THEE OFFICIAL 2019-2020 NBA OFFSEASON THREAD: VICTORY LAP

HIM · Apr 28, 2020

osh kosh bosh said:
After coming across a few clips of the Ethan Strauss book in just totally baffled at every turn by Kevin Durant sometimes.

Totally predictible outcomes he's shocked and appalled by.

I bet any of us jerks on NT could have told him "to you know if you go to GSW and stomp a ****ty Cavs team in the finals almost nobody will crown you as the undisputed best player.

Like right or wrong, but that's like the most predictible outcome and it feels like KD should have seen it coming.

A lot of us were saying just that but you also had another group who thought it wouldn’t shake out the way it did. So I guess I could see where KD was expecting it to end differently.

MajinZuub · Apr 28, 2020

You guys think someone makes a move for Love this offseason?

Maximus Meridius · Apr 28, 2020

That part when Craig Sager is passing Rodman in the hall threw him a bill and said "I'll pay your fine". He was a cool mfer. Rip.

do work son · Apr 28, 2020

he also ditched his family for a bulls dancer, then got bone marrow transplant from his son, to then write his family out of his will. two very polar opposites from the dude.

lawdog1 · Apr 28, 2020

zube42 said:
You guys think someone makes a move for Love this offseason?

I’d be able to answer better when I actually know when the off-season will start.

friscostylez · Apr 28, 2020

Lol I didn't know Craig was a scumbag...can't say I'm surprised mf looked lame af. The bulls dancer, Stacy, looks like a st8 up *****.

lawdog1 · Apr 28, 2020

Did Sager reconcile with his family though? I feel like toward the end of his life his son and daughter were very supportive of him on Twitter.

MVP · Apr 28, 2020

storm2006 said:
You make this sound easy

It is. In actuality Bean probably just plays Draymond like he did Rondo and just plays center field.

kingjay718 · Apr 28, 2020

dcallamerican said:
Solid Read

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Maaaaan steve Francis Was one of my favorites. Damn shame he got robbed here in Harlem though.

But thank god for him that he signed that max deal before his career started to nose dive.

pums · Apr 28, 2020

MVP said:
It is. In actuality Bean probably just plays Draymond like he did Rondo and just plays center field.

Their have been better defensive players than Shaq and Kobe who could not do that . What makes you think they could?

darthska · Apr 28, 2020

lawdog1 said:
Yeah, still not funny to me. But if you like it, that’s great. Obviously a lot of people enjoy these or they wouldn’t keep doing them. I’m not in that group, but they should cook on.

akajae said:
cornier

OK, I thought that one was funny. Straight hit him with a chair. Tackled him during a FT. :lol:

darthska · Apr 28, 2020

Not possible that Sager's family is toxic and he was intentionally distancing/cutting ties? We're sure that they were all good and he was the douche?

DCAllAfrican · Apr 28, 2020

freeze said:
Ok, no gentrification this time. Like this impression?

Or all these dudes corny?

They were cool 18 months ago. They have been expired for a while now.

pums · Apr 28, 2020

darthska said:
Not possible that Sager's family is toxic and he was intentionally distancing/cutting ties? We're sure that they were all good and he was the douche?

Toxic or not if your son undergoes two bone marrow transplants to try to keep you alive. That should still mean something. Bone marrow transplants are not easy.

HIM · Apr 28, 2020

Crowd was going crazy for the Clips :lol

MVP · Apr 28, 2020

pums said:
Their have been better defensive players than Shaq and Kobe who could not do that . What makes you think they could?

Cavs weren't historically great defensively (matter of fact they had a couple poor defenders out there) nor were the Raptors and they both held GS to before their usual offensive output and the effectiveness of their pick n roll. Kobe was all world defensively during that entire 3 peat run, Fox, Fish and Horry all held their own as good defenders. Lakers that first season were the best defensive team in the league and were the best defensive team in the 01 playoffs.

pums · Apr 28, 2020

MVP said:
Cavs weren't historically great defensively (matter of fact they had a couple poor defenders out there) nor were the Raptors and they both held GS to before their usual offensive output and the effectiveness of their pick n roll. Kobe was all world defensively during that entire 3 peat run, Fox, Fish and Horry all held their own as good defenders. Lakers that first season were the best defensive team in the league and were the best defensive team in the 01 playoffs.

That didn’t stop Mike Bibby from torching the Lakers. Curry is like a super Saiyan V3 of Bibby.

The best defense against curry has always been to switch it and make him beat you one on one. You have been saying trap but playing 3 against 4 is an L everytime.

Zo gif · Apr 28, 2020

"Rodman is uninteresting"

lawdog1 · Apr 28, 2020

lawdog1 said:
^^^ I’m not normally a hater about this kind of thing, but Nick ****ing Cannon? Why, Mariah? Why?

This basically sums up my feelings on the Nick Mariah pairing...credit Chris Rock:

freeze · Apr 28, 2020

dcallamerican said:
They were cool 18 months ago. They have been expired for a while now.

Broooooooo yes. That's my biggest thought about all of them. I'm shocked these 2 dudes are still making these impression vids. Like..I'm shocked. Black dude got put on the map doing the Russ and harden vids like Russ MVP yr. Like, I'm shocked they're still on this level. I'd be bored as hell by now if it was me.

Some of them are funny to me when I catch em in my timeline, but body is checking for them anymore I feel. Last one I saw was son saying 'if bball players played baseball' and was imitating Bron and harden and Russ on the baseball field

MVP · Apr 28, 2020

pums said:
That didn’t stop Mike Bibby from torching the Lakers. Curry is like a super Saiyan V3 of Bibby.

The best defense against curry has always been to switch it and make him beat you one on one. You have been saying trap but playing 3 against 4 is an L everytime.

Lakers weren't elite defensively in 2002 which is why I didn't include that season (the only one where Bibby "torched" them.

Lakers had the personnel to do both. If I'm not mistaken Draymond was just referring to the non-KD version. In any light, his ridiculous proclamation is unfounded given that the Steph-Dray pick n roll has been neutralized by lesser defensive teams than those peak Laker squads.

alchemist iq · Apr 28, 2020

Zo gif said:
"Rodman is uninteresting"

Wait who said that?

Maximus Meridius · Apr 28, 2020

darthska said:
Not possible that Sager's family is toxic and he was intentionally distancing/cutting ties? We're sure that they were all good and he was the douche?

That's why I don't speak on family business. We on the outside and really don't know nothing. Like when people tried to say "they" stopped Kobe's parents from speaking at the service. I'm like y'all don't know a damn thing.

tomdiginson · Apr 28, 2020

darthska said:
Not possible that Sager's family is toxic and he was intentionally distancing/cutting ties? We're sure that they were all good and he was the douche?

Don't be daft. Your son just gave you bone marrow and he was on TV doing interviews with you etc and all of sudden they are toxic? Feel like that word is just tossed around these days. Sager got strung off young ***** and she fooled him into adjusting his will. It's not the first it happened and it damn sure wont be the last

storm2006 · Apr 28, 2020

lawdog1 said:
This basically sums up my feelings on the Nick Mariah pairing...credit Chris Rock:

That article left out the best part at the end: "Seeing Janet Jackson with Jermaine Dupri is like finding out about a sale a day too late. “damn they were selling bentleys for $4 yesterday?! I messed up man!”" The sheer and utter disrespect :rollin