yeah its bad theyre not going to stop now that theyve made new weird quasi playoff games
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 November 2021 14:06 (two years ago) link
ah ok NBA.com says 8, I don't know what the formula is on tiebreakers, head to head matchups?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, November 29, 2021 8:55 AM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah idk maybe espn has some pretend in season tiebreaker where the team with more wins gets to be first cause the lakers are 11-11 and the other teams are 10-10
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 November 2021 14:07 (two years ago) link
Lakers have played a lot of bad teams and it’s usually an epic struggle to beat them. They’ve been bad.
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 29 November 2021 14:52 (two years ago) link
yeah I think I read somewhere that the Lakers have actually played the easiest schedule so far? idk they're just reminding me a lot of the Kobe/Pau/Dwight/Nash Laker team where everyone assumes they've got too much talent to crash and that they'll figure it out eventually but they just seem so slow and labored in everything they do. in fact they actually seem like a good candidate to get worse as the season goes on since they're all so banged up already. unless AD goes supernova idk what other teams are supposed to be afraid of.
― frogbs, Monday, 29 November 2021 15:12 (two years ago) link
i think the most likely outcome for them is they finish in one of the play in spots, win a game to get into the actual playoffs and then lose in the first round. even if they got the 6 seed i think they would lose — the top 3 in the west are clearly a cut above the rest of the conference and i think all 3 would beat the lakers. even in the best case scenario imo they get into the 4-5 game, beat someone like dallas, clippers, or denver, and then lose in round 2. they’ve stunk the whole year and westbrook has been a postseason anchor ever since he stopped playing with KD so i don’t see a lot of playoff upside
― J0rdan S., Monday, 29 November 2021 15:22 (two years ago) link
that play i mentioned earlier:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIMcxV5tM6U
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 November 2021 16:06 (two years ago) link
lol what the hell
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 November 2021 16:12 (two years ago) link
I really think the wear and tear of having to scrap to win every game is gonna show up at some point. Lebron has played a LOT of NBA basketball in his life
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 29 November 2021 16:22 (two years ago) link
yeah theres a really good chance this team implodes with injury
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 November 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
welp
Nuggets F Michael Porter Jr., will undergo a surgical procedure on his lower back and miss an indefinite period, his agent Mark Bartelstein of @PrioritySports tells ESPN. Bartelstein says Porter’s expected to make a full recovery; timetable on return will come after surgery.— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 29, 2021
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 November 2021 16:29 (two years ago) link
Really wonder what it is. Seen rumors of a laminectomy
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 29 November 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link
They should vaccinate him while he’s sedated
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 29 November 2021 16:38 (two years ago) link
Gotta think there’s no rush to bring murray back now. Probably wouldn’t be 100% this season anyway
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 29 November 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
super sucky what a brutal run of luck
― Spottie, Monday, 29 November 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
that sucks, once you start having back issues it seems like it's pretty rare they ever fully go away.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
Nuggets medical staff has an avant garde opinion about that back and they made a 200 million dollar wager about it. We shall see
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 29 November 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
extremely depressing stuff
― k3vin k., Monday, 29 November 2021 17:08 (two years ago) link
re: Matt's Grayson Allen tweet, need to point out that Pat C is currently shooting better on lower pay and with better vibes (but at only 6.3 attempts per game):
Starting in every game to this point, Allen is averaging 14.2 points while shooting 44.6 percent on his field-goal attempts and 42.2 percent on his 3-point attempts. Meanwhile, Connaughton’s time has been split between the starting five and the bench due to early injuries to the roster, but he is thriving wherever by averaging 12.1 points on 49.4 percent field goal shooting and 42.5 percent from behind the arc. (https://behindthebuckpass.com/2021/11/28/grayson-allen-pat-connaughton-thriving-milwaukee-bucks/)
― Oxnard Jeweler (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 29 November 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link
xps re: porter, it definitely sucks but it's not really some unexpected stroke of bad luck, they only got him bc half the other teams did not want to take this risk.
that being said everyone loses when joker doesnt have a great team around him to work his magic
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 29 November 2021 17:20 (two years ago) link
drafting him in the middle of the 1st round was a totally reasonable risk, maxing him out is looking pretty rough right now, they were kind of a tough sport as far as that goes, tho who knows what medical info they had
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 November 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link
yeah that was my thought exactly. you’d do the pick again 10 times out of 10. they prob got great value out of it mathematically while he was in his rookie deal if you wanna look at it that way, it’s the extension that looks really questionable now.at some point in the last year hollinger said on his pod w nate duncan that porter had basically the worst medicals he’d ever seen evaluating a draft prospect
― J0rdan S., Monday, 29 November 2021 17:28 (two years ago) link
was his personal team just holding it all together with duct tape until he got paid? yikes
― Spottie, Monday, 29 November 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau tells reporters that Kemba Walker is out of the rotation, and Alec Burks will remain the starting point guard.— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 29, 2021
― J0rdan S., Monday, 29 November 2021 18:03 (two years ago) link
yikes, that is a fast fall from grace
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 November 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
it is kind of weird that the suns-warriors games are consecutive for GS but phoenix has the pistons at home as a palate cleanser in between. is that weird? i don't even know anymore with these home-and-homes
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 29 November 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link
kemba's stats are awful, his net rating is worse, there really just isn't anything left.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 29 November 2021 18:13 (two years ago) link
nick nurse, hague
Kemba STARTED the All Star Game only two seasons ago!And then, coming off a recent injury, Nurse played him the second most minutes in the game on the back of playing 45 in the last regular season game before it... and he got re-injured and was never the same. https://t.co/9OQieV6bhN— Ryan Bernardoni (@dangercart) November 29, 2021
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 November 2021 18:20 (two years ago) link
re: Matt's Grayson Allen tweet, need to point out that Pat C is currently shooting better on lower pay and with better vibes (but at only 6.3 attempts per game):_Starting in every game to this point, Allen is averaging 14.2 points while shooting 44.6 percent on his field-goal attempts and 42.2 percent on his 3-point attempts. Meanwhile, Connaughton’s time has been split between the starting five and the bench due to early injuries to the roster, but he is thriving wherever by averaging 12.1 points on 49.4 percent field goal shooting and 42.5 percent from behind the arc._ (https://behindthebuckpass.com/2021/11/28/grayson-allen-pat-connaughton-thriving-milwaukee-bucks🕸/🕸)
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 29 November 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
Very real chance that the only people who have to be concerned about the size of MPJ’s contract are the insurance companies the Kroenkes use
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 29 November 2021 18:22 (two years ago) link
well, insurance companies don’t wipe bad contracts off the salary cap
― J0rdan S., Monday, 29 November 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
Brooklyn Nets guard Joe Harris is expected to miss four to eight weeks with ankle surgery, agent Mark Bartelstein of @PrioritySports tells ESPN. Surgery is addressing "a little bone particle" in ankle, Steve Nash said.— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 29, 2021
― J0rdan S., Monday, 29 November 2021 19:01 (two years ago) link
has anyone heard anything from Kyrie in the past month?
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 November 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
just curious how the research is going
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 November 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
Kyrie's just laying low, feeling pleasantly righteous about being an anti-vax poster child, and enjoying his money.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 29 November 2021 19:24 (two years ago) link
hes been tweeting stuff like this
pic.twitter.com/CvuI1QSugz— A11Even (@KyrieIrving) November 22, 2021
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 November 2021 19:28 (two years ago) link
he still hasnt said what his reasoning is, right?
― Spottie, Monday, 29 November 2021 19:50 (two years ago) link
he said that hes doing to stand up for the little guy whos getting pushed around by mandates but hes obvs just an antivaxer
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 November 2021 19:52 (two years ago) link
i can't believe he's actually going to sit out a whole season
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
or...if this is just his way of getting out of playing the regular season then he has a "change of heart" before the playoffs that would be hilarious
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 November 2021 19:57 (two years ago) link
its been pretty clear for a while imo that kyrie does not want to play in the nba
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 November 2021 20:01 (two years ago) link
i think hes just expecting the bklyn mandate to be lifted before the playoffs start?
― Spottie, Monday, 29 November 2021 20:02 (two years ago) link
meanwhile wiggins should be the poster boy for the vaccine.. hes been awesome since he got it.
― Spottie, Monday, 29 November 2021 20:03 (two years ago) link
tbh it does seem like his balls got bigger
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 29 November 2021 20:11 (two years ago) link
bullying works
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 November 2021 20:11 (two years ago) link
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 29 November 2021 20:37 (two years ago) link
in what world is michael porter jr retiring and walking away from $200 million
― J0rdan S., Monday, 29 November 2021 20:43 (two years ago) link
Jord if he has to retire due to injury he gets the money and isn’t on the cap
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 29 November 2021 21:09 (two years ago) link
gotta think if he gets to that point it wont be before doing a couple years of rehab tho
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 November 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
also could easily not need to retire but also not be good at basketball anymore
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 November 2021 21:11 (two years ago) link
yes there is no way in hell he retires due to injury before like the 2 full seasons after this one.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 29 November 2021 21:13 (two years ago) link