NBA Season - now 24/25
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I agree. I hardly watch games nowadays, as they don't really worry about defense until the playoffs.
Pushing the line back makes sense, but say bye to the corner 3, which is a shame. However, it would be the simplest way to return the game to it's core. If they calculate the point on the floor where even a machine like Steph only makes 3/10 then we'd probably be able to get the balance right.
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Pushing the line back may have an impact, but so many dudes not named Steph, Dame or Trae are shooting from 2-5 feet behind it already. The analytics of possessions and 3s will still dominate.
But if you really wanted to throw it all on its head, make shots inside the paint worth 3 and everything else 2.
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LeBron and Steph still doing what they do is phenomenal and the league will be significantly poorer when they are no longer in it.
People should relish getting to watch them while the can, it's rare two such dominant players share this many years
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The middle of the west just keeps winning. 2 games separate 3rd and 8th, and no one is making ground
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@canefan said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
@Bovidae said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
It's always good to see Duke lose. Coach K didn't seem happy.
Hopefully Houston finally gets to cut down the net.
Was Houston's last time in the final the loss to NC State?
They lost the following year (1984) to Georgetown as well.
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@Bovidae said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
@canefan said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
@Bovidae said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
It's always good to see Duke lose. Coach K didn't seem happy.
Hopefully Houston finally gets to cut down the net.
Was Houston's last time in the final the loss to NC State?
They lost the following year (1984) to Georgetown as well.
No way they should have lost, with the dream and Clyde
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@nonpartizan said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
Duke-Houston game was everything there is to like about college basketball, every play in that last 3 mins or so was massively impactful to the outcome.
Duke got out rebounded by 11 and the difference was those were offensive boards which kept Houston in the game.
The rebounding foul on Flagg was so weak and so costly in the end
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@canefan said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
@Bovidae said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
@canefan said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
@Bovidae said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
It's always good to see Duke lose. Coach K didn't seem happy.
Hopefully Houston finally gets to cut down the net.
Was Houston's last time in the final the loss to NC State?
They lost the following year (1984) to Georgetown as well.
No way they should have lost, with the dream and Clyde
NC State were tough defensively. Thurl Bailey and Sidney Lowe could score but it was their stingy D that did the business. Their win over Virginia earlier in the Elite 8 was one of the games of the tournament.
Red hot favourites like Houston were don’t always pan out. Plus who would rewrite what has now become college folklore with the Jimmy V coached NC State upsetting the giants!
Then the next season with Clyde gone to the NBA it left the Dream, Michael Young and Alvin Franklin to take them to the promised land. But Ewing and Coach Thompson not only had the team, but the strategy to slow down this version of Phi Slamma Jamma.
Hoyas were a deep team by college standards and with their freshman Reggie Williams coming off the bench and lighting it up, they just had more firepower that day.
Go Florida.
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And very happy for Paige and UConn. More so that Sth Carolina lost and the fact that Dawn Staley is annoying as hell
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@ACT-Crusader said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
And very happy for Paige and UConn. More so that Sth Carolina lost and the fact that Dawn Staley is annoying as hell
I really like UConn. Geno is a great coach, and they play the ultimate brand of team ball.
Their defence was suffocating, they choked the life out of SC, what a comprehensive win
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Proctor’s missed free throw was the biggest play (and yes the foul call on Flagg was rubbish). In my bracket I had Duke losing in the Elite 8 because I thought Proctor’s FT shooting would cost them.
He’s a good player and will be a star in the Boomers one day, but he needs to fix a couple of things not only in his mechanics but the mental side.
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@nonpartizan said in NBA Season - now 24/25:
Crusader, you must be happy to see the Boozer twins commit to Duke for next year.
Imagine if Flagg committed for another year (to avoid being drafted no1 by the Wizards or Hornets…), Duke would be off the charts!
Intense scrappy game. Gators pulled off a Houston on Houston - low scoring, defence orientated performance.
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