2023/2024 NBA Season October 18th Opening Tip off! Pg 48

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  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 16,171
    I went to the Knicks Jazz game...  Did Gobert infect us?
    He infected Donovan Mitchell (or was it the other way around?)
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • 23scidoo23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 18,414
    Shut down for at least one month..
    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • cp3iversoncp3iverson Posts: 8,632
    Hope they dont shorten the season.  Theres a good battle for the 8th seed going on out West
  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 38,853
    Hope they dont shorten the season.  Theres a good battle for the 8th seed going on out West
    LeBron!
  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 28,258
    Hope they dont shorten the season.  Theres a good battle for the 8th seed going on out West
    Shorten the season lol they’ll be lucky to even finish it , Italy’s crisis hasn’t even peaked yet we are just at the beginning of this mess. 
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • cutzcutz Posts: 11,400
    Report that 4 Nets players tested positive and Kevin Durant is one of them.
  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 16,171
    Your 2019-2020 NBA Champions: Nobody.
    I don't see how NBA and NHL get back to playing this season.
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • fifefife Posts: 3,327
    Poncier said:
    Your 2019-2020 NBA Champions: Nobody.
    I don't see how NBA and NHL get back to playing this season.
    does this mean I can keep saying even into the next season that the reigning Champs are the TORONTO RAPTORS! Man they beat GS so badly the NBA still has not recovered.  :blush:
    sorry in these stressful times need to make myself happy with something


  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 38,853
    fife said:
    Poncier said:
    Your 2019-2020 NBA Champions: Nobody.
    I don't see how NBA and NHL get back to playing this season.
    does this mean I can keep saying even into the next season that the reigning Champs are the TORONTO RAPTORS! Man they beat GS so badly the NBA still has not recovered.  :blush:
    sorry in these stressful times need to make myself happy with something


    As happy as I was that Toronto won, they did do it minus KD and Clay...  Just sayin.
  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 16,171
    fife said:
    Poncier said:
    Your 2019-2020 NBA Champions: Nobody.
    I don't see how NBA and NHL get back to playing this season.
    does this mean I can keep saying even into the next season that the reigning Champs are the TORONTO RAPTORS! Man they beat GS so badly the NBA still has not recovered.  :blush:
    sorry in these stressful times need to make myself happy with something


    Actually the NBA in order to declare a 2020 champ ran a virtual history of the NBA playoffs from the league's entire existence and the result of course based on historical data was the Boston Celtics beat the Los Angeles Lakers in the finals.
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • fifefife Posts: 3,327
    fife said:
    Poncier said:
    Your 2019-2020 NBA Champions: Nobody.
    I don't see how NBA and NHL get back to playing this season.
    does this mean I can keep saying even into the next season that the reigning Champs are the TORONTO RAPTORS! Man they beat GS so badly the NBA still has not recovered.  :blush:
    sorry in these stressful times need to make myself happy with something


    As happy as I was that Toronto won, they did do it minus KD and Clay...  Just sayin.
    eh this is not a time for facts.  just roll with it ;)

  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 38,853
    fife said:
    fife said:
    Poncier said:
    Your 2019-2020 NBA Champions: Nobody.
    I don't see how NBA and NHL get back to playing this season.
    does this mean I can keep saying even into the next season that the reigning Champs are the TORONTO RAPTORS! Man they beat GS so badly the NBA still has not recovered.  :blush:
    sorry in these stressful times need to make myself happy with something


    As happy as I was that Toronto won, they did do it minus KD and Clay...  Just sayin.
    eh this is not a time for facts.  just roll with it ;)

    lol, very well then.  Carry on.

    Go Raptors!
  • 23scidoo23scidoo Thessaloniki,Greece Posts: 18,414

    Athens 2006. Dusseldorf 2007. Berlin 2009. Venice 2010. Amsterdam 1 2012. Amsterdam 1+2 2014. Buenos Aires 2015.
    Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
    EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.

    I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 16,171
    :lol:
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • cutzcutz Posts: 11,400
    23scidoo said:

    Good one because its true.
  • cutzcutz Posts: 11,400
    edited April 2020
    Post edited by cutz on
  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 38,853
    cutz said:
    He's playing a bunch of 5'5" guys, of course he's dominating...
  • cutzcutz Posts: 11,400
    edited April 2020


    Tough to choose?


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    Post edited by cutz on
  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 38,853
    That's easy.  90's.  All 5 of those players played D.  Only one really Big man in Hakeem and he could defend perimeter if he had to.

    All those players had a team mentality along with a killer one.

    The 10's could shoot all day but wouldn't be able to defend a lick.

    The 80's guys can shoot and play D but the tenacity of the 90's they would lose.

    70's they are just starting to become of their own.  You take anyone of them and do a crossover and they would be toast even if Pistol Pete was doing it.

    The 60's are too long and would get killed by outside shooting.
  • cp3iversoncp3iverson Posts: 8,632
    edited April 2020
    Love 80s basketball.  Grew up at the Spectrum with Dr J and Barkley but i may go with the 00s beating the 90s for the title. 

    AI passed when he was surrounded by talent, so im not worried about that aspect.  Stockton would still make things happen.  Their strengths would both be highlighted here.  Even Stockton’s defense could only stop AI so much.  

    Barkley couldnt guard anyone when he was in his prime in 1990, so he’s not stopping a late 2000s Lebron.  MJ and Kobe would defend eachother into awful shooting games.  Mike would adjust and find ways to contribute.  

    Prime Shaq and prime Olajuwon would be a treat.  And the greatest PF ever (Duncan) vs the 2nd greatest would be interesting.  Not a Lebron fan but he’s the difference maker here.  90s win the rebounding battle but the 00s get a 2 point win. 
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  • cutzcutz Posts: 11,400
    ^^All nice replys^^^

     I posed the question to some of my friends who are old enough to have seen all of those decades. 2 said the 60's with one saying the 60's and it wouldn't be close. One guy has to be around 70 or so and my good friend is 80. One also pointed out by which rules would the game be played? (Obviously no 3-point line in the 60's and basically all of the 70's) How would the 60's do playing with their rules at the time?

    It'd be good Bar Room discussion.
  • The JugglerThe Juggler Behind that bush over there. Posts: 47,141
    cutz said:
    ^^All nice replys^^^

     I posed the question to some of my friends who are old enough to have seen all of those decades. 2 said the 60's with one saying the 60's and it wouldn't be close. One guy has to be around 70 or so and my good friend is 80. One also pointed out by which rules would the game be played? (Obviously no 3-point line in the 60's and basically all of the 70's) How would the 60's do playing with their rules at the time?

    It'd be good Bar Room discussion.
    The rules question is a great one, actually. 

    I think the 90's team is the best.
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  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 16,171
    Obviously very tough to compare eras.
    I'd eliminate the 10's right away because of the aforementioned lack of D.
    If all these guys grew up in the same time period with the same training facilities etc. available, I'd probably go with the 60's just cause Wilt's physical domination combined with Russell's sheer will to win would be hard to overcome.
    One of the key things I think to consider, more than pure talent, is that will to win/killer instinct.
    I'd say Jordan tops that list, followed closely by Bird, Kobe, Russell, Magic and Thomas.
    Based on that metric, the 80's would win, cause that is a team loaded with guys who'd rather decapitate you than give you a layup.

    This weekend we rock Portland
  • cutzcutz Posts: 11,400

    KAREEM ABDUL JABBAR IN HS


    https://youtu.be/-rYSXtkyY3U
  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 38,853
    cutz said:

    KAREEM ABDUL JABBAR IN HS


    https://youtu.be/-rYSXtkyY3U
    Goaltending wasn't a rule yet?

    Who's the 7' white dude on the other team?
  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 38,853
    Poncier said:
    Obviously very tough to compare eras.
    I'd eliminate the 10's right away because of the aforementioned lack of D.
    If all these guys grew up in the same time period with the same training facilities etc. available, I'd probably go with the 60's just cause Wilt's physical domination combined with Russell's sheer will to win would be hard to overcome.
    One of the key things I think to consider, more than pure talent, is that will to win/killer instinct.
    I'd say Jordan tops that list, followed closely by Bird, Kobe, Russell, Magic and Thomas.
    Based on that metric, the 80's would win, cause that is a team loaded with guys who'd rather decapitate you than give you a layup.

    I was strongly considering the 80's but I think 90's and Jordan on the team that all ends.  Plus I'll never forget listening to Magic talk about the Dream Team and Jordan being the "new sheriff in town" and that he was just head and shoulders above anyone else.

    If Lebron had the killer instinct that any of the players you mentioned above then I would have picked 00's.  Lebron and Kobe on the same team is just lethal and a defensive nightmare for any offense.
  • cutzcutz Posts: 11,400
    edited April 2020
    cutz said:

    KAREEM ABDUL JABBAR IN HS


    https://youtu.be/-rYSXtkyY3U
    Goaltending wasn't a rule yet?

    Who's the 7' white dude on the other team?
    HAHA, that's funny because that was two things I noticed in the Video too. 

    Both schools are NO longer(which I'm sure you know Tempo living in NY)
    Post edited by cutz on
  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 38,853
    cutz said:
    cutz said:

    KAREEM ABDUL JABBAR IN HS


    https://youtu.be/-rYSXtkyY3U
    Goaltending wasn't a rule yet?

    Who's the 7' white dude on the other team?
    HAHA, that's funny because that was two things I noticed in the Video too. 

    Both schools are NO longer(which I'm sure you know Tempo living in NY)
    My friends father went to the same school as Kareem.  Said he was a jerk back then.  He was a big deal though.
  • cutzcutz Posts: 11,400
    edited April 2020
    cutz said:
    cutz said:

    KAREEM ABDUL JABBAR IN HS


    https://youtu.be/-rYSXtkyY3U
    Goaltending wasn't a rule yet?

    Who's the 7' white dude on the other team?
    HAHA, that's funny because that was two things I noticed in the Video too. 

    Both schools are NO longer(which I'm sure you know Tempo living in NY)
    My friends father went to the same school as Kareem.  Said he was a jerk back then.  He was a big deal though.
    I  know someone who lives in NY and saw him play in HS.  He scouts HS basketball and he's been at it for a LONG time.

    Here he is talking a little about Kareem:

    https://youtu.be/rmhFx91H80s?t=1093
    Post edited by cutz on
  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 38,853
    cutz said:
    cutz said:
    cutz said:

    KAREEM ABDUL JABBAR IN HS


    https://youtu.be/-rYSXtkyY3U
    Goaltending wasn't a rule yet?

    Who's the 7' white dude on the other team?
    HAHA, that's funny because that was two things I noticed in the Video too. 

    Both schools are NO longer(which I'm sure you know Tempo living in NY)
    My friends father went to the same school as Kareem.  Said he was a jerk back then.  He was a big deal though.
    I  know someone who lives in NY and saw him play in HS.  He scouts HS basketball and he's been at it for a LONG time.

    Here he is talking a little about Kareem:

    https://youtu.be/rmhFx91H80s?t=1093
    This was VERY interesting to watch.  Thanks for posting!

    So you actually know Tom Konchalski?  
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