2016-17 NBA Regular Season Thread

[lebron23james]

Bennett was drafted by Grant -- not Griffin.

In his first draft, Griffin took Wiggins.

Lol

 

[bksballer89]

Nice to see someone in their 20's who could careless about rest.

 

[LAD]

What does that have to do w/ the fact Steph sat during a nationally televised game? Oh yeah, nothing. Trojanfan12 asked me to name another superstar that sat during a nationally televised game vs. a playoff team. So I answered him.

Only that it IS the reason Kerr rested his stars. The home team's stars weren't playing, but that doesn't matter?

 

[LAD]

why should the warriors rest anyone?

Why should the Cavs rest anyone?

 

[bksballer89]

Listened to SAS on his radio show for a bit.

He is completely right. Silver is being run over by these players.

 

[bksballer89]

SAS said the same thing I said regarding players resting.

As a fan, just don't show up when you find out top players are resting anyway. Have these guys play in an empty arena.

Your money went down the train once these teams decided to put their D league squad on the court and rested all the money makers.

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

why should the warriors rest anyone?

I think they learned their lesson last season chasing 73.
I believe that using extra thar effort and emotion cost them them title.

 

[lebron23james]

Nice to see someone in their 20's who could careless about rest.

Harden rests in the playoffs

 

[lebron23james]

Why should the Cavs rest anyone?

Because we can, better question is why are u crying about it?

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

if they played the Lakers on saturday they would have

they wanted Kyrie and Love to have an extra day off before they played again.

there would have been no point to resting them sunday. they have Monday and Tuesday off- 2 days-

they didnt need Sunday, Monday, Tuesday to get ready for the nuggets----

they didnt want Kyrie to play so soon after hurting his knee- and they didnt want Love to play so soon after coming back from knee surgery.

i seriously have no clue why this is so hard to comprehend.

Why not play James Saturday to give them a fighting chance vs guarantee losing by 30?
Then play Kyrie/Love on Sunday.
Wouldnt that have given them their best chance to win both?

I think only reason they didnt take that approach was because they have no real belief that Love/Kyrie minus James can beat anyone and had they lost to the Lakers could you even imagine?

 

[msgkings322]

I think they learned their lesson last season chasing 73.
I believe that using extra thar effort and emotion cost them them title.

No, Draymond's suspension cost them the title. Also if Kyrie misses that last shot, the Warriors win the title, and all the narratives are different.

 

[msgkings322]

As far as all the resting goes, the marquee teams are sending a message to the league: do something about this. I'm all for it.

And they already are starting the season a week earlier next year, so there should be less scheduling nonsense. Also, as some have mentioned, ABC and the others just need to stop scheduling the marquee games as 2nd game of a back to back.

 

[Black Adam]

Nice to see someone in their 20's who could careless about rest.

wow, i'm almost starting respect this s.o.b....

 

[Black Adam]

Why not play James Saturday to give them a fighting chance vs guarantee losing by 30?
Then play Kyrie/Love on Sunday.
Wouldnt that have given them their best chance to win both?

I think only reason they didnt take that approach was because they have no real belief that Love/Kyrie minus James can beat anyone and had they lost to the Lakers could you even imagine?

can't argue. record-wise the Cavs are hot buttered manure without LeClown...

 

[bksballer89]

As far as all the resting goes, the marquee teams are sending a message to the league: do something about this. I'm all for it.

And they already are starting the season a week earlier next year, so there should be less scheduling nonsense. Also, as some have mentioned, ABC and the others just need to stop scheduling the marquee games as 2nd game of a back to back.

It was the first game of a back to back for Cleveland.

 

[bksballer89]

And they already are starting the season a week earlier next year, so there should be less scheduling nonsense. Also, as some have mentioned, ABC and the others just need to stop scheduling the marquee games as 2nd game of a back to back.

Just did some quick research. Out of the 16 teams that played on ABC primetime this year, only 4x were the teams on the 2nd night of a B2B.

Warriors 2X
Bulls
Clippers

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

As far as all the resting goes, the marquee teams are sending a message to the league: do something about this. I'm all for it.

And they already are starting the season a week earlier next year, so there should be less scheduling nonsense. Also, as some have mentioned, ABC and the others just need to stop scheduling the marquee games as 2nd game of a back to back.

As @bksballer89 pointed out already, the league extended the all star break per player requests so they could get some rest then.

League should go back to the old way to send their message, or as I suggested play the game after the season or not at all.

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

Warriors beating the living shit out of them.

#cupcakes

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

No, Draymond's suspension cost them the title. Also if Kyrie misses that last shot, the Warriors win the title, and all the narratives are different.

Go back and watch games 6 and 7.
Draymond played.
They lost.

If Kyrie misses, the game is tie.

You are assuming Warriors win game 5 because Draymond plays.

You are assuming Warriors win in O.T.

 

[Mecca]

I knew it was coming....lol