i considered that permutation and while it is desirable in the long term it is hard to stomach the moment when daryl morey does a fist pump and says "hell yeah" to himself in a dark empty office
― Clay, Friday, 4 February 2022 23:32 (two years ago) link
lmao
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 February 2022 23:33 (two years ago) link
the more i think about it the less i'm convinced it makes the nets better initially. just hard to imagine them throwing a weird player/personality like ben simmons into the mix who hasn't played all year, w/ KD out and kyrie playing half the games, and then suddenly being a real championship threat in the playoffs. maybe in the long run it's better for them but i feel like it takes them out of the running this year
― J0rdan S., Friday, 4 February 2022 23:36 (two years ago) link
theyre probably already out of it this year anyway what with kyrie only playing half time kd being injured and hardens mind wandering, but i do think the roster makes more sense with simmons in there
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 February 2022 23:38 (two years ago) link
yeah it would make them better next season prob. with joe harris back too. but theres a world where they could get right before the playoffs and brooklyn lifts its mandate and what not.
― Spottie, Friday, 4 February 2022 23:45 (two years ago) link
i kinda want this to happen cos i think harden and embiid will NOT work together and i want max drama.
― Spottie, Friday, 4 February 2022 23:46 (two years ago) link
i think if they have healthy KD and healthy harden they’re still a contender based on what we saw last year. but the east is better, last year they basically needed to win one round and they were in the finals. i don’t think that’s gonna be the case this year. also the team around them is prob slightly worse
― J0rdan S., Friday, 4 February 2022 23:47 (two years ago) link
its not impossible but theres so many ifs involved it just becomes unlikely
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 February 2022 23:49 (two years ago) link
like last year in the offs they played really good D and are they going to be able to replicate that even idk
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 February 2022 23:50 (two years ago) link
yeah it’s hard to say. i mean blake griffin was their “stopper” and he might not even be playable this year
― J0rdan S., Friday, 4 February 2022 23:51 (two years ago) link
i’m kinda caping for the nets here but as the fan of a team that could potentially face either/or the nets or bucks in the playoffs i would MUCH rather see the nets, even if they’re “healthy”
― J0rdan S., Friday, 4 February 2022 23:53 (two years ago) link
yeah for sure, the bucks you know are going to show up
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 February 2022 23:54 (two years ago) link
between harden and embiid thats like 9 TOs a game and theyre both top 3 in FTM per game which... sadly they will be unwatchable
― Spottie, Friday, 4 February 2022 23:54 (two years ago) link
lol
More than anything ever in sports, I want Simmons to say that he wouldn’t play for the Nets either.— Ryan Bernardoni (@dangercart) February 5, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 February 2022 00:06 (two years ago) link
it would be funny if he was still unvaccinated. alas
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 5 February 2022 00:07 (two years ago) link
I want this to happen because I want Ben to experience an alpha style star (Durant) who won't put up with his shit five minutes.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Saturday, 5 February 2022 00:35 (two years ago) link
my guess is that this has nothing to do with the nets getting better or worse now and everything to do with them thinking harden is gone after this season.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 5 February 2022 01:12 (two years ago) link
yeah makes sense
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 February 2022 01:14 (two years ago) link
damn when that ramona story dropped that he was vaccinated that should have been a massive tell
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 5 February 2022 01:19 (two years ago) link
from a drama and generally liking trades perspective i want to see this happen, but on the other hand it would prob make both teams better and i do not like these teams
― lag∞n, Friday, February 4, 2022 6:22 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah this trade makes too much sense for both teams, NBA should veto it
― auld gang syne (k3vin k.), Saturday, 5 February 2022 01:20 (two years ago) link
Does Harden get an upgrade of stripper clubs in Philly? Who’s our man on the street there?
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Saturday, 5 February 2022 01:21 (two years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Friday, February 4, 2022 6:36 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
the east while deeper this year doesn’t really have an elite team, to me it’s the sort of short term high variance, medium term high floor move that makes a ton of sense
― auld gang syne (k3vin k.), Saturday, 5 February 2022 01:24 (two years ago) link
i changed my mind, i like this trade now. all for the nets being the weirdest possible team and i think harden is probably a terribly cursed man so morey will not ever get the big W
― Clay, Saturday, 5 February 2022 01:26 (two years ago) link
CP on the JJ pod is good. Lotta talk about his lil bastard tendencies.
― Spottie, Saturday, 5 February 2022 01:34 (two years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 5 February 2022 01:38 (two years ago) link
im watching the celtics play the pistons sans cade and wow they are just awful, a team of all guys who cant score
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 February 2022 01:39 (two years ago) link
so many bricked 3s, blown layups, sad stuff
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 February 2022 01:41 (two years ago) link
Cade is probably going to be great and Stewart should be a good role player but outside of that it’s not promising
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 5 February 2022 02:01 (two years ago) link
i still have hope for bey2020 draft looks pretty spotty at best but the hayes pick was brutal. throw them on the list of teams that really misevaluated halliburton. they’re gonna get another bite at a top 5 pick this year at worst tho so we’ll see how they look this time next year. cade is looking like he’s gonna be a perennial all star fairly soon to me
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 5 February 2022 02:15 (two years ago) link
last few minutes of hornets & cavs has been totally nuts and very fun
― Clay, Saturday, 5 February 2022 02:18 (two years ago) link
Nice comeback by the hornets right now
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Saturday, 5 February 2022 02:18 (two years ago) link
lol yes
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Saturday, 5 February 2022 02:19 (two years ago) link
Horrible play review
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Saturday, 5 February 2022 02:22 (two years ago) link
refs are bad there should not be any refs
― Clay, Saturday, 5 February 2022 02:23 (two years ago) link
radicalized against refs
2020 draft looks pretty spotty at best but the hayes pick was brutal.
i would love to do a retro on hayes as a prospect--the contingent of analysts that were weirdly high on him vs. the fact that he basically can't play
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 5 February 2022 02:25 (two years ago) link
i think the bucks are an elite team until proven otherwise. if the east doesn’t have an elite team than the west doesn’t have an elite team cuz we just saw the bucks beat the west’s elite team 4-2 six months ago― J0rdan S., Friday, February 4, 2022 7:38 PM (forty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
if they can get Brook back yes
― frogbs, Saturday, 5 February 2022 02:27 (two years ago) link
they need kris to be better
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 February 2022 02:29 (two years ago) link
i think the bucks are an elite team until proven otherwise. if the east doesn’t have an elite team than the west doesn’t have an elite team cuz we just saw the bucks beat the west’s elite team 4-2 six months ago― J0rdan S., Friday, February 4, 2022 8:38 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
i agree with you in general about the bucks probably being a better playoff team than their record would indicate, but I don’t think we should reduce our projections for the 2022 playoffs to an assessment made in a single series 10 months ago
― auld gang syne (k3vin k.), Saturday, 5 February 2022 03:39 (two years ago) link
richard jefferson: “those extra two inches mean a lot”
― auld gang syne (k3vin k.), Saturday, 5 February 2022 03:40 (two years ago) link
just want to point out to all who might not be watching the sizers-mavs that apparently one of the hoops was a little tilted and there is currently a crew out there removing one of the hoops and replacing it with a backup
― auld gang syne (k3vin k.), Saturday, 5 February 2022 03:45 (two years ago) link
Just watched the 4th of that cavs hornets game and that was truly insane
― Spottie, Saturday, 5 February 2022 03:46 (two years ago) link
xp This is the second Sixers' game this year that has had a serious delay because of rim problems.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Saturday, 5 February 2022 03:46 (two years ago) link
if Durant can drag this team to the Finals he's immediately a Top Ten player in my book
― frogbs, Saturday, 5 February 2022 03:59 (two years ago) link
i presume you mean top ten all time
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 5 February 2022 04:07 (two years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 5 February 2022 06:04 (two years ago) link
Harden moves around like a 40 year old pick up hooper
Harden effort thread because I watched the film back and, my god, it's pathetic.Clip 1: just blatantly not caring. pic.twitter.com/NbCccj2Ntt— Erik Slater (@erikslaterNR) February 3, 2022
― Spottie, Saturday, 5 February 2022 06:10 (two years ago) link
the next time a doc rivers sixers team has any iota of a plan vs a zone defense will be the first
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 5 February 2022 06:13 (two years ago) link
their entire offense in crunch time vs the zone was joel embiid acting like he’s steph curry, great stuff
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 5 February 2022 06:18 (two years ago) link
I don't know why teams don't just play zone all the time against them - they're terrible against it.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Saturday, 5 February 2022 12:27 (two years ago) link