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It was always heading in this direction after they made the finals. Happy for Myles to finally be in a winning situation with a long term deal. The Laker Turner dream is finally dead. We missed the boat putting him next to AD anyways.

One thing that's annoying me watching the finals is how often SGA pushes off his defender to generate space, it's constant. Why does the NBA just allow certain players to get away with things that no-one else can.

 

What a shocker Thunder win in a blowout.

 

if that was Luka he would always be called for a push off.

 

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i can see this. people forgot sampson because of the injuries, but he was pretty wemby-esque in terms of the combination of length and talent according to my dad (i was too young to confirm much here).

i don't think it was ever as alive as everyone swears. i mean, every time the rubber hit the road, indy re-upped him. the only time i think he was truly available was when sabonis was still there, and even then, you'd have had to blow them away.

i'd also say that both he and haliburton would have a very hard time as lakers. turner has had 5 or fewer rebounds in 2/3 of their playoff games and hit double digits once the entire run. if he were here, crucified. same with hali throwing up triple singles here and there. luka can't score under 30 without being targeted in the press (his career playoff averages are 31/9/8, and he's a fall guy around here with some already lol).

yeah, i was ranting about this last week. it's just super obvious that NOBODY else is going to be allowed to do that, imo. it's the reason he's an mvp candidate instead of a standard allstar, imo, just like harden's b******* was the reason he was. both very good players on real merits who got flabbergasting assists from the refs in a coordinated effort.