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Bush Did Outer Heaven posted:https://twitter.com/NBA/status/790568826802929664 It's the arena announcer, Mason's, catchphrase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxnpSgMQai0
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Athanatos posted:Does TNT stream games on their Watch TNT website deal? TNT Extra time was totally free even if you didn't have TNT, I don't know if they changed it
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Oct 25, 2016 21:58
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euphronius posted:How old is the undertaker 29
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Oct 25, 2016 22:43
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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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Oct 26, 2016 00:12
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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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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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straight up brolic posted:He gets out of position a lot and then has to use his length to recover. The Spurs abused him with two bigs last night and perfectly exposed a lot of his weaknesses. They struggled against big big teams last year too, the lost to the Pistons, they lost to the Nuggets, I think they lost to the Wolves. They got smaller, functionally, on defense. No Bogut and no Ezeli which means they need to integrate Zaza's more pedestrian but solid big man defense and maybe even try Javale for a bit of rim protection. Other than that, it's just a matter of time for Durant to learn how to play in their system It was nice to see the spurs stay the spurs despite the magic of duncan's hoary old bones being sealed in a leaded coffin. Post and high elbow passing is really useful against smaller teams
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Oct 26, 2016 14:06
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ElPedro posted:Since you want us lurkers to reply.. well why not! Check out nbahd.com for free replays my Dansk friend! Just make sure you have all the adblocks 
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Oct 26, 2016 14:11
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Redgrendel2001 posted:This post led me to discover that Miles Simon is half Norwegian. Half Swedish half Russian America n
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Oct 26, 2016 15:17
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RaySmuckles posted:lmao, i tried to watch first take just to hear some people talk about the game last night and my god, my god, Stephen A Smith is loving awful. loving awful. it was painful. If you want immediate video takes about nba, cbs sports sometimes has matt moore doing those autoplay videos. But if its a swarthy guy with the worlds most annoying voice, close your browser
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Oct 26, 2016 19:13
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Marcus Morris is literally the best player at gaurding LEbron James in the NBA. So Why don't the Warriors trade Kevin Durant for Marcus Morris and Stanley Johnon takes his role
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Oct 26, 2016 19:13
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ozymandius1024 posted:Marcus Morris is a cool guy. I look forward to watching him shoot midrange jumpers all night tonight. Marcus Morris is pure Philadlelphia which make shim pure Detroit , the only other way to be pure Detroitiso tbe pure Louisiana or Alabama. Very important to have those guys on the team
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Oct 26, 2016 19:19
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Jota posted:Happy Joel Embiid day my friends. We made it. I believe
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Oct 26, 2016 19:39
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I take back everything bad I've ever said about Reggie Jackson 13th best pg is so much better than replacement level pg
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Oct 27, 2016 02:55
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Henchman of Santa posted:How did DeRozan get 40 points in three quarters? The defense looked loving putrid. I dropped my macbook and smashed the screen and spent most of the game cross shopping new computers so I don't have any analysis, I mostly just heard the broadcast I tink it was just a combo of bad pg defense, Tobias Harris, and Drummond
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Oct 27, 2016 04:09
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Spacebump posted:Isn't this true of almost all of the good defensive big men? That's a weak objection, it's like saying, Lebron gets away with changing his pivot foot and offensive fouling, and your response is, don't most superstars? Bogut is the king of the illegal screen WhyteRyce posted:Kings looked like an actual basketball team against a bad basketball team last night. If we can beat all the non-playoff teams this year I'll be pleased Man if they can find lineups to play him alongside Cousins they might actually have a shot at the 8th seed.
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Oct 27, 2016 21:06
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straight up brolic posted:Willie Cauley-Stein is the most underrated young big in the NBA. Very Tyson Chandler-y, which was his draft comp. I want to say he's like Tyson Chandler but slighter, and with more range to cover perimeter players. If he had a little jumper that would really set things off. Cousins is a good enough passer that they could develop a post passing thing with him cutting to the basket.
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Spacebump: I wasn't attacking your assetion, it's just accepted that Bogut is an illegal screener extradonaire, Kevin Garnett Level. This is a good question for the thread: Who do you think is the best defensive big of the last 10 years who didn't set blatantly illegal screens [ MourningView posted:Some of us have been excited about Myles Turner for like two years!! What do yout hink of Lyles through the preseason? Could he still become a bench scorer, he had his moments later last year. APologizes for all the questions, I'm 10x more busier this year than I was last year so I just can't watch as many games Dejan Bimble fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Oct 27, 2016 |
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Oct 27, 2016 21:15
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WhyteRyce posted:WCS tried a couple of jumpers from 15' out and they were ugly. But Joerger is starting Kosta Koufos next to Cousins so it's not like the spacing can get any worse by starting WCS instead. Don't shoot me for making this comp, but his defense could be non insane kevin Garnett esque. He has the body type and the agility. It's just that offensive game. We've talked about how the Kings need a nominal center/pf who can protect the rim and switch to protect cousins. Ideally he could shoot, but the skal project is still baking in the basketball 5.5 kiln
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Oct 27, 2016 21:18
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Spacebump posted:No worries, I'm still in salty mode after realizing the Mavs' only two (real) centers with NBA experience might be injured. The upside is that you probably weren't getting the 8th seed and its a great draft. Plus you get to see what Salah Mejri can really do, we know what Powell can do, be a pf who plays like a center. There are two bigs in the later lottery that I can see Carlisle molding into something May Carlisle will get some Quincy Acy small ball going MourningView posted:He definitely could be if his outside shot comes along. He's really skilled for a big guy but not quite as skilled as he thinks he is which I thinks gets him in trouble at times. He's also not a very good athlete and probably won't ever be a very good defender which limits his upside a bit
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Oct 27, 2016 21:27
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Lockback posted:ANY player who sets lots of screens will end up setting lots of illegal screens because they don't get called often, so why not? Defensive bigs don't do much on offense other than set screens, ergo.... I'm surveying all the basketball personalities on twitter to see if anyone even has a memory. Yao is a good thinking. He was so big that his screens didn't have to be illegal
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Oct 27, 2016 21:43
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Spacebump posted:I'm still convinced this Mavs team has the potential to be a good defensive team that could be anywhere from a 4-8 seed*. The problem (assuming they have healthy centers, which if they don't will be a bigger problem) will be offense. If players regularly have nights like Matthews did last night, they are in for some frustrating games. That is a good point about the quality of the draft. Let's hope Cuban doesn't meddle with the draft. Another situation where Donnie wants to draft a player like Giannis and Cuban trades to a worse spot to save money for a big free agent that doesn't come would be brutal. There's no reason to count them out yet. Especially since having an automatic scorer in the regular season is worth about 10 extra wins. I wonder if Wes Mathews and Jennings will ever recover from their achilles tears. They'e the test cases for the latest in cadaver grafting and no slicing spaghettis
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MourningView posted:the certainty that Simmons is likely to be a star seems kinda premature imo When you can draft yourself a slim boris diaw 1st overall, you do it
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Beno Udrih had a classic Beno game last night. I love that loving slovenian idiot and his awful haircut
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I feel like this is every post I make in this forum, but to anyone in Europe, or any Americans who have to wake up at 4 am, NBAHD is a lifesaver. They have every game in HD after the fact. Reborn4hd's archive is hit or miss, and league pass's doesn't always work.
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chunkles posted:Dejan was Singler ever OK or am I thinking of Jonas Jerebko? Probably just getting my white Pistons journeymen from 5 years ago mixed up here He started for the Pistons and was a net positive player, he shot well, he handled the ball, he facilitated a little. He's just not meant to be a spot up shooter. Jerebko was great as a piston and tore his acl, then stan traded him for nothing and now hes good for celtics. He was definitely the most athletic white in the NBA aside from Aaron Gordon or Blake Griffin
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What confused me is is that 3 years ago, Thad Young was an exciting trade chip, like, we've gotta get a good first or someone good for him. Thad Young. And then for 2 years everyone's opinion of him was, can't shoot threes so he sucks. Then he signed with the Pacers and somehow Thad Young became a good player who can do all sorts of things again. Perception baby “ZELMO BEATY: Bill was a strong believer in the power of honey. In the dressing room, he had honey candy bars and honey and tea for us to drink. He also had chocolate bars. He believed that honey and chocolate gave you energy. Excerpt From: Terry Pluto. “Loose Balls.” iBooks. '
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Bashez posted:It still blows my mind how little respect Green gets. The team is looking pretty nice overall. People pay like twice has actual value for him in fantasy basketball so I think he's well respected in basketball addict circles
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Andrre Drummond developing a face up game is loving  If he ever learns to play defense and make fts this team could be a conference finals sort of team
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Kyrie is old school, he just doesn't play defense, he doesn't bother with it
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Mandrel posted:curry wasn't on a bum leg when he came back and torched portland. let's just acknowledge he got thick daddied by stronger tougher men like the baby that he is and had to be bailed out by his teammates If he won, his injury would have been real. But he lost so it doesn't matter. That's the duality of stupid sports rhetoric. He got hurt and so did Bogut, dramond got suspended and they lost, that's what happened. The cavs happened to play very good basketball and won the series Lockback posted:PG defense has so very little effect on your teams defense as a whole, man. I don't know what you are on about. There's a difference between being bad/not fighting through screens just to be across the ocurt from the real action, and just not trying, James Harden/Kyrie style. Those put extra pressure on your defense. Lillard is a bad defender but he at least goes hrough the motions s so their scheme stays somewhat intact What's annoying about Kyrie is that he has the tools to be a decent defender, but except for a few moments in the playoffs he just didn't bother. And it wasn't like he was getting harden usage and needed that much of a rest. Australian instiute of sport players are all primadonnas lazy and weird is my opinion Dejan Bimble fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Oct 31, 2016 |
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Larry Bird was a poor man's David Lee on his best day
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Metapod posted:https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/793178124708093952 21m a year for Victor Oladipo That cat-like guy who misses layups? What a world If that's the "Should be good but isn't that good" sg price, I'm afraid KCP will be like 93m/4
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Bush Did Outer Heaven posted:KCP is getting very near the max in RFA if he actually seeks out an offer sheet. Might well be that Detroit has a handshake deal to pay him in RFA like they did with Drummond, but playing chicken with Brooklyn and Philadelphia has already cost the Spurs/Clippers/Blazers. I assume so. The rfa max just means ' solid starter' money now, it's hard to get used to Can we get 10 or so NBA players to fund a new version of slamball that's played until one team is dead due to traps and pitfalls on the court
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Redgrendel2001 posted:Well the Pelicans seem to have lost one of those slamball matches already. drat and they even killed the former coach's wife That's brutal Maybe we should ban neo slam ball
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Lockback posted:I have no earthly idea what Shabazz Muhammad's market value is. I'd totally offer him the QO and see what contract someone else gives him. It's such a loving bind for all these GMs. Trading nets you nothing of value, you either overpay or let them go for nothing.
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Gynecolojustice posted:The knee is an ugly joint to look at It's kind of like one of those crazy spaghetti freeway junctions in sunny los angeles california
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Metapod posted:If Evan believes it so do I!!! Let's go grant 👏👏👏 Its essentially a swap of a mediocre stretch 4 who can't defend or attack closeouts for an athletic dynamo of an SF who needs a jumper or to become a great defender to have value. I like the gamble
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MourningView posted:I'm so happy D'antoni is back. If you go by identical body type (6'2 with 6'10 wingspan) and athleticism, Reggie Jackson and George Hill are the Goofus and Gallant of the NBA
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Detroit's 2 weeks of Brandon Jennings without Josh Smith were even better than the Knicks 3 weeks of Linsanity but nobody knows about it because new york is a "major city" and the knicks have a "fan base"
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