Around the League - 2019-2020

Sixersftw · Post #2881 » by **Sixersftw** » Mon Oct 5, 2020 2:18 am

Negrodamus wrote:
Sixersftw wrote:
Negrodamus wrote:I don't know, this feels different. The Heat really got under their skin. LeBron and Kuzma disappeared with .7 left on the clock to pout in the lockerroom. Heat might have a chance here.

Naw, Lebron is a bad loser and has always been that way (sometimes a bad winner too). This was a great win and I can see the Heat taking at least one more off of LAL but this was a combined effort of Jimmothy being amazing and LAL laying a bit of an egg.

Can't lay an egg in the finals with Bam & Dragic out (with a possibility of coming back for game 4). That's the kind of thing that changes the momentum of a series and makes some of the Lakers question themselves... Looking at you Kuzma.

No doubt. I don't think this will affect AD or James but Kuz is the high variance component of the Lakers and he could definitely be rattled.

ankle420breaker · Post #2882 » by **ankle420breaker** » Mon Oct 5, 2020 2:38 am

Sixersftw wrote:What does the G stand for?

Gonna shoot myself?
Gee we're incompetent?

Real talk love Jimmy.

Actual video footage of our front office collaboration deciding Jimmy G's fate:

https://youtu.be/9ZUw8LYOQ-g

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stormi · Post #2883 » by **stormi** » Mon Oct 5, 2020 3:23 am

Read on Twitter

Miss this team fr. we just needed an upgrade on Mike Scott and Greg Monroe

kriss73 · Post #2884 » by **kriss73** » Mon Oct 5, 2020 10:17 am

Jimmy Butler dominating game 3 of Finals without attempting a single three.

GoSixersBro · Here Lies The Process May 13, 2013 - April 6, 2016

That was a Jordan-esque performance by Butler last night. Brand and Co. should've woken up to being unemployed this morning.

kuclas · Post #2886 » by **kuclas** » Mon Oct 5, 2020 1:20 pm

I cannot believe sixers let butler walk over an extra year salary 5/190 would have been easy call. But instead they freaking give Tobias 5/180. Makes zero sense. We didn’t need al horford either.

GoSixersBro · Post #2887 » by **GoSixersBro** » Mon Oct 5, 2020 1:45 pm

kuclas wrote:I cannot believe sixers let butler walk over an extra year salary 5/190 would have been easy call. But instead they freaking give Tobias 5/180. Makes zero sense. We didn’t need al horford either.

I felt physically ill last night watching the fourth quarter. Butler is the ultimate leader. The Heat's roster without Bam has no business beating an AD + LeBron Lakers squad no matter how meh LA's supporting cast is.

rzzzzz · Post #2888 » by **rzzzzz** » Mon Oct 5, 2020 2:42 pm

Stanford wrote:This really does not feel like the NBA finals.

It does now. Admittedly, w/o Dragic and Bam not likely to get back even close to 100% it's hard pressed seeing the heat taking 3 out of the next 4. But that was a championship performance we saw out of Jimmy last night. One for the ages.

ankle420breaker · Post #2889 » by **ankle420breaker** » Mon Oct 5, 2020 3:06 pm

Its overwhelmingly unacceptable that more front office lever pullers haven't been removed. Butler's performances are shining bright fluorescent lights all over their incompetent franchise altering mistakes.

This needs to be a bigger story. Hiring Doc Rivers isn't nearly enough.

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kuclas · Post #2890 » by **kuclas** » Mon Oct 5, 2020 4:05 pm

The thing is without butler. I don’t think sixers even get tied up at 90-90 and no Leonard shot needed. Sixers didn’t have anyone to finish the drive like butler did to tie up the game 7 last year

That’s why we sucked on the road big time especially early in the season. We lost so many close winnable games on the road. We were up or down by 4 points in those early 10-15 road losses. Of course we don’t win them all. But chances are with butler we at least win 40-50% of them. And our road record would not have been so bad.

Bum Adebayo · Post #2891 » by **Bum Adebayo** » Mon Oct 5, 2020 6:22 pm

We had such an alpha male leader and amazing player and we chose to dump him and instead pay max money to mediocre players, just LOL

stormi · Post #2892 » by **stormi** » Tue Oct 6, 2020 4:41 am

kuclas wrote:The thing is without butler. I don’t think sixers even get tied up at 90-90 and no Leonard shot needed. Sixers didn’t have anyone to finish the drive like butler did to tie up the game 7 last year

That’s why we sucked on the road big time especially early in the season. We lost so many close winnable games on the road. We were up or down by 4 points in those early 10-15 road losses. Of course we don’t win them all. But chances are with butler we at least win 40-50% of them. And our road record would not have been so bad.

Remember Jimmy came to the team and started hitting game winners instantly, like big shots time ticking 4th quarter buzzer beaters. And then he hit the one to slay Boston and made numerous other clutch plays like the game against OKC.

Losing a player like that is pretty much franchise crippling, us drafting Ben and Embiid instead of say KAT and Wiggins is the only reason we aren't really sucking as much as we could.

XtremeDunkz · Post #2893 » by **XtremeDunkz** » Tue Oct 6, 2020 5:46 am

I honestly feel sick about this franchise. I loved watching Jimmy here. I couldn't believe it when we let him go and it's just worse now.

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Stribor · Post #2894 » by **Stribor** » Tue Oct 6, 2020 9:55 am

kuclas wrote:The thing is without butler. I don’t think sixers even get tied up at 90-90 and no Leonard shot needed. Sixers didn’t have anyone to finish the drive like butler did to tie up the game 7 last year

That’s why we sucked on the road big time especially early in the season. We lost so many close winnable games on the road. We were up or down by 4 points in those early 10-15 road losses. Of course we don’t win them all. But chances are with butler we at least win 40-50% of them. And our road record would not have been so bad.

Before we got Butler there were all the dreams of LBJ and Kawhi, and I only wanted Butler as I thought he is a winner and will be loyal to the franchise and not go to some superbig market team, like I expected other 2 would do. I did not expect such incompetence of our FO, that Jimmy actually had to go. I was right about him and completely wrong about coach Brown (that I really liked at that time) as he really showed as incompetent and unable to maximize production with natural born winner in the team.

Monix · Post #2895 » by **Monix** » Tue Oct 6, 2020 11:21 am

Mods - can we rename this thread "The Jimmy Butler Circle Jerk"?

thx

Post #2896 » by **Stanford** » Tue Oct 6, 2020 11:48 am

Monix wrote:Mods - can we rename this thread "The Jimmy Butler Circle Jerk"?

thx

no

GoSixersBro · Post #2897 » by **GoSixersBro** » Tue Oct 6, 2020 1:00 pm

BuTleR iS gOiNg tO bE 3o NeXt yEaR! He'S tOo OlD!

Rastas · Post #2898 » by **Rastas** » Tue Oct 6, 2020 1:27 pm

Stanford wrote:
Monix wrote:Mods - can we rename this thread "The Jimmy Butler Circle Jerk"?

thx

no

Just rename it the friken Crybaby thread.
Move on already

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Eyeamok · Post #2899 » by **Eyeamok** » Tue Oct 6, 2020 1:36 pm

Rastas wrote:
Stanford wrote:
Monix wrote:Mods - can we rename this thread "The Jimmy Butler Circle Jerk"?

thx

no

Just rename it the friken Crybaby thread.
Move on already

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Fans are in mourning man let them grieve let them / us grieve. It's been a rough period...the bounce..Jimmy leaving...burnergate...fultz...crappy road record....the bubble...being swept..Harris...Simmons injuries.... There has been very few bright spots lately. And now Jimmy is front and center on our TV screens doing thing for the Heat that he could have done for the 76ers. So grieving and mourning, at this point, is normal mi amigo.

ankle420breaker · Post #2900 » by **ankle420breaker** » Tue Oct 6, 2020 2:13 pm

Rastas wrote:
Stanford wrote:
Monix wrote:Mods - can we rename this thread "The Jimmy Butler Circle Jerk"?

thx

no

Just rename it the friken Crybaby thread.
Move on already

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There's a difference between crying and calling attention to a catastrophic miss by the inept front office collaboration that still gets paid to pull the levers for this organization.

We can all collectively move on once the swamp gets drained.

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