Official NBA 2016-2017 Thread - 30 teams, 1 goal. 2 weeks left, so much can happen!!
The Cavs been trying to get dude since 2007 offseason, they're well aware of what he brings to the table.
This is a power move directed at the Warriors, because as soon as Kerr admitted that Za Za was unable to keep up with the speed of the game vs Cleveland plus the Cavs was able to effectively throw Love on him, they know that if the Warriors stand pact amd make no moves, they may have no choice but to play small ball vs the Cavs.
The Cavs counter is the Kyle trade, giving them the flexibility of flooring Irving, Smith (when healthy), Kyle, LeBron and Love, giving them two rim attackers, two rebounders, a better outside shooting team than the Warriors, and three players who can play Durant, Curry and Thompson one on one in other words the Cavs on paper at least may be able to out Warriors the Warriors at their own game.
Ever since losing to the Mavericks zone defense in the finals, LeBron almost seems obsessed with grabbing the best shooters for protection.
But like I said a million times a LeBron James led team will always go as far as his jump shooters.
LeBron James wondering which Cavs 'are going to be active' on six-game trip
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Cavs are sick, injured, and thin in their ranks.
Asked Wednesday after losing to the Bulls 106-94 if this season-long, six-game road trip was coming at a good time for his team, LeBron James said succinctly: "I don't know til we know who's active."
"I don't know if it's going to be a good time or not until we know who's active and who's playing," James said. "See what happens."
James played sick on Wednesday, battling through cold or flu-like symptoms for 31 points, eight rebounds, and seven assists in 37 minutes. That's two games in a row he's played sick; Channing Frye's been out there for three consecutive games with the same symptoms.
It was easy to gauge James' mood as dour after Wednesday's game. No one's exactly smiling when they don't feel good.
He admitted a time like this can wear on a player and a team, when a roster already with a few holes gets thinner due to illness and injury.
Kyrie Irving has missed three games with what the team is calling tightness in his right hamstring. Kevin Love didn't play Wednesday because he's even weaker than he was Monday from food poisoning.
J.R. Smith is out until maybe the end of March with the right thumb he fractured Dec. 20.
Mo Williams never showed up, but is still taking a roster spot. Chris Andersen tore his right ACL in December and is out for the year. That's another dead roster spot.
"It's just tough," James said. "It's slowing up our process because of what we're trying to build. Obviously we're trying to build it with a lot of our guys out just on the injured reserved list right now. We'll get better, guys will get healthy, but obviously we know Bird (Andersen) is out for the remainder of the season, we know Swish (Smith) is out for a great period of time. Hopefully Ky and Kev can get back soon. Duns (Mike Dunleavy) was out a couple games. We really don't have that many bodies anyway. Guys just got to continue to get better. Step in. It's always next man up for us, we can't make any excuses. But it slows our process down just a little bit. We're not able to practice the way we would like to. We're already a team that don't practice much and now we only have eight bodies, it's even harder for us to get better every day on off days. That's the part for me that kind of eats me alive. I'm all about putting in the work when no one is around and things of that nature and we can't do that right now."
OK, so, things aren't that bad around here. The Cavs are 26-8 and in first in the East. They had their nine-game home winning streak snapped Wednesday, as was their 13-game winning streak in games James is on the court.
Cleveland has defeated Golden State (the NBA's best team thus far), Toronto three times, Boston twice, and Charlotte twice. Three of the Cavs' eight losses have come with James out of the lineup, including the infamous "forfeit" when James, Love, and Irving were left home from a game in Memphis last month.
For the past eight games, the Cavs have started with DeAndre Liggins in Smith's spot. Jordan McRae played 33 minutes (scoring a season-high 21 points) and Kay Felder logged 16, with seven quick ones in the fourth to spark Cleveland's comeback.
On this one night, with some veterans out and others playing sick, it might've worn on them to see the youth on the court for the Cavs while Jimmy Butler was going for 14 of his 20 points in the fourth quarter after Cleveland had cut the Bulls' 17-point lead down to one.
McRae struggled to defend Butler, a two-time All-Star. The Cavs turned it over eight times in the fourth, with McRae, Felder, and Liggins manning the guard spots down the stretch.
"There's guys not only getting big minutes, but being put in kind of very important situations, and hopefully in the long run this makes us better and hopefully guys can get better," said Frye, scored 15 points against the Bulls.
"I don't want a pity party," Frye continued. "I don't ask Robin (Chicago's Robin Lopez) how he's feeling today, if he has the sniffles. So I think for us regardless everyone's out here trying to win every game and we kind of put how we feel to the side. And then when we get home we hack up a lung and go about our business."
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Cavs are sick, injured, and thin in their ranks.
Asked Wednesday after losing to the Bulls 106-94 if this season-long, six-game road trip was coming at a good time for his team, LeBron James said succinctly: "I don't know til we know who's active."
"I don't know if it's going to be a good time or not until we know who's active and who's playing," James said. "See what happens."
James played sick on Wednesday, battling through cold or flu-like symptoms for 31 points, eight rebounds, and seven assists in 37 minutes. That's two games in a row he's played sick; Channing Frye's been out there for three consecutive games with the same symptoms.
It was easy to gauge James' mood as dour after Wednesday's game. No one's exactly smiling when they don't feel good.
He admitted a time like this can wear on a player and a team, when a roster already with a few holes gets thinner due to illness and injury.
Kyrie Irving has missed three games with what the team is calling tightness in his right hamstring. Kevin Love didn't play Wednesday because he's even weaker than he was Monday from food poisoning.
J.R. Smith is out until maybe the end of March with the right thumb he fractured Dec. 20.
Mo Williams never showed up, but is still taking a roster spot. Chris Andersen tore his right ACL in December and is out for the year. That's another dead roster spot.
"It's just tough," James said. "It's slowing up our process because of what we're trying to build. Obviously we're trying to build it with a lot of our guys out just on the injured reserved list right now. We'll get better, guys will get healthy, but obviously we know Bird (Andersen) is out for the remainder of the season, we know Swish (Smith) is out for a great period of time. Hopefully Ky and Kev can get back soon. Duns (Mike Dunleavy) was out a couple games. We really don't have that many bodies anyway. Guys just got to continue to get better. Step in. It's always next man up for us, we can't make any excuses. But it slows our process down just a little bit. We're not able to practice the way we would like to. We're already a team that don't practice much and now we only have eight bodies, it's even harder for us to get better every day on off days. That's the part for me that kind of eats me alive. I'm all about putting in the work when no one is around and things of that nature and we can't do that right now."
OK, so, things aren't that bad around here. The Cavs are 26-8 and in first in the East. They had their nine-game home winning streak snapped Wednesday, as was their 13-game winning streak in games James is on the court.
Cleveland has defeated Golden State (the NBA's best team thus far), Toronto three times, Boston twice, and Charlotte twice. Three of the Cavs' eight losses have come with James out of the lineup, including the infamous "forfeit" when James, Love, and Irving were left home from a game in Memphis last month.
For the past eight games, the Cavs have started with DeAndre Liggins in Smith's spot. Jordan McRae played 33 minutes (scoring a season-high 21 points) and Kay Felder logged 16, with seven quick ones in the fourth to spark Cleveland's comeback.
On this one night, with some veterans out and others playing sick, it might've worn on them to see the youth on the court for the Cavs while Jimmy Butler was going for 14 of his 20 points in the fourth quarter after Cleveland had cut the Bulls' 17-point lead down to one.
McRae struggled to defend Butler, a two-time All-Star. The Cavs turned it over eight times in the fourth, with McRae, Felder, and Liggins manning the guard spots down the stretch.
"There's guys not only getting big minutes, but being put in kind of very important situations, and hopefully in the long run this makes us better and hopefully guys can get better," said Frye, scored 15 points against the Bulls.
"I don't want a pity party," Frye continued. "I don't ask Robin (Chicago's Robin Lopez) how he's feeling today, if he has the sniffles. So I think for us regardless everyone's out here trying to win every game and we kind of put how we feel to the side. And then when we get home we hack up a lung and go about our business."
Man the last 4 games the Cavs beat the dubs, so they don't need Kyle for that.
The problem with the warriors vs Cavs matchup is Lebron. The reason why I say that was two years ago, the Cavs battle at times with Delly, Smith, Lebron, TT & Timothy in the game together(I'll say a big lineup).
We've seen Irving, Shum, Smith, Jefferson & Lebron....
My point is that's two totally different types of lineups.
At the end of the day Lebron is the equalizer for the Cavs.
I'm not saying KK won't help them, I'm just saying they didn't make that move soley with the warriors in mind. Remember they been trying to get Fyre & Kyle paired up with Lebron.
They didn't need him, but having him on the team must make them think hard about sticking to their script of playing small vs the Cavs. In my opinion if I was the Warriors I would go the other direction by trying to sign a big man or really consider taking my chances with McGee.. Because if it is true their small ball match up vs the Cavs doesn't favor them, they better have a plan B, especially knowing that the Cavs have plans B, C and D up their sleeves.
Ummm is he a bgol member?
The Dubs look like the damn Monstars now that the defense is picking up.
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...ted-5-second-violation-winner-new-york-knicks
NBA: Giannis Antetokounmpo committed 5-second violation on winner vs. Knicks
The NBA says Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo committed a five-second violation on his game-winning shot against the New York Knicks on Wednesday night.
In the league's daily "Last Two Minute Report" -- its public review of officiating in the final two minutes of every NBA game -- the league says that Antetokoumpo committed a turnover on the final play when he dribbled with his back to the basket below the free throw line extended for more than five seconds.
Carmelo Anthony with 4.8 seconds left. Had Anthony been whistled for the violation, Milwaukee would have had a chance to tie the game from the free throw line.
In its report, the league states that Antetokounmpo violated the five-second rule by dribbling the ball for 5.6 seconds, which it says would only be detectable by stopwatch. It labeled Anthony's 3-second violation as 'incidental or immaterial" as it was not directly related to the outcome of a possession.
Before Thursday's report was released, Knicks coach Jeff Hornacek said that he thought Antetokounmpo may have committed a five-second violation on the play but that referees would never make that call on a sequence that decided the game.
Antetokounmpo's shot capped off of 14-point fourth-quarter comeback for Milwaukee. It was the Knicks' sixth straight loss and ninth in 11 games. They play the Bucks in Milwaukee on Friday night.
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...ted-5-second-violation-winner-new-york-knicks
NBA: Giannis Antetokounmpo committed 5-second violation on winner vs. Knicks
The NBA says Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo committed a five-second violation on his game-winning shot against the New York Knicks on Wednesday night.
In the league's daily "Last Two Minute Report" -- its public review of officiating in the final two minutes of every NBA game -- the league says that Antetokoumpo committed a turnover on the final play when he dribbled with his back to the basket below the free throw line extended for more than five seconds.
Carmelo Anthony with 4.8 seconds left. Had Anthony been whistled for the violation, Milwaukee would have had a chance to tie the game from the free throw line.
In its report, the league states that Antetokounmpo violated the five-second rule by dribbling the ball for 5.6 seconds, which it says would only be detectable by stopwatch. It labeled Anthony's 3-second violation as 'incidental or immaterial" as it was not directly related to the outcome of a possession.
Before Thursday's report was released, Knicks coach Jeff Hornacek said that he thought Antetokounmpo may have committed a five-second violation on the play but that referees would never make that call on a sequence that decided the game.
Antetokounmpo's shot capped off of 14-point fourth-quarter comeback for Milwaukee. It was the Knicks' sixth straight loss and ninth in 11 games. They play the Bucks in Milwaukee on Friday night.
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...ted-5-second-violation-winner-new-york-knicks
I think this is the most stupidest rule in the NBA, by far..
Matter fact so does the refs this is why they hardly ever call it.
Plenty was said about how he left not about him joining super teams; nothing was said about him going back to Cavs and getting love....
Im not talking crazy; the article specifically mentioned that lineup; that lineup would be atrocious on the defensive end against any quality team; Thats all I was commenting on...
he is on the Pelicans and averaging 10ppg.Im still trying to figure out where Norris is at
Stop bro, dude was playing in China got injuried, then was releases a month ago
word? i just googled him. oh my bad, that was 2015-2016. yeah the bum is in china.
Dudes in the league can't do nothing but sit back and laugh at the shit
Hey Brandon maybe if you ever learned how to shoot Lebron would send for you as well
sit back and laugh. mask pull up them gm quotes from the beginning of the season
No word on the blatant travel tho?
Dude be tweeting like he a spectator like us.
the refs are fucking horrible for the most part. and horrible because they're not consistent.
it's 1 thing 1 time and 1 thing another
them refs looking like the cats that was doing the baltimore city league shit with avon vs prop joe
scared to make a call against certain people- that includes my team too
Every year? You know Bron ain't win every year however he just needed one to shut the naysayers up
Well when he has jumpshooters opening the lanes, his team's usually win.
Shit he ain't even there, he bout to be back tho...outta the 3 (Rio, Cole, Jack)
Cole probably the better defender
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