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NBA 2016-2017 Season |OT| What do the Liberty Bell and Ben Simmons have in Common?

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Goran Dragic's eye looked bad last night. Today it looks like photoshop

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BlackNMild2k1 said:
I don't know if the rest protest GSW vs SA was the cause for this, but I just saw this in an article on ESPN.com



Steve Kerr also mentioned that the Warriors were the team that flew the most miles for their schedule 2 years in a row now.

So it looks Adam Silver is trying to address the issue at hand to cut down on resting players.
stretching the season out to cut down on back to backs, and then to maybe plan out the road games to not include so much back and forth.
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This was from waaaaay earlier in the season. The new CBA also increases the team roster to 17 players, with those extra 2 spots going to D-league (sorry, G-league now) players a team both wants to develop in the G-league (fuck it, D-league). Those two players get paid more, as they actually will be contributing to the team, and the d-league as a whole had its salaries raised.

The season will be pushed back one week, there will only be six preseason games, and the schedule is guaranteed to have at max one 4-in-5 days stretch per team.

There was also some weird thing I saw a while back about the NBA messing with creating these resting rooms with sleep pods or something in New York, so that visiting teams, in their free time, could rest. Was really odd.

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They're gonna flip him again this offseason. I sort of figured that defensively DMC and AD would be terrible, but I did not expect they'd get in each other's way so much on offense. AD plays demonstrably worse with DMC on the floor. DMC is looking so far to be more Derrick Coleman and less Rasheed/CWebb. He needs to get his head out of his ass.
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Nah, again, it's too early to say that.

Gentry's previous coaching experience was from the Nash Suns and the Warriors, right? Even before DMC came in, he was looking like the coach most likely to be fired, and for too many plays he has DMC playing like a spot up shooter.

If the Pelicans want to even try for the playoffs, which knowing Boogie and AD, and how Gentry's job is on the line, will happen (them trying), then Boogie and AD need to play way less with one another.

That being said, I'm putting most of the Pelicans' troubles on their wings, and even Jrue Holiday. Jrue has had a few better games now, but still, as their only effective perimeter scorer (asides from... Boogie...), he makes or breaks that core.

Speaking of Jrue, imo, that might as well be the best indication of why Gentry and AD didn't fit with one another. That Spurs game, the ball at the end was going through Jrue every single time. Boogie scorer how many points that game? He only got to touch the ball once or twice that whole 4th quarter + overtime, while Jrue kept shooting (and missing), even getting the go-ahead contested mid-range to try and win the game.

And I remember, earlier in the season, when AD would rest and Jrue was back, the Pelicans were surprisingly still functioning offensively. If anything, they actually seemed to be effectively playing in the motion offense Gentry had been brought in to implement.

I mean, I'm not sure D'Antoni could properly coach the Pelicans' talent, and I don't think it's too surprising that Gentry can't work with the talent he has either. He could still be a good coach, but not for this roster.

I'm not sure I understand the triangle that well, but would that system work better for this team? There was a post on r/nba that went pretty in depth about why they thought the Pelicans should run the system.

Friday night against the Spurs, the Pelicans ran options out of a sideline triangle 7 times in the first quarter. They ended up scoring on 6 out of 7 attempts and generating 13 points (would have been 14, but Boogie missed a free throw). Also 4 out of the 5 players on the floor put the ball through the hoop during this stretch. For a span of a quarter, the Pelicans looked unstoppable. And a quarter is precisely how long this action lasted, never to be seen for the rest of the game.
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I don't know how true this all is, but I definitely don't think the Pelicans' offense was good at utilizing its talent, even before Boogie came in.
 
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That fan got rushed by 15 different people so quickly hahaha, he never had a chance

Where the hell is Harden? None of their beat writers seem to have tweeted anything, so is he just going to the bathroom right now or something?

EDIT: He's back
 
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That fan got rushed by 15 different people so quickly hahaha, he never had a chance

Where the hell is Harden? None of their beat writers seem to have tweeted anything, so is he just going to the bathroom right now or something?

EDIT: He's back
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It's actually concerning and surprising to me that he was able to run around for that long, essentially running in circles. Looked like the Michel Cera scene from superbad
 
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rambis said:
The more I look at the Rockets more it seems like they really are trash outside of Harden. Dantoni is a fucking wizard.
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Offensively, I think Anderson is main constant, he stretches the floor and is probably our best 3 pt shooter. Beverley (one spot-ups) and Capela/Harrell/Nene (one of our bigs, at least) can usually be counted on for scoring some.

Defensively, Ariza, Beverley, Harrell (against smaller teams) and Capela are all great.

Everyone else can either be hot or cold. It's why Harden goes out of his way in the first half to get his teammates good looks, even more than normal. When our other shooters are hot (we have a lot of different shooters who can be hot too), that player seriously goes off.

They don't have any other stars, but they have alot of great role players. But role players can both not show up alot or be the best player on the court.
 
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Offensively, I think Anderson is main constant, he stretches the floor and is probably our best 3 pt shooter. Beverley (one spot-ups) and Capela/Harrell/Nene (one of our bigs, at least) can usually be counted on for scoring some.

Defensively, Ariza, Beverley, Harrell (against smaller teams) and Capela are all great.

Everyone else can either be hot or cold. It's why Harden goes out of his way in the first half to get his teammates good looks, even more than normal. When our other shooters are hot (we have a lot of different shooters who can be hot too), that player seriously goes off.
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Yep. When 2017 Allstar and 3 point contest champion Eric Gordon gets going, the team becomes a major threat
 
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