2010-11 NBA Thread

[L O V E L I F E]

Phil Jackson has been through this before.

Ditto Kobe Bryant.

THEY know that it's NOT imperative that they crush every opponent and win 65 games in the regular season - but rather, that as long as they were peaking at the right time, staying healthy, and learning their strengths and weaknesses, that even winning high 50's and garnering a #2 seed would be absolutely fine.

Then, it's just win four straight best-of-seven series.

And Phil Jackson Coached teams (particularly those who are going for a threepeat) have a penchant for doing just that.

PLEASE - someone tell me - who in the West is gonna knock off Bryant/Gasol/Odom/Bynum/Artest/Fischer coached by Jackson?

I just don't see it happening.

Kobe's doin' work!

 

[Cane2theLeft]

^nothing is ever guaranteed...




IF there are no major injuries

and

IF there are no major trades in the west


Then you are probably right.

 

[KamMoye]

^is that really THAT surprising?

when did i say anything was surprising?

chances are you haven't been watching the clippers recently.

 

[undead]

Man... you sure got defensive over something that wasn't even CLOSE to an attack.

You should step away from the computer and do some breathing exercises. Come back when you're less uptight.

 

[grimble crumble]

For real Kevin love is on pace to maybe enter rodman rebounding teritory in the next couple of seasons. Would not be supprised to see him average 18 one day which is an incredible accomplishment.

 

[KamMoye]

http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=8662

bulls = 1st w/o noah? jesus. tom thibodeau for COTY

 

[Serious]

IF there are no major trades in the west

Oh shit.

http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nba/news/story?id=6041580

Mavs got the title on lock now.

 

[Serious]

Kobe on Melo:

http://blogs.denverpost.com/nuggets...-on-carmelo-anthony-nuggets-fans-free-agency/

Then Denver will make the right decisions, bring in the right personnel and he’ll stick around. It’s not rocket science. …. I know for me, it’s all about winning. In my situation, we weren’t spending the money to get players – they had me playing around with Smush Parker. Until they decided they wanted to make the necessary sacrifices financially to get a team that’s competitive, I didn’t want to be (with the Lakers). It’s as simple as that.



He didn't even mention Kwame, that's how bad Smush was.
Kobe/Smush/Luke Walton/LO/Kwame = G.O.A.T lineup IMO.


I honestly didn't even think that squad would make the playoffs considering how tough the West was... Prime Kobe was that amazing...

and if LO and Sasha boxed out in the last few seconds of G6 vs Suns, we would've went to the 2nd round.

 

[KamMoye]

if it's all about winning why did you force the lakers to trade shaq for pennies on the dollar?

how do you spend money when you're over the cap and your star just signed a huge contract that crippled your cap flexibility?

 

[axl blaze]

Oh shit... Mavs got the title on lock now.

yeah, and the Mavs are always a very talented team - but can they shake their tendency to choke in the playoffs? or will this year be their year?

fwiw - I would love the Mavs to win the Finals; mostly so I can see Mark Cuban shitting brix and 100 dollar bills all over Dallas and the National News

you just made me fucking LOL!

 

[Serious]

if it's all about winning why did you force the lakers to trade shaq for pennies on the dollar?

how do you spend money when you're over the cap and your star just signed a huge contract that crippled your cap flexibility?

Wat. Kobe wasn't at fault there, it was Shaq. He left on bad terms with Penny, Kobe, Wade, and Nash. See the pattern here?

Since Shaq and Kobe won the Co-MVP of the All-Star game in 2009, Shaq has been non stop talking about missing L.A.

He has been using positive adjectives to describe Kobe ever since they won co-mvp and Shaq had his 'I miss LA coming out party'
He calls Kobe 'The Black Mamba' which is the correct and positive adjective for Kobe, which is something Shaq would not have ever used in 2005-2009.

Shaq has admitted to not being enough of a team player in Orlando, and in LA has admitted that he grew bigger than the game.
Come age and wisdom, Shaq has been trying to rectify the past between himself, Kobe, and Laker fans.






Shaq.

 

[grimble crumble]

i dunno, if the peja thing makes the mavs a garuntee. I would say it puts them back to where they were before Caron Butler left, which is really fuckin good. lakers/spurs better watch out for this team.

always wonder about the mavs in the playoffs though with their tendency to disappear

 

[KamMoye]

Wat. Kobe wasn't at fault there, it was Shaq.

it takes two to tango

i dunno, if the peja thing makes the mavs a garuntee. I would say it puts them back to where they were before Caron Butler left, which is really fuckin good.

this is what i mean by the "if announcers repeat something enough times, people will believe it."

http://dberri.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/does-the-loss-of-caron-butler-matter-much-to-the-mavs/

If we look at Butler specifically, we see a player who has posted a 0.018 WP48 and is on pace to produce 0.8 wins. Such numbers suggest that the loss of Butler does not leave “a vacuum that will be hard for the Mavericks to fill.” And moving from Butler to Shawn Marion is probably not a big problem.

i'm hoping the peja thing was a joke. he's been done for a while, as the hornets can tell you. better than pavlovic, though.

 

[Cane2theLeft]

Man... you sure got defensive over something that wasn't even CLOSE to an attack.

You should step away from the computer and do some breathing exercises. Come back when you're less uptight.

I thought that seemed a bit defensive... I wasn't trying to say anything against you, man.

For real Kevin love is on pace to maybe enter rodman rebounding teritory in the next couple of seasons. Would not be supprised to see him average 18 one day which is an incredible accomplishment.

...and Rodman was averaging single digits in points while Love is dropping over 20 a game.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=8662

bulls = 1st w/o noah? jesus. tom thibodeau for COTY

Most of the season w/ or w/out Noah or Boozer the bulls have been first or second in defensive rating (behind the celtics when they were second).

 

[KamMoye]

-shrugs- didn't mean for it to sound defensive. words are words, however, you can't reliably infer intention through the internet. it's difficult to sound neutral when debunking someone else's opinion no matter how nice you try to make it, and i have no interest in putting a bunch of smilies because someone's too sensitive

plus thats not the first time ryan's tried to troll me so i'd take his post w/ a grain of salt

 

[Serious]

I fucking love when Kobe plays like this.

First half, he was getting everyone involved, now he's getting his while still setting up his teammates. Such an underrated passer, too.

Lol you know it's all bad for the Nuggs when Bynum and Ron are pulling off some Kobe shit.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/miamiheat/news/story?id=6046399

“I spent a lot of time on it this offseason. Once I made the decision to come here and realized we had a low-post threat, I kind of backed off a little bit. ... With [Chris Bosh] being out, I can go back to it. I just have to dust it off a little bit. It's no problem.


Bwahahahah.

"Dust off" implies he had a post game before... ?


Guess we'll be seeing more of this....

http://www.nba.com/heat/video/2010/09/30/DrillsDay3JamesandWade-1428360/index.html

What a Jew move...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTxZ2XSnUAc

C's fans, Part 2 of the Assocation.

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=6046546

 

[undead]

That actually IS the first time. I've actually not thought as badly of you as most people because I haven't been involved in most of the debates that turned sour. I just thought that particular response seemed defensive.

For the most part... I don't agree with a LOT of what you say, but I definitely have never claimed to be an expert on the NBA. And it sucks to be you. Cause my opinion is 99% of the time way cooler than yours.

 

[KamMoye]

im going with andrew bynum as the strongest player in the nba

 

[grimble crumble]

its no coincidence that the mavs havent been the same since caron left.

its not like caron was some kind of kobe or superstar, but he was person who fit into that system perfectly, and knew his role. a 6'7 228 pound athletic player who can shoot the 3 ball in the 40 percents is a benifit to your team and loosing him sucks. period.

 

[axl blaze]

im going with andrew bynum as the strongest player in the nba

we all know he hilariously looks like a Tracy Morgan (but on the roids )

and here are some more hilarious NBA look-alikes:

LOL! the Grimace!!

Narnia! lolol

Chauncey needs to phone home!!

a stretch here... but they do have the same eyes

lolol

this Sideshow Bob comparison has been always obvious to me

Rip Hamilton VS Jar Jar Binks

but wait!! ... Pau Pau as a llama?!