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Post by duh88 on Apr 13, 2023 7:32:57 GMT -5
Still think OKC is the far easier matchup. Not having anyone to guard Jokic is such a big deal both in the post and on the offensive glass. 100% -which is why I’m hoping okc beats minny |
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Post by freakns on Apr 13, 2023 7:39:19 GMT -5
omg, are you really discussing bans? Lothar asked nicely not to be mentioned, just leave it at that and move on. Im pretty sure he was never disrespectful to others, so he has all the rights to ask it.
ring going no1, I'm good with it. and if you guys ban Jimijam we don't have to worry about second opener.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2023 7:45:34 GMT -5
Still think OKC is the far easier matchup. Not having anyone to guard Jokic is such a big deal both in the post and on the offensive glass. 100% -which is why I’m hoping okc beats minny Lets hope so, I could see Denver sweeping OKC in 4 games |
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Post by Coach Sticky on Apr 13, 2023 7:46:21 GMT -5
omg, are you really discussing bans? Lothar asked nicely not to be mentioned, just leave it at that and move on. Im pretty sure he was never disrespectful to others, so he has all the rights to ask it. ring going no1, I'm good with it. and if you guys ban Jimijam we don't have to worry about second opener. You haven’t been here for too long |
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Post by nuggetshipster on Apr 13, 2023 9:05:10 GMT -5
omg, are you really discussing bans? Lothar asked nicely not to be mentioned, just leave it at that and move on. Im pretty sure he was never disrespectful to others, so he has all the rights to ask it. ring going no1, I'm good with it. and if you guys ban Jimijam we don't have to worry about second opener. It’s very clear what was written wasn’t it? And who has said that he was disrespectful or that he didn’t have the rights to ask? Pretty misleading question considering I only pointed out that he let people disrespect others when they wanted/asked for it to stop and he had the power to stop it. For context I didn’t participate in this GT/superstision/lothar bit. But I may have contributed in ending it because it didn’t sit right with me. Either you are terrible at reading or you do it on purpose. But this isn’t the way to make a discussion end. But I will gladly go on for as long as you want. But you already knew that. |
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Post by Coach Sticky on Apr 13, 2023 9:22:54 GMT -5
I won’t end it, I’ll just leave Lothar out. It’s still a real thing with the game thread records. Jimi right now is 17-1,842 overall in my book, after you filtered every essential rule
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Post by LotharBraunBrownBryant on Apr 13, 2023 9:34:42 GMT -5
Let me clarify something here:
what I've said consistently, and the other mods have also used as their rule, is that we don't take sides in two-sided disputes where both parties are going after each other. Sometimes we'll step in and remove a post that's over the line, or a bunch of back-and-forth posts, but we refuse to let one side of that kind of fight call in moderator power to "win". If you're both constantly mean to each other, we're not going to try to figure out who started it. None of us gets paid enough to do that.
We're much more willing to step in if someone who as far as we can tell isn't trying to be antagonistic at all asks us to step in. Like if the antagonism is one-sided, then it's an easy call. (And, no, it doesn't count as antagonism if someone disagrees with your basketball take. It does if they tell you that you're a f***ing idiot because of your take.)
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Post by Coach Sticky on Apr 13, 2023 11:19:06 GMT -5
Wait wait wait… hold on… y’all getting paid???
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Post by rock on Apr 13, 2023 11:54:45 GMT -5
Wait wait wait… hold on… y’all getting paid??? Yes but in NuggCoin. I have 8.3 billion of them currently. Only worth 13 cents so far but I’m telling you, it’s going to blow up soon. Get in while you can |
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Post by nuggetshipster on Apr 13, 2023 12:23:06 GMT -5
Let me clarify something here: what I've said consistently, and the other mods have also used as their rule, is that we don't take sides in two-sided disputes where both parties are going after each other. Sometimes we'll step in and remove a post that's over the line, or a bunch of back-and-forth posts, but we refuse to let one side of that kind of fight call in moderator power to "win". If you're both constantly mean to each other, we're not going to try to figure out who started it. None of us gets paid enough to do that. We're much more willing to step in if someone who as far as we can tell isn't trying to be antagonistic at all asks us to step in. Like if the antagonism is one-sided, then it's an easy call. (And, no, it doesn't count as antagonism if someone disagrees with your basketball take. It does if they tell you that you're a f***ing idiot because of your take.) some quick thoughts 1) On the both being constantly mean to eachother. Should an abuse victim take it with a smile for the mods to take it seriously? Do you get how ridicilous that sounds. Do you doubt i will find unprovoked abuse and not just disagreements of my takes? I dont, even tho a lot of it has been conveniently deleted. 2) second paragraph the point you are making is that i am making my bed by being the way i am, and you are less inclined to step in. I would argue that making a big deal and being weird about the GT stuff is also making your own bed. |
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Post by scooter on Apr 13, 2023 13:21:26 GMT -5
Still think OKC is the far easier matchup. Not having anyone to guard Jokic is such a big deal both in the post and on the offensive glass. Idk. More motivated and together teams usually win. The TWolves are an absolute mess, appear to hate each other, don’t appear to be listening to their coach (I have to assume he didn’t want them running absolutely no offense after the 3rd quarter on Tuesday) and don’t look like they want to play even 1 more game together. Edwards appears to be injured and KAT didn’t look great late in the Lakers game either. Also, that team plays slow and is slow. The Thunder are playing together and loose and have good chemistry and coaching. They are also great at cutting and driving to the basket and defending that isn’t the Nuggets strong suit. The Nuggets lost a bunch of games this season to young, athletic teams. I think right now the Thunder would give the Nuggets a tougher series. |
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Post by famicommander on Apr 13, 2023 13:49:38 GMT -5
"I'm mad at a grown adult because he didn't stop another grown adult from typing mean words at me, yet another grown adult, on the internet!"
Jesus. What an embarrassing group of humans you are.
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Post by LotharBraunBrownBryant on Apr 13, 2023 14:36:18 GMT -5
1) On the both being constantly mean to eachother. Should an abuse victim take it with a smile for the mods to take it seriously? Do you get how ridicilous that sounds. Do you doubt i will find unprovoked abuse and not just disagreements of my takes? I dont, even tho a lot of it has been conveniently deleted. 2) second paragraph the point you are making is that i am making my bed by being the way i am, and you are less inclined to step in. I would argue that making a big deal and being weird about the GT stuff is also making your own bed. Your counterpoint to argument 2, you say I'm making my own bed by "making a big deal and being weird about" things I'm asking people not to involve me in. But what you claim in point 1 is that I'm saying "take it with a smile". Obviously I'm not taking it with a smile, and I'm not asking you to either. I'm saying plainly, hey, please leave me out of this. I don't like it. But I'm not being aggressive or being an instigator. I'm not like, someone told this joke about me and I don't like it so I'm going to call them names. I'm like, hey please don't do that. That's not "taking it with a smile" AND that's not "being an aggressor". That's the key factor I'm getting at with all of this. If someone says to me or any of the mods "this guy is a problem" but it looks like you're both being an equal problem, we're not going to take sides. We'll either ignore it, or we'll delete a bunch of posts on both sides. But if someone says "this guy is a problem" and it looks one-sided, like you were just talking basketball and then someone else was saying nasty things about your grandma and you were like "hey don't do that" and they kept it up, then it's pretty obvious that the other person is the problem and you're the victim, and we'll treat it like the other person is the problem and you're the victim. |
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Post by LotharBraunBrownBryant on Apr 13, 2023 14:41:02 GMT -5
Still think OKC is the far easier matchup. Not having anyone to guard Jokic is such a big deal both in the post and on the offensive glass. Idk. More motivated and together teams usually win. The TWolves are an absolute mess, appear to hate each other, don’t appear to be listening to their coach (I have to assume he didn’t want them running absolutely no offense after the 3rd quarter on Tuesday) and don’t look like they want to play even 1 more game together. Edwards appears to be injured and KAT didn’t look great late in the Lakers game either. Also, that team plays slow and is slow. The Thunder are playing together and loose and have good chemistry and coaching. They are also great at cutting and driving to the basket and defending that isn’t the Nuggets strong suit. The Nuggets lost a bunch of games this season to young, athletic teams. I think right now the Thunder would give the Nuggets a tougher series. I think the Wolves *could* just absolutely fall apart and be an easy sweep in 4 straight blowouts. But if they even kind-of get it together, they have enough bigs to at least bother our best player. OKC can't do anything against Jokic except try to get him into foul trouble. This is the kind of series where he could put up video game / Bubble Murray kind of stats and I wouldn't be surprised. So to me, OKC is the team that I don't think has a chance to make it a hard series, while Minny I think could either be super easy or pretty hard. |
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Post by Ring on Apr 13, 2023 14:59:49 GMT -5
Minny has a lot more talent and is the tougher matchup. I think we beat both in 6 or less but the Wolves scare me a little.
OKC would be a much tougher series for Jamal though which makes me nervous because I don't think he can turn down his playoff aggressiveness.
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Post by blackhill on Apr 13, 2023 15:02:51 GMT -5
For sure, Nugs should want to face OKC. From what I watched, Jonas looked like Shaq against them.
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Post by JB on Apr 13, 2023 15:11:48 GMT -5
obviously Jokic will make light work of whatever OKC throws at him, but the same can be said about the Wolves.
I strongly prefer the latter because they don't posses the ability to run Jokic into the ground defensively. having him guard Gobert is getting a mini-rest during the game.
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Post by scooter on Apr 13, 2023 15:34:44 GMT -5
obviously Jokic will make light work of whatever OKC throws at him, but the same can be said about the Wolves. I strongly prefer the latter because they don't posses the ability to run Jokic into the ground defensively. having him guard Gobert is getting a mini-rest during the game. Agreed. I fail to understand fear of a Conley/Edwards/Anderson/Towns/Gobert lineup. The TWolves were slow as molasses (and sloppy withe the ball) playing smaller lineups against the Lakers. They are not good. And they appear to hate each other and want the season to end. Remember also that they are missing both McDaniels and Reid. OKC is playing much better basketball. I get it that Jokic might get 40 against them (they can aggressively double and remember that smaller defenders are often allowed to be very physical) but Murray has scored 50 in a playoff loss. In 4 games against the Nuggets this season, SGA averaged 32.5 points on 55% FG% and 97% FT% (37 for 38), so its not as if the Thunder have no scoring punch to counteract Jokic. I’d prefer to play the slow, crappy team that hates each other and appears to pay little attention to coaching. |
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Post by inyourmind on Apr 13, 2023 15:43:41 GMT -5
People were worried about Ingram but I think SGA would give us bigger fits. He loves attacking the basket. The game plan will be to constantly attack Jokic at the rim with there athleticism.
At the end of the day your splitting hairs. Nuggets should be able to beat OKC/Minny. If we can’t than it doesn’t really matter because we were flaming out in the 1st round regardless of matchup.
I’d probably prefer Minny because if OKC wins they’ll be carrying some serious momentum and basically have nothing to lose/no pressure. They’re going to be amazing here pretty soon.
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Post by freakns on Apr 13, 2023 15:54:38 GMT -5
Minny has a lot more talent and is the tougher matchup. I think we beat both in 6 or less but the Wolves scare me a little. OKC would be a much tougher series for Jamal though which makes me nervous because I don't think he can turn down his playoff aggressiveness. neither should scare you... unless you rock, then mouse probably looks very dangerous |
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