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nba stop punching people for two hours challenge (impossible) Eastern Conference Standings pre:1. Milwaukee Bucks (58-24) 2. Boston Celtics (57-25) 3. Philadelphia 76ers (54-28) 4. Cleveland Cavaliers (51-31) 5. New York Knicks (47-35) 6. Brooklyn Nets (45-37) 7. Miami Heat (44-38) 8. Atlanta Hawks (41-41) 9. Toronto Raptors (41-41) 10. Chicago Bulls (40-42) pre:1. Denver Nuggets (53-29) 2. Memphis Grizzlies (51-31) 3. Sacramento Kings (48-34) 4. Phoenix Suns (45-37) 5. Los Angeles Clippers (44-38) 6. Golden State Warriors (44-38) 7. Los Angeles Lakers (43-39) 8. Minnesota Timberwolves (42-40) 9. New Orleans Pelicans (42-40) 10. Oklahoma City Thunder (40-42)
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Lakers will win their 1st round matchup against the Grizz
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Apr 10, 2023 03:10
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I guess I'll root for Sacramento.
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Apr 10, 2023 03:10
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It's been a long 2 years fellas
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Go Magic
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Apr 10, 2023 03:15
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Doing a little test run for next year thanks for reading
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Apr 10, 2023 03:16
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lakers please don’t embarrass yourselves
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Apr 10, 2023 03:16
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It's over! It's over! New jersey is a city of champions once again
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Apr 10, 2023 03:22
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Bismack Billabongo posted:
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Apr 10, 2023 03:28
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Bless you sweet OP. Kevin durant is undefeated in games he plays as a Sun
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Apr 10, 2023 03:32
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let's go nuggets
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https://twitter.com/Kgformvp211/status/1645235542169210880
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Apr 10, 2023 03:41
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Christe Eleison posted:lakers please don’t embarrass yourselves i disagree.
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Apr 10, 2023 04:03
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this is the year the celtics return to the finals
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Apr 10, 2023 04:03
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NBA Playoff Prediction Game! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4029458&pagenumber=1#lastpost Check it out! Win a prize for a charity. Show off how well you know the NBA and try not to fall for my clever trap questions.  You have until tipoff Tuesday to get play-in predictions in, but the play-in round is kinda chump points so you can also start in the first round and be fine.
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Apr 10, 2023 04:04
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Boston will defeat the Sacramento Kings and hang banner 18! https://twitter.com/Banner18Boogie/status/1531112377965547521
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Apr 10, 2023 04:40
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Zogo posted:Bucks/76ers would be the most typical winner. With a miracle the Warriors could replicate the 1995 Rockets.
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Apr 10, 2023 04:49
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Charlz Guybon posted:How is Tatum not an MVP calibur guy? The way I worded that one post wasn't completely clear. Tatum is an MVP caliber guy for the regular season but is lower ranked in WS/48. Almost always the death knell for finals success. Coaaab posted:zogo, for each playoff team, what is the closest comparison to finals teams of years' past? There are a many ways to approach this question. One way to quickly categorize many teams would be to realize that 5 through 8 seeds rarely go to the finals: -1981 Rockets -1995 Rockets -1999 Knicks -2020 Heat And 1999/2020 were shortened seasons. In many respects the 1-4 seeds will be most similar to recent teams because of the style of play and teams having fewer wins. This year no team will reach sixty wins. The last time that happened in a full season was 2001. And the NBA was much different back then.
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Apr 10, 2023 06:26
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kalensc posted:Wouldn't a healthy Robert Williams III still see the Celtics run into the "don't gave an MVP caliber guy" hurdle? I do think that a 100% healthy RW III is MVP-level. He played 75% of the season last year and had 10 WS. If he played a full season that'd put him ~13.5 WS which would've trailed only Jokic. Billups in 2004 was overlooked in the midst of Malone and Payton joining the Lakers. He was a top ten WS guy that year. JackBandit posted:Zogo do you believe in ws/48 this season? It has some weird results like Kevon looney being number 6 along with a bunch of other mediocre (in relative terms) bigs. Also Jimmy butler has a historically high number. I took a look because I was surprised Tatum didn’t count as an MVP level candidate in your numbers, but he’s number 22 just under onyeku okongwu. Yeah, if you go back to previous seasons there are many rankings like that. So I wouldn't use it to strictly rank players e.g. I don't think Zubac was a top five player in 2020 (or Brian Cardinal a top five guy in 2004). But it's almost impossible for a team to win the title without a highly ranked WS/48 guy. It's just one piece of the puzzle. If lower ranked WS/48 guys start leading teams to titles then the stat will become deprecated for this purpose.
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Apr 10, 2023 06:30
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Jaden McDaniels gets to do zero rehab on company time. worst possible time to injure yourself on purpose
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Once again the Minnesota Timberwolves are, well, here. Can they become more than here? It's going to require getting past a whole fuckload of buzzsaws. Stay tuned.
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Zogo posted:I do think that a 100% healthy RW III is MVP-level. He played 75% of the season last year and had 10 WS. If he played a full season that'd put him ~13.5 WS which would've trailed only Jokic. lol this is why i dont care about advanced stats
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Apr 10, 2023 09:10
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Go Cavs, and to a lesser degree go Wolves and go Suns
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VORP looks like a much more reasonable stat https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_2023_advanced.html
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Apr 10, 2023 10:31
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Feeling slightly more positive about GoldenState‘s playoff chances now that Payton and Wiggins are back. Go, basketball!
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Apr 10, 2023 10:39
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somebody said warriors i say warriors klay and donte are looking real clean entering april
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As always when my team is out of the running in a sport, I will root for the funniest option to happen. On the rare chance that doesn't happen, I will root for the cruelest option If we get one more day over the next month like whatever the gently caress the Timberwolves called yesterday, it's an extreme success regardless of the champ result
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karmicknight posted:Cavs
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I've always been a big mavs fan but a combo of the 2006 finals and Cuban existing slowly drove me away. I got back into it last year just in time to see the mavs do work after the allstar break. Between the Kyrie trade and Cuban still existing, I am ready to stop caring about specific teams and just root for players.
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Let's go Nets.
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I see both the Hawks and Raptors are perfectly positioned to continue on at .500.
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Zogo posted:I don't think Zubac was a top five player in 2020 (or Brian Cardinal a top five guy in 2004). Nah pretty sure they were
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i like timelord as much as the next celtics fan, but come on, hes not an mvp level player
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From the old thread:bornbytheriver posted:Jaden McDaniels is one of my favourite players. It does not surprise me one bit that the drama Minnesota Timberwolves has been immersed in for the past few seasons manifested itself in a super gifted player being unable to contain his emotions. This team is like a ticking bomb, and I sometimes wonder what's going to happen when Ant loses it. Redeye Flight posted:Once again the Minnesota Timberwolves are, well, here. Can they become more than here? It's going to require getting past a whole fuckload of buzzsaws. Stay tuned. Paracaidas posted:The Wolves have very nearly rid themselves of the curse of the Mark Madsen Three Point Attempts. Just a few more years...
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At summer league I bet on the wolves to win it all. Sorry for cursing the season.
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Advanced Stats in the NBA are good. But they obviously need to be taken in the context of what the player's role is, and what the stat is telling you. If someone is a high WS/48 person, it doesn't mean much on it's face other than when they are on the floor they are doing whatever they are doing at a high level and it's leading to team success. So for someone like Looney, that means when he's on the Floor the Offense that Golden State Runs is very very good, and he is also a good defensive player within that team concept. That's all it's telling you. It means that Looney is probably a much better player than people think of him at his specific role on that team as him being on the court is such a positive for the Warriors. It isn't particularly useful for comparative purposes to other players in the league. I think it's kinda born out that Robert Woods when healthy is an insane boon to how the Celtics want to play and fills the core weakness of theirs defensively whenever he's on the court. So Robert Woods being a high WS/48 is not particularly shocking.
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Tatum is on the low end for a best player on a championship team but I think he crosses that bar, and the Celtics have an unbelievable number of positive players around him. I think they can do it! But I hope Giannis stuffs the ball down their throats instead and Marcus Smart cries forever.
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Jack's Flow posted:Feeling slightly more positive about GoldenState‘s playoff chances now that Payton and Wiggins are back. besides the obvious
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