i will say despite the fact that i will passively support the heat in the finals, i would like to light all content about their culture and how tough they are on fire. retroactive congrats to noted winner jimmy butler for reaching a conference finals for the first time in his life.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 28 September 2020 02:45 (three years ago) link
lmao. the org is a good fit for him tho no doubt.
― Spottie, Monday, 28 September 2020 02:48 (three years ago) link
Jimmy is awesome and everything he's called out previous organizations, players, and coaches he's had unsuccessful run-ins with for has been proven unambiguously correct. If he wasn't stuck with some of the most inept front offices in the NBA over the past decade (Bulls and Wolves, who have both completely cleaned house in their FOs since his departure) he'd have gone back to the conference Finals (cause he has made them before in 2015 and went up 2-1 over the Cavs) and made a Finals much sooner than this. Glad he's happy and finally getting the opportunity later rather than never.
― Sabre of Paradise (trevor phillips), Monday, 28 September 2020 03:02 (three years ago) link
... even if in the bubble he looks like a hobo
― Nhex, Monday, 28 September 2020 03:28 (three years ago) link
you try making it to the finals while managing a start up coffee concern in this economy, jimmy looks amazing considering
― Clay, Monday, 28 September 2020 04:14 (three years ago) link
hard to say who looks the most scraggly between him, iggy and solomon hill.
― Spottie, Monday, 28 September 2020 04:25 (three years ago) link
iggy 6 straight finals btw
― Spottie, Monday, 28 September 2020 04:29 (three years ago) link
Lakers in 6?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 28 September 2020 05:18 (three years ago) link
Will/can Bam guard Anthony Davis (to the extent anyone can)?
― Quiet Storm Thorgerson (PBKR), Monday, 28 September 2020 12:12 (three years ago) link
xp bruh that 2015 series was the semifinals
― call all destroyer, Monday, 28 September 2020 13:27 (three years ago) link
yeah, if I had to pick. but i really have no clue how this series plays out. Miami is the hottest team right now but who knows how the matchups will be.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 28 September 2020 13:52 (three years ago) link
lakers have two unguardable guys heat are gonna run around a lot see what happens
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 September 2020 14:10 (three years ago) link
lakers in 6 feels like the safest bet. heat are gonna have to shoot the lakers out of the gym.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 28 September 2020 14:16 (three years ago) link
i love this photo of spoelstra video coordinating
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ei-bQdIXkAE_fc4?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 September 2020 14:21 (three years ago) link
i wonder if he keeps up with the video coordinating tech
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 September 2020 14:23 (three years ago) link
I sat on a plane next to a nba scout like 20 years ago and they had all this crazy video tech for watching film on their laptop. Video cartridges I hadn’t seen before. I also realized watching him work that if you run a new play every team knows what the play is in a day: the name of it, the hand signal for it etc
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 28 September 2020 15:33 (three years ago) link
They probably use the cloud or something now
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 28 September 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
is it just me or were the celtics basically terrible every time hayward was in the game? he missed a stock-still layup with about 6 minutes left to go in the third and i wanted to throw my toshiba regza through the wall.love the heat though. just going to log off now and order my “group economics” replica tank
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 28 September 2020 22:47 (three years ago) link
hayward was bad he never got up to speed after the injury would be a shame if they were forced to trade him for myles turner
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 September 2020 22:54 (three years ago) link
oh my god he DOES belong back in indiana, jesus
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Monday, 28 September 2020 23:57 (three years ago) link
it was written
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 00:36 (three years ago) link
J.R. Smith predicted a Lakers vs. Heat Finals back in February. 👀🍿 pic.twitter.com/JvJ0oENsw2— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) September 28, 2020
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 02:01 (three years ago) link
twice a day
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 02:13 (three years ago) link
J.R. Smith predicted a Lakers vs. Heat Finals back in February.
Call me crazy, but this evidence doesn't convince me that J.R. Smith has a brilliantly analytical basketball mind that can sift through thousands of variables and arrive at a sound prediction of the NBA's future.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 02:53 (three years ago) link
http://media2.fdncms.com/clevescene/imager/u/original/19701283/lebron_jr.jpg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 03:33 (three years ago) link
https://www.gq.com/story/inside-the-nba-bubble
did this get posted somewhere? it's fantastic
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 1 December 2020 03:11 (three years ago) link
Inside, we devised all kinds of ways to pass the time. Once, I played Heads Up! (the charades-like game where you hold your phone up to your forehead) with Kemba Walker of the Boston Celtics at the end of an interview. The answer on the screen was “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,” and the clue he gave me was “They be flying on brooms and shit.” Ja Morant of the Grizzlies and I would play Connect Four on the iPhone (he still hasn't beaten me), and Chris Paul and Russell Westbrook—who were traded for each other before the season began—would team up and play spades on their phones against Chris's brother, C.J., and his mom, Robin. Westbrook in particular was a model bubble citizen. He always made sure his hotel room was “clean and in good shape,” and he reportedly left an $8,000 tip for the housekeepers. (When we spoke, Westbrook confirmed he wrote a thank-you note and left a good tip, but wouldn't confirm the amount: “The money doesn't matter. I just like to do the right thing. That's it.”)
there's some other great stuff I don't want to spoil
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 1 December 2020 03:14 (three years ago) link
it got posted in the offseason thread but yes everyone should read it, really really good stuff.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 03:15 (three years ago) link
oh right I'm dumb
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 1 December 2020 03:46 (three years ago) link