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If Russ buys in the lakers will be alright

― Spottie, Friday, October 14, 2022 8:44 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol dude you can't be saying this with a straight face

he's literally never bought in to anything!

we are simply not having it! lol

russ has bought into one thing and that is the concept of russ

remember when he bought into getting triple doubles every game, that was cool

the height of his teamwork (getting every to let him have all the ft rebounds)

lol prob wise this game which is being played in montreal on a court sitting on top of a hockey rink is getting into weird vibes territory

Jayson Tatum just got tossed for picking up his second technical foul.

And that's enough of that for the preseason.

— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) October 15, 2022

heh

Refs are cops

— Ryan Bernardoni (@dangercart) October 15, 2022

refs are police w better training

— shookdancer (@shakedancer) October 15, 2022

on the plus side they just interviewed robert parish and he pronounced the country canadar

finally someone gets it right

why are there so many starters in this game with 4:36 left? what are we trying to do exactly?

get marcus nice and banged up before the season starts

kinda funny i was thinking a lil while ago now that imes not a rookie coach maybe hell rest the starters more oh well

guess theyre just gonna role with mazzulla even tho hes technically the interim coach, guess that makes it a lil easier to replace him if things go badly wrong

it's in keeping with their management style, they're not going to bring in some outside guy as a reaction.

but this isn't the only preseason game i've seen where everyone is playing lots of minutes and trying, which we can file away for when everyone rests for a TNT game in februrary

yeah first two games he played the normal rotation for 3 quarters

ha i turned it off but apparently its going to overtime, all the professional celtics followers are complaining on twitter

if i were cynical i would wonder if guys are advocating to play more in preseason to get good press buzz going, but no one would ever be that shortsighted

montreal crowd has been great though, good for them

its pretty cool how the raptors have really become canadas teams

If Russ buys in the lakers will be alright

― Spottie, Friday, October 14, 2022 8:44 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol dude you can't be saying this with a straight face

xp yeah it's good, and there's a smattering of celtics fans too which spices things up

refs are absolutely high calling pritchard for a foul on a pass

well well well

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— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) October 15, 2022

watching nuggs-dubs. having three guys like bruce brown, KCP, and aaron gordon to switch onto tough perimeter assignments is such a rare luxury

MPJ’s jumper looks very good

delly’s on the kings. alex len too

Lakers got ~50 pieced by the kings???

they didnt really play their guys, but still lol

Nuggets roster makes a lot of sense and if fully healthy they can win the title. At max health the clippers are probably the best team but what do we know about Kawhi rn?

all else being equal i think i still like the bucks but a lot of teams in the mix this year should be pretty cool

hmm yeah interesting

Westbrook “receptive” to bench role, but leaves first game early with hamstring injury https://t.co/R6532oLOJc

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) October 15, 2022

Nets vibes seem too off for it to work. I think Philly is kind of underrated

if harden can regain some form they could be very good, dont even need him to be mvp level harden just not bad

harden-embiid pick and roll should by all rights be unstoppable

but he has so many bad habits things that only work when he is mvp level

i’ve cried tears of joy every time i’ve come across the phrase “if james harden” this offseason. we still haven’t learned!

i mean im with you on this one but he was so bad last year if hes just in better shape and not injured ???

has anyone got a look at him is he still fat

the stuff about him being in shape and/or healthy is a red herring. the issue is that when he gets into the playoffs his brain shuts down. they could go 75-7 in the regular season and it wouldn’t matter.

there was the one year when he had the other guy with playoff issues

Final preseason leaders in my wins above replacement player (WARP) metric. Note that this includes games against non-NBA opponents. pic.twitter.com/EiJUMfeJE8

— Kevin Pelton (@kpelton) October 15, 2022

wow i always knew *looking up tari eason* tari eason had it in him

tari was one of my draft favs, i really wish the spurs had packaged their 20+25 to move up and get him

Poole 4/140 extension

that's a lot of cash. apparently $17m of it is non-guaranteed and some of that is "unlikely incentives"

*win mvp $50M
*do a double backflip dunk on giannis in game $5M
*eat the bigass steak in texas in one sitting $500k

so he basically got the same extension as tyler herro but is able to say he got more

getting yelled at and punched by draymond vs. getting yelled at and punched by jimmy butler

Apparently the warriors luxury tax bill next season will be 400 million dollars? That seems like a lot. I would try to pay less than that