2016-17 NBA Regular Season Thread

[bksballer89]

Chicago at least has toughness with Butler, Rondo, Wade, Gibson, Lopez which gives them a puncher's chance- but its still Tyson vs. McNeely.

Kyrie has been pretty brilliant this year- he has closed the gap on 2nd best in the East- not quite there yet- but has closed the gap.

I agree. I think they can give Cleveland the most difficulty in the East unless Toronto/Boston make some moves

 

[WiggyRuss]

NBA luxury tax payments by team 2012-2016 | Statistic

kind of an interesting site that details the history of the luxury tax in teh NBA and what the payments were in recent years.

Last year the Cavs spent 55M via the luxury tax....the rest of the NBA COMBINED- 65M.......thanks Dan!

 

[purguy12]

Bulls with a great win and they just crapped it away. Damn bulls at least I know the Bulls can play with the Cavs.

 

[purguy12]

I agree. I think they can give Cleveland the most difficulty in the East unless Toronto/Boston make some moves

now you agree with me BK. I love to see you come around. I told you guys we match up well with the Cavs. Im just getting nervous that this team is starting to play down on their Competition. Our Bench has screwed up so much. i know we are missing 2 guys from our 2nd unit but its getting bad. The 2nd unit has cost this team 4 games so far when we had decent leads. Last night was another example.

 

[WiggyRuss]

I agree. I think they can give Cleveland the most difficulty in the East unless Toronto/Boston make some moves

yah- especially if McDermont and Mirotic can start shooting the 3 on a consistent basis- that helps their anemic 3 pt shooting -and means they are getting contributions from their front court.....Lopez, Gibson, Mirotic, McDermont (as a 3/ stretch 4) is not bad...clearly their strength is in the back court/wing with Rondo, Butler, Wade....
the question remains- do they have enough offense?---- id say no......but we shall see.

 

[bksballer89]

now you agree with me BK. I love to see you come around. I told you guys we match up well with the Cavs. Im just getting nervous that this team is starting to play down on their Competition. Our Bench has screwed up so much. i know we are missing 2 guys from our 2nd unit but its getting bad. The 2nd unit has cost this team 4 games so far when we had decent leads. Last night was another example.

Yeah that's what concerns me about the Bulls. Seems to be a lot of pressure on Wade and Butler to carry the load when everyone else goes MIA

 

[purguy12]

Yeah that's what concerns me about the Bulls. Seems to be a lot of pressure on Wade and Butler to carry the load when everyone else goes MIA

Even when they carry the load we still lose because our Bench sucks. I expected them to be better and give us energy off the bench. Portis is a waste. Took a big step back. Mirotic needs to get traded. He is a terrible labeled 3 point shooter. We need to stop calling him a 3 point shooter. He isnt. Same for Cannon. The only 3 point shooter we have is McDermott and he has missed the last 6-8 games. Butler is getting better at his. This team really needs McDermott and MCW back. Our starters are fine. They can hang with the best of them its our 2nd unit that scares me. Going into this season our Bench and Depth was suppose to be a positive.

 

[bksballer89]

So its December 6th and the Dubs already put up the following points........in regulation

122
127
122
125
133
127
124
120
149
138
142

This can't be life

 

[gordontrue]

So its December 6th and the Dubs already put up the following points........in regulation

122
127
122
125
133
127
124
120
149
138
142

This can't be life

The fact that they've gotten to this point so quickly is legitimately scary.

 

[gordontrue]

CJ Miles' wife on twitter...

 

[Robotech]

The fact that they've gotten to this point so quickly is legitimately scary.

I had forgotten they scored 149. It kinda makes last night's 142 disappointing.

 

[bksballer89]

#whywatch

 

[DJ Fieri]

Not a good defender. Doesn't effectively crash the boards for a guard. Not even a good play maker. Yet gets praised because he hit a go ahead bucket in the finals. Can't really impact the game outside of scoring either. But hey, he has a ring and hit a big shot. I guess if that's all it takes to be considered elite, Robert Horry was elite and deserving of being inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.












Who am I talking about? Guard for the Cavs.

 

[Bolts]

Not a good defender. Doesn't effectively crash the boards for a guard. Not even a good play maker. Yet gets praised because he hit a go ahead bucket in the finals. Can't really impact the game outside of scoring either. But hey, he has a ring and hit a big shot. I guess if that's all it takes to be considered elite, Robert Horry was elite and deserving of being inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.












Who am I talking about? Guard for the Cavs.

James Jones?

 

[DJ Fieri]

James Jones?

Guard. Not small forward.

 

[DJ Fieri]

James Jones?

Kyrie Irving aka Mr Glass.

 

[Bolts]

Guard. Not small forward.

Mo Williams?

 

[Bolts]

Kyrie Irving aka Mr Glass.

Damn, he was gonna be my next guess.

 

[bksballer89]

Miami with 5 players out somehow is up at the half against the Knicks.....fully expect the Knicks to win though

 

[Vyle203]

CJ Miles' wife on twitter...

It's a valid concern.