rockets have to win game one. lakers have had a long layoff. just gotta punch em real quick before they remember what's going on.
― Spottie, Thursday, 3 September 2020 19:07 (three years ago) link
yah until harden and/or westrbook prove that they can make sound decisions in tight closeout games i will never believe in either of them
― Spottie, Thursday, 3 September 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
yelling at lebron "what's going on is basketball!" and now the rockets have no chance
― ciderpress, Thursday, 3 September 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
good job, good effort!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 3 September 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
lol
― Spottie, Thursday, 3 September 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
(Let's try this again)On the play where Butler threw the ball away to Lopez, the NBA found THREE mistakes.Kyle Korver fouled Butler, uncalled.George Hill was out of bounds when he touched the ball, uncalled.Butler was out of bounds before the turnover.— Tim Reynolds (@ByTimReynolds) September 3, 2020
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 September 2020 21:05 (three years ago) link
Mike D'Antoni and long playoff run are not compatible. Wins a ton of games in the regular season and is entertaining to watch, but they usually cannot get over in the playoffs. Not unlike...
Got to say, considering how bad the sports talk guys were talking OKC were going to be, Billy Donovan was able to put the parts together to be a pretty scrappy club. Unfortunately this probably puts them in the same spot the Pacers and Jazz are year to year, where you got a team full of pros that do the right thing that is good enough to win 50+ games in the regular season and then gets flayed in the playoffs because they don't have enough firepower to hang with the superpower clubs that can afford to have 2-3 big players.
― earlnash, Thursday, 3 September 2020 21:07 (three years ago) link
NBA playoff first round...where dreams still happen for mid-market fan bases.
― earlnash, Thursday, 3 September 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
The Blazers played their way into the WCF last season and the Spurs fans can still recall getting some championships, but, yeah, I get your point.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Thursday, 3 September 2020 21:21 (three years ago) link
i think that's pretty unfair to d'antoni... in his two best shots at making the finals he took probably the two greatest nba dynasties post-kobe/shaq lakers to the absolute brink. like, game 7 last minute brink. i don't think there's a lot of shame in having fallen just short of the teams that beat him
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 September 2020 22:01 (three years ago) link
Is TO a mid-market fan base? Is Cleveland?
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Thursday, 3 September 2020 22:03 (three years ago) link
i guess some ppl take it as an indictment of d'antoni's style that the rockets missed 27 straight threes in a game 7, and i was just posting the other day about whether they'll think about trying to get some mid range in harden's game for the playoffs. all that having been said, d'antoni didn't miss 27 three pointers, and if a few of those go in we're not having this discussion. it's such a slim margin that i can't hate on him for it
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 September 2020 22:04 (three years ago) link
btw i love the rumor of d'antoni to indiana. i don't think he'd be able to make the finals there but oladipo, brogdon, warren, and turner in that system is fun to think about
is that an actual rumor? that would be a good team for him yeah
― ciderpress, Thursday, 3 September 2020 22:38 (three years ago) link
i guess i assumed he was old enough that he'd hang it up once the rockets don't want him anymore
― ciderpress, Thursday, 3 September 2020 22:39 (three years ago) link
too proud to go out like this.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 September 2020 22:40 (three years ago) link
Well yeah...Shaq/Kobe also probably had a +5 point advantage in that they were going to get 2-3 calls that the other club won't. That BS that went down in the series with the Blazers, Pacers and Kings leads me to think of them as illegitimate. People forget now, but I know I was not the only NBA fan that went f-k it and quit watching it at that time because the calls were so suspect.
D'Antoni seems to be perhaps more of an influential coach than successful as I do think he was the guy that cracked open the NBA in using that European style open offense, which has become like the 'west coast offense' in football, everyone has to adopt to at least some point. That said, he always seems like a coach that has to force his club into that shape and when he was in the Lakers and Knicks, he could not make it work as he did not have the people to fit. To me, while I can acknowledge what D'Antoni has brought in to the NBA, I think of him as a lesser coach than say others including Billy Donovan this year and many others that could change their style and make it work to what type of players they had. Then again, all D'Antoni has to do is win it all and all is forgiven and he will be an all time genius. It could happen I suppose.
― earlnash, Thursday, 3 September 2020 22:48 (three years ago) link
― ciderpress, Thursday, September 3, 2020 6:38 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
seems like via reporting that hes indys first choice, doesnt seem like anyone knows what dan tony wants tho
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 September 2020 22:51 (three years ago) link
I like the idea of a guy named Mike Dan Tony <insert last name here>
― alpine static, Thursday, 3 September 2020 23:24 (three years ago) link
the last name is chris paul
― ciderpress, Thursday, 3 September 2020 23:31 (three years ago) link
ehhh i think 2 years ago is a good example of d'antoni showing the ability to adapt his style for the roster, that team played really slow paced iso ball and almost made the finals
― ciderpress, Thursday, 3 September 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
actually i'm not quite right about that, they were middle of the pack in pace, but still
― ciderpress, Thursday, 3 September 2020 23:35 (three years ago) link
the difference between how that team played and the previous year is night and day, he was absolutely not running the same system
― ciderpress, Thursday, 3 September 2020 23:36 (three years ago) link
Players get better when they play for D’Antoni which is the main thing you want from a coach
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 3 September 2020 23:39 (three years ago) link
I think the big problem he had in LA is that kobe was very stubborn and there was nothing really to improve with him. And the injuries obviously
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 3 September 2020 23:40 (three years ago) link
I think Indiana has potentially the best starting 5 in the NBA, I’m all in on them
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 3 September 2020 23:41 (three years ago) link
d'antoni does one thing really well imo which is cede control of the offense to a superstar player.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 September 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link
my friend met m0nte m0rris at the phx airport pre covid and he said he likes denver ok but he really wants to play under dantoni
― Spottie, Friday, 4 September 2020 00:36 (three years ago) link
fucking insane play by kemba. pure magic.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 4 September 2020 01:13 (three years ago) link
Goddamn I hate Boston but that was dope as hell
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 4 September 2020 01:15 (three years ago) link
dammit
― call all destroyer, Friday, 4 September 2020 01:15 (three years ago) link
Oh shit
they didn't think he could get a pass over there
― call all destroyer, Friday, 4 September 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
if theis had done a layup instead of a dunk would that have burned the last half second?
― ciderpress, Friday, 4 September 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
no hating here but this is a great point
No way Kyle Lowry gets that pass off with the normal room on the sideline. Bubble effect.— Kevin Pelton (@kpelton) September 4, 2020
― call all destroyer, Friday, 4 September 2020 01:17 (three years ago) link
wowwwwww
― ptah el dude (voodoo chili), Friday, 4 September 2020 01:17 (three years ago) link
That’s how you draw up a play Billy D
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 4 September 2020 01:17 (three years ago) link
The NBA! It’s fan-tastic
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 4 September 2020 01:18 (three years ago) link
crazy ending rude of toronto to spoil kembas amazing play
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 September 2020 01:20 (three years ago) link
celtics fault for not being up 4 points honestly
― ciderpress, Friday, 4 September 2020 01:20 (three years ago) link
shouldve been up 4 def
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 September 2020 01:21 (three years ago) link
they had some bad possessions before the kemba one
― ciderpress, Friday, 4 September 2020 01:21 (three years ago) link
Unbelievable. Boston's the better team, and I expect they'll move on, but that was just about the greatest pass I've ever seen from Walker, followed by a shot maybe even more improbable than Kawhi's.
― clemenza, Friday, 4 September 2020 01:21 (three years ago) link
toronto played ridiculously good defense for 2/3s of that game
― call all destroyer, Friday, 4 September 2020 01:24 (three years ago) link
Raptors head coach Nick Nurse says he got the game-winning 3-pointer play from an old coach Hubie Brown DVD.— Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpears) September 4, 2020
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 September 2020 02:24 (three years ago) link
nick nurse has real man of the people vibes
― Clay, Friday, 4 September 2020 02:26 (three years ago) link
have literally no expectations this series
― k3vin k., Friday, 4 September 2020 03:16 (three years ago) link
nuggets will lose the battle (this series), win the war (the nba playoffs)
― ciderpress, Friday, 4 September 2020 03:19 (three years ago) link
dhusijkzlerAFUH:SCJNSD— Boston Celtics (@celtics) September 4, 2020
― frogbs, Friday, 4 September 2020 03:36 (three years ago) link
Same
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 4 September 2020 03:47 (three years ago) link