SilasCoade

You didn't read to the end of the sentence. Win this year. Y'all drunk on Kool aid.

Tap the brakes a little. Luka's phenomenal but he's still the fifth (at best) pick in the "start a team from scratch and win this year" draft. (KD, Giannis, Embiid, Steph are the easy picks before him.) He's even got some pressure as "best young talent to build around" from Ja, who I think is going to be the best player of this generation before he's done.

I know you know it's not a word but if surality were a word it would mean something to do with the calf or lower leg, perhaps you meant surlitude?

oh slorchie, your problems are so much more important, i'm so sorry for dragging my trivial complaints before you. **checks thread title** Wait, actually, go fuck yourself.

I agree he played an overall nice game, but to see him moving on every single screen in a game where they actually called a travel was crazy. And I know he's not getting special treatment. Just an aspect of the NBA game that sucks due to selective enforcement.

The next time Rudy Gobert sets a legal screen will be the first time. He's just out there flaunting the rules of the game on every possession.

Brick by brick is how champions are built baby.

Can you imagine if a meter were a meter everywhere except between Dallas and Santa Fe where it was actually only a yard but they called it a meter? That's what's happening everytime you jump the clocks around. It's fundamentally stupid.

This is such a dumb solution to a simple problem. Rather than enforcing a local warp of a universal measurement of a fundamental property of the universe, just adjust your schedule to sit your needs.

I don't think he's on surly.

The logo is what you perceive as the problem with those shoes?

that's decent

You sound like someone who has either never been to Memphis or never been to Houston. Just kidding. Softball setup I couldn't resist. Some of my favorite people out up with the urban hellscape that is H-town.

sound off

I don't disagree but I will never bet on a team depending on Harden in the playoffs.

I agree with your conclusion but I actually think the improvement coincided more with the trade for White than with Smart's call-out.

Yeah I meant the specific things he mentioned that are negative but not over the line by anyone's measure.

I don't think Russ is an asshole for not wanting his family to hear that stuff. He is an asshole for thinking confronting the fans is the appropriate response. The appropriate response is to demonstrate resilience and hard work to your kids and develop a reliable jump shot through hundreds of thousands of hours of practice. But that's not him.

Yes, maybe she was fact checking the publication. Do your own research!

It's also a neighborhood in Seattle that's kinda touristy, so she might get a pass.

these are not the feet pics I was looking for

That's a bad loss for them because that's basically their real team. I guess fingers crossed that Simmons is able to eventually give them something.

site cert is fucked.

Lakers-Warriors last night was actually fun to watch. I thought Russ played a good game and had good effort on both ends but his offensive limitations are still glaring. He's a shorter, older, less defensively impactful Ben Simmons. The Warriors were giving him 5 feet to shoot a jumper anytime he had the ball. His out of control drives that used to finish at the rim are now going nowhere and he's not getting bailed out by the refs. I actually think he got fucked by the refs a little bit, honestly. Lebron gong for 56 is wild, especially watching how it happened. I can't recall ever seeing him look more ground-bound around the rim. He's not drop step dunking on anybody. When he's coming down the lane with a head of steam it's to try and sneak in a layup or get a foul rather than put someone on a poster. And he has completely eliminated the mid-range. The 3 ball was falling for him last night but there is no elbow iso or post up on the block. The few times he did get it in the post and went to a fade away he bricked it. Shot chart: I know I'm picking nits after he went off for a historically great performance. I'm not really trying to dog him out as much as just recognize how dramatically differently he is playing this year from even just 3 years ago. Just for grins I grabbed LBJ's shot chart from his career high 61 point game in 2014 and was surprised that it was actually fairly similar. Maybe my memory just ain't what it was: For the Dubs, Klay has no business being out there. My man is limping around, can't hit a jumper, can't defend. It's got to be hurting team morale to see this guy getting minutes based on legacy rather than current ability. Kerr is going to have to have a hard talk with him at some point.

Well, b/c he's a fucking bitch and b/c 2 of his teams were the Pelicans and the Clippers, exceedingly poorly run franchises historically who were unable to utilize his greatness on the court to win anything of note.