2016-17 NBA Regular Season Thread

[bksballer89]

 

[trojanfan12]

You honestly think 26 wins will get a top 3 pick? Especially, as it currently stands, there are eight teams currently with less wins than the Lakers? What would the odds be of keeping that pick? 5% at best?

Keep the whole team together. They'll get 30+ wins this year and hopefully become an over .500 team next year.

Plus, the more they win, the more attractive they become to FA's who can be brought in to fill in around the youngsters and hopefully help them reach contender status.

 

[trojanfan12]

Yes they do know "how". We saw it all last season. A team doesn't just forget how to do this. Their problem is they've gotten lazy & have let games get away from them by taking possessions off on defense.

That is what Dray is saying they need to get back to- focusing on the present & getting the job done on a nightly basis.

Some of it may be laziness, but I think a lot of it is the team still learning to play with KD and vice versa. They have most of how to play together figured out. But they still need to figure out how to close games together.

KD is used to being one of only 2 guys with the ball at the end of close games. The Warriors are used to it being either Steph, Klay or occasionally Draymond.

Now, they have 3 and sometimes 4 guys looking for the ball at the end of close games.

I have no doubt they'll figure it out.

 

[trojanfan12]

I'd say this is the broad national consensus right?--- its just such bad luck when you have to move from Cleveland to LA....

Midway through his first season on the Lakers, Mozgov is unsurprisingly the starting center for a team operating well below .500, while LeBron and the Cavs are still perched atop the Eastern Conference standings. So, when asked by 60 Seconds More or Less if he missed Cleveland, Mozzy acquiesced.

“To be honest, yeah, I miss that place,” said Mozgov, who scored two points in 15 minutes during a double-digit loss to the Cavaliers last month that marked his first return to Cleveland as a member of the Lakers. “Everything was special. Being their a few days ago … I miss it. I really miss it.”

Lakers fans may get riled by their $64 million center saying he misses his old team, but I’d be more surprised if Mozgov didn’t miss Cleveland. Besides the natural tendency to miss a place where you enjoyed working, there’s the obvious enjoyment of playing for a title contender that’s gone. Whether Mozgov should be doing more for the Lakers or would be making far less on the Cavs has no bearing on the emotions he experienced upon seeing former coworkers at his old place of work.

And the point?

So a guy misses playing for a contender.

Who could have seen that coming?

 

[trojanfan12]

Dude, they sell Spaulding at Walgreens.

That shoe deal is probably worth a half used roll of toilet paper.

Had no idea Spaulding made shoes. Or that you could buy shoes at Walgreens.

 

[Heatles84]

So much for that super team Noah was talking about

 

[purguy12]

Stange story with Rose. Usually a calm guy. Wonder what happen. If this is true not a good look for Hornacheck, 1st Carmelo and now Rose. Another bad hire by the Knicks.

 

[Mecca of the “B” Team]

So much for that super team Noah was talking about

Alvin Gentry's facial expression in the background tells you all you need to know about this shit show.

 

[bksballer89]

Hey @Heatles84 how bout them Tigers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Heatles84]

Hey @Heatles84 how bout them Tigers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'M LOVING IT!!!! Let me know the AVI that I need to put up for a week and I'll put it up tomorrow. Never been so happy to lose a bet. Saban's smug ass actually thought he could roll out a new OC on the week of the title game. LOL

 

[bksballer89]

I'M LOVING IT!!!! Let me know the AVI that I need to put up for a week and I'll put it up tomorrow. Never been so happy to lose a bet. Saban's smug ass actually thought he could roll out a new OC on the week of the title game. LOL

Knowing how much you love FSU and all. Here is your av

 

[TJL]

Knowing how much you love FSU and all. Here is your av

I went to 3 Bucs games this year just to watch him play

Jameis Da GAWD, been on that bandwagon since I saw him throw a 70 yd TD at the Under Armor All American game

 

[Heatles84]

Knowing how much you love FSU and all. Here is your av

Damn you. I was hoping for penises. Yeah, I said that

 

[Heatles84]

I went to 3 Bucs games this year just to watch him play

Jameis Da GAWD, been on that bandwagon since I saw him throw a 70 yd TD at the Under Armor All American game

He skrong, we skrong, well all skrong.

 

[Heatles84]

I went to 3 Bucs games this year just to watch him play

Jameis Da GAWD, been on that bandwagon since I saw him throw a 70 yd TD at the Under Armor All American game

Yeah, I knew Jameis was going to be a problem for Miami, and that was without Golden's mere incompetence. Have to hand it to good ol' Jumbo. He fell into the school's best QB and best RB at different times where they overlapped for one year.

 

[TJL]

He skrong, we skrong, well all skrong.

Exactly

 

[TJL]

Yeah, I knew Jameis was going to be a problem for Miami, and that was without Golden's mere incompetence. Have to hand it to good ol' Jumbo. He fell into the school's best QB and best RB at different times where they overlapped for one year.

Fell into it? He recruited them both lmfao and got Cook to flip from UF at the last second.

 

[bksballer89]

Bulls' Butler, Wade out vs. Wizards on Tuesday

 

[bksballer89]

Bulls go 5-5 or worse in that stretch and it's going to get ugly in Chicago. I could see them splitting with Indy and beating Brooklyn....this is how I think it pans out:

VS Indy - W
VS Brooklyn - W
AT Indy - L
VS Milwaukee - L
VS Charlotte - W
AT Cleveland - L
VS Toronto - L
VS OKC - W
AT Washington - W
AT New York Knicks - W

I have them going 6-4. But that's just me.

With Wade and Butler both out tonight, they should be 5-4 before playing the Knicks. 6-4 looks right on the dot

 

[bksballer89]

Good games tonight. Game of the night is the Heat and Warriors