/nba/ - GOAT Edition

ATL: Taurean Prince expected to play Wednesday
ATL: Dewayne Dedmon (knee) doubtful for Wednesday
ATL: John Collins (illness) questionable Wednesday
PHO: T.J. Warren (ankle) out Wednesday vs. NYK
SA: Jakob Poeltl (hamstring) questionable vs. ATL
NY: Fizdale says good chance DJ will play vs. PHX
LAK: Ingram, Chandler, Stephenson questionable Wed
LAK: Kyle Kuzma (ankle) out Wednesday vs. Denver
WAS: Dwight Howard tweaks hamstring during workout
GS: Andre Iguodala (back) will play on Tuesday

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I forgot Dwight Howard played basketball.

Do I watch the finals preview tonight or go work tomorrow?

THE PORTLAND TRAILBLAZERS ARE SO FUCKING REAL HOLY SHIT!

YOU GOT DAMIAN "HOLD ON AFTER I HIT THIS WET ASS JUMPER I'M GONNA DROP THE HOTTEST MIX TAPE OF 2019" LILLARD

CJ "AFTER I BUTTFUCKED DUKE I BUTFUCKED AUSTIN RIVERS GIRL" MCCOLLUM

JUSUF "I'LL PUT YOUR HEAD ON MY MOTHER FUCKING MANTLE" NURKIC

AL-FAROUQ "I LOOK SO SLEEPY CAUSE I REFUSE TO BE WOKE" AMINU

MO "SHUT YOU THE FUCK OUT WITH MY D AND DROP TREYS IN YOUR RETARDED FACE" HARKLESS

ENES "POLITICAL EXILE STATUS DON'T MEAN SHIT WHEN I'M ASS RAMING YOUR FRONT COURT" KANTER

RODNEY "I PLAYED LIKE SHIT IN CLEVELAND CAUSE FUCK HELPING THAT BITCH LEBRON" HOOD

JAKE "OUT WORKING YOU ON THE COURT AND FINISHING STRONG IN YOUR MOM" LAYMAN

EVAN "I GET PAID TO RUN THE BEST BENCH IN THE LEAGUE" TURNER

ZACH "TELL YOUR SISTER TO STOP CALLING ME I'M BUSY SHITTIN ON THESE BITCHES" COLLINS

MEYERS "7 FOOT TALL JUSTIN BEIBER" LEONARD

HOLY FUCK THESE ARE THE REALEST NIGGAS IN THE NBA!

JUST ANOTHER FUCKIN DAY IN RIP CITY!

I was thinking about this the other day.
A tranny outs him as being a bottom bitch he goes ghost for the rest of the season, shit is hilarious.

>hey LeBron we will totally get you Paul George

>hey sorry we couldn't get Paul George, but maybe we can trade for Kawhi Leonard

>hey sorry lebron we see too much value in Ingram and ball so we aren't trading him for Kawhi leonard

>how about we sign these clowns nobody wants in lance Stephenson, javale mcgee, Rajon "6 teams" Rondo, and Michael Beasley?

>I know brook Lopez is available for 6 million but we are gonna let him sign in Milwaukee

>Demarcus cousins? Yeah He's available for a 6 million rental but he could sign with the Warriors

>hey we just tampered with Anthony Davis to request a trade 2 weeks before the deadline so the only offer the pelicans can take is with us!

>oh I'm sorry LeBron we just pissed off the pelicans front office and now they're not trading with us

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>LeBron didn't have a part in half of those decisions

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The Cavs were able to build an instant finals team aound LeBron for 4 straight years. Lakers have no excuse.

Does Magic offer his son to free agents?

Imagine having that huge fag as your son
And also having aids

in the east...dumb nigga.

>ESPN just realizing it's over now for Lakers

It was over after the Pacers blowout, totally demoralizing

My Buckshits are unique. Only my Buckshits have lost twice to the Suns. ^_^

I'm sorry but since when are my buckshits your buckshits?

How is it fair that the Lakers get more home games than every other team?

>they chanted Kobe in yesterdays game

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i dont rate CJ that much. id prefer a guy like butler. with him or oladipo together with lillard thats a team that can challenge for anything.
aminu i agree hes a good deal.

I guess that Larry killed himself

I guess /WL/ is really over

Is this God's punishment to Magic for cheating death from AIDS?

larry flew to brazil to enjoy carnival with brazilarry

Larry is the ultimate bandwagon

Kobe stan before his injury
Heat-Spurs era he flipped between Lebron hater and lover
Warriors-Cavs he became a warriors fan
And now he flips between GS and LA (not anymore though since they suck)

>I know Brook Lopez is available for 6 million but we are gonna let him sign in Milwaukee

The worst thing is that he signed for a mere $3.3 million for the Bucks AND he was apparently willing to take a pay cut to stay in the Lakers

Long live /WLK/

>Brian Windhorst on PTI to talk about LeBron

You think Windhorst cries that people are hating on Lebron?

No this gives him more TV appearances since he'll have all the inside scoops of LeBron's camp's thoughts and opinions.

He's the main drama peddler.

Windhorst and Skip Bayless wouldn't have jobs if it wasn't for LeBum

Jordan will forever be the GOAT.

#
It’s that 9-10 assists numbers that make me less inclined to want that Lebron. Lebron makes such a high percentage of his shots, can you imagine if he shot 5 more shots every game, never mind that one time he did in the playoff.

He would easily be averaging MJ’s points in the regular season. When you have a greater scorer on your team you always have a chance especially if that player is Lebron who can directly counteract Durant’s scoring.

#
Maybe he and that athleticism is gone. But, he is still quite a good driver of the ball. Can finish with both hands. Kobe in 12/13 was driving more than he was in 11/12. He can start doing high post ups. Maybe he can’t do that in today’s league. He can start setting picks and rolling towards the basket. Start actually playing like a center. Something, Anything to just get him to scoring positions again and again.

Skip would definitely have a job.

Skip will find a new target. He’ll bang on about how Durant and Harden doesn’t have the clutch gene and keep cold cucking Kawhii.

Skip got famous calling Troy Aikmen gay and reporting on MJ half his life.

He never needed LeBron, he already had football trolling in his pocket.

Not just Windhorst

Those bums at FS1 are working overtime

Leshannon, that jew in burger morning hours, Dahntay Jones, Cuttino Mobley and even Colin Cowherd

Skip will always have a job as long as the Dallas Cowboys exists and continues to underachieve while he harps on about how it is "America's Team" despite it had been perpetually a disappointment for the last two decades

"Johnny Football will one day be bigger in Cleveland than his buddy LeBron ever was."

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rap or go to the league?

Based

>Lakers stadium... Home.
He's back niggas! We winning now!

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I guess watch

The Kings will win a championship in the next 5 years

I will never understand passing on lopez

>Passing on Lopez

More like "Lopez likes it here enough (since he was traded to the Lakers as the result of the Mozgov salary dump) and he was even willing to take LESS money to stay even for an year", the fact that letting Lopez and Thomas Bryant go (and traded Zubac for basically nothing) and now they have a geriatric Centers and one that can't really stay on the court for too long speaks volumes on how useless Maginka is

Reports coming out that Lebron wanted tough playmakers. Maybe Maginka were forced to play by Lebron’s rules.

The Lakers already drafted this guy 2nd overall that's supposed to be the second coming of Jason Kidd. Jesus Christ what a blunder.

will Fultz play in his revenge game tonight?

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Lebron bandwagon has collapsed

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Let's say a new basketball organization came to compete with the NBA. How would the rules differ from the NBA's, and what cities would get teams? I'm thinking St. Louis and Buffalo.

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maybe I listen to Bill Simmons too much, but I have to believe the Celtics panic is a bit overdone. The team could win 50 games, not like they can't turn it around quickly.

/nba/ finally turned on el BJ. It finally happened kek

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Winning 50 games in the East would be an underachievement for the Celtics. They were supposed to be competiting for a title when Hayward and Kyrie came back

ouch

Does Lebron have any chance of sparking a comeback at all before he retires? Or will he be remembered as the biggest sparkless team cancer baby back bitch in nba history?

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>needed to literally be shoved into a defensive position.
>DA KANG!
KEK!!

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Do the other players not like Lebron in Los Angeles?

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>Losing to the suns

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I don't like this new Yea Forums X catalog design. I can't use this anymore.

how will my rapties do today?

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Say it with me

First Round Exit

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SOON...

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When did he turn on Lebron? Does he love Westbrook now?

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Cope more le-Nuthuggers

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Bulls vs Pace

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harden finna get DINO'd tonight

what would it take for LA to become the home of the Clippers

Best post of the past few days.

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The truth is being revealed. LeBron is clearly damp, dry, sparkless

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Lelbron bandwagon falling apart!!!
LAKERS ARE SHIT.
LARRY IS A BITCH!!!

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Post all star Gordon Hayward
>5ppg
>30% fg
>10% 3pt fg

Just pack it in Celtics you're window is closing

Lebron doesn’t deserve to draw another breath or see another sunrise.

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True
>can’t even beat the Suns when the season is onthe line.
Kek what an absolute choking bitch!

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Wilt was the best basketball player ever cope harder lmao

THE LAKERS ARE A FUCKING JOKE LMAO THEY SINGLE HANDEDLY TOOK AWAY LBJS CROWN AS GOATEST PLAYER EVER
HAHAHAHAHA IMAGINE BEING THIS BAD

Damn, I feel bad for Hayward. The injury ended his career.

The same people who were claiming L3-6ron top 3 all time don’t even rate him top 10 CURRENT any more. Kek!

Lelbron GOAT conversations are finally OVER.

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Win the majority of the Championships in the next decade or two and finally have its own arena

He probably got shook again after he was slightly injured before the All-Star Game

I believe the loss to the Suns is the worst team in terms of win percentage (.190, which is slightly worse than the 2 Ls from .194 teams) Lebron has lost to in his career

Damn, the issue he is he’ll never get good again unless he plays as well but the Celtics are meant to be competing (really contending) right now

>Le statpadder

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LBJ? More like LGBT lmao

Is Larry female by chance. Could be why he idolizes the feminine qualities of Le-Drama... just thinking out loud

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nobody cares lakerfags. Relevant teams with playoff aspirations are playing right now. Start working on your lottery rituals or whatever the hell shit teams do

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GO SIXERS

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Why is everyone wearing the Mr. Miyagi headbands now?

Lebron has already accomplished his childhood goal: giving his hometown its first ring in over 50 years.

He got everything he ever wanted in basketball, he's got nothing to prove. You lakertards really think he gives a shit about winning rings anymore when he can easily sit back and make millions in Hollywood?

LelBron EXPOSED!!

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The only way this is possible is if they pull off the greatest Cinderella story of all time and win the championship this year. Aside from that, advancing to the WCF would be the furthest the Clippers have EVER advanced in the postseason so even taking it that far would be something really special for the team. Theyre more or less universally reviled here which makes me root for them, just because every rabid Lakers fan I know is a complete fucking moron.

Watching the collapse in Houston a few years back caused me to tune out of basketball entirely, until I heard Lebron was traded to the Lakers (still dont understand why he decided to come here) and I started watching again, only to realize the Lob City Clippers no longer existed.

This new team, despite having basically zero star power, shows glimpses of being something really special, and when patient and on target have shown that they can really perform. Shamet is breaking rookie franchise records off the bat, in multiple places, SGA is obvious raw talent and slowly gaining Rivers trust as he knocks down the three more, Gallinari is playing beautifully now that hes healthy, Zubac was a great acquisition, and then theres Lou Williams, Sixth Man of the Year. Patrick Beverley the Somali Pirate, is great to have on the team because you never know what chimp shit hes going to pull. With potentially 50-75m of space available for next year, and given their spirited push to the playoffs despite being a newly put together team of young players id say someone big will come along, maybe even two big names given how much cash is on the table.

On a side note when I see the confusion and borderline despair on Lebrons face when he’s in that bright yellow uniform, it almost makes me feel bad for the guy. He knows he fucked up.

Everyone has turned on LeFRAUD

COPE HARDER!!!
KEK!!

COPE HARDER!!!
KEK!!

COPE HARDER!!!
KEK!!

COPE HARDER!!!
KEK!!

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This Lakers team would still be ass in the east dumb ass

>Cope harder

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Still Coping?

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doesn't Lebron lead some of them in some statistical categories though

LeBron is a good player a GOAT but damn he doesnt defend or move the ball around he just doesnt play like he used to. I cant even remember the last time he did his famous backboard block.

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>one of the screencaps is of my post

Interdasting

Sign KD and Kawhi.

If you sign AD too, then the Lakers will be irrelevant for the next decade or two.

what are the chances leshit chris benoit's his family after missing the playoffs?

>Raptors vs Rockets match thread

>Lebron was traded to the Lakers

He went there willingly as a free agent and even got a max contract out of it (4 year / $150+ million)

>Only to realize the Lob City Clippers no longer existed.

The fact that they managed to rebuild this quickly and ensure financial flexibility is impressive, but I didn't like how they sent Griffin packing to Detroit after the whole song and dance from Ballmer and the FO on how he'll "be a Clipper for life and his number will be on the rafters" (this is probably one of the quickest buyers remorse I've seen in recent times since he got a 5 year / $170 million contract)

Lebron has always said he’s “chasing Jordan”, until it was clear he was never going to accomplish a fraction of what MJ did. Media hype failed and now Lebron has been left out to dry. His fans turned against him, his team turned against him and now the media is turning against him. But he actually deserves all of it. He’s an egotistical feminine little baby back bitch. He’s completely sparkless.

He will be the rare player people enjoy seeing decline, and he's brought it on himself. He needs to take his talents to a psychiatrist. Here's to him never winning another Championship!

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what anime are we watching today bros?

Wow that was my post

>Lebron is a good player a GOAT

There is only one GOAT you absolute millennial faggot. Lebron is all hype.

Clearly MJ is undisputed GOAT. It's not even a close one. But let's go to the facts. Updated after Lebrons 14th season. Jordan has:
•3 more rings
•3 more final mvps
•1 more DPOY
•1 more season MVP
•9 more scoring titles
•3 more steals leader
•3 more all defensive team selections
•4000 more points / bron moved past him in playoff points, but it took him longer lol.
•800 more steals
•Beat 20 50+ win teams in the playoffs (Lebron only defeated 10)
•Jordan never averaged less than 40% Field Goal in the finals
Lebron did it twice
•6/6 (never allowed a game 7)
•Lebron had much more help
•Jordan never had a teammate averaged more than 22 points in the finals..
Kyrie averaged over 28 and DWade averaged more than 26
•MJ never ever had a finals meltdown like Lebron in 2011 against the Mavs
•MJ had more points in the playoffs in less games..
All of this accomplished in 13 seasons
Lebron is in his 14th season still chasing the "ghost that played in Chicago"
•Michael Jordan in the playoffs has put up atleast 40ppg, 5rpg, 5apg in 6 different playoff series. Along with an average of about 55% shooting, 3spg and 2bpg.
(86 vs bos, 89 vs cavs, 90 vs philly, 92 vs Miami, 93 vs Phoenix, 88 vs cavs) Jordan won every one of those matchups except for the 1986 matchup vs the celtics.
•Jordan in 88-89 averaged 32ppg, 8apg, 8rpg, 3spg off 54% shooting. LeBron has never even came close to this stat line.
•in 87 thru 92, MJ averaged 5 straight seasons of atleast 51% FG shooting. LeBron has never done this.
•the lowest FT% MJ ever shot in a season was 78%. Lebrons highest in a season ever is 78%.
•MJ has a higher playoff FG% of 48.7% to Lebrons 48.3%
•MJ has a higher playoff player efficiency rating of 28.6 to Lebrons 27.3.
•MJ shoots a higher playoff 3 point percentage of 33.2% to Lebrons 32.9%

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Boku No Pico

You are part of the solution to the cancer in this general sir.

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F

Good on you user

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KKK apparently driving around LA looking for Lebron

my life sucks right now but at least i'm not a lakers nigger

uma vela...

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see Kobe actually sounds like a human being
when he speaks I think, "that guy is a human like me; he has a brain"

Lebron sounds like every other ghetto nigger hoodlum in the US
he sounds retarded

JJ Reddit is almost as streaky as Klay

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wait wait wait, since when does the KKK have a car

>I'm a lebron fan

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trae young obviously has a really high ceiling, not saying he'll ever actually be as good as he can be but he has the potential

Lonzo's ceiling is a lot lower
even with improvement he'll never be THAT good

They need their own arena win win like 5 titles at minimum. It's why I think the nets project would be so much easier

Id say Lonzo had the higher cieling when they were drafted but that prospect doesn’t exist anymore. He wasn’t supposed to be able to play any defense and he was meant to be a shooter who could still pass and rebound

Scouting reports are ass

I just won the championship in 2k and then the servers bugged out and made me start over before I could save it

Yes, keep those screencaps coming.

I cant wait to laugh at you little shits once the Lakers go 19-0 and sneak into the 8th seed while beating the Warriors in 5 on the first round. XDDDD

This is the REAL G O A T jordan never had a 100 point game

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Are the Sixers done for? Amir Johnson is out of breath before halftime.

Pay more next time

by looking at dj augustin you can tell he listens to drake

tonight we're all rooting for the arena to collapse

What game

I’m always amazed he’s still in the league

leafs/cockshits

hes been pretty good

Why didn't Lebron keep Lopez if he wanted shooters?

Most of his career he hasn’t been that good and he’s 5’10 so I always thought he was on his way out but he kept getting signed

Hates white boys

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ORL +6.5 is THE bet, lads

Because LeBron James is not the general manager

PLAYERS ONLY, BAYBEH

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Lopez is not one of Bron's niggas

Ready for the GOAT. The Klaw can't stop this

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>lebum

LeBron is a racist and lopez isnt black enough

hoping my boy Pascal does well tonight, really need this win in fantasy

WOMEN CAN SPORT TOO
WOMEN CAN SPOORT TOO GAIS

>gets Muscala instead

He literally has the last 4 years, your entire post reeks.

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My BBC

Juwanna Mann was supposed to be fiction, not a prophecy!

Tax return is going to be a fat $3k cheque

rockets literally NEED this win

PLAYERS ONLY BABY

AAAAAAAAAAAAA LETS GO RAPTOR

Imagine getting defensed by James Harden

Pokemon Ultra Sun and Moon

this "Harden plays no defense" meme needs to die
it's been dead for at least two years, unironically D'antoni fixed it

that nixxa ugly

He's like 28th in DRPM among PGs lmao

tbf, Trae Young was fucking trash in college

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My Pacies

My basedies

players only is so fucking bad bros

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Blazers are just shitting all over Memphis to start this thing off, what exactly is the Grizzlies plan now?
I'm feeling bad for Conley being stuck there, he deserves better.

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Harden is shit at everything but sucking ref dicks

My Grizzies are rebuilding while remaining competitive (:

The Twolfs shitting on the Thunder is worse

>NBA teams have played over 500 more possessions of zone defense this season than during the last two seasons combined.

fansided.com/2019/03/05/nba-zone-defense-heat-nets/

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SAY IT

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I want to get into basketball, who should I follow?

Call Tarik Phillip up just for shits and giggles.

You're tanking anyway

except when you play a good shooting team zone gets fucked. just rotate the ball around and watch someone drain an easy 3

My rapties :)

playas only baby

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warriors and lakers

lebron

I knew this was then ext evolution of basketball.

You're already giving up 3s playing man all the time, might as well give up the 3s but shut out the layups and dunks.

PLAYERS ONLY BABY

your home team
also get 2k or play with a friend who has it and play with the Classic teams, learning basketball history is good and fun

Did Ibaka stop taking PEDs? Hes shit lately

The same thing happens more frequent vs man and zone takes away drives.

Read the damn article.

siakam is a bum

Pop used zone to destroy the Rockets in 2016 and since then NBA teams have adopted it to combat all the copycats that started chucking spot up 3s like the Rockets.

wtf are my rapties doing

I feel that weird trapping zones like the 1-3-1 and point drop would be more effective in the NBA than your traditional 2-3.

Throw traps in on anyone at the foul line, elbows, or corners, and force brainlet NBA players into making bad crosscourt passes that are easy to pick off.

You can always tell when somebody learned NBA history from 2k, those classic teams are missing a lot of players and the rotations are different as a result.

good luck Grizz bro, always respected your team

>21 points
>on 20 shots
>get destroyed on defense
>dude he's so versatile

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I can't support my hometown team. Sarver fucked over my favorite hockey team and I refuse to support him in any way.

Umm...bros? Are we going to regret trading him?

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What the fuck is wrong with the score?

Is this little white girl the next Lebron?

I hope Jack Armstrong uses the homo word again, this time on a Cockshit player.

Yes, I already do

it was a clear down grade, Gasol is slow as shit

HAHA SIAKAM

I thought harden was supposed to be good?

i dont think youve ever seen JV play, much less the raptors

WTF WHY DIDNT NURSE START HIM THE ENTIRE FUCKING SEASON?????????????

YOU FUCKING TOLD ME VALANCIUNAS SUCKS???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Johnny Ling is absolute GArBAGE

TRADE HIM NOW MASAI

What made you think that? Everybody here already knows he is nothing without refball

I thought Siakam was supposed to be good but he can't even stop Harden while fouling?

>both Siakam and Paul George are playing like shit
why does God want me to be so fucking bad at fantasy

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I thought asians were supposed to be good 3pt shooters

>bricks another mid-range floater

>gangly African nigga hacks the shit out him
>still drills 27 foot three

Based

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Since the All-star break this is what the Blazers have been doing, about to be 6-1 in that stretch and all games on the road. They also BTFOd the Warriors the game before the break.

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If by hack you mean flop then sure

every season they have runs like that

Blazers were hot like this last year as well, it doesn’t matter they’re a first round exit and embarrassment

Jay Chang is fucking shit. Dude is a turnover machine

Toronto is embarrassing when they brick shots

where the fuck is solid fredward

Honestly why the fuck not, I'm from AZ but I hate the Suns org. Raptors seem pretty based, I was looking into Jazz, Toronto, 76ers, or the Blazers.

CP3 gonna school these baby dinosaurs

They have something they haven't had in a decade though, a bench that extends leads on the regular.
Kanter and Hood are huge additions and this road trip has been great for them.
This is a different team no doubt.

So what's the squad's net rating when Kawhi and Danny are resting? So much for that shit.

76ers. Kawhi is leaving next year

coincidence?

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i mean yeah, but it's a great start

Jordan's career average is higher than Wilt who averaged 50per game for a season. Jordan was a better scorer than Wilt.

Kanter and Hood suck dick, can’t believe Portland fans haven’t learned their lesson yet. Your team will never do shit

Isn’t it weird how you can hear the onions from a ypipo university crowd like Duke

My rapshits can't stop turning it over :(

>jOrDaN nEVer hAD a 100 pOiNt gAmE

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>Didn't realize Paul George is back
>have him on my injured list

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Craptors is embarrassing yikes

>bench of Rodney "choker" Hood and Enes "don't PnR me Bro" Kanter

not the most compelling of arguments

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calm down muhamed

Rockets bros ww@
We officially /back/

>Kanter and Hood suck dick
confirmed for knowing fuck all about basketball, 18+ here kiddo, come back when you sprout some pubes

time to send in mccaw

We're in the game thread

Now that the Nuggets, the Raptors, the bucks, okc, the warriors, the pacers and the spurs have been exposed, who do we root for now?

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pretty cool

What do the Lakers and pic related have in common?

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celtics

What was Rodney Hood’s TS in the Finals this last year?

Disgusting abominations that slap at the face of God

From that list, I think the Jazz or Blazzies would be best to follow. Philly and Toronto are good this season but these orgs are combustible and may blow up at any point which means years of disappointment for fans.

So glad he's gone. He shut down Giannis several times.

I dont know, what?

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they obviously have other players those two are just the new additions making an impact.
Hood had over 20 pts in a qtr last game

Blazies

>Hood had over 20 pts in a qtr last game
Lol at Portland fans

Kawhi is gonna leave our garbage ass team :(

>haha my rapties are gonna rape the cockshits!!!!
>20 point lead
fucking kek

Rapturds might not break 30 this half lmao

Gasol is old but he is a better team player capable of making plays and for a Raptors team that is going all out this season with no regards for the future, Gasol is probably better.

fuck you if you respect any of these teams

He was horrible in Cleveland the entire time but since you want to look at old stats look at his time in Utah, he was playing great until the LeBron cancer started to take hold.

Raptors are absolute shit

RAPTOR IS A FUCKING FRAAAAAAAUUUUUUDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

FIRE EVERY ONE STARTING WITH MASAI

nothing to lol at you're just hating, you must follow a shit team

He played worse in the playoffs for Utah than he did for Cleveland. TS% of .43

He’s a legit bum

told u all

his time in Utah was terribly disappointing and him not stepping up after Hayward left is a huge reason why Mitchell was given the keys to the franchise when it should have been him

this is gross basketball. absolutely repulsive

Look at the rapturds celebrating being down 15 it’s like they won the championship lmao

This post didn’t age well

>nothing to laugh at
Didn’t you just get swept? The difference this year is some journeymen role players off the bench? Lol at Portland fans

I want to dick that mommy behind the announcers senpai

imagine being this much of a miserable turd

>Accidentally typed /s/ instead of Yea Forums

Who do the rapturds blame after this blowout

keep pointing at four games a year ago lol, time to move on if thats all you've got

god i hate women

>Milwalky fans getting uppity cause their broship butt buddies are winning by 15

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yep that board is grody

How many playoff games did you win the year before that?

Being down by 20 to the Rockets at home is like winning game 7 of the NBA finals for us Raptors fans.

WE DID IT BROS! HAHAHAHA HANG THE BANNER NOW MASAI

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how many did you nerd

WE fucking did it bro

WE FUCKING DID IT !!

They've won two playoff series in 18 years lol
And look they choked away their lead by halftime to the tankizzlies

No one because the chemistry is strong enough to survive a bad loss

you must be the the bitter raptors fan acting like this.
Go back to getting BTFO on national tv and settling for runner up banners

Coach Bud can make excuses but we all know the truth. The Bucks have been worse because Thon was traded because even though the Bucks frequently have garbage time Bud refused to give him his deserved minutes.Look at Detroit's record since trading for giganigga

Bucks will get exposed hard in the playoffs. Bud is a regular season coach

We won six more games that year than the Trailblazers have won in the last two. Now you’re getting uppity because you have some garbage on the bench that nobody else wanted

we thought last year's Finals were bad, and Silver just keeps on finding ways to make it worse. how low can he go?

>rapshits btfo lakeshits
>lakeshits btfo cockshits
>cockshits btfo rapshits
Explain this one to me /nba/

You legitimately didn't even read the post

>We
what position do you play?

>nba team lose to other nba team
>urrrr durrr why dis happen????

he slept on the power of giga nigga

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Raptors are getting blown out by my Rockets right now, Blazers fans should hold the L as well though. You haven’t won since Bill Walton in the 70s when even the Knicks and Washington could win titles
Point forward

good bait

I did read your post. The point is it whether he kept Thon or not it does not matter. They will get exposed in the playoffs

>the Rockets, unlike the Bucks, have largely struggled when they’ve had a zone thrown at them. Only five of the league’s 30 teams have averaged fewer points per play against zone defenses this year, per Synergy, and the same applies to only two of the 18 that have played against a zone for at least 50 possessions.

Pop is a genius. Ever since 2016 the answer has been available but other teams only use it in the playoffs.

He isn't a regular season coach. The Hawks had literal whos and were up against the great Lebron. It's like saying Dwane Casey is a bad coach.

I guess you could say my rapties are complete garbage

No one is nearly as try hard to get knocked out in the first round as Pop

>the great Lebron
That guy who can’t make the playoffs in the West? Coach Bud couldn’t coach his way out of a wet paper bag

this. Hawks fell to a Cavs team that had LeBron/Love/Kyrie. very few teams could do well against that roster in a playoff series

Tonight we’re all Warriors...

>The league’s best coach, Gregg Popovich, has pushed his team into a zone for several extended stretches this season, and they’ve also worked against it offensively on multiple occasions. Prior to a recent game, Popovich remarked that he might even turn to a zone more often given the struggles of his team’s man defense, but he also allowed that a large part of the reason zones have been so successful this year is that, well, it’s just confounding for offenses to deal with.

>“In general, NBA teams have no clue what to do when somebody plays a zone,” Popovich says. “The ball moves around the horn and after a while, somebody might attack a seam or do a little high-low or overload or something like that. But basically, the players get in mud. Doesn’t matter what team it is. They just get in mud. So, I think the zone might continue to be a bigger and bigger weapon for teams.”

Pop BTFO the Rockets doing this so I think you're that salty Cockshit faggot, no one else is so dumb to ever say what you said if not in blind ass mad rage

Did raptors fuck up by not getting an experienced coach? They have their one shot before rebuilding and they hand the reins over to a rookie coach it makes no sense.

Just wait. Bucks will crash out of the playoffs in the second round in spectacular fashion

Tonight we're all Celtics...

Celshits please stop breaking my heart.

Cus rise!

coming into this season i was deathly worried of a Celtics-Warriors Finals, that is literally nighmare fuel. i'd never live myself down for rooting for the Celtics in a series like that. it's like getting assraped and saying "harder" through the tears

>“I just think that so many offenses in this league now, ours included, is four-out, drive-and-kick, and spacing. I think a lot of times you don’t need to chase people all over the place where you could stay on the same side of the floor and see it in a zone,” Nurse says.

>“Now, zones take a great deal of communication and a lot of polish. Our zone has been outstanding for us this year. I mean, outstanding. It really has. I don’t know the exact numbers but they’re pretty darn good. I see it as a chance to maybe if we need to, certain games, play bigger, and I see it as a chance to play a much more versatile offensive unit if the zone’s clicking.”

turn it over lads

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Pop goes all out to win in the regular season just to get swept by the Warriors every year, how is this at all disputable?

They’re 2nd in the league with Kawhi missing like 20 games, lowry missing 15, and a bunch of other injuries. What’s the problem here?

That's what Clint Capela sounds like? I thought his voice was higher...

The current season isn't really related, but whatever helps you try to argue

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>t. zoomer that started watching basketball in 2015

You wanna know how we all know you're underaged?

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How many games has Pop won against Kerr in the last two years?
So Pop can’t win without Tim Duncan to carry his ass? Give any coach a top 5 player all time and they’ll win multiple titles.

In all honesty, the Raptors should be lower than the Celshits with all the injuries, load management and new coach.

Gasol got benched against Capela

just getting into post season form a bit early thats all

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How many games has Pop taken off the Warriors the last two years? Even Ty Lue is a better coach against competition than Pop, and most people dismiss him entirely (also came back from 3-1 against that same team but people won’t talk about that).

The Warriors play a motion offense. Pop is using zone for all these 4 and 5 wide teams copying the Cockshits

You can't read and know nothing of basketball history past 2016

>turning it over that many times already to a shit defense
you can do better Raptors

Marc is too old and unatheletic to start whoring himself out to contenders.

He should've done it when he was still in his prime like his brother did.

My Cockshits ahhhhhhhhhhh

7'3

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OKC are a lottery team without PG

I have no doubt this year will be Toronto vs GS. GS will sweep them though. Maybe Toronto can get a game at home.

Retard call a timeout. The fuck is wrong with Dan Tony?

Who cares about what try hard defensive scheme he uses, Cockshits took GS to 7 with Chris Paul and Luc injured. Pop couldn’t even take a game off that same team.

How is he good without a first ballot Hall of Fame big man?

siakams 3 form is kind of sneaky

I hate Kyle Lowry so fucking much

You're a fucking idiot

the refball begins. what is the spread lads?

Mostly agree but he still has just enough juice to be the 3rd option in a deep playoff run. He got benched against Capela because second and third chance Rockets points were killing the raps, and Gasol has always been a mediocre rebounder.

>people in this thread think Ty Lue actually does anything

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Dan Tony is fucking retarded

WAIT NVM MY RAPTIES DONT FUCKING SUCK

>Cockshits took GS to 7 with Chris Paul and Luc injured

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Wilt Chamberlain finished with a 30.1 career scoring average second all time. However at the end of his scoring title run Chamberlain had an unfathomable 39.6 career scoring average and after his 50 point scoring average season his career scoring average was 42.2 points per game

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>cockshits actually managed to blow a 20 point lead in less than 5 minutes.
Now I see how this team lost to the fucking lakers.

Great argument, Pop is the best coach ever but cant take a game off a mortal ass GS team that D’antoni had down 3-2? He’s the coach with the most Hall of fame talent ever to play with, that’s it

he always has been.
usually players find new ways to lose but not in Pringles mans case, he keeps finding new ways to shit the bed.

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What the fuck are my Rockies doing?

they should get used to it, this won't be the last time it happens this season

I want refs to start calling travel on James Harden

How the fuck do you blow a 20 point lead and not call a timeout?

pretty decent they locked down arenado and have some nice prospects that can come up and be difference makers

What's his playoff and Finals averages

>Harden switching defenders
>Kawhi waiting to the left
>Danny Green to the right
>Siakam playing lockdown defense on him

kek it's like my rapturds were built to destroy Harden

Holy Cockshits!

where do the leads go
/r/nba is very quiet right now

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>6 for 21

James Harden 6-21. Yikes. This is not winning basketball

holy shit I cringed watching lowry sacrifice himself like that

This
Cockshits coach is a fuckin idiot

>Haren post-up defense
lmao

well that's embarrassing.

Rockets only know how to iso and chuck

This is why Raptors are championship contenders, unlike the Celshits who break when faced with adversaries the other night and can't stage a comeback.

How the fuck do people genuinely think this blatant refbabby deserves MVP

Wilt played about 150 playoff games. More than half of them were when he was on the Lakers. Wilts roles was a rim protector/defensive minded. This explains Wilts roughly 20 ppg in the playoffs.

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>This explains Wilts roughly 20 ppg in the playoffs.
Explain his free throw shooting then.

Put James Harden on the Bulls how many games do they win?

Siakam >>>>>>>>>>> Soften

The same amount they already have

Is Chris Paul in

Our bench will throw this all away don't worry cockshits

What is Pascal Siakam’s 2k build?

>Raptors are championship contenders
we hear this every year then they choke and Drake cock rides another team, nothing will ever change

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Slam Dunk or Kuroko no Basket?

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African

PLAYERS

ONLY

BABY

>Is Chris Paul in
until the playoffs start then he'll get injured and vanish, it's what he does

>launches himself into someone
OH,CRAFTY

that is a valid criticism against him. I will not defend it. He was a good free throw shooter at Kansas but lost it in the pros

I didn't ask that nigoid

The Closest thing would probably be a lockdown defender that can shoot ok. So a shooting defender.

can someone just fucking take down the rocket team plane already??

Johnny Ling STILL has not made a single 3 point shot since being traded to the Raptors....

>Jamie Ling is back

Prepare for turnovers

We need VanElite back bros.. Jerry Chang cant shoot 3s...

Does Harden even have 20 points?

Shot creating rim protector

Shooting, rebounding, ball handling, passing and defensive badges

As a rule of thumb any build with shot creator in it will be extremely versatile

Jodie Lang is so ass, bros

Raptors will probably beat Milwaukee in 6 then get swept by the Warriors

Why is D'Antoni getting wrkd by a rookie coach named "Nick Nurse"

Warriors are actually way worse with Boogie

Did reddit tell you that or did you make that unintelligent conclusion on your own

Dantoni is a retard

I think people forget how bad the Warriors rebounding woes were prior to getting Boogie in the lineup

LIN LOSING THIS FOR US NOOOOOOOOOOO

Justin Ling can't buy a single shot. We should have signed Melo bros....

I hate James Harden

holy fuck where is fredrick ....

Lin is single handedly losing this for the raps.

OUR BENCH IS FUCKING ASS 90% OF THE TIME WITHOUT VV

Justin Chan is fucking shit. Cut this fool

WOMEN CAN SPORT TOO

Jimbo Zhang gonna iso us out of this game

If the Lakers acquire a big free agent this off season I don't think we'll be able to keep them out of the playoffs again. It would be a shame if the Kings missed the playoffs again next season.

bros how the FUCK is the Thunder losing to the Timberwolves

Jerome Lang was the cause of the entire 11-2 run by the Rockets. I'm fucking done with this fool. Bench him permanently and play Boucher as the point guard until VanElite comes back...

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Delon Wright wouldn't miss 3 layups in a row...

>they took out Gerald Chong
Lol

Leafs told me that this Jackie Chan guy was supposed to be good

My Cockshits up 10! Thanks Chang

>how many games has pop won against kerr
my fucking retard ex could coach these Warriors to a 60 win season. put kerr on the magic or the Pels and see how many wins he gets

DeRozan wouldn't be down 10 to the Cockshits at home....

Bros I thought you told me Steven Adams was an elite Rim Protector. How could he be elite if he lets KAT drop 40?

But Jerry Liang would

Ty Lue also didn't call a timeout when JR dribbled out regulation when he could've gotten them a 2-3 second inbound play
Lue sucks and you're a retard for thinking Pop isn't the best coach in the league

why didn't the Raptors trade Lowry yet?

Were back!

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Any coach could win with Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobli, Tony Parker and Kawhi. Talent wins not a coach

Why are the Blunder suddenly in a losing streak? Is PG playing injured?

I am fuckin sick to my stomach
Jeremy lin is GARBO

Pop didn’t substitute Tim Duncan in allowing Chris Bosh to grab an offensive board and the rest is history. Pop isn’t shit without multiple Hall of Famers playing for him

We just finna ignore the Thunder getting blown at home by the Timberpups? I see how it is /nba/...

The thunder always get btfo by the timberpups, it is what it is

Jeremiah Chang is the reason we blew this game. No questions asked. Cut him.

Yup the fuckin ching chong kid actually just lost us the game

Get better soon Frederick...

been busy watching Rockshits-Rapshits, is Wiggins BTFOing PG?

Maple Jordan feasts on them

The Thunder are overrated. It's not really a surprise. This is why Kevin Durant left the team.

We just finna ignore Wiggins exposing Paul George for the third straight time man?

trade Lowry and give Jodie Meeks a max contract

you guys better stop all this racism towards our chinese ambassador with the afro american spirit

Where is Van Vleet anyway?

>Kevin Durant pulled literally the biggest bitch move in the history of the NBA, but it's actually not his fault
nice post Kevin

How many more hours until my Celties kill the warriors?

5 minutes turkish

Once again the Raptors are frauds

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Injured

it's literally impossible to not give the MVP award to James Harden.

Lowkey Lin lost the Raptors the Detroit game too

Torn hand ligament

I see how it is /nba/... you tried your best to downplay Jazz in 6 last year over your beloved Thunder

I wish that Wiggins would play every game as if he were facing the thunder

Nah he doesn't play defense

Hey man I tried with that team. Me and Russ carried that team on our back. Who am I gonna kick it out to Roberson? My nigga Roberson can't shoot a basket from 8 feet away.

based!

yup lin is genuinely quite bad. It's hilarious because I've seen so many fairweather fans raving about his play these past few weeks. Jodie + Mccaw on the other hand have been a good surprise

hot take: Kawhi is the hardest nigga in the NBA for wearing cornrows in 2004+15

he was elite in Charlotte

Is Eric Jung good?

Is this really Kevin Durant?

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Nah, it's that nigga on Brooklyn with that full on afro. Kawhi is up there though.

If Lin was Korean he could have been good

>Jodie
user, I...

Canada niggas b weird

>LOS RAPTO
>LOSE RAPTORS
my sides

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Literally no one on the Thunder played well but Westbrook. WB was even really really great on defense.

Adams was horrible on defense and Paul George kept taking pull up 3s and allowing fastbreaks as soon as they ever got a stop.

Jarrett Allen?

wtf I thought Lin was good. Why do Asians keep overrating him?

Yeah him

fuck. they shouldve given him another 10 day atleast

This was probably the worse defense I've ever seen Adams play since 2014

My Cockshits came back.

what does /nba/ think of the song
‘You Are the Music in Me” by troy bolton and gabriella montez?

bros wtf happened to Kyle Lowry i don't get it.

Toronto is Lin’s last stop. This dude is fucking garbage and single handedly lost this game.

Don't worry leafs, itll all be alright when VanVleet comes back from his load management next game

I worked for the Fulton County Board of Education once, Ludacris had some of the best grades I had seen, TI the worst. Usher average grades.

Adams also had a bunch of turnovers on really dumb passes.

I know PG just got back and he's rusty but that's not an excuse for how bad he's been on defense the last 20-30 games of the season.

I seriously think Noel might need to be playing 30mpg

>Pukeston Cockshits

>crapturds

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Someone will pick him up to sell tickets. Actually Memphis, book it.

>reached and got teached
>try to scapegoat the smartest guy in the nba

shameful display, leafs

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no way Kawhi is staying in Toronto after this game, he gone.

Even though my Cockshits won, my Celshits will probably disappoint me....

We can be losers together

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Noel fouls too much, but he's way better at rim protection and guys don't even attempt floaters near him.

Against guys like KAT and Jokic Noel needs to start over Adams.

>bucks fans crawling out of their slumber
not so fast

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celtics-warriors gamethread

Based Harden BTFO canada

>one game
epic. one game won't make up his mind
if he makes the Finals he's staying
every other scenario short of ECC he leaves

Wait till Fred VanVleet returns, he's the final piece

Based. At least we get to watch the celtics get BTFO tonight.

>blaming lin when Gasol is a -30

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Adams also can't make his FTs the last 20 games. Worst stretch of his career.

Have you thanked Jeremy Chang yet, /nba/, for making leaf posters cry?

Wait, who picked up Robin Lopez?

fuck basketball desu

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Mike D'antoni is the best coach in the NBA, prove me wrong.

free throws are tough for some players. Even ones that are decent mid range shooters. I read an article that says it might be some form of yips

he wont even see the floor for the rest if the season so who cares

Lamarcus Aldridge. Kawhi Leonard. Kevin Durant.

Why did Leonard allow Harden to score 19 in the 4th quarter? Where was the defense?

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the Raps bench completely blew the game, look at this shit, they grabbed a combined 5 fucking rebounds
Rockets rolled with one player less off the bench and still had 14

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Thank you Jimony Choi

He hasn’t been an elite defender since he was a Spur

remember that fat fuck charles barkley saying the rockets woudn't be making the playoffs? I still wonder to this day why some of those clows have a job.

Mike Malone is doing more with less

>harden saying playas only
Cringe

Every single analyst had the Lakers in the playoffs as well

>players only baby
>players only baby
>players only baby
how fucking cancerous are these niggers?
they should just call it "NIGGER NIGHT ON TNT"

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They weren't until Rockets started randomly trading and signing waiver scrubs in blind desperation.

Who thought Austin Rivers and Nene would save the Rockets season? You're posturing or a blind retard.

Defense doesnt matter when you're guarding elite offensive talent. Defense for guards and forwards is highly overrated in this league.

>Lin
>Gasol

Wonder what Morey was smoking when he said Lin was his 15th rated prospect or when he got him from NY. People expect him to be smart, non athletic and good shooter but in reality he's a pretty low iq player with decent athleticism and average shooting.

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Thank You Based Rockets

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Zoom zoom

Who has the bigger dick, LeBron or Harden?

bench doesn't matter when you go to the playoffs. Which is why the raps will be frauds once again

it looked very dubious at the start of the season user. then they smartly dropped Carmelo "Cancer" Anthony and had a few extremely lucky pickups from FA. if they had kept Melo and didn't pick up Faried and/or Rivers there's a decent chance they wouldn't make the playoffs
but yeah all the retards who said the Lakers would make the playoffs deserve to be gassed. most of this general said they wouldn't make it and unsurprisingly we were correct.
/nba/ is right again

Leonard wasn’t guarding him, you tard

Is Melo really that much of a cancer to a team? The Melo Rockets were fucking horrible.

Morey is a confirmed retard that knows nothing about talent evaluation.

All he does is trade for other people's scraps and hopes it works out, then recycles ad nauseam

Kawhi has locked Harden out of close games plenty of times before, him and Green have. Problem is the Rockets figured out last year against the warriors that there is 23 seconds on the shot clock and they can use that to spam screens until they get the switch they want and can then pick the mismatch apart.

Meanwhile delon Wright scored 25 in 26 minutes
Canada made massive mistake

Gasol was actually good tonight
Jiminy Chang sucked chicken balls though

LeBron is confirmed for small dick gang and Harden unironically has BDE so my bet's on Harden

who will jerry west surround kawhi with next year bros

WTF is players only?

Why not put the best defender on the Rockets best player? Wouldn't that be smart?

PLAYAS ONLY BABY

Is Houston really stealing that final home court advantage spot from Portland?

Black only announcing

>BDE
Doorstopper peepee?

Kevin McHale isn't black

>Delon scores 25 tonight
>it’s real
NO NO NO AAAAAUUUUGGGGGHHH

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Clips will probably lose their spot. Spurs will hold their own or maybe gain a spot, Rockets will gain a spot or two.
[spoiler]plus i hope the Kangz make it in[/spoiler]

Don’t know, Nurse is a retard, but it wasn’t Leonard’s fault

Yeah but you needed Gathol

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Okc gonna fell off
Hardest schedule in the league

Clips will hold on, Kings are struggling to keep this crazy pace they play at up. Clips are just a well coached basketball team, they'll win enough to hold on.

He's a decent stop gap until VV is back. Can't hang with elite teams but will keep your team afloat against bad ones.

>yfw Jerry West and Rivers are holding the 8th seed hostage and will be ready to tank and relinquish it to either Divac and the Kings or Lebron and the Lelkers depending on what backroom favors either org can guarantee in exchange