NBA season 2018/19
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Deeeeeeeeee Wade for threeeeeeeeee
Heat with Wade and Dragic off the bench played well.
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Blazers over the Celtics, who've dropped their fourth game in a row. Big alarm bells ringing there, and it now looks like Kyrie might leave.
It's been a bizarre fall. This was supposed to be their coronation year, where Hayward gets fit and Tatum becomes a superstar. Instead they've gone backwards, and they don't have any more Brooklyn picks to save them...
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@ACT-Crusader said in NBA season 2018/19:
Deeeeeeeeee Wade for threeeeeeeeee
Heat with Wade and Dragic off the bench played well.
Wade is having a pretty decent little season.
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@mariner4life said in NBA season 2018/19:
@ACT-Crusader said in NBA season 2018/19:
Deeeeeeeeee Wade for threeeeeeeeee
Heat with Wade and Dragic off the bench played well.
Wade is having a pretty decent little season.
He is. Probably could go another. Dirk on the other hand....
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Bogut back to the Warriors for the rest of the season
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@mariner4life said in NBA season 2018/19:
Bogut back to the Warriors for the rest of the season
Hope he lasts longer than 60 seconds this time
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Lakers lose to the Clippers and fall further out of the finals race. They looked horrible in the last quarter, no heart at all.
Turns out signing a bunch of lunatic veterans to fill out their roster might not have been a great idea after all.
This could hurt Lebron's legacy - he doesn't seem like a great team-mate, and he looks to be gunning to get another coach sacked.
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@barbarian said in NBA season 2018/19:
Lakers lose to the Clippers and fall further out of the finals race. They looked horrible in the last quarter, no heart at all.
Turns out signing a bunch of lunatic veterans to fill out their roster might not have been a great idea after all.
This could hurt Lebron's legacy - he doesn't seem like a great team-mate, and he looks to be gunning to get another coach sacked.
LBJ has always divided opinions, and dramatically as well. But this season he has really upset a lot of people. There are a heap of fans unhappy with his chucking his teammates under the bus, and his lack of (public) leadership. Add in the Lakers now sucking and it's painted a massive target on him.
The Lakers fell apart right around the time they tried to shop their entire roster to get another superstar in to help.
Lakers have a lot of fans, and they are pretty entitled, so this was never going to go well for him if they didn't succeed in some way.
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@barbarian said in NBA season 2018/19:
Lakers lose to the Clippers and fall further out of the finals race. They looked horrible in the last quarter, no heart at all.
Turns out signing a bunch of lunatic veterans to fill out their roster might not have been a great idea after all.
This could hurt Lebron's legacy - he doesn't seem like a great team-mate, and he looks to be gunning to get another coach sacked.
My Clippers are gunning for the playoffs. A nice 7 seed and they could be a banana skin for the Nuggets.
Lou Williams, Mr 4th Quarter - a pro scorer that averages 20 off the bench. The Man.
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@ACT-Crusader said in NBA season 2018/19:
Lou Williams, Mr 4th Quarter - a pro scorer that averages 20 off the bench. The Man.
Just as an aside, I find the whole 'starters vs bench' thing completely pointless in the NBA. There is no real relevance to who starts the game, but who finishes the game is everything.
Lou Williams is a case in point. Yeah he's not out for the opening tip but you know he'll be out there in crunch time.
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@barbarian said in NBA season 2018/19:
@ACT-Crusader said in NBA season 2018/19:
Lou Williams, Mr 4th Quarter - a pro scorer that averages 20 off the bench. The Man.
Just as an aside, I find the whole 'starters vs bench' thing completely pointless in the NBA. There is no real relevance to who starts the game, but who finishes the game is everything.
Lou Williams is a case in point. Yeah he's not out for the opening tip but you know he'll be out there in crunch time.
Coaches approach it quite differently when it comes to starting unit and then having the right combos in that second unit.
A coach like Doc Rivers will play 9, sometimes 10 guys in the first quarter and then have his finishers. That has been up and down who those finishers are since the trades, but two bench guys in Lou and Montrezl are there with Gall. They have Shamet the rookie being a go to scorer so he’s demanding playing time at the end.
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@mariner4life said in NBA season 2018/19:
Upset day. Rockets just got over the Hornets. Then Wizards beat the Nets, Hawks beat the T-wolves, Heat beat the Warriors, and the Bulls beat the Grizzlies. Mavs leading the Pacers deep in to the 4th as well. Imagine what that multi would have paid?
Upset of the season yesterday as my Suns beat the Bucks. We also beat the Lakers a few days ago. Three wins out of the last four games after dropping close to 20 in a row.
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@shark said in NBA season 2018/19:
@mariner4life said in NBA season 2018/19:
Upset day. Rockets just got over the Hornets. Then Wizards beat the Nets, Hawks beat the T-wolves, Heat beat the Warriors, and the Bulls beat the Grizzlies. Mavs leading the Pacers deep in to the 4th as well. Imagine what that multi would have paid?
Upset of the season yesterday as my Suns beat the Bucks. We also beat the Lakers a few days ago. Three wins out of the last four games after dropping close to 20 in a row.
it's weird, it's like Zion Williamson got hurt, so all the tanking teams started trying again.
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With the new draft lottery odds, there aren't really incentives to tank super hard. As long as you're in the bottom three teams it's all good.
The Suns are still firmly in that mix, with the Knicks, Cavs and Bulls. Still four wins back of the Bulls so they can always hit the brakes if they get to that point.
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So the best laid plans of the two most storied NBA franchises are going a little awry. I don't know why the other teams are so jealous these days, the C's haven't won since 2008 and LA haven't since 2010. Now if LA end up in the lottery and snare the #1 pick in the draft then they can call foul
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@mariner4life said in NBA season 2018/19:
@shark said in NBA season 2018/19:
@mariner4life said in NBA season 2018/19:
Upset day. Rockets just got over the Hornets. Then Wizards beat the Nets, Hawks beat the T-wolves, Heat beat the Warriors, and the Bulls beat the Grizzlies. Mavs leading the Pacers deep in to the 4th as well. Imagine what that multi would have paid?
Upset of the season yesterday as my Suns beat the Bucks. We also beat the Lakers a few days ago. Three wins out of the last four games after dropping close to 20 in a row.
it's weird, it's like Zion Williamson got hurt, so all the tanking teams started trying again.
The Suns wouldn't pick him anyway. They seem to have a policy of not selecting the most NBA ready player.
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I just can't help being a c*nt feeling good about Lebron failing at the Lakers.
He's reached the point of telling people he's the Goat now. He's thrown a team of good young players under a bus and he doesn't play fucken defence!
Watching Kuzma shove him towards a defender on a switch was both awesome and sad. It highlights Kuzma's urgency on D while also highlighting the complete lack of respect for the games biggest star and Kuzma's team leader.
The Lakers are a horror show much like my Thunder currently. Adams is either injured or he hit his ceiling 2 months ago and is on the way down. He's still doing his rebound thing but his one on one defence is really becoming an issue. Heads the league for perimeter shots contested for all centres. He also leads the league in steals in his position and if he keeps up the current 2 per game he could realistically bolt into all defense 2nd team, seriously. But his shot-blocking and post defence is not what it was this time last year. It's bad. Really bad.
Westbrook is determined to shoot his way out of a shooting funk and with any other player that's a good thing. With Russ it means lots of near misses and straight up bricks.
PG has been injured so he gets a pass. Grant has flashes of brilliance and then goes quiet for 4 games. Morris seemed like a good addition and he needs to be cut slack for being out since December. He needs to be hitting shots and getting stops from now though. The supporting cast/2nd unit is a problem. We have a lot of guys who are too sporadic in their output a lot of low intensity guys and a lot of young dumb guys.
Probably the biggest problem with the thunder is the coaching. They have no identity in offense, there's no "Thunder" ball. aside from helter skelter get it to PG ball. Donovan has not given them an identity as a team. They're a bunch of individuals he can barely get to run in the same direction and their seeding to this point has flattered to deceive.
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You can get away with a lot in the regular season. But when you get to the playoffs, if you don't have any plan other than 'take your man one on one', things get tough. Adams has soft hands and is very good around the basket. But he has a pass to Russ first mentality, even on the offensive glass when he should ram it back
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@canefan he’s actually losing his touch to an extent. Fumbles a lot more than he used to and needs to dunk not finger roll.
I think he’s got serious problems with either his back, knees or ankles because I can’t remember the last time he had a highlight reel dunk. He used to have at least one a week.
