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[KSF-ERIC]

Celtics led by 60 at one point tonight

 

[noknobs]

*sigh*

 

[KSF-ERIC]

*sigh*

Hilarious

 

[Shaboid]

Cody patellar Zeller!

 

[Predator]

Hilarious.

A couple days after telling everyone it’s “nearly a 0% chance” to blow a 30+ Point lead, the Wizards manage to do it!

Also managed to let Kennard score 7 points in 9 seconds. Brilliant work, fellas!

(Although this still doesn’t change my position that it’s highly unlikely a team will blow a 30pt lead)

 

[KSF-ERIC]

Hilarious.

A couple days after telling everyone it’s “nearly a 0% chance” to blow a 30+ Point lead, the Wizards manage to do it!

Also managed to let Kennard score 7 points in 9 seconds. Brilliant work, fellas!

(Although this still doesn’t change my position that it’s highly unlikely a team will blow a 30pt lead)

I believe it was a 35 point lead at one point and Clips won on a 4 point play.

 

[SlyPokerCat]

*sigh*

BuahahaHhaH. And so many people liked him as an upgrade for our backup C.

God. I wish we had Hassan Whiteside or Enes Freedom right now. Even if Enes has crappy defense.

 

[B-Roy]

BuahahaHhaH. And so many people liked him as an upgrade for our backup C.

God. I wish we had Hassan Whiteside or Enes Freedom right now. Even if Enes has crappy defense.

Watford is better than all 3

 

[KSF-ERIC]

Watford is better than all 3

Nance too

 

[OneSport3]

Embiid is having a beastly year and Morey is just gonna waste it because of his ego. Embiid is an injury-prone big that won’t have that many prime years remaining in his career.

 

[THE HCP]

*sigh*

Exactly why I thought Kanter would help us more than this dude.

 

[THE HCP]

 

[stampedehero]

Celtics set team record for largest lead ever in win over Kings (yahoo.com)

 

[Fairly-Hard]

I thought there was a "Melo" thread around here someplace?

 

[Chris Craig]

I thought there was a "Melo" thread around here someplace?

Nah, it's like El Dorado....pure legend

 

[THE HCP]

 

[THE HCP]

 

[TBpup]

That hurts. Exactly why Dame needed to take care of his abs.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

What a bunch of bull stat, but YOUR point is well taken. Efg% data explains a lot: why NY is down on Randle, why Fox's stock has tanked, why people are questioning PG3, why Lillard needed surgery, why the Clips are sucking relative to their expectations....

 

[TBpup]

^^^What a fall off for Randle. Was at .516 last year.

 

[HailBlazers]

Exactly why I thought Kanter would help us more than this dude.

Hate to admit. You were right.

 

[Fairly-Hard]

Hate to admit. You were right.

I bet that was hard.

 

[wizenheimer]

What a bunch of bull stat, but YOUR point is well taken. Efg% data explains a lot: why NY is down on Randle, why Fox's stock has tanked, why people are questioning PG3, why Lillard needed surgery, why the Clips are sucking relative to their expectations....
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I think eFG is a funky stat. A shooting stat that doesn't account for FT's is incomplete

but for Dame, there were more factors at work than the big one, which was his injury. Too short an off-season; new ball; new foul rules; new coach; new offense. I think the Billups plan of running Dame off the ball was a bad idea too

but in terms of efficiency, tracking his TS% over the 3 months of the season prior to his surgery is revealing:

October: 6 games .463 (18.3 points/game)
November: 14 games .552 (22.8 points/game)
December 9 games .594 (29.6 points/game)

his 3ptFG% went from 22.3% in October to 36.3% in December

What I saw was that Dame quit deferring. I don't know whether Billups backed-off on his Dame-off-the-ball strategy or if Dame just decided it wasn't working

and the biggest change was a combo, IMO. Dame started to figure out the new foul rules and the officials, as anticipated, stopped letting excessive contact go without whistles. For Dame, the progression of his FTA/game:

October 3.7
November 4.9
December 10.1

 

[HailBlazers]

I bet that was hard.

Fairly. Then again with Nike in our back yard maybe Freedom wasn't worth the PR.

 

[Cugel]

Surely then, the Lakers will have many many suitors for Westbrook in the trade market come the deadline...

 

[illmatic99]

andrew wiggins in an all star starter.

dafuq

 

[DDolla]

REPOST WIGGINS AN ALLSTAR STARTER!!!

 

[wizenheimer]

so, a guy averaging 18 points, 4 rebs, and 2 assists with a PER of 16.2 is an all-star starter

the NBA is Fantastic!!!

 

[SlyPokerCat]

@KSF-ERIC Ja Morant is an all star starter. Looks like we were correct on him.

Can people finally admit how good he is?

 

[DUB]

A great article by Windhorst on Aaron Baynes' mysterious lockerroom injury at the Olympics.

The mysterious fall and harrowing story of an NBA center

In the confusion of the moment, no one had realized that Baynes had lost his ability to walk. Or that he was headed for a nightmare that would derail his basketball career and leave him isolated in a Japanese hospital, weeping in pain day after day, with the possibility that he might be paralyzed.

I never realised how serious it was.

teammates Dellavedova and Nathan Sobey came to the hospital to bring Baynes his medal. He was better. The swelling on his spine had decreased and he was getting stronger with therapy. The hospital allowed him to see the team doctor and the athletic trainer for 15 minutes a day. Dellavedova and Sobey had posed as doctors to get past security.

https://www.espn.com.au/nba/story/_/id/33153946/the-mysterious-fall-harrowing-story-nba-center