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It's getting ridiculous in Indianapolis.
Seven players were sidelined heading into Thursday’s game, which Indiana lost by 35 points to fall to 1-11. Nesmith was getting into a defensive stance in the third quarter when his left foot bent the wrong way. He was helped to the locker room, and the team announced that he wouldn’t return due to knee soreness.
The Rockets kicked the Blazers butt tonight.
Sixers got dominated in the 4th to a DET team missing Duren and Cunningham. That's a situation that can actually make it tougher.
After I watched my Rockets dismantle the Blazers in highly entertaining fashion, I decided to fire up Prime and watch the 4th quarter of Spurs-Warriors.
First of all, great game.
But here’s what I realized: I’m ready for Steph Curry to retire. Please. It’s not that he’s not a great player. It’s not that he’s not entertaining to watch… it’s just that every single time he makes a basket, he and his teammates and Warriors jersey clad fans react so incredibly histrionically that it looks like they’re witnessing 10 simultaneous plane crashes.
The dude makes a layup and the camera pans to a set of Warrior fans rubbing their eyes, mouths agape, gyrating violently as though they’ve never before seen anyone score the basketball. Like it’s totally unprecedented in the history of sports that a guy hit a lightly contested middy off the glass.
It has to stop. Please make it stop.
here’s a clip of more ******-y GS behavior….but Wemby handles it.Quote:
Originally Posted by redsfan9988
https://x.com/SpursCulture/status/19...565664379?s=20
That is so awesome!Quote:
Originally Posted by Betterread
After what Curry did in the last 3 minutes of the France game, Curry can celebrate whenever he wants,Quote:
Originally Posted by redsfan9988
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Originally Posted by redsfan9988
The Trail Blazers held a players-only meeting after losing by 24 points Friday night in Houston, according to Joe Freeman of The Oregonian. It was their first lopsided defeat of the season, and they want to make sure things don’t get out of control.
There's going to be some growing pains with "interim" Head Coach Tiago Splitter. There's an endless number of possibilities how the ebbs and flows of the season could go. With Chauncey there was a consistent effort on the Defensive side of the game, but that's been gradually slipping away game by game since Splitter took over.
Looks like the hiring of Joe Dumars was a major mistake...so far. But, if you let a G.M. go after one season, then you are admitting that the fault isn't with the G.M., but with those responsible for hiring him. If those responsible for hiring him are not fired at the same time, then you are saying that their process and evaluation abilities are still correct and you have to give Dumars a 5-year run to play that process out. Early returns suggest those in charge in New Orleans are at fault (I think they have been incompetent for 25 years, worse than the VAN/MEM franchise).
Dumars held a meeting with his staff this summer where he talked about emphasizing defense, toughness, high basketball IQ and a high motor, then completed a trade an hour later for Poole, who doesn’t fit that description. Poole’s salary of $31.8MM this season and $34MM in 2026/27 was considered “a tough contract to move” by rival executives, Scotto adds. That trade and the deal sending an unprotected 2026 first-rounder to Atlanta in exchange for Queen were pushed by senior vice president of basketball operations Troy Weaver, Dumars’ long-time associate.
The downward trend continued last night in DAL. Missing Holiday for the first time this season, the Blazers were out of PG's, having to use 2-way Rookie Caleb Love during critical stretches. Avdija continues to foul at a league-leading rate. Toumani's Defense has dipped. Splitter is not executing a pressure Defense any more (the only thing that generates this poor shooting team quality shots). Sharpe thinks he's Steph Curry, but can't recognize a poor quality shot by any means. He missed 20 shots last night and the moronic writers of the local bad quality blazer forum (part of Sbnation, so what would you expect) named him player of the game because he scored 36 points. He took 32 shots and played his usual bad defense. Sharpe lost his only means of discipline when Chauncey left and is now gone back to being an immature player. He needs to be benched with Grant moved to the Starting lineup and Toumani moved to the "2", where he plays point on Defense anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kingspoint
Unless Sharpe gets reigned in, this team's season will be one of jockeying for position in the play-in tournament. The current talent-level is 6th Seed, but a continued trend of under-performing looks to be the future, at least through the end of January, where Splitter will have had 14 weeks to advance his level of handling the roster, game management, personalities, expectations and accountability, while also getting tge return, hopefully, of Scoot, Wesley and Thybulle, if not, at least, 2 out of three.
It looks like
Paul George has scored the 76ers first 5 points tonight in his season debut.
Ended up playing 21 min. with 9 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists in the 76ers win.Quote:
Originally Posted by goreds2
OKC was up over New Orleans by 25 points after the first quarter, 49-24. Yeah, they're pretty good.
Also, NOLA is trash.Quote:
Originally Posted by texasdave
OKC has 4 first-round picks in the 2026 draft, including 2 probable lottery picks. Fingers crossed that they don't get lucky with the ping pong balls.
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