Regular Degular Redux - 2019-20 NBA Season thread 2

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WOJ: Guard Reggie Jackson has agreed to a contract buyout with the Detroit Pistons and plans to sign with the Los Angeles Clippers. Jackson gives the Clippers second unit a starting-level playmaker and scorer. Lakers had hoped to sign Jackson too, sources said.

clippers keep stocking up lol lakers

kind of a weird choice for him he'd have way more opportunities with the lakers. would probably be their starting pg

yeah

seems like they couldve gotten a 2nd for him a couple weeks back but maybe the injuries have scared teams off completely

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rip the john beilein experiment yikes

Irving's injury is best described as a deterioration in the shoulder. When he discussed his return in late December, Irving acknowledged that he took a cortisone shot at the time in hopes of avoiding surgery. The reality is that he has been playing with on and off discomfort

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) February 19, 2020

looks like kyrie taking the rest of the year off

might as well

Very weird career

shoulder deterioration sounds like a problem

Kyrie definitely has problems

All his injuries have been serious it seems

so Tim Duncan's endorsing Bloomberg.

let's all be respectful of Spottie in this his hour of need.

lmao

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it really feels like those two guys dont exist in the same universe

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incredible

increasingly convinced Timmy only spent his entire career in San Antonio to avoid paying state income tax.

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they might as well be brothers, brad is like 20% more attractive

Knicks statement on James Dolan's legal victory over Charles Oakley: "...Maybe now there can be peace between us."

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) February 19, 2020

so Tim Duncan's endorsing Bloomberg.

let's all be respectful of Spottie m.bison in this his hour of need.

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, February 19, 2020 bookmarkflaglink

fixed

Pete/Brad this is fuckin my day up

*thing whatever

so Tim Duncan's endorsing Bloomberg.
let's all be respectful of Spottie m.bison in this his hour of need.

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, February 19, 2020 bookmarkflaglink

fixed

― Thybulle on the Dash (Spottie), Wednesday, February 19, 2020 1:27 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

whoops, sorry! i get folks' fandoms mixed up. you're Dubs Nation iirc

Steve Kerr is RTing Bloomberg ads so nobody is out of the woods yet

jesus god it's like a pandemic afflicting rich dudes.

rich ppl aren't your friend even if they are fun basketball players

As Frances Scott Key Fitzgerald pointed out, the rich are not like you and I.

Is Beilein really not getting a buyout?

I hope some of you are ready to apologize to Joey Crawford after this Tim Duncan News

whoops, sorry! i get folks' fandoms mixed up. you're Dubs Nation iirc

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, February 19, 2020 bookmarkflaglink

np. yessir
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Is Beilein really not getting a buyout?

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, February 19, 2020 3:08 PM (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

partial buyout, i think

i promise you are not ready https://t.co/MfMDNHNnwE

— eli the average guy (@jazz_inmypants) February 19, 2020

meant for the genuine lolz thread sorry. but this is interesting:

.@ByJasonLloyd on @923TheFan just now says Andre Drummond, in two short weeks with #Cavs, had already made it clear that if Beilein was back, he was gone after this season and that this was a worse situation than in Detroit. Side note, he shares an agent with Kevin Love.

— Keith Britton (@KeithBritton86) February 19, 2020

that literally made me gasp lol xp

beilein's college offense required a stretch big, im sure his nba offense would need one too. drummond...doesn't stretch

terrifying

xps

beilein's college offense required a stretch big, im sure his nba offense would need one too. drummond...doesn't stretch

― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Wednesday, February 19, 2020 bookmarkflaglink

im sure he thought love would be that guy for him but he hated him from the jump so i guess it didnt matter

that literally made me gasp lol xp

― lag∞n, Wednesday, February 19, 2020 bookmarkflaglink

same. frightening stuff.

that literally made me gasp lol xp

― lag∞n, Wednesday, February 19, 2020 1:55 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol v same

Porter claims he’s never been vaccinated in his life. Apparently his family has strange religious beliefs and there’s lots of theories about how he and his brother’s injuries were caused by the advice of some weird physical therapist

Forgot he was also the pray for the cops guy after the George Floyd murder

Bucks still unproven in the playoffs, last two years their gameplan fell apart as they got eliminated by less talented teams

imagine being super christian home schooled then in the nba a year later with all satans pleasures at your fingertips lol

anyway nba is gonna be on all day every day in a few days something im thinking about

porter family is pretty weird and that was clear from before he even started college

frogbs
Posted: July 29, 2020 at 12:53:23 PM
Bucks still unproven in the playoffs, last two years their gameplan fell apart as they got eliminated by less talented teams

they were so much better this year tho but yeah coach bud doesnt have a great playoff record

Let’s not get into the hawks thing again plz

Didn’t porter’s dad get hired as an assistant coach at mizzou or something sketchy like that?

did we do a hawks thing lol

he has 9 siblings, the family is super religious & obv you can see from his college experience that his father has a huge role in his life... he basically grew up in a cult

recall watching a hs interview w him where he said all we do is praise god and get buckets lol

they were so much better this year tho but yeah coach bud doesnt have a great playoff record

their regular season stats were pretty fucking good last year too. fwiw they were a double OT game away from being up 3-0 on the Raps last year and I am pretty sure they would have beaten the hobbled Warriors in the finals. I think they've got a good shot at it this year but I can see why people are skeptical. Bud seems bad in a series, both Boston in '18 and the Raps in '19 were able to disrupt their key strategies and he had no recourse. then again he's clearly the best coach the Bucks have had since I've started watching them so who knows. he's had a long time to think about this.

to me you can make a case for the bucks being a vulnerable no 1 seed w/o even bringing up bud. they still have to prove they can score enough in the halfcourt in the fourth quarter of playoff games & that's a personnel issue not a coaching one imo. the bucks played better this year and the continuity has to count for something but the roster around giannis hasn't changed from last year (arguably has gotten worse w/o brogdon). when teams start walling off the paint against giannis in the final 5 mins of games and there's no more transition, middleton, bledsoe, and brook are gonna have to step up and make plays.... george hill and divencenzo are going to have to hit shots. the bucks placed their bets on these guys. it's all been gravy in the regular season but we shall see... is george hill a 50% three point shooter? can middleton take over a crucial game if giannis can't get to the rim? can bledsoe contribute anything? these are open questions on all the players

bucks are still clearly the favorite bcuz every other team in the east is flawed but i think they're way closer to toronto, boston, philly and miami in a playoff scenario than the season long point differential indicates

playoff bledsoe is the problem

they just seem like theyve got the stuff this year, theyve been together where a bunch of teams in their way are on overhauled rosters, theyve come close before and have steadily improved, tho obvs the layoff and the bubble are huge wildcards

if middleton can maintain his level of play i think theyve got it hes been so good this year, and thatll allow bledsoe et al to do less be the role players they are

*personally* i think a 1-4 bucks-heat match up would be mighty interesting.... giannis only averaged 21 points in two games vs the heat this year (both losses) and i think the heat have the no 1 giannis defender in the east (bam), plus they're crazy deep at wing defender now after the memphis trade. ultimately the heat can't score enough to win that series but they'd put the bucks to the test imo in a real way especially in the scenarios i'm describing above.

lakers have a lot of good vibes but i still have no clue what their best 5 looks like. rondo and bradley are out and thats two playable vets.

clippers have much more depth and paul george finally got to let his shoulder heal.

if middleton can maintain his level of play i think theyve got it hes been so good this year, and thatll allow bledsoe et al to do less be the role players they are

― lag∞n, Wednesday, July 29, 2020 1:21 PM (four minutes ago)

yeah to me he is the key. giannis gets all the pub and rightly so but if you take a step back, they're paying middleton $137 million. he needs to be able to get buckets in playoff games pretty much at will when the defense is throwing everything at giannis. if he can't do that, the bucks probably made a bad bet and it could very well cost them giannis. no pressure!

i would love that heat/bucks matchup and hope it happens

saw someone else say p much the same and idk it might be a good matchup for them but ultimately i think the heat just arent that good

i like the bucks this year and if they lose its because of the virus not cause im wrong

Sigh ok look I think the Coach Bud hawks playoffs thing is bullshit. I don’t want to debate about it but:

2 of their rotation players were assaulted and injured by the NYPD

In the playoffs an Aussie goon went out there and injured two starters, knocking korver out of the playoffs.

To me you have to give him a mulligan on what happened to that Hawks team and I’m still mad about it

yeah if any team seems custom built to take them out its the Heat

imo the Bucks have probably the least amount of flaws of all the big contenders, they legitimately have a very good bench which allows them to destroy other teams while having their stars only play ~30 minutes. if the plan is gonna be to force someone to hit open 3s, I'll take it. the Raps did that last year and it worked, but I think there's some luck there, it seemed like everyone on the team shot below average from game 3 on. agreed that someone's gonna have to step up but that's true of every team...how far do the Raps get last year without VanVleet? as Spottie mentioned the big question mark for them is Bledsoe

Btw the nuggets should get porter vaccinated! I mean you don’t want this guy getting measles right

yeah seriously

other ppl have pointed out you can't attend college w/o certain vaccinations -- as a mizzou student myself i can confirm!!! maybe they made an exception for mpj but i also think it's likely he doesn't know what he's talking about

i don't really see it with the heat. too many one-way players.

it's likely he doesn't know what he's talking about

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, July 29, 2020 1:41 PM (forty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

or hes just talking booboo

Sigh ok look I think the Coach Bud hawks playoffs thing is bullshit. I don’t want to debate about it but:

2 of their rotation players were assaulted and injured by the NYPD

In the playoffs an Aussie goon went out there and injured two starters, knocking korver out of the playoffs.

To me you have to give him a mulligan on what happened to that Hawks team and I’m still mad about it

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, July 29, 2020 1:34 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

reasonable points but wld still like to see a multi year study on the topic

haha

anyway nba is gonna be on all day every day in a few days something im thinking about

― lag∞n, Wednesday, July 29, 2020 12:54 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

guess who’s got the next 10 days off 8)

baseball march madness has been going on for a week already get on our level (minus the marlins)

yes but baseball is bad

more like barch badness

baseball is just on at its normal times

i don't really follow baseball except the twins or watch much of it but sometimes it's kind of nice just to have on

take our hoop talk here folks:

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