THE 2017 NBA 'OFFS™

last year was the best season of LMA's career, no? clay otm prob, LMA probably wasn't destined to age great as a below the rim guy

Also don't below the rim types age better usually? Less reliance on athletic ability

Aldridge will always be able to stick 18 footers but everything else is gonna suffer if he turns into an old man here

last year was the best season of LMA's career, no? clay otm prob, LMA probably wasn't destined to age great as a below the rim guy
Also don't below the rim types age better usually? Less reliance on athletic ability

― Spottie, Wednesday, May 3, 2017 11:01 PM (seven minutes ago)

yeah maybe thats true. maybe he is hurt

he does look like hes not moving right out there

nope; he front-rimmed a bunny in a way that was not normal

harden being fouled shooting a three 17 times in like 6 games seems like a problem for the league

if you're going to foul a three point shooter, go flagrant two or go home.

there was a video of coach nick talking w ronnie nunn (ex ref) where nunn rightly points out that with a lot of these harden really starts his shooting motion after hes fouled, not sure why theyre being called the way they are, also ive notice the rip through move being called a shooting foul some even tho the league explicitly said its not

kevin pelton said the league shd completely change the way it defines a foul basing it on who initiated the contact rather than who has a right to the space, which is interesting but obvs wld take a lot of thinking through/is a huge change

lol harden is a mad scientist coming up with this stuff its pretty impressive

yeah me too, i think it must have something to do with the angle they rip their arm through. like if you go obviously from side to side and swing the ball down low it's def a rip thru but it seems guys are bringing it up at an upward angle now to argue they were going into shooting motion xp

aw 6 years ago ginobili jams that

ive never seen kawhi so animated than he was on the bench cheering that juice simmons jam

there was a play in last nights game where wall was so afraid of isaiah pulling that pull up for a three when the defenders trailing through a screen to draw a foul move that it looked like he bounced off an invisible wall trying to avoid it but then isaiah didnt even do it and just kept dribbling for an easy layup lol

there was a video of coach nick talking w ronnie nunn (ex ref) where nunn rightly points out that with a lot of these harden really starts his shooting motion after hes fouled, not sure why theyre being called the way they are, also ive notice the rip through move being called a shooting foul some even tho the league explicitly said its not

― lag∞n, Wednesday, May 3, 2017 11:27 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seems to me that continuation has become the default call and non-shooting has become the exception call and that this was true before things like the rip through and the screen-three pointer foul came into vogue.

these seem to be called fairly consistently which is fine but i hope the league changes things up this summer b/c we're going a little too far with this stuff.

Aw man not Parker.

kawhi>>>>>>>harden

well, i completely overestimated the rox. so, looks like it will be 20+ wins for each team. who's got the more sustainable advantages? is kawhi enough of an advantage on his own to tilt it to the spurs? i still go with the rox though it clearly won't be as easy as it looked earlier.

Jared Weiss‏Verified account @JaredWeissNBA 5m5 minutes ago
Coach Pop asked in post game presser the severity of Tony Parker's knee injury.

"It's not good."

rip big tone

:( playoff injuries are the pits.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-_wJMaUAAEsc3i.jpg

aw man

damn that sounds like insane pain

how has no one commented on that snoop picture.

― Heez, Tuesday, May 2, 2017 8:13 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.nba.com/warriors/news-blog/snoop-quentin-webelieve

George Hill seems very minor injury prone

George Hill is out tonight with a left toe injury.

— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) May 4, 2017

utah and nola have the two most sus training staffs in the league

eric gordon played in 75 games this year, the most he played in five seasons with nola was 65, he averaged ~45

see like this harden clearly initiates the contact then goes up for the shot why is he getting this call its also just an insane shot that has no hope of doing anything except producing fts its a technicality we need a return to sanity on this issue

russ for mvp b/w james harden should retire pic.twitter.com/QQi1Ip5E2f

— Patrick Cosmos (@veryimportant) May 4, 2017

that play is designed to get that call imo, helps that hes a lefty so if the defender even attempts to fight through the screen he can just pull that crap

t/f: harden is just ginobili evolved

inarguably true, nobili used to D it up tho

yeah ginobs was an elite passer like harden

al has been so good for like the last 3 months

http://i.imgur.com/2m2aZWc.png

loving his fire in this series too, seems to have added a "i want to hurt ppl" edge to his otherwise refined game

markieff decided to try and punk him. hasnt gone well

ya markieff is just gonna test ppl he thinks are soft, but he misjudged

he tried w milsap too

marcus smart's face being bisected by the Y axis is making me laugh for some reason

its who he is lol

Poor isaiah on that graph just chilling out in his own little corner down there, good thing big al's got his back

markieff decided to try and punk him. hasnt gone well

― Spottie, Thursday, May 4, 2017 2:47 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I love the edge to this series but kieff is a straight studio gangsta

fwiw

On January 24, 2015, both Markieff and Marcus Morris found themselves involved with two aggravated assault cases as five different men (including the twins and former Baltimore Ravens safety Gerald Bowman) allegedly assaulted a 36-year-old man named Eric Hood outside of the Nina Mason Pulliam Recreation Center in Phoenix, Arizona.[41] Hood had previously mentored the Morris twins from high school until the end of their college careers, while the brothers would beat Hood up for "sending an inappropriate text message" to their mother.

haha

omg do they have the same tattoos http://nba.nbcsports.com/2017/05/04/marcus-morris-denies-playing-for-twin-brother-markieff-morris-in-wizards-celtics-game-2

looks like it https://i.imgur.com/dZZDdDM.jpg

there's no way they'd ever get away with it in the NBA lol

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/05/markieff-marcus-morris-tell-apart-tattoos-wizards-pistons-nba-celtics-how-to

...he showed absolutely no signs of the supposedly bad two day old sprain and even gave up on the charade of riding the stationary bike in the second half...........

haha love it.

Phoenix sports media is still so salty about the morris bros and especially that story about them beating up that guy

uuh oubre