NBA 25/26
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@mohikamo great team and yet SGA still averaged 30. He has one of the most unguardable step back mid range shots we have seen. If two guards you are thinking are named Mike, Kobe, Steph or D Wade, yeah sure. But no other current 2 guards would’ve done what he did.
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Haha
Never get me on an interweb slurp up, rather be dead-in-a-ditch.I have OKC as one of the great "teams," and if they repeat their record of last season, and there is a good chance they will, one of the great "teams" of all time.
I think they have just about the perfect roster. Got everything covered.
They make it real easy for SGA.As for Jokic; a couple more seasons of his current form, and I have him up there, with the likes of Jordan, as one the greatest players of all time. If not already.
And as for Haliburton; what his peers did to him was pretty shit.
Voted him the most overrated player in the league.
And when he almost took his team to the championship, single handed (against a very, very good team), none them came out and said; "Oh, maybe I was wrong."
Not a peep from anyone as far as I know.
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Steph drops 49 on the Spurs after dropping 46 on them a few days ago.
Curry gave a reality check to the Spurs this week in that they started the season well but still have a ways to go to develop into champions.
First game, spurs had a solid 10 pt lead and were coasting but the warriors rolled up their sleeves starting in the 3rd and locked in.
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So steph has parted ways with under armour.... I guess this is where UA decline and end up being something as an afterthought like how Reebok once had Shaq and Iverson but now are not on the map.
When all is said and done Nikes dominance in the basketball shoe market is undeniable. No matter what other brands come up with to innovate and try and chip into their market share Nike always ends up on top. Appropriately enough the first shoe that he wears after ending his relationship with UA are Kobes. Kobe who himself was originally an Adidas guy.
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@nonpartizan said in NBA 25/26:
So steph has parted ways with under armour.... I guess this is where UA decline and end up being something as an afterthought like how Reebok once had Shaq and Iverson but now are not on the map.
When all is said and done Nikes dominance in the basketball shoe market is undeniable. No matter what other brands come up with to innovate and try and chip into their market share Nike always ends up on top. Appropriately enough the first shoe that he wears after ending his relationship with UA are Kobes. Kobe who himself was originally an Adidas guy.
Shaq is bringing Reebok back. I did not realise that Reebok were #3 in sales when they were bought by Adidas who basically shut down the brand until recently when they sold it to a consortium who made Shaq President of the basketball division
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@mohikamo Joker is top 15 all-time already probably - absolute freak. I still have him behind the likes of Shaq, TD and Hakeem, but I have my biases...
I think you m assively underate SGA. Having a great team is awesome, but he's an incredible enabler of that. At times in the finals when J-Will and Chet looked like deers in headlights, SGA was the man. And we don't mark MJ down for the all-time greatness of his teams, nor Steph for the brilliance of his. No reason to do it here either.
Your reference to the underrated vote whooshed me last time, I follow you now - definitely worthy of some spite from you (and from Hali) - pretty absurd that the NBA has such a public poll, really not suure what they're trying to achieve there.
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Steph’s probably got a hundred pair of Kobe’s in a secret stash and now he can finally rock them
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@ACT-Crusader said in NBA 25/26:
Steph’s probably got a hundred pair of Kobe’s in a secret stash and now he can finally rock them
I have it on good authority that Steph likes to wear LeBrons around his house in private
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Is Cooper Flagg tracking as expected so far this season?
One thing I noticed in the Clippers game was that he was always on the periphery of the team huddles, non verbal to his teammates and not really engaged with by them. At first glance it did not strike me as an environment that was nurturing to a rookie. Anthony Davis was bouncing around in street clothes near the bench but did not see him talk to Flagg once. Not from the social point of view of course more in terms of him receiving instruction or support.
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Mavs finally get a W. Flagg with a 21/8/5 contribution. AD about a week from returning.
Spurs back to winning ways, minus Wemby who was rested.
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Liked how the Mavs gutted out the win today. Let’s be honest a lineup of Flagg, Williams, PJ, Christie and Gafford to close out a game against most teams is not going to do it. But they played some decent ball against a decent Blazers team that can really score.
I like Flagg’s emotion today and his team mates were getting him the ball to make plays. There’s no doubt frustration inside the camp but I don’t think there is anything too sinister there. I did notice Klay pointing out a few things to Flagg today. But Klay isn’t a big talker at the best of times.
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Steph with back to back 40+ games comes out today and couldn’t hit the side of a barn. Scored 9.
Luckily they were against the Pels who sacked their coach today.
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I had a bet today on the Houston/Suns double. First Houston make me sweat through OT, and then the Suns get outscored 47-27 in the 4th to lose by 2. At home.
Look at the win % chart. Got to be rigged....
Hawks have a nice winning run going here, on the road without Young too.
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A number of close games today including 3 that went to OT.
Coby White back for the Bulls under minute restrictions and was good to see him and Giddey back in tandem agains the Jazz. Markkanen had himself a night and George hit a huge 3 to win the game.
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@ACT-Crusader said in NBA 25/26:
Liked how the Mavs gutted out the win today. Let’s be honest a lineup of Flagg, Williams, PJ, Christie and Gafford to close out a game against most teams is not going to do it. But they played some decent ball against a decent Blazers team that can really score.
I like Flagg’s emotion today and his team mates were getting him the ball to make plays. There’s no doubt frustration inside the camp but I don’t think there is anything too sinister there. I did notice Klay pointing out a few things to Flagg today. But Klay isn’t a big talker at the best of times.
Yeah, I think Flagg only took 3 shots in the first half but was more involved as the game wore on.
I always feel for the rookies that end up in tricky assignments on their first year on the job, be that with toxic personalities in the locker room or on teams that lose every season. I know they are getting paid but so much of their NBA career is dependent on the luck of where they get drafted to and in those environments who is willing to take them under their wing. You know guys like Derrick White and Dejounte Murray won the lottery when they were drafted by the Spurs. Other kids get thrown to the wolves.
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Jokic shot not falling so far tonight.
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Nuggets lose, looked like a tired team tbh. Lots of their shots were hitting front of rim.
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