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Strenuus said:
haha what's that for?
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Oh just insinuating that some really awesome team we all like a lot maybe might be in need of a good defensive head coach. (But I wasn't being too serious about it, hence the cryptic emoji.)
 
blue9 said:
Oh just insinuating that some really awesome team we all like a lot maybe might be in need of a good defensive head coach. (But I wasn't being too serious about it, hence the cryptic emoji.)
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DAMNIT AND YOU MADE ME ASK :MARIS61:
 
JV is saving the Geko's. Why they choose to keep chucking instead of feed the man is mental...
 
Both the heat and raptors run nothing but Iso and basic pick and roll. These teams suck.
 
Minstrel said:
Yeah, this seems like a puzzling move. And Bird's comments to the press about it weren't enlightening, mostly rambling about needing a new direction and how great Vogel is, but "good coaches tend to move on after three years" or something.
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Bird must have been referring to himself. Didn't he say he was only going to coach three years, and then walk away on schedule, right at the peak of the team's success?
 
Lowry 7 of 22 from the field tonight. And this has been about what he has shot the whole post season. Seems another star is struggling.
 
handiman said:
Bird must have been referring to himself. Didn't he say he was only going to coach three years, and then walk away on schedule, right at the peak of the team's success?
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Yeah, he did, after the Pacers lost to the Lakers in the 2000 Finals. That's a good point, I guess he's pretty committed and consistent to the principle that coaches shouldn't hang around too long.
 
KeepOnRollin said:
Lowry 7 of 22 from the field tonight. And this has been about what he has shot the whole post season. Seems another star is struggling.
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The theory is that the last month of the season until now he has been battling elbow bursitis.

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KeepOnRollin said:
Lead the league in minutes didn't he? Coach deserves a little blame in that case.
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Yes, but he's our best player and we were determined to keep home court advantage (despite pissing it away twice already these playoffs). And although he's struggling....

 
BBert said:
Haha that's comical. Some of those are laugh out loud funny.

"Harden with his best Rip Van Winkle impersonation." LOL

His teammates must hate his guts.
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"But stuff and things...um.... and other stuff" - superbeard
 
theprunetang said:
"But stuff and things...um.... and other stuff" - superbeard
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he probably spent all night compiling arguments for each and every one of those plays to protect the beard.

man would it make my day if that team just scorned everyone and traded harden after re-signing howard.
 
Boob-No-More said:
This. They haven't just stagnated, they have slid backwards. I know they've had some injuries. Who hasn't? Its part of the game, but it's their roster moves that have taken them from a true title contender to the hillbilly version of the Clippers - good enough to be a midrange playoff seed, but not good enough to actually be a threat to win it all.

Talent wise, they're top heavy and have no depth. Their top 2 are two of the best players in the league (unfortunately, their number 2 thinks he's THE number 1 in the entire league, but that's another thread...), but since they made the dumbest move ever, by refusing to pay Harden, they haven't had a bench. Hell, they haven't even had a respectable starting 5.

Four years ago, they made it to the finals when all their key core players were 22-23 years old. They were incredibly young and incredibly talented. They were a dynasty in the making, but their cheap ass, lying owners CHOSE to break that up to save a few bucks.

That offseason, they started by giving Ibaka a massive contract. That alone, was not a death knell. Ibaka was just 22, had just lead the league in blocks and made the NBA All-Defensive First Team. However, where they fucked up was they assumed Ibaka was their third best player and they made a conscious decision to choose paying him over paying James Harden.

And, it wasn't even that they couldn't have paid them both. They could have, and stayed under the luxury tax threshold., but that would have meant amnestying Kendrick Perkins - something their cheap ass owners would not even consider. On principal, they refused to pay someone to NOT play for them. So instead, they broke up the core of a 22 - 23-year old potential dynasty to keep Kendrick Perkins.

In retrospect, they could have actually resigned Ibaka and Harden AND kept Perkins and only paid luxury tax for one season (due to the salary cap and luxury tax going up). They didn't just fuck up their roster, but they also sent a message to their current players and any potential free agents - we're not willing to pay you what you're worth on the open market to come play in the middle of fucking nowhere in a place that smells of cow shit. We'd rather save a few bucks than compete for multiple championships.

So, how has that worked out for them? Horribly. They still have Durant, Westbrook and Ibaka, but haven't made it past the second round since that trip to the finals (and they also made the WCF the year before when their core players were all 21 and 22 years old). They are completely lacking in depth. They have no bench and their lack of depth makes any injuries to their top 2 players devastating. The Warriors lose their best player and two time MVP and just keep cruising along. The Blunder lose Durant and they are a lottery team. Something tells me if they still had James Harden, they'd be able to weather those injuries and keep winning games at a decent clip.

But, this all makes me happy. It makes me happy that they blew up a potential dynasty for Kendrick Perkins. I laugh every time I think about their shortsightedness. Durant WILL leave, and Westbrook, too. Durant will leave because he doesn't want to squander his career playing for an organization that will never compete for a championship. They were handed a stacked deck and pissed it away. Westbrook will leave because he craves the spotlight and he'll never get that in a market where the only other celebrities are country and western singers and rodeo riders.

And once those two leave and that team struggles to win 20 games, you can bet the "fans" will abandon them faster than rats fleeing a sinking ship. Good, they deserve it. They lied and stole that franchise. Karma is a bitch - especially when your stupid and cheap.

BNM
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Y'all need to give brotha BNM his props now!

I wish I could like this post 1000x!
 
blue9 said:
Dude - let it go. The ONLY time I have EVER seen them call the in-bounder for breaking the field of play is when they are defended and STEP onto the court before passing. That didn't happen. But literally multiple times per game the in-bounder breaks the field of play - even stepping in bounds undefended - before passing the ball, and it's not called. It may be a "rule", but it's akin to all those laws on the books about not drinking with pigs on Sundays. Whereas the defender crossing the in-bound line is an actual rule that's adhered to.
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Good post.
 
Holy fuck! Channing Frye had 27 points and 7 rebounds in a playoff game in less than 30 minutes! Nice pickup by Cleveland!
 
Dom McBlazer said:
Just like if he went to GS, if KD goes to the Spurs I'm done.
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That would be kind of funny. And it kind of makes sense: LMA and he were supposed to be teammates in Texas, after all.

But does this mean Patty Mills is their future starter at PG? Or is that going to be Kawhi's job? Because Parker is breaking down fast.
 
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