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Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

Bashez posted:

I'm really surprised there's such a hubbub about this.

It's the right call and it was the right call last night I do not understand why so many people seem to have a problem with it.

The player can only react to what he sees on the clock. If the clock is wrong, how the gently caress is Ross suppose to know he had less time to shoot it?

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Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

Bashez posted:

What do you think would happen happen if the clock shorted out during the play and went black?

The refs would stop the play and make sure poo poo was right before starting it.

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

Bashez posted:

What does this mean? Everyone knew how much time was left, no one is clock watching with 2 seconds left.

You've never seen a player short-arm a shot right before the shot clock goes off?

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967
Jonathon Simmons had himself a highlight night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDArJ_U3Dms

https://streamable.com/rrdo

https://streamable.com/ktl2

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967
How about you make a SAS DnD thread or something and instead post sweet highlights and GOAT Celebrations such as:

https://streamable.com/6z7h

and lesser...more strange celly's

https://gfycat.com/InfiniteGrandioseAyeaye

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

Cool Buff Man posted:

Poor Robert Covington is having one of the worst seasons of all time

If you are including contacts in this discussion it's Evan Turner so far

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

EvanTH posted:

lol "that left hand to the elbow-face" reggie miller is 15 different kinds of stupid
https://streamable.com/ljp0

Did Houston forget to pack jersey's and have to use some Miami Heat ones they had laying around?

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967
The Pacers beat the Clippers twice, the Clippers are bad.

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

I love the god drat NBA

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

dokmo posted:

Your Buddy Hield shot selection update.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GfsEm63ZY0

His shots are so bad the defense doesnt even get the rebound half the time because they are so shocked.

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967
The Pacers need to pick up 1 player to secure a playoff spot. They "fixed" the bench rotation and the new bench is outscoring opponents by 20.4 points/100 poss...but since CJ Miles has been there, Pacers have been outscored 23.2 points/100 poss with Monta Ellis in the starting squad.


They need a clone of CJ Miles to play bench and starter minutes

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

tanglewood1420 posted:

Rudy Gay on a one year rental could be had by anyone who wants him for probably very little.

The Rudy Gay to the Pacers rumors have been bounced around every pre-season and near the trade deadline for years now. At this point I think Larry Bird just refuses to bring him in.

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967
I dont have stats or pretty charts but Paul George's midrange jumper is the best most prettiest thing in the league

straight up brolic posted:

Myles Turner is better than Karl Anthony Towns.

He's developed a 3 point shot too. It's nice.


Haha just as I typed that he just hit a step-back trey

Athanatos fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Dec 13, 2016

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967
Ben Simmons on tier 4 he aint even played a game smdh. Devin Booker should be in 5. Rest seem about right.

Also you all poo poo all over Myles Turner and didn't post anything cool looking he can do like:

https://twitter.com/GrantAfseth/status/808507901916708864

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967
It's near Christmas guys, please dont kill my hopes and dreams.


Also, PG is gone in free agency unless the Pacers win a playoff series or two in the next 2 years, even at that point maybe.

Then him and the 2019 Lakers are going to win the NBA Championship

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967
The Pacers lost, but they looked ok doing it. Offense was good at least, and that can get real ugly. Lots of good passes and hitting shots. More of that please.

I'm mum on the defense.

https://twitter.com/NBA/status/811398588840497152


Lockback posted:

Haha, and now I just saw this. Holy hell, could Meyers be any more Juddge Smails in this? How do you side with the referees against a player in a mouth-guard spitting incident.

This has to be a put on, right? Like, it has to be.

I've said this before about Meyers, but he required a Coach at every practice to walk/run beside him to help remember how to run drills. I'm surprised he knows how to put his shorts on the correct way, much less that he knows how to speak into that mic.

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

Redgrendel2001 posted:

The new CBA has a stipulation that provides for a 'referee complaint hotline' that players can call.

Boogie goes up and throws down a monster dunk.
Reaches down to his sock, pulls a cellphone out, dials a number
"Please leave your message at the beep"
screams AND ONE

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967
Everyone should be voting Embiid and Paul George

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967
All-Star Paul George:

https://twitter.com/NBA/status/814975909728055296

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

R.D. Mangles posted:

i'm sure rondo will handle his demotion with the professionalism we've come to expect from him and not an insane mutiny.

Pacers feed kept cutting to shots of him on the bench when he didnt start the 2nd half and he looked about as happy as you imagine it looked.

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

He walked up that dude didnt he

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

Jack's Flow posted:

edit: Also, I just remembered that the Pacers exist. 28 out of 30 is still pretty good though.

This guy aint see Myles Turner highlights


The NBA is fantastic at the moment, every team has at least 1 guy who is fun to watch...besides the Nets like you said.

Brolander posted:

haha this is not the game day thread. so Giannis is MVP, yeah?

Did Russel Westbrook, then James Harden, then Kyrie Irving all die?

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

straight up brolic posted:

Giannis is legitimately a down ballot MVP guy

On the edge of top 5.

Brolander posted:

you must not have seen that dunk

If we going by dunks, that Nance Jr one from earlier this year puts him in the MVP running, and nobody wants to see that.

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

Stagger_Lee posted:

The Pacers are as bad, or almost as bad, as I thought they would be, but I'm not sure it's for any of the reasons I thought, other than the defense not working. Statwise Teague seems like he's working out fine, and Turner is developing as nicely as anyone could have hoped. It could be small sample size, or something in the system changes from year-to-year, but for some reason Paul George has majorly regressed in production from age 25 to age 26, which I definitely didn't expect. No one's really talking about them that way, and he'll make the All-Star game anyway on general likability, but he hasn't had much of a year so far.

Paul George should be in the ASG on the beauty of his jump shot alone. That thing should be in a museum. It just looks so loving nice everytime he pulls up.

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

Paul Zuvella posted:

I think it is just very apparent that building around Paul George does not totally work. He seems like the ultimate NBA second Banana. He plays great defense at multiple positions, has size and mobility, is a good 3 point shooter and can squeeze into multiple positions. He just is not an efficient enough scorer to have as your #1 guy.

I wish I could see him on a team with someone like Prime Dwayne Wade, Lebron or CP3. But it was never meant to be.

Would you say he would be good with a 7 footer who can spot up from 3, put up nice offensive numbers, be a beast near the defensive basket and have a weird but slightly cool hair style?

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967
Courtney Lee is trending on twitter and it's nobody really talking about the game winning dunk...it's stuff like:

https://twitter.com/NBAhighs/status/817578606012596225

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

Intruder posted:

Does he still run around on tiny little twigs

That picture was bad, but when he's on the court it doesn't seem so awful.

Brandon Ingram's on the other hand looks like they would snap off at any second

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

You can link tweets here, no need to screenshot. Also, whoever screenshot this is not following Embiid on twitter, and therefore is not leading a fulfilling life.

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967



RaySmuckles posted:

i don't want to be "that guy" but how is that not a travel? there's like 3-4 steps in there after the gather.

i think he's cool and his highlights are awesome, but it looked like a pretty naked travel to me.

Rule of Cool

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967
How long till we get Ben Simmons shooting over short trainers vine videos?

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

The Duggler posted:

There are too many good players these days. They need to make all star into a short tournament over the weekend

Make it a 3v3 tournament. 8 teams of 4, 32 guys as All Stars. Make the Coaches field a team too

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

Spite posted:

I'm way late on this:

http://www.theplayerstribune.com/myles-turner-indiana-pacers/

Myles Turner seems like a good dude. And he can ball.

Before he even played his first game in Indiana he was out in the city doing a WARM Program, and continues to do it:

quote:

I've gotten lots of questions about recent photos of me giving out bags to people in need in Indianapolis. What was happening was a Turner family tradition going back to when I was a child. We call it WARM.

Growing up my parents taught us the importance of giving back. During the winter they kept our car stocked with coats, blankets and care packs, just in case we saw someone in need. My family and I are carrying on that tradition this winter with our WARM Packs because,

We, All, Really, Matter

My family would like to encourage you to join us in this tradition by simply keeping a couple of baggies with comforting items handy and maybe add a note of encouragement!

Let’s Keep Indy WARM this winter!

Packages could Include the following:
Bottle of water , Juice Packs, Peanut Butter Crackers, Cheese Crackers, Granola, Cereal Bars, Poptarts, Fruit Cup, Nuts, Cough Drops/Tylenol, Wipes, Kleenex, Tooth Brush/Toothpaste, Lotion, ChapStick, Socks, Gloves, Hand Warmers, Thermal Blankets.

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

pubic works project posted:

I would love Gallinari on the Pacers, but I don't think the Nuggets are wanting to move anyone aside from Nurkic. Well...maybe Faried.

Pacers sent Joe Young and Rakeem Christmas down to play in the D-Leage Showcase to show them off for trade bait, but they both kinda looked like junk. I'm not sure what assets the Pacers have at this point.

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967


Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967
With only 18pts/10reb/5ast/4blocks in 22min. Embiid's streak of 20 point games comes to a close, falling 1 game shy of Allen Iverson's 11 game franchise record.

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

pubic works project posted:

N: Pacers G Glenn Robinson III is going to participate in the dunk contest.

V: Mmkay. That's something.

I guess GR3 has a secret dunking talent.

Even the dunk they put in the highlight is just decent.

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967
Just get rid of positions and take the best players; if your all star roster is all guards, then so be it.

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

zelah posted:

Do you think Lebron ever comes off the bench? I always figured that he'd just retire in a year or two before he declined to that point

He never would have to if he didn't want to.

I mean hell, Rondo had a starting spot at the beginning of this year. There will always be a team that would give 50 year old LeBron a starting spot.


If you pause it right after the cross over and turn it off, it's still a really fantastic play.

pubic works project posted:

Paul George is cool and good.

drat straight.

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967
LeBron putting all the attention on this keeps it from his teammates. GOAT leadership calling out Barkley. Also the *puts on ball cap* "There is a new sheriff in town" Is loving great.


Somehow Devin Booker poked a bear, and the bear did not rip his face off
http://streamable.com/5yyfi

I feel like young Z-Bo would have turned around and snapped him in half, ran back down the court, and jacked up an airball 3.

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Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

Jota posted:

Also to be fair, DeMarcus Cousins had the pass of the night in that game. Your 7 foot center throwing a 70 foot bounce pass off the dribble right on the money is unreal

https://twitter.com/SacramentoKings/status/826225591926022144

DeMarcus is easily the best passer on the team. I mean...for better or worse I guess.

Him and Booker on the same team would be fun as gently caress to watch, but I'm sure it's just SAC media spreading rumors again. They have the biggest hate-on for Boogie

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