NBA Games Discussion Thread - Part 5

Chocolate City Jordanaire · Post #1021 » by **Chocolate City Jordanaire** » Thu Dec 15, 2022 9:16 am

That last post was not meant to be self praise or attention seeking.

It just BOGGLES MY MIND how the Wizards staff drafts so poorly.

FAH1223 · Post #1022 » by **FAH1223** » Fri Dec 16, 2022 8:06 am

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FAH1223 · Post #1024 » by **FAH1223** » Tue Dec 20, 2022 4:47 am

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bsilver · Post #1025 » by **bsilver** » Sat Dec 24, 2022 4:56 pm

Nets beat Bucks by 18. They’ve been the best team in NBA recently.
Ben Simmons is fun to watch when he’s playing with confidence. A unique talent.
Was Steve Nash a bad coach or just had bad luck? Doesn’t matter now. Vaughn definitely doing a good job.

FAH1223 · Post #1026 » by **FAH1223** » Tue Dec 27, 2022 2:36 am

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FAH1223 · Post #1027 » by **FAH1223** » Wed Dec 28, 2022 4:12 am

THE KNICKS PULLED A #SOWIZARDS

UP 9 WITH 33 SECS LEFT AND LOSE THE LEAD, GO TO OVERTIME AND LOSE..

LUKA PUTS UP 60 POINTS, 20 REBOUNDS AND 10 ASSISTS

Post #1028 » by **montestewart** » Thu Dec 29, 2022 3:58 pm

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I feel like I've been seeing that, and it seems like players have gotten bolder with their traveling in recent years.

barelyawake · Post #1029 » by **barelyawake** » Thu Dec 29, 2022 4:16 pm

Hey CCJ,

I know in the past we have agreed about the NBA refs being half-professional wrestling in their approach (making the teams that aren’t “supposed” to win work harder in the third). For instance, this last Phoenix game with the flood of “offensive” fouls and ticky tack calls. Notice though, now with the challenge, it re-rights the ship, because they have to admit they were wrong. And when they are way off, like that attempt at an offensive charge foul against Rui, people see it over and over and have time to judge it. And not only does it stop the momentum of the refs, it hands a moral and momentum victory to the team that “isn’t supposed to win.”

Without that challenge, we would have continued to spiral into a loss.

FAH1223 · Post #1030 » by **FAH1223** » Thu Dec 29, 2022 5:14 pm

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Post #1031 » by **montestewart** » Thu Dec 29, 2022 6:19 pm

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Soooo... Lakers get it, right? The narrative of an aging generational star mentoring a younger generational star as they win one more championship for the LeGipper is too much to pass up. They'll be celebrating it in bad movies and Sprite commercials for years to come. Maybe they even add Kyrie for pennies on the dollar and convince him to take a buzzer beating Covid shot, FTW.

FAH1223 · Post #1032 » by **FAH1223** » Thu Dec 29, 2022 6:25 pm

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Soooo... Lakers get it, right? The narrative of an aging generational star mentoring a younger generational star as they win one more championship for the LeGipper is too much to pass up. They'll be celebrating it in bad movies and Sprite commercials for years to come. Maybe they even add Kyrie for pennies on the dollar and convince him to take a buzzer beating Covid shot, FTW.

The Pelicans have the right to swap with the Lakers pick due to the Anthony Davis trade!

So if LAL gets #1... NOLA is taking it and LAL will get NOLA's pick in the 20s. :lol:

Zion and Wemby though

pancakes3 · Post #1033 » by **pancakes3** » Thu Dec 29, 2022 9:04 pm

david stern would find a way to block that swap from the grave.

FAH1223 · Post #1034 » by **FAH1223** » Sat Dec 31, 2022 5:06 pm

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Post #1035 » by **nate33** » Mon Jan 2, 2023 5:26 pm

Jokic has pretty much perfected the game of basketball on offense.

Last night, going against the best team in the league, Jokic finished with 30 points, 12 rebounds and 12 assists in just 32 minutes. He had 0 turnovers and missed just 3 shot attempts (.908 TS%). The Nuggets won by 12.

FAH1223 · Post #1036 » by **FAH1223** » Tue Jan 3, 2023 4:25 am

Spida gets 70

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dobrojim · Post #1037 » by **dobrojim** » Tue Jan 3, 2023 4:47 pm

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Seems to me that chart is missing one key parameter - the odds for the
team in a given position to actually get the #1#1.

dobrojim · Post #1038 » by **dobrojim** » Tue Jan 3, 2023 4:53 pm

Re Donovan - When I'm wrong, I can be spectacularly wrong. Going into the season, I thought
Mitchell was overrated.

Pretty exciting ATL-GSW game last night. Sometimes I feel like Tre Young is overrated too
but in spite of the loss for ATL, he played pretty well. And Klay is back.

pancakes3 · Post #1039 » by **pancakes3** » Tue Jan 3, 2023 5:29 pm

I still think Trae is overrated if the comparison is Curry. He's more like Dame - doesn't have the off-ball skills to play like Curry.

dobrojim · Post #1040 » by **dobrojim** » Tue Jan 3, 2023 5:59 pm

^ fair point
Trae is not quite top shelf.
Fair or not, the standard is how many playoff series wins can you carry your team to.
Trae did pretty well 2 years ago, but not so much last year.