Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 6:17pm On Feb 04, 2023 |
A40: Lol we had people arguing with Luka and Jokic when they said it is easier to score in the NBA than in Europe. Armchair fans were arguing with people that played both environments  That is because people who lambast the defense played don't use the logical points Luka, Jokic and Giannis have made. It is easier to score in the nba, than in euro league because 1) The court is bigger in the nba, hence more spacing for players who pound for pound are more talented and athletic. 2) The 3seconds paint rule, that exist in the nba doesn't exist in eurobasketball. So as Luka clearly explained in his appearance on Reddicks podcast, that makes it easier to get to the rim because it takes away the ability for a team to just park one big in the restricted area like they are allowed to do in the Euro basketball. 3) The games last longer in the nba, which ensures that a good to great scorer has atleast 5mins where they are faced against lesser talented defenders, because of squad rotations, especially in the regular season. |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 8:59pm On Feb 03, 2023 |
Kyrie and his wahala has started again |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 1:42am On Jan 01, 2023 |
A40: There needs to be a return to normalcy and parity.
When one person decides to take shortcut you can't come and dictate to people which shortcut is acceptable and which is not. Oyinbo call am hypocrisy
Anyway let's hope the parity continues and people don't try to take more shortcuts to easy rings moving forward For parity, to return a lot of stakeholders have to stop this useless narrative that winning is dependent on one player. As long as people keep calling a player who played his best a choker for losing to a clearly better team, then this trend will sadly continue, if the narrative becomes more objective then guys will be more incentivised to stay put and make it work. |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 4:47pm On Dec 29, 2022 |
A40: They traded their future for a bubble ring. Ingram, Hart, Lonzo, Kuzma, KCP, Caruso and draft picks pretty much for AD and Westbrook
That's what happens when you try to always load up and hit the home run on stars and never build organically. Yeah you might fluke a ring or two but the aftermath is always terrible. The trade for AD was not a bad trade. The inexcusable one is letting Caruso and co go just to bring in Westbrook who doesn't fit with your best players. |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 3:19am On Dec 17, 2022 |
greypencils: If the current celtics and bucks roster meet often in the playoffs for a few more years, a good rivalry would form. One could smell it last playoffs. Imagine Horford and Giannis banging bodies again and drawing blood in next years playoffs? Fireworks!
The truth remains, for good rivalries to form, players have to stay long enough in a franchise, be the face of that franchise, take on its weight, pains, challenges and history and bring that emotion each game. There was something brewing there last season. Hoping for that match-up in the playoffs. Also Grizzlies vs Warriors, there is also a little animosity there |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 1:54am On Dec 16, 2022 |
Roland17: The last surviving NBA rivalry is dead. There are no more NBA rivalries in this generation and it sucks.
There used to be historical rivalries like Bird v Magic, GOAT v Isaiah Thomas, Lakers v Celtics, Bulls v Pistons, Pistons v Sixers, Lakers v Suns, Jazz v Rockets, Pacers (Reggie Miller) v Knicks , Pat Riley v Phil Jackson…
I mean teams, players and coaches that hate each other before, during and after the game!!! Rivalries only form from teams repeatedly playing each other, especially if the strength of the squads allows for both teams to exchange wins especially in the playoffs. The issue now is that, this past season, makes 4 straight NBA finals, where the two teams in the previous finals not only did not make the finals they did not even make the conference finals. |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 5:10am On Dec 13, 2022 |
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Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 2:39am On Dec 12, 2022 |
austinceasar: Any website to watch NBA matches??...Hesgoal wey man dey use has been locked down |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 2:56pm On Dec 07, 2022*. Modified: 7:29pm On Dec 07, 2022 |
steady986: LeBron, AD, Russ, Schroder, Walker, Reaves, Wenyen, Troy Brown will see good minutes in the playoffs either as key players or as role players. That leaves us with Pat Bev and Nunn. Both have been outright useless on offense this season so far and there's been talks of trading them to get someone manageable. I don't know if Darvin Ham can rely on Beverley's defense alone to give him substantial playoff minutes.
But looking at how we fell short tonight against Cleveland, who knows whether Russ is still there to be traded. Schroder has always been a playoffs liability wherever he goes. As for Reaves, walker, Wenyen and Brown, they have never been, so the jury is still out on them. This still leaves a team with 2 top 15 players when healthy, who should be challenging for a title with a dodgy lineup beyond Westbrook. |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 8:57pm On Dec 06, 2022 |
steady986: Lol. See how you people are suggesting trading LeBron like LeBron is Kyle Kuzma or something  LeBron gets traded only if he asks to. And he's not even playing that badly for anyone to want to trade him. Much of AD's success has to do with him and Westbrook intentionally giving him the ball. That brings us to the delima of whether to trade Westbrook or not. The guy is taking fewer shots these days which is good. He's more interested in finding others. I'm sure even Darvin Ham is happy with this version of Russ. He still remains the top 1 or 2 facilitator on the team. There's a whole lot of decisions to be made over the coming days. I wouldn't be surprised if the team remains as it is come 15th Agreed with all you said, but this Lakers roster is barely 5 deep when it comes to players who can play quality minutes in the playoffs. So unless they want to waste a great AD and Lebron year, they need to make serious moves to bolster their rotation |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 6:14am On Dec 06, 2022 |
birdman: Do you have an example trade in mind? Sell Lebron while stock is high? Or package WB while stock is high? The Lakers need at the very least one consistent shooter, if they want to make it far in the playoffs. Now if they don't believe they can win it this year, trading Lebron is not a bad idea, the right team will give up at the very least a 1st round pick + players to match salaries. |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 4:28am On Dec 05, 2022 |
steady986: Anthony Davis; that's the name. If he continues with this form, the Lakers have to make some moves to maximize his exceptional play |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 9:31pm On Nov 18, 2022 |
A40: We're here dearly beloved for the funeral rites of Green Bay Packers and Aaron Fraudgers. It was a good run but all good things come to an end  |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 4:26am On Nov 17, 2022 |
Roland17: The Sacramento Kings. Thanks baba |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 4:21pm On Nov 16, 2022*. Modified: 4:27am On Nov 17, 2022 |
A40: Lmaoo the Nets swallowed 153 in regulation  How do you give up 153pts to the kings in regulation |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 1:47am On Nov 15, 2022 |
Blueelf: Last season before the playoffs, I told warriors fans that Klay's peak has long passed and he should be traded. Y'all thought my take was hilarious. GO to twitter and see fans saying same
Na only sentiments still dey keep the guy for GSW
I will even prefer draymond stays rather than klay. Klay is easily replaced. Virtually the whole league shoots threes these days. It wouldn't be hard to find a 6'6+ 3 and D combo guard or forward/guard
But you see a defensive and assit juggernaut like draymond would be hard to find
I don talk my own But you also said, correct me if I'm mistaken that Poole is the next coming. The thing is, history has shown that players with Klay's skillset tends to age well, and his erratic and underwhelming play can still be attributed to recovery from injuries. IMHO a better judgment of where Klay is, will come after the allstar break, if he doesn't iron out the inconsistencies by that time, then shipping him off becomesa conversation that conversation be had. As for Draymond, his skillset is important to the GSW, but not at the price his Max contract computes out as. If he can accept something in the range of 4yr/100-110mil, then that might be tenable, but at 138mil, that is $34.5mil/yr in new more for a glorified role player who will be 37yrs at the last year of the contract. |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 5:56am On Nov 13, 2022 |
birdman: Wilbon is right, and his statements came before Kyrie apologized. Yes, Kyrie is being victimized. But the reason we got here was started by Kyrie. The last 4, 5? years, which one did Kyrie not have some drama around him. Bro needs to grow up. He got lucky the cavs didnt try to derail him the way he left the team. He got lucky the celtics kinda gave him a long leash. But when you constantly do these type of things, eventually you will run into the guys who want some revenge. Im hoping he comes out of this and keeps playing for the nets, but the brother has to do better. That's the thing with Kyrie, if it is not one thing it is another, when will it end with the guy. This will be the 4th season since KD and him chose Brooklyn, and the team has not had a real chance of having a real go at winning the championship, mainly because he Kyrie is always causing one issue or the other. He can either grow up or retire, nobody is forcing him to play in the nba, heck Dwight just signed for a foreign team. |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 5:50pm On Nov 07, 2022 |
Kwahi just finesse the Clippers for all that money. The dude knees are gone judging by what is going on |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 12:34pm On Oct 25, 2022*. Modified: 7:39pm On Oct 25, 2022 |
Okay, the Blazers have something, I don't know what it is but they definitely have some good pieces that have the potential to become great |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 11:13am On Oct 23, 2022 |
Roland17: These young teams are not getting the Wemby memo.. Their owners and GMs need to have meetings with them..
With that being said, it is still too early. Garri wen rise go still settle down. With injuries and a lack of talent and deep bench, these teams will get back on the Wemby track. Kobe and a lot of players have always said it that players don't tank, but owners and management do. What will happen as time goes is that you will start seeing bizarre substitutions from coaches if these teams keep winning. |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 3:34am On Oct 22, 2022 |
steady986: Man, the Pelicans are good As long they keep their egos in check and listen to their coach, they will be a problem. They have the personnel to win in a variety of ways. You can see how Jonas was a focal point of the offense today because the hornets have no one to match-up with him in the front court |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 2:01pm On Oct 21, 2022 |
birdman: I kept saying it, John Wall is still legit. Houston held him out (they came to an agreement) just to give rookies playing time. I was hoping he would end up with Lakers. Maybe they can pick up Eric Gordon and get some shooting Wall had no choice but to seat out, the only agreement that was his personal own, was the agreement to leave, where the Rockets agreed to pay the majority of his contract this year. PS: I still believe the Bucks should have gone all in for John Wall. They really need another iso scorer |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 3:04am On Oct 21, 2022 |
For the 6ers it seems it's always something sha. We all thought Harden was going to be the question mark, but Embiid has been lackluster in the 2 games played thus far |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 1:31am On Sep 24, 2022 |
A40: If it was not consensual he would have been fired for sure. Since protocol has been broken whether it was consensual or not would not help Udoka's case
Celtics don't need to confirm or deny that. They have been dropping half baked information from the start instead of giving complete information.
That is the real source of the problem. Like we said earlier. You either fire the man. Make everyone sign NDA and wash your hands off of him. Or come clean with everything that has happened.
But don't act shocked and brand new that media and sources are throwing as much shxt on the wall to see which one sticks and blame people for just you know doing their jobs and trying to investigate what really happened or make it up as they go in whatever order I am not shocked and if you've read all my thread on the matter you will find that I have put the blame on how the issue was handled on the Celtics brass. It is always better to give the media one clear cut, complete, truthful and concise scenario, so as to satisfy their appetite and remove their need for uncessary speculations, especially when all their sources testify to its truthfulness. |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 1:23am On Sep 24, 2022 |
steady986: This is truly on them. Why have a press conference if you're not going to give us details? And there's no smoke without fire. If he's been suspended then it means the investigation has been completed or there's enough evidence suggesting he broke the code of conduct. With all the rumours flying around about who the women involved are (whether there truly were women involved), they could have debunked it and said no women were involved. It saves the female staff of the organization a whole lot if embarrassment. Bit they didn't, which means women truly were involved. That is why organizations who are in the public domain should either have a PR risk management section in house or have one on retainer. The fact that a team president is saying publicly that he made this decision based on his conscience is just juvenile. They did the hard part in keeping it quiet from the time it was reported to when they decided to deal with it, but the bungled the execution. All they needed to do was investigate it properly and have conclusive answers that kills any iota of speculation, by the time they were ready to make it public. Their approach just allows for speculation that might come to bite them in the ass if they are not careful, unless it was their desire to dominate the news cycle for more than necessary. |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 12:56am On Sep 24, 2022 |
steady986: Women and accountability are two things that just never go together. So Ime Udoka takes responsibility for his actions but the other women shouldn't? The way these people go over the edge in trying to protect women is absurd. The Celtics have said that it was a consensual relationship, what other investigation from a law firm are you waiting for again? I love Kendrick Perkins for this. I missed today's show for some reason and I going to YouTube to search for the snippets. The Celtics never said it was consensual, reports without a source said that, and other reports also without sources, have emanated pointing to possible misconduct/missteps on Ime's part. So the hiring of a law firm is the right call albeit a bit late IMHO. The Celtics dropped the ball big time on this one, they should have gotten it properly investigated as soon as they were made aware of it in June, if they had done that they would have come out with a more complete picture, and all this speculation would have been largely unnecessary. |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 11:56pm On Sep 23, 2022 |
A40: 100% Celtics fault Absolutely, as soon as you as an organization decided not to keep it in house, they should have come clean in full, so as to protect their other female employees from unnecessary vulgar speculations, especially from the toxic section of social media. |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 11:43pm On Sep 23, 2022 |
A40: It was clearly a punitive and vindictive measure. The question now is whether it was justified or not. Did Ime do more or not. Since you said it's consensual why make the identity of the woman a secret?
This is the problem with gynocentric society. Why are they pretending like the man cheated with himself.
Maybe he didn't just knack he probably impregnated somebody 
Rumored offenses If this is true they should fire him immediately. A clean break is better for them in the long run |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 11:16pm On Sep 23, 2022 |
The people I pity are the women who are not involved in this shit, who will either have their names or pictures associated with this due to speculation from the public. |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 10:58pm On Sep 23, 2022 |
Matt Barnes just said this is 100x deeper than what is out |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 10:38pm On Sep 23, 2022 |
afrodoc2: Both.
She is the Celtics Team Services Manager while her husband is VP Finance. Wow, on one hand Ime get mind ohh. Why did he and the Celtics not just agree for him to resign. he and the Celtics are just wasting a whole year on something if it was consensual, should have been handled internally. SAS surprising got it right, as far as I know situations like this is either a firing/resignation offense or an internally handled matter |
Sports › Re: The NBA Begins by Khanben: 10:19pm On Sep 23, 2022 |
felix00: I actually bought this till I found out the lady walked away with no penalty. It's not assault na, it was consensual. They should both be equally punished na Can anyone confirm if the woman is just a staff or also the wife of a staff of the Celtics? News on this is kind of hard to get, cause I'm already seeing that he was accused of unwanted advances or words. Which kind of brings the whole consensual aspect of it to the fore. |