By Perfect Blue Go To PostIt’s a sports rating system for zero-sum games. Originally used for Chess then adopted for other sports.Yup. It or a variant of it is also used in video games that claim "skill-based matchmaking". It is a pretty popular ranking system but works best when you have hundreds of matches under your belt. Or, really, a thousand or so, iirc.
By blackace Go To PostTrailblazers
They’ve got the Thunder as being significantly better, LOL 😂
Does anybody even proofread these things? No way in heck they end the season 41-41
By DY_nasty Go To Postwe still better than the knicks thoyou wish, lets bet!
thats crazy right
By unknown Go To Postyou wish, lets bet!Knicks fans are basically short dudes
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27852687/inside-lebron-james-adam-silver-make-break-moments-china
First Draymond, now Morey
LeBron is a cop
His question was related to Morey — and the commissioner’s handling of the Rockets’ GM. James, to paraphrase, told Silver he knew that if a player caused the same type of uproar from something he said or tweeted, the player wouldn’t be able to skate on it. There would be some type of repercussion. So, James wanted to know, what was Silver going to do about it in Morey’s case?
First Draymond, now Morey
LeBron is a cop
By pilonv1 Go To Posthttps://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27852687/inside-lebron-james-adam-silver-make-break-moments-chinais he wrong?
First Draymond, now Morey
LeBron is a cop
By Kawhic Go To PostI highly doubt the league would've dared to punish any player who is even remotely known.I don't know... they made the greatest player ever retire for fucking with the mob. That's kinda the bar
My favorite thing about this site is "I don't like Morey because he's dumb for trading for Westbrook but gets hyped up by the media so I need to do a hot take being anti-anti a dictatorship ethnically cleansing all its religious minorities because increasingly insane hot takes will make up for not having a personality."
Westbrook, not a very great player.
The Chinese Community Party, much worse actually.
"Morey should have waited for a week so that the players weren't in danger" so we're both caping for the CCP while arguing that they are so batshit insane that there was a possibility that they were going to kidnap LeBron James or James Harden, two of the richest and most famous people in the world over a tweet from Morey.
"Morey is a slacktivist and should have done things differently!" you guys can criticize Enes Kanter for almost getting kidnapped by Turkey, there is literally nothing that would have satisfied you,
This site struggles so badly with having any discussion that isn't bad faith shit-talking and it's tiring in the best of times. James Harden has one of the best scoring seasons of all time but loses in the second round? He sucks. Steph Curry has a bad quarter in one of the Finals games down several teammates? He sucks. Literally any player that isn't Kawhi Leonard as of right now? He sucks. And that's like whatever because basketball doesn't matter at all of course, but this bad faith shit talking when it comes to human rights violations is just so gross. DY's bad faith trolling of Enes Kanter is still the nadir of the site, but bad faith trolling of Morey for sending out what he thought he was a mild pro human rights tweet also fucking sucks.
Westbrook, not a very great player.
The Chinese Community Party, much worse actually.
"Morey should have waited for a week so that the players weren't in danger" so we're both caping for the CCP while arguing that they are so batshit insane that there was a possibility that they were going to kidnap LeBron James or James Harden, two of the richest and most famous people in the world over a tweet from Morey.
"Morey is a slacktivist and should have done things differently!" you guys can criticize Enes Kanter for almost getting kidnapped by Turkey, there is literally nothing that would have satisfied you,
This site struggles so badly with having any discussion that isn't bad faith shit-talking and it's tiring in the best of times. James Harden has one of the best scoring seasons of all time but loses in the second round? He sucks. Steph Curry has a bad quarter in one of the Finals games down several teammates? He sucks. Literally any player that isn't Kawhi Leonard as of right now? He sucks. And that's like whatever because basketball doesn't matter at all of course, but this bad faith shit talking when it comes to human rights violations is just so gross. DY's bad faith trolling of Enes Kanter is still the nadir of the site, but bad faith trolling of Morey for sending out what he thought he was a mild pro human rights tweet also fucking sucks.
By IWMTB19 Go To PostMy favorite thing about this site is "I don't like Morey because he's dumb for trading for Westbrook but gets hyped up by the media so I need to do a hot take being anti-anti a dictatorship ethnically cleansing all its religious minorities because increasingly insane hot takes will make up for not having a personality."
Westbrook, not a very great player.
The Chinese Community Party, much worse actually.
"Morey should have waited for a week so that the players weren't in danger" so we're both caping for the CCP while arguing that they are so batshit insane that there was a possibility that they were going to kidnap LeBron James or James Harden, two of the richest and most famous people in the world over a tweet from Morey.
"Morey is a slacktivist and should have done things differently!" you guys can criticize Enes Kanter for almost getting kidnapped by Turkey, there is literally nothing that would have satisfied you,
This site struggles so badly with having any discussion that isn't bad faith shit-talking and it's tiring in the best of times. James Harden has one of the best scoring seasons of all time but loses in the second round? He sucks. Steph Curry has a bad quarter in one of the Finals games down several teammates? He sucks. Literally any player that isn't Kawhi Leonard as of right now? He sucks. And that's like whatever because basketball doesn't matter at all of course, but this bad faith shit talking when it comes to human rights violations is just so gross. DY's bad faith trolling of Enes Kanter is still the nadir of the site, but bad faith trolling of Morey for sending out what he thought he was a mild pro human rights tweet also fucking sucks.
This thread is meant to be a more light hearted fun space to talk sports. Bad faith arguments in sports aren't a serious offense. Recent events have brought Poli and Sports together though, and Political issues of this nature do deserve a more serious focus.
Due to this, we will be creating a new thread for the topic of NBA / China / Blizzard et all. The purpose will be to keep this thread about the NBA and maintain that light hearted feel while also giving people the opportunity to discuss this issue in a serious way.
By IWMTB19 Go To PostMy favorite thing about this site is "I don't like Morey because he's dumb for trading for Westbrook but gets hyped up by the media so I need to do a hot take being anti-anti a dictatorship ethnically cleansing all its religious minorities because increasingly insane hot takes will make up for not having a personality."You don't have to post on here
Westbrook, not a very great player.
The Chinese Community Party, much worse actually.
"Morey should have waited for a week so that the players weren't in danger" so we're both caping for the CCP while arguing that they are so batshit insane that there was a possibility that they were going to kidnap LeBron James or James Harden, two of the richest and most famous people in the world over a tweet from Morey.
"Morey is a slacktivist and should have done things differently!" you guys can criticize Enes Kanter for almost getting kidnapped by Turkey, there is literally nothing that would have satisfied you,
This site struggles so badly with having any discussion that isn't bad faith shit-talking and it's tiring in the best of times. James Harden has one of the best scoring seasons of all time but loses in the second round? He sucks. Steph Curry has a bad quarter in one of the Finals games down several teammates? He sucks. Literally any player that isn't Kawhi Leonard as of right now? He sucks. And that's like whatever because basketball doesn't matter at all of course, but this bad faith shit talking when it comes to human rights violations is just so gross. DY's bad faith trolling of Enes Kanter is still the nadir of the site, but bad faith trolling of Morey for sending out what he thought he was a mild pro human rights tweet also fucking sucks.
By HasphatsAnts Go To Post
I'll give you one guess why they can't print what they said
Oh...it's like that...…....long live China.
By reilo Go To PostYou don't have to post on hereI don't believe this is the correct response for a thread that isn't gaining any new posters.
"The internet is a big place" and all that.
By diehard Go To PostI don't believe this is the correct response for a thread that isn't gaining any new posters.He just talked mad shit about half the posters on here. If it bothers him, then he doesn't need to engage. There's no reason for him to be an asshole about this.
"The internet is a big place" and all that.
By IWMTB19 Go To PostMy favorite thing about this site is "I don't like Morey because he's dumb for trading for Westbrook but gets hyped up by the media so I need to do a hot take being anti-anti a dictatorship ethnically cleansing all its religious minorities because increasingly insane hot takes will make up for not having a personality."I mean... you ain’t necessarily wrong. Couple of folks were saying Siakam is a shit player by the end of the Finals lmao smh.
Westbrook, not a very great player.
The Chinese Community Party, much worse actually.
"Morey should have waited for a week so that the players weren't in danger" so we're both caping for the CCP while arguing that they are so batshit insane that there was a possibility that they were going to kidnap LeBron James or James Harden, two of the richest and most famous people in the world over a tweet from Morey.
"Morey is a slacktivist and should have done things differently!" you guys can criticize Enes Kanter for almost getting kidnapped by Turkey, there is literally nothing that would have satisfied you,
This site struggles so badly with having any discussion that isn't bad faith shit-talking and it's tiring in the best of times. James Harden has one of the best scoring seasons of all time but loses in the second round? He sucks. Steph Curry has a bad quarter in one of the Finals games down several teammates? He sucks. Literally any player that isn't Kawhi Leonard as of right now? He sucks. And that's like whatever because basketball doesn't matter at all of course, but this bad faith shit talking when it comes to human rights violations is just so gross. DY's bad faith trolling of Enes Kanter is still the nadir of the site, but bad faith trolling of Morey for sending out what he thought he was a mild pro human rights tweet also fucking sucks.
By Perfect Blue Go To PostI mean… you ain’t necessarily wrong. Couple of folks were saying Siakam is a shit player by the end of the Finals lmao smh.That part ive been complaining about for a bit now. There's enough reactionary hot takes around the rest of the internet now that i think we can start laying off it a bit. Too many internet brownie points given for shitting on things these days...
By Perfect Blue Go To PostI mean… you ain’t necessarily wrong. Couple of folks were saying Siakam is a shit player by the end of the Finals lmao smh.Still think he sucks tbh
It's less than a week away until Adam loses the opener to us. Dudes been winning. Karmas got my back.
By Fenderputty Go To PostNBA OT: where conversation is only mildly suppressed by modsto be fair kawhi will sit for load management.
By pilonv1 Go To PostDarryl Morey is such a wizard he made the NBAs second biggest market vanish
By Smokey Go To Posthyperbole much
NBA Oct/Nov 2019 I Hyperbole Much
NBA Oct/Nov 2019 I Fake Woke Hyperbole Wizard
By /sy Go To PostNBA Oct/Nov 2019 I Bad Faith Shit Talking Insidei like this
By IWMTB19 Go To PostMy favorite thing about this site is "I don't like Morey because he's dumb for trading for Westbrook but gets hyped up by the media so I need to do a hot take being anti-anti a dictatorship ethnically cleansing all its religious minorities because increasingly insane hot takes will make up for not having a personality."
Westbrook, not a very great player.
The Chinese Community Party, much worse actually.
"Morey should have waited for a week so that the players weren't in danger" so we're both caping for the CCP while arguing that they are so batshit insane that there was a possibility that they were going to kidnap LeBron James or James Harden, two of the richest and most famous people in the world over a tweet from Morey.
"Morey is a slacktivist and should have done things differently!" you guys can criticize Enes Kanter for almost getting kidnapped by Turkey, there is literally nothing that would have satisfied you,
This site struggles so badly with having any discussion that isn't bad faith shit-talking and it's tiring in the best of times. James Harden has one of the best scoring seasons of all time but loses in the second round? He sucks. Steph Curry has a bad quarter in one of the Finals games down several teammates? He sucks. Literally any player that isn't Kawhi Leonard as of right now? He sucks. And that's like whatever because basketball doesn't matter at all of course, but this bad faith shit talking when it comes to human rights violations is just so gross. DY's bad faith trolling of Enes Kanter is still the nadir of the site, but bad faith trolling of Morey for sending out what he thought he was a mild pro human rights tweet also fucking sucks.
Might be the worst take yet on this whole topic
Cool article about how the Pels are using Zion in the pre-season: https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2019/10/16/20913955/zion-williamson-pelicans-rookie-usage-play-types
By Kibner Go To PostCool article about how the Pels are using Zion in the pre-season: https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2019/10/16/20913955/zion-williamson-pelicans-rookie-usage-play-types
Run downhill and dunk has been what got him to the NBA
By blackace Go To PostRun downhill and dunk has been what got him to the NBAYeah but it's interesting to see how the team sets him up to be able to do that.
By DY_nasty Go To Postwell he doesn't have to play point guard now so that helpsI mean Cam and RJ weren't trying to pass or anything