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Re: The NBA Begins by benji93: 7:21am On May 11, 2019 |
But the intensity of his clutchness was at an all time high tonight,and that is satisfying. Most of the criticism he gets is usually related to the 2016 finals against the Cavs as you rightly pointed out, especially by skip, It seems even the slightest injuries, especially to the hand does significantly affect long range shots. Even a small change in the accuracy of a shot gets the ball hitting the rim more times than it goes in. Eruditor: |
Re: The NBA Begins by popizaino(m): 7:37am On May 11, 2019 |
GSW found the old magic. Never doubt Steph curry. KD loss was a blessing in disguise |
Re: The NBA Begins by ipledge10(m): 7:46am On May 11, 2019 |
Eruditor:Game I didn’t watch or check score until 2 mins to go. The two road losses were too painful for me. This is the time I like going on Twitter, the trolls and thy hype. |
Re: The NBA Begins by ipledge10(m): 7:59am On May 11, 2019 |
ipledge10:curry and Klay combined for 60 |
Re: The NBA Begins by popizaino(m): 8:18am On May 11, 2019 |
Steph curry saved his best for the last. |
Re: The NBA Begins by etidy: 8:34am On May 11, 2019 |
Anyone who calls Nick Wright a basketball analyst is a joker. The guy makes my ears bleed everytime I listen to him, at least with Chuck you know he's either trolling or being plain dumb but Nick Wright actually believes the nonsense he's saying. So happy for the warriors showing up tonight. I don't mind any other team winning the playoffs this year but definitely not the rockets. I can't stand them and their shitty brand of basketball. 1 Like |
Re: The NBA Begins by Hardetayour: 8:55am On May 11, 2019 |
smoosh20:Guy I was literally thinking of that post then I saw your reply. No mind am, Na box score e dey check, e no dey watch game |
Re: The NBA Begins by Hardetayour: 8:56am On May 11, 2019 |
KarnThornheart:leeemmnnaaaooooo |
Re: The NBA Begins by Hardetayour: 8:57am On May 11, 2019 |
Eruditor:Been taunting my cousins, dem no go rest until WCF start |
Re: The NBA Begins by Hardetayour: 9:00am On May 11, 2019 |
smoosh20:looney needs to get paid this off season. I don't care by which team but the man is worth every penny he gets 1 Like |
Re: The NBA Begins by Hardetayour: 9:05am On May 11, 2019 |
Magics tweet after the game was on point. Never underrate Steph Curry. Ayesha needs to apologize too. |
Re: The NBA Begins by darkelf: 9:17am On May 11, 2019 |
Eruditor: As in ehn. I just told a dude not to be so sure that Houston will blow out the warriors without KD. Guess I was proven right afterall. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha |
Re: The NBA Begins by darkelf: 9:20am On May 11, 2019 |
KarnThornheart: To tell you the truth, I don't think many people expect GSW to win this season like the season before. |
Re: The NBA Begins by darkelf: 9:24am On May 11, 2019 |
Re: The NBA Begins by darkelf: 9:25am On May 11, 2019 |
Hardetayour: True that |
Re: The NBA Begins by Killrhymz: 9:25am On May 11, 2019 |
KarnThornheart:If the first pick fall on the Phoenix Sun's they could draft Zion and trade him for morant and a first round pick. 1 Like |
Re: The NBA Begins by Austeeenxx: 10:03am On May 11, 2019 |
smokers: sacramento kings. don't say you weren't told. |
Re: The NBA Begins by Nobody: 11:50am On May 11, 2019 |
Eruditor: Lebron right now.
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Re: The NBA Begins by A40(m): 11:55am On May 11, 2019 |
A40:Color me not suprised |
Re: The NBA Begins by Nobody: 11:56am On May 11, 2019 |
darkelf: Ewww! What exactly are the blacks supreme at apart from jumping about and acting like damn fools. Add zero intrinsic value to society. I'm a misanthrope. |
Re: The NBA Begins by A40(m): 12:23pm On May 11, 2019 |
Khanben:Nope. This what he said after Game 1! He basically did a Paul Pierce and ended up looking like a donkey. People get takes wrong all the time but he gives BS takes with authority as if he's some type of expert
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Re: The NBA Begins by A40(m): 12:43pm On May 11, 2019 |
KarnThornheart:Jokic should have been an all-star last season as well. The All-star game has long been a glorified popularity contest anyway. Kyle Lowry has been a 5 time All-star for crying out loud and his numbers as an all-star this year weren't as good as Jokic last year. AD is definitely a superstar, I don't know what niggas are smoking. Anyway the term superstar is just semantics. What makes a superstar to you might not make it with somebody else, but as far as pure on court production this guy led a #2 seed in Points, Rebounds and Assists and is doing it again in the post season. That's superstar production to me KarnThornheart:I agree but at the same time there has to be some kind of balance. Guys like Daryl Morey and Nick Wright. What do they have in common? They never played the sport! At any level and so they will never understand the intangibles and why players who rode both eras rate Jordan over LeNomad. It speaks to the greatness of Jordan that despite not playing in an analytics ruled era he rates favorably and even higher than a lot of superstars in this era do And between me and you Daryl Morey is an overrated GM low-key Lemme reiterate people don't hate Nick Wright because of LeNomad. He's an awful pundit and that's the truth, of course he has to hold back on his guests. What street credibility does he have? What sport did he play? Would you argue with a Doctor just because you watch Grey's Anatomy? Or argue with lawyers cos you watch Suits? 1 Like |
Re: The NBA Begins by birdman(m): 1:48pm On May 11, 2019 |
A40: No such thing. Either you are a good GM or not. You cant judge the GM based on decisions made by a coach. Morey has been good. He knows how to make deals and get the right pieces. But his handicap is over reliance on analytics. No matter what your formula says, Melo was not a fit on this team. Ariza should still be here. And we needed some toughness down low, but toughness is not in the analytics formula |
Re: The NBA Begins by Roland17(m): 1:55pm On May 11, 2019 |
birdman: You beat to it. Morey is the master of analytics and that was why he got MDA and made so many other moves. |
Re: The NBA Begins by darkelf: 2:45pm On May 11, 2019 |
KarnThornheart: Ok. now I understand your type of person. |
Re: The NBA Begins by A40(m): 2:54pm On May 11, 2019 |
birdman:Lol you're making my argument for me. I'm not judging purely by decisions made by the coach. I'm just saying he is not as good as cracked out to be. Just look at the contract he gave CP3. You don't give a 33 year old a 4 year/$160m deal no matter what. I'm surprised his analytics didn't tell him that The problem right now is the upside for the Rockets is almost nil! Should KD leave the Warriors sef it could be argued that the Rockets are somehow not best positioned to take advantage because they are capped out Ohh and btw I won't blame him for taking a flier on Melo. It was a pretty low risk maneuver anyway |
Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 3:33pm On May 11, 2019 |
A40: The Chris Paul deal is an anchor that will sink the rockets, the only solution is (and I don't know if this is even allowed) for the contract to be restructured where they take some money from him and pay a player of the ilk of Tobias Harris or Gallinari guys who can play in a system and also create their own shot especially in the midrange. If something is not done their window just got shut down for good. Harden on the other hand has to decide whether his priority is money via a supermax contract or championships. |
Re: The NBA Begins by Nobody: 3:42pm On May 11, 2019 |
Khanben: Take money from chris paul 1 Like |
Re: The NBA Begins by A40(m): 3:53pm On May 11, 2019 |
KarnThornheart:That is my point. The idea that you need a regular season MVP award to validate how good or dominant a player was in a certain era is rather erroneous to me. There has to be a healthy combination of Regular and post season excellence for you to tell me a player was consistently dominant Kobe between 1999/2000 to 2010 only had 3 seasons where he didn't finish in the top 10 in MVP voting. In fact on 6 occasions he finished top 5. When you also consider he was also the best or second best player to teams that went to 7 Finals between that timeframe and the best playoff performer overall then suggesting Kobe didn't have an era is borderline irresponsible |
Re: The NBA Begins by smoosh20: 4:47pm On May 11, 2019 |
Khanben:You can't take 1$ from CP3. |
Re: The NBA Begins by A40(m): 4:47pm On May 11, 2019 |
Khanben:Lool we told them the deal was a bad one at the time. Unfortunately this isn't the NFL so nothing like restructuring. Now I can understand not wanting to lose Chris Paul after potentially being a hamstring away from beating Golden State and playing for the title but why would you double down on a player that has consistently showed the ability to get injured at the most inopportune time. They should have gone for a shorter deal or let CP3 walk and get good two way wings that could carry the offensive burden from Harden and enable them match up better with Golden State Harden and Paul are locked and joined at the hip for the next 3 seasons. Gordon would definitely test himself in the market and Capela who they paid the big bucks was unplayable in this series. By the time the likes of the Kings, Nuggets and Clippers come of age there might be real problems for Houston |
Re: The NBA Begins by Nobody: 5:31pm On May 11, 2019 |
A40:I agree, its subjective. LBJ, Harden, Curry, Durant, Kawhi. Only players consistent/well established enough to be listed in this list in my books. Would have added westbrook too a while ago but.... yikes. Mind you brodie has done what jokic did this year and still doesnt make the cut. i guess your career just isnt as strict as mine. People throw the word superstar around too lightly. I agree but at the same time there has to be some kind of balance. Guys like Daryl Morey and Nick Wright. What do they have in common? They never played the sport! At any level and so they will never understand the intangibles and why players who rode both eras rate Jordan over LeNomad.You cant be a numbers guy and an experienced athlete at the same time, given how difficult that is its almost a paradox. Analytics, Numbers, its always been there. Just that no one ever paid attention to it until recently. Daryl Morey built the only team capable of rattling the warriors in the past couple of years and probably wouldve won it all if not for them. Street cred has nothing to do with it. If i cite a research to a doctor and he dismisses it because he doesnt understand it or has never heard of it of course i would argue with him. |
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