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Post#1581 » by Undefeated » Sat Jan 16, 2016 2:20 am

Ya Payne has a nice change of pace to his game
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Post#1582 » by Hero » Sat Jan 16, 2016 2:20 am

Wiz seem to be playing better with Brad back.

Imagine the Raptors get the 2nd seed only to face them again..
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Post#1583 » by Potential » Sat Jan 16, 2016 2:41 am

OKC is proving you can be a good team and still play your rookies decent minutes. Payne has improved so much past few weeks with minutes
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Post#1584 » by Potential » Sat Jan 16, 2016 2:41 am

Why does so many teams wear ugly grey jerseys at home
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Post#1585 » by Kabookalu » Sat Jan 16, 2016 3:06 am

Potential wrote:OKC is proving you can be a good team and still play your rookies decent minutes. Payne has improved so much past few weeks with minutes


That's more the luxury of having two of the best players in the entire league on your team. They're so top heavy they can take chances on unknowns and rookies, and not skip a beat because one of Westbrook and/or Durant will single handedly win them the game. We in comparison don't have as talented as a roster and rely on our role players more than they do.
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Post#1586 » by GooniesNeverDie » Sat Jan 16, 2016 3:40 am

chicago, indy & ATL all lost.. with Miami losing by double digits all game. we don't even need to play to separate ourselves, they're doing it for us
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Post#1587 » by pingpongrac » Sat Jan 16, 2016 3:41 am

Good night for the Raps so far, and it may end up being great. Bulls and Pacers lost, it looks like the Hawks are about to lose too, and the Heat are down double digits to the Nuggets halfway through the 3rd.
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Post#1588 » by cammac » Sat Jan 16, 2016 3:44 am

Looks like a perfect storm tonight Washington passes NYKs, Dallas beat Chicago, Bucks beat Atlanta, Miami losing now to Denver and hopefully Houston can beat Cleveland.
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Post#1589 » by NinjaBro » Sat Jan 16, 2016 3:51 am

A great day!
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Post#1590 » by GooniesNeverDie » Sat Jan 16, 2016 4:00 am

how did we lose to the nuggets? they're such an awful team
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Post#1591 » by DreamTeam09 » Sat Jan 16, 2016 4:18 am

What's up with ATL. I mean we barely even have carroll and we're currently 2nd. Atl has had some ugly losses recently.
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Post#1592 » by Jonn » Sat Jan 16, 2016 4:29 am

We had Hassan Whiteside in summer league... So depressing. We had so many chances to land a great Center and we are stuck with Jonas.
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Post#1593 » by Jonn » Sat Jan 16, 2016 4:30 am

GooniesNeverDie wrote:how did we lose to the nuggets? they're such an awful team


Didn't they just beat Golden State or was that Utah?
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Post#1594 » by pingpongrac » Sat Jan 16, 2016 4:31 am

I would like to know how Houston managed to get 13 points in three minutes to start the game then only 38 points in the next 33 minutes.
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Post#1595 » by vi3t » Sat Jan 16, 2016 4:34 am

thanks a lot Denver, can beat a draymond green less warriors team but can't beat a wadeless heat team
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Post#1596 » by pingpongrac » Sat Jan 16, 2016 4:38 am

Cavs/Rockets game is so uninteresting that they were talking about the Raptors and Canadian basketball for the first few minutes of the 4th quarter. hahaha
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Post#1597 » by Undefeated » Sat Jan 16, 2016 4:43 am

Can't believe how bad the Rockets are this year
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Post#1598 » by Syd-TK3 » Sat Jan 16, 2016 4:43 am

Sucks that we haven't played Houston yet, it'd be good to take advantage of their struggles and get a win
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Post#1599 » by SirKen » Sat Jan 16, 2016 4:45 am

pingpongrac wrote:Cavs/Rockets game is so uninteresting that they were talking about the Raptors and Canadian basketball for the first few minutes of the 4th quarter. hahaha


I missed that part. Did they say anything interesting?
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Post#1600 » by pingpongrac » Sat Jan 16, 2016 4:49 am

SirKen wrote:
pingpongrac wrote:Cavs/Rockets game is so uninteresting that they were talking about the Raptors and Canadian basketball for the first few minutes of the 4th quarter. hahaha


I missed that part. Did they say anything interesting?


They acknowledged the good record, but the conversation was more so based on the Raptors of the past (talking about when they came in the league, how TT grew up watching Vince at the ACC, etc) then they were just listing off Canadian players and how basketball is really growing up here. It was pretty cool to hear during an ESPN broadcast, though.
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