OFFICIAL AROUND THE NBA: APRIL 2023

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  1. SlyPokerDog

    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    Meh.
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Can you temporarily ban anyone who posts a lame April fools joke?
     
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    You pay me $20 per person and I'll ban them for the day.
     
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    wait a minute...are you actually asking Sly to ban somebody for posting lame jokes? We're talking about Sly right?
     
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    I can’t believe the lakers only have 3 more losses than the 4th place Suns. Crazy!
     
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    Hey now...
     
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    This came to mind....
     
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    April is so dumb.
     
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    Cugel The epitome of mediocrity

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    I am ready for the off-season. The tank games are pretty hard to watch.
     
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    HailBlazers RipCity

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    I'll pay you $20 in Scooby snacks to ban HCP.
     
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    You watch for Shaedon Sharpe
     
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    Every night we’re getting a fresh Shaedon Sharpe highlight package, idk.
     
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    Fairly-Hard Former Member Gone New!

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    But it isn't real. They aren't playing real games and there is no actual talent he is playing with. A scrub could go out there and go for 25 a night with a couple dunks if they aren't actually trying to win and teams are not even worried about losing to the team you are playing for. Classic good numbers on a very bad team. Not impressed at all. His averages when playing with real NBA caliber players when the team was trying to win is what you have in Sharpe at this point.
     
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    Nah, every night Shae is going out there as the focus of the opposing defense... he's not getting the bulk of his points at the end of the fourth or anything. So a scrub couldn't do it. We have scrubs and they aren't doing it.

    Don't get me wrong I don't think that these numbers are what we should be expecting if Shae is starting next to Dame next season with Jerami and an actual second all star. What this run shows is that when he's called on to score, especially when he's the fourth option, he's going to be able to do it and do it well. The more impressive thing is the way he has been defending first string players. Shaedon is showing that he can be extremely competitive against NBA starters. If you aren't impressed by that, I don't know what to tell you.

    Your assertion that we should judge Shaedon on his performance early in the season instead of his performance right now is ludicrous because the guy is developing at such a rapid rate. 19 years old, never saw any game action at the college level and you want us to forget what we're seeing now and over the last month and instead focus on what was going on three or four months ago because that's the real Shaedon?
     
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    Doesn't it have Colorado, Arizona, and Tennessee in 3 of the top 4 spots? I agree California has too many teams.
     
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    Teams are coming in here knowing the Blazers don't want to win. I simply cannot give these games any value and there is no way you are seeing teams coming in here playing hard. They aren't playing to beat the Blazers. They are playing to collect their win and get out of the game without injury.
     
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    The combined populations of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New York is 500k people more than the population of California... do those states have too many teams? Don't even start doing the math when it comes to combining the populations of Texas and Louisiana or Texas and Oklahoma. California has the right amount of teams. Those California teams are some of the most valuable in the league.

    California has well over nine times as many people as Oregon does but only four times as many NBA teams.
     

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