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Reep said:
Philly. Once they get healthy and some experience. Heaven help us if they get Lebron as a FA. I think they will be the successor to Golden State.
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If I were LeBron, I'd definitely have Philly on my short list. Can you imagine him, Simmons and Embiid on the same team?

The only reason he hesitates (besides him wanting to go to LA) is because it probably makes it harder to go for Kareem's scoring record. Like Durant in GS, he'd see his average dip a solid 5ppg.

But geez, can you imagine his legacy if he brought titles to three different teams, beating Golden State twice.
 
KingSpeed said:
Also, OKC's season is hardly over. All they have to do is get hot and win 10 straight like Cleveland is doing and they'll be a top team in West.
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Wow look at this.....this guy basically took my take and didn’t even give me credit as a source.
 
HCP said:
Wow look at this.....this guy basically took my take and didn’t even give me credit as a source.
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Yeah, all they have to do is get hot and win 10 in a row. That's a great plan and sounds so easy. I think we should do that, too!

You sure you want to take credit for that?

BNM
 
The next 10 for OKC are as follows.

Dec 1st, vs Minn.
Dec 3rd, @ San Antonio.
Dec 5th, vs Utah.
Dec 7th, @ Nets.
Dec 9th, @ Memphis.
Dec 11th, vs Charlotte.
Dec 13th, @ Indiana.
Dec 15th, @ Philly.
Dec 16th, @ NYK.
Dec 18th, vs Denver.

Winning their next 10...
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Golden State and Boston don't feel like winnable games to me, but no team truly scares me. 7-minute scoring droughts are our worst enemy so far.

San Antonio and the 3rd seed are totally up for grabs; San Antonio has had as easy a schedule as we've had, and their Margin of Victory is similar. I feel like we're on their level entirely. We have the 3rd best SRS in the west (Houston and Golden State are well above everyone, then a bunch of Eastern Conference teams, then us), so we should try to get and hold the 3rd seed as long as we can.
 
SportsAndWhine said:
San Antonio and the 3rd seed are totally up for grabs; San Antonio has had as easy a schedule as we've had, and their Margin of Victory is similar. I feel like we're on their level entirely. We have the 3rd best SRS in the west (Houston and Golden State are well above everyone, then a bunch of Eastern Conference teams, then us), so we should try to get and hold the 3rd seed as long as we can.
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The current iteration of the Spurs, yes. They are mediocre. But they'll probably get Kawhi back in the next month or two. Ain't nobody scared of Aldridge - he can have fun leading the Spurs to wins over the hapless Mavs, but Kawhi is an actual difference-maker.
 
blue9 said:
The current iteration of the Spurs, yes. They are mediocre. But they'll probably get Kawhi back in the next month or two. Ain't nobody scared of Aldridge - he can have fun leading the Spurs to wins over the hapless Mavs, but Kawhi is an actual difference-maker.
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In the next month or two we'll be near the All Star Break... let's see if we've built up a lead over them by then. I know our schedule gets tougher as it goes along but we will too.
 
mook said:
If I were LeBron, I'd definitely have Philly on my short list. Can you imagine him, Simmons and Embiid on the same team?

The only reason he hesitates (besides him wanting to go to LA) is because it probably makes it harder to go for Kareem's scoring record. Like Durant in GS, he'd see his average dip a solid 5ppg.

But geez, can you imagine his legacy if he brought titles to three different teams, beating Golden State twice.
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Agreed, but if he goes to Philly It will cement my opinion of him as a ringchaser.
 
Golden State, Cavs, Bos are going to be hard to beat in a series. Golden State for the slow start is going to get their engines going and become dominate like last year. The Cavs are suffering a lot of injuries, but they gave found winning ways....they may very well be beatable in a series, but any team with both both Lebron and Wade shouldnt be taken lightly. The Celtics have suprised me the most of any team...I thought for sure aftef seeing Haywards leg and foot bend in unbendable directions that their season was over...but damn their youngs are stepping up and Kyrie has new life in Boston.

Houston doesn't bother me. They are 1st in the west yeah I'll give them that. But, I think they are beatable in a series. The Spurs are always good, but they getting old and Lamartha will stop them from succeeding. Pops will be retiring soon...the spurs days are numbered and they aren't who they used to be. The Blazers can beat them in a series. OKC sucks, its not working out, Westbrick is too selfish, Carmelo doesn't care, and Paul is thinking about free agency next summer...if they make the playoffs and somehow play the Blazers, they can be beaten. I don't fear Minny. They are young and inexperienced, especially playoff wise. They haven't even been in the playoffs since KG.

The Bucks and the Sixers are both young teams with tons of talent and chemistry. Watch out for and don't underestimate them.
 
Wizard Mentor said:
Agreed, but if he goes to Philly It will cement my opinion of him as a ringchaser.
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I used to think that way, but now I'm thinking he's just not waiting around for someone else to try and make his team better. If I was doing as much heavy lifting as LeBron, I'd want the best for me too.
 
SportsAndWhine said:
In the next month or two we'll be near the All Star Break... let's see if we've built up a lead over them by then. I know our schedule gets tougher as it goes along but we will too.
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This is kinda my point of the original thread. Even though our schedule get's tougher... Are we that far off that we should think it will make an overall impact on our record.
 
Schilly said:
This is kinda my point of the original thread. Even though our schedule get's tougher... Are we that far off that we should think it will make an overall impact on our record.
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To that I'd say no it won't. I think we're a 12-8 out of every 20 team, good for 49 wins (I think I predicted 50 wins in October). We don't have any GLARING holes in our defense like last year or the year before.

Players with unique physical gifts like Greek Freak give us trouble (in this regard I guess Philly and Milwaukee will always give us the most trouble), but our ability to force the opponent into long two point shots (the Worst Shot In The Sport) is pretty elite, which means we don't need to get steals or blocks to benefit from our good defense.
 
SportsAndWhine said:
To that I'd say no it won't. I think we're a 12-8 out of every 20 team, good for 49 wins (I think I predicted 50 wins in October). We don't have any GLARING holes in our defense like last year or the year before.

Players with unique physical gifts like Greek Freak give us trouble (in this regard I guess Philly and Milwaukee will always give us the most trouble), but our ability to force the opponent into long two point shots (the Worst Shot In The Sport) is pretty elite, which means we don't need to get steals or blocks to benefit from our good defense.
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The good news is unless we make it to the NBA finals, we only have to worry about MIL and PHI twice a year. And, if we're good enough to make it to the finals no team should scare us.

BNM
 
I think once Aminu comes back to speed he starts at the 3 and we have a defensive front line of Aminu - Vonleh - Nurkic. Over Harkless, Aminu brings better D, better shooting, better rebounding better energy etc.... He is better across the board. We tend to forget on this forum that Aminu is actually a SF and always has been, but has been forced to play the 4 due to circumstance.
 
Schilly said:
I think once Aminu comes back to speed he starts at the 3 and we have a defensive front line of Aminu - Vonleh - Nurkic. Over Harkless, Aminu brings better D, better shooting, better rebounding better energy etc.... He is better across the board. We tend to forget on this forum that Aminu is actually a SF and always has been, but has been forced to play the 4 due to circumstance.
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Some of us also forget that he's a bench player...
 
blue9 said:
Some of us also forget that he's a bench player...
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I’m thinking of it merely as which of the 2 is better more than I am wether he should be a bench player or starter if there were a better option on roster. Call it working with the tools we got instead of the ones we wish we had.
 
SportsAndWhine said:
Harkless? Yeah. Everyone gets weird expectations over a guy we got for a protected second rounder.
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I was talking about Aminu. But yeah, Harkless too.
Neither of them would have a prominent role on a good team.
 
I think Philadelphia and Milwaukee are going to be beasts in a couple of years, but they don't scare me right now because they're only relevant if the Blazers could get to the Finals...and we know that's not happening. In the West, the Warriors are scary good. The Rockets are right up there as long as they stay healthy, but given that the health of Chris Paul is what we're talking about...they don't scare me. I think the Spurs will get their shit together by the second half of the season and be pretty much unbeatable by anyone but the Warriors. Minnesota has the pieces to be scary in a couple of years, if they can grow up without blowing up.

The main thing that scares me though is that the Blazers don't find a good enough wing player and supporting bench to become truly competitive during Dame's prime. That would be a shame.
 
HCP said:
Mrs. The HCP says this as soon as I take my pants off and have never understood this!
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She wants AA batteries so the tools she needs are functioning...don't ask how I know this
 
Who scares me? Everybody, nobody, I dunno? The Blazers look pretty firmly planted in the mushy middle, so I guess that means any given night that can lose to anybody, and they're just good enough that if they go off on an elite team they can beat them too any given night.
 
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