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Henchman of Santa posted:I am a fan of Nene until he gets injured. Do they have a third center option for when that happens? Nope, not really. I feel like Capela can and should play 30+mpg; he's done a very good job keeping the fouls under control, but D'Antoni has kept him to 25mpg so far. Other than that it's basically just Onuaku, who isn't even active at the moment and will probably go to the D-League when that starts up. I think the plan is just to do tons of small ball and just accept that the defense is going to be bad.
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chilihead posted:This. How can you screw up a rebuild this badly? The only thing that keeps me warm at night is laughing at the Kings and Pelicans. hiring scott skiles to teach your team of young prospects is always unwise They really kind of flamed out after the Dwight years though. Got fuckall in exchange for Dwight, everyone else on that team just kinda fell apart so they couldn't trade them off for picks/prospects.
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Oct 29, 2016 15:19
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not scream at them and then resign midseason e: my mistake, I thought he made it a season and a half, but he only coached the magic for one season. you need the chillest coach ever for a perpetually bad team. like phil jackson, except without the triangle and with a willingness to coach a bad team, so not like phil jackson at all chunkles fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Oct 29, 2016 |
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Oct 29, 2016 15:32
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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
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Oct 29, 2016 20:33
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Henchman of Santa posted:Jonas Jerebko was literally the best player on the team one season. Singler was never good. My bad, I'm doing pushups and reading Zach Lowe articles as penance
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Oct 29, 2016 22:29
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tanglewood1420 posted:I'd have thought NBA posters would be anti capital punishment. That's actually not too bad, way better than five for every assist Hassan Whiteside has In other news, some vaguely basketball related sentences that I thought were funny/interesting quote:Near the end of the war, Naismith wrote a letter to his wife, Maude, expressing concern about what was going to happen to all those young men when they returned home. He had an idea, he wrote, about what the government could do to help those men who had risked their lives for their country. In a few simple, handwritten pages, he drafted a plan similar to what would become the G.I. Bill — at the end of the next world war.
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Oct 30, 2016 00:56
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Dejan Bimble posted:“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. I got my exhaust leak fixed and am looking forward to being able to listen to the second half of Loose Balls.on audiobook WhyteRyce posted:I never liked Thad Young and never understood this I never really got it either, I feel like GMs were hoping he'd get the three pointer worked out
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straight up brolic posted:what a scary thing to say Symptoms of chronic traumatic encephalopathy include memory loss, irritability and poor shot selection
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Oct 30, 2016 22:10
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EvanTH posted:Does anyone remember what team it was ran a play with their two bigs basically holding hands down the court into an elevator doorsish screen? I have no idea how to search for the video p sure it was the Warriors who started doing it a bunch back before they were even a playoff team, then it spread like wildfire e: that was also back when Mark Jackson was coaching, and they played two bigs. see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUS4vUh4M6I chunkles fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Oct 30, 2016 |
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Oct 30, 2016 23:15
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Your debate partner is operating on the now-outdated alpha system of ranking players, you should strangle him to prove your dominance
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Oct 31, 2016 01:01
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dokmo posted:The best PG isn't even a PG James Harden renders the position obsolete. my man
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Oct 31, 2016 01:51
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Marc Gasol is loving cool
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Oct 31, 2016 03:50
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NickRoweFillea posted:His accent being borderline unintelligible despite living in the US since 8th grade is endearing foreign NBA players have the coolest accents. it's a magical mix of their native language and being exposed to english through basketball culture, rap, etc
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Oct 31, 2016 04:19
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Spoeank posted:I must have missed Ron Artest's cameo in last season of American Horror Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyQSCH90zrA
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Time posted:Does Declan still post? I guess we'll find out since Larry Bird's defense was just brought up prepare the declan signal *shines an image of larry bird lying on his back during the olympics into the sky*
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What a reasonable man
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Oct 31, 2016 21:00
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D-League camps are opening up which means your favorite prospect is headed down there. Rockets already sent Onuaku down, but surprisingly nobody else, does this mean we'll get primetime Kyle Wiltjer minutes against the Cavs?
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Oct 31, 2016 21:59
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I take it Luke Walton won't get near the amount of slack that Byron Scott got in the hopes that some of those championships had rubbed off on him somehow
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Oct 31, 2016 22:59
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humpthewind posted:Gonna buy tickets to the Austin Spurs play the D-Fenders so I can cheer for Zubac really loudly. if you're not joking let us know how it is, seems like it could be a fun thing to do Tae posted:The gently caress, how did Thibs get 4 years/64 million. It would be funny if Thibs insane workaholism makes him the first good coach-GM
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He's the centerpiece of my all-NBA competitive eating team
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NickRoweFillea posted:His positioning and footwork are good and his passing is evolving. Plus he's 7 foot tall and you can't teach that Actually you can, but you have to start when they are babies quote:A minister as well as a medical doctor, he quickly realized that taller players had an advantage in basketball and wondered if there was a way to stretch babies to make them grow taller. Naismith actually conducted experiments on a machine he invented.
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Gynecolojustice posted:really excited about the offerings on NBAtv tonight, Houston/Cleveland right when I get home from work, and GSW/Portland right as I settle in bed after a nice meal and maybe even a little gravity bong action! Harden may or may not be out tonight so the gravity bong could be a necessary ingredient
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I'm down with Jaylen Brown
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leftist heap posted:I can't believe we're just glossing over the fact that Steven Adams uses a complete clown phone. 
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Nov 1, 2016 21:00
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impressionable young men will see that and think it's okay to go around being rick james
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Eric Gordon looking great surprised me, but it's balanced out by Ryan Anderson not looking great. Overall, I'm just happy to see them run a drat offense. They need a point guard for when Harden sits, but when he's playing it looks legit with like, screens and cuts and other poo poo they couldn't do because they had to clear out for Dwight.
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attackmole posted:Everyone made fun of him for it but I miss his Demolition Man hair. Made him super easy to pick out on the court which I always like when I'm intensely staring down a game. On the opposite end of the spectrum, I remember the Rocket used a Jason Terry, Corey Brewer, Josh Smith lineup a few times and that weirded me out because even though those guys are three different sizes it turns out the signifier in my head for all of them is 'black, buzz cut + headband' and it would make my brain short circuit figuring who was who while simultaneously paying attention to the game. This is the most sensible explanation I've heard for why that bench unit was able to score at all let alone provide some of the more watchable Rockets ball in the Dwight era attackmole posted:e: also I just learned that Jason Terry is benchwarming for the Bucks???? I got confused for a minute and then remembered the Kidd/Terry connection via their time on the Mavericks. Wonder if he's getting groomed for coaching or if he's just there to keep the young guys in line. Probably all of the above, but he wasn't terrible his last year on the Rockets. Good for a couple 3s, probably shouldn't have played as much as he did but that wasn't his fault. e: Harden was the first Rocket with 40/15ast/5 in a game. Most Valuable Beard chunkles fucked around with this message at 11:19 on Nov 2, 2016 |
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Next week: Courtney Lee traded to BC NIzhny Novgorod
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Nov 3, 2016 06:04
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I'm pretty late to announcer chat but Craig Ackerman (doing Rockets road games this year and going full time next) is a massive improvement. Yesterday they had an impromptu triangle history lesson. Bill and Bull are in a really bad codependent homerism relationship but Bullard is one of the few announcers who seems to actually understand charge rules and occasionally throws out stats like pace, ortg and stuff. Between running an actual offense and Ackerman I'm going to try and watch every Rockets game for the first time in a few years.
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Nov 3, 2016 21:31
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Hopin we get an epic Sheed rant about Flint.Tae posted:Is it just me, or are there WAY more rematch games already? That scheduling guy did retire, I wonder if the new philosophy is different somehow
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Nov 3, 2016 22:13
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I read this article last night and enjoyed it a lot, it's Jason Concepcion making the most convincing devil's advocate argument I've read for hiring D'Antoni: https://theringer.com/the-inspirational-courage-of-houstons-awful-defense-80e8f86c2221#.j1jauwlp4
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Nov 3, 2016 22:21
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Rick posted:If Houston's plan for hiring D'Antoni is really to just up the value of their roster for potential trades then that's pretty interesting. I'm sort of tired of giving Morey the benefit of the doubt, though. Pretty sure the D'Antoni thing is mostly Leslie, although he and Morey are definitely in alignment on shot selection. I get the sense that Morey would've committed all the war crimes Hinkie did years earlier if Leslie wasn't in charge. Probably a good thing in the end that he is, even if I dislike his coach hires.
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attackmole posted:-d'antoni rockets proverb. Rockets led by D'Antoni against the Warriors feels more like Charge of the Light Brigade to me. Or maybe Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, which was rededicated after Napoleon dissolved the Republic, D'Antoni of course being the defender and embodiment of enlightenment ideals who becomes a tyrant. However I appreciate the sentiment and will be raging frequently
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https://twitter.com/dekker/status/793997511518195712 Dekker with some advice for all the brothers in the struggle e: Also check Joshua Smith on RGV  
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The toughest part of the year is when Clyde Drexler tries to contribute by saying announcery things before going back to sounding like he's been pregaming in the parking lot
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Ghost Dog posted:i feel like lebron is coasting tbh. kyrie and klove are doing a lot tho, and shump is hitting shots which is weird cause he was useless as a player last year Seems like the right strategy, it's nice he is on a team where he can coast
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Nov 4, 2016 02:22
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His back is hosed and clearly he doesn't have any other offers. He should probably take it. Not sure what he and his agent are thinking
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Is it just me or does basketball-reference not have heat map shot charts any more? That's very upsetting.Tae posted:41% 3-point ace Dwyane Wade just hit 3/4 3's tonight. I was gonna mention something about LeBron putting together a couple seasons of good shooting, but I checked and he's actually all over the place. He's done seasons from 29% to 40%. But it's not like it's unheard of someone to develop a good 3 point shot, and he took like 50 3s last season so it's not like he's a remorseless chucker about it. Maybe he really worked on it.
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Apparently according to Calvin Watkins Donatas is looking into playing overseas. I guess he really wants some cashish because according to Stein's article if he does that he remains an RFA.
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