2016 NBA Off-Season Thread

[TurnUpTheHeat]

The Spurs are the team to beat. Pau and Aldridge are dangerous, very

Warriors 2-3 in Vegas.
Spurs 8-1.
Team to beat?
#notevenclose

 

[DJ]

DJ Dunson ‏@CerebralSportex 10m10 minutes agoManhattan, NY
Priorities have changed in this era to the point where trying to create the greatest teams of all time is most important to players.

 

[Mecca]

durant is a bitch. Westbrook made us elite. And our GM is the best in the business. He'll be the reason we're back.

Honestly, I hope you are right.

Maybe you go the way of Portland and the youngsters step up.

 

[Wamu]

We'll find out. Westbrook is the better player and has more heart. If he leaves I'll wish him well. I never liked durant or believed all the bullshit about how nice he was. That whole carrying a bible in his backpack was just for the media. He was cheating on his girlfriend the whole time and she left him. He's a fake. With no balls.

 

[Shaqdaddy11]

Wow.....these Thunder fans have some serious issues they need to work through.

24hrs ago KD was a hero. Now this scapegoat fella is just being a salty whiner!

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

No way in hell is Durant is the 4th option in Golden State.

Durant wouldn't be the 4th option on the Dream Team.

 

[Shaqdaddy11]

durant is a bitch. Westbrook made us elite. And our GM is the best in the business. He'll be the reason we're back.

Go back a week ago and you would have said KD is the better player. Stop bitching.

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

We'll find out. Westbrook is the better player and has more heart. If he leaves I'll wish him well. I never liked durant or believed all the bullshit about how nice he was. That whole carrying a bible in his backpack was just for the media. He was cheating on his girlfriend the whole time and she left him. He's a fake. With no balls.

Westbrook plays in a different gear.
Sometimes that's good, sometimes wreckless.
They are both elite, megastars.
Not sure Westbrook would be a good fit joining GS.
Durant is.

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

Westbrook has more heart. I will give you that but he's not better than Durant.

Who cares if Durant cheated on his GF? That's none of our business. He's not the first nor will he be the last professional athlete to cheat on their gf

Maybe Westbrook cheated on his boyfriend?

#whocares?

 

[Mecca]

Are you friends with him? Can you call him right now and have a conversation with him? Or do you just watch him 82+ games per year. Please stop acting like you know this guy.

...or that he personally owes you something.

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

Crazy talk. Durant is going to lead this team in scoring.

Possibly Curry.
It will be close, neither will care.

 

[Shaqdaddy11]

Be interesting to see Simmons play Brown in summer league in a few minutes. Think @Mecca already mentioned this too

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

I agree with this....Golden State didnt lose to the Cavs because they were lacking in talent- they were lacking in mental toughness and general toughness and had no one that could do anything with LeBron....none of that has changed.

next year Durant will experience a level of scrutiny that even James did not get in Miami. The pressure on him is going to be enormous and thus far whenever that pressure has come for him he has come up short. As I said- if this was the Warriors getting Kawhi Leonard- a guy that would bring toughness and defense and someone that could cover LeBron- that would be a major problem.

Trust me- i realize the Warriors are going to be the favorites and a lot of people are justified in their excitement. I just think the Warriors didnt lose to the CAvs because of a talent disparity- they lost because they crumbled under the pressure and dont really play tough.

bring on the rubber match. Only 1 King in the NBA. Trading for Kevin Durant and getting rid of Bogut certainly does not help your toughness or mental approach...

we all saw what 73 wins got them last year. A date with a rested King.

I personally think chasing 73 ended up being their biggest downfall.
Kerr was in a tough spot.
I hated when the Heat wasted so much emotion and rest patterns when they were on that 27 or whatever game winning streak. Said it at the time.

Warriors learned a lot from that, I guarantee it.
People will talk shit when this years version of the Warriors wins less regular season games, but that talk will end in the middle of June when they have Larry back in their possession,

#bookit

 

[Robotech]

It's cool that Bogut and Barnes are going together. Publicly, Bogut was Barnes' biggest supporter, saying that someone's going to max him and that Barnes could average 20 points per game.

 

[Mecca]

Be interesting to see Simmons play Brown in summer league in a few minutes. Think @Mecca already mentioned this too

Vince Carter is a horrific commentator.

Thank God he's not calling this game too.

 

[Shaqdaddy11]

Vince Carter is a horrific commentator.

Thank God he's not calling this game too.

Yep he's crap!

 

[bksballer89]

And there goes your starting Center

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

And there goes your starting Center

There will be more lining up to be a part of this.
People thought the Heatles were an attraction in 2010.
This show will blow that one away.

 

[wildturkey]

And there goes your starting Center

Ridiculously good bargain even with the fact that Zaza looks like the kind of guy that smokes two packs of Marlboro Reds every day

 

[Mecca]

Ridiculously good bargain even with the fact that Zaza looks like the kind of guy that smokes two packs of Marlboro Reds every day

Waiting to see what David West does.

If Tiiiiiiiiiiiimmy retires, they'll be able to pay him.

But, might he opt for a ring instead?