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watching memphis, and man, coward looks like he'll be a two-way star to me. just nothing he's not already good at. in a re-draft right now, he goes #2 for me after flagg.

 

But is he afraid of the big moments?

 

That’s always a legit question isn’t it? Part of my push back on all the eagerness last summer and the summer before to trade AR for this other better fit and that other better fit when he has proven here under the brightest lights HE isn’t and is clutch as hell. Before the hypotheticals got upgraded to other already arrived All Stars.

 

I was thinking the same thing about Coward, he looked like he's been playing at a high level in the league for some time now. He had one of those big draft rises like Jaylin Williams. Happy for him since I think he started at a D3 school or something.

 

What are the Jazz doing?



They made a push before the half. Cutting it to...39

Battle of the 13 win teams.

 

Cody Williams was a -60 for the Jazz.Never seen that before

 

dayam!

 

Ooh, themes fight in’ words. Fines and suspension on the horizon. Ouch.

 

no lies detected

 

booker's having a good year, but last night he and some others from the suns organization were kind of whining about his lack of all star fan support.

he said this:



here's the voting:



most of the guys ahead of you are better players, bro. just facts. you're better than flagg this year. are you better than avdija? probably? is that who you're whining about having whole countries behind? because it better not be luka, jokic, or SGA, who are all two full tiers better than you are.

the best way to answer reporters baiting like this is to say "my job is to play the best i can. i can't control whether fans like or believe i'm the best."

but suggesting that you're better than the people ahead of you on the list and that it's all politics is part of why nobody votes for you. you're not likeable.

 

…. and there’s always that punchable face factor.

 

If there is one thing I love more than the smell of napalm in the morning, it's some good Booker reality check hatin'!!!

 

It's cause



Least likeable "star" in the league. Definitely the poster boy for most punchable

And by his practice gripes...

Spoiler: Language-ish

Plus there's this

When the most popular player in the league hates you. Guess what...

 

Watched Cavs @ 76ers yesterday, and man: not a boring game. (Ryan Ruocco is a PBP guy I like, and he has Legler by his side, a really good commentator. In my opinion.)

In the 4th, at around 8:15, Grimes hits a shot to put PHI up 10, 102-92. This had been a fantastic game, but maybe Philly's gonna pull away here. (They did not.)

Spiderman hits a 3 after an offensive rebound. 76ers timeout. I find I'm pulling for CLE to come back. Why?, I don't know, to be honest. Sometimes I just gotta admit I'm irrational with this jit.

Maxey comes back in. Grimes misses a shot. Jarret Allen hits a 2-footer: PHI up by 5 with 7 mins left.

Grimes misses another shot. Maxey misses a runner just after Edgecomb blocks Craig Porter Jr's floater. It seems like the NBA is suddenly flooded with Porter Jrs, or maybe that's just me. (My last name is not Porter Jr)

Jaylon Tyson, having a career game, hits a 3 footer after a dish from Spiderman: suddenly it's a 3 point game. The NBA is saturated with Jalens, Jaylens, Jaylins, and now this guy, Jaylon. etc. This is an established fact, though the Lakers seem allergic to that name. It was PHI by 10 less than 2 minutes ago. The Philly crowd is loud and obnoxious.

Maxey misses a 3 that I was sure was going in, Hunter hits a 3: tie game, 102-102. A 10-0 run by CLE and the fans in Philly are not diggin' it. Can't say I blame 'em. Nick Nurse takes another timeout. Draw somethin' up, Nick. Somethin' good: you guys really need to score. Obviously. Embiid, Oubre, Mobley all re-enter the game.

Maxey misses another floater. Jarret Allen gets the board. The momentum - whatever the hell that is - feels like it's gone over to CLE entirely. But then...

Jarret Allen telegraphs a pass and Maxey picks it off and takes 3 secs to drive the length of the court to lay it in: PHI back up 2, a little over 5 minutes left.

Then, Spiderman, inbounding the ball after the make, steps forward and lands on the court before passing to a teammate. Ref sees it: turnover. Man! Cavs? You just had everything going your way then you make a bonehead mistake like that? I think of this mistake by Mitchell as not being in Zen mind. Will they recover?

Oubre makes 'em pay with a long 3: 76ers back up 5.

Cavs down in the attacking zone, Mobley has it near the corner sideline, decides to drive and steps back, out of bounds: ANOTHER bad turnover in crunch. Just as they had come back to tie it: Allen throws it away, Mitchell steps on the court before inbounding, and Mobley steps out of bounds, all within a minute. It's hard not to feel like that mystical "momentum" thing had flipped a switch: everything's comin' up 76ers suddenly.

Embiid hits a 17 footer. PHI up 7 again, 4:31 left.

Spiderman misses a layup, but Mobley is there to clean it up for a dunk: PHI by 5.

Maxey hits a 20 foot step-back that's unguardable: PHI back up 7 , just under 4 mins left.

Spiderman misses a 15 footer. Maybe I should just call him "Mitchell" at this point. 76ers take another timeout after getting the board.

At midcourt, the ball gets knocked loose, Embiid dives for the ball, has it, Mitchell jumps on him and, oddly seems to yell to Mobley to come tie it up, which he does: the refs call a jump ball. It should have been Embiid jumping against Mitchell, but the refs let Mobley do it, and Mobley wins the jump, and Tyson hits a 3: CLE down by 4 with 3 mins left.

Maxey's 3 footer is blocked by Mobley: dude is looooong...Tyson gets the board, dishes to Hunter, who, lookin' like The Flash, dunks 3 secs later: CLE is within 2 now.

Embiid misses a 14 footer and Tyson hits yet another corner 3: CLE up 1 with 1:59 left. Tyson ended the game with 39 points, on 7 for 9 from deep. By gawd, the momentum has radically shifted yet again!

Maxey drives to the rack, and gets tripped a little bit, inadvertently, on Jarret Allen's monster shoe, misses the shot, a foul is called. CLE challenges, loses, and Maxey, who always looks facially like he's 16 years old to me, ice-water cooly hits both FTs: Philly back up 1 with 1:50 to go. Anyone who loves the NBA loves this game.

Now it gets really frenetic: Tyson misses a floater, Oubre misses a 27 footer, then Mitchell, looking like Spiderman again, is probing the defense, and hits Hunter for a nice arching floater: CLE back up 1 with a minute left.

PG13 misses a 12 footer I was sure would go down, Spiderman gets the board, then Maxey makes an incredible block on Spider's running layup attempt. Mobley gets the offensive board and is fouled by Oubre; Nurse challenges it and the call is upheld. It was a desperate challenge, use it or lose it kinda deal. But now PHI is out of timeouts, too. There's 22 secs left, Cavs up 1, and Mobley goes to the line: bricks the 1st, as I predicted. 64% FT guys will brick the 1st in crunch, then it's a toss-up if they hit the 2nd: he hits the 2nd: Cavs by 2 with 22 secs left.

Maxey hits a gorgeous runner to tie it with 8 secs left in the game: He had the ball, probed in and out, dished to Embiid, then caught a pass from Embiid that was a perfectly executed play: tie game and Maxey could have done the "I got huge brass ones" gesture if he wanted to, but didn't.

Cavs timeout. What would YOU draw up here? Everyone's thinking: sure Spiderman has looked like merely "Donovan Mitchell" here in the 4th, but you do wanna go with him. He's been here before.

Lonzo Ball enters the game to inbound, heavily guarded, almost a 5-sec violation, but he manages to get it to Tyson in the corner, who wheels toward the baseline and drives to the rack, is smothered by 76ers D underneath the rim, and instead of forcing a shot, makes a wrap-around pass to Mobley for a dunk with 4.8 left. Cavs up 2. Nurse had burned all their timeouts, so Maxey was forced to put up 40 footer that hit only backboard.

CLE wins.

 

Wow nice recap! That can’t be all memory? My guess would be you felt it worthwhile to share and went back and ran the last part of the game again and took notes to write it down later? But if it’s all memory … again Wow! Thanks for the share.

 

Thanks, man.

Yea, I watched it yesterday, then today I dialed up the DVR and re-watched the last 8 mins, taking notes. I remembered most of it, but wanted to get the sequences right, and my responses to the plays are basically what I felt the first time through. That timeout that Nurse called after Maxey pushed the lead back to 7, then Mitchell missed a shot turns out to have been crucial, because that desperation challenge with 22 secs left that failed burned their last TO and Maxey had to try to win it with a halfcourt shot because they couldn't set up a play after at timeout and Mobley missed the first, hit the second. I was actually hoping Maxey's desperate heave went in at the buzzer, because that would have been totally epic.

It was everything an NBA fan loves.

 

lol, loved this.

many parts were funny, but this one made me laugh hardest for some reason:

 

Recall that footage someone got last year at the Sun's bench. Someone told Booker that the Mavs had traded Luka to the Lakers in the last hour or so.

Booker: "Luka Garza?"

Gotta admit: I didn't blame him for not even considering what really happened.