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  1. InstaFace

    2024 Playoffs Eastern Conference First Round: (2) New York Knicks vs (7) Philadelphia 76ers - The Danse Macabre

    Going from Hinkle to Mr Burner Account to Elton Brand is also a recipe for chaos. Changing strategy multiple times, when years into executing the previous strategy, has probably never worked in the history of business or sports, except maybe by accident. Like Pfizer with Viagra.
  2. InstaFace

    2024 Playoffs Eastern Conference First Round: (3) Milwaukee Bucks vs (6) Indiana Pacers

    We do now have a public pseudo-apology out of Beverly. H/T Bleacher report. View: https://twitter.com/patbev21/status/1786353077752078546 Of course, that's after he said this last night: View: https://twitter.com/patbev21/status/1786261711600615856 Suggestions that the fan was probably...
  3. InstaFace

    2024 Playoffs Eastern Conference First Round: (3) Milwaukee Bucks vs (6) Indiana Pacers

    It also requires ignoring all the other players' body language there suggesting that the fan wasn't out of line, and Giannis going over to apologize to the guy later, as mentioned upthread. In other words, you really gotta be looking to blame the fan, facts-in-evidence be damned, in order for...
  4. InstaFace

    Derrick White, playoff alpha

    My understanding is that Popovich traded Derrick White because he loved the guy and wanted him to play under brighter lights, and SA was probably going to suck the next few years (and has), and he wanted to do right by him. And therefore he accepted deal terms that were just kinda ok. That we...
  5. InstaFace

    2024 Playoffs Eastern Conference First Round: (2) New York Knicks vs (7) Philadelphia 76ers - The Danse Macabre

    And USMNT right-back Sergiño Dest's pregame routine involves eating an entire french baguette. Pro athletes are idiosyncratic weirdos sometimes. Frankly, well-adjusted, even-tempered family-man Jayson Tatum is the weirdo for not being a weirdo.
  6. InstaFace

    2024 Playoffs Eastern Conference First Round: (3) Milwaukee Bucks vs (6) Indiana Pacers

    I'll stick up for you in one respect: there are ways in which the NBA does suggest that in person fans' experiences are not a priority for them and they're kinda an afterthought, and moreso than peer leagues. Game times shifted last minute for TV benefit but screwing around 20k fans' schedules...
  7. InstaFace

    2024 Playoffs Eastern Conference First Round: (2) New York Knicks vs (7) Philadelphia 76ers - The Danse Macabre

    Eh, Omar can afford it.
  8. InstaFace

    2024 Playoffs Eastern Conference First Round: (3) Milwaukee Bucks vs (6) Indiana Pacers

    Assaulting fans is usually the last skill to deteriorate.
  9. InstaFace

    2024 Playoffs Eastern Conference First Round: (2) New York Knicks vs (7) Philadelphia 76ers - The Danse Macabre

    damn. There's oldschool, and then there's Bill Belichick-level, "I've seen literally everything" oldschool.
  10. InstaFace

    2024 Playoffs Eastern Conference First Round: (2) New York Knicks vs (7) Philadelphia 76ers - The Danse Macabre

    It got them an Embiid / Ben Simmons / Jimmy Butler core. They just pissed it away, first to not keep Jimmy, second to get Harden, third to send him back out again. Gotta judge The Process by 5 years ago, not its shattered remains today. If Simmons wasn't a flake or they made less stupid...
  11. InstaFace

    (2) New York Knicks vs (6) Indiana Pacers - 2024 EC Second Round

    A real contrast in styles. Series Preview by SN here. NY Post has a saucier one up here, looking back at the Reggie Miller - John Starks days. Indy Star covers the same thing from their angle (N.B. it's not by Gregg Doyel). Schedule known so far: Date Game Time (ET) TV channel Game...
  12. InstaFace

    2024 Playoffs Eastern Conference First Round: (3) Milwaukee Bucks vs (6) Indiana Pacers

    In fairness, we have no idea if they're enough. Still-Effective Middleton, Portis, Beasley, Lopez et al could definitely be a sufficient supporting cast to make a big run, if Giannis and Dame were both 100%. They could quite reasonably run it back with only minor tweaks. But if they start...
  13. InstaFace

    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    If you know anything about cap, wise guy, you'd know that cap holds aren't a thing, there definitely aren't complicated rules about how to figure the cap holds for different kinds of free agents, there's no renouncing of free agents, and there's no Gilbert Arenas provision. Duh. Draymond seems...
  14. InstaFace

    Celtics vs Da Culture - Round 1 (FIGHT!)

    In their four losses, the Heat averaged 87.5 points per game (94, 84, 88, 84). Even including their win (111 points), they averaged 92.2 points for the series. The 30th-ranked (bottom) offense of the season, Memphis, scored 105.8 points per game this season. The last time a team finished...
  15. InstaFace

    Derrick White, playoff alpha

    Well, the Nomar Trade had a more immediate payoff, but I do sorta see the parallels. Nomar was a bigger star for the Sox than Smart had ever been for the Celtics though.
  16. InstaFace

    Celtics vs Da Culture - Round 1 (FIGHT!)

    Yeah but it deprives us of a Moses Malone "Fo Fo Fo Fo" bid. :) There's always next year!
  17. InstaFace

    Derrick White, playoff alpha

    And he was a beloved local legend, too. Even Bill Belichick waited a year or two before benching and trading Bernie Kosar. I'm coming around to the position that the Smart dilemma was solved the only way it could be, or at the only level that it could be. Although it's also true that White did...
  18. InstaFace

    Celtics vs Da Culture - Round 1 (FIGHT!)

    Killed 'em in the first quarter, and then spent the next 36 minutes dragging the corpse up and down the Garden to raucous cheers. I hope Bam can either find his mojo by late July, or give his roster spot to someone who can.
  19. InstaFace

    Derrick White, playoff alpha

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  20. InstaFace

    (2) Denver Nuggets vs (3) Minnesota Timberwolves - 2024 WC Second Round

    MIN +180 strikes me as good value. I'm not saying they should be favored, but I don't think they're twice as likely to lose as they are to win, I think it's maybe 55-45 DEN.
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