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Re: Around the League: Week 14 3/22-3/28

Posted: Mon May 24, 2021 7:18 pm
by Mori Chu
Obviously fake. We are going to resign Rubae after CP3 leaves us in the offseason.

Re: Around the League: Week 14 3/22-3/28

Posted: Mon May 24, 2021 7:24 pm
by Split T
Rubio still has another year on his deal

Re: Around the League: Week 14 3/22-3/28

Posted: Tue May 25, 2021 8:17 am
by bajanguy008
Random one :) but Barbs is not a name I thought I would see in this. The last season wasn't half bad tbh


Re: Around the League: Week 14 3/22-3/28

Posted: Tue May 25, 2021 3:23 pm
by JeremyG
Remember that highly-coveted, much-talked about, and frequently-traded 2021 Miami first-round draft pick? It ends up being #18.

https://www.nba.com/news/ties-broken-fo ... -nba-draft

Re: Around the League: Week 14 3/22-3/28

Posted: Tue May 25, 2021 3:28 pm
by ShelC

Re: Around the League: Week 14 3/22-3/28

Posted: Tue May 25, 2021 3:36 pm
by Indy
ShelC wrote:
Tue May 25, 2021 3:28 pm
guys in their 7th season shouldn't be winning this. And honestly, he was pretty good his last year on the Pels. If he wasn't in NY, he wouldn't have won it.

Re: Around the League: Week 14 3/22-3/28

Posted: Tue May 25, 2021 3:45 pm
by Split T
Indy wrote:
Tue May 25, 2021 3:36 pm
ShelC wrote:
Tue May 25, 2021 3:28 pm
guys in their 7th season shouldn't be winning this. And honestly, he was pretty good his last year on the Pels. If he wasn't in NY, he wouldn't have won it.
Hmm, don’t you think improvements are more impressive later in players careers as opposed to when they are supposed to be improving?

You’re right that Randle has had some impressive years, but he’s never shot like this before...and the shots he’s taking are really tough shots. His play has been pretty huge for NY. He’s the reason they are in the playoffs and not a lotto team.

Who would you have given it to?

Re: Around the League: Week 14 3/22-3/28

Posted: Tue May 25, 2021 4:11 pm
by Indy
Split T wrote:
Tue May 25, 2021 3:45 pm
Indy wrote:
Tue May 25, 2021 3:36 pm
ShelC wrote:
Tue May 25, 2021 3:28 pm
guys in their 7th season shouldn't be winning this. And honestly, he was pretty good his last year on the Pels. If he wasn't in NY, he wouldn't have won it.
Hmm, don’t you think improvements are more impressive later in players careers as opposed to when they are supposed to be improving?

You’re right that Randle has had some impressive years, but he’s never shot like this before...and the shots he’s taking are really tough shots. His play has been pretty huge for NY. He’s the reason they are in the playoffs and not a lotto team.

Who would you have given it to?
He is a less efficient scorer this year than his last year in L.A. and his year in LA. He is just taking a lot more shots and added 3s. Even with the over 40% from 3 this year, he had a higher eFG in those Laker/Pels days.

As for it being impressive that he took a jump in year 7, as I said I don't think it was a jump. It was an increase in role, taking more shots than ever before. But he led the Knicks to the playoffs, so he is going to get the accolades.

I am not sure who "should have" won. Of all the awards, this one baffles me each year; it is just a weird award to give. If it is a guy in his first few years, the counter argument is "of course he is getting better, he is still learning the NBA." If it is guy later in his career, it is "he is finally living up to his potential!"

Re: Around the League: Week 14 3/22-3/28

Posted: Tue May 25, 2021 4:15 pm
by ShelC
I agree. He's put up numbers before when given the opportunity but the Lakers and Pels never really went all in with him. He's gotten better in general but this year had more to do with coaching IMO and Thibs giving him the ball and saying "we're playing thru you".

Re: Around the League: Week 14 3/22-3/28

Posted: Tue May 25, 2021 5:06 pm
by Mori Chu
I'd prefer to see a guy get the MIP award at this point in his career rather than some 2nd or 3rd year guy who made improvement simply by not being 19 any more.

Re: Around the League: Week 14 3/22-3/28

Posted: Tue May 25, 2021 5:38 pm
by Flagrant Fowl
Randle went from a guy two teams had moved on from to becoming selected for All-NBA. He deserves the MIP this year.

Re: Around the League: Week 14 3/22-3/28

Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 12:05 pm
by LazarusLong
Utah Jazz defensive pillar Mark Eaton dies from injuries received in a bicycle accident.
Drafted by the Suns (age/draft eligible) but signed with Jazz when drafted several years later.

https://www.deseret.com/2021/5/29/22459 ... e-accident

Re: Around the League: Week 14 3/22-3/28

Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 12:13 pm
by Superbone
RIP big man. You died too soon.

Re: Around the League: Week 14 3/22-3/28

Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 12:22 pm
by SunsRIt
Shawn Bradley was paralyzed when he was hit by a car while riding his bike a few months ago.

Re: Around the League: Week 14 3/22-3/28

Posted: Sun May 30, 2021 12:25 pm
by Split T
Not been a good year for 7 footers riding bikes in Utah..really sad stuff

Re: Around the League: Week 14 3/22-3/28

Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2021 11:42 am
by Superbone
Oh, man. I just came across this. This is hilarious for all The Office / hoops fans:


Re: Around the League: Week 14 3/22-3/28

Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2021 12:21 pm
by ShelC

Re: Around the League: Week 14 3/22-3/28

Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2021 12:44 pm
by Bucktastic365
Flagrant Fowl wrote:
Tue May 25, 2021 5:38 pm
Randle went from a guy two teams had moved on from to becoming selected for All-NBA. He deserves the MIP this year.

Randle looked A LOT slimmer to me this year; dare I say proportional, and that, along with Trolls offense thru him, is what made him effective.

He went from league-journeyman to starter in a year; I'd call that most improved

Re: Around the League: Week 14 3/22-3/28

Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2021 4:42 pm
by ShelC
Fuck this noise. Monty should've won last year and this year. The Knicks Knick'd last year so the improvement just looked that much more dramatic under Thibs.


Re: Around the League: Week 14 3/22-3/28

Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2021 4:46 pm
by Cap
ShelC wrote:
Mon Jun 07, 2021 4:42 pm
Monty should've won last year and this year.
Monty was the choice of his peers. That probably means more to him than the media vote. Bunch of writers who think they know better than the coaches. Feh.

Yeah, those grapes are sour.