i have something to say about the offseason THE 2016 NBA OFFSEASON

they got through the reg season pretty squeaky clean so it was harder for ppl to dislike them then

not looking forward to this board's flood of schadenfreude directed at this year's guaranteed-to-disappoint warriors :/

― brimstead, Wednesday, October 19, 2016 3:18 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in retrospect, the turn from constant mockery of the cavs and bron's #messybitchdrama and massive enjoyment of the warriors to embrace of the former solely to maximize schadenfreude regarding the latter was p stark and fairly quick here - certainly less so than much of the rest of the internet, who got all they needed the second lacob opened his mouth to go full techbro/#arrogantszn

― i've watched a lot of cats do weird and interesting things (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, October 19, 2016 3:31 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea sloth otm here the switch was very quick, happened like after game 3 of the finals maybe? maybe even later. at whatever point it a dubs championship stopped being completely inevitable

i mean i am speaking for the board i was obv not a warriors fan though i had moments when i deeply admired them

hardcore sports fans are always gonna turn against success p fast is how i break it down, the masses of casual fans of course still fn love the dubs, and rightful they shd theyre a super awesome fun team

draymond does stuff on the fastbreak that horford and millsap can't, which is a pretty important part of golden state's offense. evaluating those three guys is pretty context dependent and draymond is pretty much perfect for the warriors. given how durant makes them even more perimeter heavy i think dray is prob their most irreplaceable player. if he got hurt for a significant period of time or had to miss part of a playoff series i think they'd have real trouble defending the rim.

goon has been a dray hater for a while, was proved wrong, and has moved the goalposts since. i don't think horford could have put up 32/15/9 on 6-8 from three in game 7 like dray did... millsap has put up lines like that before but i think on the defensive end he's still less versatile than dray. ultimately i would take dray over those two even just for this season, tho again context is important and i'm not sure i.e. the celtics would rather have dray than horford for this season.

imo horford cld do those things on the fast break, dray is mostly operating in space in those situations while the defense gets sucked towards the dubs shooter, his ball handling is good but its a lil overrrated its not like hes breaking defenders down in the open court or anything

you know yr argument is bad when ur like i dont think player x cld match this one weird game, of course he cld i mean its just one weird game

and needless to say drays ball handling is only exceptional for a center which is a position he plays not very much

(but to great success in high leverage situations tbf)

horford can't push the ball at the speed draymond does off a rebound

not so sure abt that

be interesting to see how the celtics use him in small lineups this year, they have an athletic team thats gonna run

horford is old

that is the extent of my analysis

i hope dray and kd have beef

― lag∞n, Wednesday, October 19, 2016 12:16 PM (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not likely
https://twitter.com/manny_vieites/status/787750718241333248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

i like draymond tbh, if i were a dubs fan i imagine it'd be like a "he may be an SOB but he's our SOB" situation

― marcos, Wednesday, October 19, 2016 11:54 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gotta say its kinda fun to finally have one of these player. havent had one in the bay since... barry bonds?

hella embarrassed to be a w's fan

― brimstead, Wednesday, October 19, 2016 12:19 PM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

embrace it, b

ALL IN ALL, it was not the best few months for Draymond Green. On June 10, during Game 4 of the NBA Finals against the Cavaliers, some 20 million viewers caught him in the act of trying to slap LeBron James in the groin. Three days later, after being suspended for that act, he watched his Warriors lose by 15 before dropping Games 6 and 7 in the greatest collapse in Finals history. In early July, he was arrested in East Lansing, Michigan, on an assault charge resulting from a scuffle in a college bar. Later that month, Green accidentally sent out a photo of his penis to the world.

loool how did i miss that last part? i had no idea that happened

he snapped it out during team USA iirc

yeah it was big news for a day

has to happen once per year by mandate

Derrick Rose cleared on all charges in civil rape trial

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/derrick-rose-cleared-on-all-charges-in-civil-rape-trial-203332240.html

related/messed up
https://twitter.com/joelrubin/status/788850013459795968

https://twitter.com/joelrubin/status/788850013459795968/photo/1

this is not a particularly good look

xp wow bizarre xp coincidence there

“Best wishes,” Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald told Rose. “Except when the Knicks play the Lakers,” he joked.

the fuck kinda trial was this

basically he did it but there wasn't enough to convict

i thought that's what "not guilty" meant, but the headline i read was "Jury rules NBA star Derrick Rose and friends did not rape woman"

(LA Times)

not sure what to think about it tbh

“Best wishes,” Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald told Rose. “Except when the Knicks play the Lakers,” he joked.

the fuck kinda trial was this

― Clay, Thursday, October 20, 2016 10:26 AM

judges love making comments like this

there may still be a criminal prosecution

civil trials usually require a fairly low threshold of culpability to award damages. if the jury awarded nothing at all as damages, then it might be not merely a weak case, but an extremely weak one, so that a criminal prosecution would be quite unlikely if that's true.

https://twitter.com/MikeSGallagher/status/788946067408683009

Warriors...

... vs. Lakers

Man the dubs look ready to roll.

Well they slaughtered the other la team a few games back.

Good to see KD and Draymo goofing around.

five days. im dying.

video autoplay on EVERY sports article these days is the worst shit ever

truth

u all got to install a flash blocker

http://www.foxsports.com.au/basketball/nba/vince-carter-says-he-could-compete-in-2017-nba-dunk-contest/news-story/36037132d686ab3d81162c66692a3711

i, clay, would win the dunk contest if i chose to compete fyi

i dunked once. please give me the dunk contest trophy

hmm no im the big dunk man

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/carmelo/tim-duncan/
kinda awesome

hitting the random player button is fun

think it needs a category between all star and mvp candidate tho

it loves ben simmons and isnt too crazy abt devin booker, young players are the hardest to project tbf

i was surprised by booker too. it LOVES marcus smart

it seems to weight defense pretty heavily i.e. smart & justise winslow are valued twice as much as booker

it has the 2015 rated this way

1. towns
2. porzingis
3. russell
4. winslow
5. cauley stein
6. hollis jefferson
7. booker
8. cameron payne
9. kaminsky
10. myles turner