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[DanH]

Round 1 times already announced. Monday at 4, Wednesday at 130, Friday at 130, Sunday at 630. Nothing else announced yet....

[DanH]

That's a crazy performance considering his previous career high in assists was 5. And he ended up with 12 in this one. That's like T-Ross going off for...

[DanH]

LOL yep that's dumb. I felt so good about the bet I made on Giannis not playing all the games, too....

[DanH]

I think the Celtics should be heavily favoured, but there's also a chance Philly makes it interesting. Embiid can be hard to stop and Boston doesn't have...

[DanH]

Nope, locked in. Only question is whether Heat or Pacers are the "home" team, which is meaningless at this point....

[DanH]

This team is functionally incapable of being not fun. What a hilarious game.

[DanH]

Yeah, it could be better. But just like with Lopez, teams will dare them to shoot given the choice of letting the star go off. And note that the key point...

[DanH]

The other good news about that best-defence, worst-ish offence tweet is that we are about 8 points below the average bubble offence, and in a group of...

[DanH]

It's not a meaningful sample size. Most teams will manage to be a bottom 10 offence for one 6 game stretch or another during the season. Especially considering...

[DanH]

My point is that there is no financial benefit to cutting player salary in any extreme way. If you spend below 90% of the cap, you just have to bump up...

[DanH]

That's right, every year there is escrow clawback, a portion of every paycheck for players goes into an escrow account instead of to them, and if at the...

[DanH]

If any owners do any of that (besides selling picks for cash or selling teams, because that's real cashflow), they are incredibly stupid....

[DanH]

Meh, I doubt it differs much from usual operating procedure for teams considering the way the CBA works and the ability to claw back salaries based on...

[DanH]

The team has been pretty clear that they don't have these conversations (Masai and Bobby have both said that re: themselves and Nurse, as I recall) until...

[DanH]

I agree, we shouldn't overpay either on long term deals. We shouldn't even offer either player a long term deal even at a reasonable cap hit! And with...

[DanH]

No team will be favourites without a superstar to run offence through. And no, I completely disagree, there is no usage for Gasol that would have driven...

[DanH]

Portland is a better team with Nurk, who wasn't there all year. I think it's fair to suggest LeBron is the heavy favourite (true of most matchups he's...

[DanH]

Agreed!

But letting Gasol walk to, say, keep Ibaka, would be insane.

It's no coincidence that literally every rotation player...

[DanH]

Sure, but we're not exactly favourites to repeat, and it's not because Gasol doesn't take more shots, it's because we lack a superstar. Gasol being more...

[DanH]

Marc has shown a little more willingness to shoot in the bubble, which I think is a sign that he'll step into those open shots in the playoffs. His usage...