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  1. 58 minutes ago, Dutchrudder said:
    5 hours ago, d2o said:
    well.......the Utah matchup is as about as bad as there was for them so.......... hahhahaha

    OKC was 3-1 against Utah this season.

    All 4 were with Roberson, only 2 included Gobert, and they all came before Utah's 27-5 run to end the season where their defense has been absurd. 

    If Utah had home court, I'd take them in 6. But OKC is a tough building for a young team to win in.

  2. 5 hours ago, d2o said:

    That's kinda the thing.  52 wins is way fucking over-achieving for the sixers.  Healthy Embiid or not.

    I don't necessarily  disagree personally; there's just a clear template for who this award goes to.  Coaches of talent-light teams who vastly overachieve, or talent-heavy teams who have truly remarkable seasons.  The niche for coaches who help a talented young team being to reach their potential in a really good season isn't as clear cut.  Shit, Brown might not even finish in the Top 5 with Snyder, D'Antoni, Stevens, Casey, and McMillan. 

  3. 14 hours ago, Message Board User said:

    I don't think Philly to the ECF is the fait accompli that everyone seems to think it is.

    They're going up against a good coach in Spo in round 1 and then probably another good coach in round 2 in Stevens; I think Philly is a type of team you can gameplan for and with the extra days of prepping for one team and one team only, a good coach could give them fits.  Slow the game down, leave Simmons open, get in Reddick's jersey so he can't get off 3s, make Embiid (who may not even be available) beat you in the post.

    In fact, if it's Philly vs Boston in Round 2, I'd pick Boston.

    Boston was going to struggle offensively in the playoffs before Kyrie went out.  I don't know where there offensive comes from now against playoff defenses.  A lot of really good looking dribble hand-offs...that don't go anywhere.  Maybe they get past Milwaukee, but Philly's defense is really, really good.  Like 3 players in conversations to make an all-defense team (and 1 in the DPOY race) good.  Even if Boston stalls their offense (and they likely will), they still can't score themselves.  It's going to be the Eastern Conference version of Warriors/Spurs.

  4. If OKC bows out unceremoniously in the first or 2nd round, are all of these talking heads that have been beating us over the head with "I'll tell you one thing, absolutely no one wants to face the Thunder right now!" going to change their tune to "It was just a bad match-up; [insert top seed] is so lucky that they didn't have to play them." 

  5. 8 hours ago, Goo Punch said:

    So you’re telling me that Philly gets 52 wins, and nobody here thinks that Brett Brown should even be the runner up for COTY? Utah wins 48 games, same as the Pelicans and Thunder, and Quin Snyder is COTY, but Philly wins 52 even without Fultz and with a Joel Embiid who only played 63 games and was on a minutes limit to start the year. Philly just won 16 in a row (16 in a row!) without Embiid and y’all STILL show no love for Brett Brown. Y’all are tripping. 

    Is this who we want to win, or who we think we win?  If it's the latter, then Brett Brown has almost no shot.  He might finish 5th behind D'Antoni and Casey too.  Voters have proven that they reward the plucky underdog who was supposed to suck but way overachieved or the best season.  Right or wrong, I think most people, if told that Embiid was going to play a full season, would expect Philly to easily make the Eastern playoffs

  6. 2 hours ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

    Looks like they got rid of the old Saturday 12 o'clock game. Toronto must've lost too many times in that time slot

    Will this finally be the year that Toronto wins a Game 1?  The world stands on edge.

  7. 5 hours ago, BigOrange1 said:

    who you got?

    Rookie of the year: Ben Simmons.  Runner up: Donovan Mitchell

    Coach of the year: Quin Snyder.  Runner up: Brad Stevens

    Defensive player of the year: Rudy Gobert. Runner up: Anthony Davis

    Sixth Man: Lou Williams.  Runner up: Eric Gordon

    Most Improved: Victor Oladipo. Runner up: Clint Capela

    MVP: James Harden. Runner up: LeBron James.  3rd: Anthony Davis

     

    All Rookie Team: Ben Simmons, Donovan Mitchell, Jayson Tatum, Kyle Kuzma, Lauri Markkanen

    All NBA Team: James Harden, Damian Lillard, Lebron James, Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis

    Looks pretty dead-on to me. Dame earned Steph's 1st team spot by playing 25 more games for a team that surged into the 3 seed. 

    The only move I'd consider is bumping KD for Giannis on the 1st team because of his defense. KD was on his way to an all-defense team early in the year, but they've been awful for almost all of 2018 on that side of the ball, and he hasn't been nearly as locked in.

  8. 18 minutes ago, d2o said:

    That's sick.  Especially for a guy that "can't shoot"and will "not be able to play once he loses his athletic advantage"

     

    Shit, even when you remove heaves (LeBron may top the very long list of superstars who are acutely aware of their shooting %, and always find a way to not have the ball in the last second of a quarter), LeBron still has Steph's record season beat (though less than half the attempts, obviously).

    From 28-40 feet:

    Steph ('15-'16) -- 47-91 (.516)

    LeBron ('17-'18) -- 23-43 (.535)

     

    He may damn well play until he's 40.

  9. Further proof that LeBron James isn't human: in his 15th season--one in which he'll play all 82 games (and almost assuredly 40+ minutes in every playoff game)--he is shooting better on deep threes (28+ feet) than Steph Curry did in 2015-2016 (the best individual shooting season in NBA history by a mile).

    https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/lebron-james-is-the-new-steph-curry/

    All because he picked up a few mechanics tips from Kyle Korver over the past year. Unreal. Dude is somehow even better at basketball than he is at self-promotion. 

  10. The last two years it's been Dahntay Jones.  In last year's Finals, he got in a really nice punch on Steph under the basket in a blowout.  Admittedly, it was Golden State's fault for still having stars in the game the second they saw Jones reporting to the scorers' table.  I want to say that he got into it with a Raptor in 2016 as well, but I can't remember the details. Edit: he hit Biyombo in the dick in garbage time.

    The oversell on Perk's leadership--for a team that has been together all season and takes all of its cues from LeBron--to disguise the signing is pretty funny though.

  11. Rimbo is doing a bit, right?  No one can be this dumb.  No plot holes?  You have to be shitting me.

    - Slow speed space chase where, allegedly, the Resistance ships are faster than their pursuers, but never actually gain any ground over the course of the movie

    - Empire/First Order, who has never given the slightest fuck about stormtroopers, pulls all Tie-fighters back when they can't support them from the destroyers.  3 Ties blew up the entire bridge and hanger; how many would it have possibly taken to finish off the last Resistance ship?  A dozen?

    - No one in the First Order thinks, "Gee, why don't we just lightspeed a destroyer in front of them and cut them off."

    - Lightspeed super weapon.  Why didn't the black captain on the medical ship or the other smaller ship just take out the entire First Order fleet with their last ounce of fuel if this was always an option?  How many Deathstars could have just been driven through in the past?

    - Holdo doesn't even give the crew a hint of the plan, causing completely unnecessary panic (Rose had to shock a few rebels trying to escape), stupid casino plans, and expectation of certain death.

    - Poe learns that sometimes retreat is the wise move by...retreating from an absolutely essential suicide mission.  The fuck??  This part actually pissed me off.  The options were: 1) Take out the battering ram, buying them time to radio in help, or 2) Die trying.  That's it.  If they failed, they all died.  No one knew that ghost Luke would save the day.  Not only did Poe run away, but Rose then took Finn's moment, and, as far as they knew, doomed them all.   No one jumping on those rickety pieces of shit could have possibly expected to survive; it was a needed sacrifice.

    50 minutes ago, SpiralOut said:

    I didn't have a problem with Johnson trying to do something different.  Problem is, he just made a bad movie.

    1000% this.  I could even look past what he did to Luke (Jedi who went to his almost certain death clinging to the hope that his father still had some good in him--only to have to faith reaffirmed--considers killing kid 10 years later) because I like the Ren/Rey angle, especially creating the only complicated character in Star Wars' history in Ren.  But the movie around all that was just...dumb, even for a Star Wars movie.

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  12. Steph (shocking, I know)

    MJ

    Pipp

    Thunder Dan

    John Starks*

     

    Damn, it's tough leaving off Dirk, but I was 10 years old when MJ and Pipp started their 2nd championship run. They're my Star Wars.

    *Ironically, Starks is my go-to example when I make the point that today's average NBA player is bigger, faster, stronger, more athletic, better conditioned, more skilled, and just plain better than yesteryear's players.

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