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Give 3 points to any shot in the restricted area (basically, dunks and layups). Hasten the midrange game to the grave.
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Apr 18, 2019 17:29
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Rick posted:Dokmo likes him. Yeah, I think if ownership isn't willing to truly bottom out or see through a plan that is way more of a risk than Cho is. Cho also seems to know people and be able to be in the middle of things which is probably the right thing for the Grizz right now.
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Apr 18, 2019 22:43
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The elusive single-(half-double) streak almost reached double digits!
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Apr 19, 2019 17:17
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Declan MacManus posted:man i remember when Doughy Kevin Love was a meme He did have a little weight on him in the earlier MN days, but it didn't really matter since he was sneaky-strong and plenty enough athletic. People also complained right here on this board that he took too many 3s and that hurt his offensive rebounding numbers. Time is a flat circle.
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Apr 22, 2019 17:18
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I cannot believe Sebastian Telfair is only 33
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Apr 25, 2019 02:14
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Mavs should probably chill for another year and get another good draft pick/maybe take some fliers on guys. Bringing in veteran players right now seems not ideal. Luka is really good but he certainly still is on his growth curve and probably isn't ready to be the guy on a competitive team yet.
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May 1, 2019 13:31
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Aye Doc posted:do you think that type of season will convince Porzingis to re-sign? I forgot that Zing was in a contract year. Well crap, I'd still want to test the waters with him to see that he can play and at a high level but if you think you're going to be giving a mini-max or near-mini-max to Zing anyway you probably need to shoot your wad this season regardless. You don't want to be in a situation where right when one group of guys are starting to get good your other money players are falling off but I guess Dallas already cast that die. Edit: Well, Porzingis is a RFA anyway, so you really don't need to convince him to sign. But this is probably the last season with significant cap space.
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May 1, 2019 14:57
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MourningView posted:Porzingis has made noise about taking the qualifying offer this summer but I don't think you really need to take it that seriously That was just when he was with the Knicks though, right? He seemed happy to be in Dallas and I doubt he turns down guaranteed money because he wants to compete THIS season and not NEXT season. The cap situation to me seems a lot more significant.
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May 1, 2019 15:46
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Minnesota continuing it's odd habit of scooping up Houston's castoffs/2nd tier pieces.
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May 1, 2019 23:16
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Kemba and Lonzo could play together, but I think Lonzo was signalling hard to get out of LA.
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May 2, 2019 15:47
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Declan MacManus posted:that’s extremely underwhelming but i guess they could’ve done worse I'm not sure why you'd can Luke Walton for Ty Lue, but if you were losing your locker room w/e. I don't think Ty Lue hurts a veteran team and in general players seemed to listen to him enough (despite tortilla soup throwing incidents).
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May 3, 2019 19:21
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I'm sorta willing to give Ty a pass on the Kyrie thing as I think that had more to do with Lebron & Kyrie than anything else. I mostly gave Lue credit for getting short-timers integrated and bought in quick, but when you're basically guaranteed a Finals berth if you just do your basic job it's probably really easy to sell people on the scheme. Probably won't be the case in LA next year. Lebron is obviously lobbying for him to come back so at the very least that's a plus. I don't know what Lue will do that Walton couldn't though. We need a control pot of tortilla soup around to make sure.
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May 3, 2019 20:40
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Pop also solved the LMA issue in a way almost no other coach would have been able to.
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May 4, 2019 00:59
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Rick posted:Whatever it takes to get Lebron to play a tiny bit of D. Thibs had some trouble getting guys in MN to play D..... Though Lou to be the front man & player's coach and let Thibs design the schemes is a really good combo. Edit: Also, Thibs put together a really effective offense in MN despite not having particularly good shooters, which is something that might be valuable in LA. It wasn't pretty but it was efficient. Lockback fucked around with this message at 22:00 on May 7, 2019 |
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May 7, 2019 21:56
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scuz posted:Lengthier look at Rosas and his plans for the Wolves, featuring a paragraph on our favorite max-contract bust: I mean, it's right. Even if they cleared Wiggins completely off the books it doesn't get them anything in terms of cap room. Wiggins has ridiculous athleticism and tools. They can either try to turn it into something or not but it's not like they can go sign another max FA if they didn't have Wiggins this year. In a year or two a salary dump may make more sense when a Mini-Max won't look as big and he won't have as many years on the contract.
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May 8, 2019 17:43
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One of Silver's unfinished vat clones look like he escaped and is sitting courtside in that pic.
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May 9, 2019 04:46
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morestuff posted:Is there any reason why a team with the Lakers' resources would actually care about this Aside from money it's probably better to have a coach's contract end vs firing him from an optics point of view so a shorter contract at least gives you that. Honestly though, I think the Lakers are probably not working from a great plan at this point.
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May 9, 2019 17:07
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Dejan Bimble posted:Coaches don't have a union, because they're management, but they share one of two or three coach agents. I assume that agents just won't sign their clients to a deal under 3 years, because it makes them look disposable, which is bad for both sides. I assume the longer ones have stronger offset clauses. Go to NBATV to do analysis, don't get paid, get hired as an assistant in Toronto, don't get paid (after being fired) Yeah, I think you're right. I think people generally way underestimate the effect agents have on the Sport and with Coaches making what they do now it makes sense for them to psuedo-organize under the agents.
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May 10, 2019 16:06
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Declan MacManus posted:cp3 for butler probably would’ve been a good trade a few months ago but that’s only with the benefit of hindsight Would be a weird window for the 76ers. I don't think you're wrong but it shifts a "peak in 2 years" to "win right now" which might be tough. Unless you meant trade with the Timberwolves and just wanted to punish Chris Paul.
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May 11, 2019 22:45
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kingcobweb posted:Great to be here. Would love to have more than 1.75 good players next season. I mean, they went 7 games in round 2, its not like they were outclassed or anything. Another year of roster continuity might be enough to make them better.
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May 13, 2019 01:27
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I was kinda hoping the Cavs would re-hire Blatt.
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May 13, 2019 17:26
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You're a 6'8 NBA starter (technically). You probably shouldn't run away after you've been handcuffed. I think they'll figure out who it was. A decent lawyer will probably be able to get that reduced to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct. Though if he literally was still handcuffed when he ran off it might be worse.
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May 13, 2019 19:47
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https://twitter.com/esidery/status/1128043860473417728 Of course the Kings and Knicks are interested. (I'd take a flier on him if you can get him for nothing)
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Huh. I'd think Joerger would be the top candidate if they don't want mini-Flip anymore. Could just be due diligence though.
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May 14, 2019 20:03
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Spacebump posted:at that point why isn't it just 9 am on the 30th? If they are going to make it earlier it doesn't make sense to make everyone wait all day. (unless players/agents/team reps don't want to be up that early) Because that's 6am West coast, and a bunch of players legitimately have shifted schedules because of the traveling they do. 6pm let's everyone be up and around and also works from a media reporting standpoint.
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May 15, 2019 17:22
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I think you could absolutely play Jrue and Lonzo together in the backcourt, and it might be the best defensive backcourt in the league (for what that's worth). That may be the way to get the best out of Lonzo, really.
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May 17, 2019 20:59
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Rick posted:I thought he did a pretty decent job. Yeah, he did. I'd have liked to see how he would have done with Robco being alive this season, as the Wolves D looked decent with him while Thibs was around.
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May 20, 2019 17:03
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scuz posted:What's the deal with Mitch, anyway? He didn't have much of a chance to prove what he could do since all his minutes were garbage time well after we were out of the playoffs. He's a 6'5" Power Forward. He's probably not an actual NBA player but probably is nice to have around to keep practices uptempo.
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kingcobweb posted:Someone more objective tell me how excited I should be about Michael Porter Jr’s rookie year. Are there recent cases of draft picks missing their first seasons when they weren’t first overall picks? Embiid, that worked out pretty well. kingcobweb posted:Am I crazy for thinking he has a good shot at first team rookie (because let’s be honest Zion is practically a lock for RoY)? Let's maybe see if he can get through an NBA season first. He wasn't able to get through the combine-process without having to tap out, so first things first.
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May 22, 2019 01:36
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Bucks need to figure out how to keep Brook, throw some guys against the wall and see who sticks as rotation guy, and get another year of experience and roster continuity.
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May 26, 2019 05:31
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xbilkis posted:Wonder if they're regretting the Bledsoe extension after that series It's not deep pockets, they have no bird rights on Lopez. They either need to get creative or Lopez needs to take a pay cut next season.
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May 26, 2019 05:36
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DeimosRising posted:They picked up a ton of roleplayers who never got an off-season, you have to figure guys like Mirotic will gel much better next year (if they can keep him) Yeah totally agree. If they can just roll the entire squad back I'd do that, but with Lopez they'll need some help to get him back (and I think he's really important).
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May 27, 2019 16:20
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Save those rookie checks my man.
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Yeah, that Lakers article has layers.quote:Regarding Pelinka's fate, front-office staffers, coaching staff members and others close to the team point to the power and influence held by Linda Rambis. Her title within the Lakers is executive director of special projects, but Rambis, the wife of former Laker Kurt Rambis, is better known within and around the organization as perhaps Jeanie Buss' closest friend and confidant. And Linda Rambis, team staffers said, has long been an ardent supporter and ally of Pelinka for reasons some staffers said they don't fully understand. "Nobody gets it," one coaching staff member said. Magic Johnson was absolutely right to leave and tweet automated box score synopsis.
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May 28, 2019 18:06
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It'd be really nice for those ~45 win teams to have some competitive games before getting bounced out of the first round.
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May 29, 2019 02:36
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harperdc posted:Bill Simmons finally got his memos through to Adam Silver. Free seeding is a scheduling nightmare though. Everyone is complaining about the 9pm EST starts in the Finals, what if you have 6 of those in the first round? There could potentially be games overlapping each other because there wouldn't be a balance of East Coast/West Coast games. I think it would be more competitive, but it would hurt ratings and make games harder to watch.
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May 29, 2019 13:53
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Declan MacManus posted:i can’t imagine them getting fair value for capela unless they moved him for like ad or something You have a very, very high opinion of Capela. Not that this would happen, but you trade Capela for, like, Gorgui Dieng + PG13 every day of the week.
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AggressivelyStupid posted:there's no way they take it over even that half dead Cleveland team Lebron would have averaged 40 a game but Houston would have smoked them.
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Rick posted:Speaking of MWP, he is training Kyle Kuzma for defense this summer which is a brand new work out guru but a potentially interesting one, like it's easier to teach defense than it is to teach what Hakeem and Kobe are doing. Artest was an amazing defender, one of the smartest defenders I've ever watched. There's a ton players can learn from him.
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