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it was an interesting dynamic, he was definitely seeing if the starters could blow the lead out to the mid 30s but they had a couple bad possessions and he called it

point differential is simple & intuitive w/in groups the issue with this system is that once you get to the wild card you start matching up teams in different groups & it becomes this maze of if x beats y and a beats b and d beats e etc

nets up by 8 with a minute left

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DUNCAN ROBINSON JUST COOKED GIANNIS ONE ON ONE LMAOOOOOOOO pic.twitter.com/UuLGTgxTKr

— Naveen Ganglani (@naveenganglani) November 29, 2023

lol oh no

point differential is simple & intuitive w/in groups the issue with this system is that once you get to the wild card you start matching up teams in different groups & it becomes this maze of if x beats y and a beats b and d beats e etc

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, November 28, 2023 9:48 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

yup exactly

i mean not that i couldnt have tried to figure it out but i didnt care enough

― lag∞n, Tuesday, November 28, 2023 9:36 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

put this on my tombstone

giannis was squared up too xp

just lazy by giannis tbh

nets won celtics are in the big dance

sweet, thank you new jersey nets

lol this heat court is psychotic

why is shaq on the mic this is an alternate dimension

khris time

tnt just leaving those scores up there all night, not that cool

it's such a bad attempt to do the march madness thing, i hate it

was going to say the scores at the top is extremely irritating

most of them are over even

jaquez just cooqued giannis too damn

put a fork in him

they took the scores down

why is shaq on the mic this is an alternate dimension

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🐦[DUNCAN ROBINSON JUST COOKED GIANNIS ONE ON ONE LMAOOOOOOOO pic.twitter.com/UuLGTgxTKr🕸
— Naveen Ganglani (@naveenganglani) November 29, 2023🕸]🐦

Stuff like this is what makes League Pass a worthy investment pic.twitter.com/Z4je0UAl7T

— AlexHoops (@AlexHoops_) November 29, 2023

thinking about how many of these demented 3 minute children’s performance art shows I’ve seen in 15 or so years of league pass

giving up 124 points to a heat team without jimmy… the bucks are gonna have to figure out another brand of basketball bcuz you aren’t winning many 131-124 games in may/june

xp was genuinely in suspense for the first 40 seconds of that

dame beasley backcourt is just not going to work two of the worst defending guards in the league

Before today, Miami hadn't made more than 14 shots at the rim against Milwaukee in the past five seasons.

Today they made 20, with 14 of those coming from Bam, Caleb and Jaime.

— Couper Moorhead (@CoupNBA) November 29, 2023

aside from the backcourt stuff (i don’t think beasley will get any playoff minutes for them) there is also the fact that they are just old. we know middleton has lost a step. brook is 35 having to jump at the rim every possession. not only did giannis get crossed up by robinson but jaquez got him too. he looked a little cement shoe-y against guys who are not exactly allen iverson. maybe there was a reason bud never used him as a perimeter defender? they don’t really have a guy on their bench who is a stopper or something. it’s interesting

knicks won don't they beat the celtics for the wild card now?

celtics won their group i think

oh wait is there like a rock paper scissors thing with the celtics/magic/nets? is that why it skips head to head and goes to the point diff tiebreaker?

this is so arcane lol

aside from the backcourt stuff (i don’t think beasley will get any playoff minutes for them)

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, November 28, 2023 10:31 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i mean he is starting

ok yeah i get it now. with the first tiebreaker celtics are behind the magic, magic are behind the nets, and nets are behind the celtics. so its an infinite loop and they have to go to second tiebreaker

at a certain point I need to stop thinking about this team as a Timberwolves team and thinking about them as an actual good NBA team

Man I hope that Gp2 injury isn’t serious

the wolves are really good man! xp

kings warriors is interesting bc it’s like there’s an unofficial elam ending

Game has been intense but just so many fouls called

Warriors turnovers are comical

malik monk wtf!

I’m angered

lmao

https://i.imgur.com/xWT7UGk.png

"the idea of the lakers becoming a good to great team is him becoming the third member of some sort of big three" --zach lowe

science needs to study what austin reaves did to basketball peoples brains

theyre both scoffing at the idea of trading him for zach lavine

"i didnt see them as having as high a ceiling as some of the other contenders" idk who this guy is but does he know what a contender is

the logic behind the idea of not trading reaves for lavine is the same explanation the heat gave for why they didn't trade for beal -- that the difference in salary between beal & herro is far greater than the difference in quality of play. you're paying a big premium (in salary) for a marginal upgrade. i think i'm less convinced of the argument in the case of the heat (the difference between beal & herro could potentially put them over the top imo) than i am in the case of the lakers, but if lavine could play well off lebron, which rivers has had trouble doing this year, then maybe it would be worth it

i can certainly understand not trading for lavine but they were scoffing jordan absolutely SCOFFING

the lakers prob should trade for lavine tho hes pretty much what they need

im unclear where the hype comes from his stats look like that of a decent rotation SG not a pending star.