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2020/21 NBA season + Olympics

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    #572
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Carcharodon wrote: »
    Yea, I think we both discussed him a while back, it’s scary how bad he is, even towards the end of his career he was a bit of a clown on the court (or sideline)

    Why employ him though as a network?

    Tim Legler, who is an excellent pundit and analyst is very under-used, and this eejit is given a shocking amount of air time. I don’t get it at all.

    Part of me wonders is there a degree of tokenism at play here.


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    #573
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Lillard again last night turning it on in the 4th on his way to 50, from 17 down with 6 to play. Shocking collapse by New Orleans all the same though.

    Great interview with Lillard post-game about hard work and staying humble. Guy is a class act.


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    #574
    Gregk961
    Registered Users Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Gregk961


    Speaking of bad NBA analysts, I'm getting so much pleasure seeing Shaq get bullied by Candace and D.Wade on TNT lately. The man is so out of touch it's amazing. Some of the things he has said this season have been Skip Bayless-level stupid.


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    #575
    eagle eye
    Registered Users Posts: 37,656 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    Gregk961 wrote:
    Speaking of bad NBA analysts, I'm getting so much pleasure seeing Shaq get bullied by Candace and D.Wade on TNT lately. The man is so out of touch it's amazing. Some of the things he has said this season have been Skip Bayless-level stupid.
    Nothing stupid about Skip Bayless, he knows exactly what he's doing.
    The guy went from ESPN page 2, a comedy reporting gig, to his own show by being controversial and annoying people. Everything Bayless does is calculated and planned.


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    #576
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Myers Leonard traded and waived. Paying a huge price for a comment.


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    #577
    Gregk961
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    eagle eye wrote: »
    Nothing stupid about Skip Bayless, he knows exactly what he's doing.
    The guy went from ESPN page 2, a comedy reporting gig, to his own show by being controversial and annoying people. Everything Bayless does is calculated and planned.

    Well most of what he says is brain dead chatter and he knows little about the sports he talks about. That was my comparison to Shaq, not his intelligence.


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    #578
    Sweet.Science
    Registered Users Posts: 2,837 ✭✭✭Sweet.Science


    Just watched the last dance again

    Nothing will come close to 90s basketball


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    #579
    eagle eye
    Registered Users Posts: 37,656 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    Gregk961 wrote:
    Well most of what he says is brain dead chatter and he knows little about the sports he talks about. That was my comparison to Shaq, not his intelligence.
    He knows a lot but he knows how to earn cash too and it's why he does what he does. He just signed a new four year $32 million contract with Fox.


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    #580
    Gregk961
    Registered Users Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Gregk961


    eagle eye wrote: »
    He knows a lot but he knows how to earn cash too and it's why he does what he does. He just signed a new four year $32 million contract with Fox.

    So just to clarify; he is, in your opinion, knowledgeable but makes nonsensical statements to make money?

    I would say he has got rich in spite of his lack of knowledge based on anything I've ever heard from him.


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    #581
    eagle eye
    Registered Users Posts: 37,656 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    Gregk961 wrote:
    So just to clarify; he is, in your opinion, knowledgeable but makes nonsensical statements to make money?
    I would say he has got rich in spite of his lack of knowledge based on anything I've ever heard from him.
    If you can find some of his articles before he became a TV personality it would shine some light on things for you.
    Have you ever even heard of ESPN page 2? I don't think it's still going. He started out with the Miami Herald.


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    #582
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    I’d rather listen to Skip Bayless knowing he’s trolling than a lot of the other US talking heads tbh. Nick Wright and Perkins being 2 examples.


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    #583
    chopperbyrne
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    Gregk961 wrote: »
    So just to clarify; he is, in your opinion, knowledgeable but makes nonsensical statements to make money?

    This is exactly what he does.

    He's like Eamon Dunphy.

    Controversy creates cash.


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    #584
    ButtersSuki
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    Discussion on the Woj pod this morning discussed Lillard’s clutch shooting splits this year - 60/53/100.

    Wow.


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    #585
    Corvo
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    Just watched Nets have possibly their worst ever shooting night and Magic have their best ever. Aaron Gordon playing out of his skin.


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    #586
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    The amount of games we (Bulls) have thrown away this season is sickening.


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    #587
    Top Dog
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    LeBron out for potentially 6 weeks to 3 months with ankle injury :eek: That's beyond the end of the regular season. With himself and Davis out you gotta wonder how the team will cope

    https://www.nba.com/news/lebron-james-leaves-lakers-game-with-right-ankle-injury-will-not-return


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    #588
    pjohnson
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    This Rockets must be one of the worst NBA teams ever. I know over an entire season its the 2012 Bobcats but they managed to sprinkle their victories around a bit. A 19 game loosing streak is chronic and nothing suggests its likely to change.


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    #589
    killwill
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    Top Dog wrote: »
    LeBron out for potentially 6 weeks to 3 months with ankle injury :eek: That's beyond the end of the regular season. With himself and Davis out you gotta wonder how the team will cope

    https://www.nba.com/news/lebron-james-leaves-lakers-game-with-right-ankle-injury-will-not-return

    The fact he was able to stay on the court, make a 3 to keep his double digit streak going, suggests it might not be as bad as it is being made out to be.

    The team will struggle without both players but it is not as if they will struggle so much as to miss the playoffs or anything. I'm just hoping that they recruit well over the next few days!!!


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    #590
    pjohnson
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    Apparently Drummond made some comment about New York being a nice place fueling speculation he will join the Nets when he is bought out.


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    #591
    LuckyLloyd
    Registered Users Posts: 36,161 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    killwill wrote: »
    The fact he was able to stay on the court, make a 3 to keep his double digit streak going, suggests it might not be as bad as it is being made out to be.

    The team will struggle without both players but it is not as if they will struggle so much as to miss the playoffs or anything. I'm just hoping that they recruit well over the next few days!!!

    Well it's a high ankle sprain. My experience of following high ankle sprains is getting back onto the field or the court is only part of the battle. This should impact his effectiveness the rest of the way.

    The Lakers may miss the playoffs sans Davis and LeBron. They are going to start losing a lot of games without them and that cushion will come under pressure quick if they lose five in a row.


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    #592
    eagle eye
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    They've a lot of tough games in the next two weeks too. Suns, Sixers, Bucks and Clippers.
    They also play the Pelicans, Cavs, Magic and Kings.
    That's eight games in 14 days.


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    #593
    LuckyLloyd
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    What would they be across a 72 game season without LeBron and Davis like? Would they even win 20 games?


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    #594
    Top Dog
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    pjohnson wrote: »
    Apparently Drummond made some comment about New York being a nice place fueling speculation he will join the Nets when he is bought out.
    As a casual fan the thoughts of a team made up of Drummond, Griffin, Durant, Irving and Harden really doesn't appeal to me. The annihilation of poorer teams would not be enjoyable viewing :(


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    #595
    Carcharodon
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    Jesus, Lebrons theatrics to the ankle sprain were a bit ott to say the least, you swear he got shot.
    I’ve done my ankle, tore calf muscle and I am pretty sure I didn’t make that much of a meal out of it and Iam a skinny white dude not a freak athlete like LeBron


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    #596
    ButtersSuki
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    Carcharodon wrote: »
    Jesus, Lebrons theatrics to the ankle sprain were a bit ott to say the least, you swear he got shot.
    I’ve done my ankle, tore calf muscle and I am pretty sure I didn’t make that much of a meal out of it and Iam a skinny white dude not a freak athlete like LeBron

    Not exactly new behaviour from LeBron!


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    #597
    ButtersSuki
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    I said it a few weeks ago that it was madness that he was playing the minutes he was playing this season from a load management perspective and for how much he was increasing the risk of injury. And also that he had to endorse it as part of his MVP campaigning. And here we are. I take no pleasure in seeing anyone getting injured, but he played a role in this.


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    #598
    pjohnson
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    LaMelo has his season ended by injury :(


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    #599
    Top Dog
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    Blake can still dunk! :eek::pac:


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    #600
    Top Dog
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    pjohnson wrote: »
    LaMelo has his season ended by injury :(
    Was gutted to see that new this morning. He was fun to watch.


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    #601
    Corvo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,655 ✭✭✭Corvo


    Wonder with Ant Man get ROTY then? Or Haliburton


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