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Better than the Cincinnati women’s team who scored 5 in the first half against UConn tonight.

nother scintillating replay timeout w the bucks/pacers game on the line and the call is...... jump ball lmao

ahh giannis had a wide open 3 to tie at the buzzer and missed so bad

turned the celtics back on theyre up 35 now

smart made a step back 3

not a great slate tonight

spurs just struggled through a 1-point home win over memphis, i think they might be bad now

sorry, 2-point

they need kawhi to save them!

true, he is the prophet

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tank standings as tight as the western conf playoffs

dame just hit 4 3's in 4 possessions in spectacular to take the lead in a weird ass game against the lakers

remeber like two years ago when no one took shots like this lol that was a stupid time

BAHAHHAHHAA LILLARD IS JUST PULLING FROM THE LOGO NOW pic.twitter.com/rQluO8vs7G

— Damian Wobbard (@World_Wide_Wob) March 6, 2018

blazers don't really have any under 25 talent that looks likely to develop into really anything above 'solid rotation guy' tbf

gonna take this back, forgot that nurk is 23, but idk how much better he is than solid rotation guy and he's fated to constant injury risk

it might be hard to defend a guy who can shoot from like 38 feet out idk maybe

spurs 2-8 over last 10, worst ten game stretch since 96-97

Lillards been rolling. Has turner been starting on their streak?

i appreciated k love's thing on mental health in the players tribune https://www.theplayerstribune.com/kevin-love-everyone-is-going-through-something/

embiids game is wildly undisciplined, gets by on insane talent, but has shown no signs hes interested in doing the actually good basketball things eg hes shooting 30% from 3 on 3.5 attempts commits 4! tos, also throws his injury prone body around like a rag doll
simmons cant shoot, at all, like literally cannot shoot
(both of those things are kinda cute in the regular season but are very exploitable by prepared playoff opponents)
simmons and embiid are prob both centers
their #1 draft pick pg is on some sort of quest to destroy his jump shot?? and has barely played nba basketball
they might be a garbage organization

― lag∞n, Monday, March 5, 2018 8:17 PM (yesterday) Bookmark

the final 2 of these things are the only parts of this argument i find compelling even slightly

aside from embiid injury stuff but that's sort of its own thing

good 2 know lol

"gets by on insane talent" is a hell of a concern

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as a t-wolves fan i feel philly is cool and fascinating in a way that some wolves teams have been that makes them boner material for "league pass team" junkies but somehow will stop short of being actually good

whereas this years wolves are actually *better* and sometimes *good* but less fashionable

the wolves have two really good players and the rest of the team is kinda just normal, not sure what their path to contending is, other than andrew wiggings keeping his promises

the sixers are already actually good tho

theyre not that good!

they're 7th by net rating and 8th by point differential \(o_O)/

+1.9, wow

.3 ahead of the powerhouse indiana pacers

they're one of 4 teams that wouldn't shock me if they won the East, so I'd call them "good"

+1.9, wow

― lag∞n, Tuesday, March 6, 2018 12:15 PM (three seconds ago) Bookmark

so you'd say there's what... 4 good teams in the NBA?

jordan stop being obtuse this second, theyre bunched up in the standings whichever way you want to slice it with a bunch of other okay teams

Goon's definitions of 'good' and 'bad' are very different than others, is what I've gathered. He's referred to klay as 'bad' many times so I now read his 'bad' as 'very good but dont want to praise'. Helps his posts make a lot more sense.

what ive always said klay was good, im the big klay guy around here

anyway i think ive been pretty clear and am actually the only one here who has said anything of substance about the philadelphia basketball team

i think they are good not great and will lose in the first round. but they will get better. I worry that simmons could go the way of michael carter williams. embiid health concerns are very real tho and imo that makes their window smaller and sooner than a normal young team arch. Like his prime is gonna be 24-27 not 26-30. Fultz the big question mark here obv.

they need a klay type player imo

i guess reddick is filling that role rn but feels like they need a lil more firepower

they should be able to lure talent like reddick in the future.

reddick is doing a ton for them this year they def need to fill that role on a more permanent basis

Ever since covingtons finger injury he hasnt been the same

they need someone a bit better than him is what I'm saying. klay, mccollum, that sort of tier of shooting guard

the whole composition of the team is just kinda weird and janky, they shd trade all their dudes except for simmons for more draft picks, the decision pt 2

well everyone needs that but cant afford it, those are max players. xp

the thing about the sixers and whether they're good or not is.....it's embiid. it's all embiid. they're bad when he is off the court. i think you have to project a bunch of things to figure out how they become elite from here, because at the moment they're only pretty good and that's entirely because of one very large very injury-prone dude.

i keep seeing talk of him getting defensive player of the year

that's why i think they need another all star level player to be a real contender

the sixers starting line up of simmons-redick-covington-saric-embiid has a net rating of 18.8 in almost 500 minutes, there's very few lineup combos across the NBA that compare to that in a similar amount of minutes. their bench depth is shaky and inexperience will prob flare up in the offs this year but their core group smokes people, it is what it is

right now they'd match up w/ the cavs in the playoffs and will lose but they just blew them out in cleveland like 3 days ago and there's no one on cleveland who has even a prayer of guarding embiid