Random NBA Discussion 2014-15 Season

[JAWSFreelao]

Yes NovU, you are correct when you mentioned Hassan's opponents' FG % at the rim is lower than when Roy Hibbert and DeAndre Jordan's. They've found a gem, to say the least. And his #2K rating shot up to 77.

[[Q]]

Those damn Cavs announcers

[Andrew]

Kyrie with 55 to lead the Cavs to victory. Knew I shouldn't have changed my prediction just before the game.

[bowdown]

Aldridge is playing like a beast though with the thumb injury.

[Mandich]

Hawks at 17 straight.

Feb.6 is their last winning streak day so that should be 21 wins in a row. Awsm.

[Kevin]

Kyrie with 55 on the night and they win 8 straight. I can't handle all these streaks.

[NovU]

Just when you thought the Pistons have turned the corner they're shitting.

[Spree#8]

And with their tenth win of the season, the 2014-15 Sixers will officially not "beat" or tie the worst record ever. Since the horrendous start, they're 10-20. MCW picked up his 5th career triple-double with 17-10-10.

[benji]

Whiteside having another dominant game as the Heat get blown out.

Charlie V with 20 on the other end.

[bowdown]

LMA with another beast game 37/11 but in a loss. Lillard is shooting the ball like shit in high volumes. And he is all trash talking about getting disrespected by the All star snub. Play better dude.

[[Q]]

Yeah Dame is killing my FG% in fantasy but luckily I have Aldridge on the same team so he balances it out

[NovU]

Whiteside having another dominant game as the Heat get blown out.

Charlie V with 20 on the other end.

GOATside entirely dominated the game until he was sat in 3rd, then the Heat bench players had a huge mental collapse and squandered a sizable lead in last couple minutes of 3rd quarter. Then I saw the Heat was outscored by something like 24 to 2 to start the 4th which pretty much meant game over.

And with their tenth win of the season, the 2014-15 Sixers will officially not "beat" or tie the worst record ever. Since the horrendous start, they're 10-20. MCW picked up his 5th career triple-double with 17-10-10.

I grew tired of that inefficient chucker keep fucking up my fantasy team so I traded him for a washing machine last week. Now he's uber hot and playing to the reason why I drafted him high.

[air gordon]

Yeah Dame is killing my FG% in fantasy but luckily I have Aldridge on the same team so he balances it out

Is this the random rant about your fantasy team thread?

Haha who cares about your fantasy team? Especially if its one that no one else is here is part of. You take pictures of your food too

[Andrew]

Lillard is definitely taking the All-Star snub personally, which is probably throwing him off his game a bit. Easy for me to say sitting here at my computer, but he shouldn't let it get into his head. Just play his game, don't get lulled into the Gilbert Arenas "chip on your shoulder every game" mentality.

14 rebounds for Whiteside in the first quarter was crazy, but as much a testament to the amount of bricks being shot to his rebounding acumen. Sadly no records by the end of the game, but 24 boards is still no mean feat.

[Spree#8]

I grew tired of that inefficient chucker keep fucking up my fantasy team so I traded him for a washing machine last week. Now he's uber hot and playing to the reason why I drafted him high.

Not sure what you were expecting. MCW is being forced into a volume scoring role (that he should never have as he's bad at it) on a terrible offensive team - it has a grand total of one dude who can make a three, which is still a 100% upgrade since the beginning of the season in that regard. Don't expect him to be efficient until he has a legit NBA team around him and can assume a 3rd-4th scoring option role that will suit him fine.

That said, even with his inefficiency, MCW is a triple-double threat on any night. Pretty often, he can stuff the boxscore even when not really having a great game. Therefore, I'd have to assume a washing machine was never going to be better than him.

By the way, Noel was a steal and two assists shy of a 5x5 last night. He'll get it one day.

[NovU]

Obviously I was just strictly speaking from fantasy league owner perspective. I was hoping for above .400% fg and .700% ft. Unfortunately our league also has 3pt% category(and TO) so he was killing me in 4 cats(11 total) all of which he declined from last season. Obviously I was expecting slight improvements in these cats and also slight improvements in points formats(pts, asts, reb, etc) but apparently his numbers are down all across in exception of assist numbers.

Back to the reality, you obviously don't want to trade him for a bag of chips like I did. He's still teasing us time to time with pretty good potential.

How is Noel btw? Some say there's bit of Mutombo potential in him. It's early but how do you think his game will develop? He isn't really looking like a scorer type though, perhaps reasonable guess is a 11-13 ppg player in prime as strictly a dunk/defense guy? Also general perception is he must bulk up to be a better rebounder too but great rebounders also have great instinct which he hasn't shown to have.

[shadowgrin]

"chip on your shoulder every game" mentality.

Worked well for Michael Jordan.

[JAWSFreelao]

Back to Lillard. His snubbing pissed him off big time. That type of anger and desire for vengeance can make you or break you on that court. Unfortunately for Damian, it's breaking him and making him look like a chump. It is without saying that Silver really ####### up putting DeMarcus Cousins on the West instead of Damian. Replacing a guard (Kobe Bryant) with a big man (Boogie) makes NO sense, and I cannot possibly comprehend how nobody raised that point to Silver. Or how Silver could ignore that point.

[Andrew]

"chip on your shoulder every game" mentality.

Worked well for Michael Jordan.

Depends how you approach it, I suppose; focused and motivated, or pissed off and distracted by it.

[Stress Fracture]

Replacing a guard (Kobe Bryant) with a big man (Boogie) makes NO sense, and I cannot possibly comprehend how nobody raised that point to Silver. Or how Silver could ignore that point.

Same scenario last year, Anthony Davis replaced Kobe but no one gave a shit.

[JAWSFreelao]

Wonder who'll replace Wade on the east team... Hassan Whiteside, anybody?

[[Q]]

Replacing a guard (Kobe Bryant) with a big man (Boogie) makes NO sense, and I cannot possibly comprehend how nobody raised that point to Silver. Or how Silver could ignore that point.

Same scenario last year, Anthony Davis replaced Kobe but no one gave a shit.

That's because last year klay Thompson sucked and lillard was already on the team

[Stress Fracture]

Replacing a guard (Kobe Bryant) with a big man (Boogie) makes NO sense, and I cannot possibly comprehend how nobody raised that point to Silver. Or how Silver could ignore that point.

Same scenario last year, Anthony Davis replaced Kobe but no one gave a shit.

That's because last year klay Thompson sucked and lillard was already on the team

Goran Dragic was a fitting replacement last year.

[benji]

NBA commissioner Adam Silver told ESPN Radio on Sunday that he favors expanding All-Star rosters from their current limit of 12.

On the first day of his second year in charge of the league, Silver added that "this is going to be the year where we have to make those decisions‎" in reference to proposed tweaks to the league's current playoff format and draft lottery.

‎In the wake of what he described as "essentially a tie" in trying to choose between Sacramento's DeMarcus Cousins and Portland's Damian Lillard to replace injured Kobe Bryant on the Western Conference squad, Silver told ‎the "NBA Lockdown: Insiders" show Sunday night that he intends to broach the subject in the near future with new Players Association executive director Michele Roberts.

Asked to reflect on what he would remember most about his first year as commissioner, with Sunday marking exactly one since he replaced David Stern, Silver said: "That I had to decide between DeMarcus Cousins and Damian Lillard. I didn't like having to make that choice. I wish I had another slot for Damian because I think he's deserving of being an All-Star as well.‎

"I rely heavily on our basketball folks in terms of where the coaches' [voting] came out. Of course there's a fan vote for the starters and the coaches choose the reserves. DeMarcus was very high up on the coaches' vote, so that had a strong influence on me. Ultimately I deferred to them. DeMarcus, based on his numbers, absolutely deserves to be an All-Star. Damian ... his numbers are great, too. When I look at his team's record, I want to take that into account as well. Damian is someone who has literally been a model citizen in terms of what he's done in the community, he's done in Portland [and] activities he's engaged in with the league. It was essentially a tie in my mind, so I ultimately deferred to the coaches."

Asked specifically about expanding the rosters in the respective conferences to 13 or even 15 players, Silver said: ‎"I think that's something that will get very strong consideration. I think that's an issue that we'll end up discussing with the Players Association. It has a direct impact on many of the player's bonuses. There's preset bonuses in their contracts for making the All-Star team. I think counter-balancing that is the issue of playing time. [NBA executive vice president] Rod Thorn and I were having this discussion yesterday. We said we should move to [Kentucky coach John] Calipari's platoon system for All-Star to make sure that everyone gets [enough] playing time.

[Andrew]

If nothing else, expanding them to 13 players to match the active rosters of NBA teams in regular games sounds like a fair idea. As for the Draft lottery and Playoff format, I say leave them be. Too much fuss is made about them, and the proposed changes are usually lateral movements at best, and extremely contrived and convoluted at worst.