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STOMP said:
It doesn't work that way. If a guy puts up huge numbers in a small market and whines continually, they get T'd up & portrayed as a malcontent.

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So you haven’t see that Damian Lillard guy play much?
 


We might be seeing the development of the future GOAT before our eyes. It’s crazy… Ive never seen anything like it. That block on Giannis…
 
PDXFonz said:


We might be seeing the development of the future GOAT before our eyes. It’s crazy… Ive never seen anything like it. That block on Giannis…
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Can’t wait to see Yang go up against Wemby. Two future box office super studs going at it!
 
Athletic season predictions includes:

Shaedon Sharpe will make Sixth Man history​

My former colleague Seth Partnow has referred to voting for this award as “Yay! Points!” That’s been a pretty accurate barometer. However, it’s also been in concert with another factor: Gunners on good teams get the votes. The last six winners of Sixth Man of the Year were on teams that won at least 50 games (pro-rating for 2020-21), and you have to go back to Detlef Schrempf and the 40-42 Indiana Pacers of 1991-92 to find a player who won it on a losing team.

That is the only time a player on a losing squad won the award. One obvious issue is that, on a bad team, somebody playing well enough to win will almost inevitably end up promoted to the starting lineup. Perhaps that will happen to Sharpe as well, but we have some reason to think it won’t.

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Can Shaedon Sharpe do something that hasn’t been done since the early 1990s?Soobum Im / USA Today
For starters (sorry), the Blazers moved him to the bench in the middle of last season and seemed pretty happy with the switch. Second, the Blazers are strongest at the wing positions, where Sharpe would potentially be promoted as a starter. Finally, Sharpe’s shot creation will be desperately needed with the Blazers’ second unit, even more than it would be with Portland’s offensively limited starters, because there is no reliable backup behind Scoot Henderson.

Sharpe may not start, but he will get starters’ minutes and shots and finish most games. He averaged 15.4 points as a reserve last season while playing only 25 minutes a game, and those numbers figure to go up given the departures of Anfernee Simons and Deandre Ayton, and the resultant shot-creation hole in the Blazers lineup.


With no other obvious candidate on the radar just yet — Payton Pritchard will be promoted to the Boston starting lineup, as will De’Andre Hunter in Cleveland, while Malik Beasley is still in limbo and Alex Caruso is unlikely to play enough games — it’s out there on a platter for Sharpe to break tradition and win Sixth Man of the Year on a losing team.
 
THE HCP said:
So you haven’t see that Damian Lillard guy play much?
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Not sure why you want to keep having the same back and forth again and again. When it comes to whining, Dame is an absolute angel compared to Luka. Joker, Giannis, Shae... no one whines like him

STOMP
 
STOMP said:
Not sure why you want to keep having the same back and forth again and again. When it comes to whining, Dame is an absolute angel compared to Luka. Joker, Giannis, Shae... no one whines like him

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Not sure what you are talking about back and fourth? You were complaining about a star player bitching to the refs after every play. I have seen EVERY SINGLE PLAY dame has ever played in a Blazers uniform and have them saved on hard drive. Let me know if you want a 3 hour bitch session highlight pack, I’ll hook you up. Just because he plays for your favorite team, don’t let it cloud your common sense.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
They may start that line up but I douibt they play them together more than 12-15 minutes a game.
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I don’t know. I watched 3 of their preseason games and I saw them out there together quite a bit. I may have been mistaken though. What a tough lineup to match up against.
 
THE HCP said:
I don’t know. I watched 3 of their preseason games and I saw them out there together quite a bit. I may have been mistaken though. What a tough lineup to match up against.
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I'm not sure the Blazers can, but teams like the Warriors that like to run....would run Adams right off the floor. Not sure Durant wants to run too much these days either. But I admit they would control the boards.
 
Dallas is going even taller. Apparently they're going to start Flagg at point and play AD and Lively together...
 
Rastapopoulos said:
Dallas is going even taller. Apparently they're going to start Flagg at point and play AD and Lively together...
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They did DLO/Flagg/Klay/AD/Livley in the 2 games I watched. The other game I think they slid PJ Washington in for DLO. Dallas is gonna be tough FAMS!
 
Rastapopoulos said:
Dallas is going even taller. Apparently they're going to start Flagg at point and play AD and Lively together...
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O/U 61.5 Games Played for AD?

Mavs success (without Kyrie) is more dependent on AD and Klay than it is on Flagg having a stellar rookie season imo.
 
THE HCP said:
They did DLO/Flagg/Klay/AD/Livley in the 2 games I watched. The other game I think they slid PJ Washington in for DLO. Dallas is gonna be tough FAMS!
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I think the Mavs are definitely one of the more underrated teams right now. West as a whole is stacked. SW division with Houston, Dallas, SA, Mem is going to be crazy.
 



Would he be a good buy low option?, sadly I don’t think Rayan’s game will translate to a rotation piece and don’t think he is a long term fit. Seems like a great kid but being a good person doesn’t translate to wins.
 
BigGameDamian said:
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This is one of the reasons why I can't stand Stephen A. Shit is always about him. Dude badmouths just about everybody. I can't stand his way of talking sports and I think every player that doesn't like how hard he goes at them should put him in his place.

This interview is Stephen A complaining about the obvious pecking order. It isn't about him it's about the players that play the game. LeBron has done it better for more games than anyone else in the history of basketball and somehow Stephen A thinks it's about him.

Looking at two of the GOATs MJ got to have a friend and mouthpiece like Ahmad Rashad as the biggest voice in basketball media at the time... LeBron has had to deal with punks like Stephen A and Skip Bayless... can't stand these fools.
 
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