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Re: NBA 2020-2021 Season Thread
« Reply #705 on: February 25, 2021, 12:01:02 AM »

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At least the Lakers are getting beat down by the Jazz.

The Jazz are the Nuggets of last year. A good team, but you still can’t see them winning it all.
The Jazz are way more complete than the Nuggets were last year. Best interior defender in the league, multiple really good perimeter scorers, good passers and shooters. Got it all

They are pretenders. Just like the heat last year. They will get exposed by either of the LA teams.
We'll see. That's the whole reason the game is played after all. Series aren't won on paper, otherwise Miami wouldn't have made the Finals last year, Toronto wouldn't be champions, etc etc.
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Re: NBA 2020-2021 Season Thread
« Reply #706 on: February 25, 2021, 05:56:55 AM »

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At least the Lakers are getting beat down by the Jazz.

The Jazz are the Nuggets of last year. A good team, but you still can’t see them winning it all.
The Jazz are way more complete than the Nuggets were last year. Best interior defender in the league, multiple really good perimeter scorers, good passers and shooters. Got it all
Don't see the Jazz getting out of the West in the playoffs.

If they stay healthy they have the shooting and great team that could go all the way.

Utah has a 8-man-rotation that's really good (Conley, Mitchell, Clarkson, Ingles, Bogdanovic, O'Neale, Favors, Gobert). It's a very balanced team that has defense, rim protection, athletism, shooting, playmaking, dribble penetration, length and size. They can't afford any injuries though because their deep bench is awful.

Donovan Mitchell has shown that he has that extra gear, but as Moranis often points out you need superstars to lead the team in the playoffs and Utah doesn't really have that. But they're going to be tough to beat. Reminder that Utah was one play short of beating Denver last year in the first round.

I thought Utah was going to have a top 5 record this season, but I don't think many figured they would be a .800+ team halfway  :o.


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« Reply #707 on: February 25, 2021, 06:22:21 AM »

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Just shows u that Davis may be best player in NBA
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C/PF-Horford, Baynes, Noel, Theis, Morris,
SF/SG- Tatum, Brown, Hayward, Smart, Semi, Clark
PG- Irving, Rozier, Larkin

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« Reply #708 on: February 25, 2021, 07:43:42 AM »

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Congrats to Hayward and Hornets. Beat the tough Suns in Phoenix. Now in 7th, ahead of the Celtics.

Who can blame him for wanting to play for a winning team LOL?

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« Reply #709 on: February 25, 2021, 08:22:23 AM »

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Congrats to Hayward and Hornets. Beat the tough Suns in Phoenix. Now in 7th, ahead of the Celtics.

Who can blame him for wanting to play for a winning team LOL?
if u told me this would happen at beginning of season, I would say u are out of ur mind
C/PF-Horford, Baynes, Noel, Theis, Morris,
SF/SG- Tatum, Brown, Hayward, Smart, Semi, Clark
PG- Irving, Rozier, Larkin

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« Reply #710 on: February 25, 2021, 10:19:14 AM »

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At least the Lakers are getting beat down by the Jazz.

The Jazz are the Nuggets of last year. A good team, but you still can’t see them winning it all.
They are pretenders. Just like the heat last year. They will get exposed by either of the LA teams.

I am impressed with Utah.

I don't think they are like say the Hawks team of a few years ago that won 60 games and the reason why I say that is Donovan Mitchell. I feel like he is under-rated in a specific way and that is -- offensive resilience.

He gets fair criticism for his inability to be highly efficient. He doesn't create high percentage shots at the clip of other superstar offensive players because he cannot and he isn't one of them. But what he can do is create good percentage shots for his team (for himself and for others) at a high clip.

Compare Mitchell to say DeRozan in his Toronto playoff years. DeRozan was a player who was vulnerable to big athletic wing defenders and teams with this type of a defender could wreck his offensive game in the playoffs and they did. DeRozan was one of the worst efficiency high volume scorers in the playoffs ever. Even superstars like Giannis, if you have the right defenders you can key in on him and make him less effective and derail his team's offenses.

Mitchell is not like this. He can create good offense regardless of his opponent. It is not great offense. It is not high value offense. But it is good offense. He can do it against anyone and any type of defense. His quickness, his ball-handling, his outside shooting, his floaters in the lane, his pull up midrange, his finishing at the hoop, his playmaking off the dribble to create for others. He is more well-rounded as a scorer & passer than all those other stars (medium efficiency & high efficiency) who failed.

And Mitchell is surrounded by the ideal teammates to free him up. Loads of three point shooting. Gobert as a rim roller. Some secondary scorers in Conley, Bogdanovic and Clarkson.

This is a different type of team than many of the other regular season wonderboys playoff failures and they are different for precisely one reason - Donovan Mitchell.

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« Reply #711 on: February 25, 2021, 10:27:37 AM »

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Congrats to Hayward and Hornets. Beat the tough Suns in Phoenix. Now in 7th, ahead of the Celtics.

Who can blame him for wanting to play for a winning team LOL?
if u told me this would happen at beginning of season, I would say u are out of ur mind
who were saying enjoy your $$ and losing in Charlotte  ;D

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« Reply #712 on: February 25, 2021, 10:40:00 AM »

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Congrats to Hayward and Hornets. Beat the tough Suns in Phoenix. Now in 7th, ahead of the Celtics.

Who can blame him for wanting to play for a winning team LOL?
if u told me this would happen at beginning of season, I would say u are out of ur mind
who were saying enjoy your $$ and losing in Charlotte  ;D
I admit I was wrong bout Charlotte..thought they be top 3 losing team in NBA
C/PF-Horford, Baynes, Noel, Theis, Morris,
SF/SG- Tatum, Brown, Hayward, Smart, Semi, Clark
PG- Irving, Rozier, Larkin

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« Reply #713 on: February 25, 2021, 10:43:39 AM »

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Congrats to Hayward and Hornets. Beat the tough Suns in Phoenix. Now in 7th, ahead of the Celtics.

Who can blame him for wanting to play for a winning team LOL?
if u told me this would happen at beginning of season, I would say u are out of ur mind
who were saying enjoy your $$ and losing in Charlotte  ;D
I admit I was wrong bout Charlotte..thought they be top 3 losing team in NBA

better than Celtics.  LaMelo Ball is a serious skill

Biyombo is an underrated big.  Guard dog

Its cool to see Rozier and Hayward playing well

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« Reply #714 on: February 25, 2021, 10:47:03 AM »

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Congrats to Hayward and Hornets. Beat the tough Suns in Phoenix. Now in 7th, ahead of the Celtics.

Who can blame him for wanting to play for a winning team LOL?
if u told me this would happen at beginning of season, I would say u are out of ur mind
who were saying enjoy your $$ and losing in Charlotte  ;D

The season isn’t over. Besides, BOS with Hayward would be better than CHA currently is with Hayward. All we have is a nameless TPE in place of him.

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« Reply #715 on: February 26, 2021, 01:09:50 AM »

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Nuggets lose to the Wizards and they are now 8th in the West.  Last thing the Jazz want is to face the Nuggets in the 1st round. 


Its a strange season.  Only 4 East teams at .500 or above while there are 9 West teams .500 or above.  However the East has 9 teams with a positive point differential while the West only has 6 teams with a positive point differential.   

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« Reply #716 on: February 26, 2021, 01:27:35 AM »

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Congrats to Hayward and Hornets. Beat the tough Suns in Phoenix. Now in 7th, ahead of the Celtics.

Who can blame him for wanting to play for a winning team LOL?
if u told me this would happen at beginning of season, I would say u are out of ur mind
who were saying enjoy your $$ and losing in Charlotte  ;D

The season isn’t over. Besides, BOS with Hayward would be better than CHA currently is with Hayward. All we have is a nameless TPE in place of him.
He probably would have had a season-ending injury here, knowing our luck
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« Reply #717 on: February 26, 2021, 07:23:27 AM »

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Tobias Harris having knee look at today.. if he is out, 76ers are in trouble
C/PF-Horford, Baynes, Noel, Theis, Morris,
SF/SG- Tatum, Brown, Hayward, Smart, Semi, Clark
PG- Irving, Rozier, Larkin

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« Reply #718 on: February 26, 2021, 09:00:15 AM »

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The end of that WSH/DEN game is one of the dumbest sequences of basketball I have seen in watching 30+ years of basketball.


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« Reply #719 on: February 26, 2021, 09:36:54 PM »

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Wow the East is just so bad. You have the Top-3 (PHI, MIL, BKN).

After that? Literally EVERY team is .500 or worse. The 4 seed is currently at .500 and we're almost 35 games into the season. Wow.
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