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They've been prepping Ham to be fired since the day he's been fired.
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I had planned to find images of players fishing but it's getting harder to do that every year. So here is a representive from each team somehow involved in water. Reaves golfing  Apparently Booker is somewhere in this picture  Could not find any pelicans on a boat. Well this was a giant waste of time. The smart thing to do would be to hit ctrl+a then backspace or just browse away from the page but I've done all this so might as well hit "Submit Reply"
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Apr 30, 2024 06:39
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Its easy. Just found this one 
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Apr 30, 2024 06:43
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xbilkis posted:That's gotta be a record turnaround time on the Coach Dead; What Went Wrong postmortem Nah, the Vogel hit piece by Shams came out literally minutes after the end of Game 4 yesterday.
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Apr 30, 2024 07:05
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Those halcyon championship days of 2020 are long gone.
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Apr 30, 2024 07:12
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There it is. https://theathletic.com/5453498/2024/04/30/lakers-lebron-darvin-ham-future-offseason-plan/quote:Four of the five starting spots were cemented: Russell, Reaves, James and Davis. The fifth spot was going to be decided in training camp, with Vanderbilt, the incumbent starter entering the 2023 postseason, the front-runner to retain his starting spot. But things went awry when Vanderbilt suffered a heel injury during the first preseason game.
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xbilkis posted:https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1785179872308105633 Shams been busy writing the hit pieces to go out as soon as a team gets eliminated
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Apr 30, 2024 07:22
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There are so many things to point at that Ham did wrong but really the Prince thing I maintain was done out of necessity rather than preference. As healthy as LeBron and AD were this season overall, their reserves were constantly injured. You aren't ever going to play Rui at the 2 and you probably don't want to play him at the 3 against 3/4 of the teams in the league, you're pretty much stuck playing Prince there, especially since the Lakers didn't have a backup PG until February which meant that Reaves and Russell were staggering minutes at the 1. When they signed Dinwiddie the Lakers were able to play Reaves at the 3 more and Prince played about what his role should have been.
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Apr 30, 2024 07:32
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Reddish had a stretch for about 3 weeks where he was fantastic. Then he returned back to the Cam we all know and love. Max Christie was fairly decent with the small amount of time he got. Not too bad of a defender (at times). Bad hair though. And moustache.
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Apr 30, 2024 08:30
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Rick posted:I had planned to find images of players fishing but it's getting harder to do that every year. So here is a representive from each team somehow involved in water.
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Apr 30, 2024 12:55
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https://x.com/nytimes/status/1785278061581078961?s=46 I don’t know if the odds of him lasting to 55 are good or bad
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Apr 30, 2024 14:33
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Talent wise that seems like an ok ballpark for him. Just depends on if somebody else wants to try and lure daddy
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Apr 30, 2024 14:46
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Rick posted:There are so many things to point at that Ham did wrong but really the Prince thing I maintain was done out of necessity rather than preference. As healthy as LeBron and AD were this season overall, their reserves were constantly injured. You aren't ever going to play Rui at the 2 and you probably don't want to play him at the 3 against 3/4 of the teams in the league, you're pretty much stuck playing Prince there, especially since the Lakers didn't have a backup PG until February which meant that Reaves and Russell were staggering minutes at the 1. When they signed Dinwiddie the Lakers were able to play Reaves at the 3 more and Prince played about what his role should have been. Dinwiddie was such a great pickup but they don't really have a way to keep him, unless they can figure out a way to get a full MLE and even then I am not sure that gets him. I agree I don't think giving a few of Prince's minutes to Rui would have made a big difference, but if they had another playmakers like Dinwiddie all year it might have given a few more Ws to get a better matchup, maybe. Even 3 wins is a lot. West is going to be brutal again next year.
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Apr 30, 2024 14:47
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toggle posted:Those halcyon championship days of 2020 are long gone. Such a great and wonderful time in our history. Forever to be cherished.
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morestuff posted:https://x.com/nytimes/status/1785278061581078961?s=46 I'd say the odds of him being there four years from now, when he should be considering any kind of pro career, are more than good.
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Apr 30, 2024 17:53
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Rick posted:There are so many things to point at that Ham did wrong but really the Prince thing I maintain was done out of necessity rather than preference. As healthy as LeBron and AD were this season overall, their reserves were constantly injured. You aren't ever going to play Rui at the 2 and you probably don't want to play him at the 3 against 3/4 of the teams in the league, you're pretty much stuck playing Prince there, especially since the Lakers didn't have a backup PG until February which meant that Reaves and Russell were staggering minutes at the 1. When they signed Dinwiddie the Lakers were able to play Reaves at the 3 more and Prince played about what his role should have been. taurean prince is annoying cause he is perfectly shaped like the answer to what they need but is simply not that. they need a wing who can defend up positions and rebound while shooting at a decent clip, but prince plays like hes 5'8. the fact that lebron cant really be a PF anymore on defense is an argument for having a reliable double big lineup that you go to frequently, even if you don't start or finish with the group. either that or you need a pretty special type of wing player that is just simply never available.
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Apr 30, 2024 18:16
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I've been going over trade scenarios to "save" the suns, is there any team right now that would even want Beal, provided he agreed to the trade? Orlando maybe?
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Apr 30, 2024 18:58
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Try and talk Atlanta into swapping one of their two point guards for a shooting guard?
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Apr 30, 2024 19:04
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beal's contract is so enormous i don't think any team would want him
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Apr 30, 2024 19:06
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Prince's best us is as a guy you use to plug in when a starter goes down so you don't screw up your rotations. Trying to rely on him to actually give you an edge is a fools errand.
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Apr 30, 2024 19:22
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Chronicles posted:I've been going over trade scenarios to "save" the suns, is there any team right now that would even want Beal, provided he agreed to the trade? No, not without additional assets the Suns don't have.
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Lockback posted:Prince's best us is as a guy you use to plug in when a starter goes down so you don't screw up your rotations. Trying to rely on him to actually give you an edge is a fools errand. yeah i hated him this season but if you have a well rounded unit that already knows how to play defense and rebound hes a dude who wont tank it and shoots well, thats a very valuable guy on the right team. that team is not a lakers team who has between 1-2 people who are interested in playing this thing called "defense"
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Apr 30, 2024 19:55
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Ghost Dog posted:taurean prince is annoying cause he is perfectly shaped like the answer to what they need but is simply not that. they need a wing who can defend up positions and rebound while shooting at a decent clip, but prince plays like hes 5'8. I think you are right about double bigs, it’s just gotten harder to do it as the quality drop off after the top 30 bigs falls off really hard. Lockback posted:Dinwiddie was such a great pickup but they don't really have a way to keep him, unless they can figure out a way to get a full MLE and even then I am not sure that gets him. I agree I don't think giving a few of Prince's minutes to Rui would have made a big difference, but if they had another playmakers like Dinwiddie all year it might have given a few more Ws to get a better matchup, maybe. Even 3 wins is a lot. He was good defensively and maybe with another season could be more comfortable on offense. They are basically over the apron by 700 K so it wouldn’t take much.
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Rick posted:I think you are right about double bigs, it’s just gotten harder to do it as the quality drop off after the top 30 bigs falls off really hard. yeah i dont know that there was someone there i just know the guys on the roster aren't really it. altho based on my Eye Test wood and hayes played perfectly fine with AD, the problem was they were usually complete rear end once he was off the court which i guess was also true for every other laker except maybe lebron
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I would have liked to see Woods and AD play together more for sure. That was the best their defense ever looked which is weird to say about Christian Wood and also he probably would have got bored of defense in a week had he not got hurt first but still the potential looked to be there.
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someone on another forum asked me to expand on my thoughts about willie green, so here they are: willie green isn't a bad coach and he isn't a great coach. he was perfect for this particular team at the moment he was hired but i think the team needs to move on from him for the next step. he doesn't give much of a gently caress about offense. look at those names you mentioned about him developing [herb and dyson]. they are both defense first guys. same with jose and naji. they all get a lot longer leash than trey and hawkins do. he scrapped the borrego-influenced offense at the beginning of the season because ingram didn't like playing in it and ingram is his guy. which leads to another problem. relying on nance to solve every problem. nance is his guy and plays better defense than jonas so willie will play nance an inordinate number of minutes some games despite jonas being a consistent source of offense on a team that needs that juice in the half-court without zion. hawkins was absolutely missing defensive rotations early in the year. but he never got any more run after the first month or so and didn't get sent down to the g-league often so he never got any real game experience with making rotations. this meant by the time the playoffs rolled around and the team could have really used his shooting gravity to open things up for others, he wasn't playable. also, herb, naji, jose, and trey got a lot of development time because they were clearly better than the other guys on the bench. dyson didn't get as much this year after guys returned from injury and hawkins hasn't proven himself better than those guys, either. willie plays to win the game that is being played today when it comes to his rotations and lineups. with all that said, willie is incredible at getting a quality defense out of lineups with only a single good defender. and his players play hard for him and he doesn't appear to be an rear end in a top hat or a bad person. Kibner fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Apr 30, 2024 |
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Lockback posted:No, not without additional assets the Suns don't have. Oh yeah I was imagining a KD trade where they use some of the gained picks to ship Beal out
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https://x.com/WardeIICurry30/status/1785164402808762650?t=Q6uclWd_0mFzwJgWSp7wlg&s=01
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I'll admit I didn't read the paper, but couldn't that 8.5% swing just be home court advantage?
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Lifespan posted:I'll admit I didn't read the paper, but couldn't that 8.5% swing just be home court advantage? Or that for my entire lifetime basically the east has been extremely top heavy while the West has had a bunch of good franchises
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Lifespan posted:I'll admit I didn't read the paper, but couldn't that 8.5% swing just be home court advantage? both sets of data the tweet is looking at are teams with home court advantage PDT @ home, hosting EDT team EDT @ home, hosting PDT team
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At a glance it sounds like cope for the east being trash since MJ retired.
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Aye Doc posted:both sets of data the tweet is looking at are teams with home court advantage Ah, I see it's just oddly worded. Shouldn't this instead be comparing a team's away games in the same time zone vs away with a 3 hour time difference? Just seems like a worthless data point.
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Lifespan posted:Ah, I see it's just oddly worded. Shouldn't this instead be comparing a team's away games in the same time zone vs away with a 3 hour time difference? Just seems like a worthless data point. it does quote:To examine the CR phase shift effect on team performance, teams were divided into three groups: 1) teams with the same internal UTC as the local UTC (LS), 2) teams with the internal UTC ahead of the local UTC (LA), and 3) teams with the internal UTC behind the local UTC (LB).
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This just anecdotal and would be a much smaller data set, but it feels to me like west coast teams playing a weekend or holiday day/afternoon game in CDT/EDT often perform worse than expected. Like the mirror image of eastern teams being tired playing a late game out west.
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Welcome Miami Heat. You were an NBA basketball team this season.
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Well that was a slow miserable death march of a season after missing out on lillard. That said, Miami would be in an even worse position paying dame 60+ million for the next handful of years and no assets to speak of. Either way they are kind of hosed. The jimmy butler era was a good one though.
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