogo posted:We're in uncharted waters as KD to the 2017 Warriors is like putting David Robinson or Shaq on the 1997 Bulls but these are close: Moses is probably the closest comparison, as he was a two time MVP in '79 and '82. In 68 the league was a lot smaller and teams were stacked. In the age of "parity" you don't see teams with no weaknesses 1-5 but those Sixers came very close.
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GUYS the warriors blew a 3-1 lead in the 2016 nba finals with the league's first unanimous mvp
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