yeah. i really have liked craig this year. i guess the team is calling it a “nasal contusion”
― sknybrg, Thursday, 2 May 2019 02:24 (five years ago) link
craig was one of their more reliable shooters
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 2 May 2019 02:32 (five years ago) link
Will Barton sucks and I want him out of my life
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 2 May 2019 02:56 (five years ago) link
this is a weird game in a lot of respects but i'm going to say one of the weirdest is that rodney hood has 3 blocks. i just went through a few years of game logs and i don't think i'm breaking any news when i say that i don't think that has happened before.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 2 May 2019 02:56 (five years ago) link
did jamal just leave the bench
― k3vin k., Thursday, 2 May 2019 03:32 (five years ago) link
uh shoutout to neil olshey on the rodney hood pick up
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 2 May 2019 03:33 (five years ago) link
malone should have gotten a technical for grabbing blazers players
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 2 May 2019 03:36 (five years ago) link
kanter and hood have been huge and were massively under the radar moves
― Clay, Thursday, 2 May 2019 03:37 (five years ago) link
ya
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 May 2019 03:38 (five years ago) link
it's inexcusable that the nuggets haven't played kanter off the floor. it's not that hard to do.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 2 May 2019 03:38 (five years ago) link
kanter has been essential post nurkic injury
― sknybrg, Thursday, 2 May 2019 03:41 (five years ago) link
Home court seeding is now past tense. Let the trumpets sound. The series has officially begun.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 2 May 2019 03:44 (five years ago) link
i'm still watching the fourth and my dudes will barton and evan turner need to have some kind of bad decision making competition
― Clay, Thursday, 2 May 2019 03:49 (five years ago) link
barkley trying to say "nurkic"
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 2 May 2019 03:55 (five years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, May 1, 2019 11:38 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark
in denver's defense it's prob a little harder to play him off the floor when his back ups are zach collins and meyers leonard
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 2 May 2019 03:57 (five years ago) link
really tho... kanter's problem is PNR defense when he has to move his feet. jokic handling the ball so much doesn't really put kanter on the move often. he can kinda just bang w jokic all game.
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 2 May 2019 03:58 (five years ago) link
his rebounding is so valuable with this squad he'd have to really fuck up to lose his minutes
― Clay, Thursday, 2 May 2019 04:03 (five years ago) link
When Collins was in there he got roasted one on one vs plumlee so
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 2 May 2019 04:18 (five years ago) link
Denver just missed a million wide open three pointers, sometimes the game is no more complicated than that
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 2 May 2019 04:19 (five years ago) link
they shot really well in game one, bound to come down to earth
― Clay, Thursday, 2 May 2019 04:23 (five years ago) link
xp you can run 1-5 pick and roll whenever kanter is on the floor. i guess this was just a missed 3s game. it feels like denver should never be scoring in the 90s against a v flawed portland defense.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 2 May 2019 10:15 (five years ago) link
There’s a lot of variance in basketball, this is a thing I’ve learned.The nuggets are defending the blazers really well, but they just have to hit open 3s when teams are doubling Jokic as hard as the blazers were. They also missed a ton of free throws. It was a very frustrating experience to be at the Pepsi center last night. There were fights in the stands, people threw stuff on the court.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 2 May 2019 14:37 (five years ago) link
the massive increase in 3pt shot attempts is also an increase in variance
― ciderpress, Thursday, 2 May 2019 14:41 (five years ago) link
3s and increased pace* have made variance wild 15 point leads disappear in 2min i wonder if well see a clearly not that good team just get hot from deep and win the chip sometime soon
*i know more possessions is supposed to = less variance but it seems like theres something operating here that makes that not really so, might just be a level of chaos that happens when u play so fast, or maybe its just not enough possessions to really flatten out the variance idk
lol xp
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 May 2019 14:42 (five years ago) link
think also w the game changing its harder to figure out who the good teams/players are based on past criteria, like lou williams was a fringe rotation guy for most of his career now hes lighting up the league well past his athletic prime
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 May 2019 14:44 (five years ago) link
There were fights in the stands, people threw stuff on the court.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, May 2, 2019 10:37 AM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol seriously?
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 2 May 2019 14:46 (five years ago) link
wow colorado didnt know u had it in u
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 May 2019 14:47 (five years ago) link
i figured the crowd would be baked but it takes all kinds i guess
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 2 May 2019 14:48 (five years ago) link
denver is becoming a real city
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 May 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link
more half court possessions = less variance. fast breaks muddle things
― ciderpress, Thursday, 2 May 2019 14:55 (five years ago) link
more 3pta also generates more fast breaks i assume because of longer rebounds
― ciderpress, Thursday, 2 May 2019 14:56 (five years ago) link
yeah good call
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 May 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
One crazy thing about seeing games live is sometimes you have the perfect angle to realize a call is awful
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 2 May 2019 15:28 (five years ago) link
― ciderpress, Thursday, May 2, 2019 10:55 AM (forty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
there are a lot of players who are good on the break but not in the halfcourt, the game becomes a lot about limiting fastbreaks and quasi transition 3pt looks
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 May 2019 15:42 (five years ago) link
can u accomplish that then u r a good team, also do u have good halfcourt players then u r good too
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 May 2019 15:52 (five years ago) link
for instance if the celtics can limit the bucks break and quasi break looks then they will win the series because they have good halfcourt players
*unless the refs just call a foul everytime giannis drives
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 May 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link
even just like 3 seasons ago if the warriors got a 15 point lead at any point in a game they were like 114-0 or something but now pretty much any team can come back on them and even bigger leads arent safe
― but I can't let Trae do it I got Huerter on my mind (Spottie), Thursday, 2 May 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
yeah its nuts
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 May 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
its interesting, from a spectator standpoint i think it's probably gone a bit past ideal at this point but it feels like teams could still figure out other stuff that works whereas baseball, which has a similar thing going on, is just fucked without rules changes
― ciderpress, Thursday, 2 May 2019 17:02 (five years ago) link
see a clearly not that good team just get hot from deep and win the chip sometime soon
I'm not worried about that happening at all, let alone soon. The playoffs have four rounds of seven game series. For a "clearly not that good" team to win out though all four series, including the Finals, they would have to be pretty good in reality, not just randomly 'hot'. The team might be a fairly low seed because of a poor regular season, whether it was due to injuries or just a failure to coalesce early, but you don't collect 16 wins in the playoffs against the best teams in the league without coming together as a good team, playing good hoops.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 2 May 2019 18:17 (five years ago) link
are there any examples of a "clearly not that good" team winning a championship? the 2011 Mavs sorta come to mind but they were legitimately great during the playoffs and Dirk was arguably the best player in every series.
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 May 2019 18:20 (five years ago) link
I mean it happens all the time in football and baseball but I can't really think of a team winning a title in the NBA that wasn't one of say, the best 4-5 teams in the league
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 May 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
i think its more feasible than before for a Hot team to knock out a 1 seed and/or get to the conference finals which would be interesting enough
― ciderpress, Thursday, 2 May 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link
The dubs lost the finals in the same year they won 72 games. That was interesting. They were pretty clearly the best team, if you just look at everything leading up to the finals, but you don't win a chip if you don't win the finals. That's the rule and it's a good one.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 2 May 2019 18:38 (five years ago) link
kind of an interesting parallel between that Cavs team and the 2010-2011 Mavs, where LeBron/Dirk just stepped up their game to an all-time peak to impose their will on a superteam that by all accounts should've won without much of a sweat. But, the Cavs were one of the best 4 teams in the league that year, along with the Warriors, Spurs, and Raptors. I'm talking about stuff like, say, the rather mediocre Kansas City Royals making 2 consecutive WS appearances (winning 1), or the New York Giants getting in as a 6 seed and knocking off the 18-0 Pats
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 May 2019 18:43 (five years ago) link
year they won 72 73 games
I knew I should look it up, but was too lazy.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 2 May 2019 18:46 (five years ago) link
3-point shooting for an entire team still seems to stabilize pretty quickly. going back through the 5 years of team playoff data on nba.com the best performance i can find is the 2016 spurs who sot 43.9% and got bounced in the second round by okc. when a team plays the 18-20 games needed to get through the finals they're probably not even going to shoot that. the 2017 cavs shot 42.4% over 18 games but that was an outstanding shooting team in general. so i don't know that an otherwise flawed team could go on a 3-point tear impactful enough to actually win 4 rounds.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 2 May 2019 18:48 (five years ago) link
my favorite baseball example is the 85 twins who won the world series with a negative run differential
― ciderpress, Thursday, 2 May 2019 18:52 (five years ago) link
well a team cld be good enough to win a couple rounds then only need to get hot for 8 games total or whatever seems doable for like the 4th or 5th best team to make it happen
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 May 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
87 twins sorry
― ciderpress, Thursday, 2 May 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link