2/3 - 2/12 Games Discussion Thread

[Checmate101]

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5 Ls in a Row, can't win anymore..DCfalling

[King_B_Mack]

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5 Ls in a Row, can't win anymore..DCfalling

Don't you start.

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[ojandpizza]

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Morris's shoes?


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[BringTheHeat]

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KAWHI WITH THE HUGE POSTER SLAM!

[ojandpizza]

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Phoenix looks ****ing horrible right now


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[TheMatrix31]

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The Suns are a despicable team. I have never seen a Suns team this dumb in my life. This incapable of making smart decisions. This incapable of dribbling. This incapable of taking good shots. This incapable of passing.

Garbage. What an embarrassment.

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Bledsoe has brain farts occassionally, but he's always been that way... but they aren't a dumb team though man lol....

[TheMatrix31]

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Bledsoe has brain farts occassionally, but he's always been that way... but they aren't a dumb team though man lol....

No, they are an atrociously dumb team. Suns basketball is the only basketball I watch. Every single game is the same. It's really, really bad. From chucking the ball with a huge lead to lazy passes to trying too much to inability to dribble to shooting with nobody there to rebound. Just unbelievable that a team with Jeff Hornacek as their coach could be so dumb so consistently.

That's what ISO hero ball garbage gets you, I guess.

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I dont know how the dynamic changed but they definitely played with more poise last year. They're a young team that really needs a star at the helm. Don't know how much damage Sarver has done over the years but Id say they're probably right where they should be in the standings.

[King_B_Mack]

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Sooo just to be clear, Kenny likes DeMarcus putting the team on blast tonight, but a few weeks ago when Derrick Rose voiced his frustration and it was a problem. Interesting....

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Some of those techs handed out in that Clippers game were just LOL-worthy man

[The 24th Letter]

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The Clippers agree: (spoilered for length)

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CLEVELAND -- The Los Angeles Clippers will be the first to admit that technical fouls didn't cost them in their 105-94 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday night, but after the game, they still were fuming about being T'd up five times.



All-Star point guard Chris Paul's technical came with 10:17 left in the third quarter when he tried to get the inbounds pass quickly but instead was T'd up after questioning Lauren Holtkamp, who became the third woman to referee NBA games full time this season.



"I think we have to show better composure, but at the same time some of [the technical fouls] were ridiculous," Paul said. "The tech that I get right there was ridiculous. I don't care what nobody says, I don't care what she says; that's terrible. There's no way that can be a tech. We try to get the ball out fast every time down the court, and when we did that, she said, 'Uh-uh.' I said, 'Why, uh-uh?' And she gave me a tech.



"That's ridiculous. If that's the case, this might not be for her."



Paul, who also is head of the National Basketball Players Association, and several other Clippers players said after postgame interviews that their displeasure had nothing to do with Holtkamp's gender and everything to do with the calls she made on the court. The Clippers were unhappy with her calls in Thursday night's game and calls she made in a previous game against the Miami Heat.



Before working for the NBA, Holtkamp had six seasons of NBA Development League experience, including work in the 2013 and 2014 D-League Finals. She also has refereed in the WNBA, college and FIBA ranks.



She is one of two current full-time female officials in the NBA, along with Violet Palmer. Dee Kantner is no longer with the league.



Holtkamp also gave DeAndre Jordan a technical foul with 9:30 left in the third quarter after screaming for a foul following a dunk.



"I guess she thought I was talking to her," Jordan said. "We talked about it. She said that she thought I was talking to her. She made a call and I talked to the other refs and they disagreed with it. Hopefully it will be rescinded. We'll see."



Matt Barnes was ejected in the third quarter for arguing a call after picking up his first technical for defending Kevin Love after the whistle earlier in the third quarter.



"The first one I'm guarding someone who outweighs me by 40 pounds and he makes a spin move and I slap down on the ball so he doesn't get an and-1 and he held my arm and I tried to pull my arm back and I get a T," Barnes said. "The second one when they called Jamal [Crawford] for running into LeBron [James]. I said, 'Just don't give them the game,' and they kicked me out."



Barnes is now tied for the NBA lead with 11 technical fouls this season. The Clippers lead the league with 58 technical fouls.



"It's bulls---, it keeps happening," Barnes said. "Some of these I earn and some of them I don't, but it's crazy to get a technical foul for pulling your arm away and a technical foul for saying, 'Just don't give them the game.' If you can't play with emotion, I don't see how you can play.



"I guess it's a reputation we've earned and it's upon us to do a better job of trying to control our emotions, but you can't play the game at this level without emotion and without talking. It's tough but the refs had nothing to do with the way we came out and performed tonight."



Clippers coach Doc Rivers started the technical flurry early with one in the first quarter and joked that he wouldn't have minded getting a second and watching the game from the locker room as the Clippers trailed by as many as 32 points in the third quarter.



"I got one just trying to get our guys going early," Rivers said. "I haven't gotten a first-quarter tech in I don't know how long. Maybe I should get more. I would have liked to have gotten two at that point, that would have been terrific, but they kicked our butt."



Rivers also offered his condolences to a teenage fan sitting courtside who was wearing a Clippers shirt.



"We should have given you a better game than that. Let me make it up to you, all right? Give me some," he said, offering the fan a fist bump.

Sooo just to be clear, Kenny likes DeMarcus putting the team on blast tonight, but a few weeks ago when Derrick Rose voiced his frustration and it was a problem. Interesting....

Think you might be expecting too much logic from Inside the NBA...

[Majingir]

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The media is stupid for turning those comments into a whole controversial thing about Paul calling out a female rookie ref. He criticized a referee who just happened to be female. And the media tries spinning this like crazy.

He said:
"That's ridiculous. If that's the case, this might not be for her."

If it was a male rookie ref, he would've said:
"That's ridiculous. If that's the case, this might not be for him."

But of course, the stupid media has to try and make it look like there's some sort of big issue here.

[OkayC]

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So what was paul supposed to do? Refer to the ref as him to avoid backlash? Classic case of why i just watch games now and ignore the media, because players catch crap for literally talking. Then people wanna wonder why guys like marshawn lynch never speak in the media.