2013-14 NBA Regular Season Discussion Thread

[BOTSLAYER]

Damn LBJ looks smooth, post to drive to teardrop shot, sick

 

[BOTSLAYER]

2 teasers and 2 bets ATS I am about to get crushed tonight

I can not believe Houston can not go into a Gasolless Memphis and get a W, I should have known that was a trap bet.


Also can not believe Minnesota played so shitty but that covered the Teaser. I misread that, I thought Love would be able to work against the Pacers and the Pacers would not score a lot, I should have realized the Pacers are going to smother the shit out of Love and the perimeter D of the Pacers will smother.

 

[BOTSLAYER]

MOTHER FUCKING BOOM!!! Wade Allen...and still LBJ Wade not spending a lot of time together on the court? Maybe setting up a situation in the future where Wade comes off the bench for LBJ?

 

[bksballer89]

2 straight great/efficient nights for Wade.

Bosh sucks but I already knew that

 

[BOTSLAYER]

And now he is not even the video bomb champion

on a sweet note, Howard on the bench and the Rockets look to cover?

 

[BOTSLAYER]

Beverly going off

 

[bksballer89]

Knicks down 16 already

 

[bksballer89]

What a difference between the East on the west. Out East there are only 3 teams over .500 while out west there are only 2 teams under.500

 

[BOTSLAYER]

The West definitely has more +.500 teams but when it comes to true contenders both have 2.

and LOL Amare needs to retire but he might be the best player the Knicks have.

 

[BOTSLAYER]

Robin looks bigger than Brook...

Portland looks really good, I need to watch more of their games.

 

[BOTSLAYER]

Fact from TMZPN:

"The Suns paid Michael Beasley $42,454 for the game Monday per terms of their offseason buyout. The Heat paid him $8,038."

 

[bksballer89]

Derrick Williams traded to Kings for Mbah a Moute pending physicals

 

[BOTSLAYER]

That doesn't make much sense to me?

 

[LALakersboy24.7]

That doesn't make much sense to me?

Why not ?? Let me educate you then

Here’s a better question: Is competitive balance really something to aspire to? Probably not. During the 1970s, the league crowned eight different champions, and no one noticed who they were. Since then, a handful of teams have dominated the postseason, and the NBA has never been stronger. My sense is that fans don’t really want parity. They prefer something closer to shifting dominance, in which every several years a new dynasty is created and then overturned. This makes for a much more compelling narrative from season to season. It gives us someone to root for and someone to root against. Without teams that are expected to win and teams that are expected to lose, sports lose their form.

 

[BOTSLAYER]

Why not ?? Let me educate you then

The trade does not make sense, I am not sure what you are referring to?

 

[LALakersboy24.7]

The trade does not make sense, I am not sure what you are referring to?

Do salary caps even work to promote competitive balance, or can they in fact have the opposite effect? If a player is going to be earning roughly the same wherever he goes, he will naturally be drawn to a big city, where he’ll have more opportunities to make money off the court. Or maybe he’ll be drawn to a successful mid-market team because he figures he’ll have a better chance at winning a ring there. Either way, the salary cap is not serving its purpose: To evenly distribute talent around the league.

 

[BOTSLAYER]

Derrick Williams traded to Kings for Mbah a Moute pending physicals

I guess they want $2m off the books and a lock down defender at the F spot off the bench. It would seem Williams is younger and a better overall player.

Williams want to start?

 

[bksballer89]

Another terrible draft pick by the Wolves.

 

[BOTSLAYER]

So you are saying Derrick Williams made his own trade? If you have details about the trade that would be great rather than all of this random and irrelevant spouting of words.

 

[bksballer89]

It’s common practice that after every game each player is provided a scoresheet. The sheet breaks down the individual players’ contributions as well as team totals.
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That won’t be happening anymore in Toronto. Rudy Gay has put a stop to it.
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Gay sees the scoresheets as an unnecessary barrier to team unity or even a temptation to be more focussed on what is best for the individual as opposed to what is best for the team.
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“We’re not playing for stats,” Gay said.
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Gay said there was no incident or no moment that pushed him toward this decision but as a leader on this team, he felt it was just something that was best for the team.
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“I wanted to just nip it in the butt before it became an issue,” he said. “We come in here after losses, after wins and people are staring at those stat sheets, but that’s not what we’re about. We’re a team and the stat that matters is the W.”
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