NBA Season - now 24/25
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My Xmas holiday starts today and I was all set up to clean the house and do some boring but useful shit (like cleaning) to avoid getting yelled at by the wife (who is still working remotely).
That plan is now finished.
I’m on the sofa with a piece of toast, and I just watched Durant drain his first three of the day.
Many thanks.
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@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:
@gt12 fuck you i am working
Just to let you know I'm not working today and am also watching the NBA
Regards
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@voodoo said in NBA Season 20/21:
@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:
@gt12 fuck you i am working
Just to let you know I'm not working today and am also watching the NBA
Regards
sweet. enjoy that. i'm going to the pub for lunch. then later might go see some people.
I'm also going out on christmas
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@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:
@voodoo said in NBA Season 20/21:
@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:
@gt12 fuck you i am working
Just to let you know I'm not working today and am also watching the NBA
Regards
sweet. enjoy that. i'm going to the pub for lunch. then later might go see some people.
I'm also going out on christmas
Ha ha, nice work.
Good(ish) news for us today, we can host 10 people per day at ours at least for the next 3 days so I'm going to spend 3 days eating, cooking, swimming and drinking.
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@voodoo Rockets game postponed, but nothing to do with Harden apparently.
I watched some of yesterdays games, fuck they were boring. One was one-sided, the other was just dreary. First game of a long season featuring two teams who expect to be at the pointy end. No crowds. The crowd noise was really bad. It was a shit product.
It will never happen, but it would be great if the regular season dropped 30 games.
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@mariner4life the way the modern nba is played is not helping.
Limited to no offensive manipulation just constant jacking up of 3 point attempts.
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@KiwiMurph said in NBA Season 20/21:
@mariner4life the way the modern nba is played is not helping.
Limited to no offensive manipulation just constant jacking up of 3 point attempts.
drive the lane, kick out for 3, or draw the world's softest foul.
fast break? jack up a 3
play it fast, have as many attempts as possible, and everyone plays the same.
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@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:
It will never happen, but it would be great if the regular season dropped 30 games.
Totally agree with this. These players want to get paid their 20m+ per year so would be against cutting games, but then you get load management bullshit and/or meaningless games until the playoffs.
All professional sports are guilty of maximising quantity and diluting quality (I'm looking at you, Super rugby), but the NBA is by far the worst culprit.
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@TeWaio said in NBA Season 20/21:
@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:
It will never happen, but it would be great if the regular season dropped 30 games.
Totally agree with this. These players want to get paid their 20m+ per year so would be against cutting games, but then you get load management bullshit and/or meaningless games until the playoffs.
All professional sports are guilty of maximising quantity and diluting quality (I'm looking at you, Super rugby), but the NBA is by far the worst culprit.
Baseball too
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The NFL has it wired. 16 games, that's it. Every game matters
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Has anyone listened to 'The Book OfBasketball' podcast. Recommended by a team mate. I've been binging it the last two weeks.
Highly recommend. Bill Simmons and others look at re drafts, finals series, his rankings of players on the all time list and why.
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It's not quite jegga-iffic but I'm having Christmas dinner with Cam Oliver
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@Magpie_in_aus said in NBA Season 20/21:
Has anyone listened to 'The Book OfBasketball' podcast. Recommended by a team mate. I've been binging it the last two weeks.
Highly recommend. Bill Simmons and others look at re drafts, finals series, his rankings of players on the all time list and why.
Yep, some of it is pretty good. Its his follow-up to his Book of Basketball (an actual book), that is excellent. He doesn't write much anymore now that he's made $200m selling The Ringer to Spotify, its all podcasts. But he is great quality, excellent insight and unique ability to link the trends of the times.
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@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:
It's not quite jegga-iffic but I'm having Christmas dinner with Cam Oliver
Groupie alert...
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Dear Sean Marks and co
Well done bro. KD and Kyrie have made it look easy against the Celtics tonight. Please don’t ruin this team by chasing Harden. With DJ, Allen, Harris, Dimwiddie, Levert, Shamet, Prince, Green - you have a very very good supporting cast to your two superstars.
