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In general this is a Bill Buckner situation and that’s life

someone on twitter saying maybe plum was supposed to switch on a bron screen but when there was no screen he tried to anyway

With all that said they got a 36% look for AD and he just made it

yeah I have come around on plumlee, I think the nuggs are obviously going to let millsap walk and with porter presumably starting at the 4 they probably can’t afford to let plumlee walk too? tbh I haven’t thought about it much

they can keep plumlee if he takes a $10M paycut, his contract is absolutely insane

Jamal Murray was +16 in 44 minutes and somehow the Nuggets lost the other 4 minutes so badly that they didn't win.

— John Hollinger (@johnhollinger) September 21, 2020

Millsap is essentially retired, plumlee still an elite backup. Probably too expensive tho. I think you gotta pick a PF/C in the first round and hope he and Bol can make do

Btw that was amazing damage control by Jokic on that closeout, great awareness

yeah he covered a ton of ground

yeah he did his absolute best to get back

I’d be a little concerned about the big depth if plumlee left, given MPJ’s history

have no idea what to think about bol other than I’m excited for some regular season stuff. seems like he has some pretty defensive limitations unless he puts on some weight tho

I think Bol is gonna be an olynyk type, the 15 mpg backup who occasionally takes over a game

But he’s pretty unique, I guess Porzingis is the closest comparison in raw talent

It looks like he really can shoot which makes all kinds of things acceptable (also true of olynyk)

That was sad damn. Ruined a truly awesome big honey final stretch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONJXjS0UlYA

https://i.imgur.com/As9OmJr.jpg

prob a better place to put this but i thought i would inform you all that carl sagan was an honorary ilh poster in spirit

lol at this is genuinely shocking ann

oh no billy

Billy Donovan has agreed to a deal to become the next coach of the Chicago Bulls, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) September 22, 2020

A definite upgrade but not inspiring at all

Nuggets are a good team

Donavan hire is a Bulls move very much in character

really enjoying jerami grant as a 4th or 5th starter type of guy

yeah grant has really grown on me. he can do a lot of stuff and he’s a competitor

denver getting a little tight

if i understand the rule right that was a bizarre non-challenge

Alley oops are goaltending against the lakers

absolute nightmare start to the 4th starting with that BS call on the davis 3

Obv want the lakers to win the series but I’m hoping Denver can withstand this run. I just want more hoops tbh

meltdown in progress

wow Rondo

jamal murray just willed them to victory

Yeah I never saw this Denver team going down by 0-3

fun game! glad the Lakers made it interesting

Nuggets are one game away from being close to contending!

some very big plays by murray down the stretch kudos to him

was it here or on Twitter where someone said Jamal Murray is the Canadian baller Andrew Wiggins was supposed to be?

There’s some stat that has Jerami Grant as the worst player in the playoffs and I’m pretty sure it’s a broken stat. His defense vs Kawhi was really important. Maybe it’s a function of guarding the other team’s best players?

Yeah, that doesn't make much sense intuitively

catch all stats are always a bit shit mate

On a recent episode of the Lowe Post they were talking about how the Nuggets were really hurt by Grant's poor rebounding (zeroing in on him, an ostensible power forward, having 0 boards in Game 2 vs the Lakers). ime a lot of catch all stats tend to over-account for rebounds as much as they under-account for defense. So that could explain it.

yeah, that’s an excellent point.

Yeah and his lack of rebounding is accentuated by guarding Kawhi and lebron

can the players hear the crowd noise?

it seems so?

The Thunder requested the piped-in crowd noise turned up to replicate the volume at Chesapeake Energy Arena in OKC.

https://www.nba.com/article/2020/08/10/virtual-fans-help-restart-atmosphere

Yeah supposedly it’s loud as hell

it's weird because i've also heard some journalists saying it's much easier to like mentally check out even during great games. maybe the noise is artificial enough in person that you can just ignore it.

id be happy to never see or hear mark jackson ever again

i know, i want him to get some backwater coaching job so bad