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    2024 Playoffs Western Conference First Round: (4) LA Clippers vs (5) Dallas Mavericks

    Man alive do I agree with that take. As am in L.A. watch a fair amount of Clippers (and Lakers), and I thought Kawhi was as impressive as ever during that Clippers mid-season run. But it was constantly running through my head...don't they need to rest these guys more? I mean, Kawhi calls his own...
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    2024 Playoffs Western Conference First Round: (2) Denver Nuggets vs (7) LA Lakers

    I think it's simpler than that. It's not "bad," AD...it's healthy AD (or not). AD 2 days ago was playing with back spasms, which can't be fun. He says he'll be 100% by game 1, but that won't necessarily the be the case. If he is over the spasms, though, the guy is incredibly consistent and will...
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    Right? A ton of attn on Klay and going 0-10 will do that. But the elephant/albatross in the room is Dray but next to zero commentary on all he did to sink the Warriors for the 2nd consecutive season. Reading all the back and forth I kind of agree with all points of view on Philly/Embiid as...
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    They do play Denver, but do you really think they're a nightmare for Denver? My sense is the Lakers are a good match-up for Denver -- Lakers have no answer for Jokic (not that anyone else does) or Murray (unless Vincent can add something the Lakers haven't had before). I enjoy this site and most...
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    Just a loser attitude all the way down. Not to be some old school hard--ass type, but that just seems like a recipe to instill a losing culture.
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    Yes, but that's what's weird. It's a bad look to try to lose (and not try to win=try to lose., so don't get semantic!). But if there's an obvious advantage I guess okay, but it's really hard to see what the Cavs had to gain. 12 minutes of rest for players who will have 6 days off? I sort of...
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    that's brilliant!
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    So true. I hate to fall into stereotype of big dumb guy, but watching them it's like adult vs child. Parker speaking coherently on a range of basketball topics and Shaq bellowing out (with childlike certainly) lame, basic opinions. There's a real but minimal (5%? 10%?) chance the Clippers can...
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    2023-2024 Women’s College Basketball

    Very obvious. A lot of the commentary/complaining today is along the lines of "they should the players decide it on the floor." Well...that's exactly what happened: it was a dumb, unnecessary basketball move to take out an opponent. It's not "letting the players decide" to let players do...
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    Yeah, Rui was mostly injured, and there were a lot of other injuries to the supporting cast types. Not devastating like losing a superstar would have been so easy to overlook. But not only did it take away key supporting pieces,, but it also seemed to open the door to some questionable decisions...
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    Everybody Hates Draymond

    I have sympathy with Kerr (and Curry, who some try to blame for Dray acting out, although that's just lame) as, hey, his/their job is to win games. That said, while you're right that the culprit here is Green, I think Seth Greenberg is partly right, too. I'm not a Warriors fan, but I'm 100% a...
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    Everybody Hates Draymond

    Hah, good point...the GS announcers really do rival even ol' Tommy in their unabashed homerism. Kind of funny that both Kerr after the game and Green today were very open about it being a deserved ejection, but you still have Warriors fans all over the net talking about how Dray is unfairly...
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    2023-2024 General NBA Season Thread

    The Clippers are the weirdest team. After they acquired Harden I really thought they wouldn't work as a team. Too much repetitive skill at the guards/wings lack of a power forward with only Zubac giving them any beef down low. I saw a few games in that initial stretch and didn't think it was a...
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    Non-Patriots Free Agency News 2024

    thx, radsoxfan -- super informative.
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    Non-Patriots Free Agency News 2024

    This crosses into draft thread/s, but I wonder if you have any thoughts on Penix. My amateur opinion is that he'll be a steal in the 2nd round for someone, but one of the negative checks is that he's a (re)-injury waiting to happen. Per your "for awhile at least" aside in this post, is it...
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