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INeedARemedy said:
Lmao Gobert straight up calling refs out

“I’ll bite the bullet again,” Gobert said. “I’ll be the bad guy. I’ll take the fine, but I think it’s hurting our game. I know the betting and all that is becoming bigger and bigger, but it shouldn’t feel that way.”
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Gobert is a bit of an idiot; but I believe he's a better player than people give him credit for and he takes too much slack for that trade that sent him to the Wolves. But I'll never forget that stupid covid microphone rub thing he did, so cringe.

Anyhow, I'll disagree with him on this one, not in the sense that the officiating sucks, but I seriously doubt the refs are betting on the games and that's the reason why they suck. It's just that they have implicit marching orders to be part of the grand NBA sports-entertainment production. They know their part is to facilitate the game for the big market teams and especially players that sell jerseys - let them have the big moments, big dunks etc; even if they're not explicitly told to do so, I think they know what the league wants.

I mean shit, look no further than this. You can't convince me that if this was a role player instead of Kevin Durant "saving the ball" that the refs wouldn't have fucked this up so bad. There's litterally TWO referees right there with unobstructed views and neither called the play (obviously ridiculously) out of bounds.



 
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Touching back on Boston and having the best record and score differential in the league:

Overall record 62 games their record is 48 and 14.

They are an impressive 33 and 7 against the east, a whoppping 82.5 win pct.
Celtics are 15 - 7 against the west. A more modest 68%.

But here's the kicker, they have a bigger point spread all in all against teams in the West. Some massive blowout wins against hte West this year:

+25 Kings (7 seed)
+37 Clippers (4 seed now, but no Kawhi that game)
+35 Spurs (last place team)
+32 Houston (lottery team)
+40 Memphis (lottery team)
+52 Warriors (bottom play in team seed 10)

So I was apparently quite wrong about the point differential part being part of crushing teams in the east; they have done their fair share of crushing of West teams. To the extent they crush the bottom teams in the west just as bad if not worse. But here's the kicker, they are just 2-5 against the top 4 seeds in the West.

So it appears the unbalanced schedule is a notable benefit to their overall record, to the point that I would say there's no evidence that Boston is the "best" team this year in the regular season, but not on point differential.
 
Croaker said:
Anthony Edwards exists my dude

I love SGA, but ANT is everything these old fucks think Jordan was.
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You know its funny you say that because when I watch ANT play I see flashes of Jordan in weird ways. his leaping ability obviously, his strength finishing at the rim, but also, oddly, in his dribble profile, in the way he moves while on the court. Its strangely reminiscent of the way Jordan moved on the court.
 
Unknown Pleasures said:
Touching back on Boston and having the best record and score differential in the league:

Overall record 62 games their record is 48 and 14.

They are an impressive 33 and 7 against the east, a whoppping 82.5 win pct.
Celtics are 15 - 7 against the west. A more modest 68%.

But here's the kicker, they have a bigger point spread all in all against teams in the West. Some massive blowout wins against hte West this year:

+25 Kings (7 seed)
+37 Clippers (4 seed now, but no Kawhi that game)
+35 Spurs (last place team)
+32 Houston (lottery team)
+40 Memphis (lottery team)
+52 Warriors (bottom play in team seed 10)

So I was apparently quite wrong about the point differential part being part of crushing teams in the east; they have done their fair share of crushing of West teams. To the extent they crush the bottom teams in the west just as bad if not worse. But here's the kicker, they are just 2-5 against the top 4 seeds in the West.

So it appears the unbalanced schedule is a notable benefit to their overall record, to the point that I would say there's no evidence that Boston is the "best" team this year in the regular season, but not on point differential.
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Agree on all counts and I'll just add that most people that watch basketball know the West is a death gauntlet. Celtshits probably beat a KATless T-Wolf team, probably beat an OKC team that's very young, but a healthy Nuggets team is the Celtics worst nightmare. They better pray someone knocks the Nuggets off for them.
 
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id be interested to see where they get that last in the league in drives stat? The lakers are second in the league in points in the paint, last in the league in % of points that come from three pointers, last in the league in 3 pointers attempted per game, first in the league in % of field goal attempts from 2 point range. Basically they rely on playing in the paint and less on three pointers than any team in the league. Also while they lead the league in ft disparity, they are only 6th in ft attempts per game. The lakers just dont foul much because they play lack luster defense and then live in the paint on the offensive end.
 
PJ Washington almost killed himself during that altercation. <45>



Luka continues posting 30 point triple doubles.

 
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Big Honey needs to send team texts more often. Outside him blowing the game winner against Phoenix they are rooolllllllliiiing.
 
llperez22 said:
id be interested to see where they get that last in the league in drives stat? The lakers are second in the league in points in the paint, last in the league in % of points that come from three pointers, last in the league in 3 pointers attempted per game, first in the league in % of field goal attempts from 2 point range. Basically they rely on playing in the paint and less on three pointers than any team in the league. Also while they lead the league in ft disparity, they are only 6th in ft attempts per game. The lakers just dont foul much because they play lack luster defense and then live in the paint on the offensive end.
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Tweet was from a little while back but the Flakes are still close to the bottom.

www.nba.com

Teams Drives | Stats | NBA.com

A table featuring drive information for each team in the league based on selected filters.
www.nba.com www.nba.com

They don't foul much because they never have fouls called on them. It's comical to watch their games.

The Craptors are comparable in almost all of those metrics.
 
Warriors' season is about to get really ugly.

Sweater of AV said:
It took around 20 games before someone on the Warriors other than Curry scored 20 points in a game. The Warriors have lost every game without Curry in the line-up. He's the only reason they still have a shot at the playoffs and aren't competing with the Pistons and Spurs.
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