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| The Big3 Tourney |
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67 | 22.41% |
| Will Lakers draft Ball |
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| Where will the Pauls go |
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| Will LeBron jump ship to the Spurs or ?? |
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41 | 13.71% |
| Will every team in the league just pivot towards tanking |
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97 | 32.44% |
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EvanTH posted:4 best postseasons of all time by WS/48 Do you put a games limit on this but not a minutes limit on this just to Leave out Kawhi?!?! Dude seriously put up one of the best playoff runs in NBA history and I don't think anyone is going to remember by next year.
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Jun 13, 2017 17:11
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EvanTH posted:It was for 16 games for 16-0 meme reasons, which wasn't a great idea in retrospect because I forgot that there used to fewer games until relatively recently. You're an honorable man.
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Jun 13, 2017 18:18
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Am I the only one that enjoys that the best team is by far the most likely to win unless they have their superstar injured in which case the second best team is by far the most likely to win?
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Jun 15, 2017 22:07
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Lebron going to the Clippers makes me think the Spurs might not get Chris Paul after all.
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Jun 20, 2017 02:15
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The Knicks seem like a dumb enough team to ask for Kawhi in a trade. I don't think Kristaps moves, their price seems too high.
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Jun 20, 2017 22:09
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I would feel really bad if they traded Danny Green. He's one of the best defensive twos in the league and I'm pretty sure he'll shoot three pointers well eventually. I would also feel bad if they traded Aldridge. It seems really lovely to do to him.
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Jun 22, 2017 01:50
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So does anyone have any idea what the rumored medical issues are with Porzingis?
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Jun 22, 2017 02:22
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What the gently caress do the Cavs even have? Aren't their only tradeable assets Love and Kyrie? I like Danny and all, and he's definitely better than those two, but I don't think you can convince cleveland of it.
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Jun 22, 2017 22:10
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Derrick Rose made actual real concrete improvement in his play at the end of last season. He could be useful if that's real. I have my doubts though.
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Jun 24, 2017 05:12
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Spacebump posted:Wasn't LMA playing with an injured hip a lot of this year or did I misread that somewhere? He had a knee thing in the playoffs. He reinjured his hip against OKC in game 3 the year before. I'm of the opinion that his hip is not injured but not quite right if you know what I mean. Then again maybe it's not that and he was just too lazy and that's why he's fat.
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Jun 24, 2017 19:13
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Apparently Houston is calling around looking for teams with cap space so they can dump Ryan Anderson. They appear to be pretty confident in their CP3 chase. Why would Chris Paul go to Houston though? I don't think that's his best destination at all.
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Jun 28, 2017 14:32
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morestuff posted:I think people are reading this as him trying to force LA to give him the full $200 million deal, which makes sense Is there any way they weren't offering him a full deal?
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Jun 28, 2017 15:03
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Chris Paul sucks. The Clippers get way worse but I don't think the Rockets get much better.
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Jun 28, 2017 16:57
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General Dog posted:I like Chris Paul, but I can't help but feel like the Spurs dodged a bullet here. The team needs to make some moves, but going all in on him at this juncture seemed like a strange move. Depending on the rest of the roster I think he would put the Spurs just shy of the Warriors. A little luck and they could easily win a championship. I can't tell if I'm delusional or not but the Spurs seem like a better fit by a million miles. The Rockets already have a point guard that is arguably better than Paul himself.
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Jun 28, 2017 17:52
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Shear Modulus posted:i'd like the spurs to sign another all-star please I think they're going to sign a former MVP 
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Jun 28, 2017 18:37
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Kawhi's defensive numbers looked bad this season in part because teams shot well from 3 when he was in the game and they shot unreasonably poorly from 3 when he was sitting. It affected his stats pretty heavily iirc. Chris Paul is currently second in NBA history in WS/48. How are people still sleeping on him?
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Jun 29, 2017 07:01
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It hasn't sunk in yet that Paul actually got traded to the Rockets. I wonder if Kawhi being a quiet/reserved guy affects his ability to influence free agents, it has to right? I really do not want Aldridge back this year. I don't know exactly what the Spurs can get for him but as good as he was and as much as I liked him I don't want his mopey rear end anymore.
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Jun 29, 2017 16:32
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David Bertans is going to drop like 40 a game in summer league, I'm really excited. Why do I get the feeling the Spurs are going to have a disgruntled Aldridge all year next year?
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Jun 30, 2017 22:13
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Cool, the Spurs aren't going to do jack poo poo in free agency. I like Simmons well enough but I don't think he's better than Kyle Anderson. They are really dead set on not making any moves to improve the team it seems.
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Jun 30, 2017 23:59
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I was wrong, apparently they're looking to get worse.
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Jul 1, 2017 00:06
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the nba sucks
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Jul 1, 2017 11:49
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rjmccall posted:All the stuff about Bird vs. Early Bird vs. Non-Bird just limits how much you can offer them (in both annual money and years). You can always re-sign your existing players for at least a modest increase over what they're currently being paid; they just might not be willing to come back for that. I guess this needs to be more thorough. They could sign Durant for a non bird exception but that limits his raises. They're going to have Durant do one more year so they get bird rights and they can give him bigger raises. Bashez fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Jul 2, 2017 |
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Jul 2, 2017 12:54
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It looks like the Spurs not only might not get any new pieces in free agency but might keep their second star that is incredibly unhappy playing with the franchise. I think this off season is even worse than that one where everyone said there was no way Richard Jefferson was going to opt out and then he opts out and then the Spurs just sign him for longer. I guess Pau is a repeat of that one, except Pau was actually good until the end of the year.
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Jul 2, 2017 16:42
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attackmole posted:Maaaan, the east is bad. Like, I know it's been Lebron's conference for the last 8 years, but for the last two years the bottom end climbed out of the slums and it wasn't quite as embarrassing as the 8 seed Jennings/Ellis Bucks....but now we're right back there, aren't we. Goddamn. I wonder if we can have the 6-8 seeds all make playoffs with losing records. That would be great. 6th seed? The third seed is going to have trouble getting a winning record!
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Jul 3, 2017 08:16
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Lockback posted:Yeah, I don't know why people think Boston will be worse, but they are still a 55 win team. Cleveland will still Cleve and Washington will probably be a little better with an extra year and a slightly easier schedule. Toronto is still a good team, and Milwaukee will be above .500, but after that it gets rough. If embiid is healthy I think Philly has and inside track to the playoffs. Boston had 48 expected wins last year, if they didn't improve you'd expect them to win 48 again. Toronto was the only team in the east that had over 50 pythagorean wins. The East was a gigantic dumpster fire last year and the top teams didn't get better but the middle fell out.
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Jul 3, 2017 16:06
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The Warriors got better and that's definitely not what I thought would be happening.
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Jul 6, 2017 02:01
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Adam Hanga is staying in Europe. I don't know what the Spurs are doing at all.
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Jul 10, 2017 00:44
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The Spurs signed a useless center so what's happening with Pau? I don't know where their cap is but it seems like it should be running out now right? Are they going to be shedding Aldridge somehow? So many questions. The only thing I know for sure is that Kawhi is the best player in the league and going to carry this garbage rear end team to 55 wins by himself.
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Jul 10, 2017 20:43
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I'm still really mad about that Rudy Gay signing. I understand there's a chance he's not going to be bad but it's not a big one.
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Jul 10, 2017 22:08
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Lockback posted:It was a naked, blatant tank though. It actually wasn't though.
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Jul 11, 2017 18:50
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EvanTH posted:Hey if Bashez is out there, can you solve a dispute between Metapod and me? It's pretty much a wash. Durant is a better passer but Kawhi is a better defender. I think the people that say Durant is a straight up better offensive player are pretty much wrong at this point, outside the aforementioned passing. The Spurs are a dysfunctional offense when Kawhi sits. Kawhi's three years younger, he'll be better when he's 28. Metapod posted:Head to head is very bad way to compare players but if you insist http://www.basketball-reference.com...a01&idx=players If you just look at the last couple years though....
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Jul 12, 2017 06:44
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They are never going to get the games down to 2 hours with 12 minute quarters.
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Jul 12, 2017 19:20
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zoux posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/JMcDonald_SAEN/status/885216804397875200 Man, I hate the Gay signing. I hate it and I forget he tore his achilles.
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Jul 12, 2017 22:14
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Whoa, people actually believe that Durant thing wasn't scripted.
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Jul 13, 2017 19:30
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MourningView posted:I don't think he's that much better on defense. Klay is quietly one of the best perimeter defenders in the league Klay is one of the most overrated defenders in the league. I don't know where you get quietly from because Warriors fans are constantly screaming that he's the best perimeter defender in the league.
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Jul 14, 2017 06:32
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Mr. Mambold posted:He has to tell you or the bust won't hold up in court, right? You have to ask twice in two different ways.
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Jul 22, 2017 22:49
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AggressivelyStupid posted:Worst NBA rap is Tony Parker, hope this helps This is so wrong. It's Dejuan Blair by a mile. I can't seem to find that first song oh so long ago. His newer stuff is significantly improved and still garbage.
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Jul 30, 2017 17:52
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Libertine posted:Probably because Derrick Rose isn't worth an NBA minimum contract being a huge net negative on the floor for every season going back like five years to the last time he was healthy. As much as I hate to admit it because I love making GBS threads on Derrick Rose he got better toward the end of the year. Obviously it's a small sample size but he's easily playable in a backup position if he could maintain that productivity.
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Aug 1, 2017 05:56
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Dexo posted:dear god if Irving and Melo stay on their respective teams Aldridge too. Also those Christmas games look horrible to me. On paper none of those look like particularly good matchups except Thunder and Rockets.
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Aug 11, 2017 22:41
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The Spurs all time team is weird. First, Hakeem is higher than Robinson which is a joke. It still confounds me that Robinson doesn't get the respect he deserves. Rodman is hilarious. He's an 89 in Detroit, 84 in San Antonio, and 93 in Chicago. I guess that means we can add at least 5 point to every Spurs player for an anti Spurs bias.
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Aug 24, 2017 21:12
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