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Posts posted by aggie08
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EVERY young, uber offensively-talented high school or one-and-done lottery pick sucks at defense their first couple of years in the league. It's pretty much a rite of passage.
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5 minutes ago, BradInATX said:
Yeah that was awful, and it was right when the announcers were calling him a savvy vet because he had just knocked down a wide open 3.
I guess it shows how little Nuggets' basketball I've seen this season. Going into this series, when people were asking who was going to guard AD, I thought, "That's easy. Their $30M defensively-minded veteran power forward will do an admirable job. Duh." Whoopsie.
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9 minutes ago, BradInATX said:
He's so terrible. I'm confident at this point in saying that he is the worst starter getting significant minutes left in the playoffs.That offensive rebound the Nuggets gave up with 1 minute left down 5 made me want to hurt puppies. 4 Nuggets under the rim, not a single Laker on a LeBron mid-range brick. Millsap is standing straight up, no effort or situational awareness whatsoever. KCP slips right in an grabs it before Millsap even knew he was there.
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Just now, BradInATX said:
Pop quiz
Can you correctly associate the three players with their finishing percentage at the rim?
Steph Curry
Jamal Murray
Kyrie Irving61.9%
64.7%
60.8%Highest to lowest: Steph, Jamal, Kyrie
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4 minutes ago, d2o said:
Kyrie Irving says pump ya brakes. He's amazing tho
I've always said that Kyrie is a little overrated in that regard. He may be the most aesthetically pleasing in that department, but he doesn't actually convert at an elite rate. He's got a lot of a Kobe's "let's try for the highest degree of difficulty possible, whether it's warranted or not" in him.
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Lakers do have a handful of guys that I'm perfectly okay with fouling and putting on the line.
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Didn't Paul Millsap used to be good at defense or some shit to warrant his massive contracts?
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1 minute ago, satyanash said:
Millsap literally turned around with his foot firmly on the ground, AD flops and the refs are right there at his beck and call 🙄 What a shocker
And now LeBron got a foul because Murray fell near him. Oh my god, the fix is in both ways you guys!
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Jamal Murray is the best beneath the rim finisher in the league. God damn
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You know it's a good thread title when you have absolutely no fucking idea what's going on.
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Bud Kilmer coaches the Chargers now?
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9 hours ago, El Squared said:
This is not the 1918 “Spanish Flu” that wipes out large swathes of healthy individuals at exponentially higher death rates, yet policy seems to be reacting like it is.
No, not really. If 200,000 young, healthy Americans had died, we'd be on a real, strictly-enforced lock down with curfews and actual punishment for public gatherings. Because it is largely the elderly and immunocompromised at risk, policy is essentially, "Hey, please wear a mask when entering a public building, and let's chill out on crowds for awhile." But apparently even that's asking too much.
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Why in the fuck would the NBA want the referees to engineer a sweep, and pretty much guarantee no interest or drama the rest of the way to crowning a champion?
You guys are too much.
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1 hour ago, ousux said:On 9/19/2020 at 5:06 AM, BradInATX said:It's amazing that we still have hillbillies that don't think masks help, despite mountains of evidence that they do. They're even on here, a place that skews more educated and intelligent than average. Just amazing. We live in idiot world.
Not so amazing considering all the conflicting info from Fauci, CDC and WHO and other sources over the past few months..and not just about masks. There are many people with above average education who doubt the effectiveness of masks, dont plan to get vaccinated etc. It has little to do with education, more about distrust in authority/media these days.
People who do not believe that masks have any positive effect do not have above average intelligence, regardless of their claimed education level.
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Don't get me wrong, MJ's HoF speech was cringe-worthy and off-putting as shit and left me saying, "Jesus Christ dude, let it go." I know I'm not alone in that. But that was the first time I realized his grudge-holding was THAT severe. Maybe if social media were around in his prime--with phones catching all of his off-color locker room remarks--people would have grasped his true pettiness sooner.
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48 minutes ago, d2o said:
That story about him not making the varsity team was part of his lore from the start of his career and mentioned many times in his commercials.
But how many times did HE directly mention it until his HOF speech? Allowing his media sycophants to run with it is just different than directly speaking to it year after year. I mean, c'mon, you can set your watch to LeBron campaigning to be the MVP in March, then lamenting the whole process once he loses. Again, it's just off-putting, especially when it has the direct effect of throwing shade at the league's other great players. Weren't there already enough talking heads jumping at the opportunity to say, "See, that's why LeBron is the true MVP" once Giannis got bounced?
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1 minute ago, d2o said:
Its all irrational. Just like the posts about Bron "whining" about coming in 2nd for MVP but those same people saying the MJ still whining about not making his varsity team 30 yrs was just him using it for "motivation". Dude actually invited the guy that made the HS team in front of him to his HOF speech to tell him he was better than him.
To be fair, this is like the 6th straight season that he's not so subtly hinted that he should be the MVP, despite not having much of an argument for any one of them. It's a little off-putting, especially when he has so many media friends who are happy to take up the cause for him. MJ kept most of his perceived slights internal. I'm sure if he brought up that guy's name every year, we would have been like, "Okay, we get it." At least this year, LBJ seemed like he was attempting to start a conversation about the voting criteria, which actually has merit.
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5 minutes ago, d2o said:
Wait I thought you said the LBJ hate didnt really exist in the media. Just like you said, if the Lakers win there will be a swell of asterisk talk all because LBJ would be getting another ring.
I would consider diminishing his accomplishments to keep him entrenched as only the 2nd best to ever play (which obviously happens) and people piling on to call him a choker or soft when he loses (which doesn't really happen anymore, especially after 2016) different things.
I think everyone who isn't actively trying to be a contrarian for the sake of ratings pretty much acknowledges his greatness* now, even when he does come up short.
*as long as that greatness stops short of His Airness
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11 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:
Your best bet is to slink off and pray that your posts get buried in the daily traffic of surly never to be seen again.
Maybe he'll send us a postcard, and let us know how Now This is doing in exile.
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39 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:
The bubble has been better than regular arenas. Hearing the players and officials and coaches is way better than hearing fans.
I wouldn't go that far, but I am enjoying these games far more than I thought I would. It's going to be a shame when the Lakers win, and the asterisk talk explodes 100 fold (because LeBron is one championship closer to Michael). They've done about as well as they possibly could have to create an even playing field and replicate playoff intensity.
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55 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:
Don't forget about the state of California telling everyone to stay inside their homes because masks don't prevent you from breathing in smoke. Smoke particles are much larger than COVID.
Because smoke is everywhere, enough to significantly reduce the air quality. If COVID particles were as densely propogated as smoke, we'd all be fucked. But they're not...in no small part because people in public are wearing masks.
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3 minutes ago, Cornfusion said:
No, it's not. Social distancing and wearing masks were to "flatten the curve", nothing else. That means nobody really avoids it, but rather everybody doesn't get it at once. There will still be the same number of cases, but the that total will accrue over a longer period of time. Wikipedia has a moving graph that will make my post look less stupid. Just make sure you and BradinATX hold hands while crossing the internet to go look at it.
So masks can help people "not get it all at once" but they don't do anything to prevent you from inevitably eventually getting it? Everyone who was going to get it earlier will still get it down the road because science? Seriously, take two seconds to think about the "logic" that you are trying to argue here.
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Damn, that one stings. Not going to get a better chance than that. LeBron was terrible in the last 5 minutes... obviously can't count on that again, nor can you reasonably expect to beat LeBron 4 times in 5 games on a neutral court.
2019-2020 NBA Season Thread
in Basketball
Posted · Edited by aggie08
According to spotrac, the only person to be fined for flopping this season was Patrick Beverly. In November.*
So safe to say that the NBA has basically decided to stop doing what was already the absolute bare minimum to discourage flopping.
*and that was the first one they've given out in years.