NBA Season 2017/18
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Only one game, but it did have a better feel with some youth out there. Plus LeBron actually had a smile on his face after the game.
Good length, much better D and a good vet PG that knows winning.
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I watched the second half of the All Star game, probably one of the best AS games I can remember. There was a player draft with Steph Curry and LBJ picking the teams, there was real competition and defence played, the game was decided on a defensive play. The only thing they didn't do was televise the draft which they probably will do next season
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@rocky-rockbottom things must have picked up after I stopped watching. I saw about half of the first quarter and while it was better than last year's shit, I thought it was lacking intensity with way too many flash passes and silly shots.
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Savage. As. Fuck
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@rocky-rockbottom said in NBA Season 2017/18:
soon as I saw NBA thread and Savage As Fuck already knew what clip it would be
Local Man Kicks Child Down Well And Laughs While They Cry.
Local Man Fries Entire Ant Family Under Glass In Midday Sun And Gets Deliriously High Off Dead Ant Family Corpses Aroma.
the look of absolute disdain is just awesome. I don't give a fuck if he only plays one way, look at that magnificent bastard.
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@bovidae Melo is a liability. He is also starting to really get chippy at Steven Adams. Adams is now the teams most important player. Not the best player, the most important*. The cancer that is Melo looked like he'd found a home at OKC but he's just the same old selfish "imma get mines" player he's always been.
He always wants isolation called when he has the ball. Especially when hes out with the second unit. He is still lazy and just plain horrible on defense and now he's getting in the face of the soul of the team, Steven Adams.
Steven is a franchise player on another team. Seriously. He could be averaging 30 points 15 rebounds on a team where they want to feed him and he doesn't have to give Westbrook his rebounds.
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@raznomore said in NBA Season 2017/18:
@bovidae Melo is a liability. He is also starting to really get chippy at Steven Adams. Adams is now the teams most important player. Not the best player, the most important*. The cancer that is Melo looked like he'd found a home at OKC but he's just the same old selfish "imma get mines" player he's always been.
He always wants isolation called when he has the ball. Especially when hes out with the second unit. He is still lazy and just plain horrible on defense and now he's getting in the face of the soul of the team, Steven Adams.
Steven is a franchise player on another team. Seriously. He could be averaging 30 points 15 rebounds on a team where they want to feed him and he doesn't have to give Westbrook his rebounds.
Steve proves you can run offence through him for 3 straight quarters and end the game with 23 Pts and 12 rebounds. He was easily the player of the game. Still gets fuck all love from the Franchise in their social media. Paul George who was average all game and made 2 plays at the end of the game so he and Russell Westbrook got all the official OKC tweets. Adams was just an after thought And I'll make this clear he dominated the game.
the best thing that could happen to Adams is that he is traded to another contender that wants to use him offensively not just as a battering ram.
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When I was watching the OKC-Celts game the other day the commentators mentioned that Adams doesn't want any plays run for him.
Obviously the high pick and roll is a money play for Adams but you aren't going to see him establishing position on the block.
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@bovidae said in NBA Season 2017/18:
When I was watching the OKC-Celts game the other day the commentators mentioned that Adams doesn't want any plays run for him.
Obviously the high pick and roll is a money play for Adams but you aren't going to see him establishing position on the block.
I think he likes his role. He plays on a good team in a city he likes where he is appreciated and he is making a shitload of coin
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@raznomore said in NBA Season 2017/18:
Steven is a franchise player on another team. Seriously. He could be averaging 30 points 15 rebounds on a team where they want to feed him and he doesn't have to give Westbrook his rebounds.
I love Steven's development this year, but he wouldn't get close to that points average, even if he was force fed like a 1st option.
In the history of the NBA, the list of centres to average 30 is very slim, and it'd be even harder for centres to do it now with how today's NBA is played. Most of the all time great bigs who were more offensively equipped than him haven't done it.
I do think he could get close to that rebound count if he was a bit more selfish. His rebound numbers are a bit funny, as he has more offensive rebounds than defensive ones, which is quite rare for a guy who gets as many minutes as he does.
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@rocky-rockbottom My favorite is AK-47 for Andrei Kirilenko.
Kirilenko is nicknamed "AK-47", in reference to both his initials, jersey number, and the AK-47 rifle. Coincidentally, Kirilenko was born in the city of Izhevsk, in the former Soviet Union (now Russia), where the weapon was first manufactured.
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@raznomore said in NBA Season 2017/18:
@bovidae Melo is a liability. He is also starting to really get chippy at Steven Adams. Adams is now the teams most important player. Not the best player, the most important*. The cancer that is Melo looked like he'd found a home at OKC but he's just the same old selfish "imma get mines" player he's always been.
He always wants isolation called when he has the ball. Especially when hes out with the second unit. He is still lazy and just plain horrible on defense and now he's getting in the face of the soul of the team, Steven Adams.
Steven is a franchise player on another team. Seriously. He could be averaging 30 points 15 rebounds on a team where they want to feed him and he doesn't have to give Westbrook his rebounds.
Adams will never be a 30 and 15 guy. He does not have the post game or the midrange turn and face game. He could be a consistent 18 and 12 man though. He’s money on the alley oop and onball with Westbrook. He’s the best offensive rebounder in the game. But he just needs to develop a couple of moves to add to that game.
FWIW I like his game this year.
As much as I like his game, I still don’t think PG has fit in. There’s a period in the 3rd quarter of each game when he is running with the second unit and that’s probably when he is at his best, but with Westbrook and Melo, he doesn’t seem comfortable.
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we are going to have to agree to disagree. I've heard people say he was going to be a bust. He wasn't ready for the draft. He can't score. He has not post game. He's not worth the contract.
Well the post game is getting better and better. I know for a fact that his top of the key shooting is coming along nicely behind closed doors. I know he has the ability to eventually shoot 3s. all the other stuff he's already proved plenty of people wrong and he's still only 24.
This is not by any stretch the finished product. on an offence where he could be a second option he's good for 25+ and he should already be averaging 12-15 rebounds now. He is the best offensive rebounder in the game already..
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@raznomore He has soft hands and great footwork. He is still young and if he continues to progress who knows how good he could become? Comms during a game I watched the other day were saying he is OKCs real 2nd option
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@canefan I know it's a stretch but I've seen some post moves, particularly his reverse moves that are damn near unstoppable.
I've heard he's uneasy with offence being run through him but that doesn't mean it's not going to need to happen. in a play off situation where Russ, PG and melo go cold I know where the ball is going and it's only matter of time before it's a regular part of the offence. where it breaks down is the 4th quarter. the pick n roll is tiring for the big fella. that's where I think people see him as limited. but I know what that kid and his Big's coaches are working on and as soon as his jumper comes it's a whole new player.
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I think PG has been going fine get rid of Melo and get Russ/Steve/PG more ball in their hands. Melo's stats of late are almost making Lonzo Balls stats look good.Its a shame Victor Olidipo isn't there as a post up shooter as well who is good on D would have loved to see that still running.
Adams literally just decides what he will add to his tools in the off season and adds one each season. What ever he picks he does it bloody well. Hope they can keep a decent % going into the finals don't think they want to meet portland in the 1st round.
