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Warriors will win but it's effort like this that has me questioning their playoff chances. They're too streaky and have no post scoring.
 
Dallas beat bucks, suns beat lakers, Wolves, kings beats us, nets beats Cleveland, make hard for GSW all the way. No easy games more, everybody play hard.
 
That ref in the Laker game is giving out Ts left and right!
 
jlprk said:
Lonzo has a big skull and skinny legs. His body is a fraud. I say always check out a man's legs before you judge him. This is why I call Strenuous a half-mod.
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That.... doesn't even make sense.
 
KingSpeed said:
Where do I say they won't make the playoffs? You gotta wonder though.
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But you know, I still make the bet if instead of me paying if they don't make the playoff, I pay if they don't get out of the first round. Because you DEFINITELY said they wouldn't get out of the 1st round
 
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SIeepwalker said:
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But you know, I still make the bet if instead of you paying if they make the playoff, you pay if they get out of the first round. Because you DEFINITELY said they wouldn't get out of the 1st round
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Also I'm anticipating your answer here, but saying you would be shocked if they made the playoffs CLEARLY means you think they won't make the playoffs. DO THE MATH
 
KingSpeed said:
Warriors will win but it's effort like this that has me questioning their playoff chances. They're too streaky and have no post scoring.
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They have one more win though. 13-4 now, and Kings are opposite, 4-12. Tough job for Kings to finish above trash Warriors like you are predicting.
 
jlprk said:
Lonzo has a big skull and skinny legs. His body is a fraud. I say always check out a man's legs before you judge him. This is why I call Strenuous a half-mod.
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This is bringing back some horrible flashbacks. This was the same knock people used on Durant before the draft.
 
HCP said:
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I feel like we're living through the equivalent of Baseball's steroid era. The pace of the league this year is just so much faster than previous years that it's possible to pad your stats. It's kind of like NBA assists vs. Euro assists.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
I feel like we're living through the equivalent of Baseball's steroid era. The pace of the league this year is just so much faster than previous years that it's possible to pad your stats. It's kind of like NBA assists vs. Euro assists.
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In the long-term history of the NBA, the low pace era was the abberation... I'm personally happy to be back in the 110-120 point range again.
 
I don't really get the importance of rebounding in point guards. Unless it's Simmons, they are usually the shortest players on the court and are supposed to be guarding the players who can take long shots, for most of the time. Plenty of time they get into positions to get rebounds because they are neglecting their defensive duties, in order to get the mythical triple double.

It helps a lot on the fastbreak but I just don't see the value for most of the time. It's different when it's Simmons who has incredible speed, great vision and passing ability and is very tall so can win rebounds against pretty much everyone, or someone like Giannis. They can both win rebounds against tall players AND start a fastbreak.
 
Sarni said:
I don't really get the importance of rebounding in point guards. Unless it's Simmons, they are usually the shortest players on the court and are supposed to be guarding the players who can take long shots, for most of the time. Plenty of time they get into positions to get rebounds because they are neglecting their defensive duties, in order to get the mythical triple double.

It helps a lot on the fastbreak but I just don't see the value for most of the time. It's different when it's Simmons who has incredible speed, great vision and passing ability and is very tall so can win rebounds against pretty much everyone, or someone like Giannis. They can both win rebounds against tall players AND start a fastbreak.
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When guards rebound it allows bigs to rim run.
Which can force mismatches on that end, because the offensive bigs are near the hoop attempting to get an offensive rebound.
Jason Kidd was amazing at finding mismatches because of his defensive rebounding.
 
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