rockets just ran a play with 10 seconds left in which harden was fully a decoy...
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 23 August 2020 00:45 (three years ago) link
You know the second those guys got near each other that CP was ejecting backwards at some point.— John Hollinger (@johnhollinger) August 23, 2020
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 23 August 2020 00:50 (three years ago) link
OKC’s no 1 objective in this series should be to foul harden out of every game
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 23 August 2020 00:56 (three years ago) link
eric gordon-ben mclemore-danuel house-jeff teague-pj tucker scaring anyone?
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 23 August 2020 00:58 (three years ago) link
chris paul just punched ben mclemore in the balls so blatantly he was called for an offensive foul
some classic little bastard moments in this game
― circles, Sunday, 23 August 2020 00:59 (three years ago) link
(uhhh jeff green xp...)
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 23 August 2020 00:59 (three years ago) link
d’antoni is walking up and down the sideline screaming at the refs for not reviewing the cp3 nut punch for a tech
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 23 August 2020 01:01 (three years ago) link
there chris paul goes with that sh t again.and that wasn't the acc tournament, cuz he was suspended for that game. doris is talking about when he hit hodge in the crotch on his senior night.but he wasn't ejected, so paul hit the game winning shot at the buzzer.— bomani (@bomani_jones) August 23, 2020
and d'antoni is right. if that ain't a flagrant foul, what is?— bomani (@bomani_jones) August 23, 2020
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 23 August 2020 01:03 (three years ago) link
i decided to support chris paul this year and he couldn’t even make it three full games without punching someone on the nuts — i take full responsibility and it won’t happen again
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 23 August 2020 01:05 (three years ago) link
i didn't really notice it in real time, because it was basically a standard warding off with the elbow move by a driver, but it was also aimed squarely at his nuts.
― circles, Sunday, 23 August 2020 01:07 (three years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Saturday, August 22, 2020 9:05 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i hope you've learned your lesson
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 23 August 2020 01:09 (three years ago) link
cp3 stands for chops penis 3
― lag∞n, Sunday, 23 August 2020 01:09 (three years ago) link
cheanu preeves in dong whip 3
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Sunday, 23 August 2020 01:12 (three years ago) link
it's just chris paul being chris paul you've got to take it in stride if you're gonna love this game i mean what is to be done really
― Clay, Sunday, 23 August 2020 01:15 (three years ago) link
i don't normally think this way but it sure feels like chris paul's karmic payback for all the cheap shit is that he's never winning a championship
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 23 August 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
hes a tragic character but its difficult to feel much sympathy
― micah, Sunday, 23 August 2020 01:37 (three years ago) link
^^^
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 23 August 2020 01:47 (three years ago) link
oops
the audacity. pic.twitter.com/j6B4vsnEFy— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) August 23, 2020
― lag∞n, Sunday, 23 August 2020 01:54 (three years ago) link
disconcerting ft disparity in this game
― micah, Sunday, 23 August 2020 03:11 (three years ago) link
eh i watched a bunch of it, not sure on the lakers side but 4/5 of portland's starters wanted nothing to do with the free throw line
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 23 August 2020 03:27 (three years ago) link
The Blazers played essentially a 7 player rotation, including two rookies. The Lakers played a 9 player rotation; ten, if you count J.R. Smith, who got 9 minutes in this game!
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Sunday, 23 August 2020 03:37 (three years ago) link
allow me to be the first in some time to say.... "lebron james"
― Clay, Sunday, 23 August 2020 05:19 (three years ago) link
Watched a lot of the magic/bucks series and although Fultz is definitely a decent NBA player now I really don’t think he can ever be a good starter. He’s just not explosive enough to be that bad at shooting. He maybe has the best up and under layup in the league tho
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 23 August 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link
thinking abt phillys org... celtics got philly to trade up to one because they knew they wanted fultz then a couple years later the celtics took thybulle four spots ahead of where philly was picking and immediately flipped him for their pick and another, howd the celtics know these things
― lag∞n, Sunday, 23 August 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
celtics haven't drafted well enough to give them credit for being prescient imo. maybe they're good at telling which players are bad but not which are good
― ciderpress, Sunday, 23 August 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
outside of brown/tatum obv but those were top 3 picks
― ciderpress, Sunday, 23 August 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
im saying they knew who philly liked prob because someone told them
― lag∞n, Sunday, 23 August 2020 17:03 (three years ago) link
Mike Malone is probably gonna do something crazy today, job is at stake and team seems to have quit on him
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 23 August 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link
well at least with the fultz/tatum trade the story in the press was that philly approached boston about trading up...i'm guessing boston asked who they liked as part of that conversation.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 23 August 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
harris gifting the celtics 3 points in an elimination game because he’s mad about a no-call...not a great look
― k3vin k., Sunday, 23 August 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
it was close when i turned it on but i think that injury to tobi just broke the sixers
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 23 August 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
The Fultz thing was a black swan event that it’s hard to blame on the sixers
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 23 August 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
i find it hard to believe that the sixers don’t accept much of the blame with that pick
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 23 August 2020 19:35 (three years ago) link
it was just bad scouting... they clearly didn’t know what they were getting into with the player who they traded up to number 1 to select. they are a poorly run organization... the entire thing was a circus from day 1
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 23 August 2020 19:37 (three years ago) link
a black swan no 1 pick to which i don’t apportion much of the blame to the team when you look at the draft in context is anthony bennett
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 23 August 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
Fultz looked GREAT and if he had a normal jumpshot he’d be a nice starter by now. I mean I wasn’t sold on him but the draft gurus sure were. Some weird things happened with Bennett too, I think it’s a similar deal. But it doesn’t get much weirder than a. guy forgetting how to shoot.
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 23 August 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
There was probably stuff in Bennett’s personal life, he showed up out of shape. The jumper came back in the g league so it was probably a work ethic/off court issues thing
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 23 August 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link
RIP the Process
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 23 August 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link
distrust the process
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Sunday, 23 August 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
i think it's been documented since then that work ethic was bennett's biggest problem from the day he got in the building
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 23 August 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
More like amateurcess am I right
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 23 August 2020 19:47 (three years ago) link
Bennett was a wtf pick right from the beginning. He was gonna be a lottery pick no matter what but if he had been drafted at his projected spot of somewhere 5-10, he'd be just a regular bust. That is totally on the Cavs
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 23 August 2020 19:57 (three years ago) link
hey now
xp
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Sunday, 23 August 2020 19:57 (three years ago) link
Fultz on the other hand does feel more impossible to predict. While I don't doubt that some kind of psychological vulnerability correlates among pro athletes who get the yips, it doesn't seem like one that teams are able to detect with enough confidence to factor in to their, uh, process. However, it definitely leaves a poor impression of the Sixers org when you consider the context of the Celtics being fine to trade down (despite the pundits hailing Fultz as a strong #1 who was a clear tier above everyone else), the Sixers being confident enough to trade up, and what has ultimately happened with Tatum. That's before even considering the possibility that Fultz wouldn't have forgotten how to shoot in an organization that was better able to meet his player development needs
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 23 August 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link
Doris and Mark Jones were really rubbing some grade-A salt in the Sixers' wounds at the end there, pointing out how Butler is looking in Miami, what a great fit Redick was when he was there to compensate for the awkward Embiid/Simmons fit, etc. Just in general they've made one bad decision after another of late, with the overzealous signing of Horford at the top of the pile. "If we snap up the Embiid stopper, then Embiid will be unstoppable!" Didn't work out that way, huh Elton Brand
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 23 August 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
ideally sixers should give up on embiid and build the simmons + shooters team but easier said than done
― ciderpress, Sunday, 23 August 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
I think that's where I am at now, though really trade whichever one you think will get you the most and build around the other.
― trunk's full of pearl and lonestar (PBKR), Sunday, 23 August 2020 20:17 (three years ago) link
i just think what we've seen from embiid is his max whereas simmons could be better on the right team
― ciderpress, Sunday, 23 August 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
Yeah I think Embiid would look better on a loaded team where he didn’t have to be the #1 option and his conditioning therefore wouldn’t be such an issue, but he’d still be the same player. Simmons, though, feels like one of the hardest players in the league to predict where his game is going in the next 5 years, assuming he’s able to work in an environment, be it Philly or elsewhere, that can think creatively about how to maximize his talents.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 23 August 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link