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JoJo looks monstrous. People don't realize that last season's Embiid, who was capable of utter domination, was Embiid without an off season, and with a shot that had regressed. By the playoffs, you had a much less dominant center piece who couldn't see the hoop when shooting.
This Embiid is going to be fun (with the obvious qualification). |
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Donovan to Rudy!
https://streamable.com/zcj5l They're not Showtime but they're going to be fun to watch! https://streamable.com/2uwrq |
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http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/2...hasing-big-men
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Bud is legit. He'll get them playing his system the right way. Lots of space, lots of off-ball movement, surround G with shooters and let the Freak go to work.
Defense will be better than whatever hyper trapping nonsense Kidd ran. |
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Definitely. It's an exciting time in the NBA.
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Man, Milwaukee has so much to gain just by instituting a normal defense. You could see a little of that last year after Kidd got canned, just a return to replacement-level coaching, but it should be even better with Bud.
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That magical 60-win Hawks team of 2015 was defense first, with arms everywhere and playing all the angles and trapping at the right times and causing ridiculous amounts of turnovers. The passing and sharing and 3s and all that was the result, though most folks focused on that as the shiny bauble. He's a D-first guy. If you don't play D and do it well, you're going to sit. Bucks could be sneaky good this year in the East. |
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Alright - opening night is just a week away. We know who is ready to go and who is not (Goddammit, Dejounte Murray!) Give me your 8 playoff teams in each conference.
I'll go: 1) W's 2) Jazz 3) Rockets 4) Thunder 5) Lakers 6) Pelicans 7) Blazers 8) Spurs and 1) Sixers 2) Celtics 3) Raps 4) Bucks 5) Pacers 6) Wiz 7) Heat 8) |
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if anyone's following, this jimmy butler at practice today drama is fantastic.
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1) W's
2) Lakers 3) Jazz 4) Rockets 5) Pelicans 6) Nuggets 7) Thunder 8) Blazers and 1) Celtics 2) Raptors 3) Sixers 4) Pacers 5) Bucks 6) Wiz 7) Chicago 8) Knicks Butler is really irritating...if you want to pull the Kobe routine, you have to be Kobe...and he didn't do that after missing games after first round losses. And Kobe was STILL a gigantic asshole. |
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oh man. thanks for the heads up.
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You really believe in Bron, huh? I do too, just think it will take them 30 something games to figure out what they are. Can't believe I left the Nuggets out of my West list. Especially since I, ya know, live here. I'm retroactively putting them at 6 and moving everyone else down a slot. Kobe was going for the trial-by-fire angle when he got up on Smush and Kwame. I don't know what Butler's angle is here. The Wolves are committed to KAT and Wiggins by contracts/age. Jimmy is their best player, but he's got to be moved. The chances that Wolves find a deal they can stomach for a player that good are continually eroded as he undermines their leverage at every turn. He's now actively working against his own apparent self-interest. |
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