Could also be a “did not show up for his testing appointment with the nurse” incident. Which buys you 48 hours in your room and two consecutive tests.View: https://mobile.twitter.com/msinger/status/1289956186163314694
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Bledsoe on a hot streak might be enough this year. He is a pretty mediocre shooter from deep but he's cut down on his takes. He isn't really more efficient - maybe just less inefficient. But he can create offense in those deep in series sequences where everyone knows each others sets. He is a pretty good wrinkle in the Bucks offense.My only big takeaway so far is Milwaukee is going to need some insanely clutch shooting to get by Toronto.
e and come back? Heck, I’ve done it. As CR67 said,
I like the spirit of making the games count amongst the crappy teams, however I can't help to think you'd have the audience of the absolute diehards amongst each team's fans but overall it would be the NBA's version of the NCAA CBI Tournament.In their latest podcast last night, Simmons and Russillo noted that one of the NBA's return has been going so well is that they've gotten rid of the eight worst teams in the league and only have the best 22 involved - and when you get rid of teams that would be sucking and/or tanking at this stage of the season, of course the quality of the product is likely to be better. That makes me wonder: is there a scheduling model that would allow something like this to happen in a normal season? You could plan at the start of the season to jettison the worst eight teams after everyone has played 68 games, then come up with a balanced schedule for the top 22 to finish the season while exiling the bottom eight into a home-and-home set of 14 games - the latter would be your top eight lottery teams, but maybe the teams among them with the best records in the final 14 games would get the most ping-pong balls in the lottery, to give them something to play for and completely removing tanking from the equation. And having that first cutoff in February or March would spice up the regular season and add another inflection point to make it feel more meaningful.
There are leagues in some sports around the world where something like this happens, by the way - I know of other soccer and hockey leagues that do have their regular seasons played across multiple stages. For example, there are 12 teams in the Scottish Premier League (soccer), and they play a 38-game season which involves having each team play each other three times (33 games) before cutting the league in half, so that the top 6 teams play each other once more and the bottom 6 teams play each other once more. Only the teams in the top 6 can win the title and qualify for European competition the next year, and only teams in the bottom 6 can be relegated.
Fuck that, Toronto is going to need some insanely clutch shooting to get by Boston.My only big takeaway so far is Milwaukee is going to need some insanely clutch shooting to get by Toronto.
Will that really help, since people are naturally going to look at the top of the jersey for the name? I don't have a problem with it because I can survive not knowing right away that Monte Morris just scored that basket, but IDK if just adding the name to the bottom solves anything.It looks like they added player names to the bottom of the jersey on the back, I haven't noticed those there until the games today.
They use names on the bottom occasionally in European Soccer too for example Bayern Munich. You get used to it after a while.Will that really help, since people are naturally going to look at the top of the jersey for the name? I don't have a problem with it because I can survive not knowing right away that Monte Morris just scored that basket, but IDK if just adding the name to the bottom solves anything.
Yesterday Jusuf Nurkic had "Ravnoprovnost" on the back of his jersey and I kept quickly thinking "Whoa, that guy has a crazy last name" before realizing it was Nurkic. Ravnoprovnost means "equality" in Bosnian, I am told.
If the Celtics have any hope of getting to the #2 seed, it will be decided in the next couple of days. If Miami wins today, then the Celtic's will get them tomorrow on their back-to-back.Some good daytime basketball starting up. Raptors and Heat just tipped
Gonna use the ears to take a fly?I think I would enjoy it if I looked like Meyers Leonard for a day.
Dumb flagrant call which completely reversed momentumAnd the refs (after upholding the offensive foul that KO embellished) screw him with a flagrant "hostile act". He swiped at the ball and grazed Lowry's face. completely natural act in basketball.
Yup, but it has been a very entertaining 2nd half.Dumb flagrant call which completely reversed momentum
The Sixers are only one game behind Indiana.Raptors now up 4 on the C's with 6 to go. Heat drop to 2.5 back of C's for the 3rd seed. If C's win tomorrow vs. Miami it's all but certain it will be C's/Sixers in the first round. I hate that matchup.
Why is that all but certain when there is a one game difference between Indy and Philly?Raptors now up 4 on the C's with 6 to go. Heat drop to 2.5 back of C's for the 3rd seed. If C's win tomorrow vs. Miami it's all but certain it will be C's/Sixers in the first round. I hate that matchup.
The Sixers are only one game behind Indiana.
Indiana has the tiebreaker with Philly so it's essentially a 2 game lead. Philly came into the day with a 60% chance of getting the 6th seed.Why is that all but certain when there is a one game difference between Indy and Philly?
That seems fair enough. But 60/40 is far from "all but certain."Indiana has the tiebreaker with Philly so it's essentially a 2 game lead. Philly came into the day with a 60% chance of getting the 6th seed.
Very much this.I know the 76ers have top end talent, but that team hasn't been very good this year. I know people are worried about the Celtics not being to guard Embiid, and Embiid will probably have his way with Boston, but Philly is a really poorly assembled basketball team and the Celtics have been significantly better then them for this entire season. If the Celtics can't get by Philly in the first round, they were not going to do anything in the postseason anyway.
39 minutes for him is a great sign.Michael Porter Jr. Damn.
Totally agreed. Except for the fact that the team I've been rooting for has lost literally every game I've watched (all three Rockets opponents e.g.), and usually in annoying fashion, I've been shocked how entertained I've been. I thought the state of the Warriors, Red Sox, and our country might have turned me into a hollowed out shell incapable of sports feeling. I was wrong. NBA action is actually fantastic...Two great games already today. Bubble basketball has been AWESOME