Again a lot of it is millsap. Millsap and Harris were the core of the defense and Millsap looks cooked.
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 21 August 2020 22:48 (three years ago) link
yeah it’s hard to have $30 million devoted to a player giving you pretty minimal impact on both ends
― J0rdan S., Friday, 21 August 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
SVG is awesome on TV, i really hope he’s in the permanent TNT rotation. i support his brother as a character but stan is such a good analyst
― J0rdan S., Friday, 21 August 2020 22:55 (three years ago) link
it was hilarious when he went on lowe’s pod recently and had all these advanced stats ready to go and zach was actually flustered.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 21 August 2020 22:56 (three years ago) link
The Celtics just look great, great vibes. I wouldn’t count them out in the finals that’s for sure
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 21 August 2020 23:05 (three years ago) link
i think they’re prob a player or two short until hayward comes back and maybe even then. but they have the right kinda team and one of the best coaches so i put them in the group of teams who could win this
― J0rdan S., Friday, 21 August 2020 23:42 (three years ago) link
Hayward is 6 weeks probably... the bucks just look so bad. I do think hayward is key, he’s one of the best 4th options ever
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 21 August 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
even w/in the limited confines of "posting up joel embiid every possession" the sixers are shockingly uncreative about getting to that point
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 22 August 2020 01:11 (three years ago) link
kemba dusting horford to ice the sixers season... that's poetry
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 22 August 2020 01:12 (three years ago) link
kembas cool
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 August 2020 01:17 (three years ago) link
the fix was in and the celtics still won anyway
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 August 2020 01:18 (three years ago) link
Matt ArmstrongPosted: August 21, 2020 at 7:44:21 PMHayward is 6 weeks probably... the bucks just look so bad. I do think hayward is key, he’s one of the best 4th options everyeah and the guys behind him... arent
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 August 2020 01:19 (three years ago) link
maybe hell be back early who knows, toronto is good tho and hes not gonna be back by then
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 August 2020 01:21 (three years ago) link
has anyone checked on what these euro guys jersey slogans say...
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 August 2020 01:25 (three years ago) link
refs you suck iirc
― micah, Saturday, 22 August 2020 01:28 (three years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 August 2020 01:30 (three years ago) link
xxp marco belinelli had the italian word for "equality" on his
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Saturday, 22 August 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
I really feel for bigs that get switched onto Kemba Walker. Here's tonight's stepback vs. Horford compared to the Cardiac Kemba highlight: pic.twitter.com/aJWqyS6K7k— Chris Grenham (@chrisgrenham) August 22, 2020
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 August 2020 01:36 (three years ago) link
such a hard and physically demanding move and he's perfected it
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 22 August 2020 01:39 (three years ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, August 21, 2020 9:25 PM (fifteen minutes ago)
not ethan sherwood strauss
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 22 August 2020 01:41 (three years ago) link
zingis needs to realise hes too good to be trolled by morris
― micah, Saturday, 22 August 2020 01:42 (three years ago) link
ethan is getting pretty embarrassing
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 22 August 2020 01:43 (three years ago) link
All those years of tanking for 76ers, and the Heat - which loathes notion of tanking - has the brighter future. That couldn't be said before this year, but that case can very much be made now, factoring in teams' performance this season and Heat's future cap flexibility.— Barry Jackson (@flasportsbuzz) August 22, 2020
lately i've just been stepping back and thinking about how the sixers traded the heat jimmy butler for josh richardson
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 22 August 2020 01:44 (three years ago) link
like... for no reason
it's hilarious how desperate the NBA is for tall guys to do stuff... whenever boban or bol bol is on the floor now the play by play guys act like a circus giant got subbed into the game
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 22 August 2020 01:49 (three years ago) link
God, Shamet maybe the best value Sixers pick the last couple years and they traded him for Harris.
― trunk's full of pearl and lonestar (PBKR), Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:00 (three years ago) link
bad front offices gon bad front office
― micah, Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:02 (three years ago) link
shamet isn't helping anybody win anytime soon but yeah, he is paid appropriately
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:04 (three years ago) link
lol i'm looking at it now and.....that dunk was not "on boban." it was on part of boban's forearm at best.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:06 (three years ago) link
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― J0rdan S., Friday, August 21, 2020 9:44 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
it was a sign and trade!
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:14 (three years ago) link
the real way the sixers fucked up was trading valuable role players for half a season of jimmy butler
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:15 (three years ago) link
also trading for harris knowing they would have to max him
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:22 (three years ago) link
ya
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:24 (three years ago) link
crazy harris has been on 5 teams already
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:25 (three years ago) link
is this good
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ef_UfAzUYAEVoNY?format=png&name=900x900
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:26 (three years ago) link
this is a great article on the celtics strategies to defend embiid: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/when-joel-embiid-posts-up-the-celtics-are-ready/?addata=espn:boston:index
they have to be the best background switching team in the nba.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:29 (three years ago) link
read that earlier and like it for the most part BUT it using three seasons of data to make arguments about this series is kinda lame, embiid has actually been dominating this year hes like 30-15 every night, and previous years they had al horford, one of the best post defenders
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:33 (three years ago) link
btw they played horf big minutes tonight instead of trying to match up with bostons perimeter guys and what do you know their D was much better, playing yr best guys is a good idea
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:36 (three years ago) link
yeah that's fair, i just like that it shows what strategies you can use against a dominating post guy when you don't have the right one on one defender. making him catch it further out, bringing the double at the right time, playing 2 against 3 on the weak side are all things they've used in this series to at least some effect.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:36 (three years ago) link
yeah the stuff about the scheme was good
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:37 (three years ago) link
tho i do think it gave boston too much credit for making embiid catch in bad spots a lot of that is he just gets tired and stops trying to get position + phillys offense is trash they dont really do anything clever to get him into his spots
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:39 (three years ago) link
yeah it's probably a natural tendency for philly that has become a point of emphasis for boston's defense, like once you notice that trend especially later in the game just tell your centers to nudge him out as far as possible.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:42 (three years ago) link
watching the refs bail spent embiid out down the stretch tonight was pitiful he was just turning into guys and throwing the ball up in whatever random direction one of his shots landed over near the corner of the court and it wasnt any sort of hard foul he was just flailing, then they finally let a couple of those plays go down the stretch and that was that
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:44 (three years ago) link
i'm starting to wonder where embiid goes from here. it's becoming clear he can't carry a starter's load for a full game when it matters. do his teams just keep kidding themselves that he can or what?
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:48 (three years ago) link
he can probably get in better shape, and play in a style/system thats less taxing than just fighting in the post all night, feel like a change of scenery might be useful
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:52 (three years ago) link
but hes obvs not super passionate about being good at basketball so who knows
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:53 (three years ago) link
yeah part of my thinking is that he's had opportunities to get in shape and yet i'm not sure he's ever actually been in shape. so maybe this is just the shape he's in, to paraphrase the band
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:55 (three years ago) link
its pretty clear that he hasnt put the work in in general but maybe if he got traded to a good org hed come to jesus
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:57 (three years ago) link
rick carlisle should prob adjust his strategy of having maxi kleiba check kawhi leonard every possession
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 22 August 2020 02:58 (three years ago) link
Not quite as ugly as Ionescu's sprain but ugh.
― Fetchboy, Saturday, 22 August 2020 03:01 (three years ago) link