boxcarhobo posted:

https://twitter.com/bdetrick/status/790920142028939264

Vanilla Mint Ice posted:

My lurker opinion is that Durant will have a MVP level performance but not win MVP due to narrative reasons

wandler20 posted:

Go Thunder. They should sure be fun to watch this year and I hope Russ does many cool Russ things. Hopefully Dipo also does cool things.

Kibner posted:

gently caress Byron Scott.

euphronius posted:

Embiid owned and he literally has no idea what he's doing and has played one NBA game.

a new study bible! posted:

Yeah Philly isn't and won't be good for years still. It's also a pretty damning statement on the game that the only way to contend for a title is to at least win a superstar in the lottery.

Redgrendel2001 posted:

https://twitter.com/SynergySST/status/792366901791903744

Dejan Bimble posted:

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. '

Carlosologist posted:

this is a good take on what OKC's offense can be (it's The Ringer but they have good basketball stuff)

https://theringer.com/russell-westbrooks-liberation-tour-is-everything-we-d-hoped-it-d-be-6c35a6c0c5b5#.mejzwym7b

Carlosologist posted:

LeBron has a good sense of humor

https://twitter.com/LegionHoops/status/793107069398286337

The Glumslinger posted:

So my dad has a decent nickname for Paul George, "John Ringo"

Dexo posted:

https://twitter.com/alissa3point0/status/794040907192500225/

Kibner posted:

It wasn't until the fourth game in and on his 14th(!) attempt that Buddy hit his first three.

Ratzinc posted:

27 on 27 shots is my guess.

EvanTH posted:

Rose is a darn ballhog who throws bad passes when he does throw them. Melo at least passes well when he decides to.


I'm imaginin' a kinda PorzinGod of Thunder

Metapod posted:

Who are you going to start in front of him?

Spoeank posted:

I'll save you all the trouble of looking for it

https://twitter.com/CauldronICYMI/status/794742851712086016

E2M2 posted:

Pop owns:

https://twitter.com/JMcDonald_SAEN/status/795733646766383106/photo/1

MourningView posted:

Don Nelson owned.

R.D. Mangles posted:

Spite posted:

One day I watched a shitton of Pistol Pete footage.

There's grainy rear end footage of Pistol Pete doing it in college.
There's footage of him doing just about every cool fake and/or dribble move you can think of.

It was time well spent, I have to say.

Bush Did Outer Heaven posted:

and i thought it couldn't get worse after the Durant leaving stuff.

ragle posted:

transcript: http://www.freep.com/story/sports/nba/pistons/2016/11/09/detroit-pistons-stan-van-gundy/93551178/

Henchman of Santa posted:

Stan loving rules

Jack's Flow posted:

Thank you, Stan. The man continues to rule.

edit:

straight up brolic posted:

pro click

Carlosologist posted:

SVG's comments are great, walls should only exist in basketball as a strategy

Cool Buff Man posted:

"But you’re Christians. You’re supposed to be — at least you pride yourself on being the moral compass of our society." is one of the best things i've ever heard/read

Ramadu posted:

This made my day

Stan loving rules and I agree with him fully. I'm impressed he just straight up said all that.

Gynecolojustice posted:

The part where Stan says he doesn't want to be around people, and doesn't even want to coach tonight because of being in the same building with tons of Trump voters, that is loving real as hell

Papercut posted:

Compare Stan's (and also Pop's, before the election) comments about this to Bill Belichick's and Tom Brady's absolute horseshit:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/11/09/bill-belichick-says-that-donald-trump-letter-was-about-friendship-not-politics/

"Talk to my wife, I'm not allowed to talk about politics anymore." gently caress the gently caress off, Tom Brady.

The things that made me happy when I woke up today were my wife and kids, and Damian Lillard. gently caress yes, it's NBA season and and basketball is wonderful.

ozymandius1024 posted:

That's my loving coach. So proud right now

Smellyhead posted:

Bogut still hasn't shat on Jackson as many times as Jackson has shat on Bogut.

Spite posted:

I've had multiple people tell me they don't Lebron is a very smart person.

And I'm sort of like "what the gently caress?"

He's been in the spotlight literally his whole life, and there's no dirt on him at all. He answers just about question thoughtfully.

Maybe there's no direct correlation but I've always been struct by how well he adapts. He never makes the same mistakes over and over again.

This dude didn't go to college and speaks better than many politicians.

kiimo posted:

I haven't been able to stop myself since Tuesday. Working on it though.

Henchman of Santa posted:

Popovich picked up where Van Gundy left off.

Pop posted:

"Right now I'm just trying to formulate thoughts. It's too early. I'm just sick to my stomach. Not basically because the Republicans won or anything, but the disgusting tenure and tone and all of the comments that have been xenophobic, homophobic, racist, misogynistic.

"I live in that country where half of the people ignored all of that to elect someone. That's the scariest part of the whole thing to me. It's got nothing to do with the environment and Obamacare, and all of the other stuff. We live in a country that ignored all of those values that we would hold our kids accountable for. They'd be grounded for years if they acted and said the things that have been said in that campaign by Donald Trump.

"I look at the Evangelicals and I wonder, those values don't mean anything to them? All of those values to me are more important than anybody's skill in business or anything else because it tells who we are, and how we want to live, and what kind of people we are. That's why I have great respect for people like Lindsey Graham and John McCain, John Kasich, who I disagree with on a lot of political things, but they had enough fiber and respect for humanity and tolerance for all groups to say what they said about the man.

"That's what worries me. I get it, of course we want to be successful, we're all going to say that. Everybody wants to be successful, it's our country, we don't want it to go down the drain. But any reasonable person would come to that conclusion, but it does not take away the fact that he used that fear mongering, and all of the comments, from day one, the race bating with trying to make Barack Obama, our first black president, illegitimate. It leaves me wondering where I've been living, and with whom I'm living.

"The fact that people can just gloss that over, start talking about the transition team, and we're all going to be kumbaya now and try to make the country good without talking about any of those things. And now we see that he's already backing off of immigration and Obamacare and other things, so was it a big fake, which makes you feel it's even more disgusting and cynical that somebody would use that to get the base that fired up. To get elected. And what gets lost in the process are African Americans, and Hispanics, and women, and the gay population, not to mention the eighth grade developmental stage exhibited by him when he made fun of the handicapped person. I mean, come on. That's what a seventh grade, eighth grade bully does. And he was elected president of the United States. We would have scolded our kids. We would have had discussions until we were blue in the face trying to get them to understand these things. He is in charge of our country. That's disgusting."

A reporter then interrupted him.

"I'm not done," Popovich said. "One could go on and on, we didn't make this stuff up. He's angry at the media because they reported what he said and how he acted. That's ironic to me. It makes no sense. So that's my real fear, and that's what gives me so much pause and makes me feel so badly that the country is willing to be that intolerant and not understand the empathy that's necessary to understand other group's situations. I'm a rich white guy, and I'm sick to my stomach thinking about it. I can't imagine being a Muslim right now, or a woman, or an African American, a Hispanic, a handicapped person. How disenfranchised they might feel. And for anyone in those groups that voted for him, it's just beyond my comprehension how they ignore all of that. My final conclusion is, my big fear is --- we are Rome."

Metapod posted:

Sabonis magically having 3 pt range has been a nice surprise

Strawberry Panda posted:

0 percent of the superstars in the league would do that so I guess you're right it's no surprise.

Dexo posted:

Did I loving say Phil was racist?

I've only said I get why Maverick and LeBron would be pissed about Phil just carelessly dismissing his business team.

Metapod posted:

https://twitter.com/UpTheThunder/status/799081218872606720

Metapod posted:

https://twitter.com/Con_Chron/status/799725210807267329

If someone would like to buy me a Christmas gift.....

Spoeank posted:

https://twitter.com/SacramentoKings/status/799852217465503744

Boogie good

Metapod posted:

Domantas Sabonis is my boy

Metapod posted:

I love cam but terry has the camtar therefore I must respect that

Metapod posted:

Your boys https://twitter.com/FredKatz/status/800093968348434432

Chairchucker posted:

No fair, I was asleep when this all went down and someone already claimed Rubio and Steve Adams.

So I got KAT.

euphronius posted:

Harden is loving amazing and I hope he gets a team where he can win a championship.

Libertine posted:

My too early MVP call is James Harden, which is hard for me to even utter given how much I've disliked his play for the majority of his career and how my Houston friend rubs him in my face three times per week minimum.

Cool Buff Man posted:

Jokes aside (I hate jokes and laughing, fun makes me PUKE) Durant's true shooting is at .674 which is fuckin ridiculous