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4 hours ago, Zaximus said:

I'm hoping Detroit and NY are in positions to just rest people.  Detroit probably will be.  We can't lose to the Pacers for sure though.  

True there’s a decent chance Pistons and Knicks will have nothing to play for. Wolves and Celtics on the road will be tough but if we can split those, take care of business against the Pacers and then Pistons/Knicks rest starters we’d be in great shape to get the 7/8 seed.

Great win. We've been absolutely dominant against bottom feeders so no worries about tomorrow. The last 4 are seriously tough though. Gotta win enough to stay in the 8 seed.

3 hours ago, toldozer said:

It's a dangerous game but I'd rather play the Pistons instead of the celtics. That means staying in 8th and beating the Heat at home after losing to the Raptors. Obviously best case would be finding a way into the 6th seed but I think the loss to Philly pretty much sealed the Hornets fate to be in the play in

dude I don't give a crap who we play as long as we get into the playoffs. Obviously the season is already a success but man it'd hurt to get a 9 or 10 seed and lose in the play in round after how well we've played the last 3 months

14 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

This isn't even close.

Rivera never had back to back winning seasons and finished his career with an overall losing record at 102-103.

McD only had one losing season in 9 and had 7 straight 10+ win seasons and is currently only 4 wins away from Ron's win total but he has 53 fewer losses.

On the surface it appears that way but I don't think it's this simple. Rivera had Gettleman and Hurney as GMs, McD had Beane the entire time. Allen's prime has lasted wayyy longer than Cam's did. And while Rivera's record in Washington looks awful, given the context of the dumpster fire they were under Snyder I think he did well there all things considered. 

Offseason discussion as we await the draft… 

With McD getting fired recently I thought this would be an interesting question. Rivera had the higher peak with 15 win season and a SB appearance. McDermott obviously had way more sustained success but he had Josh Allen for way more of his prime than Rivera had Cam for.

I’d argue McD also had the better GM and overall rosters, despite Rivera having a few more elite talents than him. Both defensive minded guys although the Bills never really had an elite D under McD while Rivera had some incredible defenses (albeit with McD as DC for the best one in 2013). 
 

Rivera’s Washington tenure was rough on paper but I think he did solid to make the playoffs even with a losing record under that atrocious owner.

Who would you pick for HC of the two?

Frustrating weekend but I think we'll bounce back. 6 seed off the table and 7 will be tough but I still think we can get to 8. 

Grant and LaMelo just sold . fug man

I fuging hate the sixers and Embiid, such bitches with the refs in their pocket

Finally get some help tonight. Even if we keep winning we need all the help we can get

22 minutes ago, toldozer said:

One negative. Bridges has got to stop shooting 3s. Leave that to about 5 other guys that ain't your game, stop doing it.

I agree but he honestly has gotten better about this. Used to be he’d do it like 4-5 times a game, now it’s like 2-3. Overall I’m incredibly happy with his game, his D has been solid and when he is playing his role he’s a solid scorer and one of the few guys who can consistently finish at the rim and provide that threat. Plus he’s electric and LaMelo loves him. Going into the season I was sure he would just be a stop gap here but now I’m reconsidering and could see him continue to be a “core” piece here. Obviously not on the level of the other starters but he is an important cog for this team. We felt his missed presence during his and Moose’s suspensions.

38 minutes ago, AggieLean said:

Philly and Boston next. Thank god they’re at the hive. That’s a tough 2 to play right there. 

Philly will be a bigger challenge than the Knicks were IMO. George and Embiid are back, not sure about Maxey but Embiid alone is a nightmare matchup for us and Moose. We’ve never really done well against him. Celtics added Tatum but honestly not sure they’re all that much better with him right now than they were when we whooped them a few weeks ago. We should be able to at the very least split these 2, hopefully take both.

Just now, carpanfan96 said:

1.5 games back of 6th seed

2 games back of winning the division 

Dude fug the hawks they need to start losing here soon. Lucky bastards 

Honestly that laziness and dumb play at the end was good for the team, something to keep their egos in check and keep them focused going into the 76ers game. Just lucky we had enough of a cushion for it to not hurt us in game though lol

Just now, toldozer said:

New playoff concern. Knicks or Celtics fans showing up in mass. I was listening on the radio and seemed to be a lot of Knicks fans in the building. This is another reason I'd prefer the Pistons 

Is what it is for now, if we can keep building on the momentum of the past few months and have consistent success that’ll change. And as we’ve shown tonight, we can shut them up. I don’t care one bit who we get in the playoffs so long as we make the playoffs. Games like tonight go a long way to making that a reality but it’s still gonna be a battle with the race for 5-10 seeds extremely tight and other teams playing well too. 

2 minutes ago, frankw said:

LaMelo looked like he was struggling after going down hard a few plays earlier.

He was holding his nuts lol. Hope he’s fine

5 minutes ago, AggieLean said:

Moose is out hustling everyone out there

He’s leading the pack but honestly everyone on our team is out hustling everyone on the Knicks. Amazing energy, and credit to Lee. Hated some of his rotations early in the year and we had a few rough close losses when fully healthy that were probably on him, but man he’s got every single dude bought in 110%

This team makes me unfathomably happy

Kon looks like a fugin 10 year vet multi time all star. Kid is so damn good

Brunson is so fuging awful on defense lmao

11 minutes ago, frankw said:

They're playing hard no doubt but damn they need to stop taking these awful shots.

Also too many sloppy turnovers

This league is so fuging stupid. With less than a second on the shot clock Sion jumps straight up in his own space and Brunson dives forward into him as he’s coming straight down and whoop there’s 3 free throws. fuging lame as hell

Great start! LaMelo and Kon got it going tonight

20 minutes ago, carpanfan96 said:

So which of Seattle or Las Vegas is going to be in the east division??? 

Both Memphis and Minnesota would be in the new eastern conference. How they split the conferences is the most interesting thing to me. 

Another poster did the math for you, only one western team is moving to the east.

1 hour ago, toldozer said:

That would realistically put 6 out of the 8 worst teams in the league in the west. Obviously projecting but Utah new Orleans Memphis and Sacramento don't seem to be figuring it out anytime soon and the two new teams will struggle for a few years. So you'd have your top ten teams pretty much set before even playing a game. Moving new Orleans would balance things more imo 

They aren’t going to take into account current standings lol. The league is incredibly fluid and regardless of what they do at expansion (which is a few years off and standings may look different anyways) there will be years where one conference is way more stacked than the other. 
 

fuging Detroit and Cleveland doing us no favors. Rough night for us

6 hours ago, toldozer said:

They're the furthest west and by far the best so that doesn't make sense to me, only shitty teams wanted in the east

https://dunkingwithwolves.com/timberwolves-just-got-an-update-that-could-change-their-future-championship-outlook-nba-expansion

They are actually the closest to the teams in the east though.