2016 NBA Off-Season Thread

[Hambombs]

i saw draymond laugh when lebron ran right by him in game 6....

and dude...this iggy stuff has got to stop....lol...

durant is intriguing esp if he focuses on more than offense........but i think lebron will be out for blood there.

Youre really dumb. His defense has been amazing his whole career. Youre just jelly. Thats all

 

[DJ Fieri]

Stupid ass mofo's on FB have lost it....saying the W's are gonna go 77-5.

 

[WiggyRuss]

That was regular season.

Playoffs:

Barbosa 5.6 ppg 39% 3 pt
Clark 4.1 ppg 33% 3 pt
Speights 5.6 ppg 41%
Ezeli 4 ppg 2.7 rpg

I substituted Clark for Rush. Rush didn't play much and Clark did. So they got less production but not too much but Ezeli's production dropped quite a bit and Iggy played much more in the playoffs.

Regular season:

Barbosa 6.4 ppg 38% 3 pt
Rush 4.2 ppg 41% 3 pt
Speights 7.1 ppg 38%
Ezeli 7 ppg 5.6 rpg

ehhh...i tend to think a bench is overated in teh playoffs....but the hype that was surrounding golden state all year was overblown because their bench was so instrumental in 73 wins...then u get to the playoffs, shorten up the bench and go a combined 7-7 vs. your 2 best competitors because no one uses 10 players in the playoffs unless their dumb.

 

[WiggyRuss]

Youre really dumb. His defense has been amazing his whole career. Youre just jelly. Thats all

hmmmmm....think about that comment...

 

[Hambombs]

Wiggy: " this iggy thing has got to stop"


Youre disrespecting a great all around player with a High IQ for the game

 

[Shaqdaddy11]

hmmmmm....think about that comment...

If only you did the same once in a while...

 

[shopson67]

Stupid ass mofo's on FB have lost it....saying the W's are gonna go 77-5.

After blowing their wad on the regular season this year, they'll play it much more safe this time around. I'd expect 60-65 wins tops.

 

[CodeBreaker]

Kawhi Leonard? He is already ridiculous and 25.

Oh damn, I forgot about him

 

[DJ Fieri]

Assuming they don't do anything crazy all the Cavs could offer him would be the MLE which I think is $3.5m.

Probably about half of what he is going to be asking for.

They have the $10m TPE but since the Knicks denounced Williams... there is no way to do a sign and trade.

So the MLE went down while the contracts skyrocketed? The MLE last year was just under 6 million.

 

[WiggyRuss]

Wiggy: " this iggy thing has got to stop"


Youre disrespecting a great all around player with a High IQ for the game

i didnt say anything except hes as helpless as a little child against LeBron at this point in his career.....hes a solid bench player for you guys.

 

[Shaqdaddy11]

Wiggy: " this iggy thing has got to stop"


Youre disrespecting a great all around player with a High IQ for the game

Wanna see him go apeshit? Tell him Tristan Thompson isn't better than Whiteside

 

[Shanemansj13]

Iggy draymond, and durant can defend lbj now what a team..

But what really helped is the rim protection. Bogut and Ezeli helped with that. KD has the length to guard Lebron the problem is LBJ owns KD

Remember OKC had 3 defender that could guard Lebron especially on the pick-and-roll. I will say Green is much better than Ibaka. KD, Ibaka and Sefolosha. The main problem is the other way, Battier was guarding KD. The Cavs might need another defender, Jefferson is not bad at all but Battier was better IMO

 

[shopson67]

ehhh...i tend to think a bench is overated in teh playoffs....but the hype that was surrounding golden state all year was overblown because their bench was so instrumental in 73 wins...then u get to the playoffs, shorten up the bench and go a combined 7-7 vs. your 2 best competitors because no one uses 10 players in the playoffs unless their dumb.

Warriors won some games in the playoffs due to guys like Livingston and Barbosa bailing out a slumping starter or two.

 

[shopson67]

So the MLE went down while the contracts skyrocketed? The MLE last year was just under 6 million.

There are two different MLEs, depending on your cap position relative to the luxury tax.

 

[DJ Fieri]

Wanna see him go apeshit? Tell him Tristan Thompson isn't better than Whiteside

He isn't. I think most people would take Whiteside over TT.

 

[CitySushi]

ehhh...i tend to think a bench is overated in teh playoffs....but the hype that was surrounding golden state all year was overblown because their bench was so instrumental in 73 wins...then u get to the playoffs, shorten up the bench and go a combined 7-7 vs. your 2 best competitors because no one uses 10 players in the playoffs unless their dumb.

THIS.

The Warriors bench was built up to be some monster, but in reality, the only two real consistent cogs all year were Livingston and Iguodala. Depth again is most important for the regular season. When it comes to the playoffs, especially with this new format with weeks between games, you can trot your stars out there for 40 minutes a game.

The Cavs shortened their rotation in the finals. The Warriors did not. I think this was the biggest, and probably least talked about factor in the series.

 

[WiggyRuss]

Oh damn, I forgot about him

if the Warriors were getting Kawhi instead of KD id probably say absent an injury its over...but kawhi is the best defender in the league and is a champion.....KD is soft and is primarily a jump shooter.....id have loved it if the Cavs got wade but its not what we need....i was happy we got dunleavy but upset when i thought we used our big TPE because i felt they had to use that on a defensive minded player around the trade deadline.....glad we were able to preserve that for a future move.

 

[Hambombs]

hmmmmm....think about that comment...

Coming from a guy that is a GHOST when his team loses, warriors win the ship... And i dont see you on this board for the rest of the year. Lame

 

[DJ Fieri]

There are two different MLEs, depending on your cap position relative to the luxury tax.

Oh okay.

 

[gordontrue]

So the MLE went down while the contracts skyrocketed? The MLE last year was just under 6 million.

Sorry the cavs have a taxpayer MLE which is different from the standard MLE.

The standard MLE is still just under $6m