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PostPosted: Mon Feb 08, 2021 3:09 pm    Post subject:

MJST wrote:
Great duel with Steph vs Luka

Pelicans vs Memphis was pretty fun to watch too. Zo, Ingram, Zion doing their thing and Zo locking up Morant and an exciting 4th Quarter.


He’s put everyone in a cage this year. Even when he struggles on offense that defense is legit.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:38 pm    Post subject:

What’s REALLY going on with the Celtics this season, BTW? Yikers.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 3:47 pm    Post subject:

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What’s REALLY going on with the Celtics this season, BTW? Yikers.


Heat are even worse. Other than the Lakers, the other final 4 teams are under-performing.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 10:51 pm    Post subject:

I’m just saying - folks used to clown me when I used to profess my love for Clarky.

Nice to see him having such a good season.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 10:53 pm    Post subject:

jonnybravo wrote:
TDRock wrote:
What’s REALLY going on with the Celtics this season, BTW? Yikers.


Heat are even worse. Other than the Lakers, the other final 4 teams are under-performing.


Heat too? Yikes.

Well Denver is OK (not great, but OK) so I guess the question is what’s going on in the East? Lol
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 25, 2021 6:26 pm    Post subject:

Wow what’s up with the Mavs!? (I don’t know if somebody was injured or something I’m not actually watching the game I just saw the score.)
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 25, 2021 7:45 pm    Post subject:

Well I tried but this Pels/Bucks game is hella boring.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 25, 2021 9:04 pm    Post subject:

Much better 2nd half.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 27, 2021 7:42 pm    Post subject:

I was going to say that both the Nets and the Mavericks are such schizophrenic teams. But really is the season isn’t it? This season is just crazy and schizophrenic and all over the place LOL
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 28, 2021 2:56 pm    Post subject:

The game was good anyway but the Bucks pulling out the win of course made it exceptional. But seriously that was a fantastic game. (bucks/paperclips)
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 28, 2021 9:56 pm    Post subject:

Kings managed to lose a game where they were up 8 with a 1:09 left. La Melo Ball committed a flagrant foul to stop the clock, so the Kings had two fts to come and the ball. I have no idea how the Kings lost the game.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 5:46 pm    Post subject:

DeAndre Jordan has to be counting his blessing for being traded to the Brooklyn Nets. I think he has a better chance of winning the Larry O'Brien there than he did with the Sail Boat Boys.

Brooklyn went all out to construct a superteam. Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden are just that. If they don't win it this year as constructed, it won't be long.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 6:45 pm    Post subject:

Utah just lost to Philly in OT. Utah has now lost three of its last four games.

If this continues, maybe the Lakers will eventually catch and overtake Utah once AD is back and 100% healthy.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 6:48 pm    Post subject:

jodeke wrote:
DeAndre Jordan has to be counting his blessing for being traded to the Brooklyn Nets. I think he has a better chance of winning the Larry O'Brien there than he did with the Sail Boat Boys.

Brooklyn went all out to construct a superteam. Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden are just that. If they don't win it this year as constructed, it won't be long.

Seems like next season will be Brooklyn's best shot, as they'll have a full training camp together and a full offseason to address their lack of defense.

But KD can become a free agent after next season, and he and Harden are in their early 30s, so their window may only be for 1-2 more years after this one.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 12, 2021 6:45 pm    Post subject:

Yikes. Hope Embiid is ok.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 13, 2021 3:59 pm    Post subject:

I really don't want Brooklyn to get Drummond. I think he'd move the needle for them more than LMA and/or Griffin.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 5:13 am    Post subject:

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I really don't want Brooklyn to get Drummond. I think he'd move the needle for them more than LMA and/or Griffin.

It gives them a defensive floor balance, that they do not currently have, as well a physical weapon or style that they again do not have right now. More of a playoff type of move. I agree with what you are saying in that sense.

I do think LMA would be a very good fit next to AD and Bron.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 10:15 am    Post subject:

LOL, who would have thought, that (about) 40 games in, that the Knicks would have won more games than the Celtics?
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:45 pm    Post subject:

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I really don't want Brooklyn to get Drummond. I think he'd move the needle for them more than LMA and/or Griffin.

It gives them a defensive floor balance, that they do not currently have, as well a physical weapon or style that they again do not have right now. More of a playoff type of move. I agree with what you are saying in that sense.

I do think LMA would be a very good fit next to AD and Bron.


It's not about defensive floor balance really.

That dude buys possessions with offensive rebounds, causes 1-and-out defensive rebounding, and has high deflection steal/block/rebound combination rate. Elite in fact. Giving teams like Brooklyn, loaded with shooters, shot makers, and elite playmakers, a guy like that makes them basically undefeatable. Harden wasn't even the same Harden when Clint Capela was out with injury, and now you're giving him the lob threat with elite 4-out spacing, and that kind of rebounding ability?

You can't run an offense through him and DET even tried that. He actually has a clue with short roll passing and off-ball movement too. He doesn't need touches or shots.

Like I said, I welcome Blake or LMA to take shots away from Harden/Kyrie/KD. But it's not the same with Drummond who doesn't need them.

Not good for LAL.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 3:56 pm    Post subject:

I have the 76ers/Spurs game on really just because I didn’t change the channel after the Utah/Warriors game and aDanny Green all of a sudden is hitting shots. Please tell me he hasn’t been like this the whole time he’s been with the 76ers...why do we never get these versions of people?
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 11:45 am    Post subject:

TDRock wrote:
I have the 76ers/Spurs game on really just because I didn’t change the channel after the Utah/Warriors game and aDanny Green all of a sudden is hitting shots. Please tell me he hasn’t been like this the whole time he’s been with the 76ers...why do we never get these versions of people?


Green can't carry a team offensively at all.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:15 pm    Post subject:

I tried to watch this game but I just find the both the 76ers and the Clippers extremely uninteresting.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 4:59 pm    Post subject:

This Warriors / Raptors game is unbelievable. Folks need to see this when they start crying about how we are a lottery team without LeBron and AD. This is a lottery team literally without Steph, Dray and Klay.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 7:09 pm    Post subject:

D-Lo returned to the T'Wolves from injury on restricted minutes off the bench and put up 25/3/5 in a T'Wolves win vs the Kings.

I think this is like the 3rd game D'Lo and KAT have played together as a team in 2 years.


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PostPosted: Tue Apr 06, 2021 8:41 pm    Post subject:

Bucks / Warriors game was fun too. The Giannis-less Bucks went off (really Middleton went off), but Steph went off-er. ‘Twas a good bball evening.
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