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:snoop: At the highway robbery they committed trading Nash to us. :scusthov: Would hope somehow the Cats would trade that Pistons 1st rounder at the very least. Steve Clifford was assistant coach for the Lakers last year, so he is familiar with Pau. A Big Al/Pau front court would be one of the better front courts in the East. :ehh:They look like they want to make the playoffs this year, even though this should really be the year for them to tank, but seems like they said fukk it, we can't draft and want to try to win. Even Zeller who they drafted doesn't look like an NBA player so far either.

East is so bad, its hard to tank. Bobcats may be 8th or 7th just cause of that.
 

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EASTERN W L PCT GB HOME ROAD DIV CONF PF PA DIFF STRK L10
1 Indiana 29 7 .806 - 18-1 11-6 6-2 21-5 96.9 87.9 +8.9 Won 1 8-2
2 Miami 27 10 .730 2 ½ 16-3 11-7 8-0 17-8 104.3 98.2 +6.1 Lost 2 6-4
3 Atlanta 20 18 .526 10 14-5 6-13 4-5 13-10 101.4 100.1 +1.4 Lost 1 5-5
4 Toronto 18 17 .514 10 ½ 8-8 10-9 6-1 13-10 98.7 96.5 +2.3 Won 2 7-3
5 Chicago 17 18 .486 11 ½ 11-7 6-11 6-4 14-10 91.4 91.6 -0.2 Won 5 8-2
6 Washington 16 19 .457 12 ½ 7-9 9-10 3-2 13-10 97.8 99.6 -1.8 Lost 2 4-6
7 Detroit 16 22 .421 14 7-12 9-10 5-2 14-11 99.5 102.6 -3.1 Won 2 3-7
8 Brooklyn 15 22 .405 14 ½ 10-9 5-13 3-3 9-14 96.3 100.7 -4.4 Lost 1 6-4
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East is so bad, its hard to tank. Bobcats may be 8th or 7th just cause of that.
:mindblown: I thought the Bulls would be tanking, but Thib's might have them as a 5 seed again! I wouldn't be surprised if the Bulls front office make another trade to try to go full blown tank mode, but Thib's won't allow that to happen its looking like. Both New York teams will make it, as they have to since they don't have draft picks. Not sure what the Rap's are going to do, Wizards will make it. Bobcats are behind the Bucks, Magic, Celtics, and Sixers are ahead of them in the tankathon. And than we don't know about the Pistons, Cav's have to get better right? So the Bobcats practically have to fight for a playoff spot and Steve Clifford is looking like the Eastern conference version of Lionel Hollins. He has the Bobcats in majority of their games with no outside shooting at all. :leon:
 

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:mindblown: I thought the Bulls would be tanking, but Thib's might have them as a 5 seed again! I wouldn't be surprised if the Bulls front office make another trade to try to go full blown tank mode, but Thib's won't allow that to happen its looking like. Both New York teams will make it, as they have to since they don't have draft picks. Not sure what the Rap's are going to do, Wizards will make it. Bobcats are behind the Bucks, Magic, Celtics, and Sixers are ahead of them in the tankathon. And than we don't know about the Pistons, Cav's have to get better right? So the Bobcats practically have to fight for a playoff spot and Steve Clifford is looking like the Eastern conference version of Lionel Hollins. He has the Bobcats in majority of their games with no outside shooting at all. :leon:

Bobcats are like 3rd in defense this year.. They'll be in every game just cause of that even against the elite squads. Surprising because Big Al is manning the middle and he isn't known as a good defender in space better man to man on the block.

Perimeter defense will kick it up a notch with MKG but Henderson, Walker, etc are always hustling. Jeff Taylor was another till he went down with that achilles tear.

Like the Bulls, they'll be too good to tank.

Celtics may win some when Rondo is back at speed and in the East that may not be too late because of how bunched up the conference is. Pistons are right there too.

People will be backing into the playoffs :lolbron:
 

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LaMarcus Aldridge is having a career season for the Portland Trail Blazers and he is adamant that he is happy with the franchise.

Aldridge also would be open to discussing a long-term contract extension with the Blazers.

"I would like to re-sign here," Aldridge said. "If they want to talk about it, I would talk about it. They haven't yet, but I'm looking forward to the chance to do that."

"When the appropriate time comes, which is not now, that is a conversation that will happen between (owner) Paul Allen, myself, LaMarcus and his agent (Arn Tellem)," Neil Olshey said. "It's not a conversation that's going to play out in the media in January."

Aldridge was not content with the Blazers' position at times in the offseason, but they have been one of the NBA's top teams this season.

portland needs to do whatever it takes to get noah-- deal around lopez and mccolum??
 
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