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    Top google result is a Breitbart screed taking Cap to task for speaking out against the Charlie Hebdo attack. Smacks of "but her emails" to me. Actual story: https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/16/archives/seven-are-indicted-in-muslim-slayings-at-home-in-capitalal.html
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    I get the complaints but let's not ignore that we have actually had some tremendous individual performances in these playoffs.
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    Bertans's contract is the boat anchor they had to eat to move KP. No one wants to give him almost $50M over 4 years. He is untradeable.
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    FIFY
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    Maxi can stay. Powell needs to get tf out.
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    He's older now but boban is actually a skilled low post player. Those skills just don't mesh with the modern game in general or with the direction the Mavs are taking in specific. You get nothing from him in transition or pick and roll and he can't switch on defense. If his roster spot could be taken by a contributor, give him a front office or coaching staff role to keep him around the guys.
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    It's not like he's handling them one on one. The defense is helping and switching and the rotations have been slow or nonexistent.
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    I wish the Mavs could figure out how to legitimately play Brunson and Luka off one another. Right now they simply alternate isos. It works enough of the time that it's acceptable but it just feels like there should be another layer to take advantage of the two legit threats they have.
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    That's not even an offensive foul. Defender wasnt set. Shower made a normal motion. BS
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    It's me. I'm Texas fans.
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    That's fair, but your top 3 win you games in the NBA a lot more than 4-12 do. I think the Spurs might have the strongest 8-12 roster in the NBA and they sucked because their top 3 are not as good as the other teams' top 3s.
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    Sith with a blue lightsaber, tf.
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    Even assuming Porter and Murray are fully healthy, you have Jokic -- top 3 player in the league, Murray -- top 20-ish player in the league (I wouldn't argue pushing that to 30), Porter -- top 75-ish (3rd best player on almost any of 30 teams and better than half the 3rd best players), Luka -- top 5 player, and let's drop the hyperbole and say Brunson -- top 75ish player. Jokic on Dallas would be unfair to the league and might break the game.
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    I could see either series going 7 games or both series being sweeps. Dallas has been so inconsistent outside of Luka they are just hard to predict. If Boston misses Smart and Horford for two more games they're likely to be in a 3-0 hole.
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    Jokic + Murray + Porter <<<< Jokic + Luka + me c'mon man
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    What part of it's Cleveland do you not understand?
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    I don't truly care that much about Draymond specifically but he is emblematic of what I think is the single greatest problem with the NBA and perhaps all of sport. When refs selectively enforce rules then you don't actually have rules. You have arbitrary decisions by individuals incapable of escaping implicit biases. Now you have a competition in which some competitors may be more or less favored on arbitrary dates but arbitrary circumstances that have nothing to do with their skill. It borderline ruins the game and Draymond and Pat Bev are the Mount Rushmore of guys benefiting from it.
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    Refs giving Jordan foul calls is not equivalent to refs letting Draymond slide for his antics. One is enforcing the rules as written but not as typically enforced. The other is not enforcing the rules as written.
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    I'm not saying Draymond's a bum without the shady shit, but he'd be simply above average if the game was called by the book 100% of the time. It's not just the ones he gets away with. It's the impact of him getting away with it on other plays when he's not doing it. The other guy is expecting it, already pissed the ref didn't call it, and Draymond wins the head game because he got away with something earlier in the game. It's a snow ball effect that at this point starts before the tip because of rep.
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    Nothing is every black and white. Is MJ shittier for having to shove Russell to hit a game winner? Well, yeah. Did MJ have to bend the rules to be great? Nope. Does Dray have to bend the rules to be "great" on defense? Well, yeah. I would think the difference is self evident.
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    Apply that logic outside of sports and you have anarchy. "It's only wrong if I get caught" is a shitty way to go through life and a shitty way to play a sport, imo.
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    I don't think any of this is wrong. I also think it is true that he gets away with a lot of BS based on reputation and the refs lack of resolve to tossing him every game. I think he's got the potential to be a really good coach when he's done playing. But he absolutely works the edges of the rules for his advantage.
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    I doubt it is going to be that simple. Dallas will have to play team defense at the level they did to close out both Utah and Phoenix. They need to hunt matchups to get Green in foul trouble and make Steph and Klay work on defense. Dinwiddie has to be efficient and protect the ball but does not need to score 30. Much more important, IMO, is that Kleber, Bertans, DFS, and Bullock have to continue to knock down open 3s at a high rate. I expect to see at least some of Luka guarding Draymond to avoid Klay and Steph hunting him like Booker and Paul did early in the series.
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    It's not still private?
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    In general I think Austin Rivers is right about comparing players from bygone eras to players today. Half the guys in the league right now are more skilled and more athletic than Bird was. But if you're going to compare them, you have to start comparing them relative to their peers -- compare the comparisons, sort of. In that sense Luka is nowhere near as superior to his peers as Bird was to his. Luka's not telling all defensive team guys what he's going to do before he goes and does it. He's not playing half a game left handed just to make it more challenging. He's not hitting a crazy bankshot from the baseline with the game on the line to win a bet he made with the stadium staff pre-game. So yeah, give me a time machine to take Luka to 1986-87 and have him play Bird 1 on 1, and I'm putting money on Luka. But give me that same time machine to bring a young Larry Bird to 2000 to train in the modern game for 18 years and I'm not sure who you take.

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