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That really sucks about JJJ

i heard today that there's like 10 more fouls per game, which is completely nuts. i guess one theory is that they hear contact more easily without crowd noise?

i do think some of it has to be chalked up to the odd alchemy of intensity and sloppiness that could only come from dropping the players into the final 2 weeks of the regular season after a 4 month layoff

Tbh I haven’t been super upset about the number of fouls but there’s been a lot of clearly wrong calls (many of which aren’t challenged for reasons I can’t grasp)

there's a few sequences in each game i've watched that are like benny hill preseason level play w/ bodies flying everywhere and 6 missed shots in the span of 20 seconds but at playoff level intensity

forgot how completely weird the rockets are now

pretty wild that melo is now a functional role player on a playoff (?) team

harden missed four or five threes in the last 2 minutes

harden is the anti-clutch

You love to see it

margins of victory in today's games were 3, 4, 2, 11, 6, and 8 points

Bubble ball has been a delight and the playoffs haven’t even started

Seems like Grayson Allen is pretty good now

he has the funniest body language he really looks like a little kid out there

Michael Porter Jr is a CONSPIRACY

the conspiracy would be a good nba nickname

Starting to believe in this Thomas Bryant guy

Sixers have their hands full with the championship contender Wiz.

Michael Porter Jr is probably just a starter now

is he a black hole or just a bad passer?

MPJ will be an all-star next year

Michael Porter is absolutely a black hole. He plays with Jokic, it’s fine

true

Key thing is the defense, which is definitely getting better

I like this Dort guy! Gonna be an elite defender it seems

it’s kinda nuts how the thunder completely changed their team and are still a really good team in the west one wing shooter away from being a finals team

also i have to say... after years of being a massive cp3 hater i’m ready for him to have the last laugh especially at morey and harden’s expense. bring me the cp3 revenge tour i wanna see them beat the clippers

CP3, Gallo and Steven Adams are serious professionals. They just went out and won games.

i still feel like it's snake oil when i look at their roster after the top 4 guys but what hell, it's working and everyone is happy.

also i have to say... after years of being a massive cp3 hater i’m ready for him to have the last laugh especially at morey and harden’s expense. bring me the cp3 revenge tour i wanna see them beat the clippers

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, August 5, 2020 10:00 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

hes a lil bastard, but he's OUR lil bastard this year. honestly this year's team is the most impressive thing cp3 has done imo.

otm, for a guy who could legitimately say he has better things to do i'm incredibly impressed at the amount of effort he's put into a middling playoff team in a small market. most people aren't wired like that.

yeah i'm very much w/ you guys on this one cp3 deserves much more praise than he's been getting for keeping this squad near the upper echelon of the death conference and i hope they can sneak past a team or two

gotta how his holdover love for okc hosting the new orleans team he was on as a very young man is playing into this which is truly some of his best work

I was worried the change of scenery would end what gallinari found in LA but he’s been just as good if not better

would just like to point out I have always been otm about cp3

Dort Dort Dort

i stanned cp3 in new orleans, turned on him in LA, reveled in his failures in houston, but now am back on his side.... he’s like a pop star or a wrestler. there are eras

CP3 is a narc, a cheat and an asshole. But a lot of players would have bailed on this season and it deserves respect.

Gallinari is a free agent I wonder what happens there

i respect cp3 for clearly being as psychopathically driven and resentful as kobe or jordan without talking about it non stop to the media / creating a dumb persona around it, instead he does backroom deals with the owners and creates and endless string of the worst commercials known to man

most small guards careers get real short once they lose a step and cant get to the rim, he just examined the situation and became the best midrange shooter in the game, he even yells layup sometimes when hes launching from 15 lol

shd be noted too that this thunder team does have a lot of talent, i think people looked at them and didnt see a star but theyre deep with quality players and have had good health too

CP3 is a jerk but I kinda love him, he's really fun to watch at least when he's not on the Rockets

Fuck him!

-signed Julius Hodge

lol

matt otm re cp3

Brett Brown on Ben Simmons' injury, wouldn't give a timeline when asked if Simmons could be out for the entire season: "Some of the information is fluid... It's just that the stuff is still being evaluated."

— Rich Hofmann (@rich_hofmann) August 6, 2020

Anything over 3 weeks is the probably the rest of the season, lol.

yeah not looking great for the sixers

i'd call them the fivers now