2018-2019 NBA Regular Season Thread

[dtgold88]

2008-09 Detroit Pistons Roster and Stats | Basketball-Reference.com

Injuries can be a bitch.

They can but not sure how it's relevant.....Lue did not take a great Cavs team backwards.

 

[DJ Fieri]

Lakers signed Rondo, McGee, and Lance on either July 1st or July 2nd.

There were PLENTY of better role players available on those days.

Free agency literally started on July 1st and the only guys who agreed to verbal agreements prior to July 1st were top unrestricted free agents such as DeAndre, Paul George, KD and Cp3

Wrong.

McGee signed on the 10th.

Same with Stephenson.

Rondo did sign on the 2nd.

 

[DJ Fieri]

They can but not sure how it's relevant.....Lue did not take a great Cavs team backwards.

You can't follow a convo.....I said Curry and Lue was a good comparison.

You said it wasn't.

Billups played in just 2 games that season. You think that was a factor? Wallace and Hamilton also missed 15-20 games.

Curry was given just 1 season before he was fired. And injuries played a huge part in them regressing.

 

[Stakesarehigh]

Kawhi sitting out to manage loads again

 

[dtgold88]

Enshrine him in the HOF since you love him so much. You should be his campaign manager for enshrinement.

This is excellent spin and deflection, but when did I say I loved him? I have said I don't think he's anything special (read that until it sinks in...if it doesn't ask for help).

As usual I was simply refuting your points with logic, facts and reason and you went with deflection.

Can you refute anything I said...
*Did he not beat a 73 win team who was a heavy favorite against Lue's team?
*Did they only lose to a team who no one else beat and is though of by many as the best team ever?
*Did they not get back to the Finals last season when many had written them off?

could they have done it with another coach? Sure, but in no way did he do anything that should make you think he can't coach.

 

[Black Adam]

Just more proof of what I've been saying....... Jimmy Johnson gets credit for winning with the same team.

Don't like a coach he gets blamed and no credit. Like a coach and he gets credit and no blame.

you aren't saying Switzer was actually good, are you...?

just want to be sure...

 

[dtgold88]

Other teams minus a LeBron should be beating down the door for Lue then

Guess we will see

Might, might not. In all seriousness I'm not sure he wants to coach. You remember so many saying how bad Casey was last year, right? He got another job.

 

[Stakesarehigh]

You can't follow a convo.....I said Curry and Lue was a good comparison.

You said it wasn't.

Billups played in just 2 games that season. You think that was a factor? Wallace and Hamilton also missed 15-20 games.

Curry was given just 1 season before he was fired. And injuries played a huge part in them regressing.

Sadly the Pistons traded for AI that year lol

But the dude had came off averaging 26 a game.

 

[bksballer89]

Wrong.

McGee signed on the 10th.

Same with Stephenson.

Rondo did sign on the 2nd.

Came to an agreement with the Lakers on the 1st or 2nd. Didn't offically signed their deals to that day probably but they agreed on the 1st or 2nd.

NBA free agency: Every new contract and extension

Sources: Stephenson, McGee join LeBron in L.A. (article written on July 2nd)

Tweeted on July 1st in the PM

 

[bksballer89]

Kawhi sitting out to manage loads again

Absolute joke

 

[DJ Fieri]

Ok, but that's not the comparison that was used that you agreed with. It was said he was like Curry who took a great team and they took a step back. That was clearly not the case with Lue (at least not before Durant joined GS).

Curry didn't take them a step back.....INJURIES DID. Lord, you're obtuse.

Curry did a fairly good job of keeping the Pistons competitive.

Billups was the engine that made that team go, he missed 80 games.

Hamilton missed 15.

Wallace missed 16.

111 games from 3 key players on that squad.

McDyess was a key role player and he missed another 20 games. He almost averaged a double-double.

 

[dtgold88]

You can't follow a convo.....I said Curry and Lue was a good comparison.

You said it wasn't.

Billups played in just 2 games that season. You think that was a factor? Wallace and Hamilton also missed 15-20 games.

Curry was given just 1 season before he was fired. And injuries played a huge part in them regressing.

This is what was said that you called a good comparison.....Ty Lue = Michael Curry

Gets along with players way over his head as a coach.

Curry took a Pistons nucleus that advanced to the ECF six straight years and made them garbage.

That is Ty Lue without a LeBron.

Tell me where the injuries were mentioned? Says the team went to 6 straight ECF and made them garbage. You said that was a great comparison to a coach who took a team that lost in the Finals to a team that won, then got back there 2 more times.

You've seen him coach all of 4 games without Lebron.

 

[dtgold88]

Kawhi sitting out to manage loads again

Not playing today but hope it doesn't ruin any fantasy lineups for ya.

 

[dtgold88]

you aren't saying Switzer was actually good, are you...?

just want to be sure...

I am saying he had some success and like most you seem to be among the many who gives the coach no credit if you don't like him but all the blame if there are issues.

 

[Stakesarehigh]

I take back my Curry comment if it means we don't have to talk about it lol

 

[DJ Fieri]

Sadly the Pistons traded for AI that year lol

But the dude had came off averaging 26 a game.

Not even close to the player Billups was. Billups made that team hum.

 

[DJ Fieri]

I take back my Curry comment if it means we don't have to talk about it lol

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

 

[dtgold88]

Curry didn't take them a step back.....INJURIES DID. Lord, you're obtuse.

Curry did a fairly good job of keeping the Pistons competitive.

Billups was the engine that made that team go, he missed 80 games.

Hamilton missed 15.

Wallace missed 16.

111 games from 3 key players on that squad.

McDyess was a key role player and he missed another 20 games. He almost averaged a double-double.

Once again this is what you agreed with. Zero mention of injuries. Now don't go nuts and man up and admit your gaffe......

Ty Lue = Michael Curry

Gets along with players way over his head as a coach.

Curry took a Pistons nucleus that advanced to the ECF six straight years and made them garbage.

That is Ty Lue without a LeBron.

It was said Curry made them garbage. Not injuries. Are you suggesting the injuries were on Curry?

Ya gotta love the lengths so many go to just not admit to a simple mistake.

 

[Mecca of the “B” Team]

poor kuzma

how is Luke Walton gonna start Kuzma at center and ask him to guard Ayton? Thats ridiculous. Thats on Walton

Horrible coaching decision.

Even worse when you remember it was planned.

Lmfao that they think they have a death lineup.


.Whenever the Los Angeles Lakers get LeBron James and Rajon Rondo back healthy, Kyle Kuzma wants to see the team implement a strategy it hasn't yet used this season: a "death lineup."

"Honestly think our small-ball unit can be really good," Kuzma said at shootaround Wednesday ahead of the Lakers' game against the Detroit Pistons. "I think we can have a death lineup, whether that's Rondo and Lonzo [Ball] on the floor at the same time and me and [Brandon Ingram] and Bron, or substituting guys.

Serious question......since both are in LA do the Lakers still have a better chance to land a FA than the Clips all things being equal due to reputation?

I would say yes.

Lakers still have the advantage.

BUT, the LeBron Circus could be a con against the Lakers.