NBA Thread

[dineke]

lol Rod Black totally ignored sanchez

[Orgfiller]

That moment when the basketball commentators know more about the Blue Jays than the Fox commentators.

[Effit]

This is awful

[Orgfiller]

Oh look, JV is the most efficient player on the court.

[dineke]

Oh look, JV is the most efficient player on the court.

 

all his shots are basically from 0-5 feet so he should be lol

[Orgfiller]

all his shots are basically from 0-5 feet so he should be lol

 

Then there's Bismack Biyombo...

[GD]

That sums up the Raps pretty well

[dineke]

watch JV get benched in the 4th again

[GD]

Raptors likely 4th quarter lineup:

 

Lowry

Ross

DeRozan

Scola

Biyombo

[Caper]

I forgot how much I hated the sound of Jack Armstrongs voice.

[Orgfiller]

I forgot how much I hated the sound of Jack Armstrongs voice.

 

Seriously? I like him.

[Trouba95]

I forgot how much I hated the sound of Jack Armstrongs voice.

 

What on Earth has made you hate Jack? I loved when him and Chuck Swirsky were together. Swirsky >>>>>>>>>> Devlin but everyone in Toronto wanted him out.

[Orgfiller]

What on Earth has made you hate Jack? I loved when him and Chuck Swirsky were together. Swirsky >>>>>>>>>> Devlin but everyone in Toronto wanted him out.

 

Wat, I wasn't around back then but I thought Chuck was universally liked?

[TRM]

James Johnson deserves better

[dineke]

well at least casey is benching JV in the 4th for someone good(bismack) this time

[GD]

Like he hit the shot and that's great but Demar Derozan literally just posted up at the 3 point line

[dineke]

was that cory joseph guarding paul george in a critical possession in the fourth?

[Trouba95]

Was it ever in doubt

[dineke]

Was it ever in doubt

 

f*** you're in the nba thread too

[Spanky99]

f*** you're in the nba thread too

 

You post more in this thread than baseball, not very becoming on a baseball forum?

[dineke]

You post more in this thread than baseball, not very becoming on a baseball forum?

 

Well I stopped caring too much about baseball for like a year because of Blue Jay terribleness. Now I'm back on the bandwagon!

[Spanky99]

Well I stopped caring too much about baseball for like a year because of Blue Jay terribleness. Now I'm back on the bandwagon!

 

lame

[Krylian]

Wat, I wasn't around back then but I thought Chuck was universally liked?

 

He was.

[Swervin81]

Sloppy as HELL, but we got it done.

 

Fortunately, the Pacers decided to chuck long 2's and pull up 3's and our defense really stepped up whenever we turned the ball over (non-easy fast break turnover, that is).

 

That DeMar shot at the end was horrendous shot selection when he had another man open and JV cutting to the inside, but oh well, it went in.

[Horses Fart]

Lou Will misses the GWS tonight with 4 seconds left. Wolves win it for Flip.

[Caper]

The thing that bothers me about the NBA is that so many teams just have no chance before the season starts, much more so then any other major sport in North America. The Raptors should be fun to watch, but really, they have almost no chance, maybe a conference final. There is probably a 95% chance the NBA champions will come from whoever the top 5 teams are in the NBA preseason. I just looked at NBA preseason rankings through the last 10 years and only the Mavericks at 6 fell out of the top 5 preseason rankings. I couldn't get years prior to 2005, but I'm sure that trend would follow right through to the 80's (whatever definitive power ranking existed back then). I thought the Pistons might be a team that didn't crack the top 5, but they did make the conference final the year before, so they were probably ranked 4th or 5th going into their championship season.

 

So back to the Raptors.... They are not going to contend for a championship, they are not very young and don't really have that superstar you need to win a finals. The only way I see them having a chance in the next 5 or 6 years is if Bruno is somehow great. Other then that... they're at best, part of the other 25 teams clogging up the league for the top 5.

[Spanky99]

tldr Raps won!!!!

[KingKat]

Can someone explain to me the rationale behind drafting guys like Caboclo and Nogueira? From my perspective it just seems like a huge Hail Mary, the basketball equivalent of signing that Belgian baseball player (Sam Buelens). Why would you invest a top pick in what's basically an experiment? Do NBA teams have a track record of success with these kind of guys?

[GD]

Can someone explain to me the rationale behind drafting guys like Caboclo and Nogueira? From my perspective it just seems like a huge Hail Mary, the basketball equivalent of signing that Belgian baseball player (Sam Buelens). Why would you invest a top pick in what's basically an experiment? Do NBA teams have a track record of success with these kind of guys?

 

The #20 pick isn't a top pick at all and Nogueira was part of a trape.

[Travis_Snider]

Can someone explain to me the rationale behind drafting guys like Caboclo and Nogueira? From my perspective it just seems like a huge Hail Mary, the basketball equivalent of signing that Belgian baseball player (Sam Buelens). Why would you invest a top pick in what's basically an experiment? Do NBA teams have a track record of success with these kind of guys?

 

The NBA draft is so unpredictable after the first 5-10 picks or so usually its not really a big deal.