NBA Season - now 24/25
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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.
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@KiwiMurph said in NBA Season 20/21:
An underwhelming Chrismas Day slate of games.
Just a series of blowouts.
Welcome to the NBA regular season!!!
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@ACT-Crusader said in NBA Season 20/21:
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.
They'd be mad to chase Harden. I dont know if this team is good enough to go deep into the playoffs, but I dont think Harden will take them further. Its certainly not more scoring that they need.
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Fuck harden was insane everyone was in that game the blAzers big 3 look nice. His book of basketball podcast includes the rewatchables. It's epic.
I have nba league pass this year (via Mexico sign up) been getting a hammering between cricket.
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@Magpie_in_aus Blazers v Rockets games always tend to be close high scoring games. Both are explosive offensively but seem to have the same defensive breakdowns/lapses.
CJ was hitting some tough shots. He’s not as good as Klay but his jump shot is almost as smooth.
That Christian Wood is a keeper for the Rockets. I watched him have a couple of big games last year for the Pistons after taking a few seasons to find his feet on the league. When they get Cousins, Wall and Gordon back they’ll have a better rotation than they did last season.
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Some crazy results today so far.
Hornets beat the Nets (Hayward was Mr Efficient), Clippers lose by 50 to the Mavs. Bucks are about to lose to the Knicks. Cavs do it easy against the 76ers. Spurs played a stinker against New Orleans after a couple of very good wins.
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Did that fucking cat kawhi have the day off in the first fucking week?
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@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:
Did that fucking cat kawhi have the day off in the first fucking week?
To be fair, he did get a broken jaw last game...or 8 stitches or some shit. Looked bad anyway
Playoff P showing how good he is as a co-star though...
Ladies and gents, it's your NBA regular season!!!
