billionaire techbros club - 2016-17 NBA regular-ass season thread (the first of a series)

gallo is so #deceptivelyathletic tho, can get his shot off always and gets to the rim/fouled like a madman.

xp lol he's been great

i thought he looked really crafty, he was doing stuff like dribbling to his spot and then pump faking three times before hitting a jumper where he barely even jumps

so on the one hand maybe his game ages well cuz he's already got diaw-like old man tricks... or he's gonna look old really soon

either way i'm not sure how he's a player you put a bunch of resources into

i think he'd be a good fit for the celtics. i think if they could upgrade on the shooting wing/small ball 4 role jerebko currently fills that would be big for them. but i don't think i'd want to give gallo the money he's prob gonna get.

i think celts fans should feel ok about the lottery bcuz even if they fall to 3 or 4 tatum/jackson would be good fits for them

feel like a secondary ballhandler like hayward is more relevant to the celtics needs re gallo

i totally have my heart set on fultz but any of the top four cld easily end up being the best player

gallo is a v solid ballhandler for his size btw tho def not on hayward's level

btw here is a super cool list gallo is part of

http://bkref.com/tiny/S4QPi

not bad

uh rip meyers leonard, murdered while playing basketball

just like they drew it up right there huh

hahaha pop's reaction was priceless

so the clips look good

i hope the clips "make some noise"

rate this statement from 1-10 on the standom scale: chris paul has earned an all-nba 2nd team vote

he totally has imo

dame is gonna be snubbed from all NBA bc there are too many good guards but his numbers are prob first team worthy in any other era

dame will have to push his team a bit further into the playoffs before he gets full recognition. it's just his misfortune that the blazers cannot attract top tier free agents and rarely see the second round.

he made the second team last year!

lmao just caught the end of the blazers game

Simmons dunkkkkk
https://twitter.com/World_Wide_Wob/status/851651454289010688

getting hayward this offseason wld be cool, dont know if thats just a sportswriter pipe dream or what

― lag∞n, Monday, April 10, 2017 10:47 PM (six minutes ago)

you should go for gallo 90% of the production (but 75% of the health...) for much less

― k3vin k., Monday, April 10, 2017 10:55 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Gallos fine but the gap is even wider than this on health- Gallo has appeared in around 60% of games for his career and Hayward is close to 90% (!)

Hayward has been really really good this year, I think he's right there with pg for best small forwards a step behind butler (i just put lebron in his own special category). I would think maybe the c's could use the glaring scoring forward sized hole in their roster and the ol brad connect to lure him but Utah being really good and maybe on the cusp of stepping into the top tier of the west when the clippers inevitably disintegrate probably keeps him there

rate this statement from 1-10 on the standom scale: chris paul has earned an all-nba 2nd team vote

― k3vin k., Tuesday, April 11, 2017 12:53 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No argument from me he's been v good

hah Cavs sign Dahntay Jones

some CP stuff
https://www.si.com/nba/2017/04/11/chris-paul-court-vision-passing-clippers-nba-playoffs
hes def all nba 2nd team

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Celtics' odds of keeping top seed just went up. Bucks game notes indicate Giannis, Middleton, Snell and Dellavedova will sit out vs. C's.

Towns is a great player but man is he soft on defense.

They just said this was the first final home game sellout for the timberwolves since 1997 which is confusing on two or three levels

from the lakers broadcast: "it's all about metta world peace tonight!"

possible outcomes for 7-8-9 after tomorrows games:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9LYr0fXcAAW4lk.jpg

Cavaliers will waive C Larry Sanders and sign C Edy Tavares, who spent season playing for Raptors' D-League team -

maybe all these moves won't work out after all

I had no idea Tavares was a free agent, that would have been a very interesting move earlier in the season

In "clutch time" (defined as a five-point game inside five minutes), Westbrook leads the league in points per 100 possessions (74.3), shooting 44.6 percent from the field and OKC is a plus-21.7 per 100 possessions with him on the court in such situations.

All clutch stats are pure variance really. Even with the massive usage sample for Westbrook.

It would be amusing if Gobert won dpoy after somehow not being the all-star on his team

some CP stuff
https://www.si.com/nba/2017/04/11/chris-paul-court-vision-passing-clippers-nba-playoffs
hes def all nba 2nd team

― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie), Tuesday, April 11, 2017 5:24 PM (yesterday)

love this article

the game theory stuff is sick, he's so smart

love this too

These opportunities don't just materialize. They develop. Their roots stretch back over seconds or minutes or entire quarters – if not further. When they were in New Orleans together, Paul used to call up now-Nuggets coach Mike Malone on off-nights to riff on the latest in League Pass. His Clipper teammates say Paul is liable to ask if they saw some random move from a completely irrelevant preseason game. "All I do is watch basketball," Paul said. "Seriously."

if paul hadn't missed that time he'd be legitimately in the MVP discussion

It's strange how Paul has become so underrated. I despise him so it doesn't bother me but it's really dumb.

Like I'm seeing people arguing that Lillard is better, come on

CP3 is a Ty Cobb / Pete Rose kind of figure. He's HOF 1st ballot material, but he is easy to despise.

untimely injuries have hurt his standing quite a bit. also his box scores rarely wow the layman

haha matt i didn't know you hated cp3, i thought you were love the sinner hate the sin with him

It's strange how people decided that this is the shameless flopper they'd hate tho. It's about the lack of titles I guess.

I don't think there's anyone who flops as much as CP3 that I like other than Rodman.

started an offseason thread

2017 NBA OFFSEASON

someone else start up the postseason 'offs thread after tonight.

heck yeah im ready for some mensa-level analysis of the 'offs

how my nets doing tonight

Litttttt up