Around the NBA - 2024-25 Season Continued

Guano · Post #1841 » by **Guano** » Fri Feb 14, 2025 6:54 am

Sham is back up

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Jalen Bluntson · Post #1842 » by **Jalen Bluntson** » Fri Feb 14, 2025 7:01 am

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Against UTA? :lol:

He scored an extra 5 points for one game. Maybe Sham should hold off on celebrating anything for a minute. :lol:

Montmorencie · Post #1843 » by **Montmorencie** » Fri Feb 14, 2025 9:01 am

If I am SGA, I don't want this pity MVP. This will literally destroy his career as it did with Embiid. The best player in the world and actual MVP will come with vengeance and destroy the playoffs the same way he did when they robbed him back in 2023. And the media will kill him because just like with Jokic they don't like him much.

HopelessKnick · Post #1844 » by **HopelessKnick** » Fri Feb 14, 2025 10:17 am

Minnesota with an impressive win against OKC. I don't know whether it was just a bad game by OKC but it showed that a mobile defense along with crashing the boards can potentially pose a lot of problems for OKC. They rarely got open looks and looked very underwhelming.

Minny didn't even shoot really well. If you told me that Edwards was gonna shoot 5-18 this game and Minny would have still blown out a fully healthy OKC team I would have called you crazy. It was just a great defensive all-round defensive effort. In today's NBA a guy like Naz Reid is really worth a ton---such a solid player all around (actually surprising to see him only get 18 and 24 minutes on average the last two seasons).

Adelheid · Post #1845 » by **Adelheid** » Fri Feb 14, 2025 11:15 am

HopelessKnick wrote:Minnesota with an impressive win against OKC. I don't know whether it was just a bad game by OKC but it showed that a mobile defense along with crashing the boards can potentially pose a lot of problems for OKC. They rarely got open looks and looked very underwhelming.

Minny didn't even shoot really well. If you told me that Edwards was gonna shoot 5-18 this game and Minny would have still blown out a fully healthy OKC team I would have called you crazy. It was just a great defensive all-round defensive effort. In today's NBA a guy like Naz Reid is really worth a ton---such a solid player all around (actually surprising to see him only get 18 and 24 minutes on average the last two seasons).

we do also have such players although 1 is injured and 1 is quite on and off with his performance

Montmorencie · Post #1846 » by **Montmorencie** » Fri Feb 14, 2025 11:19 am

Jalen Bluntson wrote:
Guano wrote:Sham is back up

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Against UTA? He scored an extra 5 points for one game. Maybe Sham should hold off on celebrating anything for a minute.

I will play the devil's advocate here... I really don't understand people's animosity towards him. I don't follow him too much but he doesn't seem like an extremely unlikeable dude (e.g. Embiid, Harden, LeBron level).

Sure, he is one of the biggest frauds ever but the amount of hatred he accumulates... I don't get it.

Wildcat · Post #1847 » by **Wildcat** » Fri Feb 14, 2025 1:00 pm

HopelessKnick wrote:Minnesota with an impressive win against OKC. I don't know whether it was just a bad game by OKC but it showed that a mobile defense along with crashing the boards can potentially pose a lot of problems for OKC. They rarely got open looks and looked very underwhelming.

Minny didn't even shoot really well. If you told me that Edwards was gonna shoot 5-18 this game and Minny would have still blown out a fully healthy OKC team I would have called you crazy. It was just a great defensive all-round defensive effort. In today's NBA a guy like Naz Reid is really worth a ton---such a solid player all around (actually surprising to see him only get 18 and 24 minutes on average the last two seasons).

Bad game from OKC. Probably their worse game of the season. They looked a step slow all night. This after a back to back (which was the come from behind W against Miami with that crazy 3rd quarter) on top of 3 games in 4 nights. And this was done with T-Wolves shooting piss poor out there.

WaltFrazier · Post #1848 » by **WaltFrazier** » Fri Feb 14, 2025 1:18 pm

Montmorencie wrote:If I am SGA, I don't want this pity MVP. This will literally destroy his career as it did with Embiid. The best player in the world and actual MVP will come with vengeance and destroy the playoffs the same way he did when they robbed him back in 2023. And the media will kill him because just like with Jokic they don't like him much.

SGA just goes out and plays, he can't control the MVP votes. Everything about their team is positive, young guys, good vibes. There's nothing not to like about SGA

knicks94 · Post #1849 » by **knicks94** » Fri Feb 14, 2025 1:55 pm

OKC will look human once they face the Lakers in the playoffs.

HEZI · Post #1850 » by **HEZI** » Fri Feb 14, 2025 2:06 pm

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Grass ain’t always greener

Iron Mantis · Post #1851 » by **Iron Mantis** » Fri Feb 14, 2025 2:17 pm

Nice to see the Thunder get humbled.

Naz is a beast. He needs to start.

3toheadmelo · Post #1852 » by **3toheadmelo** » Fri Feb 14, 2025 2:30 pm

HEZI wrote:

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Anti Thibs crowd in shambles again.

HEZI · Post #1853 » by **HEZI** » Fri Feb 14, 2025 2:34 pm

3toheadmelo wrote:
HEZI wrote:

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Anti Thibs crowd in shambles again.

Down bad

Spree2Houston · Post #1854 » by **Spree2Houston** » Fri Feb 14, 2025 2:39 pm

OG Anunoby for Bam Adebayo in the offseason.

KnicksGadfly · Post #1855 » by **KnicksGadfly** » Fri Feb 14, 2025 2:40 pm

HEZI wrote:

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Ironically, in this case, with us being able to compare their ability to manage Butler, build winning teams that can go far into the playoffs, and manage minutes by trusting in a bench and developing players...we might be able to compare grass to see which one is greener. Not even a knock on Thibs either. I didn't respect Spo much during the Lebron era, but he's grown into his own guy.

Thibs is a good coach in his own right, but I'd make the swap if I could.

3toheadmelo · Post #1856 » by **3toheadmelo** » Fri Feb 14, 2025 2:43 pm

Jerry west was right

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Fury · Post #1857 » by **Fury** » Fri Feb 14, 2025 2:48 pm

HEZI wrote:

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HEZI · Post #1858 » by **HEZI** » Fri Feb 14, 2025 2:57 pm

KnicksGadfly wrote:
HEZI wrote:

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Grass ain’t always greener

Ironically, in this case, with us being able to compare their ability to manage Butler, build winning teams that can go far into the playoffs, and manage minutes by trusting in a bench and developing players...we might be able to compare grass to see which one is greener. Not even a knock on Thibs either. I didn't respect Spo much during the Lebron era, but he's grown into his own guy.

Thibs is a good coach in his own right, but I'd make the swap if I could.

Nothing is stopping him from doing that now, yet they are terrible and their star player is calling him out in public. Without their actual coach on the floor which was Jimmy Butler, they just flat out stink

thebuzzardman · Post #1859 » by **thebuzzardman** » Fri Feb 14, 2025 2:59 pm

3toheadmelo wrote:Jerry west was right

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There goes his one good game in 10

Wildcat · Post #1860 » by **Wildcat** » Fri Feb 14, 2025 4:29 pm

thebuzzardman wrote:
3toheadmelo wrote:Jerry west was right

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There goes his one good game in 10

Come back home, Grimes.