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found this p interesting

The first 30sec is Harden sizing up in 2015....the 2nd half is him sizing up in 2018 pic.twitter.com/nXPXrAG5fO

— IN THE LAB (@DevInTheLab) March 21, 2018

congrats on the winning season!

― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Wednesday, March 21, 2018 4:44 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thanks tho as ppl have pointed out thibs somehow makes this all feel a lot less fun than it should be, even though we are playing generally insanely good (by timberwolves standards) basketball

that is interesting re harden starting position since i feel like ballhandlers have gotten so much more upright these days eg bron and russ

also coach nick pointed out crossovers are alligator arms style now where you execute the cross mostly with yr wrists and the arms stay in kinda a neutral position in contrast to the classic iverson style where yr arms go way out then come across w the ball

yea more about rapid fire dribbling to keep the defender guessing

that video is kinda hypnotic

it's cool how low he gets now; when you can do your moves from that starting point it's so hard to defend.

nothing like hubie brown walking us through a replay of a player getting kicked in the balls

uh so lebron has 17 assists and 0 turnovers

wtf are the raps doing

bron's line from tonight is f'n nuts

the score of the game was very high

35-7-17 has to be one of the best zero turnover games ever

my v good personal friend dwight howard had 32 & 30 which seems like a lot

a reasonable about if im reading those numbers correctly

32 minutes and 30 seconds?

If there were no conference split, current matchups:

(1) Rockets vs. (16) Heat
(8)Pelicans vs. (9) Spurs

(4) Celtics vs. (13) Jazz
(5) Blazers vs. (12) Pacers

(2) Warriors vs. (15) Nuggets
(7) Thunder vs. (10) Sixers

(3) Raptors vs. (14) Wizards
(6) Cavaliers vs. (11) Wolves

— Hardwood Paroxysm (@HPbasketball) March 22, 2018

i'd much rather watch the actual playoff matchups than this!

yeah that's not a super great argument in favor of it

35-7-17 has to be one of the best zero turnover games ever

Most assists w/o a TO since TOs became official stat. Straight maestroing out there.

I would watch the shit out of all those series tbh, but the argument in favor of 1-16 seeding is more that the best teams make the playoffs, not necessarily that it always improves match ups (tho in the long run this should be the case)

yeah... i still feel like as a viewer i don't really care if the 9th best team in the west gets screwed out of the playoffs, i'd rather see match ups that make sense and build rivalries

what does "make sense" mean

btw O_O

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/22870675/san-antonio-spurs-held-players-only-meeting-imploring-kawhi-leonard-return-playoff-push?sf185246339=1

wow jeez

i kinda love some of those 1-16 matchups as well. if they re-organized it all new rivalries would form. some of the classic rivalries dont mean much any more anyway.

Most assists w/o a TO since TOs became official stat. Straight maestroing out there.

Keep seeing this stat but was certain CP3 had 20, sometime back and yeah there have been 42 such games

http://bkref.com/tiny/xKdjY

kinda figures it was really hard to take the ball away from Muggsy Bogues.

No conference arrangement looks a lot better just if you swap out the Heat for the Bucks (dysfunctional as they are). Need to see new and improved Playoff Giannis even if for a sweep

i kinda love some of those 1-16 matchups as well. if they re-organized it all new rivalries would form. some of the classic rivalries dont mean much any more anyway.

― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Thursday, March 22, 2018 1:00 PM (twenty seconds ago) Bookmark

i don't mean rivalries in the grand sense but rivalries on a 3-4 year cycle. like bulls/pacers or bulls/magic in the 90s, or the way the bulls, celtics and pacers all got several cracks at the lebron-era heat. right now we have the looming celtics/cavs kyrie/bron matchup, the celtics and wiz have bad blood, the raptors have gotten clowned by the cavs several years running. this kinda stuff is what really makes the playoffs juicy to me... seeing this year's celtics team playing the jazz in round 1 and blazers in round 2 would be a bit of a buzzkill to me

yah i can see that, just think new rivalries like that would happen naturally

does that really materialise if teams across conferences don't see each other more than twice in the regular season?

that is a potential issue yah, they would def have to figure out some scheduling problems

the greatest rivalry of all time is celtics lakers

id like to see there be a greater chance of the two best teams being on opposite sides of the bracket is my main desire with a re org, also 1st round matchups generally suck who cares

Fair, but that started when there were much fewer teams in the league

would be nice if they went back to best of 3 in the first round if they go this route, increases the odds of an upset but also would end those series a lot quicker, less chance of injury for the better/later rounds

best of 3 makes for an exciting first round but upsets lead to imbalanced second rounds. Would rather the games get better as the stakes get higher

think spottie meant best of 5

I don't really see the argument for going to best of 5 tho unless you want to increase the chance of upsets, which I don't really

yeah sorry

man i was wondering what was up with Manu's statement the other day about Kawhi not returning.

kawhi is being very derrick rose-like here huh

Yeah it's really weird...

I had the same thought about kawhi and rose and it terrified me

Sometimes coming back from injury is mental, hope it works out, I want to see peak kawhi terrorizing fools and straight yoinking the ball from people again

I don’t really care at all about the 1-16 stuff aside from the occasional year when a conference final is the de facto finals but even that I don’t much mind like the year the shaqobe lakers were presumptive champs coming out of the west and got clowned by the Pistons was hilariously and would cause hot take Twitter to self combust if it happened now

And I’m with j0rd on the 3-4 year mini rivalries that happen in conferences, those are the best

I mean outside of giant geological scale rivalries like lakers Celtics, but you can count on a couple heated series in the first or second round in each conference every year. I guess it would develop with a 1-16 format too

the two best teams being in one conference isnt occasional, itd happen 50% of the time just randomly and has happened a lot more than that via the enduring dominance of the west

Assuming there’s only two conferences *galactic brain jpg*

That’s a fair point but I have a weird sentimental attachment to the geographic distribution of sports over the purest contest of best ness

It only really bothers when 1 and 2 are in the same conference AND the gap between 2 and 3 is very large like this year but this year doesn’t bother me that much for some reason