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"The Rockets are going to have to score more points than the Blazers if they want to win this game"
2013-2014 NBA Thread - IND @ WAS and OKC @ LAC on ESPN
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"The Rockets are going to have to score more points than the Blazers if they want to win this game"
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this just isn't true. half the people in this thread could do what bill simmons does.
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this may be true but magic is just bad all around
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he owns espn though....
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Which is the point. They aren't a defensive team by any means, they need to out score Portland. Do that by getting everyone looks and touches. Dwight can drop 50 but they ain't gonna win like this. Same way lakers lost playoff games where only Kobe got off and no one else did. Dwight isn't Shaquille, but shaqs too dumb to understand how the rockets play, he only understands big man play, and barely at that. Fools yelling like that makes his case stronger. Same way some clowns on NT type in all caps when arguing, as if that makes your point more legit
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Prime example of that is shaq. He can't assess Dwight's game fully because he looks at Dwight's game through a specific player lens. That is, he's played that position and has been extremely successful at it so when he analyzes dwight's game, he's consciously and subconsciously comparing his own game to Dwight's. That's where the outrageous numbers come from
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I do agree with Chuck and said it earlier in this thread, this is not going to end well for Houston. It goes against everything that's made them successful this season. When Portland goes to hack a Howard combined with their lackluster defense and their perimeter guys out of rhythm, you'll see.
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Whoa chill Bill Simmons is awesome.
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CHRIS WEBBER MARRY ME
NO HOMO
NO HOMO
shoeking2101
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That was in part to him saying that the best analyst are the one's who haven't hooped. Magic is straight horrid.
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putting dwight on lamarcus is a bad idea, dont want to get him into foul trouble
LMA is the same as KD, gets a bunch of foul calls from being skinny
LMA is the same as KD, gets a bunch of foul calls from being skinny
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OKC vs MEM > GSW vs LAC.
GSW is not going to make the series as interesting as it could have been
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Dwight Howard has taken the throne for the most criticized player in the NBA by far. Everyone got an answer for what Dwight Howard needs to do to be effective 
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That garbage *** harden move 
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Had to be for some kinda entertainment purposes. B/c that'll just lead to foul trouble for Dwight.
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dwight with 3 fouls, they need to feed lamarcus
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He really isn't though, super Celtics homer. His articles and books are good though
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Dwight Howard has taken the throne for the most criticized player in the NBA by far. Everyone got an answer for what Dwight Howard needs to do to be effective
It was Blake for a while but this last season stopped all that.
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Exactly, don't understand how shaq is so stubborn. He doesn't even realize how the games changed since he was dominant winning ships. I can't be the only one that remembers how shaq messed up the suns offense by forcing them to run the offense through him rather than letting Nash do what he been doing.
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Half the people in this thread could write a 1,000-page book on basketball?
No they couldn't. Simmons is an extremely good writer and does a ton of research. Don't mistake the random offhand comments he makes for him not being qualified.
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If LMA would have stayed an extra year with KD at Texas...Chip
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They can't stop Lillard. At all.
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Simmons. 
Dude just isn't mad for TV, he's a writer.
He ain't turning down that ESPN check and neither would you.
Dude just isn't mad for TV, he's a writer.
He ain't turning down that ESPN check and neither would you.
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