Sunday 4/7 NBA Game Thread

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Who wins?

Rockets
4
8%
@ Mavericks
10
20%
Heat
0
No votes
@ Pacers
8
16%
Pelicans
5
10%
@ Suns
4
8%
Knicks
5
10%
@ Bucks
6
12%
Wolves
5
10%
@ Lakers
4
8%
 
Total votes: 51

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Re: Sunday 4/7 NBA Game Thread 

Post#561 » by nzahir » Mon Apr 8, 2024 3:32 am

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Lakeshow cruising.,, Saving effort for Tuesday.

:lol:

True. The play like world beaters against GSW.



Oh no doubt. Most of the Association does these days. They have long memories, and this is payback time.

You mean GS turns into world beaters vs us at times
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Re: Sunday 4/7 NBA Game Thread 

Post#562 » by azcatz11 » Mon Apr 8, 2024 3:34 am

Lebron should earn some mvp votes. This team is trash without the man
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Re: Sunday 4/7 NBA Game Thread 

Post#563 » by nzahir » Mon Apr 8, 2024 3:35 am

azcatz11 wrote:Lebron should earn some mvp votes. This team is trash without the man

To be fair, AD has been out since the 1st Q

Defense is trash without AD (and Vando, Gabe, and even Bron)

Need to make a couple upgrades this summer
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Re: Sunday 4/7 NBA Game Thread 

Post#564 » by Mamba Mentality » Mon Apr 8, 2024 3:36 am

Hayes putting the team on his back lmao.
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Re: Sunday 4/7 NBA Game Thread 

Post#565 » by azcatz11 » Mon Apr 8, 2024 3:38 am

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azcatz11 wrote:Lebron should earn some mvp votes. This team is trash without the man

To be fair, AD has been out since the 1st Q

Defense is trash without AD (and Vando, Gabe, and even Bron)

Need to make a couple upgrades this summer


True. I didn’t realize AD was out. Did he break his nose?
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Re: Sunday 4/7 NBA Game Thread 

Post#566 » by cgf » Mon Apr 8, 2024 3:41 am

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Those numbers are skewed because the Knicks are far better without Randle/Robinson/OG, than the Sixers are without Embiid.

Take a look at the metrics before Embiid went down. The Sixers are a lottery team, and Maxey is the only thing keeping them afloat without Embiid. The Sixers lost Maxey for 4 games, and they lost all 4 games.


There may be some noise coming in since the injuries hit...Brunson's assist are up without Randle to share the creative burden, and his On-Off has ballooned with us now generally losing the minutes he rests...but Jalen has been the better (& more efficient) scorer and had the better EPM/DARKO (by a meaningful margin) pretty much all season.

Not sure about their LEBRON's; only started checking that around the new year.

There's also the argument that the post-injury Knicks have been better than the post-injury 6ers because Brunson is a higher tier player than Maxey. Given that both have been their team's only primary creators since losing their star bigman.


Again without Embiid the Sixers are ass. The Knicks are performing well because of Brunson yes. But Hart has been incredible, so has DiVincenzo. They also have Bojan and Alec Burks. The Sixers have no one of that calibre. Oubre at best, but he's far more inconsistent than those two.

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You're overstating it. Buddy Hield is outscoring every Knick this season other than Randle, Anunoby, Brunson, and Divincenzo. More than Bojan, more than Hart, and more than Burks...and Buddy's not as bad defensively as Bojan; the closest non-Brunson/DDV Knick to Buddy's 12ppg with our starting front-court injured.

Harris & Oubre are outscoring every knick other than Randle, Anunoby, and Brunson...beating Divo by 2.0 & 0.1ppg respectively. Our defense has probably been better...though I haven't checked the #s to confirm that suspicion...but it's tough to argue Brunson is getting more help offensively than Maxey.

If anything, we don't have anyone as good as Tobias helping Brunson out, so it's Maxey that's getting the most help.
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Re: Sunday 4/7 NBA Game Thread 

Post#567 » by eyeatoma » Mon Apr 8, 2024 3:42 am

cgf wrote:
eyeatoma wrote:
cgf wrote:
There may be some noise coming in since the injuries hit...Brunson's assist are up without Randle to share the creative burden, and his On-Off has ballooned with us now generally losing the minutes he rests...but Jalen has been the better (& more efficient) scorer and had the better EPM/DARKO (by a meaningful margin) pretty much all season.

Not sure about their LEBRON's; only started checking that around the new year.

There's also the argument that the post-injury Knicks have been better than the post-injury 6ers because Brunson is a higher tier player than Maxey. Given that both have been their team's only primary creators since losing their star bigman.


Again without Embiid the Sixers are ass. The Knicks are performing well because of Brunson yes. But Hart has been incredible, so has DiVincenzo. They also have Bojan and Alec Burks. The Sixers have no one of that calibre. Oubre at best, but he's far more inconsistent than those two.

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You're overstating it. Buddy Hield is outscoring every Knick this season other than Randle, Anunoby, Brunson, and Divincenzo. More than Bojan, more than Hart, and more than Burks...and Buddy's not as bad defensively as Bojan; the closest non-Brunson/DDV Knick to Buddy's 12ppg.

Harris & Oubre are outscoring every knick other than Randle, Anunoby, and Brunson...beating Divo by 2.0 & 0.1ppg respectively. We don't have anyone as good as Tobias helping Brunson out. Our defense has probably been better...though I haven't checked the #s to confirm that suspicion...but it's tough to argue Brunson is getting more help offensively than Maxey.
Buddy Hield has been horriblr since his first 4 games and is almost out of Nurse's rotation.

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Re: Sunday 4/7 NBA Game Thread 

Post#568 » by doogie_hauser » Mon Apr 8, 2024 3:43 am

Lakers kids and role players deserve their props right now
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Re: Sunday 4/7 NBA Game Thread 

Post#569 » by cgf » Mon Apr 8, 2024 3:43 am

eyeatoma wrote:
cgf wrote:
eyeatoma wrote:
Again without Embiid the Sixers are ass. The Knicks are performing well because of Brunson yes. But Hart has been incredible, so has DiVincenzo. They also have Bojan and Alec Burks. The Sixers have no one of that calibre. Oubre at best, but he's far more inconsistent than those two.

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You're overstating it. Buddy Hield is outscoring every Knick this season other than Randle, Anunoby, Brunson, and Divincenzo. More than Bojan, more than Hart, and more than Burks...and Buddy's not as bad defensively as Bojan; the closest non-Brunson/DDV Knick to Buddy's 12ppg.

Harris & Oubre are outscoring every knick other than Randle, Anunoby, and Brunson...beating Divo by 2.0 & 0.1ppg respectively. We don't have anyone as good as Tobias helping Brunson out. Our defense has probably been better...though I haven't checked the #s to confirm that suspicion...but it's tough to argue Brunson is getting more help offensively than Maxey.
Buddy Hield has been horriblr since his first 4 games and is almost out of Nurse's rotation.

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...and he's still been better than Bojan and Burks have been for us :lol:
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Re: Sunday 4/7 NBA Game Thread 

Post#570 » by eyeatoma » Mon Apr 8, 2024 3:44 am

cgf wrote:
eyeatoma wrote:
cgf wrote:
There may be some noise coming in since the injuries hit...Brunson's assist are up without Randle to share the creative burden, and his On-Off has ballooned with us now generally losing the minutes he rests...but Jalen has been the better (& more efficient) scorer and had the better EPM/DARKO (by a meaningful margin) pretty much all season.

Not sure about their LEBRON's; only started checking that around the new year.

There's also the argument that the post-injury Knicks have been better than the post-injury 6ers because Brunson is a higher tier player than Maxey. Given that both have been their team's only primary creators since losing their star bigman.


Again without Embiid the Sixers are ass. The Knicks are performing well because of Brunson yes. But Hart has been incredible, so has DiVincenzo. They also have Bojan and Alec Burks. The Sixers have no one of that calibre. Oubre at best, but he's far more inconsistent than those two.

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You're overstating it. Buddy Hield is outscoring every Knick this season other than Randle, Anunoby, Brunson, and Divincenzo. More than Bojan, more than Hart, and more than Burks...and Buddy's not as bad defensively as Bojan; the closest non-Brunson/DDV Knick to Buddy's 12ppg with our starting front-court injured.

Harris & Oubre are outscoring every knick other than Randle, Anunoby, and Brunson...beating Divo by 2.0 & 0.1ppg respectively. We don't have anyone as good as Tobias helping Brunson out. Our defense has probably been better...though I haven't checked the #s to confirm that suspicion...but it's tough to argue Brunson is getting more help offensively than Maxey.
Harris has been even worse. He didn't take advantage of Embiid being out and his numbers have plummeted. You're going by name recognition but both these guys have been huge disappointments. Ask any Sixers fans or splits and you'll see what I mean.

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Re: Sunday 4/7 NBA Game Thread 

Post#571 » by eyeatoma » Mon Apr 8, 2024 3:44 am

cgf wrote:
eyeatoma wrote:
cgf wrote:
You're overstating it. Buddy Hield is outscoring every Knick this season other than Randle, Anunoby, Brunson, and Divincenzo. More than Bojan, more than Hart, and more than Burks...and Buddy's not as bad defensively as Bojan; the closest non-Brunson/DDV Knick to Buddy's 12ppg.

Harris & Oubre are outscoring every knick other than Randle, Anunoby, and Brunson...beating Divo by 2.0 & 0.1ppg respectively. We don't have anyone as good as Tobias helping Brunson out. Our defense has probably been better...though I haven't checked the #s to confirm that suspicion...but it's tough to argue Brunson is getting more help offensively than Maxey.
Buddy Hield has been horriblr since his first 4 games and is almost out of Nurse's rotation.

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...and he's still been better than Bojan and Burks have been for us
Right that's why Nurse buried him on the bench.

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Re: Sunday 4/7 NBA Game Thread 

Post#572 » by cgf » Mon Apr 8, 2024 3:46 am

eyeatoma wrote:
cgf wrote:
eyeatoma wrote:
Again without Embiid the Sixers are ass. The Knicks are performing well because of Brunson yes. But Hart has been incredible, so has DiVincenzo. They also have Bojan and Alec Burks. The Sixers have no one of that calibre. Oubre at best, but he's far more inconsistent than those two.

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You're overstating it. Buddy Hield is outscoring every Knick this season other than Randle, Anunoby, Brunson, and Divincenzo. More than Bojan, more than Hart, and more than Burks...and Buddy's not as bad defensively as Bojan; the closest non-Brunson/DDV Knick to Buddy's 12ppg with our starting front-court injured.

Harris & Oubre are outscoring every knick other than Randle, Anunoby, and Brunson...beating Divo by 2.0 & 0.1ppg respectively. We don't have anyone as good as Tobias helping Brunson out. Our defense has probably been better...though I haven't checked the #s to confirm that suspicion...but it's tough to argue Brunson is getting more help offensively than Maxey.
Harris has been even worse. He didn't take advantage of Embiid being out and his numbers have plummeted. You're going by name recognition but both these guys have been huge disappointments. Ask any Sixers fans or splits and you'll see what I mean.

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And yet Harris is still giving Maxey more help than Brunson has gotten from any knick offensively, this season, since Randle went down.
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Re: Sunday 4/7 NBA Game Thread 

Post#573 » by eyeatoma » Mon Apr 8, 2024 3:46 am

cgf wrote:
eyeatoma wrote:
cgf wrote:
You're overstating it. Buddy Hield is outscoring every Knick this season other than Randle, Anunoby, Brunson, and Divincenzo. More than Bojan, more than Hart, and more than Burks...and Buddy's not as bad defensively as Bojan; the closest non-Brunson/DDV Knick to Buddy's 12ppg with our starting front-court injured.

Harris & Oubre are outscoring every knick other than Randle, Anunoby, and Brunson...beating Divo by 2.0 & 0.1ppg respectively. We don't have anyone as good as Tobias helping Brunson out. Our defense has probably been better...though I haven't checked the #s to confirm that suspicion...but it's tough to argue Brunson is getting more help offensively than Maxey.
Harris has been even worse. He didn't take advantage of Embiid being out and his numbers have plummeted. You're going by name recognition but both these guys have been huge disappointments. Ask any Sixers fans or splits and you'll see what I mean.

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And yet Harris is still giving Maxey more help than Brunson has gotten from any knick offensively, this season, since Randle went down.
Look at the splits after Embiid left.

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Post#574 » by The4thHorseman » Mon Apr 8, 2024 3:47 am

doogie_hauser wrote:Lakers kids and role players deserve their props right now

No doubt, man. They proved me wrong.
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Re: Sunday 4/7 NBA Game Thread 

Post#575 » by GSP » Mon Apr 8, 2024 3:48 am

What happened to Ad?
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Re: Sunday 4/7 NBA Game Thread 

Post#576 » by cgf » Mon Apr 8, 2024 3:48 am

eyeatoma wrote:
cgf wrote:
eyeatoma wrote:Buddy Hield has been horriblr since his first 4 games and is almost out of Nurse's rotation.

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...and he's still been better than Bojan and Burks have been for us
Right that's why Nurse buried him on the bench.

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Must be nice to be healthy enough to be able to bench someone like that. Thibs hasn't had that privilege and has had to do what he could to make it work with Bojan.
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Re: Sunday 4/7 NBA Game Thread 

Post#577 » by eyeatoma » Mon Apr 8, 2024 3:49 am

cgf wrote:
eyeatoma wrote:
cgf wrote:
...and he's still been better than Bojan and Burks have been for us
Right that's why Nurse buried him on the bench.

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Must be nice to be healthy enough to be able to bench someone like that. Thibs hasn't had that privilege and has had to do what he could to make it work with Bojan.
Dude you don't know what you're talking about. Look at some recent sixers articles and all it talks about are the disappointments of Hield and Harris.

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Re: Sunday 4/7 NBA Game Thread 

Post#578 » by _NoMas » Mon Apr 8, 2024 3:50 am

azcatz11 wrote:Lebron should earn some mvp votes. This team is trash without the man


They’re 6-4 without him and have two wins over Milwaukee and a win over Boston in his absence
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Re: Sunday 4/7 NBA Game Thread 

Post#579 » by nzahir » Mon Apr 8, 2024 3:51 am

azcatz11 wrote:
nzahir wrote:
azcatz11 wrote:Lebron should earn some mvp votes. This team is trash without the man

To be fair, AD has been out since the 1st Q

Defense is trash without AD (and Vando, Gabe, and even Bron)

Need to make a couple upgrades this summer


True. I didn’t realize AD was out. Did he break his nose?

Eye poke seems like

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Re: Sunday 4/7 NBA Game Thread 

Post#580 » by Chuck Everett » Mon Apr 8, 2024 3:53 am

cgf wrote:
eyeatoma wrote:
cgf wrote:
You're overstating it. Buddy Hield is outscoring every Knick this season other than Randle, Anunoby, Brunson, and Divincenzo. More than Bojan, more than Hart, and more than Burks...and Buddy's not as bad defensively as Bojan; the closest non-Brunson/DDV Knick to Buddy's 12ppg with our starting front-court injured.

Harris & Oubre are outscoring every knick other than Randle, Anunoby, and Brunson...beating Divo by 2.0 & 0.1ppg respectively. We don't have anyone as good as Tobias helping Brunson out. Our defense has probably been better...though I haven't checked the #s to confirm that suspicion...but it's tough to argue Brunson is getting more help offensively than Maxey.
Harris has been even worse. He didn't take advantage of Embiid being out and his numbers have plummeted. You're going by name recognition but both these guys have been huge disappointments. Ask any Sixers fans or splits and you'll see what I mean.

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And yet Harris is still giving Maxey more help than Brunson has gotten from any knick offensively, this season, since Randle went down.


That's not true. DiVincenzo has had a much better season than Tobias Harris. So has Josh Hart.
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