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Plus Kyrie, kawhi..

Yah easy

give the hornets brad stevens and kemba would waltz to an all-star. the talent is there, but the hornets aren't going to maximize it.

― call all destroyer, Monday, March 26, 2018 9:52 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah tru

I guess kristaps would be #10?

the mkg pick feels like something that might not happen in the draft today--last remnants of an old way of doing things or something like that.

― call all destroyer, Monday, March 26, 2018 10:50 PM (yesterday) Bookmark

i remember john hollinger arguing at the time that MKG was the right second pick because his defensive potential meant his floor was really high, and i guess in a sense he was right... like MKG is a disappointment but he's not hasheem thabeet. but i feel like the way the league is now you wouldn't pick a guy that high whose shot was in that form (lonzo at least had good numbers in college). maybe josh jackson is testing my theory tho

caught some of the trey Burke highlights from last night and was like “huh when did AI play for the Knicks” for a second

def uncanny semblance

fultz hit some jumpers in the closing minutes last night

/r/nba has lost it and basically put up clips every shot he took

I literally had forgotten about fultz’s existence until a week or so ago and it’s kinda weird that they’re playing him at all this late but it’s probably good for his confidence to play 10 games or w/e at semi nba speed

apparently it was his call, he said he was ready to play

Clifford looked good 2 years ago but the team has fallen off pretty hard with roughly the same roster. they should be making the offs in the east with their current guys imo

i don't think they're a bottom 10 org tho. would put them closer to the middle

they should have beat the heat in that series a few years ago but marvin williams missed 150 three pointers and they faced a wade who had just stepped out of a time machine. they would have lost to toronto so i don't think it would have mattered either way, but that team was pretty good. i don't think i've seen the hornets play a full game this year so idk how much of it is clifford but just looking at the roster.. but when you're surrounding kemba w/ marvin, batum, dwight, kaminsky, jeremy lamb and MKG that just seems like a roster construction problem that idk how you would solve, especially offensively you have a dynamic offensive player surrounded by guys who are decent at best.

i'd believe that the hornets are a bottom 10 org. you can make all sorts of front office and coaching and roster changes but if you have an owner who doesn't know what he's doing then that's a permanent debilitation (shoutout james dolan). what do the hornets want to be as a team? what kind of players do they value? why? what's their system? what kind of players would succeed for them but fail in other places? why? how do they acquire those players? all these sorts of questions can be answered by/for good orgs and for the hornets i have literally no idea what you would say to any of those kinds of questions.

otm

its kinda funny that the famously competitive michael jordan is a disinterested impulsive owner

hornets are last in turnovers every year so that's something i guess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAdj-suA4Zs

man I love the NBA

jokic: so good at a very underrated part of defense. quite bad at the guarding other people part

that miles 3 with jokic on the bench a good example of his defensive value. he's in the game and he gets that board 90% of the time

poeltl just destroying the nuggs now lol

wow jokic blowing some key rebounds 2 nights in a row

league pass alert blazers pellies

brow started limping late in the third for no discernable reason, where's matt

absurd game

cavs getting run off the floor by the heat. lebron just had a hilarious reaction to jordan clarkson not hitting rim on a pull up 3 int transition

i haven't spent much time with the heat this season but they are a lot of fun when they're rolling

blazers have played a few playoff-caliber intensity games in the past couple weeks and it has me pretty amped for the 'offs

jason terry starts for the bucks?

i haven't spent much time with the heat this season but they are a lot of fun when they're rolling

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, March 27, 2018 10:22 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah i've watched more heat games this year than any since the bron era. more often than not they're just a little too limited against great teams, but the style of play can be intoxicating.

Spoelstra has learned how to coach. Having Riley as a mentor probably helped.

really bad year for whiteside tho

whiteside is an illusion anyway

paid like a reality tho

the rockets shot 57 threes tonight!

if u think abt it thats not that much considering ppl will shoot way more in the future once they legalize steroids.

hoisting at an all time high

i haven't spent much time with the heat this season but they are a lot of fun when they're rolling

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, March 27, 2018 10:22 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah i've watched more heat games this year than any since the bron era. more often than not they're just a little too limited against great teams, but the style of play can be intoxicating.

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, March 27, 2018 10:43 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mentioned it a few times iirc i like this heat team a lot theyve got moxie

are the cavs capable of winning a game where bron doesnt have one of the 1000 best individual nba performances ever

that's a good question

jabari is shooting 1-11 tonight but physically/athletically he looks pretty good to me

Yeah I’ll third or fourth co-sign the heat being really fun even though their best guys top out at like borderline all stars in a weak conference. They have lots of dudes who just get after it. Spo has known how to coach for a long time (I give him lots of credit for steering the bron big 3 era so well when plenty of other coaches would have crashed that ship) but he’s done a masterful job turning not great rosters into tough ass teams a couple times in the last few years

MIAMI -- LeBron James has someone in mind for the MVP award this season.

Himself.

This is a season in which prohibitive MVP favorite James Harden has done phenomenal things with NBA-leading Houston, reigning MVP Russell Westbrook has been fantastic again for Oklahoma City, and Anthony Davis has found a new stratosphere to take his game, especially after New Orleans lost DeMarcus Cousins.

James raves about them all. But ...

"I would vote for me," James told The Associated Press. "The body of work, how I'm doing it, what's been happening with our team all year long, how we've got so many injuries and things of that nature, guys in and out, to be able to still keep this thing afloat, I definitely would vote me."

Most Valuable Thing of That Nature

Sorry, Mr. James, but ILH has confirmed it will be prohibitive MVP favorite James Harden.

LMA getting an MRI? oh boy

ugh. i don't know how Pop has the Spurs where they are. I mean i *know* but it's still pretty impressive. Another winning season locked up. though the 50-win seasons streak is basically over, they'd have to win out to make it 19 in a row.

theyre in danger of missing out on the offs if LMA misses time. two games up on LAC but they play each other one more time and between now and that matchup they play OKC and Houston.

assuming they lose kawhi hard to imagine spurs being good again while pop is still coaching. he's 69 years old