Around the NBA - summer edition

[Boise Blazer]

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports....ams-could-vote-maybe-29-1-for-lottery-reform/

Lowe also tweeted the odds of each lottery seed landing the No. 1 pick. Here’s the difference between the proposed plan (red) and current system (blue):

 

[Boise Blazer]

[TWEET]518198174599901184[/TWEET]

 

[jlprk]

This change will happen because 76er fans are so docile. The league used to count on fan uprising to prevent the long-term strategy of openly losing. It worked till now.

 

[MickZagger]

Nick Young is chucker. Not sure they're missing much.

I'm so excited for NBA to start. Watching my Blazers is great.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Tuesday, baby!

 

[Strenuus]

@MarkG_Medina: Lakers doing sprints, which Kobe and Nash are missing. As expected


Sent from my Baller-Ass 5.5" iPhone 6+......... FAMS

From now on, It needs to be "Around the NBA sans Lakers.."

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Poor Victor.

 

[Rhal]

Poor Victor.

I'v still got hope he can be a rotation NBA player!

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

I'v still got hope he can be a rotation NBA player!

If I was Victor, I'd do anything I could to get on San Antonio.

 

[THE HCP]

Nick Young is chucker. Not sure they're missing much.

I'm so excited for NBA to start. Watching my Blazers is great.

First game is on NBATV in 26 hours son!


Sent from my Baller-Ass 5.5" iPhone 6+......... FAMS

 

[BigGameDamian]

Poor Victor.

We can't keep falling in love with NBA players that don't pan out just because they where a Blazers uniform. If they suck the suck.

 

[Strenuus]

We can't keep falling in love with NBA players that don't pan out just because they where a Blazers uniform. If they suck the suck.

In the same light we cant keep putting up articles of lakers just because it's about Kobe when Kobe is past his prime.

 

[magnifier661]

We can't keep falling in love with NBA players that don't pan out just because they where a Blazers uniform. If they suck the suck.

But if they can dribble for 5 lapse and make goat milk, can they still eat a tuna fish sandwich?

 

[Strenuus]

But if they can dribble for 5 lapse and make goat milk, can they still eat a tuna fish sandwich?

 

[Boise Blazer]

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on...e-380-percent-from-three-is-the-ultimate-goal

The most interesting part of what we saw with NBA 3-point accuracy last season was the historical benchmark of 38 percent. After last season, we've seen 71 teams in league history make 38 percent of their 3-pointers in a season and 58 of those teams (81.8 percent) have made the playoffs. While that number is impressive, it doesn't really account for the increase of using the 3-point shot over the last 35 years.

 

[Pinwheel1]

I'v still got hope he can be a rotation NBA player!

Nobody can stop guys like Lebron and KD, but I still think Victor's length could be effective against those guys when Nic is in foul trouble.

Also a defensive line up with Nic, Wes, Robin, Claver and ?(depending on the match up) could be effective. Victor plays great help defense and is mobile and long enough to guard multiple positions when teams cause us to switch at the end of games. Would love to see him part of the rotation. Even in limited minutes.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Fascinating read on the biometrics trend in the NBA and where it might lead:

THERE IS ANOTHER, decidedly less generous view of where this road goes, however. And one day last spring, after logging 13 years in the league, a teammate of Allen and Beasley declares that the increase in biological testing played a role in his decision to bow out of the business altogether. "I think all fluids will be extracted in five years," forward Shane Battier says, three months before officially announcing his retirement. "I'm glad I'm done." Battier grants that certain archetypes -- your Allens, your Iguodalas -- might be perfectly willing to revamp their private lives in the service of basketball. But, he continues, "big data is scary because you don't know where it's going and who's seen it. I'm not saying that they'd sell research to anyone, but I don't trust where my blood sample will end up and what eyes will look at it and what people outside the NBA will know about it."

 

[BlazerCaravan]

A good excuse made by a dirty player five years too old to make a difference.

 

[jlprk]

Fact I discovered while scouring this list: Last season, Gerald Wallace started 16 games, including 12 AT THE GUARD POSITION.

That's like putting an aircraft carrier in the kiddy pool.

http://fantasynews.cbssports.com/fa...4097355/draft-prep-position-eligibility-chart

 

[riverman]

But if they can dribble for 5 lapse and make goat milk, can they still eat a tuna fish sandwich?

This has to go into jlprk's weekly quotes!

 

[riverman]

Victor is one of the best defenders on the team. Wright is an above average defender. Freeland is as well, problem is they choke on offense too much for Stotts to keep them on the floor. Was great to see Victor and Dorell make 3's against the Jazz. Freeland was ice cold all night

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

Poor Victor.

Lol 4 of the 15 have played for the Blazers at some point.

 

[MickZagger]

First game is on NBATV in 26 hours son!


Sent from my Baller-Ass 5.5" iPhone 6+......... FAMS

Hope you got yo frito pie hot n ready!!!!!!!!!

 

[Pinwheel1]

Victor is one of the best defenders on the team. Wright is an above average defender. Freeland is as well, problem is they choke on offense too much for Stotts to keep them on the floor. Was great to see Victor and Dorell make 3's against the Jazz. Freeland was ice cold all night

Ice cold all night? Didn't he only take 3 shots?

 

[HailBlazers]

Summer is over, but not in Portland!

 

[Hobbesarable]

Summer is over, but not in Portland!

Best October weather I can remember!