2021-2022 NBA Season

[Shaqdaddy11]

Yeah shit can happen and all the stars on other teams can down with covid at the right time. I don't need any more TV's but I can splurge.

CAVS in 5

Get a "bathroom" TV my husband has been whining about.

 

[bksballer89]

Take it easy on us tonight @Gman @The Q

 

[bksballer89]

Is father time here?

 

[The Q]

Take it easy on us tonight @Gman @The Q

Like….try to not lose by 30 easy?

 

[Gman]

Take it easy on us tonight @Gman @The Q

Celtics on the 2nd night of a b2b... also the game is in Miami I believe...

{{gulp}}

 

[bksballer89]

Celtics on the 2nd night of a b2b... also the game is in Miami I believe...

{{gulp}}

Celtics had a players only meeting. No reason miami should win tonight

 

[Shanemansj13]

Interesting article on the 3 bigs lineup CLE has gone with early in the season. It's interesting that some teams have tried it in the past but it was for one game or a very short stretch and it has worked but very rarely.

The Cavs Have Been Running a Three-Big-Man Lineup—and It’s Working?

Teams have tried supersized front lines before. According to research conducted by Zoe Surman of Basketball-Reference.com, prior to this season there had been 223 games in which a team started three players who stood 6-foot-11 or taller. The first came on February 1, 1985, when Jazz coach Frank Layden rolled with the 7-foot-4 Mark Eaton, 7-foot Rich Kelley, and 6-foot-11 Thurl Bailey in a win over the Mavericks. Eaton, who’d go on to win Defensive Player of the Year, registered his second 20-rebound, 10-block triple-double of the season.

Jumbo packages weren’t uncommon in the bruising, slower-paced NBA of the 1990s and early 2000s. But several of the game’s prevailing trends—the explosion of 3-point attempts, the rise of positionless basketball, the outsize importance of perimeter playmaking and pick-and-roll defense—have led to downsizing over the years. That, in turn, has meant significantly fewer mammoth front lines. According to Surman, before the Cavs’ move toward tall-ball, the most recent instance of an NBA team starting three players 6-foot-11 or bigger was on January 13, 2015, when the Spurs started Tim Duncan, Tiago Splitter, and Austin Daye against the Wizards. (That wasn’t some grand plan hatched by Gregg Popovich, though; Daye only got the nod because Kawhi Leonard was out with a bruised right hand.) Before that, you have to go back to December 3, 2010, when the Kings trotted out a front line of Samuel Dalembert, Jason Thompson, and Donté Greene against the back-to-back defending champion Lakers … and promptly got smoked by 33 points.

But the Cavs have taken it to a different level defensively.

• The early results have been better than anyone would’ve expected: Cleveland has allowed just 99.7 points per 100 non-garbage-time possessions with Allen, Mobley, and Markkanen sharing the floor, according to Cleaning the Glass. That’s a defensive rating on par with the NBA’s stingiest units through the season’s first couple of weeks.
• Opponents are taking nearly 39 percent of their shots at the rim against these lineups, which would be the second-highest rate in the league for the season.
• Cleveland’s opponents are shooting just 55 percent at the basket against Allen-Mobley-Markkanen lineups—a league-best-caliber mark.
• They’re combining to contest more than 35 shots per game, with Mobley second in the league in attempts defended.
• Allen and Mobley have the look of a dominant interior defensive duo. The vet’s holding opponents to a microscopic 41.1 percent shooting on attempts at the basket, tops among 68 players who have defended at least 25 up-close shots this season, according to Second Spectrum tracking data; the rookie’s at 56.9 percent, good for 22nd.
• The Cavs are avoiding fouls and opponent free throw attempts at elite rates with their starting bigs on the floor. It sure seems to be flustering the opposition, too: The Cavs have forced turnovers on more than 20 percent of defensive possessions in Allen-Mobley-Markkanen minutes, and are generating more than 22 points per 48 minutes off those miscues, both of which would rank right up near the top of the league.

 

[Gman]

Celtics had a players only meeting. No reason miami should win tonight

lol... you're right... and we beat Orlando last night... all our problems are solved.

 

[bksballer89]

 

[The Q]

Celtics had a players only meeting. No reason miami should win tonight

And it went poorly….

 

[Shanemansj13]

Thunder ML
Atlanta (no spread)
Jets-Colts Over

 

[Wamu]

Celtics on the 2nd night of a b2b... also the game is in Miami I believe...

{{gulp}}

Not looking forward to this game.

 

[Wamu]

Get a "bathroom" TV my husband has been whining about.

My wife won't let me put a TV in the bathroom or install a urinal in the garage.

 

[The Q]

Thunder ML
Atlanta (no spread)
Jets-Colts Over

Over on a Thursday night game with 2 backup level QBs is quite the bet

 

[Shanemansj13]

Over on a Thursday night game with 2 backup level QBs is quite the bet

I don't think anyone would have expected Mike White to put up 400 yards and 34 points. It's fake money, I can throw it around like it's candy

 

[The Q]

I don't think anyone would have expected Mike White to put up 400 yards and 34 points. It's fake money, I can throw it around like it's candy

Is there actually a use here for vcash?

 

[trojanfan12]

Is father time here?

rectis adominis?

So he strained his butt?

 

[Shanemansj13]

Is there actually a use here for vcash?

Absolutely. Confidence you can bet in the real world

Spoiler: Spoiler

 

[dtgold88]

Interesting article on the 3 bigs lineup CLE has gone with early in the season. It's interesting that some teams have tried it in the past but it was for one game or a very short stretch and it has worked but very rarely.

The Cavs Have Been Running a Three-Big-Man Lineup—and It’s Working?

Teams have tried supersized front lines before. According to research conducted by Zoe Surman of Basketball-Reference.com, prior to this season there had been 223 games in which a team started three players who stood 6-foot-11 or taller. The first came on February 1, 1985, when Jazz coach Frank Layden rolled with the 7-foot-4 Mark Eaton, 7-foot Rich Kelley, and 6-foot-11 Thurl Bailey in a win over the Mavericks. Eaton, who’d go on to win Defensive Player of the Year, registered his second 20-rebound, 10-block triple-double of the season.

Jumbo packages weren’t uncommon in the bruising, slower-paced NBA of the 1990s and early 2000s. But several of the game’s prevailing trends—the explosion of 3-point attempts, the rise of positionless basketball, the outsize importance of perimeter playmaking and pick-and-roll defense—have led to downsizing over the years. That, in turn, has meant significantly fewer mammoth front lines. According to Surman, before the Cavs’ move toward tall-ball, the most recent instance of an NBA team starting three players 6-foot-11 or bigger was on January 13, 2015, when the Spurs started Tim Duncan, Tiago Splitter, and Austin Daye against the Wizards. (That wasn’t some grand plan hatched by Gregg Popovich, though; Daye only got the nod because Kawhi Leonard was out with a bruised right hand.) Before that, you have to go back to December 3, 2010, when the Kings trotted out a front line of Samuel Dalembert, Jason Thompson, and Donté Greene against the back-to-back defending champion Lakers … and promptly got smoked by 33 points.

But the Cavs have taken it to a different level defensively.

• The early results have been better than anyone would’ve expected: Cleveland has allowed just 99.7 points per 100 non-garbage-time possessions with Allen, Mobley, and Markkanen sharing the floor, according to Cleaning the Glass. That’s a defensive rating on par with the NBA’s stingiest units through the season’s first couple of weeks.
• Opponents are taking nearly 39 percent of their shots at the rim against these lineups, which would be the second-highest rate in the league for the season.
• Cleveland’s opponents are shooting just 55 percent at the basket against Allen-Mobley-Markkanen lineups—a league-best-caliber mark.
• They’re combining to contest more than 35 shots per game, with Mobley second in the league in attempts defended.
• Allen and Mobley have the look of a dominant interior defensive duo. The vet’s holding opponents to a microscopic 41.1 percent shooting on attempts at the basket, tops among 68 players who have defended at least 25 up-close shots this season, according to Second Spectrum tracking data; the rookie’s at 56.9 percent, good for 22nd.
• The Cavs are avoiding fouls and opponent free throw attempts at elite rates with their starting bigs on the floor. It sure seems to be flustering the opposition, too: The Cavs have forced turnovers on more than 20 percent of defensive possessions in Allen-Mobley-Markkanen minutes, and are generating more than 22 points per 48 minutes off those miscues, both of which would rank right up near the top of the league.

Guessing the other reason (main reason) this works is the Cavs bigs are not back to basket bigs and 2 of the 3 play exceptional defense. Mobley and LM also seem capable of dribbling up the floor and passing, as well. Allen can take it to the hoop if needed, as well.

 

[tlance]

rectis adominis?

So he strained his butt?

No, that is actually his ab muscles