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2022-23 NBA Thread: “you’ll never let me down like the Heat did”, Miami fan says to giant pile of cocaine (2 Viewers)

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SWC said:
both jordan clarkson and kuminga had a pretty epic hold me back bro dance fest last night it was a thing of pure beauty take that to the bank brohans here it is https://twitter.com/WorldWideWob/status/1600706495213031424
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KG would have given either one a whoopin'.
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except you and i both know he wouldnt have he would have done the same thing they both did start crap and then literally wait for someone to hold them back bro take that to the bank bromigo
 
Zow said:
Frostillicus said:
Celtics might be a problem.
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Let's get to the final, first.
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I know a championship isn't won in 25 games, but Boston is the best team in the NBA right now and it isn't even close. We know they have another gear defensively that they haven't hit yet this season and should get TimeLord on the court by Christmas. Tatum & Brown are statistically better than last season, Smart is more efficient (career highs in Asst/TO ratio & eFG%), Grant Williams has taken a jump forward offensively, White is more comfortable and more effective this year and they added Brogdon who is leading the league in 3P% plus Hauser is a great shooter off the bench.

Managing injuries and minutes to keep them ready for the playoffs will be the key.
 
Jayrod said:
Zow said:
Frostillicus said:
Celtics might be a problem.
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Let's get to the final, first.
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I know a championship isn't won in 25 games, but Boston is the best team in the NBA right now and it isn't even close. We know they have another gear defensively that they haven't hit yet this season and should get TimeLord on the court by Christmas. Tatum & Brown are statistically better than last season, Smart is more efficient (career highs in Asst/TO ratio & eFG%), Grant Williams has taken a jump forward offensively, White is more comfortable and more effective this year and they added Brogdon who is leading the league in 3P% plus Hauser is a great shooter off the bench.

Managing injuries and minutes to keep them ready for the playoffs will be the key.
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I was saying as Timberwolves fans we should just get to the finals first then worry about who we play as opposed whether another team will be a "problem."

My comment wasn't intended to be a criticism of Boston. I agree they're clearly the best team so far.
 
SWC said:
Zow said:
SWC said:
both jordan clarkson and kuminga had a pretty epic hold me back bro dance fest last night it was a thing of pure beauty take that to the bank brohans here it is https://twitter.com/WorldWideWob/status/1600706495213031424
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KG would have given either one a whoopin'.
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except you and i both know he wouldnt have he would have done the same thing they both did start crap and then literally wait for someone to hold them back bro take that to the bank bromigo
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H-e-double hockey sticks no
 
Zow said:
I was saying as Timberwolves fans we should just get to the finals first then worry about who we play as opposed whether another team will be a "problem."

My comment wasn't intended to be a criticism of Boston. I agree they're clearly the best team so far.
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Ah, gotcha.

I'm struggling to stay chill and temper expectations. They look ridiculously good right now. Wish the playoffs started tomorrow.
 
Doug B said:
A lot of Pelicans fans over on Saintsreport are worried about the Suns being "mad" and coming into New Orleans to easily take the two games.
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Welp -- Pelicans take the first game from Phoenix 128-117. Now 1.5 games up in the West. Still December, though.

EDIT: No, still 0.5 games since Memphis won tonight. Phoenix slips to 3rd.

EDIT2: Suns getting chippy after the final gun.
 
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Doug B said:
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A lot of Pelicans fans over on Saintsreport are worried about the Suns being "mad" and coming into New Orleans to easily take the two games.
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Welp -- Pelicans take the first game from Phoenix 128-117. Now 1.5 games up in the West. Still December, though.

EDIT: No, still 0.5 games since Memphis won tonight. Phoenix slips to 3rd.

EDIT2: Suns getting chippy after the final gun.
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Yeah, but you gotta post the Angry Zion LEAD IN :scream: Suns had it coming, IMO. CP3 should've just dribbled it out instead of trying to score a cheap one at the end.
 
Jayrod said:
Paul was out and the Celtics game was his first game in a month. He was particularly bad. Also, Cam Johnson is out with injury and he was playing well early on.
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Cam Johnson hasn't played since early November. He has been out for over a month. Stop making excuses. They got their asses whooped by a clearly superior team and the mailed it in after the 1st half
 
This Boston/Golden State is giving me flashbacks of last season's Finals.

Golden State making everything and Boston doesn't seem to have any answers, they keep trailing on screens and Curry/Klay/Poole just running free.

Meanwhile, getting outhustled, outrebounded and missing too many 3's to stay close.

:x
 
C's go on a decent run late in half to cut it to 5, but both Klay and Steph are hitting shots at a very high rate.
 
May sound like I'm being a jerk, but one thing I've learned with season tickets is I try to sell all the 2nd nights of back to backs games now. Next level is checking for when the opponent is on a second night of a back to back if they have a big draw player and had to travel in.
 
Encyclopedia Brown said:
My boss paid 500$ x2 for floor level seats to see Luka and the Mavericks for their only visit to Chicago.

Luka sits after a hard game with Milwaukee last night.
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You get what you get when you pay anything for regular season games. Stars sitting out tons of games has been going on for years with the NBA, so it's a buyer beware situation.
 
GordonGekko said:
Speaking of opportunity, looking at the Net's roster, the guy I'm watching is
Cam Thomas, SG, Brooklyn Nets ( This year's salary is 2.1 million)

I'm pretty sure at some point, Kyrie Irving is going to get suspended. Someone is going to find something somewhere, no matter how hard they have to dig. So the conventional thought is that Claxton will start at center and maybe Day'Ron Sharpe steals some burn. But if the goal is to get the best players on the court, at some point, Ben Simmons is going to have to shift to center. I don't see him as an effective rim protector, but if he keeps refusing to shoot, that team can't play offense rolling 3 on 5. ( Simmons plus a rim protector are two big fat offensive zeroes) And if Irving is removed somehow, that makes it even worse for them. Other than Durant and Irving, on that roster, which is extremely top heavy, Cam Thomas is the only other player who can consistently create his own shot. The drawbacks are that he's undisciplined, is a horrific defender, shades out as a pure ball stopper and he only gives you scoring. He's the polar opposite of Ben Simmons. But he can get to the rim consistently, even while defenses are bracketing him, and that just insanely valuable. Can he translate into a 6th man? The reason that matters is he's a rich man's Alonzo Trier, he needs to be ball dominant. But where else will the Nets get offense if Irving is suspended or has some glitch where he can't play or won't play?

Real life NBA, Thomas drags in a lot of question marks ( Kessler Edwards is probably more valuable in a role) But in fantasy, how often does a bad defender hurt you in a 8 CAT or 9 CAT league other than it creates a reason for his coach to bench him and shades down on his minutes potential?

Highlights #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15iUexvXIdY

Highlights #2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuZA1yWQ-YA
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VIDEO: Cam Thomas 33 pts 3 threes vs Pacers 22/23 season Dec 10, 2022

https://youtu.be/oJmJeJi-xdQ?t=20



VIDEO: KD responds after Cam Thomas claims he's a better scorer at his age Nov 23, 2021

Cam Thomas and Kevin Durant's friendly trash-talk is reaching new heights after the Nets rookie claimed he beat KD in one-on-one and that he's a better scorer at his age than Durant was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioR4zB_uFqY



VIDEO: NBA GameTime Shaq 'stunned' Cam Thomas breaks limit 33 Pts, Nets blowout Pacers, no need Kyrie-KD Dec 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiYQX6K8Vp0



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Thomas looks like the classic high volume scorer that can produce on a bad team. If enough injuries get in the way of the Nets, Thomas could turn those opportunities and minutes into a lot of counting stats.
 
I will say that Pelicans fans are WAY excited about being in first place during the regular season. I think that's kind of like good-team-fan's "rookie mistake" -- it's the playoffs that matter first, second, and third.

For instance, if the Golden State Warriors were not doing load management and were selling out every night to win regular-season games right now ... they'd probably be something like 24-3 right now instead of 14-13.
 
Doug B said:
I will say that Pelicans fans are WAY excited about being in first place during the regular season. I think that's kind of like good-team-fan's "rookie mistake" -- it's the playoffs that matter first, second, and third.

For instance, if the Golden State Warriors were not doing load management and were selling out every night to win regular-season games right now ... they'd probably be something like 24-3 right now instead of 14-13.
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As a Warriors fan who has watched almost every game this year……umm, no.
 
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Doug B said:
I will say that Pelicans fans are WAY excited about being in first place during the regular season. I think that's kind of like good-team-fan's "rookie mistake" -- it's the playoffs that matter first, second, and third.

For instance, if the Golden State Warriors were not doing load management and were selling out every night to win regular-season games right now ... they'd probably be something like 24-3 right now instead of 14-13.
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I think the rookie mistake is more getting too excited about mid-December standings.
 
Did anyone catch the Hawks v. Chicago game last night? Can't recall ever seeing 8 points scored in the final 2 seconds. Crazy finish
 
Alex P Keaton said:
Doug B said:
I will say that Pelicans fans are WAY excited about being in first place during the regular season. I think that's kind of like good-team-fan's "rookie mistake" -- it's the playoffs that matter first, second, and third.

For instance, if the Golden State Warriors were not doing load management and were selling out every night to win regular-season games right now ... they'd probably be something like 24-3 right now instead of 14-13.
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As a Warriors fan who has watched almost every game this year……umm, no.
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… well, surely the defending champions’ true level is better than .500.
 
On the little pregame show they gave some kid in a Celtics jersey a Clippers shirt and when he put it on the arena loudly booed him lol
 
Doug B said:
For instance, if the Golden State Warriors were not doing load management and were selling out every night to win regular-season games right now ... they'd probably be something like 24-3 right now instead of 14-13.
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They certainly made the Celtics look vulnerable when they wanted to this week.

Anarchy99 said:
Rob Williams close to returning for Boston.
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Looks like they may actually need to play some defense after all.

They shot 30% and 28% from 3 the last two games. Can't win games when you shoot almost half your shots as 3's and aren't making them. I figured they'd come down on their team shooting % after a bit, but not sure why they all have to crash and burn at once and against really good teams on the road. Didn't get to watch but a couple of minutes of the Golden State game and none of the Clippers game, but I'd imagine both teams made a concerted effort to close out on 3's.
 
Yo Mama said:
Damn, Cade Cunningham out for the season per Woj.
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There have been whispers about this for a couple of weeks. There's some talk about this being tank-related, but it sounds like he could rehab it and come back this season, and risk it happening again, or have the surgery and fix it permanently. Surgery seems like clearly the right answer, as they're not doing anything this year anyway.
 
Jayrod said:
Doug B said:
For instance, if the Golden State Warriors were not doing load management and were selling out every night to win regular-season games right now ... they'd probably be something like 24-3 right now instead of 14-13.
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They certainly made the Celtics look vulnerable when they wanted to this week.

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Rob Williams close to returning for Boston.
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Looks like they may actually need to play some defense after all.

They shot 30% and 28% from 3 the last two games. Can't win games when you shoot almost half your shots as 3's and aren't making them. I figured they'd come down on their team shooting % after a bit, but not sure why they all have to crash and burn at once and against really good teams on the road. Didn't get to watch but a couple of minutes of the Golden State game and none of the Clippers game, but I'd imagine both teams made a concerted effort to close out on 3's.
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I watched both games and noticed several things. Both GS and LAC did a good job clogging the lane, so BOS didn't get many easy penetrations to either get layups or kickouts for open looks. Since they kept dribbling into traffic, that caused a lot of turnovers or off balanced shots in the lane that didn't fall. The Celtics also did not pass to guys in the corner very often for relatively easy threes. Most of the threes they took were late in the shot clock that were contested. When they did get some clean looks from the line, they were so excited to finally get an open shot that they rushed and even those open shots weren't falling. The offense looked way out of sync compared to most nights this season. When they did try to get out on the break, they threw the ball away, traveled, or committed offensive fouls. They also didn't get many bounces to go their way on rebounds, and I remember several possessions when BOS played great defense and forced a heave at the buzzer, but the ball took an odd bounce off the rim and resulted in a wide open made three by the opposition. Those are backbreaking possessions.

Of course, the flip side to this coin is that the whining, griping, and screaming at refs for foul calls reared its ugly head again, and multiple times people didn't get back defensively and gave free baskets away. So pretty much they looked like they did in the finals against GS. With a lot not working, that only caused people to play hero ball and JT and JB then would go 1 on 3 and that didn't work out well. The players were visibly getting frustrated. Less ball movement, fewer passes, and passes to people in the wrong areas of the court. Getting the ball into the hands of a big 20 feet from the basket with his back to the basket late in the shot clock is not how going to turn out well. Both nights, the best I could describe is they hung around into the third quarter but could never really get caught up, and they never had that 5-minute stretch where they clicked on offense and defense at the same time. No flow, no rhythm, no big 19-2 runs. The second team didn't have it either, and on those nights, it's pretty much take your lumps and try again the next game.
 
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Capella said:
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. I think that's kind of like good-team-fan's "rookie mistake" -- it's the playoffs that matter first, second, and third.
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It’s ok to enjoy the regular season. Otherwise you’ll be miserable as a fan.
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Exactly. A young team in NO that is good should excite any NBA fan. Sure, it's only the regular season, but you can't really rely on playoff victories as a barometer until you actually are good enough to get to those important playoff games. And they are on their way. If they fail, then they will come back next year with the attitude of "regular season success isn't something we should be overly celebratory about"
 
Celtics were up 19 in the third against the Lakers. Lost the lead in the first 3 minutes of the 4th. Haven’t scored in over six minutes. Turnover after turnover or last second heaves to beat the shot clock. Just terrible.
 
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Celtics were up 19 in the third against the Lakers. Lost the lead in the first 3 minutes of the 4th. Haven’t scored in over six minutes. Turnover after turnover or last second heaves to beat the shot clock. Just terrible.
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They are just peeing down their legs. So odd some of their decision making.
 
Jayrod said:
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Celtics were up 19 in the third against the Lakers. Lost the lead in the first 3 minutes of the 4th. Haven’t scored in over six minutes. Turnover after turnover or last second heaves to beat the shot clock. Just terrible.
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They are just peeing down their legs. So odd some of their decision making.
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This was the same issue at times as last year. Role players won’t shoot, and only JT, JB, and Smart will (mostly forced hero ball shots).
 
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