Around the NBA - March 2018

[SIeepwalker]

How does one chock?

English is hard

 

[julius]

English is hard

Thats why I did the face, I wasn't being too serious.

I get confused by loose and lose, and chose and choose, and it wasn't until my mid 30's that I finally got the difference between then and than.

 

[DDolla]

Damn Jazz are good and a well-coached team. Mitchell for ROY

 

[blue9]

Jazz are a legit team. They will be 18-2 in the last twenty games if they hold here and with a 13-point cushion they probably will.

I don't want to face them in the playoffs. I want them to play Rockets or Warriors and give them trouble.

Teams I don't want to face in the first round (assuming we don't drop and face GSW/HOU):
#1 - MIN
#2 - UTH
#3 - SAS (their placement really depends on how Kawhi is looking)
#4 - LAC (just because I HATE watching them)
#5 - OKC
#6 - DEN
#7 - NOP

 

[B-Roy]

AD just had a triple double with blocks and played 40 minutes and the Pels still lost to the Jazz...

 

[DDolla]

Add two more wins for Utah and OKC since their next two games are automatic wins

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

Add two more wins for Utah and OKC since their next two games are automatic wins

Nothing is automatic

 

[KingSpeed]

AD just had a triple double with blocks and played 40 minutes and the Pels still lost to the Jazz...

Amazing

 

[KingSpeed]

Nothing is automatic

this

 

[LayneStaley]

Amazing

He reminds me of Zach

 

[Pinwheel1]

GS looked tired in the 3rd. They play at a very fast pace, which works great when you have a deep bench...... but not on the road with no bench.

 

[SportsAndWhine]

AD just had a triple double with blocks and played 40 minutes and the Pels still lost to the Jazz...

The Russell Westbrook of centers

 

[BBert]

That’s exactly what would happen, then they’d roll out an Ayton/LA/Kawhi frontcourt next year

That is my fear. I want SA in the playoffs.

When they reported Kawhi might not return this season I had flashbacks of the last time they tanked for the No. 1 pick, and fear of history repeating itself.

 

[Sarni]

Teams I don't want to face in the first round (assuming we don't drop and face GSW/HOU):
#1 - MIN
#2 - UTH
#3 - SAS (their placement really depends on how Kawhi is looking)
#4 - LAC (just because I HATE watching them)
#5 - OKC
#6 - DEN
#7 - NOP

I am fine playing Pelicans, Nuggets, Clippers and Timberwolves (without Butler). Think we would do any of them in 5 or 6.

I don't want Spurs, Thunder and Jazz.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

"The Joker":

 

[Natebishop3]

Jeez. He's already the best passing big man of all time. (Although Sabonis would probably kill me for saying that.)

 

[Nhawz]

He’s not better than Sabonis.

 

[ripcityboy]

Wow. Looking at vids of both of them now. It's hard to tell. Sabas was ridic. good as well. I honestly don't know.

 

[rotary111]

That was good...but not Sabonis good.

 

[LayneStaley]

Man is Julius Randle a young Paul Millsap? And we coulda had him
at the deadline for what looks like a late 20s pick?

 

[BrianFromWA]

LAL is housing the Cavs right now. Randle with 30. Brandon Ingram isn't even playing (though his dinner jacket-with-t-shirt game is strong). Ball's not in the top 6 of scoring for them. And they're up 21 with 5 minutes left.

 

[LayneStaley]

If the lakers hold on to Randle and land PG and James could we go after Ingram? I don’t really like him but that’s some serious length in our frontcourt with him at SF.

 

[ripcityboy]

Cleveland is going to have to really sell LeBron on the future of the team.

 

[Spud147]

Is this the year we finally see a finals without LeBron? And the playoffs without the Spurs?

 

[rotary111]

Is this the year we finally see a finals without LeBron? And the playoffs without the Spurs?

I still think the Spurs make the playoffs. They just don't get out of the first round.

 

[AFully22]

Looks like Hassan Whiteside is having dinner at CJ’s tonight. Wonder if he regrets not signing with Portland seeing us as the 3rd seed. Who knows what the butterfly affect would have been but he’s the perfect center in our defense, his offensive game has come around too.

 

[KingSpeed]

Wow Pacers have moved into 3 seed.

 

[joeBlazers]

What happened to the Cavs? What is this team morphed as the Cleveland Cavaliers?

 

[hoopsjock]

Man is Julius Randle a young Paul Millsap? And we coulda had him
at the deadline for what looks like a late 20s pick?

We don't know that Randle was available for that.

 

[KeepOnRollin]

We don't know that Randle was available for that.

Exactly. If he was then he would have been moved.