i think that has more to do with cleveland being just out of gas without spida than the suns being a defensive juggernaut
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Hewson
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Perhaps, but in today's NBA, holding a team to consecutive quarters of 21 and 20 will land you 5 guys on the all defensive team. Bradley Beal for DPOY baby!!
iron yuppie
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Forget Beal, I watched Durant step away from a Craig Porter Jr drive like prime Shaq was coming at him. In a 3-point game.
DaveC
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OG is such a great example of "ignored because he plays in canada until he doesn't" lol.
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iron yuppie
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If they're fully healthy, I think I might pick New York to win the East. Brunson is the real deal, and any team is going to have trouble with their physicality.
I don’t think the fully healthy Knicks can beat the Celtics if KP is healthy, sadly. Mitch and IHart are wonderful, but it’s an awful matchup for them.
It’s also a moot point as I have no expectation that they will be healthy. Randle’s shoulder will remain a problem. It’s sad really, because it’s two postseasons in a row where they are likely to be hobbled.
The Detroit pieces - Bojan and Burks - have been truly awful. Knicks Burks has a case for the worst player in the NBA since he’s been back.
It’s also a moot point as I have no expectation that they will be healthy. Randle’s shoulder will remain a problem. It’s sad really, because it’s two postseasons in a row where they are likely to be hobbled.
The Detroit pieces - Bojan and Burks - have been truly awful. Knicks Burks has a case for the worst player in the NBA since he’s been back.
OG wasn’t that great for Toronto this year, I think. Plus, I am not sure he was ignored - everyone has been wanting to trade for him for a while.
That said, I think there’s something about the Thibs-OG combination that elevated his game and unlocked the team on both ends of the court.
I mean, this is silly:
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Anthony Davis is 1-24 in his last 25 games against Jokic, Embiid and Sabonis.
Crazy Joe Mazzulla strikes again
Hewson
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He's a knucklehead.
If the C's win, it'll be in spite of him not because of him.
At least they surrounded him with some competent assistants for this season plus we have JVG in some secret adviser role (my thinking is he's hanging over Crazy Joe like the Sword of Damocles, waiting to be instilled as HC if Joe f's up).
If the C's win, it'll be in spite of him not because of him.
At least they surrounded him with some competent assistants for this season plus we have JVG in some secret adviser role (my thinking is he's hanging over Crazy Joe like the Sword of Damocles, waiting to be instilled as HC if Joe f's up).
Good morning, is Joe there?
Hewson
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Smeagol is on the hotline.
DaveC
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Joe Mazzulla is a class act and a great coach. In this moment, though, he let his emotions get the best of him and did something that is well beneath him. Like AAU coach who does nothing but scream at 12 year olds from the sideline level shit. It should have been called a T at the time.
The Celtics still had many chances to win the game after this point, and Suns being awarded the T did not guarantee the Celtics would lose.
I'd be very interested to see the LTMR.
The Celtics still had many chances to win the game after this point, and Suns being awarded the T did not guarantee the Celtics would lose.
I'd be very interested to see the LTMR.
Hewson
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Sarcasm I assume?
sarcasm, real or assumed, aside.. if Joe does that and a player comes down on his foot and roles an ankle, he's going to be suspended for a really long time.
it looks cute and was funny, but, uh, yea - he should stop doing that. it's bush league bullshit.
i'm also one of the cranky old guys who thinks storming the court is dumb and shout be banned, so it may just be me.
it looks cute and was funny, but, uh, yea - he should stop doing that. it's bush league bullshit.
i'm also one of the cranky old guys who thinks storming the court is dumb and shout be banned, so it may just be me.
DaveC
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i guess posting a copypasta doesn't really work if there's only like 2 people in the whole forum who might recognize it... 
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you're right that he wasn't where he should be and he needs to pay better attention. but the "bush league shit" is only on the referees here for missing the call. there is no way in hell he is knowingly risking a tech on a stupid thing like that with less than a minute to go in a tied...
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Hewson
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Especially when it's almost 4 years old.i guess posting a copypasta doesn't really work if there's only like 2 people in the whole forum who might recognize it...
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you're right that he wasn't where he should be and he needs to pay better attention. but the "bush league shit" is only on the referees here for missing the call. there is no way in hell he is knowingly risking a tech on a stupid thing like that with less than a minute to go in a tied...
i posted it and didn't recognize it.i guess posting a copypasta doesn't really work if there's only like 2 people in the whole forum who might recognize it...
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you're right that he wasn't where he should be and he needs to pay better attention. but the "bush league shit" is only on the referees here for missing the call. there is no way in hell he is knowingly risking a tech on a stupid thing like that with less than a minute to go in a tied...
alas...
that was fun.
DaveC
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it is kinda fun that you separately called both incidents "bush league bullshit" without really meaning to lol.
Consistency
in an unrelated story (which is incredibly related) - the Lakers are in the last third of the league in both drives and paint touches... the two most common categories when considering how often you expect to get fouled.
and yes somehow, some way, they still suck.
Sports gambling in the US is about to go through one with Ohtani and now this Jontay Porter shit.
It was inevitable, and Europe has gone through it with soccer and I think tennis, but was able to come out the other side without pulling back on people's abilities to place bets.
But a reckoning here was overdue. I'm 100% in favor of legalized sports betting, but the constant in your face nature of it is off putting.
I don't need lines on live broadcasts, or sports book advertisements on jerseys. I don't give a shit about the color analyst's parlay of the day, and current athletes should not be associated with books or casinos in any shape or form. Let's reel this shit in before it gets ruined for everyone.
It was inevitable, and Europe has gone through it with soccer and I think tennis, but was able to come out the other side without pulling back on people's abilities to place bets.
But a reckoning here was overdue. I'm 100% in favor of legalized sports betting, but the constant in your face nature of it is off putting.
I don't need lines on live broadcasts, or sports book advertisements on jerseys. I don't give a shit about the color analyst's parlay of the day, and current athletes should not be associated with books or casinos in any shape or form. Let's reel this shit in before it gets ruined for everyone.
cobl04
45:33
Can someone explain to me how you break the record for consecutive double doubles every three days and not make the All-Star team?
Hewson
Blue Crack Supplier
Agree with all of this. And the partnership with the leagues and the online gambling sites only exacerbates the issues.
And the specific case of Porter is not much different than cases in years past of college athletes (Hello BC) shaving points etc. Porter is not a guy making $10Mil a year and unlikely to be influenced by outside forces regarding gambling. He's on a 2-way contract, earning a very low salary by NBA standards, so the type of individual who can be lured by the right "offer", be it from the mob, his Japanese interpreter or his buddies who cook up a scheme to make some money by him leaving a couple games early due to an unspecified illness or an aggravation of an impossible to positively confirm eye issue.
You're not going to have the guys making max money be of any concern when it comes to gambling improprieties, but the minimum salary guys are always going to be a possibility.
The irony is that having sports betting be legal is likely how the Porter situation was discovered so quickly. If we were talking offshore books or shady bookies, it very well still might be going on. We know there were issues in the past at least one ref... that went on for years before it came to light. This was discovered and flagged almost immediately.
Which backs up the idea that having sports gambling legalized will allow for greater oversight.
But we still need to scale back how in your face it is.
I also readily admit the irony of making this post while sitting in an office that is literally over the top of a physical sportsbook.
iron yuppie
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I really don't like the "bonus bet" incentives companies like Caesars give. It's completely predatory. The advertising these companies are allowed to do should be much more strictly regulated.
Prop bets are predatory too.
I just hate gambling in all aspects, and as someone who has never gambled or intends to, it is incredibly off-putting how basically every TV broadcast, sports media article or podcast I listen to is bankrolled by betting sites. The leagues get more money, so I suppose they are fine with it. But it is hell.
I just hate gambling in all aspects, and as someone who has never gambled or intends to, it is incredibly off-putting how basically every TV broadcast, sports media article or podcast I listen to is bankrolled by betting sites. The leagues get more money, so I suppose they are fine with it. But it is hell.
lazarus
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cobl04
45:33
The whole culture of gambling within sports is really gross. A lot of gambling companies over here have pivoted to making content (and a lot of their content I find quite funny, too) because their overt gambling ads were starting to be looked down upon.
I enjoy having a punt here and there but the culture is gross and it's starting to change here in Australia, a lot more people are anti-it now. I don't mind it at all being legal, because I like to bet here and there, but the advertising of it I think should be completely banned. We've completely banned any advertising of cigarettes over here - even the individual packs of smokes here now all have generic, boring branding dominated by warnings, and I'd like to see the same for gambling.
But Headache, I hope you also believe that drugs should be legalised too... if we're pro harm minimisation and surfacing shady stuff into the light.
I enjoy having a punt here and there but the culture is gross and it's starting to change here in Australia, a lot more people are anti-it now. I don't mind it at all being legal, because I like to bet here and there, but the advertising of it I think should be completely banned. We've completely banned any advertising of cigarettes over here - even the individual packs of smokes here now all have generic, boring branding dominated by warnings, and I'd like to see the same for gambling.
But Headache, I hope you also believe that drugs should be legalised too... if we're pro harm minimisation and surfacing shady stuff into the light.
