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Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
Pelicans survive by going fishing, so really, this is their natural and healthy state.

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Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
https://twitter.com/Thebaumerphx/status/854422669642485760

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
A cool thing:

https://twitter.com/david_j_roth/status/856926781533827072

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
https://twitter.com/JustinVerrier/status/856947068836823040

Those are the towns that are interested in hosting the Pels G-League team. I'm selfishly pulling for Baton Rouge since it is closest. Would also offer higher quality basketball than LSU.

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy

Spacebump posted:

They should go with Baton Rouge. While they would have LSU sports to compete against for ticket sales, the closeness to New Orleans would be good for call ups.

Jackson and Mobile aren't terribly far away either, iirc.

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
dokmo wants some co-workers:

https://twitter.com/LukeBornn/status/856986399794372608


(i don't think that's really dokmo)

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
I'm kinda sad no one does that for the CP3/West/Chandler trio. :(

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy

Keep it zipped. :mad:

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
https://www.instagram.com/p/BTW_D7Jg7EN/?taken-by=azxd

I smiled.

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
dang

https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/857350510487117832

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy

TheShazbot posted:

50 percent Field Goal shooting
40 percent from 3
89 percent from the free throw line

aka "A Good Player"

Yeah, those percentages are pretty rarified air. An average guard with a similar role shoots something like 45/35/85.

e: in the nba, at least. not sure about ncaa women's or wnba

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
Memphis plays entertaining playoff ball. I wish they made it further.

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
https://twitter.com/RealGM/status/857971828395876356

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
Big news:

https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/857995242078785536

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
https://twitter.com/highkin/status/858152540495646720

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy

SpiritOfSanDimas posted:

Clippers should have traded Blake after the Houston collapse

Now they dont really have any option other than to pray everyone comes back.

Whats New Orleans cap situation? Could they clear up enough room to make a run at Chris Paul? I'm not convinced it would be a perfect situation but probably long term a lot better than staying with the Clippers

No, they can't. Unless he wants to take a pay cut.

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy

IcePhoenix posted:

I thought Davis played PF more than C but that's the only thing that seems off at all to me and ultimately it's not even that bad.

No, Davis played well over 50% of his minutes this season at center. Bbref has it at 64/36 split between the two.

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
An image taken from Reddit and RealGM for the leak:

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
https://twitter.com/markanderson65/status/859470169302806528

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
If my team hires Joe Dumars...






I'll still go to games, but I will be moderately unhappy about the hire!

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
GarPax held their press conference today. There's a whole bunch of quotable things, so just peep at these three timelines:

https://twitter.com/vgoodwill

https://twitter.com/KCJHoop

https://twitter.com/highkin

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy

glowing-fish posted:

The Blazers players, led by Damian Lillard, divided their playoff share money among their support staff:

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/damian-lillard-rallies-teammates-to-donate-bonus-playoff-money-to-trail-blazers-staff/

That's really cool.

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
https://twitter.com/ZachLowe_NBA/status/861238545947787265

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
https://twitter.com/KevinHFY/status/861789247837052928

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy

SCARYJEINFELD posted:

While I think you're ultimately probably right, I think the Thunder almost certainly would've been a title team if they had held onto Harden and Ibaka. If they had stayed together long enough eventually they wouldn't have had such bad injury luck and would've taken one. I think if you're a franchise following the Thunder model makes sense. Because presumably you're planning to not trade one of the three future MVP candidates (you can argue hindsight, but even at the time it was obvious Harden was very good) you drafted high up for some vastly inferior wings and a guy with a cool accent. Or even by using cap space more wisely then the Gullenist that can't play defense.

Teams have tried to follow the Thunder model. None of them have even made it to the playoffs, yet.

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy

SCARYJEINFELD posted:

Obviously it takes a lot of luck but I think it's fair to say title contention takes a lot of luck anyway

Yeah, so put something out there that people can easily cheer for and still has room to improve.

Kibner fucked around with this message at 05:46 on May 9, 2017

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
https://twitter.com/TimBontemps/status/864207232749060098

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
https://twitter.com/HPbasketball/status/864335378462855171

Welp. Bench is just the worst one of all time, apparently.

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
A good article about the death of Bryce Dejean-Jones: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2709769-the-night-that-cost-bryce-dejean-jones-his-life-and-nba-dream

Not the first time someone has been done in by an anger problem exacerbated by alcohol and won't be the last. I'm always sad and angry at him every time I'm reminded of this.

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
https://twitter.com/MarcJSpearsESPN/status/865267624883752961

Davis only four points ahead of Gobert for first team.

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy

Haha, amazing!

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy

MourningView posted:

That seems like a totally reasonable argument?

Not that I expected him to but Heyward sneaking onto the third would have been nice in terms of giving Utah a better chance at keeping him :(

It is. I was just surprised it was that close.

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy

Paul Zuvella posted:

Yo if tweets are obviously things that will be deleted then you should probably screenshot them.

Ben Simmons sister was saying she hopes her brother dunks on Lonzo so hard that his daddy comes on the court to pick him up.

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/865616839036067841

https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/865618241049120768

Supposedly responsible for helping come up with the Jokic-led offense in Denver. Matt Moore also says he has been ahead of the curve when it comes to offensive development in recent years.

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
Davis was above average at defense this past season! Possibly even good!

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy

chunkles posted:

How do you feel about them sticking with Gentry/Demps?

I don't like Dell's big money moves. He's really good at the margins, though. Not sure how much is him and how much was ownership dictating certain things. I like the young vet strategy but the execution (mainly the Tyreke acquisition) has been lacking. There is room for an upgrade there, but I'm not sure the team will be able to find it.

For Gentry, I dunno. He likes the ball-movement-heavy, taking early "good" shots, and pushing in transition. Even when the personnel doesn't fit it. I mean, yeah, that is a great style of offense to run, but not with the players he's had the last two seasons. I've said it before, but the Pels just haven't really had any "push the fast-break" threats other than Davis. Gordon and Anderson are trailers, Tyreke will always take the shot, Jrue is prone to turn the ball over under heavy pressure. This season was just a complete dearth of shot-makers.

If they were to have made a change, they should have made it immediately after the season ended.

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
And why would OKC get the two best players in the trade?

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
Asking here as well as in Trad Games, but does anyone know of any basketball tabletop games? I think I'm gonna try my hand at making a D&D for basketball (think 2K MyPlayer but with multiple players and probably turn-based) and want some inspiration for on-court play rules.

Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
Yeah, Bloodbowl is a thing I'm looking at, but I don't want this to be as random as that game.

Kuroko is also definitely in my mind. I'm actually debating whether to enable and encourage those kind of shenanigans in a way similar to World Wide Wrestling or to make the on-court action more like a tactical game like the goon made Strike! rpg.

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Kibner
Oct 21, 2008

Acguy Supremacy
Ooh, good find on that Statis game! I'll need to check that out.

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