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Re: The NBA Begins by birdman(m): 6:23am On Sep 16, 2020
Roland17:
Doc has to go! There is no 2 ways about it.. The culture and attitude of this team has been indifferent and that boils down to a lack of discipline. You can not turn it on and off whenever you want. They approached the Hubble with a lot of negligence. A lot of their players showed up whenever they wanted and today they paid dearly for it.

Agreed. The casualness bothered me. Like they expected to just show up against Lakers in the WCF. No matter how good you think you are, you cant sleepwalk thru the playoffs
Re: The NBA Begins by birdman(m): 6:24am On Sep 16, 2020
etidy:


The clown actually ran ads for new balance implying that he's the new king of LA. angry

Meanwhile Patrick Beverley 's tears is every nba players delight. Lillard and cj go wild on Twitter grin

I need to find that clip grin
Re: The NBA Begins by Steady981: 6:31am On Sep 16, 2020
It's like somebody hacked into my steady986 account or it got suspended. I suspect foul play grin How dare you prevent me from joining in on the banter at this historic moment.

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Re: The NBA Begins by Steady981: 6:33am On Sep 16, 2020
All year I heard that the Clippers got two of the best two-way players in the league, two 6th man of the year candidates, a hall of fame coach, championship caliber assistants, a billionaire owner and a happy locker room, so there was no way they were not going to win it all.

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Re: The NBA Begins by SIRcumalot: 7:10am On Sep 16, 2020
Roland17:
Doc has to go! There is no 2 ways about it.. The culture and attitude of this team has been indifferent and that boils down to a lack of discipline. You can not turn it on and off whenever you want. They approached the Hubble with a lot of negligence. A lot of their players showed up whenever they wanted and today they paid dearly for it.
Maybe they lose montrez
Everybody else comes back.
This is still a really good team.
Re: The NBA Begins by LordYahweh(m): 7:12am On Sep 16, 2020
Time that other teams where gaining team chemistry the clippers used it for load management, they thought they're the raptors.
They would have lost to the mavs if KP didn't get hurt sef. Heat in 4

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Re: The NBA Begins by Afr0mentalist: 7:22am On Sep 16, 2020
Kawhi + Playoff Pee = 5pts in the second half and 0pts in the fourth quarter.

What kind of nonsense is that

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Re: The NBA Begins by SmooshCHN: 7:38am On Sep 16, 2020
donlittle25:
I don talk am say doc is overrated.

Ballmer can't fire him tho, whole world will scream racism cheesy
would be worse if he was replaced by a white guy but lemme keep quiet
Re: The NBA Begins by Steady982: 8:16am On Sep 16, 2020
Another new account. It's like today is banning day o. Maybe the antispam bot is a Clippers fan. Or perhaps someone on this thread is the antispam bot grin
Re: The NBA Begins by SmooshCHN: 8:42am On Sep 16, 2020
Person wey dey play basketball go know sey 3-1 lead isn't all that. Once you check out mentally, that's all.

I just imagine LeBron squandering a 3-1 lead.
Would have made a nice headline. grin
With all these going on, the Nuggets can still get swept. I stopped underrating a LeBron led team since 2016.


Only Adam Silver or the refs can stop the Lakers at this point because he's going to be doing it for Kobe. I love the narrative already. wink grin
Re: The NBA Begins by SmooshCHN: 8:43am On Sep 16, 2020
Steady982:
Another new account. It's like today is banning day o. Maybe the antispam bot is a Clippers fan. Or perhaps someone on this thread is the antispam bot grin
just give up already. This forum has to be the worst when it comes to growth or whatever you call it. You get banned at the slightest shít. grin

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Re: The NBA Begins by Izanghi(m): 9:20am On Sep 16, 2020
Stephen A nah comedian I swear, it facial expression is second to none. I still dey talk am, if say klay was fit we MAY not have lost that series talk less of Durant was also fit, because in one of the game in the final he could not stop curry from having over 50 points without klay or durant in the game.
But as they say hindsight is 20/20. Can't wait for the splash brothers to comeback, Durant and Irvine in the east, the hand working Miami heat, to put the Pandemic P and Kawhi together with the choke brothers of westbrick and Harden to their place. It will be a long while before we go see these chokers for final again.

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Re: The NBA Begins by Danielnino00(m): 9:36am On Sep 16, 2020
All the joy goes straight to Toronto cheesy cheesy cheesy

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Re: The NBA Begins by iamJ(m): 10:14am On Sep 16, 2020
Shannon Sharpe grin

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Re: The NBA Begins by SmooshCHN: 10:33am On Sep 16, 2020
A40 called it.


And I said it. Being deep doesn't always mean shíiit.

Kawhi thinks he's slick moving from team to team and then stacking up in L.A thinking he's the next Jordan. grin

Re: The NBA Begins by chic2pimp(m): 12:02pm On Sep 16, 2020
Dame is mad petty u knowgrin....Chileeeeee! grin
Re: The NBA Begins by birdman(m): 2:21pm On Sep 16, 2020
After the shock, in hindsight, I realize the clippers did not have a defensive answer for a skilled big man like Jokic. Just watched some clips of how Harrell was trying to guard Jokic. Several times he gets lost in defensive rotations and leaves Jokic open at the top of the key.

Guys like Harrell are very good at traditional big man defense, as in put a body on the opponent in the post, make him feel you. But once you start to throw screens and move the ball, the game becomes more mental and bruisers like Harrell can blow your defense. And a skilled big man will make you pay. We already saw signs of it in the matchup with Dallas when Porzingis played.

Bottomline, this was a bad matchup for Clippers. They loaded up their team in anticipation of a matchup with Lakers - I could see Harrell bothering Lebron all day. They really didnt think any other team could give them problems. Doc Rivers made the matters worse, as in no adjustments. Even when Nugets were leading in the fourth, he was like CALM DOWN, CALM DOWN. Nah, that was the time to go into overdrive!

Lakers cant look down on this team - they are for real

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Re: The NBA Begins by etidy: 3:56pm On Sep 16, 2020
birdman:
After the shock, in hindsight, I realize the clippers did not have a defensive answer for a skilled big man like Jokic. Just watched some clips of how Harrell was trying to guard Jokic. Several times he gets lost in defensive rotations and leaves Jokic open at the top of the key.

Guys like Harrell are very good at traditional big man defense, as in put a body on the opponent in the post, make him feel you. But once you start to throw screens and move the ball, the game becomes more mental and bruisers like Harrell can blow your defense. And a skilled big man will make you pay. We already saw signs of it in the matchup with Dallas when Porzingis played.

Bottomline, this was a bad matchup for Clippers. They loaded up their team in anticipation of a matchup with Lakers - I could see Harrell bothering Lebron all day. They really didnt think any other team could give them problems. Doc Rivers made the matters worse, as in no adjustments. Even when Nugets were leading in the fourth, he was like CALM DOWN, CALM DOWN. Nah, that was the time to go into overdrive!

Lakers cant look down on this team - they are for real

I agree 100 % and what makes jokic so deadly is his passing and shooting range . you double him and he finds an open man, you choke the paint and he makes the jump shot.
Giannis needs to go and learn from jokic. grin

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Re: The NBA Begins by steady986(m): 6:24am On Sep 17, 2020
I've never seen predictions that were more wrong

Re: The NBA Begins by steady986(m): 10:41am On Sep 17, 2020
Bradley Beal not happy about his exclusion from All-NBA teams, and rightfully so.
Re: The NBA Begins by iamJ(m): 11:03am On Sep 17, 2020
steady986:
I've never seen predictions that were more wrong
as at the time he made those predictions, things were looking that way.
Re: The NBA Begins by A40(m): 11:09am On Sep 17, 2020
SmooshCHN:
A40 called it.


And I said it. Being deep doesn't always mean shíiit.

Kawhi thinks he's slick moving from team to team and then stacking up in L.A thinking he's the next Jordan. grin
I have been hyping Denver the last 3 seasons now because I legit believed something was brewing there, and really they should be back to back conference finalists tbh

As for Kawhi and Clippers I blame and will always blame Doc Rivers and the coaches. They set the tone for all of this all season long and it's only right they reap the rewards
Re: The NBA Begins by A40(m): 11:22am On Sep 17, 2020
donlittle25:
I don talk am say doc is overrated.

Ballmer can't fire him tho, whole world will scream racism cheesy
Lmaoooo then the world is crazy. Loudmouth Stephen A will not chat megedefegede about privilege now for a coach that has been shittin the bed for the past 7 seasons. The only coach that has ever blown 3, 3-1 leads.

The Ty Lue, Cassell etc they kept shouting were passed over by the Nets. Shey you can see their hand work with a loaded roster.

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Re: The NBA Begins by A40(m): 11:43am On Sep 17, 2020
Roland17:
@A40 I hope you watched the GOAT Rodgers yesterday? No be after you come dey disrespect the GOAT.
Mschewww on top Vikings wey no get any decent cornerbacks? Come on now any decent QB will carve that their weak secondary very easily. We know how Rodgers folds when he comes across legit defenses
Re: The NBA Begins by steady986(m): 11:51am On Sep 17, 2020
iamJ:
as at the time he made those predictions, things were looking that way.
No they weren't
Re: The NBA Begins by afrodoc2: 1:57pm On Sep 17, 2020
A40:
Lmaoooo then the world is crazy. Loudmouth Stephen A will not chat megedefegede about privilege now for a coach that has been shittin the bed for the past 7 seasons. The only coach that has ever blown 3, 3-1 leads.

The Ty Lue, Cassell etc they kept shouting were passed over by the Nets. Shey you can see their hand work with a loaded roster.

Stephen A actually called him out and said his job is in jeopardy. Doc can't dodge the blame in this one.
Re: The NBA Begins by afrodoc2: 1:59pm On Sep 17, 2020
Roland17:
@A40 I hope you watched the GOAT Rodgers yesterday? No be after you come dey disrespect the GOAT.

LOL. Rodgers might be the BOAT but he is definitely not the GOAT. This is coming from a Rodgers fan.
Re: The NBA Begins by etidy: 2:35pm On Sep 17, 2020
The nuggets maybe the new warriors. Talented young team lurking in the shadows while everyone was busy yapping lob city, OKC and spurs they suddenly learnt how win from the blues tasted blood and the championship windows of other teams closed
A40:
I have been hyping Denver the last 3 seasons now because I legit believed something was brewing there, and really they should be back to back conference finalists tbh

As for Kawhi and Clippers I blame and will always blame Doc Rivers and the coaches. They set the tone for all of this all season long and it's only right they reap the rewards

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