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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

I guarantee you won't make that bet again.

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For the record I'm still rolling but losing to Boston is a bad look. You can't lose to a team missing its top two players and consider yourself Championship timber. I'm not going to use the youth excuse either. They gave two games away and they really haven't looked (Simmons) in particular like they are yet prime time.

Still doesn't excuse the fact that your little squad went out without a whimper during the first round and needed an overtime game on the last game of the year to make the playoffs. I will take the 2nd round exit in stride.

Now how about the double down on that bet since you are so certain that they are a failure? should be easy money for an old hand such as yourself?

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Walt's been holding onto that one for a while.

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He is one petty motherfucker. They could have made it to the conference finals and he would still be calling it a failure. He definitely is playing the long game with this one. Don't let them come back and win the series.

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Here we go smart ass 100 the 6ers don't win it all next year

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

76ers will be fine. Need to go through growing pains to ascend.

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you must expect Boston's team jet to crash

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Ok So its 76ers against the field and you think that I'm going to take that sucker bet? Whatever happened to your "Wolves". You got Thibs, Taj, and Buckets not to mention Rose. You have turned "States" on them all of a sudden?

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If they don't win a championship it doesn't mean that the "Process" was a failure. Only one team can win. Too much Bernstein around these parts.

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so you are content with being Minnesota?

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Boston isn't missing it's top two players. Al Horford is playing.

Agree with most of the rest of your post though.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Minnesota may not make the playoffs next year. Philly will be a title contender even they don't win the title. Big difference. All or busts sports proclamations and outlooks are for fools. I have never looked at sports that way. You can be successful and still not win a championship. THat is another one of those talk show fallacies if you ask me.

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Before the season started most Boston fans wanted to run him out of town. His signing was considered a huge mistake. I doubt if most people believed that he was better than Hayward either.

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Only the dumb fans. A lot of people also acknowledged how much value he brings to the team outside of box score stats. And he’s been phenomenal in the playoffs. I doubt any Boston fan still wants to run him out of town.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

discussing eastern conference basketball seems like a waste of time. just enjoy the 4 or 5 games you're going to get of Lebron putting up 50-15-15 and losing in the finals again

See LTG will never get it....tanking is not the only way to be completive see: Celtics, Rockets, Cavs and Warriors there are other ways

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

I like Horford and always have. I just don't think he is better than Hayward.

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Ok I expect you to hold those other teams to the same standards then. This is the first actual year of the process and it still isn't fully actualized because of what has gone on with Fultz. How long has Harden been in Houston by the way? isn't this the 2nd or 3rd incarnation of their own form of "The Process"?

The Cavs only became relevant because of Lebron James and you ask any GM in the league Philly is set up better going forward than Cleveland. Cleveland has a team that might or might not get out of the West and they had their own form of tanking going on shortly before James arrived.


Celtics are in position to win because of one of the dumbest trades made in NBA history. Fat chance that this sort of trade will ever occur again.

Only G.S. has built the way that you speak of and been successful. That is it. I can name a handful number of teams that have tried it that way and failed. I'm sure as is customary for you you will avoid it however.

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there is absolutely no talkin with you....none

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Only a fool would think that the "Process" is a failure. They are among the final eight teams in the league with their best 2 players being in their 1st and 2nd years. The way you are celebrating you'd think this was a fait accompli. The way you are pontification you'd think they were 92 Pistons or something. Even if they don't win this year it still doesn't mean that the Process was a failure. You aren't making any sense with that.

Tanking was the best way for the Bulls to proceed. Each situation is different. I never said it was the only way. You are misquoting again

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Walt is dumb for dissing the sixers. They'll be the team in the east if they stay together and remain healthy. Ltg is dumb for refusing to blame youth and inexperience for Philly's current predicament.

And FF is just dumb generally.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

Nice avatar.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Hey jackoff you the fool!

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Then do the bet. As we like to say where I'm from "I will take that action"! If you are so convinced that Philly isn't shit then lets double down on the same bet that you were willing to take Pre Buckets trade. Should be a slam dunk victory.

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I'll take the Celtics this year

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Do you think your Raptors will be the first team in NBA history to overcome a 0-4 deficit in the playoffs? Why or why not?

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

I think they’re likely to win as many games as your Heat did after you wagered your avatar on them.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

You've got the bigger egg on your face. 59-win team, tops in the EC, home court advantage, you endlessly praise their deep bench, and they get swept.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

Yeah, that was a bad prediction, just like saying the Heat would definitely win 1 or even 2 more games against Philly was bad.

I'm also not sure about the endless praise argument. I think I've complimented their bench like 2-3 times total over the course of the entire season. I do really like Delon Wright though.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul