NBA Season 15-16: General Thread

[DevinHarriswillstart]

Jesus christ...technical difficulties? Are you kidding me?

[DevinHarriswillstart]

Harden is such a loser.

[TheSportyChannel]

Sucks watching Jason Terry in a Rockets jersey.

[DevinHarriswillstart]

Corey Brewer hasn't even been D-League worthy this season.

[Underdog]

Originally Posted by TheSportyChannel

Still standing with my prediction of Rockets in 6.

[EricaLubarsky]

[TheSportyChannel]

Jae Crowder 14/10/4 tonight and +3.
Monta Ellis 15/5/3/3 +11

Mavs front office has no idea what they are doing. They're just riding Dirk and will check out when Dirk retires.

[DevinHarriswillstart]

Originally Posted by TheSportyChannel

Jae Crowder 14/10/4 tonight and +3.
Monta Ellis 15/5/3/3 +11

Mavs front office has no idea what they are doing. They're just riding Dirk and will check out when Dirk retires.

Why don't you go post over at clutchfans and talk about your team there.

[spreedom]

Please stop quoting that loser

[EricaLubarsky]

This playoffs is boring

[mac222b]

Originally Posted by EricaLubarsky

This playoffs is boring

Little bit. Pistons-Cavs was good. Hawks-Celtics good. Pacers-raptors potentially good. Lots of boring and imbalanced matchups though. I've been really digging Blues v. Blackhawks.

2nd round of Western Conference and WCF should be amazing.

[Bryan_Wilson]

Harden 13 points 9 of them are FT's. Has more TO's than made FG's atm. Typical piece of shit stat line.

---Edit---
16 points 12 of them are FT's. Lol, what a bum.

[Bryan_Wilson]

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[Underdog]

Originally Posted by Bryan_Wilson

Harden 13 points 9 of them are FT's.

16 points, 12 off FTs now... I hate Hardenball with a passion.

[Bryan_Wilson]

Seriously Harden makes my eyes bleed it's disgusting watching him flail around and get rewarded with all nba accolades.

[sefant77]

No team is going to give Howard his four year max deal. The guy is allready now half done, imagine him in two years.

[Underdog]

@Rachel__Nichols: Sooooo Shaq not holding back: "The problem with James Harden is he has no leadership skills."

[Bryan_Wilson]

Originally Posted by Underdog

@Rachel__Nichols: Sooooo Shaq not holding back: "The problem with James Harden is he has no leadership skills."

They showed a glorious montage of his defense this game too.

[Underdog]

Originally Posted by Bryan_Wilson

They showed a glorious montage of his defense this game too.

You mean "defense" -- the quotation marks matter.

[mac222b]

Harden may be the biggest fraud in the nba, now that Kobe is retired
Should do an all fraud team- with Glenn Rivers as coach

[MavzMan]

I hope GS beats them so bad that Harden refuses to go back in the game like TMac did back in the day. Sorry TMac, I still like ya but that was crap.

And as stated by other posters, I hate Harden and all that he does.

[Underdog]

Originally Posted by TheSportyChannel

Jae Crowder 14/10/4 tonight and +3.

Mavs front office has no idea what they are doing. They're just riding Dirk and will check out when Dirk retires.

Jae Crowder has shot 6-25 from the field over two games... I like the guy, but his deficiencies haven't gotten better.

[MavzMan]

Originally Posted by Underdog

Jae Crowder has shot 6-25 from the field over two games... I like the guy, but his deficiencies haven't gotten better.

It's kind of hard to judge him with these two playoff games. Boston is a really different team with Bradley hurt. Crowder is probably trying to score more to pick up the slack. His regular season this year wasn't too bad considering he's more of a hustle/defensive player:

44.3% on 11.1 FGA
82.0% FT
14.2 PTS
5.1 REB

[Underdog]

Originally Posted by MavzMan

It's kind of hard to judge him with these two playoff games. Boston is a really different team with Bradley hurt. Crowder is probably trying to score more to pick up the slack. His regular season this year wasn't too bad considering he's more of a hustle/defensive player:

44.3% on 11.1 FGA
82.0% FT
14.2 PTS
5.1 REB

Yeah, but when he leads all starters in minutes for a team that is shooting 34% and is 0-2 in the playoffs, the sample size becomes a lot more significant... This isn't the regular season -- every stat is under a microscope.

I know this much; I prefer Justin Anderson to Jae Crowder so far in the 2016 playoffs.

[DevinHarriswillstart]

Jordan's ft shooting is such a liability that it almost negates his positives. Almost.

[spreedom]

Originally Posted by DevinHarriswillstart

Jordan's ft shooting is such a liability that it almost negates his positives. Almost.

In this round, you could say the same thing for Drummond.

[DevinHarriswillstart]

Originally Posted by spreedom

In this round, you could say the same thing for Drummond.

No doubt. The NBA definitely shouldn't change the rules though. Shooting 4-16 fts is on you.

[Underdog]

@bball_ref: Entering tonight, LeBron has played exactly as many playoff games as MJ. Here's how their per game #s stack up:

[TripleDipping]

Originally Posted by DevinHarriswillstart

No doubt. The NBA definitely shouldn't change the rules though. Shooting 4-16 fts is on you.

It would be a cold dark day if NBA changes the hack-a-whomever rule for the "betterment of the game". If Jordan has no problem playing Chris Paul's wife in these Statefarm commercials, he'll have no problem attempting ft's underhand style.

[BPo001]

Brian Mahoney: Takeaway from Silver chat with APSE: Hack-a-Shaq change coming. He seems more frustrated with it now and it’s affecting biz, games too long.
– via Twitter briancmahoney
Tim Bontemps: Adam Silver says he hopes there can be a consensus formed to change the “Hack-A-Shaq” rule by July owners meetings.
– via Twitter TimBontemps

BS if they change this rule. Don't change the rule because 4-5 guys can't learn how to shoot free throws.

[DevinHarriswillstart]

Originally Posted by BPo001

Brian Mahoney: Takeaway from Silver chat with APSE: Hack-a-Shaq change coming. He seems more frustrated with it now and it’s affecting biz, games too long.
– via Twitter briancmahoney
Tim Bontemps: Adam Silver says he hopes there can be a consensus formed to change the “Hack-A-Shaq” rule by July owners meetings.
– via Twitter TimBontemps

BS if they change this rule. Don't change the rule because 4-5 guys can't learn how to shoot free throws.

How is it affecting business? Show me the numbers or shut up.

Found an article from Jan 20th about how revenues are at a record high. I know three months of "hack a shaqing" didn't change that.

http://www.nba.com/2016/news/01/20/f...ecord-high.ap/

[BPo001]

How did the refs miss that push off by Harden?

[Bryan_Wilson]

Originally Posted by BPo001

How did the refs miss that push off by Harden?

How do they miss all of his cheap antics? It's a joke.

[BPo001]

Originally Posted by Bryan_Wilson

How do they miss all of his cheap antics? It's a joke.

While I agree this one looked pretty blatant. Tough call to make if you're a ref, but that's what you're paid to do.

[Bryan_Wilson]

Originally Posted by BPo001

While I agree this one looked pretty blatant. Tough call to make if you're a ref, but that's what you're paid to do.

Yeah but they aren't gonna call that with under 5 seconds left in a 1 point game and call it on Harden. It is what it is and it's lame as hell.

[Underdog]

@World_Wide_Wob: Crying literal tears at this. The Rockets legit mad they gotta move their vacation plans back another 2 days.

[Underdog]

‏@teamziller: 0-1 since these photos came out.

[GhostFace]

Never thought I'd be happy to see the Rockets win. Lol @ Draymond tackling Beasley in the back court https://streamable.com/dprl

[GhostFace]

Originally Posted by BPo001

How did the refs miss that push off by Harden?

Just like they gave Draymond the tackle in the back court.

[MavzMan]

Sorry, but I hate Harden and wish the Rockets would have been swept.