Official Around the NBA - March 2016

Welcome to our community

Be a part of something great, join today!

Register Log in
Even if we get the 5th seed, I gauruntee not one "expert" will pick us to beat the Clippers.

With this team, I think that's a good thing.
 
theprunetang said:
So after tonight, Houston, Utah, and Dallas are all tied at 37 wins and 38 losses. Who is the team that misses out on the playoffs? I am guessing most here would want Houston to be the one. But, I still think it will be Utah. Also, we are behind Memphis by 2 games now and up 2 games on the rest of the crowd. I think I have changed my opinion on getting the 5 th seed. It's going to happen.
Click to expand...

Fivethirtyeight's robot algorithm thinks similarly, putting both Memphis and Portland at 43-39 to end the season; we own the tiebreaker, so we'd be fifth. They have Dallas as the team on the outs, actually. http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-nba-picks/
 
theprunetang said:
Good find. It feels weird that the bottom half of the western playoff bracket will have such poor records. Very top heavy this year.
Click to expand...

San Antonio and Golden State make the bottom of the West look worse. It's just math. Someone has to lose.

Interesting tidbit: that site has had us locked into 43-38 since our scorching hot week after the All-Star Game.
 
I think the top 3 teams in the NBA are all from the west.
 
theprunetang said:
Good find. It feels weird that the bottom half of the western playoff bracket will have such poor records. Very top heavy this year.
Click to expand...

Playing the Warriors, Spurs and Thunder just twice instead of the 3 or 4 times Western teams do is enough to account for the slight edge the bottom half of the East bracket has over the bottom half of the West.
 
Watched a lot of the Denver Memphis game last night. Surprised the Grizz kept it as close as it was.

I got to say Jokic is impressive. Big size, defensive instincts, inside presence, can shoot threes, decent foot speed for being 7 foot. Basically everything we ever hoped Meyers could become yet he's only a rookie.

Will Barton has had a hell of a season. What a disaster of a trade. We could really use him this season, and in the future. Might end up being a Jermaine O'Neal situation in a few years.
 
blue9 said:
Yeah, looking at some of their key games, I think DAL is out, too. Probably all comes down to who wins the UTH/DAL game. Will this be the first time Dirk hasn't been in the POs?

I wish HOU would miss out, but that's not gonna happen.

http://www.sportstwo.com/threads/playoff-run-key-games.297969/
Click to expand...

I think they missed it after they won a title and Cuban let starters walk in free agency, traded for crack addict Lamar Odom.

edit; they snuck in that year but missed it the following season when Stotts left.
 
Draco said:
Watched a lot of the Denver Memphis game last night. Surprised the Grizz kept it as close as it was.

I got to say Jokic is impressive. Big size, defensive instincts, inside presence, can shoot threes, decent foot speed for being 7 foot. Basically everything we ever hoped Meyers could become yet he's only a rookie.

Will Barton has had a hell of a season. What a disaster of a trade. We could really use him this season, and in the future. Might end up being a Jermaine O'Neal situation in a few years.
Click to expand...

I was on the Jokic bandwagon when he was projected to go late-second.

At 18, he had a very developed game. He has shown flashes of being an elite passer for a center.

Very Marc Gasol-like.

Their rookie PG otoh looks meh, at least so far. Unless he develops a jumper I see Jarrett Jack as his ceiling.
 
Draco said:
Watched a lot of the Denver Memphis game last night. Surprised the Grizz kept it as close as it was.

I got to say Jokic is impressive. Big size, defensive instincts, inside presence, can shoot threes, decent foot speed for being 7 foot. Basically everything we ever hoped Meyers could become yet he's only a rookie.

Will Barton has had a hell of a season. What a disaster of a trade. We could really use him this season, and in the future. Might end up being a Jermaine O'Neal situation in a few years.
Click to expand...

I hope we never do another trade with the Nuggets as long as I live. Olshey gets taken whenever he calls them up.
 
538: Chance to win championship-
GS: 43%
SA: 30%
Everyone Else Combined: 27%

(e.g. OKC 7%)
 
ripcityboy said:
I hope we never do another trade with the Nuggets as long as I live. Olshey gets taken whenever he calls them up.
Click to expand...

Bartón is just so much more dynamic than Crabbe.

He'd easily be our third best player right now. It'd be like having ADHD Ginobli off the bench.
 
Yao Ming is a Hall-Of-Famer? Questionable. According to Jalen Rose he was voted in by an international committee. Rose didn't agree with the decision, I'm not sure I do either.
 
ripcityboy said:
I hope we never do another trade with the Nuggets as long as I live. Olshey gets taken whenever he calls them up.
Click to expand...

So... once?

He did that trade thinking about winning now. The very thing people WANT their GMs to do. He did NOT expect 4 of the 5 starters to leave. 1 or 2? Sure. But a Wes injury, LMA turn-coating? No.

If you are able to keep perspective and live in the real world, maybe you can understand. Because you still are not.

The trade was fine. Peoples lack of understanding of the trade is what's sad. And it's a travesty you can't realize that.
 
Could the Warriors win out? What if the Spurs rest players in those two games?

If they win out they would be 75-7...holy shit
 
Strenuus said:
So... once?

He did that trade thinking about winning now. The very thing people WANT their GMs to do. He did NOT expect 4 of the 5 starters to leave. 1 or 2? Sure. But a Wes injury, LMA turn-coating? No.

If you are able to keep perspective and live in the real world, maybe you can understand. Because you still are not.

The trade was fine. Peoples lack of understanding of the trade is what's sad. And it's a travesty you can't realize that.
Click to expand...

No. A travesty is a Broadway musical with a bad tenor. If I have a bad memory of that trade it will be gone after the draft anyway. Olshey is still one the most competent GM's in the league, no doubting that.
 
ripcityboy said:
No. A travesty is a Broadway musical with a bad tenor. If I have a bad memory of that trade it will be gone after the draft anyway. Olshey is still one the most competent GM's in the league, no doubting that.
Click to expand...

Then why talk about it? Why not just move on if you already know you're going to be over it? I thought the trade was great. It didn't work out, but that doesn't make it bad. Trades not working out happen all the time, BAD trades (ala Brooklyn giving us a 1st rounder for Wallace, and the KG debacle) do not happen as much.
 
As much as the Warriors bug me, I can't think of another team, besides Portland, that I would rather have win it. I hate everyone else more. (SA, OKC, Clippers, LeBron, Boston.....) I guess I could root for Toronto since I don't travel there for work anymore.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

HailBlazers
Exclusive Around The NBA: Memorable March edition
17 18 19
Replies
560
Views
31K
KSF-ERIC
KSF-ERIC
B
Event 2018 NCAA March Madness
8 9 10
Replies
281
Views
20K
CupWizier
CupWizier
BigGameDamian
OT NBA Basketball or NCAA March Madness?
Replies
17
Views
2K
Orion Bailey
Orion Bailey
Nate Dogg
Mid-March Road Trip Predictions
Replies
14
Views
922
alex42083
alex42083
PtldPlatypus
Exclusive OFFICIAL RipCityTwo March Madness Thread
6 7 8
Replies
216
Views
13K
crandc
crandc

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 1 (members: 0, guests: 1)
Back
Top