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longislandcuse
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Lonzo Ball: 29 Points/11 Rebounds/9 Assists
True. But he was playing a glorified college team in Phoenix. The kid has undeniable talent, I'm just curious how he will impact games agaisnt teams against teams with guards who can guard him one on one, like Kentucky and fox and Patrick Beverly.
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8 year olds, dude
longislandcuse
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I don't know what this means..
Last I checked the Suns had Bledsoe, Chandler, Booker, Jackson etc. Those are NBA players.
I'm not saying Lonzo is the next superstar but after the best defender in the NBA shut him down everyone wanted to say Lonzo couldn't put up numbers in an NBA Regular Season game. Well... he just did.
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I watched the entire game...good lord those two teams are horrific lol. The last 5 minutes in particular Phoenix literally just let Lonzo walk down the center of the paint for layups over and over. There was also a possession where Phoenix had two people covering Brandon Ingram in the corner and they talked to each other and decided that both of them should run away from him and just gave him a wide open 3 lol.
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Lonzo will absolutely put up numbers. With the pace that the Lakers play at, their numbers are gonna be crazy inflated. The question is what he can do in the half-court. Last night was better, but he still hasn't shown much. He at least made Phoenix pay for leaving him wide open; that's pretty big that he proved they can't just give him the Rubio treatment.
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i watched much of the game . . . it was a pillowfight between the two worst teams in the western conference in which defense was mostly just a rumor
mcw put up big numbers at times, too. i like the "lonzo carter-williams" meme. except that mcw was and is a much better defender
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kevin love & brooklyn's pick for davis
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Only way Cleveland is touching Davis is if they trade LeBron lol. If the Brooklyn pick and Love were all it took, Davis would be a Celtic.
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When you are making $26 million per year there is no reason to play defense.
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Earl Watson - go to the owner's office and bring your playbook.
Report: Suns fire head coach Earl Watson
Report: Suns fire head coach Earl Watson
I've watched a decent bit of NBA so far this season. If I was an alien from mars plopped down on earth and told to watch hoops, based on the season so far I'd say Giannis is the best player on the planet right now and no one else is even close. I'd probably think about that LeBron dude and how he stuffed Giannis one and one and say hmm, but other than that its Giannis all the way. He is as relentless as Westbrook but with more talent to impact the game in ,
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Yeah man, he's been incredible. He might win Most Improved Player two years in a row lol
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I get that they're getting slaughtered every game, but isn't that kind of the plan?
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Been trying to watch OKC some this year.. and man has Russ been bad so far. Good stats but just awful with his shooting and boatloads of bad turnovers. Melo has been ok.. shooting up and down and rebounding way down. Paul George has not been great either.. jacking 3s non stop. Happy for Jerami as he has found a niche. Thunder have some depth but oddly are not using it well.
Edit- Russ now going nuts in crunch time tonight.
Edit- Russ now going nuts in crunch time tonight.
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Man, Melo hits a 3 to give OKC the 1 point lead with 4 seconds left, only to have Andrew Wiggins hit a deep bank shot 3 at the buzzer to steal it... woulda been nice to see Melo get some shine there as a clutch shooter
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He will have plenty of chances this year.
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Yeah that was nuts. Before late tonight Russ has been awful. They do seem to finding their way together. Paul George and Melo both struggling from 3.. especially George.
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Fantastic shot, but that moving screen could have killed someone.
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Okc has two former cuse .. thus no chance of a moving screen call on the opponent. Watching again.. That is a really poor miss by the officials. About as obvious as it gets.
