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Official 2013 NBA Thread vers. flippity floppity

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MikeOekiM said:
lol u must have not watched last years series

pacers were up 2-1 until LBJ'd the entire ref squad
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There was nothing rigged that series. The Heat took a firestorm of shit over falling down 2 and came back and beat them out.
 
I'm really hoping the Knicks can pull out a series victory somehow. I'm tired of watching defensive contests in which much of the scoring comes from free throws. Down-tempo bruisers like Indiana and Chicago are kind of making the NBA tedious right now. I like physical play, but the refs' quick whistles ruin everything. They ruin the flow of the games. Most of the action is intermittent. There are no long soccer-like rallies. To make matters worse, it takes everyone an hour to shoot a couple of free throws.
 
The Spurs are my favorite team to watch right now

new Sixers GM called the Bynum trade "a failure" (no shit) so hopefully that means he's not coming back.

I hope they save up this year and go after.... you guys already know how I feel.
 
23536 said:
I'm really hoping the Knicks can pull out a series victory somehow. I'm tired of watching defensive contests in which much of the scoring comes from free throws. Down-tempo bruisers like Indiana and Chicago are kind of making the NBA tedious right now. I like physical play, but the refs' quick whistles ruin everything. They ruin the flow of the games. Most of the action is intermittent. There are no long soccer-like rallies. To make matters worse, it takes everyone an hour to shoot a couple of free throws.
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Pacers already locked it up unless George Hill is out again
 
I told you guys its gonna be Heat / Spurs in the Final

Warriors live by the three, and just died by the three

you dont win championships like that, the most you will do is make it to one and get blown out

Pacers remind me of the Sixers of two years ago only David West is younger than Elton Brand was

Heat / Spurs

bet on it
 
shimazu said:
I told you guys its gonna be Heat / Spurs in the Final

Warriors live by the three, and just died by the three

you dont win championships like that, the most you will do is make it to one and get blown out

Pacers remind me of the Sixers of two years ago only David West is younger than Elton Brand was

Heat / Spurs

bet on it
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Grizzlies are no pushover though, especially if they can steal a game in SA. I don't trust the Spurs. We beat the Spurs in Texas without Lebron or Wade.

I also haven't counted out the Knicks yet. If they can get their shots to fall in game 6, they can pull out a win in Indiana and set up a pretty legendary game 7.

We're a long way from the finals.
 
the guy Stephenson on the Pacers is a pretty solid player. I dont know how he will do against Ray Allen or Dwade though. I guess Ray is somewhat of a liability on this point, and it seems like every time I hear Wades name mentioned the words "injury" and "not 100%" are usually somewhere in the next ten seconds so idk what his deal is.

Paul George has to prove he can play with Lebron though. If he does relatively equally the Pacers have a slightly better frontcourt than the Heat but I have a feeling one of the Shane Battier types of the Heat is going to get a lot of open shots. Bosh on David West is a good matchup

Im not quite kneeling down for Roy Hibbert just yet though, the Knicks were a decent team that got hot at the end of the regular season and didnt make it to the Conference Finals, just like almost every other team Melo has been on. I dont really dislike him but he's not really a likeable star either he's just got that rare combo of height, a nice shot, and good ball handling skills. Never was a good defender though, thats why he'll never be close to Lebron when they are both retired, but he may win a championship before he retires but I dont see anything on the Knicks to indicate that happening next year. Then again, NBA free agency can change entire conferencee because one guy goes to one team, or David Stern basically picks and chooses which teams can trade for certain players.

I still can't believe they did that and just like, admitted it. The trade where Chris Paul was supposed to go to the Lakers but Stern was like "uhhhhhh... no" and made him go to the same team as Kia (huge NBA sponsor) and league poster man child Blake Griffin. I can see David Stern getting of the phone with Michael Jordan and being like "yeah you know that hugely more popular league you more or less made into what it is today? I'm gonna go take care of our sponsors and make sure the refs know the foul rotation while I keep your name for buzz but stuck with the most pathetic team in the league and no apparent interest from the 38 people who didnt get your tickets from some Church gift basket they won for being the only ones in the entire room that even knew how to get to the stadium, let alone understand how god awful their team is and if it's against another team with a lot of cards in the lottery I don't know how you could even watch it.

Kings are staying in Sacremento, I guess KJ knows his team is actually entertaining to watch, they just play zero defense, I mean they make Melo look like All Defense First team with some of the cheap buckets they let up. I seriously love DeMarcus Cousins ability and hate his face, he is actually probably one of the top 3 centers in the league as far as pure ability goes. He has the best hands of any big man in the league, its almost strange to watch him dribble sometimes because you just expect him to lose control of it at any moment but he just palms the ball up if hes ever about to really lose control.

Still not sure why Jimmer Fredette was drafted at all, they basically took a guy that brought absolutely nothing to their biggest need(defense) and already had their starting PG and SG in Isaiah Thomas and Tyreke, and I know how good of a player Jason Thompson will be, but when you have a big man and a 2 guard who can create their own offensive shots and are good passers like Demarcus and Tyreke, all Jason Thompson has to do to be a solid player is get rebounds and play defense and every now and then reach his hands up and jump like 2 inches off the ground after Tyreke just dribbled around a guy and gave him an easy dunk.

Idk, they are still going to suck on defense most likely so I'd be surprised if they even made the playoffs really, but you gotta figure if either Tyreke or Cousins wants to get that big second paycheck, they have to make something happen soon although I kind of don't want them to win any substantial amount of games so they might just clean house and get rid of a bunch of good players who were just put together with no real plan of forming a team just a bunch of highlight players who could really be names in the league if they were on teams still in the playoffs.

I can't believe I'm this into the Sacremento Kings, they've always been more or less the also-ran California based team. Although I didn't know what Golden State meant until like when Baron Davis was on the team with the Capri Sun guy for a mascot it looked like
 
Arci said:
The refs favor the Kincks and Heat more than any teams in the league

everyone who isn't a fan of either team would agree
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This postseason, four teams have attempted more free throws per game than Miami. Fifteen teams have attempted more than New York!

http://espn.go.com/nba/statistics/team/_/stat/offense-per-game/sort/avgFreeThrowsAttempted

I wish you'd sit with us here while we're watching games (and spoke fluent Spanish). The constant complaint is that the refs are calling nothing and letting guys hack away at Lebron and Wade.

I realize we're homer fans, but the stats don't support your contention that the refs favor Miami and New York more than any other team.

Also, Pacers took 46 free throws last night. Forty-six! That should never happen, with any team, ever.

I wonder how many FTs the opponents of Bill Laimbeer's Pistons would take.
 
shimazu said:
Bosh on David West is a good matchup
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Bosh won't cover West. He'll be on Hibbert. West is gonna be guarded by Haslem and Battier, and I assume he'll dominate them as he usually does.

I don't know how West never makes the Allstar game.
 
oh well I'm still leery of a team that is relying on Roy Hibbert as the matchup to take advantage of, especially since Bosh is a capable defender. I mean I think he is a much better role player than a guy you would need to score consistently, I don't know he just seems too...slow I guess is the only word I can think of. Like he has no explosiveness at all other than when he is already running at the net from the entire length of the court and gets to just launch himself at the rim knowing nobody in the NBA at least will probably get in the way except maybe Dwight Howard when he's willing to put out that kind of effort.

you know who you never hear about anymore? Is John Wall gonna be a free agent soon I feel like he's been in the league a fair amount of time now. I still think he's one of the top 5 pgs right now
 
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