Thread 151741992

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>>151741944
As Im a good fellow, Im not gonna comment on your nation, Im just not

Donte's back in the game

>>151742044
Canada or Kashmir?

>>151741992 (OP)
TIMMY! <3

>>151742062
he thinks he's Steve nash??!!

that nose looks broken to shit, he can cancel his model career

>>151742062
What the hell? Is his nose broken?

>>151742063
Im referring to the multiethnic and multilingual nation of Canada,which has an English-German queen.

Meal.

>>151742145
hell I could eat

>>151742145
Do you hate yourself?

>>151742105
>multiethnic and multilingual nation

>>151742169
Yes but that has no affect on my meal.

>>151741346
>SGA is the MVP & a champion because he's effective going both ways.
Youre a fucking retard. Denver didnt win the 2023 championship because both Jamal Murray and Jokic could "go both ways" you fucking faggot. Im not homophobic, im just calling you a faggot for not only making a gay ass gay double entendre, but also to insult you generally for being fucking retarded.

>Lavine will never sniff a finals because he isn't.

You have absolutely zero fucking idea how offensively limited Klay is because he played alongside the greatest shooter ever. I seriously encourage you retards to type in "basketball reference" in google. type in "klay thompson" in the search bar. lress enter then scroll down to "shooting" and then go check "3p FGA assisted" and see how many of Klays shots were assisted.

I hate the talk about defense, because defense is simultaneously the most impossible type of impact to quantify, as evidenced by the fact that whenever it suggests jokic or curry are positive defenders, people freak the fuck out, but simultaneously the one aspect of the game people want to force insane attention and credit to when they have no actual logical basis for how good it is.

When I use eye test to judge defense, I talk about being smart on defense, because its a team game and the most "high skill" aspect of defense with the most "possible" impact in the sense that even if a player is able to rack up 10 steals or blocks, there are so many possessions over the course of a game that such singular impact can easily be overshadowed. Its partly why Magic Johnson was able to get away with like a dozen turnovers every game and still anchor a top offense than won championships.

But I never use the eye test to justify defensive impact, just whether a player can contribute positively or negatively to team defense. For example, Kuminga can put all the effort and leverage his size on defense but hes a dumb defensive player so its not a positive.

Myles turner sucks. How does this bum get more money than zubac

>>151742145
This is definitely a White Canadian. I didn't know you people still existed

>>151742194
Haliburton made him look good

>>151742194
its hard for immigrants in AmeriKa these days

>>151742098
he took an elbow to the nose

>>151741992 (OP)
I’m willing to call a spade a spade but 1992 in the digits? Now I got some questions.

>>151742293
kwab

>>151742267
ouch!

>>151742194
pretending to have a 3 pointer makes you more marketable

>>151742062
wagie vibes.
>"p-put me back in coach! I must earn my paycheck"

>>151742361
Soft memechucking centers killed the nba

>>151742191
>effect* (affect = a = action = verb)
Try loving yourself more and treat yourself to some good meal <3

>>151742267
Holy. Dude looks like he just survived a car accident

Ultimately my point is. Klays defense isnt high impact nor is it even the reason the warriors won shit. If you bring up the fact that the warriors won so much with Curry as their weakest defender, or that Jokic won a finals with both him and Murray being weak defenders you'll hear retards suddenly bring up "BUT THEY WERE SURROUNDED WITH ELITE DEFENSES" but are so retarded that they dont realize thats a post hoc rationalization. Minnesota is surrounded with elite defensive talent almost everywhere on the court, even when they had to hide kat they were. But the game is more complicated than that because defensive impact is hard to determine, and offense simply has more avenues to impact.

Ultimately my point is. On a good team, with a complimentary playmaker. Lavine would get Klay tier talks and treatment where hes overrated to hell and back despite being one of the most one dimensional and team dependent players ever due to no dribble, and no passing. I dont think Klay could do what Lavine has done as a 1st option. I think Lavine could easily do what Klay has done as a 2nd and 3rd.

>>151742361
>pretending
Unironically true kekw

>>151742410
I don't need grammar lessons from a god damned jungle chink, but thanks. In casual conversations, minor mistakes are common and normal people don't point them out if intent is clear.

My meal was very good.

refs just ruin this gams so fucking bad man.

>>151742385
they dont have sick leave in Amriqa

>turn on Bucks feed
>woman announcer
>switch to Kings feed
>also a woman announcer

>>151742513
I think you should be thankful for the grammar lesson and maybe apologize for your rude manner. Btw, no ketchup? No mayo? No mustard?
>>151742590
Bucks lady has been quite fine imo

The Giansanity run is over...

>Giannmickey with 16 points
What happened?

>>151742145
Eh would.
But get some mustard or mayo or some kind of sauce.

>>151742513
Sorry, i had to. It's too irritating

what could've been

I just sucked a cock.

>>151742640
I was only rude in response to rudeness. So no, I will not apologize unless I see Malaysia apologize first.
>Btw, no ketchup? No mayo? No mustard?
No. Just salt and pep.

>>151742666
Wemby about to get another top 5 draft pick teammate

>>151742728
based weapskitz

>>151742685
>>151742731
>So no, I will not apologize unless I see Malaysia apologize first.
already did

>>151742685
I assure you it's even more irritating to others when you try to correct trivial errors. And you've made several grammar mistakes in your posts, so maybe at least work on your own grammar before correcting others.

>>151742728
I see you Dwight.

>>151742308
Still Tony

FT game...==

wow this bucks kings game is quite literally a free throw battle currently. unbelievably shit project, they need to change the rules to make defense less retarded

is there a basketball game on

>>151742869
holy guacamole

>>151742869
>spiderbitch
Where's Donovan Mitchell?

My kangz are collapsing...

ref you suck

>>151742800
Your error was not one of grammar tho, it was one of vocabulary, sorry.

>>151742427
>>151742192
I don't disagree that Lavine would be better regarded if he played alongside an elite point guard. I do question if he would be a solid defender, if slotted into the high-end 3&D role that Klay had in Golden State.

lmao giannis

magnets malfunctioned

rip giannis mvp campaign

i need bam's bbc in my pussy

dillingham is going to be a bust

>>151742957
It's both. You need to understand grammar to know which is the correct word (affect/effect).

>Myles Turner retarded ass doesnt run up to Giannis' swatted rebound just waits for it to come to him, leaving himself far out on the perimeter to do fucking nothing.

If my bucks lose this game because of this...

KANGZ

Oooff so close, bucky

>>151743110
what a dumbfuck

>>151742961
Lavine just had a clutch game steal and
>if slotted into the high-end 3&D role that Klay had in Golden State.
Klay wasnt a high end role anything.

they won a fucking game

oh my god

JUST WESTGOAT THINGS

>>151743110
KWAB

>>151743110
And people say he isn't a foulbaiter baka

>>151742798
It's alright bro. I don't need an apology from a low life leafjeet. Dude is already miserable enough. Don't wanna ruin his day further.

Kings are my favorite team

>>151743130
K' now I know you're just a mad warriors hater. That was a heads up steal on the final sequence, there maybe I do underrate Lavine.

>>151743157
tbf he tried to pass it to the corner, looked stupid in real time
>>151743161
very gracious of you, lets all enjoy basketball in harmony
>>151743186
why? not joking, curious

>westJOSEPHSMITH dominates one of the best teams in the league
>/nba/ dead silent

Interesting...Seems like there's only a bunch of Klutch bots in here

>>151743186
you dont want this nightmare, leafbro. You dont understand hell until youve supported a team this awful for 2 decades

westGAWD leading in plus/minus while shooting 28% from the field that is my GOAT

>>151743206
I also hate the warriors. Reddit-Hitler team

westDIFFERENCEMAKER

>>151743221
he shut down Giannpiss

I’m not gonna fucking tell you guys again. Watch the game I’m watching, not any other games

>>151743221
>>151743256
lmfao what the fuck?

I have a new favorite pornstar and I love her so much that for a fraction of a second I actually considered paying for porn

>>151743310
who

>>151743213
Thank you, based Finnish bro <3

>>151743310
The Japanese Lakers sloot that gets posted here?

>Haliburton's achilles is so shot he's already preparing for a career in the broadcast booth
Grim

>>151743310
Aoi Ibuki?

dominos gave me extra chicken, good sign for my jays tonight

>>151743161
You live in Malaysia. You are 5'2". To be a jeet would be an upgrade on your life.

>>151743310
Just go on simpcity and search for her. Someone who loves her even more has already paid and posted her shit

>>151743437
SAAAAAR

>Celtics vs Rockets starting soon
Yes, bald KD vs bald JB!

>>151743447
I can't sign in anymore and they won't let me register a new account

>>151743310
I've never cared for a specific star that much but Ranran's Sweaty Series hasn't been uploaded anywhere online that I'm thinking of buying porn for the first time in my life

>>151743437
It's funny seeing SEA try to shit talk indians, as if they aren't the unholy combination of indians and chinese themselves, with borrowed culture from those two and fucking arabs as well.

>>151742044
Canada hasn't done anything other than penicillin and vimy ridge. There's a couple of other possible noteworthy events but that's about it. I guess inventing basketball is cool too.

>>151743483
Why? What happened?

>>151743335
I gotta gatekeep this one man sorry
>>151743355
>>151743391
nah
>>151743447
I forgot simpcity even existed lol. will check

>>151743577
We made pineapple pizza nigga

>>151743403
bitch at the counter probably wants le dick bruv

jaylen clark is a really good defender

>>151743611
>gatekeeping a pornstar

your coomer brain needs a reset

>>151743611
must be a tranny then

>>151743659
How dare you talk about basketball.

>>151743659
He would be but he fouls too much

Good evening /nba/bros, time for Rockets basketball.
This time we take on the Celtics in Boston. A lot going on today with ‘eries game 7 and cfb going on. Lets get it done Rockets

gobert with the HUGE poster dunk!!!

>>151743577
You guys have Snow.
https://youtu.be/TSffz_bl6zo?si=OlBcsnSNvHCLgSgX

>>151743653
Chalk that up as honorable mention.

>>151743604
they started disallowing google sign-ins and I think they just don't want any new users so they stopped allowing registration of new accounts

>>151743741
lmao

>>151743221
>>151743292
The game was just so bad. Tell anybody who conjures up narratives about "back in my day we could cheat defense and handcheck in the sport that was literally created as a no contact sport now because we have retarded subhuman refs!" and i dare them to tell me theres no handchecking in modern nba. Bucks also just could not defend well this game. So much retarded scrambling on switches retards playing in Westbrooks face, letting him just do the most basic crossover and drive, to put the defense in scramble when you can just play away from him and let him shoot the retarded midrangers he thinks hes good at.

They obviously couldnt stop Zach Lavine but im not surprised about that. What I am surprised about is how Deretard and Westbrick could brick so many shots and still win this game.

Sabonid dominated offensive rebounds and the lob threat in the paint was real. Just disappointing man.

>>151743699
>talking about talking about basketball
You contribute to the problem as you complain about it

Apologize to westARCEUS right now.

Also meal.

How many spring dings tonight?

>>151743883
Jesus...

Damn Wolves are really meh starting this season. Connelly is just washed. They need a proper PG.

>>151743883
what the fuck is this

>>151743887
what the fuck are you talking about? the bucks had 9 less free throws than the kings. when they were playing the lakers they had 30 less free throws. are you just dumb as fuck?

>>151743899
At least 3

got the drink in me going back to back

The Wolves unironically could use Josh Okogie right now.

holy shit, divincenzo is memechucking the hornets to death right now

>Ball movement looking good
>defense good so far
Rockets are clicking early

The Rockets had 3rd pick twice and they got Jabari and Sheppard out of it.

Tari, wtf are you doing?

Why aren't there any Dutch NBA players? Thought they were the tallest or something?

Janice will be a Chicago Bull

>>151744513
nope Ja Morant will

>>151744469
A random village in the mountains of Bosna probably has more 2.10m people that the entire EU.

>Jalen Green
>Jabari Smith
>Reed Sheppard
The Rockets really fucked themselves in the draft.

>>151742590
For me it’s the Raptors announcer that talks like it’s still the 1930’s.

it is so fucking boring seeing kuminga charge his way to the rim against guys hes bigger than, still miss, and need the foul call to score.

>>151742668
See, what had happened was

Ngl this rockets vs celtics game is kino

>>151744542
>Jabari Smith
>fucked themselves
wat

AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Wolves are back to .500!

>>151744469
Quinten Post is Dutch I think

Temetrius Jamel Morant, welcome to Sacramento Kings!

goddamn my warriors fucking suck, this pacers team doesnt even have mathurin, at this point i just watch my warriors to see them lose to underestimated teams because i fucking hate kuminga fans and curry is currently balling like a fraud and it makes me sad and insecure

Fred VanVleet

AWOOOOOOOOO

>>151744469
They got a guy Rik Smit that was pretty famous

For the time being I think only quinten post. last year the wolves had a g-league dutch center called jesse edwards but he's no longer in the nba

>>151744771
Mrhban habibi

>>151744469
Tall white men are too busy getting laid to care about hooping

Rockets be just rocking with their 5 forward lineup and defend using their height lmao

we really traded a kat and got two dawgs (and a young pup through the draft)

Did (You) see Japan’s own Forever Young won the Breeder’s Cup Classic?

It's not looking good Celtic bros

Damn, Capella is back on the Rockets.

kuminga is so fucking retarded but gets away with it because retarded nba casuals are infatuated with the run and dunk man who cant do anything else archetype. Nuke the entire nba fanbase. They dont appreciate ball.

>>151745122
Unfortunately for them his knees are more or less done.

>>151745196
Leafskitz, don’t you have a world series team to cheer on right now?

>>151745255
im not schizo and i dont watch baseball retard. everything i say is facts

Houston should trade for Harden.

my boy queta?
I think i'll keep him

>>151745287
Whatever you say leafskitz

Boston has never had a black leprechaun mascot. Think about that.

>Name is Minott
>Jumps the highest

>>151745683
Interesting.....

>>151745776
wolves shoulda kept him

Alperen Sengun in not better than Sabonis.

>>151745872
lol, lmao even

BLOCKED BY JABARI

RAHHHHHH

>>151745872
Nah, Sengun can actually score in the post.

I might becomes a Thunder fan at this point. Because I am so fucking angry and tired of seeing this dogshit ass water defenses allowing unskilled players to just score in the most retarded ways possible. Holy fuck.

lmao this group of refs really love to call travel. Ethical NBA is back?

KD gonna score 50

OHNONONONO DOYER FAGS

Blue Jays just won. It's over.

>>151746196
>>151746280
KINO

>>151746280
WE FUCKING DID IT HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

/nba/ SEETHING

Aquaman is probably the best offensive rebounder. The only other guys that come close is Kevon Looney and Zubac

>>151746429
Gobert

>>151746032
It must be this new high-tech equipment they started using that must help a lot with their job. Hopefully they will start using it in other sports too soon

>>151746397
I’ve always been a huge Jays fan, I’ll tell ya what

you guys told me this was Glasnows game

Threadly reminder:
Giddey-Buzelis is going to be the best 1-2 punch, PG-PF pairing since Stockton-Malone and no one is going to have an answer for it. Prove me wrong. You can’t.
Furthermore, Giddey-to-the-Bullies is the new iteration of the Haliburton-to-the-Pacers deal, in which a young, budding superstar PG gets traded to a new team and a young, fun team emerges around him.
I know you guys are peanut butter and jealous that you can’t pull off wearing a sweater around your neck like our Australian king, don’t have great hair like our Australian king, and don’t know ball, but it’s time you guys got over your insecurities.

>>151746280
TIL theres a mexican on the Blue Jays roster

>>151746537
https://youtu.be/OkC_oi0ksuw?si=ApEUVCL5mrxegXHY

>>151746549
based

>>151746510
kek

>>151746505
Probably. But it could also be for sports betting kekw

>>151746725
There’s always been a bromance between the Jays and Astros. They were the only team to congratulate us in 2022.

>Warriors literally miss like 5 shots in a row
>Get every offensive rebound.
>Still mostly miss
>Finally get one bucket in
Wow this Pacers team is genuine garbage, and to think this game is even still close.

Is there a single good team in the East this season?

>>151746919
soulful and based

>>151747145
>>151747205
The hoops are bad tonight. The two teams that were the class of the Eastern conference last year are broken-down shells of themselves, and Hali and Tatum probably won't come back the same. Ya hate to see it.

>>151747205
nah the east is absolute garbage

dude nba refs are so bad its genuinely crazy.

Bros…. they are challenging a foul wtf

>>151747205
da bulls

>>151746637
if they make it to the playoffs they should start playing this againn

Boston is absolute garbage. They don't even have working nets.

>they are fixing the net in Boston
I’ve never seen this before

The Celtics technology officer just adjusted the magnets. 20-0 run incoming.

has this been stephs worse game ever? cause his fucking sucked a cock today

>>151747205
The best teams are dealing with injuries
Pacers - Haliburton / Obi Toppin / TJ McConnel
Cavs - Garland / Max Strus
Celtics - Tatum

These would typically be at the top of the East

STOP PASSING THE BALL, KD YOU STUPID RETARD. YOU ARE A TERRIBLE PASSER

FIGHT IN TORONTO

Celtics chimpout

Boston refs really call everything huh

4-15 from 3

REFS CALLED A FLOP
REFS CALLED A FLOOP

>>151747205
my wizard :)

>Flopping call
Kwab celtics

Refs just handing out techs to my poor C's

>>151747205
Yes.

Brown is dogshit bad. I thought he was being held back by Tabum.

It feels weird being on the right side of the whistle, especially when we aren’t trying to bait the foul.

>>151747899
Ethical basketball is back TAT

man, imagine if this was an NBA cup game and not just a random regular season game!

uhhh warriorbros?

>>151747389
>>151747641
>East is le bad because injuries
>Mentions inceltics as a good east team when they thrive on other teams injuries
Kill xirselves.

siakam a dawg

My warriors legit just fucking suck offensively man. I dont know how this game is even close.

Curry CANNOT be playing this inefficiently with a team this offensively shit.

pacies got their first win

>>151748279
the 2nd string up 10 brings curry back in to brick and just be pure shit and lose I love steph but he didn't have it this game and it fucked the team

jimmy butler is a floor raiser but not a ceiling raiser

QUENTON JACKSON! Pacies first win

warriors destroyed by Quenton Jackson

Jabari is now rim protector tier

Jabari is probably gonna end up in all nba def team if he keeps this up

Warriors are such fucking frauds man holy shit im so sad. I cant believe my favourite player is on this team, and hes allowing himself to be just as shit as this team is. Fuark! I would have atleast preferred a Giannis type loss where he scores 26, on good efficiency with 8 assists but still loses because it was a close game (his teammates were actually all efficient too they just lost anyway over mistakes, and on the margins, also their defense sucked)

Damn the Celtics dancers are hella gay.

>>151748440
>curry can’t memechuck his way to an nba finals and needs other stars around him
got it

Checked the box score, Jabari only has 3 blocks. He looked like he got at least 5 lol

>>151748363
>and it fucked the team
You might be genuinely and unironically retarded if you think they lost because of that second string. Are you fucking stupid? Everybody on the team bricked their shots in the seconf half WITH better spacing. It had nothing to do with Curry, all of Currys shots were tough or forced shots because his teammates provide little spacing due to how shit they all are at shooting. Look at that 3 point percentage again retard, subtract Curry's shots and theyre still below 30%

The only reason they were up 10 in the first place, is because of fouls given up, and the pacers literally losing to offensive rebounds in a comical way. Once they fixed that issue Warriors stopped scored in a while anyway before Steph came off the bench.

>>151748530
3 in less than 3 quarters is pretty gud.

O Captain My Captain

>>151748623
Yeah, i'm trying to say his defensive presence is everywhere

walsh got full on denied

This whiteboy Shepperd is terrible.

Holy flop

Ayo cockshits fans are we going to the chip?

lmao KD still doesn't dare to shoot a buzzer

>>151749091
They should trade for a point guard.

>>151745988
>55% TS%
He's shit.

This whiteboy Sheppard is cold.

Jordan Walsh looks like he has terminal cancer

Jesus christ this is an asswhooping. How did Silver convince people that they won a championship?

Good lord, I almost feel bad for Boston

>>151748194
I'm a SpudsCHAD heatschizo. I'd mock the Heat for falling apart too, but Riley and Spo seem to have conjured yet another solid roster from nowhere, so way to buck the trend.

>Goon 1 assist away from a TripDub
>Amen 1 rebound and 2 assists away from a TripDub

>>151749384
crazy thing is he doesn't even have pubic hair

>>151748194
skitz where have you been

>>151749474
Nobody mentioned the Heat, Inceltic. Nice way to expose xirself.

>jordan walsh was born in 2004
Bullshit

fuck skitz is back

>>151749529
Really?

>Ime didn’t let goon get his tripdub
sad

Yeah, so please explain to me how these 3 misses in a row, and then finally the lucky put back by the FUCKING 7 FOOTER and then the personal fould was "Currys fault" right before he got subbed in. I already said what I said about Curry and criticized him for playing bad. But the niggas hes playing with suck. This game was close from beginning to end and the only reason the lead stretched to 10 was because. The Pacers defense is retarded and conceded a layup from Butler, a Dunk from Kuminga which is FUCKING RETARDED BECAUSE i have no fucking idea how teams havent figured out yet that HE CANT FUCKING SHOOT OUTSIDE OF 3 FEET, so just play back on him to force him to fucking shoot, because hes not a good enough passer to take advantage of that space either. FUCK so many garbage NBA players with blatant flaws get away with looking so good because they play like retards that just started playing basketball yesterday, and dont even get me started on the cheap ass cheating bullshit that is the spin move, which every poor ball handling big abuses.

Also pacers missed 1 free throw, while giving up free throws of which jimmy didnt miss, so that also contributed to the lead.

I have to explain this bullshit because retards dont realize that every Pacers volume scorer was efficient as fuck. They were not supposed to lose that game due to playing better, but the fact that their less volume shooters sucked (J Walker 2 of 9, R Dennis 1 of 7) brought their overall efficiency down, and even then they were still 1% more efficient than the warriors from the field. For the warriors its the opposite, where the low volume scorers make the field goal percentage look better than it is because they didnt take enough shots to even miss (Al Horford 2 for 4, Q post 4 for 8 (1 for 5 from 3)

Curry sucked this game, but he CANT afford to suck because his teammates suck offensively AND defensively. Which is a circular problem since the fact they suck means he has to force poor shots.

>>151749677
yea he got some hairless condition

>>151749608
We all know it's you. Nobody else would question my super-straightness and he/him pronouns with so little provocation.

>>151749737
I see. That explains why he has no eyebrows

30-ball incoming.

>>151749732
Holy leafskitz moment

>>151749788
Real ball knowers remember Charlie V who had the same thing.

>>151749732
Just curious, have you ever been told that you don't know how to "read the room", struggle with social interactions, or not understand why someone got upset over something you said?

>>151749764
lmao he thinks hes being sneaky like wemby when hes crouching behind his teamates

>>151749825
You know it baby. Hooper Flagg is coming

Why is mavs vs pistons taking place in mexico?

>>151749697
You those annoying turkroaches are gonna flood the rockets ig crying trade sengoon

>>151749943
i stan wemby but that's goal tending, hope he cleans it up before he gets burned in a big game

>>151744513
Please no

>>151749943
>posting one of the many Wemby goaltends without any shame
Not shocking. If I was a tranny pajeet I wouldn't have any shame either.

20 mins late what the FUCK

Rockets win!
ggs Celtics

>play game in mexico
>dumb beaners can't figure out how to operate a clock
>1 hour delay

JAYS BROS WE ARE SO BACK

Also go Jays
fuck the dodgers

>>151750293
stop jinxing it u fool

Jalen Green (23) got a tattoo of his Baby Mama (40o) on his back! Good to see love still exists.

CALIFORNIANS,
NEED TO GO BACK!
CALIFORNIANS,
NEED TO GOOOO BACK!
TO THE SCHITY OF EL AY
TO THE SCHITY OF HOMELESS BUMS
TO THE SCHITY PARKING LOT TRAFFIC
KEEP ON GOING!
KEEP ON GOING!

>>151749923
Why are non ball knowers/talkers allowed to divert from proper ball talk without getting banned?

I think this is cooper flaggs first nba game in mexico

>>151750140
>>151750172
bring it up with adam

Why are fake ball knowers/talkers allowed to spam essay rants without getting banned?

>>151750638
Why is this game in mexico? Is it a special event of some sort?

Pooper Fag is complete trash. Can't believe I fell the the great white hope meme.

>>151750761
nico wants some mexican food

>>151750948
wembust needs to put on some muscle

>>151750761
So people that got deported can see it

>>151750761
Every season there are like 2 or 3 games played here.

kirk is a giga chad

>>151750948
i need his bbc in my pussy

>>151751045
Now post the injury report.

>>151751173
I see, gracias

>the line for KD rebound is 4.5
>He got 4 at halftime.
>The game ends with him having 4 rebounds
These riggers are nigging

>oh shit, warriors lost against pacers
>check general
>right on cue, jeet melty

Get help.

>>151751293
cope

I would rather have Cooper Flagg to start a team than Victor Wembanyama.

Umm... blue jay bros??

>>151751419
>betslopping
you deserve to get scammed if you’re stupid enough to put money in it

>undrafted austin reaves is better than #1 Fagg by several times
This speaks volumes about the NBA

>>151751635
YKB

>>151749732
why this guy the only that seems to be passionate about baskball?

>>151751762
It’s ok, trust in Springer

>>151751762
i still believe

>>151751444
I’ve been on 4chan for WAY too long, and spent time on many boards. This general by far has the highest schizophrenic per capita of any place on 4chan, actually probably the internet as a whole. I have no idea why but legit like 1 out of 4 posters here are schitzos. I actually like the leaf-jeet though, I just wish he’d learn some brevity and cut his posts down by like 50 percent. The essays are getting to be a bit much

>>151751837
>schizo rants about a team nobody likes and are tired of hearing about is “passionate about basketball”
fuck off leafskitz, go glaze currshit elsewhere

How's our boy Cooper doing tonight

>>151752041
>our boy
u can have him I'm taking Giddey or AR
this kid needs at least 3 or 4 years before he's ready for grown man bball

>>151752041
Playing like shit as per usual.

>>151751781
I quit gambling, no more of this Jewish trickery.

>>151751946
the curry schizo on another level of insane, i like him though since he pisses off bawbustralia so much

>>151752153
>t. curryjeet

>>151751966
>about a team nobody likes
nobody likes the warriors? still in 2025? peculiar

>>151752381
Actually nobody likes the warriors now bc all their bandwagon fans left.

>>151751946
>I’ve been on 4chan for WAY too long, and spent time on many boards. This general by far has the highest schizophrenic per capita of any place on 4chan, actually probably the internet as a whole.
>t.5 year old child

You know your team's season is bleak when your best playmaker is d'angelo russell

>>151752518
rip d'angelo

>>151752153
>the curry schizo on another level of insane
>passion = insanity in our sedated droning ai run society
this probably says something deep about society

holy shit flurry lmfgaoooooooo

>>151752634
Passion is bad in this general. You have to be nonchalant and pretend you barely care about anything like the thread hero Jokic.

>>151752381
Yes, especially /here/

>>151752702
My Spuds aren't playing tonight, why care?

man the celshits suck

>>151752518
You know your team's season is bleak when your team can't even beat another team whose best playmaker is fucking d'angelo russell

>>151752634
You’re so far up your own ass and pick fights with anybody when even slightly criticizes you or Curry. Your lack of self-awareness and general unlikability is why people call you a schizo leafskitz

>>151752809
Atleast 25 of the current nba teams are frauds honestly.
I think the only real teams in the NBA right now are OKC, Rockets, and Denver. The entire east is basically fake because Giannis cant carry the cats on his bucks team (and its not even like theyre actually bad, theyve been playing well, theyre just not enough)

>>151752957
>OKC, Rockets, and Denver
i came to the same conclusion, basically just them

>>151752957
The Lakers if Laravia pans out and smart+ayton are at least in the conversation. Skinny Luka is a demon

bros....

FUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK WE LOST

Alright I'm giving up on Cooper Flagg. I really thought he would be good right away but he's just not. I'll check back in in a couple years to see if he's improved.

And of course the blue jays shit the bed. That's my life.

EVEN THE BLUE JAYS FUCKING SUCK

FIRE MASAI AGAIN HOLY FUCKKKKKKKKK

>>151753486
kek the jordan emoji killin me

White Anthony Bennett

>>151753529
told ya you'll jinx it
dumb leaf

>>151752883
>You’re so far up your own ass and pick fights with anybody when even slightly criticizes you or Curry. Your lack of self-awareness and general unlikability is why people call you a schizo leafskitz
Why do weirdos imposition their delusions and insecurities on me? Is this what it means to be "schizo"? To trigger the attempted mental expulsion of ones own weaknesses onto others?

>>151753140
>Skinny Luka is a demon
Watch Thinking Basketball. We're still yet to see whether a 5 year sample is enough, but we'll see

Oh no, Pistons on fraud alert

>>151753756
Thinking basketball lost me after the greatest peaks list

The thompson twins are complete garbage and nobody will convince me otherwise. Rnning around and fouling people isn‘t enough in todays nba

>>151753916
You might be retarded. List was basically as fair as possible. Let me guess. Youre a kobe fan?

>>151753944
>jalen green

>>151754013
They put McGrady over Harden lmao

Cooper Flagg at halftime
>10 pts
>5 rebs
>1 stl
>2-8 fg
>2-4 3pt
>-5

Somehow he's the scoring leader of the mavs team

>>151754107
>2-4
I hate how flukey low volume 3s make players look good, happens to kumingtard too

HOLY FUCK BROS

Jesus christ this game is insane.

>>151754840
this game not good for my heart

Jays already got scammed anyway. Catchers foot clearly off the plate at home

>>151754946
nah it came back down

>>151754993
I know but I'm being a homer

This semen slurping sport isn't for me

>>151754840
eh pistons are pretty mediocre. flagg is keeping them in it.

>>151755096
I think they are reacting to the baseball game

>>151755339
wrong thread dude. no one gives a shit about baseball.

>>151755392
kek based jeet

>>151755392
Tell him then, don't tell me.

>>151755392
Ive never been interested in baseball and even i care right now

>>151755473
neat. post in a thread with other people who watch that shit. this is called basketball.

>>151755586
im posting in both, what are you gunna do about it?

we might win this bros....

>Edgy kid wannabe viet kong comes here and throws his shit at everyone
Vietnam War 2.0?

>>151755699
careful man, them viets fucked up the mutts back in the day

>>151755699
i mean you're free to do whatever you like, covidboi

can't nobody block Jalen Duren on the Mavs right now

Why is flagg rated so highly? He‘s literally just another run-and-dunk man. No bag whatsoever

has an /nba/ finals thread ever even gotten close to 9000 replies? I know baseball is a longer sport but still

>>151756155
>He‘s literally just another run-and-dunk man. No bag whatsoever
Hes a smarter than average run and dunk man, if you want to see what an average run and dunk man looks like, look no further than kuminga

>>151756155
yeah...you might want to watch him play. there's a reason why he's one of the best prospects since lebron. keep in mind he's only 18.

>>151756163
maybe during the 2015-16 cavs warriors finals, when /nba/ peaked

>>151756155
He has a fairly decent bag. His problem is his touch seems really bad from all areas of the court. Just some really bad misses. If he could just hit more of his shots and layups he would be a lot better.

>>151756443
When Currgoat was in his godly prime but was met by lady misfortune and got injured twice in the playoffs....

>>151756457
>He has a fairly decent bag.
trying to have a bag isnt the same as having a bag, or else lebron unironically has a "decent" bag

pooper flagg is going to be that next ben simmons who averages 10 point 10 rebounds and reddit glazes all over even when there's red flags all over him

Fuck........we fucked up

>>151756554
He regularly gets by people and gets into good scoring position he just misses.

>>151756639
you blew it

Jays just lost what a fucking joke. Unbelievable.

>>151756457
I don‘t see it. Mind you, he‘s on a decent team unlike most #1 picks so he‘s not even getting doubled or anything and still looks painfully average
>>151756576
I knew something was wrong with him when he taunted a 5‘10 g-leaguer after scoring on him

Celtics need Ben Simmons

>Defense wins championship
>Somehow makes Jalen Duren look like prime Dwight Howard out there

>>151757053
>Missing their two best defenders

>>151757053
AD is hurt. Also, Jalen Duren a beast

Just finished watching the clippers-nugs series. Seriously WHAT THE FUCK is up with game 7 Harden? He doesn't just shit the bed he damn near completely regresses. Just awful

we fucking SUCK!!!!!!!!!

BLOW IT UP !!!!!!!!! SELL EVERY FUCKING TEAM. FUCK YOU MASAi!!!!!!!!!!!

That's what you get for following boreball

All-time choke job

damn 13 assists so far

>>151757117
>>151757206
I know. But Nico should've seen it coming when he traded for an injury prone guy. Availability is the best ability.

Also, Gafford is a pretty good rim protector as well, and PJ is a 3&D wing, and a lot of ppl forget, Flagg's best trait in his scouting report is his defense. But they still look really rough out there. Flagg constantly got blown by which led to Gafford to help and open up the paint

why would anyone want to play in Mexico
Gotta be worst than slavery

damn Harris got BTFO

back to hoops

LETS GOOOOOOOO LA CANT STOP WINNING

"generational player" getting owned by duncan robinson

today was the day of the rake

If the pistons lose to this hospital mavs, then i'll give them a certified fraud status

>>151754074
I dont remember anything past 10 or 11. But you might actually be retarded if you think its crazy to put McGrady over Harden. I dont even dislike Harden. Genuinely like him as a dude. But Harden fans are genuinely retarded or delusional. Even if Harden wasnt a playoff dropper mentally (so they say, dont really know whether its mental or not). His style of basketball is highly antithetical to winning without literally the perfect situation.

Harden is a volume 3 point chucker, but has never shot above 38% from 3 on actually high volume (more than 8 3s per game). And even ignoring volume hes only shot 39% once. Not to mention the fact that hes an iso player and needs the ball as much as possible to be effective means that impact lives and dies based on whether he has the ball, because otherwise his passing is wasted and hes not a good enough catch and shooter or offball player to compensate for that fact. Combine this with the fact that hes generally poor at getting into the paint, even more so now, but also in his prime, and the fact that hes of course a poor defender, not even just generically, but effort wise too, and yeah, no shit somebody could put Tracy McGrady above him, who was a better defender, just as good of a scorer, and an above average passer. Its pretty much a toss up of whos weaknesses you prefer. Im sure Thinking Basketball has more specific statistics on this. But I think Harden has more flaws, hes just probably the more skilled player.

I bet youre just rating harden for "ALMOST" beating the warriors, but actually almost all his warriors series are some of his most egregiously inefficient series' ever. The only reason he even got close is because typically the warriors also played poorly against him, and we know Harden isnt a defensive juggernaut so that obviously wasnt because of him

>>151758327
RIP leaf bro

>>151758719
Only good team in the east is led by p giddey lol. Just remove conferences. The talent gap between them is stupid

>>151758327
kek

>>151758887
>Just remove conferences
Yeah, I've said this like forever. But for some reason, the NBA won't do it.

>Canadacucks
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Anyone here play in a fantasy league?

What are your teams and how big is your league bros? Any sleeper free agents to look out for?

>>151758327
sorry but I gonna have disown you and any leaf fans aswell

>>151759058
America always wins

>>151758744
YDKB. The shit harden was doin to take the warriors to 7 had the hood shakin. The best team ever assembled. McGrady is just another unc going on a coping tour to rewrite his legacy and it's worked with TB

Business idea:
Hire Masai as Jays GM

>Will Smith
Canabro, mane...

>>151759128
>had the hood shakin.
Retard. Ending my convo with you.

The mavs would be legit if they just started and played dlo consistently

>>151759378
Outside of gay boxscore watcher forums nobody rates harden above McGrady even with the choking

>>151759403
Delusional

>>151759403
Yea bro i‘m sure dlo would average 31 ppg if he just started consistently

Lmao Mason on the mic

Cooper hasn't missed a free throw in his career. Youngest player ever to hit 20 straight. Hang the banner.

>>151759423
>Outside of gay boxscore watcher forums nobody rates harden above McGrady even with the choking
WTF are you talking about retard? boxscore watchers are the exact type of retards to rate Harden higher than his actual on court impact suggests (numbers, not bricking every 3 pointer in the playoffs and still taking the warriors to 7 through pure luck anyway)

>>151759128
McGrady was way better than Harden

>>151759574
Lukaka has never made 20 straight btw.

>>151759630
Australia clearly does not know ball

>>151759618
>through pure luck
Delusional. Curry fans are so gay they wont rate anyone else

>>151759574
Was just gonna post this. He's 21 for 21 right now. 100% freethrow shooter.

Well it's better long term for the Mavs to be bad this year anyway. This draft class is insanely loaded.

>>151748615
I think your an esl curry
the 2nd string team got the dubs +10
curry comes back in
hero ball shits it up
loses

>>151759725
Just keep tanking and everything is going to be okay

>>151759630
>>151759668
>never won a conference finals
I don't care if he's averaging 90 he will never be rated

>>151759634
luka scored more points in one game than cooper's entire career

>>151759120
i understand

>>151759767
You obviously don't know ball if your biggest playoff insult about McGrady is about the conf finals
Hint: There's a bigger failure than that for him when it comes to the offs.
BUT
McGrady is still better than Harden

another motorcade ELITE display

>>151759722
2 of them were absolute grenades. I'm counting it as 3-12

niggas talkin bout grady and larden rn lmao

>>151759809
That's simply not true.

>>151759748
learn what correlation doesnt equal causation means retard. kys. thinking you can ignore every one of my points and be right, kys retard.

Cooper Flagg
>16 pts
>8 rebs
>4 asts
>1 stl
>3-14 fg
>2-6 3pt
>-12

Rough day for him in Mexico

>>151759767
What conference finals has harden ever won exactly?

>>151752127
wise decision

still can't believe duren fell to 13

>>151760005
We have to stop saying rough day. This is just an average Cooper Flagg statline at this point..

@canada

>>151759986
ok, he finally surpassed luka's 73

>>151760090
The Hornets traded that pick to the pistons too.

>>151759925
2012. When did mcgrady?

>>151759925
McGrady had ONE massive outlier season in 2003 and this somehow puts his peak over harden going toe to toe with the warriors dynasty and MVP/MVP numbers for years. No.

>>151760102
Flagg sisters...

>>151760031
Both Harden and McGrady have seen minutes in the Finals

TMac was 00s paul george but somehow more brittle and a choker. It's an insult to Harden to even compare them

>>151760158
Let's keep in mind Flagg is a year younger than Luka was when he entered the league. Luka was playing much weaker competition at the same age.

>>151760005
>Rough day for him in Mexico
>The Arena CDMX is located in Mexico City, which has an altitude of approximately 2,240 meters (7,350 feet) above seas level.
prolly a rough day for everyone

>>151760292
It's an insult to basketball to rate Harden

>>151760315
>Luka was playing against plumbers
>Today's modern players are way more talented than they were in the Luka rookie era
You guys are absurd

>>151760328
Idk D'lo and Duren seem pretty good out there

>>151760148
>gotta watch the craptors tank after this
No I don’t think I will. I’m retiring from /sp/ for good. Consider this leaf raked. Thank god I managed to find a good career and gf. Good bye.

>>151760329
it's reality. Love him or hate him Harden is a regular season monster and even won some playoff series. He easily clears tmac outside of aesthetics

>>151760005
>33 minutes, as the number 1 option and only 16 pt...

My question to everyone is it the pressure??? cause guys like Harper and Edgecombe are balling out to a high level, a far better stats and better on the box score radius, but they're on team with the knowledge of "we might contend but no need to worry cause most players around me are similar to age to me"

Flagg is on a somewhat aged team, injured AD, Klay is a corpse, Russell hasnt been the same since Laker days, Washington has baby momma issues,

If this continues into next season then i'd say Flagg is a bust or a semi bust like Christian Laetner and ive been saying this since last thread,

>>151760292
If T-Mac actually stuck with his cousin in Ronto he could've won shit but noooo he walked to Orlando and Houston just to get no where in both cities

>>151760387
I'm saying that Luka was playing in Euroleague. Please learn to read.
Flagg's sophomore year will be equivalent to Luka's rookie year age-wise, so we should not be too quick to judge. There's only been a handful of players to get serious minutes in the NBA at 18.

>>151760315
>Flagg is a year younger than Luka
luka started playing professional basketball when he was 16, not 18. cooper is way behind.

>>151760424
I was a little kid living in Portland when Drexler and the blazers went to the Finals
It was my first time falling in love with the NBa
Drexler was like a super hero to me
At the time he was considered Jordan's equal
I remember watching the Finals and having my mind blown by this michael Jordan guy
I had never seen such basketball eloquence and dominance (highlights of players outside your market weren't shown every day back then)
From that moment forward I converted to the religion of Jordan
I forgot all about Drexler
Still preaching the good word about Jordan till this day
Man, if you didn't see him play, you've never seen basketball

>>151760292
T-mac and infinitely more talent than both Harden and PG. Kobe knew this and that's why he respected him. He's just a lazy guy who didnt give a shit for anyone except himself and never gelled with the team, kinda like Melo.

>>151760502
Forget the age. He doesn‘t have a 10th of the talent luka has and it‘s very easy to see. I think he‘ll be a good player in a few years but the hype doesn‘t match up with the ability at all

I've tried lots of different types of ice cream. Just found my new favorite flavor. My new rankings are as follows
>1. Banana cream with pie crusts
>2. Browny battered core
>3. Strawberry cheesecake

>>151760424
What it mostly comes down to is Flagg is missing shots and VJ and Harper are hitting. A lot of that is variance over a small sample size and will even out over the course of the season. Flagg is not going to end the year with 37% FG% and 27% 3P%. Similarly, VJ is not going to end the year shooting 44% from 3.

Another factor is Philly has more playmakers to create easy looks for VJ. And Harper has Wemby to draw all the defensive attention in a way that AD does not, in addition to being the easiest lob target in the league.

So to summarize, situation and luck explain most of the gap in performance thus far.

>>151760716
Flagg will be an 18 and 8 guy.
Which honestly is a very valuable player for any term and is really damn good
But he won't ever be an mvp type of guy

>>151760584
>luka started playing professional basketball when he was 16, not 18. cooper is way behind.
That's stupid. We're talking about the NBA here, which is the only fair like-to-like statistical comparison that we can make. US doesn't have pro basketball for minors. He took the path that was available to him and even skipped a year of high school to accelerate it.

T-Mac is better all-time than Harden.

>>151758887
>>151759018
Hell nah man, spoken like true foreigners, Eastern/Western conferences are part of the league. Removing shit like that is what’s wrong with modern NBA. It’s not soccer

Also the Pistons are a really good team, mark my words, they will go deep in the playoffs

>>151760827
Stop making excuses for Flagg sucking ass
The three biggest hyped players I've seen drafted #1 before Flagg
>LeBron
>Zion
>Wemby
All three of these guys played on shittier teams than Flagg in their rookie years
All three of them put up better numbers than Flagg in their rookie year
Flagg just isn't that guy.

>>151760735
Zion please...

Oops this >>151761055
was meant for >>151760746

>>151760716
They're different players. Will Flagg ever be dropping 40 on a regular basis and shooting step-back 3's all game? Probably not, but that doesn't mean he can't be just as impactful as a player.

For all of Luka's talents and offensive abilities, he was and is a very flawed player, and his flaws were blatantly exposed in the finals. He gives up several baskets every game with his bad defense and complaining to refs, while Cooper saves several baskets every game with his hustle, physical attributes, and defensive IQ. That's a big swing in Cooper's favor, meaning that the offensive gap would have to remain very large for Luka to be clear cut ahead.

If Flagg in his prime can average something like 27/8/6 with great defense then I think it would still a debate. That's basically Tatum type numbers. I think Flagg can be a very similar player to Tatum but an even better passer and defender. Flagg is a much more versatile and portable player that can fit on any team, while Luka is extremely heliocentric and needs certain types of players around him to be effective.

>>151761049
>Complains about conferences' disparity in strength
>Doesn't want to remove conferences
So what the hell do you want?

>>151760735
for me its french vanilla ice cream

>>151761115
>So what the hell do you want?
dont you see? he just wants you!

We literally just saw last season the Pacers come out of nowhere and be the second best team in the league, as well as the Knicks who looked like ass in the regular season and then were legit come the playoffs. Even the Heat look legit this season. The top 4 or so teams in the East always match up well with the West.

>>151761101
>Flagg is a much more versatile and portable player that can fit on any team, while Luka
How many weeds did you smoke to imagine a reality where Flagg fits better on a team than Luka ever?

Lakers are going to win the NBA title this year.

>>151761193
The East and the West have defined identities, the West offensive juggernauts who compete with each other hard in the regular season, the East defensive grinders who turn it in the playoffs. It’s NBA culture. Bring back East/West all star game by the way, winner gets home court advantage in the Finals

>>151761193
>Pacers came out of nowher
Going to finals after being in the ECF the previous year is "coming out of no where "?

>>151760746
Excellent post,

I guess the argument of sympathy you could give Flagg is the mental pressure and status, as him coming from rural maine and landing in big city Dallas is a huge cultural shock,

But still surprising he couldn't even crack 20 points, I wouldn't scream full on bust, but is definitely getting there, he should at least be getting 17-21 points a night as the guy with AD gone

>>151760644
Yep, people forget that Drexler was the pinnacle for athleticism in the NBA for guys who weren't 7 foot tall, all the dunking and poster dunks was something he set the tone for,

Jordan was fluid but Drexler had a far better vertical and had one the best hops in the NBA better than Jordan

>>151761217
New
>>151761217
In a few

>>151761263
It was when their record was dogshit until January.

LA all day

>>151761217
Go Lakers!

Fuck Canada
Thats what you get for letting Shai make a career out of foulbaiting

>>151761055
So your bar for Flagg is the literal GOAT, the future GOAT, and Zion, who's also 1 of 1 athlete and physical specimen who arguably had the GOAT single college season. Flagg doesn't have outlier physical traits like those guys, so we shouldn't expect him to dominate right away.

And in terms of team situation, we don't know what kind of numbers Flagg would be putting up if he was given a full green light to run the offense on a tanking team. He's playing within a system for a team that's still trying to win. He's not being given that level of opportunity, so it's hard to directly compare numbers. LeBron was not efficient in his rookie year even though he put up stats. I'm sure Flagg could do similar if given the chance.

>>151761101
That‘s a lot of hypotheticals with no evidence to back them up. I don’t even rate tatum that highly but you’re nuts if you think flagg could be a better playmaker than him. Using an arguably bad finals performance from luka to dunk on him when flagg has shown nothing to suggest he could even lead a team to the playoffs, let alone the finals, makes no sense. Luka had a way worse team than flagg and single handedly carried them to the playoffs in his second season averaging over 30 in them. Let‘s see what mr. generational does with all stars around him

>>151761197
Maybe you are unfamiliar with the concept.
You can not just insert Luka into the starting lineup of teams like ATL, LAC, NYK, and others and just expect that to work seamlessly. Whereas Flagg projects to be the kind of player that can fit into any lineup with no problems, because he is versatile on both ends, a plus defender, can play multiple positions, and is non-ball-dominant. That portability is an important and underrated aspect of a player's value from a roster construction and flexibility standpoint.

>>151761526
This is the dumbest fucking thing you have ever posted jeet.