That faggit has me on ignore too, been almost 2 years
I was the only one calling him on his bullshit at the time and the pussy couldn't take it
Official NBA 2016-2017 Thread - 30 teams, 1 goal. 2 weeks left, so much can happen!!
That faggit has me on ignore too, been almost 2 years
I was the only one calling him on his bullshit at the time and the pussy couldn't take it
Shit is so lame. He wants to be this board expert but can't take being called out. Then runs like a pussy.That faggit has me on ignore too, been almost 2 years
Thats alright Bruh... I'm planning on DESTROYING that Dude real slow over the next season... Ignore or not, the rest of the board will be privy to all his bullshit whining and lying! Can't wait
Who doesn't want any easy life though?
Nah.. he would have been more respected if he did a sign and trade with the sixers where OKC got Embiid, Simmons, Saric, Jahlil and Noel, and Sixers get Durant! The whole world would have respected Durant then....
According to some of these Dudes, unless you don't demand all series go 7 games and all games are won on a last second you aint shit!! FOH!!!
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Without Durant, the Warriors almost won last year right; 1 shot away from winning; and that was after LBJ had an unbelievable finals, Irving playing really good, Curry playing like ass, Barnes playing like hes never been on a court before; GS not scoring the last 4 mins of the game; and im not going to even mention all the other shit that occurred; and add all that up and they still had a chance to win; 1 shot; I was on record in saying Cavs had no shot; was right after 4 games
; but hey I was clearly wrong
; but I would have to think that adding KD kinda gives an ever so slight edge to GS
; I mean because clearly they cant be that much better with KD though right
Without Durant, the Warriors almost won last year right; 1 shot away from winning; and that was after LBJ had an unbelievable finals, Irving playing really good, Curry playing like ass, Barnes playing like hes never been on a court before; GS not scoring the last 4 mins of the game; and im not going to even mention all the other shit that occurred; and add all that up and they still had a chance to win; 1 shot; I was on record in saying Cavs had no shot; was right after 4 games
Thats my whole point Bruh... Dudes acting like it didn't take a historical performance by LeBron WITH Kyrie playing at the top of his game to go 7 games with THAT warrior team. NOW you and you take away Barnes (who is balling his ass off in Dallas right now ), and add KD?!?!?! Dudes keep referring to last year like this is the same situation....
...and I understand this is why they play the games, so, what do we do OP, not talk about shit until June?!?!? Not sure what you are getting at with that shit
Listen call it what it is but the league helped the cavs with the suspension of Green for a game and Lebron out there dry snitchin in the press conference being down 3-1..
Sorry Bron my nigga but he gets no daps for that shit.. If you gonna lose then lose straight up and if you gonna win then win straight up
Sorry Bron my nigga but he gets no daps for that shit.. If you gonna lose then lose straight up and if you gonna win then win straight up
To me both the Warriors and Cavs are champs who need excuses for winning/losing like them/hate them they are the modern version of the Celtics/Lakers they are the teams that make the NBA exciting and fun so win lose or draw just enjoy the ride..
Five statistical takeaways from NBA preseason: Warriors dominate, Mavs struggle
The preseason is over and the regular season is set to begin Monday. Preseason is, by its very nature, meaningless. The games don't count, the rotations don't reflect teams' real plans, and the offenses are vanilla. Still, while we shouldn't take anything that went down these past four weeks as gospel, there are at least things which can raise an eyebrow or two.
With a healthy does of skepticism and a huge caveat that the exhibition season has not been proven to forecast regular-season performance, here are some numbers that stand out from the NBA preseason.
1. The Kings shot the lights out. For a team whose roster is filled with centers and deeply flawed, the Kings shot incredibly well in the preseason, with a league-best 56.4 effective field goal percentage (which factors the impact of 3-pointers). Eight different players had eFG percentages better than 60 percent, which is incredible. Veteran forward Anthony Tolliver shot 63 percent from 3-point range, Matt Barnes shot 60 percent (on five 3-point attempts per game!), and Arron Afflalo shot 44 percent from deep. DeMarcus Cousins shot 66 percent from the field. They were a blistering inferno.
Of course, Sacramento also led the league in turnover percentage in preseason, so they were sloppy, but they did make a lot of shots, which provides a little bit of hope for a team without much to feel good about headed into next week.
2. The Nets were all pace and space. For years, Brooklyn has played at a plodding, methodical pace because of both coaching and the slow, veteran talent on the roster. That's about to change. Brooklyn finished second in pace (possessions per game) behind Phoenix, a radical departure for them. Per 100 possessions, which factors for pace, they also launched the third-most 3-pointers of any team, at 32.1 per game. For comparison, the second-ranked Warriors shot 32.7 per game. (Houston, in uber-D'Antoni-Morey-ball, shot 35 per game.)
That's the good news, they're legitimately trying to play a more up-tempo system, and that should help their young guys. Here's the bad news: They were still 19th in fast-break points per 100 possessions and 22nd in overall offense. So they were running and shooting a lot of 3s (and making a decent clip, 13th in 3-point percentage) and still not scoring efficiently.
3. Yes, the Warriors were awesome. Golden State stumbled out of the gate in its first game, a loss to the Raptors. Then they went 6-1.
They finished first in offensive rating, second in effective field goal percentage, fifth in defensive rating, second in percentage of buckets off an assist, and the most made 3-pointers per game.
Basically, everything everyone feared about how great this team could be was justified. They look awesome.
4. The Mavericks had a "red flag" preseason. Nothing but warning signs for Dallas. They finished
Harrison Barnes had a rough preseason. USATSI
It's Dallas, so you assume you can slough this off. It's a veteran team, and Rick Carlisle always has the answers. But you don't start the season looking at Dallas as entering with a lot of momentum from what they built in the preseason.
5. The Pelicans defense still shows warning signs. They had the worst mark in the league for points in the paint allowed despite Anthony Davis and Omer Asik, and sported a 105.7 defensive rating, worst in the league. There was hope that the additions of better wing players and growth from Anthony Davis would correct last year's issues, but so far it remains a concern. Davis had a stellar 99.8 defensive rating in the five games he played, but Moore finished with a 112 mark. Like the rest of these numbers, this may not translate to the regular season, but it is interesting.
The preseason is over and the regular season is set to begin Monday. Preseason is, by its very nature, meaningless. The games don't count, the rotations don't reflect teams' real plans, and the offenses are vanilla. Still, while we shouldn't take anything that went down these past four weeks as gospel, there are at least things which can raise an eyebrow or two.
With a healthy does of skepticism and a huge caveat that the exhibition season has not been proven to forecast regular-season performance, here are some numbers that stand out from the NBA preseason.
1. The Kings shot the lights out. For a team whose roster is filled with centers and deeply flawed, the Kings shot incredibly well in the preseason, with a league-best 56.4 effective field goal percentage (which factors the impact of 3-pointers). Eight different players had eFG percentages better than 60 percent, which is incredible. Veteran forward Anthony Tolliver shot 63 percent from 3-point range, Matt Barnes shot 60 percent (on five 3-point attempts per game!), and Arron Afflalo shot 44 percent from deep. DeMarcus Cousins shot 66 percent from the field. They were a blistering inferno.
Of course, Sacramento also led the league in turnover percentage in preseason, so they were sloppy, but they did make a lot of shots, which provides a little bit of hope for a team without much to feel good about headed into next week.
2. The Nets were all pace and space. For years, Brooklyn has played at a plodding, methodical pace because of both coaching and the slow, veteran talent on the roster. That's about to change. Brooklyn finished second in pace (possessions per game) behind Phoenix, a radical departure for them. Per 100 possessions, which factors for pace, they also launched the third-most 3-pointers of any team, at 32.1 per game. For comparison, the second-ranked Warriors shot 32.7 per game. (Houston, in uber-D'Antoni-Morey-ball, shot 35 per game.)
That's the good news, they're legitimately trying to play a more up-tempo system, and that should help their young guys. Here's the bad news: They were still 19th in fast-break points per 100 possessions and 22nd in overall offense. So they were running and shooting a lot of 3s (and making a decent clip, 13th in 3-point percentage) and still not scoring efficiently.
3. Yes, the Warriors were awesome. Golden State stumbled out of the gate in its first game, a loss to the Raptors. Then they went 6-1.
They finished first in offensive rating, second in effective field goal percentage, fifth in defensive rating, second in percentage of buckets off an assist, and the most made 3-pointers per game.
Basically, everything everyone feared about how great this team could be was justified. They look awesome.
4. The Mavericks had a "red flag" preseason. Nothing but warning signs for Dallas. They finished
- 25th in offense
- 27th in defense
- 29th in defensive rebound percentage
- 22nd in assist ratio
- 26th in effective field goal percentage
- 29h in free throw rate
- 29th in opponent offensive rebound percentage
- 27th in points off turnovers
- 30th in points in the paint
- 28th in fast-break points allowed
- 22nd in opponent points in the paint
Harrison Barnes had a rough preseason. USATSI
It's Dallas, so you assume you can slough this off. It's a veteran team, and Rick Carlisle always has the answers. But you don't start the season looking at Dallas as entering with a lot of momentum from what they built in the preseason.
5. The Pelicans defense still shows warning signs. They had the worst mark in the league for points in the paint allowed despite Anthony Davis and Omer Asik, and sported a 105.7 defensive rating, worst in the league. There was hope that the additions of better wing players and growth from Anthony Davis would correct last year's issues, but so far it remains a concern. Davis had a stellar 99.8 defensive rating in the five games he played, but Moore finished with a 112 mark. Like the rest of these numbers, this may not translate to the regular season, but it is interesting.
Who should the Celtics cut, Hunter or Young?
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The New Orleans Pelicans have until Monday afternoon to get their roster to the NBA-maximum 15 players and it appears Lance Stephenson and Alonzo Gee are in a two-man battle to land the final spot. Stephenson signed a $1.2 million contract with the Pelicans in September but only $100,000 is guaranteed. Gee signed a guaranteed $1.2 million veteran minimum contract to this summer to return to the Pelicans, but averaged only 9.2 minutes in five preseason games and just 1.4 points.
Nets Q&A with Jeremy Lin
If there is a reason to get excited about the Nets, who are rebuilding from scratch under a new regime headed by general manager Sean Marks and coach Kenny Atkinson, it is the return of Jeremy Lin to the New York scene.
Since bursting to prominence during the “Linsanity” craze with the Knicks in 2012, Lin has played for the Rockets, Lakers and Hornets with varying degrees of success. But this is the first time he has been handed the keys and asked to drive the car as starting point guard. It should be fascinating to watch.
Q: Can you describe the excitement of finally having the chance to run a team?
Lin: “I’m extremely excited. I feel like I’ve waited a long time for this opportunity. I’m really focusing on just having fun with it and enjoying it because I really regret not doing that earlier in my career during some of the opportunities or some of the peaks. I didn’t feel like I was able to enjoy it as much because I was so focused on the next thing.”
Q: Is that because you were trying hard to prove yourself?
Lin: “Yeah, I was always trying to prove myself, always trying to get to that next level, worrying too much what everybody else thought and felt. Nowadays, I try to limit the number of voices that I have in my head. I limit the amount of information I’m taking in from the outside or from people I don’t consider to be valuable or helpful voices in my life.”
Q: Kenny Atkinson says you must move from a two-guard mentality to a point-guard mentality. Can you do that and stay aggressive?
Lin: “It’s definitely a fine line. I’m still trying to figure it out, too. I think it’s going to take a little bit of time. What Kenny might see in me as a player is something we’re going to continually discuss because, at the end of the day, I obviously want to play the way he wants me to play. He knows, too, that I have to go off instinct. We talk a lot, so, I’m not worried about it, and we have the type of relationship where he can say anything to me and vice versa.”
Q: How valuable is the trust you and Kenny developed when you worked together with the Knicks?
Lin: “It’s everything. It’s why I’m here. It’s what’s going to allow me to feel empowered to be more successful and to help this team be more successful. I trust him a lot, and I know that he knows what he’s saying. I always love picking his brain, and I feel like some of the pitfalls in my earlier career were because I didn’t have that relationship with the coach I was playing for.”
Q: Can you compare the Nets’ camaraderie to what you experienced with the Knicks and Lakers?
Lin: “I don’t want to get into specific details or player names, but I just know I’ve been on teams where the camaraderie was great and last year (with Charlotte) was a great example. I reference my high school team a lot . . . The teams that are close together are the teams that are more successful. Then, I’ve been in locker rooms where guys didn’t always get along, and there’s tension and hostility (that) cuts away at what you’re trying to accomplish.”
Q: Did that affect your play or your happiness in the past?
Lin: “It affects the play, it affects your happiness, it affects whether you want to show up to work or not, it affects the culture, the vibe, everything.”
Q: Can you compare the pressure you face in Brooklyn to what you experienced with the Knicks?
Lin: “There’s less stress in general because I’m really focused on how can I live and play. I really care about what God’s standard is for me. It doesn’t matter if I was in L.A. or Detroit or Memphis or Manhattan or Brooklyn. I have no idea what anyone has thought about me this preseason on the outside. I just want to do things in a way that would make God proud, and I want to keep building these relationships and building my friendships with the people I’m going to battle with every day. That’s all I’m focused on.”
Q: When you first came to New York, you famously crashed on the couch at the apartment of teammate Landry Fields. When was the last time you slept on someone’s couch?
Lin: (Laughs) “To be honest, I slept on my own couch a few nights ago. I forgot I had promised multiple people they could stay at my place and had double-booked it. I felt bad making someone else do it, so, I slept on my own couch a few nights ago. But I have a nice couch, so, it didn’t bother me.”
If there is a reason to get excited about the Nets, who are rebuilding from scratch under a new regime headed by general manager Sean Marks and coach Kenny Atkinson, it is the return of Jeremy Lin to the New York scene.
Since bursting to prominence during the “Linsanity” craze with the Knicks in 2012, Lin has played for the Rockets, Lakers and Hornets with varying degrees of success. But this is the first time he has been handed the keys and asked to drive the car as starting point guard. It should be fascinating to watch.
Q: Can you describe the excitement of finally having the chance to run a team?
Lin: “I’m extremely excited. I feel like I’ve waited a long time for this opportunity. I’m really focusing on just having fun with it and enjoying it because I really regret not doing that earlier in my career during some of the opportunities or some of the peaks. I didn’t feel like I was able to enjoy it as much because I was so focused on the next thing.”
Q: Is that because you were trying hard to prove yourself?
Lin: “Yeah, I was always trying to prove myself, always trying to get to that next level, worrying too much what everybody else thought and felt. Nowadays, I try to limit the number of voices that I have in my head. I limit the amount of information I’m taking in from the outside or from people I don’t consider to be valuable or helpful voices in my life.”
Q: Kenny Atkinson says you must move from a two-guard mentality to a point-guard mentality. Can you do that and stay aggressive?
Lin: “It’s definitely a fine line. I’m still trying to figure it out, too. I think it’s going to take a little bit of time. What Kenny might see in me as a player is something we’re going to continually discuss because, at the end of the day, I obviously want to play the way he wants me to play. He knows, too, that I have to go off instinct. We talk a lot, so, I’m not worried about it, and we have the type of relationship where he can say anything to me and vice versa.”
Q: How valuable is the trust you and Kenny developed when you worked together with the Knicks?
Lin: “It’s everything. It’s why I’m here. It’s what’s going to allow me to feel empowered to be more successful and to help this team be more successful. I trust him a lot, and I know that he knows what he’s saying. I always love picking his brain, and I feel like some of the pitfalls in my earlier career were because I didn’t have that relationship with the coach I was playing for.”
Q: Can you compare the Nets’ camaraderie to what you experienced with the Knicks and Lakers?
Lin: “I don’t want to get into specific details or player names, but I just know I’ve been on teams where the camaraderie was great and last year (with Charlotte) was a great example. I reference my high school team a lot . . . The teams that are close together are the teams that are more successful. Then, I’ve been in locker rooms where guys didn’t always get along, and there’s tension and hostility (that) cuts away at what you’re trying to accomplish.”
Q: Did that affect your play or your happiness in the past?
Lin: “It affects the play, it affects your happiness, it affects whether you want to show up to work or not, it affects the culture, the vibe, everything.”
Q: Can you compare the pressure you face in Brooklyn to what you experienced with the Knicks?
Lin: “There’s less stress in general because I’m really focused on how can I live and play. I really care about what God’s standard is for me. It doesn’t matter if I was in L.A. or Detroit or Memphis or Manhattan or Brooklyn. I have no idea what anyone has thought about me this preseason on the outside. I just want to do things in a way that would make God proud, and I want to keep building these relationships and building my friendships with the people I’m going to battle with every day. That’s all I’m focused on.”
Q: When you first came to New York, you famously crashed on the couch at the apartment of teammate Landry Fields. When was the last time you slept on someone’s couch?
Lin: (Laughs) “To be honest, I slept on my own couch a few nights ago. I forgot I had promised multiple people they could stay at my place and had double-booked it. I felt bad making someone else do it, so, I slept on my own couch a few nights ago. But I have a nice couch, so, it didn’t bother me.”
But let @RoadRage tell it with his analysis, GS defense isnt good or they are going to struggle on the defensive end; there offense isnt going to be better eitherFive statistical takeaways from NBA preseason: Warriors dominate, Mavs struggle
The preseason is over and the regular season is set to begin Monday. Preseason is, by its very nature, meaningless. The games don't count, the rotations don't reflect teams' real plans, and the offenses are vanilla. Still, while we shouldn't take anything that went down these past four weeks as gospel, there are at least things which can raise an eyebrow or two.
With a healthy does of skepticism and a huge caveat that the exhibition season has not been proven to forecast regular-season performance, here are some numbers that stand out from the NBA preseason.
1. The Kings shot the lights out. For a team whose roster is filled with centers and deeply flawed, the Kings shot incredibly well in the preseason, with a league-best 56.4 effective field goal percentage (which factors the impact of 3-pointers). Eight different players had eFG percentages better than 60 percent, which is incredible. Veteran forward Anthony Tolliver shot 63 percent from 3-point range, Matt Barnes shot 60 percent (on five 3-point attempts per game!), and Arron Afflalo shot 44 percent from deep. DeMarcus Cousins shot 66 percent from the field. They were a blistering inferno.
Of course, Sacramento also led the league in turnover percentage in preseason, so they were sloppy, but they did make a lot of shots, which provides a little bit of hope for a team without much to feel good about headed into next week.
2. The Nets were all pace and space. For years, Brooklyn has played at a plodding, methodical pace because of both coaching and the slow, veteran talent on the roster. That's about to change. Brooklyn finished second in pace (possessions per game) behind Phoenix, a radical departure for them. Per 100 possessions, which factors for pace, they also launched the third-most 3-pointers of any team, at 32.1 per game. For comparison, the second-ranked Warriors shot 32.7 per game. (Houston, in uber-D'Antoni-Morey-ball, shot 35 per game.)
That's the good news, they're legitimately trying to play a more up-tempo system, and that should help their young guys. Here's the bad news: They were still 19th in fast-break points per 100 possessions and 22nd in overall offense. So they were running and shooting a lot of 3s (and making a decent clip, 13th in 3-point percentage) and still not scoring efficiently.
3. Yes, the Warriors were awesome. Golden State stumbled out of the gate in its first game, a loss to the Raptors. Then they went 6-1.
They finished first in offensive rating, second in effective field goal percentage, fifth in defensive rating, second in percentage of buckets off an assist, and the most made 3-pointers per game.
Basically, everything everyone feared about how great this team could be was justified. They look awesome.
4. The Mavericks had a "red flag" preseason. Nothing but warning signs for Dallas. They finished
But wait, there's more! Harrison Barnes shot 27 percent from the field, and averaged as many turnovers as assists. Of all expected rotation players, Dirk Nowitzki had the highest defensive rating at better than 109 points per 100 possessions. Deron Williams, Andrew Bogut and Wesley Matthews all posted net points per 100 possession marks of worse than minus-18, which is horrendous.
- 25th in offense
- 27th in defense
- 29th in defensive rebound percentage
- 22nd in assist ratio
- 26th in effective field goal percentage
- 29h in free throw rate
- 29th in opponent offensive rebound percentage
- 27th in points off turnovers
- 30th in points in the paint
- 28th in fast-break points allowed
- 22nd in opponent points in the paint
Harrison Barnes had a rough preseason. USATSI
It's Dallas, so you assume you can slough this off. It's a veteran team, and Rick Carlisle always has the answers. But you don't start the season looking at Dallas as entering with a lot of momentum from what they built in the preseason.
5. The Pelicans defense still shows warning signs. They had the worst mark in the league for points in the paint allowed despite Anthony Davis and Omer Asik, and sported a 105.7 defensive rating, worst in the league. There was hope that the additions of better wing players and growth from Anthony Davis would correct last year's issues, but so far it remains a concern. Davis had a stellar 99.8 defensive rating in the five games he played, but Moore finished with a 112 mark. Like the rest of these numbers, this may not translate to the regular season, but it is interesting.
But let @RoadRage tell it with his analysis, GS defense isnt good or they are going to struggle on the defensive end; there offense isnt going to be better either
Dude I'm gonna have a BALL this season at that big mouth clowns expense...
Dude I'm gonna have a BALL this season at that big mouth clowns expense...
should be very entertaining this year....
Dude, I'm gonna dedicate an entire on-going thread of his CONSTANT fail bullshit! Shits going to be epic with the way that Rainman ass Nigga believes people even listen to the shit he types!
Zeke always has to say some off the wall shit. Trying to be different. Sacramento as a forth or fifth seed?
I also though he could win it, but on 2nd thought I don't think he is built to put up the big number he is going to need to win the MVP at least not this year... To me I think Paul George is in the perfect spot to win the award, his team may be one of the better teams coming out of the East and many voter would look at him as a player who put in the work and who is more than just a scorer...Warriors' Steve Kerr thinks Blazers' Damian Lillard could win MVP this season
But I think this year may be one of the most wide open MVP races in a long time..
Go Raptors!
LeBrons minutes are going to be cut and may not finish in top five scoring, however being that Durant and Curry are going to cut into each others votes many see Harden as a fraud, and if OKC plays the way they look in preseason, I don't think Westbrook is going to win many votes on a bad team especially with his reputation of being a selfish player, well then you have to say that LeBron could win it with less than spectacular numbers, especially if the Cavs are able to grab the top spot in the East...
Just fucking with you bro
I think after last finals most see him as the best player on the planer, once again, so he may get many residual votes from what he did last season, along with votes from people who refuse to vote Harden/Curry/Durant/Westbrook..
But overall I still think Paul George is at the right place at the right time, and is ready for a serious MVP run, but we shall see..
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