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5 seconds remaining, score Partizan 69 – Virtus Bologna 70.
Great steal (on one of the dumbest inbounds ever), but the shot for the win was… not good
https://x.com/EuroLeague/status/1849381795441106989
P.S.
In all honesty, he’s not shooting much but he’s doing it well so far (5-7 2FG, 9-16 3FG in 5 games).
Dejounte appears to have fractured his hand in the Pels’ opener, and will be out for a while: https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/41971411/sources-pelicans-fear-dejounte-murray-broke-hand-opener
Rough.
Somewhere E just fainted.
My fantasy basketball team isn’t happy with Murray’s injury.
Neither are my Heat friends, the few of them who actually do watch and root for the Heat hate the current team especially Herro.
Why would Heat fans care even a little bit about Dejounte Murray?
Ntilikina! Nooo!
That clip did pretty much sum up the Frankie Smokes experience. Still kind of miss him.
The opening game sucked, but imagine being the Sixers and having your two injury-prone stars out of the first game due to injuries, and the team looking as bad as it did.
The basketball media really slept on Cleveland and Orlando.
Orlando I kinda understand. Their shooting is so bad. But their defense and rebounding are so good. They’re built like the ‘22-‘23 Knicks. If Franz doesn’t suck again they’ll be very tough.
The Cavs seem to get no respect bc of what Mitch did to them in the playoffs 2 years ago. I bet heavily on their over (a paltry 48.5).
Is it too late to trade for Kessler?
I bet a few teams to win it all that I thought were decent value. The Cavs were one of the ones I made a small bet on. I think they are a bit underrated.
I would say his season has been a spectacular success so far. He’s not hurt. 😉
Hollinger agrees with both of you, last week he wrote the Cavs in the ECF against the Celtics and called them the most underrated team in the East. 🙂
Cleveland won 48 and 51 games the last two and didn’t make any major changes. I’m not sure why we should expect them to be significantly better this year.
That’s not so bad for a youngish team that had a lot of key players miss a lot of games.
There’s also the chance that this is the year Mobley makes the leap everyone has been expecting him to make. He was pretty good last night, and even had two 3PAs.
The NY Liberty parade is currently going on
Cleveland won ….and didn’t make any major changes
Beg to differ ThisC. Removed the weak link and significantly upgraded (their coach).
They were decimated by injuries last year. And they threw the last game of the season. That was definitely a 50+ win team without terrible luck.
The year before (when we beat them) they had the second best SRS in the entire NBA (and 55 PWs).
Atkinson is a good coach and he has plenty to work with. I think they’ll end up where everyone is expecting Philadelphia to be.
The Cavs are a good bet to be good, but that Raptros team was down 2 starters after IQ got hurt early and is tiny.
Hot takes after 1 game:
– The Knicks Heat and Sixers all suck
– The Cavs are highly underrated
– The Celtics may win 75 games this year
Cavs can go 72-10 during the regular season and I’d still pray the Knicks get to play them in the playoffs.
watching the warriors last night…if steph stays healthy…they might surprise..
I see the Warriors as a candidate for a big in-season trade. They have a ton of depth and plenty of dry draft pick powder
Warriors had 12 players play at least 14 minutes. The definition of a blowout, of course, but that also suggests a deep team.
Meanwhile, Edey got six fouls in 14 minutes, which is not easy to do. Growing pains, hoping he doesn’t grow much more going forward…
FWIW my Cleveland take was in the preseason thread and I actually had no idea they even played last night.
I will be curious to see if we can maintain our dominance over them without Randle, Hartenstein, or Mitch since it was largely predicated on bullying them inside. Probably no team in the association happier to see KAT on the Knicks than Cleveland.
I wouldn’t go that far. I think they can grab the 2 seed in the East but there’s no way in hell they’re actually winning a title this year.
It was hard to find good value, even with the Celtics and Thunder as prohibitive favorites. My favorite NBA title bets were Minnesota +1000 and Phoenix +2000.
I agree that the Cavs should improve with a better coach (especially one with as inventive of an offensive mind as Atkinson), plus they really did deal with a lot of injuries last year. So did Milwaukee. So Cleveland and Milwaukee being good teams would not surprise me this year (Milwaukee is on its last fumes, but it’s still there). The Sixers are all about whether Embiid and George are healthy in the playoffs. If they are, they’ll be good. But, well, you know, they won’t be, so they won’t be.
Orlando being a top team would surprise me, though. Teams built entirely on grit and defense and no real shotmakers tend to have a ceiling of the second round of the playoffs.
roster consistency, upgrade at coach, player growth, roster depth…
the cavs should win 50 this season, not far behind us…
if by some miracle the bucks and sixers stay healthy this season, they’ll likely win around 50 games…
outside the top five teams, you have the magic and pacers lurking…
seven teams deep in the east that will be a tough match up every game, except maybe for that first game involving the knicks and celtics…ouch…
The realization that we are a likely play-in team is growing. Inescapable, inexorable, inevitable…
I looked up predictions for final standings from last year, and only a few of us did them. Interestingly, everyone got the first 4 spots correct (not in exact order, though) and everyone got the last 3. But the middle was a bit muddled. All three of us underrated the Magic. Didn’t make the same mistake this year: I have them at third. We shall see.
which means what exactly?
shouldn’t there be more to this thought, or were you simply emoting?
Pags is one big Emo.
It’s just an interesting reflection. Last year, everyone vehemently disputed my predictions that our asset load was underwhelming and wouldn’t be enough to make us a true contender. It seemed back then that the blog viewed our prospects more positively than the rest of the world.
Now, the rest of the world seems to believe we’re really good, but this blog seems to be coming around to a more Pagliaccian view that we’re not a real contender, and the cavalry isn’t coming. It’s a much more familiar and comfortably Knicksy feeling.
bad/sad vibes can be infectious, go sit in the corner with that sad sack shit…just don’t bring no sharp objects with ya…
like the whole: don’t continually shit in the community well, where everyone gets water from…
wild concept, huh…
go listen to some sade or garbage, maybe you’ll feel better…maybe not, who knows…perhaps some mental counter-programming…
maybe try that, and come back in a game or two…
I like it when geo gets salty
I’m not sad Geo, I just don’t think the team is great. Still glad the season is here, and hoping they surprise me as they did in January.
I would love to be convinced that we’re really good, but the arguments aren’t very strong, and nobody here even seems to be trying to make the case we’re better than we were in January.
I’ll be thrilled if we either 1) play to 5+ SRS or 2) realize it won’t work, sell high on our assets and start a real rebuild. Leon might just have the political capital now to be able to see it through. Anything in between won’t be sad, just expected.
Last year I believe you predicted 42 wins, and the blog was mostly under the final tally of 50 – generally more like 48. So you were more wrong than the rest of the blog, which was more wrong than the ultimate result.
But hey, don’t look at me – I predicted 50, along with a few other intrepid souls (BernieErnie, a few others, but ironically not Swift!).
“…this blog seems to be coming around to a more Pagliaccian view that we’re not a real contender…”
No, you’re still mostly alone on Pags Island, Pags. A lot of people were saying we’ll need 20 or more games to gel before the season started, and people have piling off lifeboats and onto that particular island since the Celtics game. Very different position than the one you suggest we all have…
although i myself succumb to the temptation oft enough – selfish behavior triggers me a bit…
wellness is not something to be taken for granted – or incessantly joked about…
i value the site, the folks…i’m also on a fairly different wavelength myself, i get erratic and disruptive behavior…
if you are on a personal mission – for whatever fucking reason – to spread dismay and despair you serve very little useful purpose to the health of the community…
sure, it seems obvious, but it’s not…and, it’s not entirely personal, it just serves no purpose towards the health of the community…
control yourself pags, have some care for others…
After witnessing game 1 I have updated my win prediction from 57 wins to 60 wins, just to counteract the Pags doom and gloom.
fwiw…i was watching pat mcaffee show yesterday and jamal crawford was giving his season preview type deal…he was high on the knicks..said regular season will be ok/tinkering..nothing special…but he believes this team will excel in the playoffs…not clear if he was factoring in mitch being a significant contributor…he didn’t mention it..
That’s the spirit!
I feel like Mitch is going to end up being a savior of sorts when he returns. Not that we’ll be in dire straits or anything, I just think it will become a whole new (and better) team when he comes back.
https://x.com/ChrisBHaynes/status/1849549592062525867
When was Mitch last healthy for more than two months of basketball in a row? Not trying to be a dick I’m honestly curious.
I was next to Bill Bradley briefly at an event last night and got a quick take out of him on the Knicks. He said “I like Towns as a player but I am not sure if this trade will work.”
Spiritual Knickerblogger if I ever met one.
https://x.com/ShaxNBA/status/1849525864490467408
Thibs has his work cut out for him
So many injuries already! It is kind of sad. The league should let teams manage players however they want to. I think coaches should reduce minutes for star players in general. It’s the playoffs that really count.
I believe Precious and Mitch will give us the defensive toughness and rebounding that we obviously are lacking right now. I rewatched the game this afternoon. KAT is painfully slow and doesn’t seem to give full effort. I hope this gets pointed out to him when they look at the video. I would also love to add Warren for added depth.
In addition to the seven teams Hubert mention, I think Miami could finish anywhere from 5th to 10th, so I would add them to the list.
Moving from Bickerstaff to Atkinson alone could earn the Cavs 3-4 more wins.
They know each other well now and are kind of flying under the radar, always a good thing, plus we’re a different team from the one that bludgeoned them two years ago, if and when it’ll be necessary to beat them we’ll have to do it in a different way.
Personal opinion, In the East If healthy they’re as dangerous for us as any top-8 team not from Boston (the Celtics are in they own tier).
But respect opponents and don’t sleep on anyone doesn’t mean we should be scared, to go deep we need to beat everyone and we can’t expect other teams to roll us a red carpet.
Right now my worries are about us, there are reasons to be worried and reason to be confident, for sure we have a lot of work to do to become the team Leon envisioned.
To me, from now to the trade deadline we’re a construction site working 24/7.
The Wiz are doing a lot better against the Celtics than we did.
it’s different seeing Luka out there playing healthy…
it seems by the all-star break of every season he’s worn down and just barely keeping it together with duct tape and bailing wire…
the olympics have him looking in really good shape…
I looked at the Athletic’s football team rankings and found that it is similar to most years; the Giants and Jets may start out the season with positive vibes but once a lot of the season is done, they are in the same lousy place. In this case they are both two and five. It’s depressing, but for me at least, not surprising.
Play seems fine to me. OG has the mismatch against Pritchard. He draws 2 other Celts defenders to him and kicks it to an open Mikal who hesitates because his shot is broken. Still, Mikal is able to reset at the top of the key with plenty of time to make a play.
Once Mikal’s shot gets fixed, that’s 3pts.
Luka is pretty good, even in his mediocre games.
The heavy load of Wiseman’s playoff run definitely wore on his achilles.
Did I omit Miami from something?
I actually like them a lot this year. I picked them to face Boston in the ECF.
I think it’s going to get vociferously pointed out to him by the Garden crowd.
Randle is scoring at will tonight, but he’s still a -2 so far.
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