NBA Season - now 24/25
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Only surprise in the Nets / Sixers deal was the Andre Drummond move. He’s been playing very well and is the perfect sub for Embiid. He still rebounds like a beast and can score when needed.
Some other moves that might shape some things differently come playoff time - the Clippers got significantly better with Powell and Covington.
Charlotte getting Montrez is a massive win for them.
Cavs getting a pretty decent scorer in LeVert for basically nothing is good for a team I enjoy watching.
Schroder who was having a good year, gets traded from Boston just means more shots for Brown and Tatum 🙄
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Close game between GS and LAL. I can't believe they can play like this and be so poor against for so many games. They look like they will go down but probably should have won after the luck eluded them at almost every turn in the final minutes. Made some good plays but failed to finish. Jeez Anthony Davis plays so small for a big guy. Settles for the fade away jumper far too often when he should bang it down low
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Josh Giddey is having quite the rookie season. Another triple-double today even though they couldn't beat the Spurs
The kid is pretty classy.
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Anthony Day-to-Davis rolls his ankle and will be out for a bit i think
If you are the Lakers, do you blow the whole thing up? The roster is fucked, they have no draft capital. You could get some pretty sweet pieces for LBJ...
I mean, it will never happen, but it should be considered.
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@mariner4life said in NBA Season - now 21/22:
Anthony Day-to-Davis rolls his ankle and will be out for a bit i think
If you are the Lakers, do you blow the whole thing up? The roster is fucked, they have no draft capital. You could get some pretty sweet pieces for LBJ...
I mean, it will never happen, but it should be considered.
Should have traded AD. LBJ will probably leave soon
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Crazy night
Nets were getting blown out by the Knicks. Came back to win
Warriors were always comfortably in control of the Nuggets until they choked and lost to a last play 3.
Jazz led the Lakers by heaps and gave it up for the L as well -
Yesterday's slam dunk comp is getting an awful lot of shit. Can't argue. Felt like it went on forever, starting with the painful wait for the first dunker to put on his Timberland boots. And then it was just continual attempt after attempt interspersed with the occasional underwhelming success. They're all generally trying to be too tricky and the success rate is very low. It's terrible TV. Unless it gets a shake up and improves significantly next year, it might have to be moved back and the 3 point shoot out made last on the schedule so All Star Saturday finishes on a high.
And the live music was fucking shit. My crowd highlight was Guy Fieri sucking on an unlit cigar.
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Re: The Dunk Contest
Should we be surprised? It's been going forever, and there are only so many ways for overly tall men to jump up and put a ball in to a hoop
Add in it's always "contested" by fucking nobodies, and i wonder why anyone bothers. Should just be another skill in the skills challenge.In other news, the rumblings of discontent about just how much power star players have now are front and centre after Harden sat his fat ass down until he got traded, doing the same thing for the 2nd time in 2 years. This is a weird one, because i feel like the Nets did well out of it. But there is that feeling, especially from the small teams, that if you get a superstar player, he's going to fuck you later on.
And related to this, LBJ is already ensuring his undertalented son is going to get drafted to the NBA very very early, as he has said he will finish his career where ever his son is playing. Some poor schmuck of an organisation will make that trade and that draft.
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@mariner4life I don't watch a huge amount of ball but across a season I'll see a smattering of most teams, plus highlights, and the only bloke I'd heard of was Toppin.
I agree there are only so many ways to dunk the ball, but on top of that, they're all sacrificing power for trickery and it's a shit watch. Next year I'd like to see Zion, Tacko Fall, Steven Adams and Giannis just try and spray glass all over which ever shit rappers happen to be near the hoop.
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I tried watching the All Star game but I have had to give up. Sport without competition is boring for me.
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@crazy-horse said in NBA Season - now 21/22:
I tried watching the All Star game but I have had to give up. Sport without competition is boring for me.
looks like the only thing worth looking at, from the highlights i've seen on the 'gram
Is Steph lighting that shit up from 3. 13 threes from 18 attempts. Frankly ridiculous
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@shark @mariner4life best thing about the dunk comp was Steph Curry and 2Chainz laughing at Jalen Green’s multiple failed false starts.
3pt contest was good and I didn’t mind the team skills challenge concept.
The Italian high jumper getting a rebound dunk and another jam was worth watching in the celebrity game.
The final quarter in todays all-star game plus a few of Steph’s tough 3’s were the only good thing about the game. Could this be the thing that gets Steph going for the run to the playoffs?
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The order of the Top 10 is sure to be contentious.
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@shark said in NBA Season - now 21/22:
Yeah I saw a couple of minutes of the celeb game and was fortunate to see that put back dunk from the high jumper. Not bad. I think the commentary of that game was the worst of the events I saw though. Just ludicrously over-excited.
Now you know how we all feel listening to TJ calling Crusaders games.
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NYC signalling the end of the vaccination mandates
Kyrie back full time real soon
Wonder how quick they can get that Nets team on the same page?
