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Post#41 » by Dadouv47 » Sun Feb 7, 2021 2:22 am

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Dadouv47 wrote:yeah guess even with an healthy KAT and DLo playing well, the wolves are a lock for worst seed in the West.

I still like our odds to finish with the 4th worst record after Wolves, Wizards and Pistons. A bottom 5 record is ''fine'' even if not ideal.

East has too many bad teams. I don’t see it. We have to hope the ping pong balls fall our way or a team gets stupid and someone falls to us.


yeah I think it's gonna be really close with some bad teams in the East like Orlando, Bulls, Hornets.

We have a really tough schedule this month and if the other teams are not resting their best players against us, 2-10 or 3-9 at worst looks like a real possibility.

We badly need to trade Hill when he comes back.
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Post#42 » by Dadouv47 » Sun Feb 7, 2021 2:24 am

Btw the worst part is that it's going to be even more difficult to tank next year because even we miss on a top player in this draft, SGA/Dort/Bazley should keep improving and if our new players are doing ''ok'' in their first season, we should be better than this (and Horford probably gonna stay for a while).
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Post#43 » by ThunderBolt » Sun Feb 7, 2021 2:31 am

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Dadouv47 wrote:yeah guess even with an healthy KAT and DLo playing well, the wolves are a lock for worst seed in the West.

I still like our odds to finish with the 4th worst record after Wolves, Wizards and Pistons. A bottom 5 record is ''fine'' even if not ideal.

East has too many bad teams. I don’t see it. We have to hope the ping pong balls fall our way or a team gets stupid and someone falls to us.


yeah I think it's gonna be really close with some bad teams in the East like Orlando, Bulls, Hornets.

We have a really tough schedule this month and if the other teams are not resting their best players against us, 2-10 or 3-9 at worst looks like a real possibility.

We badly need to trade Hill when he comes back.


The thing is, we’ve seen every possible bad lineup and we still win. Hill isn’t playing and we keep winning. We’ve won without Al too. These guys regroup after a loss and play well. This team is good with the “next man up” mentality. We might get swept by the lakers but teams that are middle of the pack playoff teams will split these baseball series. Especially because teams keep resting good players against us.
bisme37 wrote:If there were magnets in basketballs so strong they changed the path of the ball as it flew through the air, wouldn't the ball then stick magnetically to the rim when it got there?
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Post#44 » by Dadouv47 » Sun Feb 7, 2021 2:37 am

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ThunderBolt wrote:East has too many bad teams. I don’t see it. We have to hope the ping pong balls fall our way or a team gets stupid and someone falls to us.


yeah I think it's gonna be really close with some bad teams in the East like Orlando, Bulls, Hornets.

We have a really tough schedule this month and if the other teams are not resting their best players against us, 2-10 or 3-9 at worst looks like a real possibility.

We badly need to trade Hill when he comes back.


The thing is, we’ve seen every possible bad lineup and we still win. Hill isn’t playing and we keep winning. We’ve won without Al too. These guys regroup after a loss and play well. This team is good with the “next man up” mentality. We might get swept by the lakers but teams that are middle of the pack playoff teams will split these baseball series. Especially because teams keep resting good players against us.


Yeah our guys have a lot of reasons to play well and show they can win games...even a vet like Muscala is expiring and wants to get paid. Bazley looks like the only one that doesn't care that much. Dort is such an energy guy that he will give 100% no matter what.
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Post#45 » by Dadouv47 » Sun Feb 7, 2021 2:39 am

It's a 6 points game. DON'T MAKE ME DREAM ABOUT IT.
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Post#46 » by Dadouv47 » Sun Feb 7, 2021 2:46 am

Even our coach wants to win :lol:
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Post#47 » by ThunderBolt » Sun Feb 7, 2021 2:52 am

Dadouv47 wrote:It's a 6 points game. DON'T MAKE ME DREAM ABOUT IT.

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Post#48 » by Dadouv47 » Sun Feb 7, 2021 2:59 am

Layman is our MVP so far
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Post#49 » by jake_swivel » Sun Feb 7, 2021 3:00 am

ThunderBolt wrote:Yep I could live with it if Bazley or Maledon were lighting it up.


It's not like Muscala is going to be able to build trade value either. It's just him ruining things by playing too well with no benefit.
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Post#50 » by Dadouv47 » Sun Feb 7, 2021 3:04 am

SGA back means trouble :(
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Post#51 » by Dadouv47 » Sun Feb 7, 2021 3:19 am

I'm mad at SGA for being too good
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Post#52 » by ThunderBolt » Sun Feb 7, 2021 3:21 am

Minnesota not going for a three was stupid.
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Post#53 » by Dadouv47 » Sun Feb 7, 2021 3:22 am

Oh well at least I'm happy for SGA...
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Post#54 » by ThunderBolt » Sun Feb 7, 2021 3:27 am

At least the tennesse guys played well so I can hope that someone outsides the top five is worth getting excited about.
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Post#55 » by Dadouv47 » Sun Feb 7, 2021 3:37 am

Somehow our ''rebuild'' may end up being longer than expected because we are overperforming :(

but yeah who knows...we may get lucky and get a top pick or draft a future star with an 8-9 pick.

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