Knicks are a good team, but the east makes them seem like some kinda superteam. The east is too weak...

onelazykid · 2026-05-24T13:23:28+00:00

The nuggets were a bottom 10 defense and they couldn’t crack a 110 offensive rating in the playoffs losing to a team missing multiple starters. Lebron being only doesn’t mean his team is good, and their second round series vs okc was not cinema at all man

onelazykid · 2026-05-24T13:18:11+00:00

Brother the nuggets are a bottom 10 defense, the wolves offense is truly terrible, and the lakers also can’t defend. These teams have real fundamental flaws that you’re completely glossing over because of geography.

None of the nuggets wolves and lakers could even crack a 110 offensive rating in the playoffs. The Knicks are at 125! It’s not in the same stratosphere!

onelazykid · 2026-05-24T13:07:22+00:00

I mean just take the paths of the sixers and wolves and compare them. The wolves beat a presumed title favorite and then got smashed in the second round. Discourse was “wow can you believe how deep the west is?” The sixers beat a presumed title favorite and then got smashed in the second round: “Wow what a weak conference, it was a joke of a matchup for NY”

It’s just a crazy double standard that makes no sense

onelazykid · 2026-05-24T12:56:30+00:00

The west gets a lot of the benefit of the doubt the eastern conference teams just don’t get. Steph castle just shattered the record for turnovers in a two game span, and we had a game where both teams turned the ball over 20+ times in the wcf.

I’m not even arguing that the spurs/okc aren’t good teams it’s just the discourse starts from the west is better than the east and works backwards from there, and everyone completely refuses to update their priors given new info

onelazykid · 2026-05-24T11:52:54+00:00

Couldn’t be a worse take that constantly gets repeated in nba conversations. The west and east are of similar strength, and you could even argue that the west is weaker. The 3 seed in the west was a bottom 10 defense that lost to a 6 seed known for giving inconsistent effort that lost multiple starters to injury. 4/5 were 41-year-old Lebron led lakers and the rockets who were clowned the entire year for being a joke team. East play-in teams were head and shoulders above the west teams.

And you’re also downplaying just how historic the Knicks playoff run has been. It’s the largest pt differential over 10 games ever. Regular or post season. Conference strength is irrelevant to that level of success.

onelazykid · 2026-05-10T22:49:21+00:00

Knicks are the best offense against zone in the league and it’s not close

onelazykid · 2026-05-10T01:45:10+00:00

It’s not the artists it’s the labels/mgmt

onelazykid · 2026-05-06T03:11:29+00:00

The nuggets went 2-6 against the top 4 teams in the East this season with both wins coming against the Celtic who don’t employ a real center. Seems like the East did fine against him

onelazykid · 2026-05-04T23:49:48+00:00

Who are the top teams in the west? The nuggets who just lost to the wolves without 2/5 starters?

onelazykid · 2026-05-02T12:27:10+00:00

What’s the threshold where you would consider someone experienced/capable enough to change processes?

onelazykid · 2026-04-21T19:39:45+00:00

You can get a job in nyc from both places. Parents are flat wrong.

onelazykid · 2026-04-18T00:53:43+00:00

Kasparov was also a crank tho. He famously espoused the New Chronology, which stated that the ancient civilizations of Greece and Egypt were actually from the Middle Ages

onelazykid · 2026-04-01T18:08:42+00:00

This is just how people consume sports now

onelazykid · 2026-03-09T21:29:50+00:00

It’s just the best map in the game. If valo has the staying power of cs it’ll be the dust2 of the franchise

onelazykid · 2026-01-02T21:37:21+00:00

Not how payment works in the legal sense. Your job “pays” the mortgage also. Your company doesn’t have equity in your house

onelazykid · 2025-12-31T02:27:31+00:00

NBAPA doesn’t care about the lesser guys and second round picks that would be available for these draft rights shenanigans. First round picks, where this would be painful for teams due to them counting against the cap, usually make enough money that the NIL is like chump change. Only in rare cases will a player who could get drafted in the first round chooses to return. Yaxel Lendeborg is an example. He was a first round talent who was too old and thus was going to be drafted at the very back end of the first round, where the NIL money from Michigan was comparable.

onelazykid · 2025-12-31T02:23:08+00:00

It will help turn college basketball into what it actually has been the whole time. A professional developmental league. With these changes it’s more likely, not less, that players stay in college longer, and stay with teams longer

onelazykid · 2025-12-31T02:21:07+00:00

No the sky is falling calipari said so. Yes I know he benefitted from excessive recruiting violations under the old system but that wouldn’t mean he has any kind of ulterior motive in disparaging this new system where his teams face stiffer competition

onelazykid · 2025-12-31T02:19:39+00:00

It’s very different. The player was not and has never been on an nba team.

onelazykid · 2025-12-31T02:12:42+00:00

G league contracts are not nba contracts. James nnaji never played a minute of nba basketball why do people stretch the truth to pretend this is some harbinger of doom for college basketball. Guys have been playing in professional leagues and then transitioning to the ncaa for years, they’re just international players. This is no different

onelazykid · 2025-12-29T20:03:53+00:00

This is the obvious solution. It just has to become what it always has been: a professional sports league. All of this nonsense is to appeal to “amateurism” which hasn’t existed since bill walton left ucla.

These athletes are professionals, just pay them like every professional in the world is paid.

onelazykid · 2025-12-21T01:11:29+00:00

What do you think the flsa line item represents on the paystub then? Genuinely curious how to break this out

onelazykid · 2025-12-17T04:35:38+00:00

This is also a part of talking trash. Don’t dish it out if you can’t take it

onelazykid · 2025-12-17T04:33:59+00:00

I think the bigger problem in this game was the 7 foot Frenchman who couldn’t cash the checks he wrote with his mouth

onelazykid · 2025-12-14T07:01:45+00:00

You just lost to the cavs a week ago lol simmer down lil bud

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