sean
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Post by sean on Oct 20, 2018 21:10:13 GMT -5
Basketball-Reference is stat geek heaven, how did I not know about it until now? I've spent the last hour or so making player season search queries where John Wall is the only player in NBA history to reach certain quotas. I inputted the data from scans of box scores for the 1979-85 seasons on that site and did an interview for 538 on that work. fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-speed-typing-has-to-do-with-nba-history/
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Post by chevyfan98 on Oct 20, 2018 21:18:53 GMT -5
That's 0-2 now at home against two teams on the second night of a back-to-back and one of them without its star player. Now comes a five game west coast trip with the first two of those against playoff teams, we could be staring 0-4 in the face. I'm not going to say we just aren't good because that's not true and that's what makes it so frustrating. We CAN be as good as anyone in the East. But that magical 2016-2017 season where we took the #1 seed in the conference to 7 games seems like a distant memory now, and that team was WAY less talented than what we have now (seriously, Jason Smith was our best bench player that year). I've never seen a more unmotivated, underachieving team in my life. The only hope here is that the team two years ago started pretty awful too (2-8 after ten games IIRC) so there's still plenty of time to turn it around. But they had better. Because if not, this is probably the last year of Wall and Beal together.
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Post by chevyfan98 on Oct 21, 2018 21:38:01 GMT -5
The Nuggets are for real.
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Post by chevyfan98 on Oct 23, 2018 21:08:03 GMT -5
#TrustTheLs
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Post by jimmie48fan on Oct 24, 2018 8:05:42 GMT -5
We're fucking 1-3, fuck
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Post by chevyfan98 on Oct 24, 2018 8:30:03 GMT -5
I'd think you would be used to it by now.
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Post by JSPorts on Oct 24, 2018 8:57:54 GMT -5
Still 5 undefeated teams: Denver Nuggets & Toronto Raptors (4-0), Detroit Pistons, Milwaukee Bucks & New Orleans Pelicans (3-0) Still 4 winless teams: Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers, Los Angeles Lakers & Oklahoma City Thunder (0-3)
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Post by chevyfan98 on Oct 24, 2018 19:40:39 GMT -5
Newsflash: Kawhi is still just as good as ever. He and Giannis for the next 10-15 years are going to be so fun to watch.
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Post by chevyfan98 on Oct 26, 2018 19:39:36 GMT -5
DeMarcus Cousins got a tech and ejected from on the bench. Because of course he did.
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Post by jimmie48fan on Oct 27, 2018 13:30:44 GMT -5
DeMarcus Cousins got a tech and ejected from on the bench. Because of course he did. The most DeMarcus cousins thing of all time
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Post by jimmie48fan on Oct 28, 2018 11:48:37 GMT -5
Tyronn Lue has been fired. Pretty impressive that it only took them 6 games to realize he can't coach.
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Post by chevyfan98 on Oct 28, 2018 12:04:25 GMT -5
I was wondering who'd get fired first between Ty Lue and Hue Jackson. There's our answer.
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Post by JSPorts on Oct 28, 2018 12:41:40 GMT -5
Ty Lue has never been a good coach. He's just a figurehead they brought in because he'd do whatever LeBron wanted him to, unlike David Blatt, who actually had his own coaching methods. They'd be better off today had Blatt not been fired.
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Post by jimmie48fan on Oct 28, 2018 15:32:22 GMT -5
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Post by chevyfan98 on Oct 29, 2018 18:40:59 GMT -5
So the Bucks and Raptors are playing tonight in a game that could decide the early favorite for the East... and neither Giannis or Kawhi are playing.
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