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[NBA] there’s certainly some basketball being played

A Kobold's KoboldA Kobold's Kobold He/HimMississippiRegistered User regular
edited December 9 in Debate and/or Discourse
Current playoff picture:

WEST:
[1] Oklahoma City Thunder 2 - 0 [8] New Orleans Pelicans {TNT}
[4] Los Angeles Clippers 1 - 1 [5] Dallas Mavericks {ESPN}
[3] Minnesota Timberwolves 2 - 0 [6] Phoenix Suns {ESPN}
[2] Denver Nuggets 2 - 0 [7] Los Angeles Lakers {ABC}

EAST:
[1] Boston Celtics 1 - 1 [8] Miami Heat {TNT}
[4] Cleveland Cavaliers 2 - 1 [5] Orlando Magic {TNT}
[3] Milwaukee Bucks 1 - 1 [6] Indiana Pacers {ESPN}
[2] New York Knicks 2 - 1 [7] Philadelphia 76ers {ABC}

Alternate titles:
Your #1 source for Zydrunas Ilgaukas apologia
Career performances from Lebron, AD can't defeat local Serb, more at 11
Wanna see the Heat do it again? Without Jimmy Buckets?

I just wanna say, with apologies to Knight_, that leagues getting into bed with sports betting is Bad Actually, but I don't think the league is actively rooting for one of their biggest stars to be eliminated in the first round

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  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    honestly i think this title is really rude and yall are being huge geese about this.

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  • FiatilFiatil Registered User regular
    The conspiracy is over now though, right? Secret agents from Philly were sent quietly in the night to assassinate the evil agents at the NBA office responsible for prior crimes against the 76ers.

    The natural order has been restored, as Embiid alone shoots more free throws than the entire Knicks team combined. The only valid result.

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  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    lmao, k.

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  • FiatilFiatil Registered User regular
    I'm hoooping after this year people can stop talking about the Lakers being a tough matchup for the Nuggets.

    That's one where the internets have been surprisingly grounded, here and elsewhere, but the crazy things you hear at the gym. Maaaybe they'll get a game off of the Nuggets in a best of 15 series?

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    I know we need a new thread and I was equally critical of one particular Sixers fan over recent events, but I don't think this is the vibe we want here.

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  • FiatilFiatil Registered User regular
    Yeah ultimately it's probably best to have a different thread title.

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  • marajimaraji Registered User regular
    [NBA] clutch award brought to you by the Kia EV5 with CVT?

  • FiatilFiatil Registered User regular
    I really have nothing against the Cavs, but I'm now a fan of their blowout loss as the top post on their subreddit is a picture of someone's adorable cat.

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  • TelMarineTelMarine Registered User regular
    Butters wrote: »
    I know we need a new thread and I was equally critical of one particular Sixers fan over recent events, but I don't think this is the vibe we want here.

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  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Central OhioRegistered User regular
    edited April 26
    no shit, between me and Butters, this thread probably contains the highest concentration of Zydrunas Ilgauskas apologia outside of Ohio City

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  • PellaeonPellaeon Registered User regular
    [NBA] surely the Lakers won't blow THIS lead to the Nuggets

  • wazillawazilla Having a late dinner Registered User regular
    Consider this:

    The Lakers are 3-0 in the first halves of the series.

    So in a sense they are tied with the Nuggets who I think are starting to feel the pressure here.

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  • FiatilFiatil Registered User regular
    ....I'm actually slightly hoping the Lakers can pull out one game, because it will bump OKC's Monday game from 8:30 to 7:30 and I can actually get a full night's sleep for work.

    But they won't.

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  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Central OhioRegistered User regular
    edited April 26
    Holy fucking shit, Joel Embiid is cursed as fuck

    He has goddamn Bells Palsy. It’s affecting his vision!

    Are you fucking kidding me


    ……..Adam Silver has crossed a line ::ducks::

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  • TelMarineTelMarine Registered User regular
    no shit, between me and Butters, this thread probably contains the highest concentration of Zydrunas Ilgauskas apologia outside of Ohio City

    no love for Verajao?

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  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Central OhioRegistered User regular
    edited April 26
    Anderson Verajao would have scored 18 points a game if his hands weren’t cinder blocks coated in astroglide

    Lebron would feed him 8 easy layups or dunks a game and 7 of them bounced off his hands, arms, or face and became a loose ball fracas, the only type of play Andy was good at

    The most frustrating thing in the world

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  • MarathonMarathon Registered User regular
    I’ve always been a LeBron fan, but the team I’ve always carried a torch for is the Timberwolves. So I’m really looking forward to game three tonight and hope Edwards can continue to talk shit to members of the Suns.

  • TynnanTynnan seldom correct, never unsure Registered User regular
    I’m torn between wanting to be excited about the Wolves versus not wanting to be hurt. It’s been so long since they were good, and they’re really fun to watch right now.

  • burboburbo Registered User regular
    Without having tried to look it up. . . Have the T wolves won only 2 playoff series in their history? I remember KG famously lost in the first round every year until Cassell and Sprewell, then they made WCF. I dont think they have ever won a round again, have they?

  • burboburbo Registered User regular
    [NBA] putting up gawdy posts on a bad thread.

  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    Big Z was ahead of his time. Due to early injuries he focused on jumpshots instead of putting his back to the basket before this was an accepted idea even from players like Dirk. If he were to play in the space-and-pace era he would have been a monstrous version of Channing Frye.

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  • PellaeonPellaeon Registered User regular
    burbo wrote: »
    Without having tried to look it up. . . Have the T wolves won only 2 playoff series in their history? I remember KG famously lost in the first round every year until Cassell and Sprewell, then they made WCF. I dont think they have ever won a round again, have they?

    This gave me a sad remembering first round game 7 against the Kings. Webber was coming back from his ACL and the kings were DETERMINED to force him back in even though he had one leg and they were humming along just fine without him earlier in the season.

    Toward the end of game 7, win or go home, literally only 2 of the Kings players even giving the slightest of shits on the court. Doug Christie and broken Webber. Despite this they've battled the Wolves all the way, Webber gets the ball for what would have been an easy dunk for him before the injury. Instead you can watch in real time as he realizes he can't jump anymore, shifts awkwardly to a half hearted layup attempt, and is blocked (he might have actually just missed the layup instead, it was 20 years ago and there was much beer). The whole end of that era of the kings summarized right there in that play.

  • cardboard delusionscardboard delusions USAgent PSN: USAgent31Registered User regular
    [NBA] Playoffs: Lakers Sweep?! Embiieveable!

  • burboburbo Registered User regular
    Oh yeah, I remember that Kings/TWolves game 7 as well. Webber had the chance to win it with a 3 at the end and front rimmed it. Webber was traded the next year I think and Kings never contended again.

  • TynnanTynnan seldom correct, never unsure Registered User regular
    I don’t think thread titles should be used to target members of this community

  • TelMarineTelMarine Registered User regular
    Tynnan wrote: »
    I don’t think thread titles should be used to target members of this community

    NO MORE DRAYMOND SLANDER. Really, who cares, it's not that serious.

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  • RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    Obviously at least half a dozen of us care

    The thread title should change

  • FiatilFiatil Registered User regular
    Let's be fair, and alternate between current title and "29 other teams in the league are out to get Draymond and disparage his reputation #FakeNews"

    I feel like TelMarine would roll with it. You already had two years of the thread title being mean to my favorite player at the time -- I've done my time!

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  • A Kobold's KoboldA Kobold's Kobold He/Him MississippiRegistered User regular
    Changed title, sorry about that, my bad

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  • RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    Thank you, @A Kobold's Kobold

  • burboburbo Registered User regular
    I'll take one for the team. We can call the thread "The [NBA] Will Never Ban Free Throws No Matter How Much You Ask, Dumbass"

  • A Kobold's KoboldA Kobold's Kobold He/Him MississippiRegistered User regular
    Sometimes you have an idea and you think you’re so clever so you never stop to really think how goosey it is until you wake up in the morning and then you cringe at yourself

    Right

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  • marajimaraji Registered User regular
    Sometimes you have an idea and you think you’re so clever so you never stop to really think how goosey it is until you wake up in the morning and then you cringe at yourself

    Right

    You see, for you being a bit mean was a serious situation that caused you noteworthy stress… but for me it was Tuesday.

  • burboburbo Registered User regular
    Sometimes you have an idea and you think you’re so clever so you never stop to really think how goosey it is until you wake up in the morning and then you cringe at yourself

    Right

    A Lakers sweep is a helluva drug.

  • RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    Sometimes you have an idea and you think you’re so clever so you never stop to really think how goosey it is until you wake up in the morning and then you cringe at yourself

    Right

    That describes a quarter of all my posts

  • A Kobold's KoboldA Kobold's Kobold He/Him MississippiRegistered User regular
    burbo wrote: »
    Sometimes you have an idea and you think you’re so clever so you never stop to really think how goosey it is until you wake up in the morning and then you cringe at yourself

    Right

    A Lakers sweep is a helluva drug.

    Nah, it was more that I saw last night Embiid got 21 free throws, the Knicks as a whole got 19

    Also apparently Embiid went full Draymond last night with that flagrant one that wasn’t called a flagrant two and that hip check of OG Anunoby

    That Bell’s Palsy thing is nuts though

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  • TelMarineTelMarine Registered User regular
    burbo wrote: »
    Sometimes you have an idea and you think you’re so clever so you never stop to really think how goosey it is until you wake up in the morning and then you cringe at yourself

    Right

    A Lakers sweep is a helluva drug.

    Nah, it was more that I saw last night Embiid got 21 free throws, the Knicks as a whole got 19

    Also apparently Embiid went full Draymond last night with that flagrant one that wasn’t called a flagrant two and that hip check of OG Anunoby

    That Bell’s Palsy thing is nuts though

    Adam Silver executing Embiid Order 66, "Daryl Morey onto us, commence the free throws"

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  • A Kobold's KoboldA Kobold's Kobold He/Him MississippiRegistered User regular
    Anyway, I’ll be sure to bring back the “Surely the Lakers will run it back from this four loss hole” once they do get swept

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  • TelMarineTelMarine Registered User regular
    saw this yesterday on Gil's Arena. Tyrese Haliburton's voice keeps changing during a press conference:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iEmrgml1eWw&t=240s

    Starting at the 4:00 mark if the time code doesn't work

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  • burboburbo Registered User regular
    Looks like Milwaukie regular season Dame has arrived in the playoffs.

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