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7 | 17.07% |
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6 | 14.63% |
| Other |
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Overall a good experience though. You gotta rack up those playoff games to win them (unless you're a hall of famer).
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Apr 15, 2023 06:48
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R.D. Mangles posted:there is none. they have no draft pick until like 2026 so they can't even tank. they can't even let vooch walk because they're over the cap so they can't replace him and ball will probably never play basketball again. enjoyed the one year i thought the bulls were competently run before realizing they hired Jonas Paxojunas. dont worry i'll keep drinking this garbage. We have our pick next year
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Apr 15, 2023 07:49
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I think the front office at the deadline had basically accepted this team was doomed but didn't like the trade market, so they decided they'd trade LaVine in the offseason. But now they're in a weird position where LaVine looked really good post ASB, and I don't think they have the appetite to do a rebuild rather than a retool, so do you really wanna make your first big move a trade of the super dynamic scorer that's in his prime even if he's maddeningly flawed/inconsistent? Can you resist the allure of convincing yourself this might be the season he Finally Puts It Together? This team's best path to contention probably does involve trading LaVine, but it'd have to be the right trade or else it just ends up being a reshuffling of the deck. Either all the stars align and you can use him as the centerpiece of a deal for a legit star (in a package with, like, Patrick Williams and picks or whatever), or maybe you pull a version of a PG13/SGA-type deal where you trade him to a team who sees him as The Final Piece and gives up a promising young player who ends up blooming into a star in their own right. It's more unlikely than not that one of those types of deals presents themselves this offseason, and if they don't, I would sadly probably just roll the dice and keep LaVine at least until the next deadline in hopes that a truly great option emerges. You likely can't keep riding with him forever, and there will probably come a time when it's best to just cash in and take whatever the best deal is you can get for him, but I'm not quite at that point yet. I know it sounds depressing, but I'd maybe try one last retool around Zach/Demar, see what they look like with a defensive center and a couple of actual shooters, hope it's more of a five seed-type team than one that's desperately clinging to the last play-in spot. I dunno
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Apr 15, 2023 08:10
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xbilkis posted:
The Bulls have nothing to trade, are over the cap, and won't pay the tax, so I have no idea how they add any of those players.
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Apr 15, 2023 17:05
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https://twitter.com/ChrisBHaynes/status/1647261079926366209 by all accounts, quinn rules is and is a very important assistant to spo, but is this barely scraping by the play-in developing abso-fuckin-lutely-nobody Heat really the team housing the superstar young coach gonna propel the pistons into the future? is he gonna make starting 5 James Wiseman into a star?
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Apr 15, 2023 17:16
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I'm not sure what the Raptors are going to do but I wonder if the overconfidence I get from my friends about their ability to improve through the draft is shared by the front office—I hope it is not. So many people have already told me that they can improve with the 12th-14th pick or whatever but the last batch of 2nd rounders and late 1sts haven't worked out the way people wanted (to be fair, the expectations were always too high). Obviously the team is not close to contention but getting more depth could probably turn them into a 6/7 seed. I don't know how you get it though because any starter you give up is going to make you worse in the short term. Maybe they wait and hope someone good suddenly becomes available like Donovan Mitchell did for the Cavs.
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Apr 15, 2023 17:28
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https://twitter.com/cclark_13/status/1646994477280575488
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Apr 15, 2023 18:33
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 cj also made some comments about how important Availability and Diet are
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Apr 15, 2023 18:37
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BWV posted:I'm not sure what the Raptors are going to do but I wonder if the overconfidence I get from my friends about their ability to improve through the draft is shared by the front office—I hope it is not. So many people have already told me that they can improve with the 12th-14th pick or whatever but the last batch of 2nd rounders and late 1sts haven't worked out the way people wanted (to be fair, the expectations were always too high). The Raptors are such a weird case because it's so tempting to treat the "up 10 half way through the fourth quarter" part of their games as more real than the "outscored by 15 over the last 6 minutes and lose by 5" part. There's clearly something good there. Is there a way for the team to just kind of mentally reset and fix their problem with defensive focus? Will that be more easily fixable with a new coach? Or is there a systemic defensive weakness that's now widely known and exploited? They definitely need more shotmaking. Not just the elite shotmaking that contenders need but even, like, what they used to get from Demar Derozan and Norman Powell. The elite tier stuff is obviously always incredibly hard to come by but maybe the draft can help with the more mid-tier stuff. The draft and develop stuff definitely hasn't been as good to them as it used to be. Guys like VanVleet and even Delon Wright are like five years in the past now. You want to believe in their ability to draft and develop but, well, they gotta give us more reasons to believe.
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Apr 15, 2023 19:14
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https://twitter.com/KCJHoop/status/1647299342548467712 lmao we're hosed Let me go jump on the OKC bandwagon.
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Apr 15, 2023 20:03
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R.D. Mangles posted:The Bulls have nothing to trade, are over the cap, and won't pay the tax, so I have no idea how they add any of those players. Caruso should be a really valuable trade piece to a contender, but also the Bulls defense would probably fall apart without him. I might try to see if you can replace 70% of what he brings to the table with Javonte though Other than that you have uh...a Vucevic sign and trade? Yeah they're hosed
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Apr 16, 2023 00:55
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I could see an East contender team that comes up short of the finals cracking open the piggy bank for Caruso.
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Apr 16, 2023 01:08
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Aye Doc posted:https://twitter.com/ChrisBHaynes/status/1647261079926366209 I don’t know how much effect assistant coaches have on the fortunes of a team. Thank you can have a coach who comes up with a new defensive coverage like Thibodeau but thats a relatively rare thing. I think you want a head coach who’s an executive and leader of men
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Apr 16, 2023 01:42
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From oct 16th, 2022 after raps beat celtics twice in the preseasonquote:Why I think the Raptors will be the 1 seed in the East this year
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Apr 16, 2023 20:28
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https://twitter.com/stephanie_murr/status/1647215054754832384?s=20
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Apr 16, 2023 21:53
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That explains all the awful Kevin Garnet commercials, he needs to fill the void created by Shaq not being a spokesman for every scam on Earth.
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Apr 16, 2023 21:57
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crazy to think that the TNT studio is actually some secret lair that you have to drive through a waterfall to find.
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Apr 17, 2023 00:20
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BWV posted:I'm not sure what the Raptors are going to do but I wonder if the overconfidence I get from my friends about their ability to improve through the draft is shared by the front office—I hope it is not. So many people have already told me that they can improve with the 12th-14th pick or whatever but the last batch of 2nd rounders and late 1sts haven't worked out the way people wanted (to be fair, the expectations were always too high). The Raps with a real center would’ve been 6-7 this year imo. The sicko mode Lillard for Siakam trade would definitely work but I don’t think he’d appreciate a lateral move like that and given his accomplishments and age he might honestly retire after that. If any team has guards they can’t get play time for ask for them. Dalano Banton my dear fellow Rexdale mans you need some more training in the G league
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Apr 17, 2023 02:41
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Rick posted:That explains all the awful Kevin Garnet commercials, he needs to fill the void created by Shaq not being a spokesman for every scam on Earth. Please don't tell me KG is shilling some crypto poo poo.
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Apr 17, 2023 02:51
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Shrimp or Shrimps posted:Please don't tell me KG is shilling some crypto poo poo. Just lots of gambling and data mining ad TV
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Apr 17, 2023 03:10
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Shrimp or Shrimps posted:Please don't tell me KG is shilling some crypto poo poo. It's some raw diamond that he can't even have
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Apr 17, 2023 05:50
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BWV posted:crazy to think that the TNT studio is actually some secret lair that you have to drive through a waterfall to find. The inside the NBA gang have been holograms for years
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Apr 17, 2023 13:53
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https://twitter.com/TheNBACentral/status/1647958156163657736?s=20
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Apr 17, 2023 15:10
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Eric Bledsoe is capable of anything
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Apr 17, 2023 19:27
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Dejan Bimble posted:Eric Bledsoe is capable of anything He was actually suspended for that entire series and the throwing games was done so that he would be available for more games in the difficult series next.
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Apr 17, 2023 20:40
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https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1648024852740333568?t=98rBAfvImfDewaeBMWfUUg&s=19
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Apr 17, 2023 20:44
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Kibner posted:He was actually suspended for that entire series and the throwing games was done so that he would be available for more games in the difficult series next. This time ..
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Apr 17, 2023 21:26
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Hand Knit posted:The Raptors are such a weird case because it's so tempting to treat the "up 10 half way through the fourth quarter" part of their games as more real than the "outscored by 15 over the last 6 minutes and lose by 5" part. There's clearly something good there. Is there a way for the team to just kind of mentally reset and fix their problem with defensive focus? Will that be more easily fixable with a new coach? Or is there a systemic defensive weakness that's now widely known and exploited? I feel like an actual center and a semi-competent backup guard would have made a world of difference on this team. Masai and Bobby failed to fill some glaring holes in the roster and instead we got to watch the starters outplay their opponents until they were so gassed that nobody could defend or make a clutch bucket in the 4th. I also love Fred and Pascal but think they are subpar leaders. Both spend a lot of time moping and having your star players bringing that energy is less than productive.
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Apr 18, 2023 00:26
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https://defector.com/mission-accomplished-shaquille-oneal-finally-served-with-class-action-lawsuit-documentsquote:Ladies and gentlemen, they got him. A historic day—mark it on your calendar for all time: Sunday afternoon, process servers finally cornered Shaquille O'Neal outside of his residence in Atlanta and forced him to accept transmission of documents related to a class-action lawsuit filed way back in November 2022. After months spent unsuccessfully hounding his various properties, after a failed motion to have a Florida court adopt a Texas legal standard that would permit plaintiffs to serve O'Neal electronically by sliding into his direct messages, after lawyers resorted to quite literally tweet-shaming O'Neal from the parking lot in front of the TNT studio where he films live episodes of Inside the NBA, at last a process server was able to physically pass documents into O'Neal's enormous hands, bringing to a close this months-long saga.
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Apr 18, 2023 14:14
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temple posted:From oct 16th, 2022 after raps beat celtics twice in the preseason Who wrote this cause lol
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Apr 18, 2023 15:35
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:Who wrote this cause lol
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Apr 18, 2023 15:56
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https://twitter.com/BradeauxNBA/status/1648853151020089349?s=20
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Apr 20, 2023 06:23
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I love him
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Apr 20, 2023 14:16
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https://twitter.com/ClutchPointsApp/status/1649054312788791303?s=20
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Apr 21, 2023 00:26
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Nick Nurse died e: was fired sorry trying to go too fast
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Apr 21, 2023 15:47
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abuse culture. posted:Nick Nurse died Nurse would be the best candidate available if he wanted an opening, I'd have to assume. The Mavs will not hire him instead favoring someone who wears shoes Nico likes and/or rally behind Kidd for some reason
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Apr 21, 2023 15:55
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Its actually a little shocking Kidd still has a job and makes me think he's going to be there next year.
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Apr 21, 2023 16:01
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https://twitter.com/BlakeMurphyODC/status/1649431358614142980?t=y7EJY7_9Qo_p9oAn6twg2w&s=19 Masai gets that at the end of the day Raptor fans just wanna feel seen.
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Apr 21, 2023 16:23
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I really haven't seen any indication that Kidd's going anywhere aside from the wishful thinking of the entire fanbase and the "of course you fire him duh" assumption of every other fanbase. The Mavs are plowing ahead as is, still convinced they're smarter than the entire rest of the league, and now that they understand 1) NBA players have parents and 2) the take rule change disrupted EVERYTHING, they're going to take the league by storm
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Per team and league sources, Bucks assistant coach Charles Lee, Pelicans assistant coach Jarron Collins and Overtime Elite head coach Kevin Ollie are the current, early frontrunners for Detroit’s first-chair vacancy. Lee and Ollie were two names high on Detroit’s list going into the process and have both interviewed with team executives. Collins, too, was someone the organization was very interested in going into the process and, according to league and team sources, had a stellar interview.
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