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JimmiC
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r00ty
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I think Lucas biggest weakness over the next years wil be KPs contract. I blame the Knicks, he had to try to deliver instantly in that organisation. The Bucks did much better with Giannis. I saw a documentary where his physio trainer said they basically taught him how to walk again, focusing heavily on his body for the first 2 years. I mean look at his body in his rookie season and then at the progress until now. Kristaps clearly needed something like that as well. On June 06 2021 01:20 JimmyJRaynor wrote: i think you probably mean Clippers in 6? Yes i did. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada16710 Posts
As brittle as Kawhi has been over the years let's not lose sight of the fact that he led the NBA in playoff minutes played in 2019. The Raptors were on the brink of elimination twice. Kawhi was staggering and limping around for the final 15 games of that playoff run... and they still won. Rocky Balboa move over.... I think Kawhi will come out swinging haymakers from the first minute of the game the Clippers trail by more than 3 points. When the Clippers have the lead Kawhi will expend as little energy as possible. a 3:30 pm start will make it tough on Luka and Kawhi. These two guys expended a metric tonne of energy in the first 6 games. Every other 2nd round playoff match up will be well underway by the game the winner plays its 1st game of round 2. There will be less of these "2 days off" breaks for Mavs/Clips. I'd love to see either team make a long run through the playoffs. Its wild seeing a team engage in an epic test of endurance over several weeks. My favourite Raptors playoff run occurred in 2016 when the Raptors played 20 games in 39 days. Rocky Balboa move over.... On June 05 2021 16:36 r00ty wrote: What a weird series. My first guess was, that this will be a 7 game series. After 2 games i thought Mavs in 5, after 4 games i thought Clippers in 5, now i think the Clippers will make it. Luca has no help. i think you probably mean Clippers in 6? | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada16710 Posts
https://streamable.com/883kv3 He doesn't care about points... he wants a good "real plus/minus".  | ||
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Vindicare605
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada16710 Posts
"No vacation," Doncic says. Team Canada's women won the Olympic gold in 2014 in one of the most exciting hockey games I've ever seen. A bunch of people, primarily women, working at my #1 customer were very interested to see the same women in the pro hockey league. Unfortunately, the women took off the rest of the winter and never played again that year. LOL. Had they the same dedication as Luka the sport might be financially viable today. Instead the league folded a few years later. No need to take a vacation after the Olympics any longer. There is no league from which to vacation. LOL. Apparently , LBJ and AD won't be part of the Olympics. If Lowry wants to play then I hope he makes the team. | ||
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JimmiC
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JimmyJRaynor
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imagine if the NBA stars of the early 80s... like Bird or Gervin did the load management thing the way today's players do in sports ranging from women's hockey to MLB to the current day NBA. There might not be a league if early 80s stars were "load managed". In 1983, the 23-team NBA was considering getting rid of 5 teams. Finals games were played on tape delay and one year in the 80s had only four total games on national TV. Imagine any of those four precious nationally televised games having Larry Bird or George Gervin or Abdul-Jabbar out for "load management". as fucked as the league was back then... they'd risk their very existence. https://fansided.com/2017/01/05/over-and-back-how-bad-were-the-late-1970s-for-the-nba/ | ||
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JimmiC
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JimmyJRaynor
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On June 09 2021 09:20 JimmiC wrote: That is one strange look at women's hockey and then a strange link. the link is directly related to the comments i made about the NBA's financial peril in 1981. Attendance was down 1,000 fans a game to 10,000. Ticket prices were falling. TV Ratings were falling despite the networks lowering the # of games. The link posted reflects this SI article https://vault.si.com/vault/1991/06/03/from-corned-beef-to-caviar-nba-commissioner-david-stern-the-son-of-a-new-york-deli-owner-took-a-downwardly-mobile-us-basketball-league-and-turned-it-into-a-megarich-international-entertainment-and-marketing-company To fully appreciate where the NBA is and where it is headed, we must first look back to where the league was just a decade ago. In the 1980-81 season, 16 of the NBA's 23 teams lost money. Total attendance was down almost a million from the year before, and teams were playing to an average of only 10,021 fans per game, about 58% of the capacity of their arenas. The worst-run franchise in the league, the Cleveland Cavaliers, lost more than $4 million while selling only 28% of its seats in '80-81. So imagine guys like Bird, Maxwell, and Parish taking a rest day when the star-laden Celtics are visiting one of the many NBA teams losing money. Tickets are easily available on game day. Are you paying to watch the Celtics without Bird and Parish? The best players in the world taking lots of rest games could easily have doomed a league in financial trouble. The ABA merged into the NBA due to its financial troubles. So its not like a basketball league in 1981 was a certain success. | ||
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JimmiC
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Vindicare605
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Vindicare605
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Absolute clown fiesta. Neither of these teams deserve a title after that. | ||
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Vindicare605
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andrewlt
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On June 11 2021 11:16 Vindicare605 wrote: Absolute clown fiesta of a game. Bucks should have blown the Nets out the way they played and the Nets still should have been in control at the end but then Bruce Brown decides he's going to have his hero moment and blows away all of their last few possessions. Absolute clown fiesta. Neither of these teams deserve a title after that. I think even Draymond Green and the rest of the 2017-2019 Warriors were screaming at the tv to give Kevin Durant the ball. | ||
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Vindicare605
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cLutZ
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cLutZ
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JimmiC
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