NBA All-Star Festivities Weekend Thread (Paolo is busy and booked!)

KillMonger · Post #221 » by **KillMonger** » Mon Feb 19, 2024 3:50 am

RookieStar wrote:
KillMonger wrote:
davey_wavy wrote:
So is it Donovan to ORL or Donovan/Banchero to Vegas/Seattle via trade demand?
Seattle not getting a team man... I'd bet my house it'll be be Vegas

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2 teams are supposed to be created. Seattle could be the 2nd one

Maybe, my friend was telling me that there is some law in place in Seattle that might not work for the nba.... But that was a while ago maybe that law was ammended

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ORLMagicGirl15 · Post #222 » by **ORLMagicGirl15** » Mon Feb 19, 2024 3:53 am

Did Paolo duck out? Just curious where he was.

ORLMagicGirl15 · Post #223 » by **ORLMagicGirl15** » Mon Feb 19, 2024 3:54 am

RookieStar wrote:To those watching, is Paolo the only 1 without a made 3 yet?

No, but he was trying to get one though.

Post #224 » by **eyriq** » Mon Feb 19, 2024 4:01 am

ORLMagicGirl15 wrote:Did Paolo duck out? Just curious where he was.

I was wondering the same

Optimus_Steel · Post #225 » by **Optimus_Steel** » Mon Feb 19, 2024 4:01 am

FrightCoward wrote:Box score says he got blocked by Steph on a dunk. What? lol.

More like he got fouled by Steph on the dunk attempt and the refs didn’t call it. Felt like Paolo was getting an all star rookie initiation from the vets. Paolo lead all players with 9 rebs.

ORLMagicGirl15 · Post #226 » by **ORLMagicGirl15** » Mon Feb 19, 2024 4:10 am

I’m happy that Paolo got to experience the all star Sunday game.

Rainwater · Post #227 » by **Rainwater** » Mon Feb 19, 2024 4:13 am

It’s just an all star game, no one even tried. Btw I remember T-Mac only had 2 points in his first game.

RookieStar · Post #228 » by **RookieStar** » Mon Feb 19, 2024 4:17 am

Optimus_Steel wrote:
FrightCoward wrote:Box score says he got blocked by Steph on a dunk. What? lol.

More like he got fouled by Steph on the dunk attempt and the refs didn’t call it. Felt like Paolo was getting an all star rookie initiation from the vets. Paolo lead all players with 9 rebs.

Kinda weird seeing as a lot are 1st timers there. Or maybe because PB is the youngest there?

Optimus_Steel · Post #229 » by **Optimus_Steel** » Mon Feb 19, 2024 4:21 am

Rainwater wrote:It’s just an all star game, no one even tried. Btw I remember T-Mac only had 2 points in his first game.

Really??

KillMonger · Post #230 » by **KillMonger** » Mon Feb 19, 2024 5:06 am

Glorified pick up game, seen more intensity in the drew league

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pepe1991 · Post #231 » by **pepe1991** » Mon Feb 19, 2024 5:11 am

At average every min of allstar game included 3,5 lunched threes
Brodcasting shooting practice. Pathetic

ogmagicfan · Post #232 » by **ogmagicfan** » Mon Feb 19, 2024 5:37 am

They need 1 vs 1, 8 players with $1 M prize

For Dunk Contest, 2.5 M prize

Stars will come out

For ASG Game, they either need hefty bonuses for winning the game or make the winning conference have home court in the Finals like in MLB. Nothing else will salvage it

RookieStar · Post #233 » by **RookieStar** » Mon Feb 19, 2024 6:00 am

Thank goodness I didnt watch that.

Bqsed on the comments it would have soured me from the game of basketball

Post #234 » by **SOUL** » Mon Feb 19, 2024 6:01 am

ASG hasn't been competitive for a while. Even when I was younger I remember players not giving a **** till the 4th.

Rainwater · Post #235 » by **Rainwater** » Mon Feb 19, 2024 6:15 am

Optimus_Steel wrote:
Rainwater wrote:It’s just an all star game, no one even tried. Btw I remember T-Mac only had 2 points in his first game.

Really??

Yep, look up the stats.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/allstar/NBA_2001.html

At least Paolo was looking to pass.

pepe1991 · Post #236 » by **pepe1991** » Mon Feb 19, 2024 7:00 am

SOUL wrote:ASG hasn't been competitive for a while. Even when I was younger I remember players not giving a **** till the 4th.

Now they expended it to all 4 quaters :lol:

GelbeWand09 · Post #237 » by **GelbeWand09** » Mon Feb 19, 2024 7:28 am

After seeing the result I'm glad I didn't watch the all star game for the 14th time in a row. What a clown show. :lol:

When was the last interesting one? The Wizards Jordan overtime game?

drsd · Post #238 » by **drsd** » Mon Feb 19, 2024 7:31 am

drsd wrote:Will the All star game break 400 total points? I would the under on this game unless it was 420+

Well: I wasn't "wrong".

drsd · Post #239 » by **drsd** » Mon Feb 19, 2024 7:34 am

Until the All-star game means something, this will never be a competitive game. And their is a simple solution that only costs one person: make the conference winner of the All-star game the game-7 decider in the NBA Championship Finals.

All the sudden the players are playing for pride and the hope that their team makes the FInals.

The only person that this costs is the owner of the team that would have naturally gotten game-7. And that cost is SO large, I cannot see this change coming to fruition.

drsd · Post #240 » by **drsd** » Mon Feb 19, 2024 7:42 am

Box score thoughts:

The winner of the FG% battle won the game. And on eFG% the game was not particularly close.

As stated above: our man Banchero led all players in rebounds! And his 9 boards came in only 19 minutes (i.e. less than a single quarter of game time).

There were 289 FG attempts. Or 6 a minute. Or one every 9.97 seconds. Averaged.

Related: there were 5 FT attempts total.

There were 117 rebounds and 40 offensive rebounds, in total.

Trae Young had the smallest minutes line of the East at only 14. And Adebayo "played" 17 minutes. I guess he took "court-side" seats to mean "in-court seats".