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
more half court possessions = less variance. fast breaks muddle things
― 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
Danny Ainge suffered a minor heart attack in Milwaukee tuesday night ?
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 2 May 2019 18:54 (five years ago) link
that 8 seed knicks team made the finals in the lockout season and that was before hoisting gone wild
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 May 2019 18:54 (five years ago) link
shorter season means higher variance for seeding though maybe they were good
― ciderpress, Thursday, 2 May 2019 18:56 (five years ago) link
i think the lockout just made things weird, lot of guys were out of shape not much time to gel and so forth, their roster def wasnt thaat good tho prob better than an 8 seed
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 May 2019 18:58 (five years ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, May 2, 2019 2:53 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah this could probably happen. i was more saying it's tough to see a team from the 6-7-8 portion of the bracket really making a run based on hot shooting.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 2 May 2019 19:00 (five years ago) link
He seems like the heart attack type.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 2 May 2019 19:00 (five years ago) link
plz dont die before acquiring brow and shepherding the team to multiple titles danny
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 May 2019 19:00 (five years ago) link
Malika AndrewsESPN
Unsurprisingly, Mike Budenholzer didn't commit to Malcolm Brodgon's status for Game 3. Bud said they will see how he responds to today's workout before determining if he plays. Sterling Brown said that Malcolm has "looked great" this week.
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 May 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link
a.i. loving the sixers play on the sidelines
― sknybrg, Friday, 3 May 2019 01:17 (five years ago) link
damn not cool ben
Cheap shot. pic.twitter.com/W4JbWEAnYK— BBALLBREAKDOWN (@bballbreakdown) May 3, 2019
― call all destroyer, Friday, 3 May 2019 01:18 (five years ago) link
oooh
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 May 2019 01:23 (five years ago) link
Ben got undercut while in the air. He retaliated. Neither is cool.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 3 May 2019 01:34 (five years ago) link
not a wash when one guy goes straight for the nuts
― call all destroyer, Friday, 3 May 2019 01:35 (five years ago) link
ben stays a teen movie villain
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 May 2019 01:36 (five years ago) link
hell get suspended right? no doubt lowry had it coming
― micah, Friday, 3 May 2019 01:51 (five years ago) link
yeah thats gotta be worth a game
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 May 2019 01:52 (five years ago) link
tight playoff series prob not the best time for glaring nut punches
― Clay, Friday, 3 May 2019 01:54 (five years ago) link
agreed gotta be more subtle
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 May 2019 01:54 (five years ago) link
Maybe I’m way off base here but I would be shocked if he legit got suspended
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 3 May 2019 01:57 (five years ago) link
he should be but i don't think he will
― call all destroyer, Friday, 3 May 2019 02:00 (five years ago) link
adam "let em play" silver
― be the 2 chainz you want 2 see in the world (m bison), Friday, 3 May 2019 02:08 (five years ago) link
Kawhi could not be playing any better and it’s still not enough. Kinda hard to run an effective offense when you have two starters (Gasol and Lowry) who desperately don’t want to shoot
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 3 May 2019 02:09 (five years ago) link
ha simmons just got a tech for some other bs too
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 May 2019 02:09 (five years ago) link
Haha I guess that’s the makeup call
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 3 May 2019 02:10 (five years ago) link
“teen villain” is the perfect description
― sknybrg, Friday, 3 May 2019 02:11 (five years ago) link
siri, describe the ideal situation that causes kawhi leonard to leave the toronto raptors after this season
xxxp
― be the 2 chainz you want 2 see in the world (m bison), Friday, 3 May 2019 02:12 (five years ago) link
raptors are off the rails
― call all destroyer, Friday, 3 May 2019 02:12 (five years ago) link
this game chippy
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 May 2019 02:12 (five years ago) link
― sknybrg, Thursday, May 2, 2019 10:11 PM (fifteen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
he literally sneers a good percentage of his waking hours lol, just an incredible aura of unearned hauteur
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 May 2019 02:13 (five years ago) link
the smirk is very bond bad guy
― sknybrg, Friday, 3 May 2019 02:14 (five years ago) link