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Aug-25-20
 | | plang: <I guess HOU just decided to change their game style and started fouling, or OKC decided to be more aggressive and drive to the basket more and creating contacts. Or the referees are getting whistle happy.> Houston took 57 3 pointers - you won't get to the foul line very often that way. |
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Aug-25-20
 | | WannaBe: <plang> Exactly right, Houston shot 25, 18, and 23 FTs, but why OKC shot 19, 19, and 34? That's almost as much as Games 1 and 2 combined... What changed? Game style by OKC being more aggressive? Houston decided to start fouling players left and right?? Referees got whistle happy??? <WannaBe> joined QAnon and became a conspiracy theorists???? |
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Aug-26-20
| | WannaBe: LAC was really on fire last night vs DAL:
https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore?g... Both teams had about equal amount of shots attempted, 85 for DAL and 87 for LAC. But!!! LAC made 22-35 from 3s, while DAL only made 12-37 (that's 30 points there) DAL shot a total of 26-48 from 2s, while LAC was 29-49. LAC also made 26-34 from FT line, while DAL made 23-33. LAC shot an <INCREDIBLE 62.9%> from 3s. Unheard of. |
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| Aug-26-20 | | Gryz: The Clippers are currently the most unlikable team in the NBA. By far. Patrick Beverley broke Westbrook's knee in 2013. Paul George is an overrated team-hopper. Montrezl Harrel called Luka Doncic a "b**ch ass white boy" a few days ago. Reggie Jackson was a cry-baby when he was at OKC. I've never seen Patrick Patterson make a 3. Why is he in the NBA again ? Leonard might have lost some credit the way he left SAS. But then when he left the Raptors too, after getting a championship ? What kind of treason is that ? The Morris twins are long known to be a couple of scumbags. Yesterday Marcus Morris intentionally stepped on Luka's ankle. There is no doubt. He even made a little skip to make sure he would step on the ankle. https://streamable.com/mglxo2
https://twitter.com/BulletClubIta/s... |
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Aug-26-20
| | plang: There has been a lot of team hopping going around - certainly not just to the Clippers. |
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Aug-26-20
| | plang: Sounds like NBA games today are cancelled due to player boycott. |
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Aug-26-20
 | | OhioChessFan: About time they addressed all the shootings in Chicago. |
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Aug-26-20
 | | saffuna: By law enforcement? |
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Aug-26-20
| | OhioChessFan: It's getting easier and easier to tune out pro sports. |
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Aug-26-20
 | | HeMateMe: 3 NBA playoff games cancelled due to the shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin. NBA blacks are exercising their power to make people open their eyes. Fear not, <OCF>. ESPN is still showing Cincinnati Reds 1975 playoff games, the Big Red Machine. I'm sure you'll find something to watch. |
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Aug-26-20
| | WannaBe: Instant Analysis, 3-gamer today.
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No one decided to show up because the arena was too crowded -- Apologies to Y. Berra |
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Aug-27-20
| | HeMateMe: CNN reports that Trump was today bad mouthing the NBA players who shut down the league. I guess that was a live TV interview or his twitter account. Seems like the kiss of death to me. Bad mouthing pro athletes is bad mouthing apple pie, mom and America. The WNBA also shut down playoff games. |
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Aug-27-20
| | plang: Did he badmouth MLB players?
3 cancellations last night - 7 tonight. |
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Aug-27-20
| | plang: Even the NHL cancelled playoff games for tonoght and tomorrow. |
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Aug-27-20
 | | keypusher: I had decided to part completely with pro sports earlier this year. Hopefully LeBron et al.‘s latest will help others make the transition. |
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Aug-28-20
| | plang: I don't quite get the anger when athletes make political statement - it is a form of peaceful protest - no one is forced to listen to it. |
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Aug-28-20
| | saffuna: But they make so much money! They can afford to take a night off work! Says Jared Kushner, who is taking four years off work, yet still earned $100 millin last year. |
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Aug-28-20
| | keypusher: < plang: I don't quite get the anger when athletes make political statement - it is a form of peaceful protest - no one is forced to listen to it.> I am not angry. I fully support their right to make any statement they choose. But I think they are wrong, profoundly so, and they and their leagues are deploying their considerable financial and social power in support of policies and beliefs that I think are misguided and destructive. The source of sports’ wealth is advertising dollars, so if I watch, I am complicit. |
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Aug-28-20
| | plang: Well, you are a lot more polite about it than some who have been expressing their anger on other discussion boards. |
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Aug-28-20
| | saffuna: You mean like "Shut up and dribble," as Laura Ingraham said about LeBron James? |
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Aug-28-20
| | keypusher: <plang: Well, you are a lot more polite about it than some who have been expressing their anger on other discussion boards.> Thank you, plang. I’ll add that what Kaepernick did four years ago took courage, even if I disagree. But given how the correlation of forces has shifted, right now “taking a stand” against the police takes about as much courage as burning an American flag in Tehran. Or Portland. <saffuna> This shouldn’t need saying, but <shut up and dribble> is beneath contempt. |
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Aug-28-20
| | HeMateMe: The republican party leaders have never simply come out and said it: "Municipal police forces, especially in large urban areas, need to use a minimum of force to collar suspects. Many of the shootings and death chokings in the past year could have been avoided had they simply subdued and handcuffed violent suspects immediately and ended all violence towards said suspects at that moment. Protestors have <some> legitimate concerns and grievances." There, that wasn't so tough was it? GOP leaders could give intelligent, well measured responses to this problem. It would get them <votes>. Instead, they choose to talk like they're sheriffs in Macon County Georgia in 1955. It is this extreme, moronic position that is going to cost them the White House in 2020 and quite possible the Senate. The House is already gone. I have no doubt at all that the Jim Jordans and Mitch McConnels, were they sitting on juries at a murder trial in 1955 where whites lynched blacks, would ignore all evidence and simply acquit their white brethren. It is what it is. I expect the next generation of republican statesman to be a bit more reasoned, to be better men (and women). |
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Aug-28-20
| | keypusher: I would say the Republicans have been exemplars of reason compared to some of the more hysterical effusions from Democrats over some of these shootings. But save all that for Rogoff. |
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Aug-29-20
| | HeMateMe: why are Republicans afraid to say that changes have to be made to police departments? some rule changes put in, so that five cops don't just stand there and watch one cop choke a helpless man to death. That's just commons sense. I think this is why the republicans lose the WH this fall. They refuse to make the very smallest concession that some changes have to be made. Like Donald Trump, they can't admit for a nano second that they might be making a mistake by not compromising with the democrats on some of the key issues here regarding rules of engagements for cops with suspects. Clearly <Keypusher> you are a life long republican who is going to vote the entire GOP slate at the voting booth, even if Donald Trump is a criminal and is not qualified for the job. And, that's a mistake. Political affiliation should be a guide, not a maxim, not a monolithic entity. If I thought Barack Obama was a thief, a moron and was impeached for bribery there is no way I would vote for him to have a second term. Common sense dictates otherwise, regardless of my political affiliation. Hardcore Trump supporters lack that ability to reason. |
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Aug-29-20
| | plang: Nice weather we're having |
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