NBA Season 2017/18
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@canefan said in NBA Season 2017/18:
ESPNs Brian Windhorst reports that if the Lakers can trade Luol Deng, perhaps using the newly acquired first round pick as bait, they will have enough cap room to sign 3 max players
Was watching Charles Barkley talk about the Lakers aiming to sign Lebron and Paul George in the offseason and he brought up a valid point (he predicts the Lakers will miss on any big signings). Players don't want to sign with storied franchises these days when they can go to another team (with less history) and become the franchise themselves (Cleveland, Miami, Golden State etc).
If Lebron and Paul George want to team up in LA, they will go to the Clippers instead of the Lakers. At the Lakers they are merely following in the footsteps of giants.
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@sneakdefreak said in NBA Season 2017/18:
@canefan said in NBA Season 2017/18:
ESPNs Brian Windhorst reports that if the Lakers can trade Luol Deng, perhaps using the newly acquired first round pick as bait, they will have enough cap room to sign 3 max players
Was watching Charles Barkley talk about the Lakers aiming to sign Lebron and Paul George in the offseason and he brought up a valid point (he predicts the Lakers will miss on any big signings). Players don't want to sign with storied franchises these days when they can go to another team (with less history) and become the franchise themselves (Cleveland, Miami, Golden State etc).
If Lebron and Paul George want to team up in LA, they will go to the Clippers instead of the Lakers. At the Lakers they are merely following in the footsteps of giants.
I don't think they'll probably get either. The danger is missing out then overpaying for a second tier star
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Only one game, but it did have a better feel with some youth out there. Plus LeBron actually had a smile on his face after the game.
Good length, much better D and a good vet PG that knows winning.
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I watched the second half of the All Star game, probably one of the best AS games I can remember. There was a player draft with Steph Curry and LBJ picking the teams, there was real competition and defence played, the game was decided on a defensive play. The only thing they didn't do was televise the draft which they probably will do next season
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@rocky-rockbottom things must have picked up after I stopped watching. I saw about half of the first quarter and while it was better than last year's shit, I thought it was lacking intensity with way too many flash passes and silly shots.
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Savage. As. Fuck
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@rocky-rockbottom said in NBA Season 2017/18:
soon as I saw NBA thread and Savage As Fuck already knew what clip it would be
Local Man Kicks Child Down Well And Laughs While They Cry.
Local Man Fries Entire Ant Family Under Glass In Midday Sun And Gets Deliriously High Off Dead Ant Family Corpses Aroma.
the look of absolute disdain is just awesome. I don't give a fuck if he only plays one way, look at that magnificent bastard.
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@bovidae Melo is a liability. He is also starting to really get chippy at Steven Adams. Adams is now the teams most important player. Not the best player, the most important*. The cancer that is Melo looked like he'd found a home at OKC but he's just the same old selfish "imma get mines" player he's always been.
He always wants isolation called when he has the ball. Especially when hes out with the second unit. He is still lazy and just plain horrible on defense and now he's getting in the face of the soul of the team, Steven Adams.
Steven is a franchise player on another team. Seriously. He could be averaging 30 points 15 rebounds on a team where they want to feed him and he doesn't have to give Westbrook his rebounds.
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@raznomore said in NBA Season 2017/18:
@bovidae Melo is a liability. He is also starting to really get chippy at Steven Adams. Adams is now the teams most important player. Not the best player, the most important*. The cancer that is Melo looked like he'd found a home at OKC but he's just the same old selfish "imma get mines" player he's always been.
He always wants isolation called when he has the ball. Especially when hes out with the second unit. He is still lazy and just plain horrible on defense and now he's getting in the face of the soul of the team, Steven Adams.
Steven is a franchise player on another team. Seriously. He could be averaging 30 points 15 rebounds on a team where they want to feed him and he doesn't have to give Westbrook his rebounds.
Steve proves you can run offence through him for 3 straight quarters and end the game with 23 Pts and 12 rebounds. He was easily the player of the game. Still gets fuck all love from the Franchise in their social media. Paul George who was average all game and made 2 plays at the end of the game so he and Russell Westbrook got all the official OKC tweets. Adams was just an after thought And I'll make this clear he dominated the game.
the best thing that could happen to Adams is that he is traded to another contender that wants to use him offensively not just as a battering ram.
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When I was watching the OKC-Celts game the other day the commentators mentioned that Adams doesn't want any plays run for him.
Obviously the high pick and roll is a money play for Adams but you aren't going to see him establishing position on the block.
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@bovidae said in NBA Season 2017/18:
When I was watching the OKC-Celts game the other day the commentators mentioned that Adams doesn't want any plays run for him.
Obviously the high pick and roll is a money play for Adams but you aren't going to see him establishing position on the block.
I think he likes his role. He plays on a good team in a city he likes where he is appreciated and he is making a shitload of coin
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@raznomore said in NBA Season 2017/18:
Steven is a franchise player on another team. Seriously. He could be averaging 30 points 15 rebounds on a team where they want to feed him and he doesn't have to give Westbrook his rebounds.
I love Steven's development this year, but he wouldn't get close to that points average, even if he was force fed like a 1st option.
In the history of the NBA, the list of centres to average 30 is very slim, and it'd be even harder for centres to do it now with how today's NBA is played. Most of the all time great bigs who were more offensively equipped than him haven't done it.
I do think he could get close to that rebound count if he was a bit more selfish. His rebound numbers are a bit funny, as he has more offensive rebounds than defensive ones, which is quite rare for a guy who gets as many minutes as he does.
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@rocky-rockbottom My favorite is AK-47 for Andrei Kirilenko.
Kirilenko is nicknamed "AK-47", in reference to both his initials, jersey number, and the AK-47 rifle. Coincidentally, Kirilenko was born in the city of Izhevsk, in the former Soviet Union (now Russia), where the weapon was first manufactured.
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@raznomore said in NBA Season 2017/18:
@bovidae Melo is a liability. He is also starting to really get chippy at Steven Adams. Adams is now the teams most important player. Not the best player, the most important*. The cancer that is Melo looked like he'd found a home at OKC but he's just the same old selfish "imma get mines" player he's always been.
He always wants isolation called when he has the ball. Especially when hes out with the second unit. He is still lazy and just plain horrible on defense and now he's getting in the face of the soul of the team, Steven Adams.
Steven is a franchise player on another team. Seriously. He could be averaging 30 points 15 rebounds on a team where they want to feed him and he doesn't have to give Westbrook his rebounds.
Adams will never be a 30 and 15 guy. He does not have the post game or the midrange turn and face game. He could be a consistent 18 and 12 man though. He’s money on the alley oop and onball with Westbrook. He’s the best offensive rebounder in the game. But he just needs to develop a couple of moves to add to that game.
FWIW I like his game this year.
As much as I like his game, I still don’t think PG has fit in. There’s a period in the 3rd quarter of each game when he is running with the second unit and that’s probably when he is at his best, but with Westbrook and Melo, he doesn’t seem comfortable.
