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yuyuza1 said:
Man I feel like the resident counter argument today, but that really didnt look malicious to me. Was an offensive foul, but i saw no ill intent by Wiggins. Was a basketball play. A stupid one, but regardless

I hope we hear some good news about Noel though. Still nothing.
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Wasn't even stupid. Guy attacked the rim.

I kept reading that should be a flagrant and finally watched it.

The result has nothing to do with the intent. The intent was to thrill the crowd with a thunderous dunk.
 
bodyman5000 and 1 said:
Wasn't even stupid. Guy attacked the rim.

I kept reading that should be a flagrant and finally watched it.

The result has nothing to do with the intent. The intent was to thrill the crowd with a thunderous dunk.
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The stupid part was leading with his elbow. Can't do that--ever--even if intending to thrill the crowd with a thunderous dunk.
 
DUB said:
Looked to me like the elbow concussed him. That’s why his body went limp, and he didn’t even try to break his fall.
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Looked like his body at least took some of the impact before his head hit. Hope he is ok.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
The stupid part was leading with his elbow. Can't do that--ever--even if intending to thrill the crowd with a thunderous dunk.
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Watch it until you see what happened. He drove, came down with the ball low in both hands. Exploded off of two feet and brought the ball up with two hands. Wanted to finish with one hand and barely brought his left hand off the ball.

There was no "leading" with his elbow. His elbow didn't make any unnatural movement. He didn't do anything wrong. Noel is the one who made the error.
 
The only thing he could have done if he knew what was going to happen was put his left arm straight up.
 
bodyman5000 and 1 said:
Watch it until you see what happened. He drove, came down with the ball low in both hands. Exploded off of two feet and brought the ball up with two hands. Wanted to finish with one hand and barely brought his left hand off the ball.

There was no "leading" with his elbow. His elbow didn't make any unnatural movement. He didn't do anything wrong. Noel is the one who made the error.
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Ya it was a quick hitting play. I wish he would have shown some more compassion after at least though. We still haven't heard anything about Noel since the tweet about him being in the hospital.
 
yuyuza1 said:
Ya it was a quick hitting play. I wish he would have shown some more compassion after at least though. We still haven't heard anything about Noel since the tweet about him being in the hospital.
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I think a lot of people would agree with more compassion.

In the age of the flop and buying calls from the refs he probably thought he was kinda faking it.

It reminds me of when Dale Earnhardt died. Everyone was like "from that????"
 
CupWizier said:
Trade rumor floating around is Knicks and Kings in discussion for a swap of Kanter and Randolph. Sac is looking for a 3rd team to possibly take on more expiring contracts.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles...-zach-randolph-swap-discussed-by-knicks-kings
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Yeah, caught that Woj tweet earlier. Crazy thing about that is saying Kanter's out of the rotation in NY. He's been averaging minutes in the consistent mid-20's all season.

Interestingly, Woj appears to have deleted that tweet, but it still appears in my tweetdeck.

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HCP said:
......Has anyone else noticed that we’ve been shutting down a lot of guards? Off hand, we held Hardaway to 5 points tonight, held Lou Williams to around 5 points too. Held Donovan Mitchell to 1/10 shooting. These are top options on their teams! Also- first team in 11 games to hold Harden under 40. Theories?
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ROIDS!!!
 
HCP said:
Sorry bro, just got some really bad news.
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Hope it's just a glitch in the matrix my man...….hell I almost died in july, everyday now is a celebration! Time will sort it out hopefully, did for me. After reading this post I almost deleted the landscape joke but after serious consideration....NAH!!!!
 
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riverman said:
Hope it's just a glitch in the matrix my man...….hell I almost died in july, everyday now is a celebration! Time will sort it out hopefully, did for me. After reading this post I almost deleted the landscape joke but after serious consideration....NAH!!!!
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Keep the jokes coming brother. Laughter and smiles cures everything in my opinion.
 
Watch centre court...

 
PtldPlatypus said:
Yeah, caught that Woj tweet earlier. Crazy thing about that is saying Kanter's out of the rotation in NY. He's been averaging minutes in the consistent mid-20's all season.

Interestingly, Woj appears to have deleted that tweet, but it still appears in my tweetdeck.

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He was taken out of the starting lineup though.
 
yuyuza1 said:
wifey and i had the absolute worst year of our lives in 2018. I can't tell you how awesome of an outlet this forum and the Blazers were.

Best wishes.
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I hope 2019 goes better for you! 2018 was a hard year for my family as well.
 
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