Lol, at Embiid's middle name being "Hans".
― PBKR, Thursday, 19 May 2022 22:36 (one year ago) link
Joel Hans Embiid sounds like a player in the 30 Years War.
― PBKR, Thursday, 19 May 2022 22:44 (one year ago) link
lol yes
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 19 May 2022 22:49 (one year ago) link
i love little historical details like some duke was 7 feet 280
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 May 2022 22:51 (one year ago) link
they had to find a really big horse for him to use.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 19 May 2022 23:39 (one year ago) link
kat and bam certainly not role players, giannis plays a lot of center certainly could play fulltime np
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 May 2022
oh yeah i forgot about kat. bam is a role player though (at least in the playoffs)
― micah, Friday, 20 May 2022 11:06 (one year ago) link
bam is a weird player sometimes hes dominant and others might as well be a role player
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 May 2022 11:56 (one year ago) link
he was invisible last night
― call all destroyer, Friday, 20 May 2022 12:22 (one year ago) link
the thing with him is that he doesn’t reliably score in the half court in the playoffs (vs really good teams anyway). in the regular season he can get out in transition where he is deadly & generally put up 20 ppg in a looser more free flowing game. but when the game is being played in the half court 90% of the time vs locked in defenses he’s prob not gonna score 20. that being said he’s one of the 5 best defensive players in the league to me & is point blank non-exploitable on that end of the floor which makes him different than all but very very few centers in the league. draymond & embiid might be the only other two who i would say that about. he was a game wrecker vs the sixers and one of the main reasons why the heat went crazy in the third quarter of game one of this series & were able to win. this series is interesting bcuz the celtics have a lot of good offensive players and there’s only so much one player can do on defense. if guys like tatum and smart are gonna score in one on one situations vs other defenders or the celtics are gonna make 4 passes and find an open shooter there’s not a ton bam can do. and boston will always have a big on the floor who can fight him for rebounds. it’s possible bam “gets played off the floor” in this series insomuch as if the celtics are scoring 100+ points the heat may need to try line ups that have as much shooting as humanly possible to try and keep pace (tucker at center basically) but that doesn’t strike me as a bam issue as much as being able to play horford and grant williams at center and have great shooting across the board and an amazing defense is the reason why the celtics are prob the favorites to win the title
― J0rdan S., Friday, 20 May 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
celtics were def avoiding him and jimmy last night i noticed, picking their matchups and so forth
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 May 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
feel like bams offense has stagnated tho, working on a face up game from the elbow would make sense for him since hes a good passer, his handle is prob good enough he just needs to be able to hit that 15-18 foot jumper reliably
― lag∞n, Friday, 20 May 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
yeah his passing dies in the offs because his defender can sag so much
― micah, Friday, 20 May 2022 21:04 (one year ago) link
this is getting back to the spaceballs idea where a switchy center who can shoot will be more useful than one who cant
― micah, Friday, 20 May 2022 21:06 (one year ago) link
yeah but there aren’t many switchy centers who can shoot. there are centers who can switch and centers who can shoot but being huge, athletic, agile and skilled enough to shoot threes is a very rare combo. if bam could shoot threes he’d be one of the 10 best players in the league
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 21 May 2022 03:01 (one year ago) link
oh absolutely. in fact i don't think we have even seen that perfect center yet, except for draymonds one season where he shot well.
― micah, Saturday, 21 May 2022 11:25 (one year ago) link
if horford had taken up the 3 earlier in his career maybe
― ciderpress, Saturday, 21 May 2022 14:00 (one year ago) link
Durant in the death lineup when he was locked in on D was the archetype
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Saturday, 21 May 2022 14:41 (one year ago) link
he wasnt the center tho
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 May 2022 14:50 (one year ago) link
ciderpressPosted: May 21, 2022 at 10:00:10 AMif horford had taken up the 3 earlier in his career maybehes doin pretty good currently
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 May 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
everyone thinking they werent gonna get much from him then hes ballin out changed the math for the cs
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 May 2022 14:52 (one year ago) link
ESPN Sources: Denver Nuggets president Tim Connelly is traveling to meet with Minnesota owner Glen Taylor this weekend in what’s the next step in the Timberwolves’ pursuit to hire Connelly and make him one of league’s highest compensated executives.— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 21, 2022
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
hes doin pretty good currently
― lag∞n, Saturday, May 21, 2022 10:51 AM (forty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah but hard to think the perfect center would be a 35 year old when we can imagine someone with the same skillset at 25
― ciderpress, Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
being highly compensated to run a team with lower expectations seems like an alright gig
― ciderpress, Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link
i personally would think twice before becoming involved with the timberwolves organization
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 May 2022 16:00 (one year ago) link
i'm in it for the compensation
― ciderpress, Saturday, 21 May 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
FYI horford did that during the hawks 60 win season
― Heez, Saturday, 21 May 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link
oh i thought it was the year after that, in his contract year
― ciderpress, Saturday, 21 May 2022 20:59 (one year ago) link
Sorry it was the 15/16 season he started hoisting
― Heez, Saturday, 21 May 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
nice story
"Brother, I'm drunk. I cannot do interview right now."Call it the Nikola Jokic MVP mission. Here's how the #Nuggets pulled off their covert trip to Serbia.https://t.co/WnS5bhUdPL— Mike Singer (@msinger) May 20, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 21 May 2022 21:29 (one year ago) link
bam read this thread
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 22 May 2022 06:31 (one year ago) link
indeed
― micah, Sunday, 22 May 2022 12:36 (one year ago) link
not a great job
Michigan coach Juwan Howard reportedly turned down an offer to be the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers.(via @wojespn) pic.twitter.com/opee8dZzJM— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) May 22, 2022
― lag∞n, Sunday, 22 May 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
juwan and lebro were together on the heat, correct?
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 22 May 2022 17:31 (one year ago) link
yeah, did not think of that aspect lol
― lag∞n, Sunday, 22 May 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
hes seen what bron can do to a coach
― lag∞n, Sunday, 22 May 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
ESPN Sources: Denver Nuggets President Tim Connelly has agreed to a deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves that’ll make him one of the NBA’s highest compensated executives. Significant coup for Minnesota franchise.— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 23, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 May 2022 19:24 (one year ago) link
Connelly will sign a 5-year, $40M-plus deal that includes ownership equity, sources said. Massive deal and franchise changing move for the Timberwolves.— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 23, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 May 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
Woah
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 23 May 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
godspeed to all parties involved w/ this one
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 May 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
A-Rod ownership group pulling out their checkbooks.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 23 May 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
Denver made a bid to keep Connelly that would've moved him into one of the better paid league executives, sources said, but the ownership equity with Minnesota is life-changing money -- something only a very few executives have in their deals.— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 23, 2022
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 May 2022 19:44 (one year ago) link
juwan will prob eventually be an nba coach, but for now the decision is "coach your sons at your alma mater" or "be lebron's highly-paid assistant," and i think he chose wisely
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Monday, 23 May 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link
I like how being paid millions in annual salary is just ho-hum these days and it takes getting an ownership share in a billion dollar enterprise to be "life-changing".
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 23 May 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
I'm pretty excited, this rules
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 23 May 2022 20:24 (one year ago) link
Sounds like Gupta is staying on
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 23 May 2022 20:26 (one year ago) link
min definitely in position to become a real team but yeah i'll believe it when i see it
― ciderpress, Monday, 23 May 2022 21:43 (one year ago) link
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, May 23, 2022 4:08 PM (one hour ago)
when someone is willing to pay you $10 million+ to not work for the timberwolves, the timberwolves better be offering something that is truly changing your life in a whole different way
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 May 2022 21:48 (one year ago) link
Allows him to take that all-important step up from the 0.06% into the 0.04%.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 23 May 2022 21:52 (one year ago) link
currently entertaining offers in the $6-8m range to not work for the timberwolves, please dm
― Clay, Monday, 23 May 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link
I think it's funny that leaving a job for more money, which is why 99% of people leave their job is being viewed as suspect for some reason. Wolves aren't a destination so you have to overpay. POBO doesn't count against the cap so who cares how much these rich guys want to spend.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 23 May 2022 23:43 (one year ago) link