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Is this the thread
>>154022265nah we're on >>154022242
Why have the Indiana Pacers decided to play serious basketball all of a sudden lately?
Which BAWB gets the n-word pass this season
rapshits playing today
oh fuck forgot to put walnut pieces in the brownies
>Bananabread should get MVP because he was born a lanky freak who can easily block a ballThe absolute state of the voters
>>154022222
Legit this Pacers match might make me switch to being a fan, they just play such a reliable brand of team ball movement basketball.No idea how their record was so bad, I get injuries, but what about when they had all their players minus Hali? Whats the win percentage then?
>>154022350My Celties might bootyblast you shitters next month.
Hawks gonna crush the Smelltics today
8ft tall gobert with a jumper isn't moving me
Nuggies gonna fall to JazzGODS today
>>154022398The Pacers are bad and their brand of basketball is bad.
My Celties are trying to get a Zenkai boost btw.
>>154022431If finnish mpj is playing, maybe
y'all going to the theaters to watch GOAT?
>>154022440why do you think so?
DENI IS GOING TO GET ANOTHER TRIPLE DUB AGAINST THE DALLAS GOYIMS TONIGHTDANNY WOLF WILL RUN WILD ON JAXON GAYES AND BEN SARAF WILL SHUT DOWN AND CIRCUMCISE LUKA JEWISH JEWISH JEWISH JEWISH B A S K E T B A L L
>>154022222i watch a lot of hornets game and they often cut to kemba walker and talk about kemba walker because he's actually a bobcats/hornets legend, but i thought he was just like a fan but he's actually a player enhancement coach, he must be pretty good because he sure is enhancing a lot of hornets players
>>154022486Hope he tears every ligament in both legs and arms.
See this Pacers game is what happens when a tanking team plays competitively. Retards think the problem is whether a team is "bad" or good. Its about whether the match is interesting and competetive, they can lose all they want, I better be leaving with a good ass fucking match where two styles of good basketball clash and reveal eachothers strengths and weaknesses
>>154022497some of you american niggas so weird, i only see you american weirdos hoping for shit like this
>Pozzednada
My blazies are finna take over the league in a few years
Kuminga is a funny name.
>>154022529Americucks are unwell
>>154022489Yeah, he's arguable the no.1 bobcats/hornets legend
you know i dont think the celtics ever got put in a hole like this when tatum was out
Risacher is such a bad player.
>>154022339For me it's CG, he ballin this year
What's with all the focus on tanking lately? Most lottery team aren't even actively tanking in the sense that they're taking healthy players out of rotation for no reason, they're just fucking terrible, like the Pelicans don't even have a 1st rounder this year
No Joke. No Lie. No Fraudulence.Darius Garland is the best player on the Los Angeles Clippers.
>Hawks giving Celtics a belt to ass>Me starts watching>Celtics immediately goes on a 10-0 run
OOOOOOO PEEPEE BEATS THE BUZZER
Big PP
Tatum is finished, isn't he
Oooo peepee for three~~~
WembVP
Tatum right now reminds me of when klay first came back from his achilles injury, just constantly forcing things
Ooooo nice block by Jalen
Peepee at halftime>14 mins>19 pts>8-11 fg>3-3 3pt>2 rebs>3 asts>+12
>>154023141That's a big PP.
>>154023165Hell yeah!
bulls destroying okc
If the Rockets lose to the Grizzlies, Ime has to get fired tonight.
Bam -31, Herro (4pts) -29. Heat down by 35 Pat will continue with this pitiful core thinking making moves on the margins will vault them back into contention
>>154023257they gon git yannis
>>154023257pat and spoelstra develops the role players so the free agent super star comes to a ready made team
>gayson gaytum 4 for 15
Not looking good for boston...Cousin brother is too good to be contained
Celtics letting their White players take over cause the babbs can't hoop
Death, taxes, peepee deep three
Shai doing his best Luka impression right now. shooting 7 threes in the first half and missing all of them
>the short white guy is cucking AtlantaIronic
Derrick White...
>>154022222Thank you MalaysiaChad for making the thread. Petefag/mealfag are on their last day of the ban
Ooo nice save
>>154023498I didn't even know they were banned lol. No wonder there's no b2b pete threads recently
O Kwab City losing to da bulce
>>154023561Yeah petefag is mealfag if you hadn't noticed. I'll continue to report his ass every chance I get. Hundreds tried to take him down but I'll take my victory lap now
they dead shut MPJ down for the last 1/4 of the season. How's that allowed?
I think women.....are......the backbone....of the world......
>>154023624what adam gon do
Payton Pritchard definitely has some Chinese blood.
>>154023563>HalftimeNigga nothing matters until the last 5 minutes when the shenanigans start in a NBA game
>>154023624Silver made the call. If MPJ continues to shine it'll prove Chokic holds his teammates back and isn't worthy of MVP
>>154023616>petefag is mealfagHow did you know? Genuinely curious
>>154023657when they banned mealfag coincidentally all the pete threads stopped
OOOO LUKA..garza
>>154023761Cant be, mealanon is a zoomie, he dont know Pete enough to ritual post him
>>154023783it's not a coincidence the guy who posts pete 24/7 just suddenly disappeared the same time mealfag got banned. we'll find out tomorrow when petefag returns and starts posting pete threads again
>>154023761I knew petefag samefags here because he got banned during the noise war, just never thought it'd be mealanon. Hmmm i'll need to keep an eye on him now
Close your eyes and imagine "Tatum"
>>154023825It makes sense. That guy lives here like a no life. He definitely samefags all the time if you shit talk petefag trying to act like people like petefag but we all know it's just him
I guess Steve Kerr was right about Kuminga
why does shai have a luka statline ?
it keeps dropping its tanking HARD this game
Why is the celtics cameraman so obsessed with that down syndrome dude?
>>154023638
kawhi with the game winner over the mighty pacers
Gay-sirs cLippers down to the wire
>>154023924If this gets bettable I might just have to put thousands on this homo winning it
Kawaii is a fun guy
What do confident star players like Trae young think when their team immediately does much better after trading him?
nembiiiiich
Boston Celtics celebrating the heroes among us tonight
>mathurin>2 FG>17 pointsabsolutely vile
>>154024048explain yourselves, celcucks
>>154024048you don't hate Boston enough
>>154024048Leftists and libtards are less gay than the people running the NBA in 2026
>see shais numbers >ask myself tf is going on>see 3pa>ohThe league still hasnt realized that Shais weakness is VOLUME 3 point shooting, not sheer 3 point shooting.His worst shooting splits in the finals was when he took like 12 3 point shots
Jokic is kicking ass again, gonna be another triple dub tonight
>>154024108>0 for 10
The Celtics improve to 10-1 when Jaylen Brown doesn't play.
>>154024108>The league still hasnt realized that Shais weakness is VOLUME 3 point shooting, not sheer 3 point shooting.Same thing you spastic retard jeet. If you can't shoot at a high volume you aren't a good shooter, just like you aren't a star if you can't on more offensive load. FTA only shoots open, when he is 100% sure he can pad his yummy stats. It's also what Luke Kennard does. Congratulations for not knowing ball once again Rajesh
the hawks can't beat good teams...
>>154024048Its pride night at The Garden
McCollum is a terrible union president, and an even more terrible player
How the hell Patrick Williams get drafted 4thA 6"6 tweener forward is already a red flag
Pritch destroyed ATL tonight
That casual block by Queta is so funny kek
>>154024048Lakerschads we just keep winning
>>154024148Yeah, the guy with the most unassisted FGA shoots like Luke Kennard. This is why nobody here cares about your dipshit opinions lolcow.
Is this the first time in at least 30 years or more that the top 8 eastern seeded teams all have above .500 record? :)
>>154024260The east is so back
JEWISH BASKETBALL IS ABOUT TO BEGIN
>>154022222Wilt.Bam.Kobe.
>>154024275We used to be so poverty like the 7 and 8 seed teams would have records of 33-49 making the playoffs :)
1st option Peepee beat his Johnson today
>>154024290>Wilt.>Bam.>Kobe.>Luka.amazing how three of the top four players of all time were all lakers
TateGOD thread btwPP thread btwCeltGODs thread btw
>>154024353Says the guy that said SGA plays like Luke Kennard lmfao. Lay off the fent already mayoskin.
>>154024416I said FTA doesn't shoot unless he's wide open like Luke Kennard, that's all. Go back to those ESL classes you curry munching incel jeet, you don't understand the words you're reading
the SGJeet and BAWBaussie should have a 1v1 first to 20 on the court to settle their differences
>>154024453So you're just wrong and doubling down on it, like the braindamaged inbred you are. Look at you crashing out like this lmao, yt fragility is so funny to watch when it's coming from losers like you.
Jokic gonna put up a 100/100/100 triple dub
>>154024396>we did it!
>>154024509your boy got 25 on 9-12 FT vs the bullce rn
I'm glad Josh diddy decide to go 0/8 from 3 the same game Shai went 0/10.
>>154024558Say this again without crying, the make-up is running off of your disgusting mayolooking face.
league just aint the same when wembgod not playing
The brown warriors jerseys are just awful
>>154024563He had your average Luka game, it happens. He'll get ragged for it since his baseline is just so much higher, but hopefully it motivates him for the games against the actual good teams coming up.
>tingus 8 pointshe's goin for the hundy
>>154024584kek
>>154024507Nba 2k the park
Is the overlay on the warriors games where there's a circle under a player's feet and they show the name just an ESPN thing? Why do I need to be reminded of who has the ball?
How tf are the Nuggets losing to Ace Bailey and friends?
ŞengodŞengodŞengodŞengod
This is now a Tiger Woods thread
>>154024842he cant hoop
>>154024780they're getting whatever they want at the rim
Shows you just how meaningless that "20 point record" is. It's not even a 20 point record because he missed it in the playoffs kek
bub carrington can't win with these cats
>>154024780We might genuinely need to talk about something being wrong with the impact metrics if they lose this game. Jesus, what is happening? Was MPJ that important despite his inefficiencies? It doesnt make sense going to the wire with these shit tanking teams. If it was once thats one thing, if it was twice that one thing, if it was even 3 times that another thing. But this has been like 5 games where they have either almost lost to a shit team, or straight up lost a shit team since Jokics return.I feel bad because people are getting off some nasty narratives and I dont agree that Jokic should be out of the MVP race because of this. But something is up.
>>154024957fuck you just reminded me that I said I was going to start keeping an eye on bub
>>154025027"fuck" no one really cares jeety lmao
Chokic getting cooked by Cody Williams, no wonder BAWBssie is PMSing
lakers are MUST WATCH tv right now
>>154025041whys this guy so mean to me? i dindu nun
>>154024780No Offdays In The NBAThere has never been a deeper, more talented league in basketball history
does MPJ even travel with the team if they're just going to rule him out?
Defence so ass, a guy with 10 days contract can just do this.
>>154025016it's not hard to understand. They don't play any fucking defense. It's why they won't win shit. Malone rode their asses to get them to play serviceable d and those habits mostly carried over through last postseason. This year they have none of that and are really lazy all around on that side even on the glass. They're also playing their zone a lot more instead of just using it as a change up so teams adjust easier
George Gervin is a cuck
>>154024953The LeBron one is even worse since they ignore the 8 point game he had in the finals
the difference between a blocking foul and a charge seems to be completely arbitrary on the night
>>154025458Are you questioning the integrity of the official?
If you're only watching Denver, you'd think tanking teams don't exist in this leagueThey always play close games
>Chokbrick
>>154025522Jeets truly have no shame typing like this after FTA's calendar date
Scam Johnson apology form:
>>154025534>NOOO YOU CAN'T MAKE FUN OF A STATPADDER MISSING 2 FREE THROWS THINK ABOUT THIS OTHER PLAYERYou're obsessed and emotional, don't reply to me anymore.
>screening two peopleKek
>he didnt go all in on nuggets win down 11 with 6 mins to go
>>154025555>don't reply to me anymore.Lil jeet is getting emotional like a woman kek, calm down indian sperg
Murray bailing out chokic once again
>>154025555>STATPADDERshai be shooting 7/23 to get his 20
Legendary tanking from the Jazz, give them the first pick
Luka so tuff...
FTA when xhe has to shoot more than two 3's per game
>>154025584I didn't know playing only 3 quarters and shooting 23 times was statpadding (he ended the game with 25 btw). You don't need to defend your fellow BAWB you oceanic mayomonkey.
Danny Ainge tanking hard this season because he already knew Adam Silver will enact lottery reform next seasonHe's really playing 5D Chess
LeBum with a generational grenade
>>154025630Why are you randomly bringing up Luka? Go get my Tim Horton's order before it gets cold.
If we're being honest, Wemby deserves MVP more than SGA.
>>154025696He deserves 2nd, right behind LuGOD
>>154025704Many real ball knowers are saying this
>>154025689Because you'll only call it statpadding when it's a player you don't like, while ignoring the guy that will regularly chuck 30 shots a game to get back to 50%. And you can't afford Tim Hortons so sybau you stupid kiwi fuck.>>154025704>lukalmao no
Why is the jeet so angry today kek
>>154025726I've never pretended Luka isn't a chucker ball black hole>And you can't afford Tim Hortonsbroke nigga revealing himself
Leafjeet acting tuff, forgeting he don't got his friend Takeshi to back xim up. Nigga finna get slimed out if he runs his mouth at this rate.
Wait did leafjeet just flex being able to afford Tim Hortons >>154025752Takeshi is having a bad time with Rui's slump...
The fuck are these busted ahh hoes? I want the real Laker girls.
>>154025766I hear Takeshi got his girl stolen by a Korean. Grim...
the nba stream with no commericals and court cam is goat shit
Max Christie is actually one of the worst players I've ever seen why did nico ask for him specifically
>>154025872He looks like Kobe if you squint doe
MPJ as Luka's third option would go kinda hard
LuDEFENSE
This is just a clax tryout game, come home
how tf did it take almost 2 seasons for bronny to get an assist from bron
bronny getting playing time while knecht is perma benchedsad times
>>154026029Daltroon is broken unfortunately
>>154026051what's the term buckbroken for whitebois
Reaves low key washed...
>trailing a tanking teamthe nets will throw but the lakers have spiritually lost
Boring ahh game, one of the funnest things this season has been making fun of KDF. Team killing bum got carried by Steph and then got forced to fuck Ayesha
>>154026158redditors HATED that vid. they don't know ball.
>>154026066That nigga was never good.
leaky black sold
>>154026170I just wanna know why the guy hated Amen in particular kek
>3 of the top 10 in the league at drawing foulslakers whistle
How are you letting this Nets team keep up? Fucking embarrassing. This is why they're a second round sweep.
LuTacticalTech
>lakeshits neck and neck with brooklyn with no MPJLOL
>it took le heckin 2nd in assists all time 1.5 years to pass the ball to his son for a scorethat yall goat?
nets got a dude who's 4-14 but with only 4 3PM and ZERO Free throws LOL
>WE 73-25 NOW BANG BANG LAKER GANG conspicuously missing
>>154026302*3PA
TAILBONE STATUS
how much is klutch payin this guy
>losing to Ben Saraf
BRON GET UPGET UP BRONWE NEED YOU BRON
DONT TOUCH MY KING
>LeDead
>>154026377LeBronto really mind raped the jeets kwab
lakers about to get first round swept
>>154023886That honeymoon phase died so fucking fast. Warrior fans knew who he was from the start.
>>154026403Embarrassing. Ever FTA isn't this bad.
>>154026403lebron is injured doe
>>154026403elite play by my lakies
LakeGODS
Another classic dominating performance, and our star didn't go 0/10 from 3 with a superteam. I'm getting chills from the levels displayed
>>154026403You need to foul bait against the nets? Lol
>>154026445Nobody statpads better against tanking teams than Puka Dogshit. Still won't be enough to win MVP when Shai owns him h2h like he always does.
>>154026449Are you not watching the game retard? Nets just hacking at everything
Congrats on needing refball to win a team that's won 17 games all year
>kick balllmfao the refs aren't even trying to hide it
You can tell the jeet thinks it will get a serious response kwab
>>154026490What race is that?
When you realize half of Jokic's assists are falsely attributed, he's clearly not top 30 all time.
>>154026511>Friday night spending it trolling people on an obscure Mongolian basketweaving forumsad
The lakers should tank to avoid the spurs.
>>154026517Thanks for admitting Brown and Tatum are better than him too.
>>154026540We have no problem going toe to toe with the real MVP runner up after Luka, it will be a good series. At least they don't rely on a superteam
>>154026543FTA ain't even the best player on his own team
why are Lakers starters still in up 10 against the Nets bench lmao?
>>154026569Have you seen our bench?
Someone check on puka, he hurt his vagina
>>154026569I swear to god NBA fans are the dumbest motherfuckers
>>154026581Midnight on a Friday, this is why your insect ancestors had to do arranged marriages
I'm just here to watch the game and chat with other fans. Why are there incel trolls here preserving their V cards?
>>154026604Based hooper.
>>154026591Deep breaths lil bawb, it's only 10 PM on the west coast
>>154026525Not as sad as the Lakers win
>>154026609How is your Friday night going jeety? Talking to any girls? Probably not KWAB
>>154026578It's the fucking Nets, their entire team is as good as your bench
>>154026610>YOU LOST EVEN THOUGH YOU WON BY 17
Kuminga is not a good basketball player. Pure athleticism will not get you very far if you're just not good at the game. There's a reason why he got inconsistent minutes on the Warriors. There's a reason why he's getting even less on the Hawks. His agent is a faggot and the Warriors FO dodged a bullet in giving him a large contract.
kek
FISH
>>154026632this bawbs gonna need some amberlamps
>>154026632kwab
>nba refswhat a joke lmao
>>154026622That's what Lakers fans see in the mirror. Except a darker skin pigment
Efficient Luka 40 ball, AR having a great second half and some solid defence from both.
>>154026679>Friday night trying to troll people on the internet and preserving his virginity because his favorite billion dollar sports entertainment company isn't as good as the Los Angeles based billion dollar sports entertainment companySad existence
>>154026679>Proud to be cucked by women and jewsKek
>>154026727But enough about living in California
Man I have this weird feeling lakers are going to win it all
>>154026740...in your 2k association.
>>154026740
>>154026739
>>154026770Not really rocking with this bald coon after he started hating on LuGod and Austhim, going to need some glaze before Club 77 forgets.
>>154026066>>154026201Niggas were acting like he was better than Garland just because of some offensive load dominating
>>154026827Reaves is like Deni, he goes from "All-star" to "G-leaguer" depending on how he's being reffed.
our gutters are clogged
>>154026862Deni was a PRA merchant also getting gassed by retards that dont know ball. You cant get an actual Deni fan to name a single way he actually impacts winning basketball. Theyll just flub around and say "B-B-BUT HIS NUMBERS ON DA BOXSCORE"
>>154027113You think JIDF actually knows anything about NBA?
>>154027113>>154027164yo cool it with the antisemitism
Best player on each team this weekATL : Dyson DanielsBKN : Ziaire WilliamsBOS : Jayson TatumCHA : LaMelo BallCHI : Josh GiddeyCLE : James HardenDAL : Cooper FlaggDEN : Nikola JokicDET : Jalen DurenGSW : Brandin PodziemskiHOU : Alperen SengunIND : Andrew NembhardLAC : Kawhi LeonardLAL : Luka DoncicMEM : Olivier-Maxence ProsperMIA : Bam AdebayoMIL : Ryan RollinsMIN : Rudy GobertNOP : Zion WilliamsonNYK : Karl-Anthony TownsOKC : Shai Gilgeous-AlexanderORL : Paolo BancheroPHI : VJ EdgecombePHX : Devin BookerPOR : Donovan ClinganSAC : Maxime RaynaudSAS : Victor WembanyamaTOR : Scottie BarnesUTA : Ace BaileyWAS : Bilal Coulibaly
I'm gonna need Chokic to go crazy and knock Wembust down a peg, but that's looking unlikely when they're barely beating a tanking Jazz team. MurGOD will have to carry.
>>154027220Filipowski was going to drop a career high on Chokic if Ainge didn't make the call to bench him for the whole 4th. It's gonna be BBQ chicken for Wemby when he plays the nuggies
you havent forgot about him, have you? hes one of us
>>154027426i feel like i'm tanking IRLno more trusting the process for me
Volumes
I wonder what year was the turning point in which zoomers were the majority of players in the league. Has to have somewhere between 2022-2024 right? Interesting stat that I feel like nobody has bothered to track. I wonder if we'll get Gen Alpha and Millennial players playing with each other in a couple years.
>>154027794I mean to most of us millennial really means born in the 80s. 90s babies are kinda their own thing
>>154027794it was 2020, 2019 really but 2020 would have be the "passing of the torch" since KD left the warriors, the Cavs were broken up, Kawhi left the raptors and it inevitably would have been a showdown had it not been for covid
I don't know how much longer my body can take my alcoholism
>>154027301>It's gonna be BBQ chicken for Wemby when he plays the nuggies
>>154028060you work like a dog so you can pay (((corporations))) the right to poison yourself and get cancer??? make that make sense
>>154027906There's still a decent amount of 80s babies in the league that will be around until at least 2030 because of how advanced sports medicine is now. The first Gen Alpha kids are gonna be in the league in only a couple years.
Are they going to call the next one gen beta kek
Why is Michael Porter Jr there? He's never there. He must be a laker next season
Joker
>jokic statpadding triple doubles against lottery teams
>>154028191It's already overhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Beta
>>154028344KWAB
whats wrong with this guys head?^what does that have to do with basketball
>>154028477
>>154028477Straya's gone woke I'm afraid
https://x.com/ohnohedidnt24/status/2037614954958983208jeremy lin saving the NBA once againGOAT
>>154028477>There were 105,237 people experiencing homelessness in Australia on census night in 2011. This equated to 1 in 200 Australians,
>>154028757>Jeremy Lin glazing his replacement on ESPNKobr rolling in his grave
>>154028336He wasn't statpadding, he and Murray played 39 mins each. They were fighting for their life against a jazz team that was afraid of accidentally getting a win
Kobe would be so proud
I have the most random ass question about the old NBA Live games and maybe someone here can help. I know from around 2000-2003 there's an option to face up/box out where you hold down the L1 or L2 button, but I can't figure out how it works. It seems like my player just gets in a defensive stance but doesn't lock on to who he's guarding. How are you supposed to use that? I know this is random as hell but I didn't know where else to ask lol
>The NBA fined Timberwolves big man Naz Reid $50,000 “for questioning the integrity of game officials” in Minnesota’s 110-108 victory over the Houston Rockets 110-108 on Wednesday.
Tanking fixes ideas I like.Extending the lottery to everyone outside the Conference Semifinalists and flattening the odds. Helping the teams that are stuck in mediocrity will discourage tanking. No-one is going to lose a playoff series to tank. Much prefer this to the 18 team idea.Setting a loss ‘floor’ at like 25 or 30. Then it doesn’t become a suck-a-thon because there’s no incentive to lose after that point.Unsure - The 2 year average prevents the injury-to-tank thing (Pacers, Sixers last years) but might encourage deeper tanks.Limiting top 3 picks to everyone outside other year. This spins just people getting salty about the Spurs, it’s not a real problem.Pick protection limits. I get it but it’s another limit and restrictions on trades when the CBA rules make them hsrd anyway.Not happening - League will never agree to revenue based on record. Can’t see Silver wanting the league to dole out punishments as thry won’t want to get in the middle.
>>154028211Nets don’t have their pick next season so they need him then more than now
>>154029716Interested in seeing how the Nets suddenly pivot to trying to win.
>>154028768Bodied that lying aussie
When will Spo stop playing Norman Powell and Herro together? It’s clearly not working and having Davion Mitchell in the lineup as well is killing the Heat, Powell can’t be a starting SF on a serious team
I need Wemby's pussy in my bbc
Gui Santos can have my sister and my wife
>>154029916Can I have one of them and he can have the other? I’ll take the sister I don’t want your sloppy seconds >brazilian Ok well I still want your sister anyway
>>154029637Just get rid of the draft. Players can only get to the NBA through their G-League counterparts which is limited to 6 players under the age of 25. Simple as.
>>154029637Draft should be random every year with no set order>but then the bad teams will be bad foreverAs opposed to the vast improvements the Jazz and Wizards have made?
Posting in a narc thread.
>>154029994I like the draft points concept. Basically, if you're confirmed to be out of playoff contention, every win earns you a draft point. And then whoever has the highest points will have the highest lottery odd
:^)
>>154029994How do they choose players? How do you stop everyone good signing for the Lakers?>>154030036Great, OKC gets the #1 pick and win everything for the next decade, everyone will be happy with thatYou guys aren’t helping us foreigners beat the don’t know ball allegations
>>154030190“The team who is worst at the start of the season but best at the end gets the top pick” is such a weird way to do things
>>154030276At least it prevents teams from blatantly tanking and gives the fans something to root for near the end of the season
>>154030268And that’s a good thing, the NBA was more popular when there were dynasties.
>>154030268>How do they choose players?They just sign them to their G-League affilliates>How do you stop everyone good signing for the Lakers?You don't. Limitting the amount of young players they can sign and giving them a big range (u25), will leave lots of room for mistakes. And players will eventually have to choose between G-League affilliates from teams they want to play at, G-League teams that are good at developing, and G-League affilliates from teams that need them in the NBA right now. This is enough of a chaos to prevent domination for the most part. And then again, you can never fully prevent the teams who have the best intangibles from getting the edge over everybody else, it is what it is.
>>154030190Never heard of this, but by that point I would rather make a mini Draft Playoffs
>>154030364I meant how do the G-League affiliates get to choose who to sign? At what age? It sounds like it’s akin to football academies but it doesn’t translate into the US sports context at all.It’s pretty obvious who is likely to be good coming out of college, which is why top picks perform better than 2nd rounder. Just like free agency, a huge amount of top players would just choose LA sand NY. Should Utah, Detroit and Cleveland just accept they will be shit forever?
>>154030462>I meant how do the G-League affiliates get to choose who to sign?Anyone under 25>It sounds like it’s akin to football academies but it doesn’t translate into the US sports context at all.How so? It's more or less how college sports work, and mid colleges are still able to build teams>It’s pretty obvious who is likely to be good coming out of collegeActually no, look at past year drafts and you will see besides a few at the top, you pretty much can't guess who will be in the NBA in 5 years. It's not as obvious as you think>Just like free agency, a huge amount of top players would just choose LA sand NY.Unlike free agency they can only sign a certain amount, so not everybody would be able to go there.>Should Utah, Detroit and Cleveland just accept they will be shit forever?No? Is there only one way of succeeding? Would the San Antonio Spurs, who were able to build multiple rosters with overlooked players be any different in this situation? Literally just get better at scouting and developing talent, or offer something else like I said before, more minutes, a guarantee try at the main team, anything really. There are teams in the NBA right now just comfortable with being shit, because they know they will keep getting a chance at picking a star forever. This unironically hurts the league more than this imbalance you see.Making this change not only would make the G-League more useful and generate more revenue, but it would improve the overall level of the league.
>>154027739Ball and Porter Jr look like clones
>>154030540Again, if it coming out of college then the players would just pick big markets. It’s literally what the draft is designed to prevent. Players like Giannis and Jokic are rare.The Spurs succeeded primarily due to getting David Robinson (#1 pick) then tanking for Tim Duncan (#1 pick) then tanking for Wemby (#1 pick). You couldn’t have chosen a worse example.
>>154030601>Again, if it coming out of college then the players would just pick big markets.Free agency has literally existed for decades and players have not always just picked big markets. Free agents have basically 99.99% of the time gone to the team that paid them the most money. What makes you think rookies would be any different?
>>154030663They have disproportionately despite the salary cap, especially when you include players forcing trades. Are you suggesting getting rid of the rookie scale? That’s a different discussion. Doubt people will enjoy franchises for a half a decade plus because they decided to pay $30m/yr for a rookie Fultz. It’s all pointless discussion anyway because they ain’t getting rid of the draft wholesale just tweaking it.
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Kevin Garnett from 07-09 was the highest peak of any player this century according to pure impact data
>>154029082I played this on pc so I don't know if it's the same. You can't lock on anyone, you literally face up and have to defend / box / position them out manually whilst in that stance Fuck, please take me back to 25 years ago
>>154029082I only had the J Kidd cover one but if my unc memory isn't full Alzheimer's I think it just makes your defender wider when the game is deciding whether the dribbler can keep going forward or runs into the invisible wall of the defender. The system isn't like 2K where the dribbler and defender become dance partners once they're engaged.
