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NBA 2016-2017 Season |OT| What do the Liberty Bell and Ben Simmons have in Common?

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scoobs

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Its time to start asking the important questions, like: Is Harrison Barnes secretly the best player on the planet?
 
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RBelong2Us

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Havnt watched Barnes this year but for people that could put things in perspective. What has he been doing differently this season that he couldnt do with his time on the Warriors?
 
TheSadRanger

TheSadRanger

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Mavs won by only playing 8 dudes the entire game to...

Does Walton not know how to make adjustments to create mismatches or something?
 
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jdstorm

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RBelong2Us said:
Havnt watched Barnes this year but for people that could put things in perspective. What has he been doing differently this season that he couldnt do with his time on the Warriors?
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Higher volume. Its hard to get into a rythm knowing you are getting 7 shots a game and you have to make 4
 
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Fjordson

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RBelong2Us said:
Havnt watched Barnes this year but for people that could put things in perspective. What has he been doing differently this season that he couldnt do with his time on the Warriors?
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Think he'll come back down to earth tbh.

Tomorrow should be interesting though.
 
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StickSoldier

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Barnes went off on yalls Lakers man! He has on a couple of other teams too though. I didn't really realize he had that smooth of a jump shot, almost Dirk like. But he can get to the basket too. Seen him make a couple of nice passes this game. He's been everything I had hoped he would be. Now if only Curry can get his chance.
 
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Exploratory

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I can't believe you guys are watching basketball right now man. Steph Curry could put up 102 points on the Cavs home floor right now and I'd still be considering jumping out the window.
 
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johancruijff

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don't know if i should post this here or in the election thread, but it made me laugh

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Fjordson

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I can see Barnes shooting being better because of more volume and more consistent shots, but his off the dribble moves are coming out of nowhere. Dude's handle was total trash on the Dubs.
 
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Vanillalite

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Cavs still a better team than the Hawks no doubt. Yet over a 7 game series I think this Hawks team doesn't get run over and bounced in 4 games like they didn't know it was coming.

They are just built better to play the Cavs. IMO previous Hawks squads were soft specifically Al and Jeff when playing the Cavs.
 
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panthapanda

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Vanillalite said:
Cavs still a better team than the Hawks no doubt. Yet over a 7 game series I think this Hawks team doesn't get run over and bounced in 4 games like they didn't know it was coming.

They are just built better to play the Cavs. IMO previous Hawks squads were soft specifically Al and Jeff when playing the Cavs.
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Yeah they'll be a lot more competitive. Could take two games in a series. LeBron was sleepwalking in the first half and they obviously don't have an answer for him. Cavs won't shoot as terribly like that.

The only true positive from that one game is that Thompson won't be as big as a factor and the Hawks still won despite a billion turnovers.

I also don't think Korver will be the starter in a series. JR Smith basically acts like it's practice out there when Korver is on him lol.

Still a good win, more info for the eventual playoff series. Hopefully.
 
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alr1ght

bish gets all the credit :)
Bless Stan Van
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport.../?hootPostID=f10f7d9c7e00059ac139b93a5f10541c

“I didn’t vote for (George W.) Bush, but he was a good, honorable man with whom I had political differences, so I didn’t vote for him. But for our country to be where we are now, who took a guy who -- I don’t care what anyone says, I’m sure they have other reasons and maybe good reasons for voting for Donald Trump -- but I don’t think anybody can deny this guy is openly and brazenly racist and misogynistic and ethnic-centric, and say, ‘That’s OK with us, we’re going to vote for him anyway.'

“We have just thrown a good part of our population under the bus, and I have problems with thinking that this is where we are as a country. It’s tough on (the team), we noticed it coming in. Everybody was a little quiet, and I thought, ‘Well, maybe the game the other night.’ And so we talked about that, but then Aron Baynes said, ‘I don’t think that’s why everybody’s quiet. It’s last night.’

“It’s just, we have said -- and my daughters, the three of them -- our society has said, ‘No, we think you should be second-class citizens. We want you to be second-class citizens. And we embrace a guy who is openly misogynistic as our leader.' I don’t know how we get past that.

“Martin Luther King said, 'The arc of the moral universe is long, but bends toward justice.' I would have believed in that for a long time, but not today. … What we have done to minorities … in this election is despicable. I’m having a hard time dealing with it. This isn’t your normal candidate. I don’t know even know if I have political differences with him. I don’t even know what are his politics. I don’t know, other than to build a wall and 'I hate people of color, and women are to be treated as sex objects and as servants to men.' I don’t know how you get past that. I don’t know how you walk into the booth and vote for that.

“I understand problems with the economy. I understand all the problems with Hillary Clinton, I do. But certain things in our country should disqualify you. And the fact that millions and millions of Americans don’t think that racism and sexism disqualifies you to be our leader, in our country ... . We presume to tell other countries about human-rights abuses and everything else. We better never do that again, when our leaders talk to China or anybody else about human-rights abuses.

“We just elected an openly, brazen misogynist leader and we should keep our mouths shut and realize that we need to be learning maybe from the rest of the world, because we don’t got anything to teach anybody.

“It’s embarrassing. I have been ashamed of a lot of things that have happened in this country, but I can’t say I’ve ever been ashamed of our country until today. Until today. We all have to find our way to move forward, but that was -- and I’m not even trying to make a political statement. To me, that’s beyond politics.

“You don’t get to come out and talk about people like that, and then lead our country and have millions of Americans embrace you. I’m having a hard time being with people. I’m going to walk into this arena tonight and realize that -- especially in this state -- most of these people voted for the guy. Like, (expletive), I don’t have any respect for that. I don’t.

“And then you read how he was embraced by conservative Christians. Evangelical Christians. I’m not a religious guy, but what the hell Bible are they reading? I’m dead serious. What Bible are you reading? And you’re supposed to be — it’s different. There are a lot of different groups we can be upset at. But you’re Christians. You’re supposed to be — at least you pride yourself on being the moral compass of our society. And you said, ‘Yeah, the guy can talk about women like that. I’m fine with that.’ He can disparage every ethnic group, and I’m fine with that.

“Look, I don’t get it. And I’m having a hard time taking it. I’m just glad that the people I’m with here — and I’ll include you guys, too — that I like. Because I’m going to have a hard time. I will say, one point of pride, I live in Oakland County, Michigan, and I was surprised, but Oakland County voted for Clinton. At least I can look around say, ‘We weren’t the ones putting that guy in office.'

“It’s incredible. I don’t know how you go about it, if you’re a person of color today or a Latino. Because white society just said to you, again -- not like we haven’t forever -- but again, and emphatically, that I don’t think you deserve equality. We don’t think you deserve respect. And the same with women. That’s what we say today, as a country. We should be ashamed for what we stand for as the United States today.

“That’s it for me. I don’t have anything to say about the game tonight."
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friskykillface

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Stan the man speaking the truth
What a shit storm the past day has been

I missed max Barnes go for 30 points too

B2Barnes ready to kill the Warriors
 
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Vanillalite

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panthapanda said:
Yeah they'll be a lot more competitive. Could take two games in a series. LeBron was sleepwalking in the first half and they obviously don't have an answer for him. Cavs won't shoot as terribly like that.

The only true positive from that one game is that Thompson won't be as big as a factor and the Hawks still won despite a billion turnovers.

I also don't think Korver will be the starter in a series. JR Smith basically acts like it's practice out there when Korver is on him lol.

Still a good win, more info for the eventual playoff series. Hopefully.
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The longer this season goes on the less confident I am with Korver starting in general. He can't play D and his age has caught up with him it appears. He can still be a streaky scorer though. I like him still as an NBA player, but more as a bench guy than a starter.
 
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