Around the NBA - March 2018

[handiman]

I was just looking at that myself. Honestly, I'd say it's this one. Prior to that, probably 2010-11.

I definitely wouldn't pick this year. Current LMA is like the old guy at the YMCA that's annoyingly effective, but not someone you plan for.

 

[Boob-No-More]

Technicals pay for themselves all the time. You can see it during games. Just last night a Wolves player got T'd up, for something that was the right call BTW, then immediately got away with a blatant one after complaining about the T. Happens all the time.

Until you have a key player get suspended for an important game. Then they bite you in the ass.

BNM

 

[dviss1]

Yeah, but he hit the ground before he got the shot off. Unless the rules have changed since I was a kid, that’s either traveling or “up and down”. Argue all you want....

OIC.

I thought you were talking about the behind the back dribble and his hop there. I don't think the video shows definitive evidence he landed but you're right, he was damn close!

 

[Boob-No-More]

I definitely wouldn't pick this year. Current LMA is like the old guy at the YMCA that's annoyingly effective, but not someone you plan for.

Hey, them's fightin' words. You just compared the the Texas Turncoat to me. Although these days, I'm more annoying than effective...

BNM

 

[riverman]

Just read Lamarcus is out with knee problems....

 

[THE HCP]

So we are Jazz and SUns fans tonight, correct?

 

[theprunetang]

Just read Lamarcus is out with knee problems....

Maybe this is finally the year that the Spurs come down to earth.

 

[THE HCP]

Maybe this is finally the year that the Spurs come down to earth.

More like Leonard and LA miss the rest of the season, and they miss the playoffs, but lands the #1 pick with a .02% chance!

 

[riverman]

Maybe this is finally the year that the Spurs come down to earth.

or maybe they're just trying to get Leonard interested in the team again

 

[theprunetang]

More like Leonard and LA miss the rest of the season, and they miss the playoffs, but lands the #1 pick with a .02% chance!

I know. I was trying not to even think that thought though. ...

 

[riverman]

So we are Jazz and SUns fans tonight, correct?

Better to root for the Jazz...Suns are on a tanking streak and damned good at it

 

[THE HCP]

I’ll root for PHX to at least keep it close so the Sonics’ Big 3 don’t get much rest tonight.

 

[riverman]

I’ll root for PHX to at least keep it close so the Sonics’ Big 3 don’t get much rest tonight.

Triple overtime!

 

[Boob-No-More]

Triple overtime!

Well, you never know, OKC had to go to overtime to beat DAL, a team that is opening trying to lose, in their last game.

BNM

 

[BBert]

OIC.

I thought you were talking about the behind the back dribble and his hop there. I don't think the video shows definitive evidence he landed but you're right, he was damn close!

I think he got the shot off before coming down. But it's debatable. (Isn't everything )

 

[THE HCP]

Well, you never know, OKC had to go to overtime to beat DAL, a team that is opening trying to lose, in their last game.

BNM

You just flow with that OKC hate don’t you. I think they beat the Suns by 20 man. Thats not going out on a limb to think.

 

[theprunetang]

I hate injuries to players, but this one is a bit poetic justice.

 

[AFully22]

We would be so much better with a Otto Porter or Tobias Harris on the wing. Shocking, I know.

What I mean is we have such a glaring hole at the 3 that a guy of Porter or Harris’ caliber would almost make an all stars difference.

Also makes me wonder just how bad Scott Brooks is, they have Wall, Beal, Porter, Morris, Gortat, and Oubre yet still don’t scare anyone in the East.

 

[Boob-No-More]

I hate injuries to players, but this one is a bit poetic justice.

Dirty player. He just instinctively puts his foot under anyone who leaves the floor - even his own teammates. Old habits die hard.

BNM

 

[theprunetang]

Dirty player. He just instinctively puts his foot under anyone who leaves the floor - even his own teammates. Old habits die hard.

BNM

Exactly. It's ingrained into his dna.

 

[Labinot41]

Go Suns and Jazz

 

[jlprk]

Dame is currently 11th in the league in PER at 24.7; that seemed weirdly low (the ranking, not the PER value), so I looked and

in 2013, he'd be 5th
in 2008, he'd be 5th
in 2003, he'd be 7th
in 1998, he'd be 5th
in 1993, he'd be 5th
in 1988, he'd be 4th

I know PER sucks now, blah blah blah, but it seems to match the eye test that WOW there are a lot of really great players in the league right now.

That's why I was saying Dame's stats this year are not significantly, if any, better than LMA's best year. The offensive game is extremely inflated right now, and Dame is perfectly situated to take advantage of that.

Handiman's right. From another thread...

That's the one thing that gives me pause in saying Lillard is better than Roy. The league is full of players, young and old, putting up historical numbers. How much of it is improved talent and how much is pace and style of play?

 

[H.C.]

Biggest Phoenix Sun fan tonight.
Go Booker! Go weird hair guy! Go giant white dude! Cause I can't think of your names right now.
Turned it to the Wiz vs Philly game. Saw Gortat's hair and was like. 'You look stupid!.'

Phoenix 53
OKC 47

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

Handiman's right. From another thread...

I dunno how it ties in.... but LA and his PER.... the offense had to run through him or he was useless.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

Dirty player. He just instinctively puts his foot under anyone who leaves the floor - even his own teammates. Old habits die hard.

BNM

Karma, like @Orion Bailey, is a bitch.

(Just kidding, OB - you’re my dude.)

 

[jlprk]

I dunno how it ties in.... but LA and his PER.... the offense had to run through him or he was useless.

Yep, that is right. You guys are all right today! Bad day for me trying to post.

 

[Labinot41]

I forgot, Go memphis ! Down only 6 with 6 minutes in the 4th

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

Yep, that is right. You guys are all right today! Bad day for me trying to post.

I wasn’t hating. It was more a question, thought, opinion.

Watching the offense run through LA was boring AF. I like things better through Dame.

 

[theprunetang]

Karma, like @Orion Bailey, is a bitch.

(Just kidding, OB - you’re my dude.)

But is karma whiney or little?

 

[Orion Bailey]

Dude is American English slang for an individual, typically male.[1] From the 1870s to the 1960s, dude primarily meant a person who dressed in an extremely fashionable manner (a dandy) or a conspicuous citified person who was visiting a rural location, a "city slicker". In the 1960s, dude evolved to mean any male person, a meaning that slipped into mainstream American slang in the 1970s. Current slang retains at least some use of all three of these common meanings.[2]


Sounds to me like a dude could be a male bitch....