NBA Season - now 24/25
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@voodoo said in NBA Season 20/21:
@canefan said in NBA Season 20/21:
@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:
@canefan not if they don't win
I think the award is made before the playoffs isn't it? Either way he's done a great job, helped obviously by the players doing their own recruiting
And helped by LMA taking a $7.5m haircut to try and buy his title!
Kudos to him getting Kyrie and KD first. That was the catalyst to get Harden, and now they have hit critical mass, everyone wants on board for the win!!
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The Nuggets getting Gordon was a good pickup. He’s improved his outside shooting so rather than them going too small (Joker plus 4 guards), they can get some more rebounding with Gordon.
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@canefan said in NBA Season 20/21:
@voodoo said in NBA Season 20/21:
@canefan said in NBA Season 20/21:
@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:
@canefan not if they don't win
I think the award is made before the playoffs isn't it? Either way he's done a great job, helped obviously by the players doing their own recruiting
And helped by LMA taking a $7.5m haircut to try and buy his title!
Kudos to him getting Kyrie and KD first. That was the catalyst to get Harden, and now they have hit critical mass, everyone wants on board for the win!!
Barkley lacing the boots to shut Shaq up...
this cycles nicely back to the conversation above about a ring being everything and nothing at the same time
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Will Perdue has 4 rings. In those championship seasons with the Bulls and Spurs (combined) he averaged under 4ppg and around 4rpg whilst playing 13-14 minutes a game.
Legend.
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The buy-out rules are getting a fucking hammering right now.
A few small market GMs have come out and said if they don't let players buy themselves out, agents will actively blacklist their organisation.
So a double whammy. Teams get nothing for their "assets" while a rival picks them up for a fraction of their value.
Seriously, why even have teams anywhere but the biggest cities? The league is getting more and more skewed away from them.
I read an interesting theory yesterday. The "big market" teams do not mind trading away draft picks to pick up talent now, because the traditional "buy now pay later" thing doesn't work for them. Right now, as they see it, there is every chance that a player they might want to draft will go somewhere else to start with, develop there, and then get traded to them when they are an asset later. All they have to do is wait. That is too plausible.
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@mariner4life Not to mention the value of any draft pick beyond the lottery is questionable as is. Yes you get the occasional Giannis or Donovan Mitchell or Draymond that are picked up late-ish, but in reality teams like the Lakers and Nets have little to gain from the draft at the moment.
The NFL is a different kettle of fish, though. Every first round pick is valuable, and so it's a very different trade market on that front.
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@barbarian said in NBA Season 20/21:
@mariner4life Not to mention the value of any draft pick beyond the lottery is questionable as is. Yes you get the occasional Giannis or Donovan Mitchell or Draymond that are picked up late-ish, but in reality teams like the Lakers and Nets have little to gain from the draft at the moment.
The NFL is a different kettle of fish, though. Every first round pick is valuable, and so it's a very different trade market on that front.
The NFL and the NBA are incomparable for one simple reason, the number of players on the team. You can pick up the best player in a position deep in to the draft. Zero chance that happens in NBA
The same thing around the player movement. Getting one good player in the NBA is like landing 5 in the NFL
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testament to how little the regular season means
The Lakers, without their 3 best players, beat the Nets (yes without Harden and Kyrie got ejected) to the tune of 25 points.
This result should be huge, with a heap of chat. The myth that the Nets are the most stacked team ever BUSTED! The myth that the Lakers are LBJ, AD and a bunch of scrubs BUSTED!! Will the Nets experiemnt blow up because they can't develop chemistry as one or two of their stars are always out
instead, the entire league went "meh" and moved on.
Start the fucking playoffs already
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@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:
testament to how little the regular season means
The Lakers, without their 3 best players, beat the Nets (yes without Harden and Kyrie got ejected) to the tune of 25 points.
This result should be huge, with a heap of chat. The myth that the Nets are the most stacked team ever BUSTED! The myth that the Lakers are LBJ, AD and a bunch of scrubs BUSTED!! Will the Nets experiemnt blow up because they can't develop chemistry as one or two of their stars are always out
instead, the entire league went "meh" and moved on.
Start the fucking playoffs already
I tried to watch this game. The double ejection was so fucking weak.
Regular season sucks arse.
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Flipside is that the playoffs around be awesome this year with so many great teams falling to low seedlings.
If they started today, the West match ups would be
Utah v Memphis (whatever)
Sun's v Mavs (the Luka trade grudge match!)
Clips v Portland (Dame v PG13 again, yeeoowww!!!)
Lakers v Denver (AD v Joker, MVP insults!!!)Holy smokes
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Steph Curry goes past Wilt as the Warriors' all time scorer
And then went on to score 53 as the Warriors beat the Nuggets.
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LaMarcus Aldridge to retire immediately
Had an irregular heartbeat the other day that freaked him the fuck out.
Shit news when anyone has to finish like that. But especially for a guy like LMA who was chasing that ring to cap a cracker of a career. Thanks for those Spurs years.
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@mariner4life He'll still get that ring when the Super Team To Top All Super Teams canters to the NBA Championship this year
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@shark said in NBA Season 20/21:
@mariner4life He'll still get that ring when the Super Team To Top All Super Teams canters to the NBA Championship this year
wonder if he will take it? Not sure i could.
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@mariner4life I'd take the ring, but I could never flaunt it. I mean at the end of the day the record books will show he was a championship winner, so you may as well take the ring. But if he ever does any TV going forward you'd like to think it'd be a bit of a running gag - with LMA's buy-in - that 'he won' a championship.
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@shark said in NBA Season 20/21:
@mariner4life I'd take the ring, but I could never flaunt it. I mean at the end of the day the record books will show he was a championship winner, so you may as well take the ring. But if he ever does any TV going forward you'd like to think it'd be a bit of a running gag - with LMA's buy-in - that 'he won' a championship.
probably fair.
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@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:
testament to how little the regular season means
The Lakers, without their 3 best players, beat the Nets (yes without Harden and Kyrie got ejected) to the tune of 25 points.
This result should be huge, with a heap of chat. The myth that the Nets are the most stacked team ever BUSTED! The myth that the Lakers are LBJ, AD and a bunch of scrubs BUSTED!! Will the Nets experiemnt blow up because they can't develop chemistry as one or two of their stars are always out
instead, the entire league went "meh" and moved on.
Start the fucking playoffs already
This is so accurate. There is just no narrative for the regular season and no one involved seems to care.
Great career LaMarcus, good luck in retirement.
Regarding the ring, isn't it up to Brooklyn, should they win, to give him one or not?
Toronto in 2019 didn't give one to Jonas Valanciunas, Delon Wright or C.J. Miles. JV in particular was a big part of their excellent regular season until the All Star break trade, I felt he was hard done by.
Feels like their should be a league-wide convention for ring / vs no ring, in terms of games or minutes played?
Does anyone think DC isn't a two time RWC winner after his 2011 injury?
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Steph is on a crazy run right now. His last 9 games he has gone - 33, 42, 53, 38, 32, 41, 37, 36, 32
He’s hit 57 3s at 47%, hit 92% from the foul line and 65% from 2s (he’s got more 2s than 3s in this stretch before anyone thinks he’s just about the 3).
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Crazy run continues today with Curry scoring 47 after hitting 11 3s in a tight loss against the Celtics in Boston.
Draymond missed a layup very late in the game which would’ve tied it up. Kemba then goes and hits a big 3 and Warriors were chasing it in the last minute.
