Didnt even matter; and as you always point out, guard play!!!!
Official NBA 2016-2017 Thread - 30 teams, 1 goal. 2 weeks left, so much can happen!!
He wont get a single MVP vote because he doesnt deserve any... Tell him to use some of those bullshit ones he got last year when they gave him the award unanimously.
I just thought if Lebron didn't do it that I'd never see it in my lifetime. I remember thinking A. Hardaway could do it, but he got fucked up. But damn. Russ is insane. Historic season.
Its called playing an 82 game schedule and being bored and not giving a fuck; thats all it was and with kerr doing dumb shit with the lineup....
I thought G Hill would do it; never thought LBJ would because he doesnt really go after rebounds like that; but Russ
; These fools like @RoadRage that dont wanna give him credit are trippn....
I thought G Hill would do it; never thought LBJ would because he doesnt really go after rebounds like that; but Russ
Yeah, I just didn't like those duke cats back in the day. But you're right. Hill was a beast. But witnessing this season by Russ is a great thing. It's like watching Curry go cheat code last year.
57points/13boards/11assists...
Seriously, can we stop with the "He shoots too much. He doesn't make his teammates better. He doesn't pass enough. He only gets rebounds because he leaves his defensive assignment."
Take a look at those numbers. I don't care HOW much you are doing whatever. These numbers have never been seen before.
Co-MVPs
Seriously, can we stop with the "He shoots too much. He doesn't make his teammates better. He doesn't pass enough. He only gets rebounds because he leaves his defensive assignment."
Take a look at those numbers. I don't care HOW much you are doing whatever. These numbers have never been seen before.
Co-MVPs
I love it; I just love watching good dominant basketball; I do really care who it is; and the shot that Westbrook hit
Cavs vs Warriors in a nutshell...
Cavs, completely healthy, get smacked around like bitches by the Spurs a few days ago IN THEIR HOUSE....
Warriors, without arguably their best player and a top 3 player in the league, come back from damn near 20 down in the Spurs house, and end up slapping them around like bitches...
No real comparison between the two teams at this point... Thank you Adam Silver for making this a potential trilogy, but looking at the two series, without Silver's help, GS has dominated the Cavs in two straight finals... Fuck all this bullshit ass suspense, league needed intrigue and a story line, and the Cavs may fuck around and derail that shit anyway with their no defense playing asses...
Cavs aren't even in the Warriors league right now.. Curry and Crew >>>>>
Cavs, completely healthy, get smacked around like bitches by the Spurs a few days ago IN THEIR HOUSE....
Warriors, without arguably their best player and a top 3 player in the league, come back from damn near 20 down in the Spurs house, and end up slapping them around like bitches...
No real comparison between the two teams at this point... Thank you Adam Silver for making this a potential trilogy, but looking at the two series, without Silver's help, GS has dominated the Cavs in two straight finals... Fuck all this bullshit ass suspense, league needed intrigue and a story line, and the Cavs may fuck around and derail that shit anyway with their no defense playing asses...
Cavs aren't even in the Warriors league right now.. Curry and Crew >>>>>
Out played all those MVP's down the stretch in their own buildings.
Leonard didn't guard him once.
Nah man they couldn't hit the broadside of a barn during a stretch
majority of it was because of their defense intensity
Exactly. And funny enough, initially i said the same thing and discounted it to boredom. Then accepted it for what it was. Dude got back on track against OKC tho..
Exactly. And funny enough, initially i said the same thing and discounted it to boredom. Then accepted it for what it was. Dude got back on track against OKC tho..
Part of it was Kerr's fault too. He was playing this entire year and finally stopped.
Now we have an actual 2nd unit defined and 1st few off the bench and people know if and when they're going to play from night to night and it absolutely shows.
Amazing what defining roles and communicating defensively can do for your game.
Exactly bro, and intensity stems from trying! and when you dont care and or uninterested your defense intensity goes down; that stretch was boredom lack of intensity tiredness bullshit schedule and kerr playing games; yes Curry and Thompson were shooting bad as well; but shots dont fall sometimes; I didnt feel like it was anything serious though...
Man U know that motherfucker only sees what he wants to see to fit his bullshit ass narrative!
Man U know that motherfucker only sees what he wants to see to fit his bullshit ass narrative!
He's having a horrible year when I watch TV shooting 40% from 3, making the 3rd most in history, leading the nba in ft percentage while dropping 25 a night after adjusting his game so another dude can come and drop 25 a night.
and on the humble he's dropping double digit assists every night now because they need him to handle the ball more.
CHEAT CODE!!!
He took 40 shots tho
Yep... Like i said, Dude is obsessed with him to the point that its pathetic and stalker-ish. Notice he bypassed the most recent last 8 games well Steph has been doing his think to talk about his mini slump the first few games of KD's absence when him and the rest of the team had to adjust? When people do bullshit like that a debate is not even worth your time fam...
Doesnt matter and everybody says that bullshit not taking into context just how weak that team is offensively. Look at the proven offensive efficiency drop off when hes not in the game? On top of that, your point doesnt explain the consistently high level of assist and more importantly rebounds which indicate hes invested in more than just shooting the ball... Especially as a 6-3 PG!
For years we heard about Oscar's triple-double season, now that we living one, some are downplaying it.
Triple double for a season man? In today's league, at this pace, in the west, and in the playoffs. He's on some NBA2k shit.
Its a weak league. 10 years from now Russ' stats wont be taken serious since they cant be easily duplicated. Kinda like guys been doing the cat in my sig the last 40 years. Hell this season Russ aint being taken seriously. Comin off the bench in the ASG and not winning MVP.
Most NBA players are capable of puttin up 50 plus is allowed to take 40 shots. No one is questioning his desire or ability to score.
People question can he be a good teammate.
So... we are now avoiding the other 2 points I made? Cool... Figures
Also, this most NBA players opinion is cool, maybe valid, but unproven. And as I asked earlier, if what he is doing is so typical, why hasn't it been done so consistently for an entire season more than once before, especially again by a 6-3 guard?
If Jordan played in this era against a lottery team like the Magic he'd have several 60 point triple doubles. Im not impressed by feats over weak comp.
Great loss Mavs
The Pelicans have now passed you in the standings
Looking like we will probably get the 9th pick I'm hoping to get the 8th pick if we keep on losing
I think one of them guards gonna drop to that range we need one bad
The Pelicans have now passed you in the standings
Looking like we will probably get the 9th pick I'm hoping to get the 8th pick if we keep on losing
I think one of them guards gonna drop to that range we need one bad
For years we heard about Oscar's triple-double season, now that we living one, some are downplaying it.
Triple double for a season man? In today's league, at this pace, in the west, and in the playoffs. He's on some NBA2k shit.
Yup that fool should get the MVP for the next three years just on that strength.
Many of us only got to get about greats, or only saw part of they're careers, we really being bless in today's NBA....
The top dawgs - Timmy, Shaq, Kobe, Dirk, Lebron and Wade
Then u have Durant, Curry, Westbrook and Harden who all doing legendary shit, that will get talked forever...
What a time
Fuck steph curry
Weak league
Pelicans, pairing of Anthony Davis, DeMarcus Cousins making recent progress
http://www.nba.com/pelicans/news/pe...davis-demarcus-cousins-making-recent-progress
Reaching the Western Conference postseason is still a mathematical possibility for his team, but on Wednesday night, DeMarcus Cousins sounded like he had an even loftier goal in mind. Following New Orleans’ 121-118 victory over Dallas – spearheaded by a combined 59 points and 29 rebounds from Cousins and Anthony Davis – the three-time All-Star discussed going against the grain of the current NBA trend of small lineups and perimeter-based attacks.
“I know it’s a small-ball era, but (Davis and Cousins are) not traditional big men,” Cousins said, after the Pelicans improved to 5-2 in their last seven games with both he and Davis in uniform. “We can kind of use that to our advantage. I think we have a chance to change things. To change the way the style of play of basketball is going right now. I think we’ve got a great chance of changing it. It’s just a matter of time.”
Through the first seven weeks of the pairing of Davis and Cousins, time has been perhaps the most pivotal factor in the results they’ve produced. Over the first seven games of the “Fire and Ice” duo, New Orleans went just 1-6 – the lone win was over the struggling Lakers – and was outscored by a total of 58 points. Starting with a March 11 overtime victory at Charlotte, however, the Pelicans have compiled the 5-2 mark with Davis/Cousins and generated a scoring margin of plus-38, highlighted by double-digit wins over Portland, Minnesota and Memphis.
Although Davis and Cousins initially appeared to be deferring to each other and taking turns as the focal point of the offense when they were paired together, lately they’ve both registered dominating numbers. Davis is averaging 28.3 points and 12.3 rebounds during the recent seven-game stretch, while Cousins is at 23.7 and 10.3 in the same categories. From an efficiency standpoint, Davis has shot 52.8 percent from the field in the last seven games with Cousins, including going 18/31, 11/16 and 14/24 nights vs. Charlotte, Minnesota and Houston, respectively. Cousins is at 45.2 percent from the field during the same stretch, but seems to benefiting at the three-point arc from the attention defenses must devote to Davis. Over the past three games, the former Sacramento standout is 11/23 on three-pointers, twice tying his career high for made treys in a game (5).
“Honestly, I think we’ve both eased up the pressure on each other,” Cousins said. “In the past, there were games where I felt like there were 100 people (defenders) hanging all over me. Since I’ve been here, I’m seeing new defensive schemes I’ve never seen in my career before. I know it’s had an effect on AD and vice versa. I definitely think we’ve eased up the pressure. We’re a little more free out there.”
There were several stretches Wednesday when Dallas used lineups with five three-point threats on the floor, which forces Cousins and Davis to extend defensively and often come out of the paint. Although that can be a challenge at times for some bigs who are accustomed to staying close to the basket at that end of the floor, Pelicans second-year head coach Alvin Gentry sounds like he has no intentions of making adjustments to the opponent’s lineups. Instead, the opposition will have to figure out how to slow down the versatile combo of 6-foot-11 All-Stars who can score in multiple ways.
“We’re not going to be a team that takes our bigs out just because (the opponent plays) a small lineup,” Gentry said after Wednesday’s win. “I don’t understand that, anyway. We’re going to try to take advantage of what we have versus what (the opponent is) trying to do offensively by having a smaller lineup.”
New Orleans (32-43) experienced some communication issues defensively while allowing Dallas to connect Wednesday on 14 three-pointers in 27 attempts, but the Pelicans are still figuring out some elements of their new team. Even while reconfiguring their lineups and roster since the February trade, New Orleans is seventh in the NBA in defensive efficiency (103.6 points allowed per 100 possessions) since the All-Star break. Cousins said he’s looking forward to the process of continuing to learn as a group, regardless of whether the final seven regular season games extends into a postseason trip.
“It’s definitely a lot easier now than it was the first couple of games I was here,” he said. “It’s coming along. We’re progressing. I think we’re getting better each game. I think that’s pretty obvious.
“Just keep building. I’m really looking forward to training camp. I think we can build something special. Just stay positive, keep moving forward. At the end of the day, if we don’t make the playoffs, we can still use this as an opportunity to learn one another and get better every game, to use this as a training camp before (fall 2017) training camp.”
Pelicans, pairing of Anthony Davis, DeMarcus Cousins making recent progress
http://www.nba.com/pelicans/news/pe...davis-demarcus-cousins-making-recent-progress
Reaching the Western Conference postseason is still a mathematical possibility for his team, but on Wednesday night, DeMarcus Cousins sounded like he had an even loftier goal in mind. Following New Orleans’ 121-118 victory over Dallas – spearheaded by a combined 59 points and 29 rebounds from Cousins and Anthony Davis – the three-time All-Star discussed going against the grain of the current NBA trend of small lineups and perimeter-based attacks.
“I know it’s a small-ball era, but (Davis and Cousins are) not traditional big men,” Cousins said, after the Pelicans improved to 5-2 in their last seven games with both he and Davis in uniform. “We can kind of use that to our advantage. I think we have a chance to change things. To change the way the style of play of basketball is going right now. I think we’ve got a great chance of changing it. It’s just a matter of time.”
Through the first seven weeks of the pairing of Davis and Cousins, time has been perhaps the most pivotal factor in the results they’ve produced. Over the first seven games of the “Fire and Ice” duo, New Orleans went just 1-6 – the lone win was over the struggling Lakers – and was outscored by a total of 58 points. Starting with a March 11 overtime victory at Charlotte, however, the Pelicans have compiled the 5-2 mark with Davis/Cousins and generated a scoring margin of plus-38, highlighted by double-digit wins over Portland, Minnesota and Memphis.
Although Davis and Cousins initially appeared to be deferring to each other and taking turns as the focal point of the offense when they were paired together, lately they’ve both registered dominating numbers. Davis is averaging 28.3 points and 12.3 rebounds during the recent seven-game stretch, while Cousins is at 23.7 and 10.3 in the same categories. From an efficiency standpoint, Davis has shot 52.8 percent from the field in the last seven games with Cousins, including going 18/31, 11/16 and 14/24 nights vs. Charlotte, Minnesota and Houston, respectively. Cousins is at 45.2 percent from the field during the same stretch, but seems to benefiting at the three-point arc from the attention defenses must devote to Davis. Over the past three games, the former Sacramento standout is 11/23 on three-pointers, twice tying his career high for made treys in a game (5).
“Honestly, I think we’ve both eased up the pressure on each other,” Cousins said. “In the past, there were games where I felt like there were 100 people (defenders) hanging all over me. Since I’ve been here, I’m seeing new defensive schemes I’ve never seen in my career before. I know it’s had an effect on AD and vice versa. I definitely think we’ve eased up the pressure. We’re a little more free out there.”
There were several stretches Wednesday when Dallas used lineups with five three-point threats on the floor, which forces Cousins and Davis to extend defensively and often come out of the paint. Although that can be a challenge at times for some bigs who are accustomed to staying close to the basket at that end of the floor, Pelicans second-year head coach Alvin Gentry sounds like he has no intentions of making adjustments to the opponent’s lineups. Instead, the opposition will have to figure out how to slow down the versatile combo of 6-foot-11 All-Stars who can score in multiple ways.
“We’re not going to be a team that takes our bigs out just because (the opponent plays) a small lineup,” Gentry said after Wednesday’s win. “I don’t understand that, anyway. We’re going to try to take advantage of what we have versus what (the opponent is) trying to do offensively by having a smaller lineup.”
New Orleans (32-43) experienced some communication issues defensively while allowing Dallas to connect Wednesday on 14 three-pointers in 27 attempts, but the Pelicans are still figuring out some elements of their new team. Even while reconfiguring their lineups and roster since the February trade, New Orleans is seventh in the NBA in defensive efficiency (103.6 points allowed per 100 possessions) since the All-Star break. Cousins said he’s looking forward to the process of continuing to learn as a group, regardless of whether the final seven regular season games extends into a postseason trip.
“It’s definitely a lot easier now than it was the first couple of games I was here,” he said. “It’s coming along. We’re progressing. I think we’re getting better each game. I think that’s pretty obvious.
“Just keep building. I’m really looking forward to training camp. I think we can build something special. Just stay positive, keep moving forward. At the end of the day, if we don’t make the playoffs, we can still use this as an opportunity to learn one another and get better every game, to use this as a training camp before (fall 2017) training camp.”
Man them cats gonna put up amazing numbers if they could stay healthy along the correct supporting cast.
His teammates allow him to get rebounds
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