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  1. Rastapopoulos

    Rastapopoulos Well-Known Member

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    It's SUPER early, but Andre Drummond is looking revitalized. I just watched him pick Trae Young clean.

    Also: did Charlotte just make a good draft pick? Who is this PJ Washington?
     
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    Too early.
     
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    That's what Layman is wondering! Washington just bumped Jake from the co-lead for most 3-pointers made in a debut.
     
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    Rastapopoulos Well-Known Member

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    Lot of empty seats in Houston...
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Early season...... day 3?
     
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    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    Do we crown the Clippers?
     
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    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    Suns might end up surprising a lot of folks.
     
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    B-Roy If it takes months

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    It's too early but....

    Watching the Warriors....Steph is going to understand what Dame has been dealing with for the last 4 years.
     
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    I’m thinking Wolves could surprise?
     
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    Seriously. what was that team they put around him?
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    And Draymond is going to look like..... not an All-Star.
     
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    The Clips are supposed to be good because of their D. A 46 point offensive 3rd quarter last night.....without Paul George...on the road....surprised me.
     
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    The Warriors have 4 NBA players. Wouldn't make too much of this.
     
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    I think the only big surprise so far has been the Suns smoking the Kings, not that the kings are a championship contender but most people had the suns as an awful team, and the kings as a borderline playoff team, so beating the Kings by 30 was a little bit of an eye-opener, they play the Nuggets tonight, a win there and that'll be the early story of the season for me.
     
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    after watching the Bucks last night I was surprised that Brook Lopez played great defense at times and that Wes Mathews was absolutely horrible...Pat Connaughton should get all the Wes minutes he can handle. I'm kind of surprised at the numbers Shabazz Napier is putting up in Minnie off the bench...he could become a triple double six man...had 7 assists last game
     
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    B-Roy If it takes months

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    No money. They're paying a guy almost a third of their cap to sit on the bench.

    There was one possession last night where Steph made like 4 or 5 dribble moves and ended up hitting a long two pointer. It's like wow, he's an amazing player, but it's gonna be a frustrating experience for him dealing with that every night. I felt pretty bad for him the same way I felt bad for Dame after LA/Wes/Batum/Lopez left.
     
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    Is this thread serious? Some teams have only played like 1 game!
     
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    At this rate, there will be a Playoff thread created by next week.
     
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    The thread will probably continue for 3-4 weeks, you don't have to have anything to say about early surprises now...
     
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    NOBODY should. You can't really be surprised by anything if a team has only played once can you?
     
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