Random NBA Observations 2014 - 2015

[Flight]

The Sixers have more wins than my team.

The Sixers have more wins than my team.

Let that marinate for a little bit.

The Sixers have more wins than my team.

I'm trying like hell not to go off on y'all clowning Rubio, but I can't recall a player meaning THIS much to a team in a while. By the time he returns they will have lost 23 straight. 23!

Watching Lavine and Mo run point..Seeing Thad check out..Watching Anthony Bennett continue to brick jumpers..

shyt is sad.

 

[jaguar paw]

Pau poured the last bucket of cement on any possibility of D'Antoni chances of becoming an NBA head coach again.

 

[YourMajesty]

Pau poured the last bucket of cement on any possibility of D'Antoni chances of becoming an NBA head coach again.

CokeHead Buss

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Obviously you've never USED it to shyt on them because that that would be impossible.

You're more slow than usual today. Where Paul and Harden are looked at in relation to the rest of the players at their respective position and where Irving is looked at next to all the other top PGs in the league - there's a margin that doesn't reflect reality. And no it's not impossible, because there are other players in the league that are better than both of them, so it is possible to shyt on them - that's only if they're been talked about in an undeserving light.

And this is not even mentioning the period when Paul was injured last season, the team had a better offensive rating and team record - but that's another argument.

I clearly said you ignored it, along with every other measurable statistic that confirms Chris Paul and James Harden as two of the best players in the league.

Listen dummy, I've told you and said multiple times on this board that Paul is ONE of the best PGs in the league and that previous to this season he was in the conversation for being a top 5 player (he's more top 10 this season). I've only shytted on him, well it's been more the narrative surrounding him - because season in and season out he's praised as this winner/top 5 player/best PG in the league, yet when he comes up short and fails against other teams he's given a free pass that other stars don't have the luxury of receiving and the fact that parts of his game aren't conducive to winning and that whole Westbrook saga. Are you this dense in person? Second of all, I tried telling you and others on this board multiple times that when Harden was traded and that entire regular season that he was overrated and that his game wouldn't stand the heat of the playoffs because it was far too basic and teams would expose that. I was RIGHT and you were wrong - it's as simple as that. You're the ONLY one on this board that can't comprehend this. I said he'd only have success once he fixed that shyt, I never said that he was always going to stay the same for the rest of his career. And although he has improved his game from the past previous two seasons, it still remains to be seen if it can translate over to the postseason.

I feel like I've explained this to you 10000000000 times now, yet you always manage to twist it into something that it never was. You're making out as if I'm talking about them as if they're scrubs.

whist carrying on your silly tirades against them the past several years.

All those tirades you speak of, were proven correct and you were proven wrong. We saw what happened to Paul in the playoffs (Westbrook dominated him) and we've seen what happened to Harden in the playoffs for the last two seasons (failing because his offensive game was basic as hell and he was a sieve on defense).

Example - look at this thread and look how it ended (last season's playoffs) - http://www.thecoli.com/threads/where-yall-james-harden-haters-at.196166/

The OP even admitted that he fukked up. The whole board even acknowledged the fact that Harden was exposed in the playoffs. Why are you playing dumb?

This is what happens when you form your opinions first and then cherry pick stats, charts, quotes and various other tidbits after the fact to bolster them.

Nah I form my opinions on watching games, something that you have trouble understanding.

The funny thing through all this is, that if we were to list and acknowledge where every player in the league sits - our lists would be eerily similar. The problem with you is, you're too stuck in your ways, not just for identifying 'traditional' and method ways as the only positive impact in basketball but when you draw conclusions from things that were never said and when somebody tries telling you that's not what they meant, you ignore that and keep believing what you initially thought.

This could be down to you being a pathological liar and/or have a memory of goldfish.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

What do you mean, though? Gil Scott will admit that CP3 is >>> Kyrie :JJ:



Right ... :JJ:

I don't even know why you dapped that shyt, when I bet you were of the opinion that Harden was exposed last postseason too.

Even if I stated that Paul is better, @GoddamnyamanProf will twist it into some other shyt that I never said and then he'll end with "that's because you don't understand basketball". It's what he does best.

 

[Goatpoacher]

I don't even know why you dapped that shyt, when I bet you were of the opinion that Harden was exposed last postseason too.

Even if I stated that Paul is better, @GoddamnyamanProf will twist it into some other shyt that I never said and then he'll end with "that's because you don't understand basketball". It's what he does best.

Exposed is a strange term. Harden's always struck me as deeply flawed. I'll update my assessment of him after this upcoming post season. He occasionally makes an effort on defense, these days. His post season failures are not just "look, his team lawst, let's all laugh at him" failures. He's been strikingly bad each time they've lost.

He's been balling this year, but his Ginobolli-esque game makes me sick.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Exposed is a strange term. Harden's always struck me as deeply flawed. I'll update my assessment of him after this upcoming post season. He occasionally makes an effort on defense, these days. His post season failures are not just "look, his team lawst, let's all laugh at him" failures. He's been strikingly bad each time they've lost.

Which has always been my argument.

Then why do you think @GoddamnyamanProf has an inability to acknowledge this? He kept telling everyone for the last previous two seasons that Harden's game wasn't flawed, that we were wrong for saying his game was heavily reliant upon getting calls, that we were wrong for saying his game was basically attempt 3 and flail/flop in lane to get call on attempted layup. I mean there was a lot of dumb shyt that he said throughout the last two season's about Harden's game, but all of it he seems to have forgotten and has now turned it onto everyone else, by saying that they're in the wrong.

He's been balling this year, but his Ginobolli-esque game makes me sick.

For the second quarter of this season he has no doubt, he's been one of the best performers in the league.

 

[Konnan]

 

[tremonthustler1]

 

[Nick Barnes]

Teams like The Wolves just dilute the quality of The NBA. They need to be contracted. I'd say the same thing about The Knicks but they play in New York and the people here support them. Who honestly needs an NBA team in Minnesota?

fukk outta here.

 

[I.V.]

 

[charmander]

hawks dominating the wizkids

 

[Houston911]

i still don't understand how the hawks are THIS good

are there any acquisitions yall can see them making before the deadline?

 

[tr2k]

i still don't understand how the hawks are THIS good

are there any acquisitions yall can see them making before the deadline?

Josh Smith effect

 

[DoubleJ13]

Wizards caught a break with the Hawks going cold for a little bit here.