NBA Season Thread 2013-2014

shamrock55

Thinking of putting a few quid on pistons in play what do yee think

Changed my mind

NufcNavan

Some of the officiating in the Pacers Pistons has been terrible tonight.

shamrock55

Raptors are crumbling in the 4th:mad:

Nuri Sahin

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

DRD, I'll get your team back to winning ways because I'm backing Detroit to beat them tonight.

Hope you took the +10 spread instead of going straight up.

Nuri Sahin

Knicks have torn apart Brooklyn tonight.

Dublin Red Devil

Better from The Pacers tonight. Passed the ball around, better ball movement. Encouraging performance but still some improvement needed

NufcNavan

27 13 & 7 from Paul George, always a much better player when looking to share the basketball.

shamrock55

Raptors keep the heads to win by 4 , de rozan with 29pts, didnt miss lowry at all:D

bulls win too though

Nuri Sahin

Wizards clinched their 1st playoff berth since 2008, kudos to them.

Warriors made a run in the 3rd, the first 7 minutes of it anyway and got it down to single figures. Cue 20-2 run from the Spurs, game over now. In Golden State's defense, they're missing Bogut, Lee and Iggy tonight.

Paully D

Damn, fell asleep before any of the games started ahead of my only day off :mad:

Good win for my Bulls but the Raptors continue their good form. Anytime they want to start losing games now is fine by me :pac:

Well done to the Wizards. I had them down as my surprise team this season and I think they have the potential to cause a playoff shock.

19 straight for the Spurs now ahead of tonights matchup with the Thunder.

buyer95

Paully D wrote: »

Damn, fell asleep before any of the games started ahead of my only day off :mad:

Good win for my Bulls but the Raptors continue their good form. Anytime they want to start losing games now is fine by me :pac:

Well done to the Wizards. I had them down as my surprise team this season and I think they have the potential to cause a playoff shock.

19 straight for the Spurs now ahead of tonights matchup with the Thunder.

Cue Pop sitting Duncan, Parker, Ginobli and Leonard. I think Pop will want to lose a game soon tbh. A few seasons ago they went into the playoffs on a winning streak then won 10 straight in the playoffs, before the Thunder went and won 4 straight against them to knock them out. I think he sits atleast Timmy tonight.

PizzamanIRL

Nuri Sahin wrote: »

Hope you took the +10 spread instead of going straight up.

Straight up unfortunately

Nuri Sahin

Some collapse from Phoenix last night..

Paully D

Bulls have waived second round draft pick from 2013, Eric Murphy. That didn't last long!

Aggrey Sam ‏@CSNBullsInsider 1m
Bulls announce they have waived Erik Murphy. I "predict" the next announcement is that they sign Ronnie Brewer. He worked out at Berto today

Thibs reportedly loves Brewer so that would make a lot of sense and would be a good pickup ahead of the playoffs. Watch it be Mike James now FFS :pac:

ButtersSuki

KD with a chance to equal Jordan's modern day 25+ppg streak tonight. Only thing that can stop him IMO? Scott Brooks benching him.

Paully D

ButtersSuki wrote: »

KD with a chance to equal Jordan's modern day 25+ppg streak tonight. Only thing that can stop him IMO? Scott Brooks benching him.

If there's one player I'd like to see break it, it's Durant. The definition of pure scorer.

Dublin Red Devil

Spurs/ Thunder tonight.

Should be a good one

stuba

Everyone was thinking Pop was gonna rest a couple of his "big three", but seems like it's only Manu who he is going to rest. Won't be up for this one. The damn clocks going forwards brought things back to normal, was great for the few weeks where we only 4 hours ahead of the ET. Will have to catch it tomorrow.

Nuri Sahin

GOATkins is back mutha****ers!

Nuri Sahin

OKC didn't playing great, only down 3 at the half.

Highlight of the half was Westbrook to the Spurs bench - "I ain't gone stop. You know that. I'm gonna keep going", after draining a 3 towards the end of the half.

Thunder's defensive intensity / length starting to bother the Spurs some.

Russ with an insane dunk on the break a moment ago, OKC should see this out with 5 minutes left and up 12.

KD ties MJ for 25+ consecutive game record.

Finishes 106-94.

moneyman

Haven't posted here in a while but still reading everything. Just wanted to make a post about Cousins and whether he should make an All-NBA team (he should, and he should have been an All-Star... Not bitter or anything :pac:). I will spoiler the post as it's a topic some may not want to read, but definitely worth a look for anyone who wants to see just how dominant Big Cuz has been this season. Post was not written by me.

So, with ESPN coming out with an article once again rehashing the same old tired is he a bad guy or misunderstood stuff, I decided it was time for me to pick thing sup and start unleashing some numbers into the fray.

We'll start with these. These are the stats for all of the league's starting centers this season -- in cases where mucked up teams like the Bucks had all kinds of starters, I went with the guy who has started the most games. In the case of Philly/Cleveland I took both Hawes and Varejao over any of the short term jokes who might have been options. In the case of New Jersey and Atlanta I left off Horford and Lopez entirely since they had only played in 22 and 19 games respectively and calling any of their replacements "starters" was kind of ridiculous.

Sorted by PER
Cousins PER: 26.3 Stats: 32.0min 22.2pts (.497FG .726FT (.558TS)) 11.6reb 3.0ast 1.5stl 1.3blk 3.5TO
Jeffersn PER: 22.5 Stats: 34.6min 21.6pts (.506FG .685FT (.529TS)) 10.4reb 2.1ast 0.9stl 1.1blk 1.6TO
Drumm PER: 21.9 Stats: 32.1min 13.0pts (.619FG .417FT (.597TS)) 12.8reb 0.4ast 1.2stl 1.7blk 1.3TO
Duncan PER: 21.6 Stats: 29.2min 15.2pts (.494FG .726FT (.537TS)) 9.8reb 3.1ast 0.6stl 1.9blk 2.2TO
Howard PER: 21.6 Stats: 34.0min 18.5pts (.590FG .548FT (.600TS)) 12.3reb 1.8ast 0.9stl 1.8blk 3.3TO
Pekovic PER: 20.7 Stats: 30.8min 17.4pts (.540FG .747FT (.582TS)) 8.7reb 0.9ast 0.6stl 0.4blk 1.6TO
JoaNoah PER: 20.1 Stats: 34.9min 12.5pts (.482FG .484FT (.537TS)) 11.1reb 5.2ast 1.2stl 1.5blk 2.4TO
ChrBosh PER: 19.7 Stats: 31.8min 16.4pts (.520FG .821FT (.601TS)) 6.6reb 1.1ast 1.0stl 1.0blk 1.5TO
PaGasol PER: 19.4 Stats: 31.4min 17.4pts (.480FG .736FT (.522TS)) 9.7reb 3.4ast 0.5stl 1.5blk 2.4TO
Vucevic PER: 18.8 Stats: 31.8min 14.2pts (.507FG .766FT (.536TS)) 11.0reb 1.8ast 1.1stl 0.9blk 2.0TO
DFavors PER: 18.6 Stats: 30.1min 12.9pts (.512FG .667FT (.549TS)) 8.8reb 1.2ast 1.0stl 1.5blk 1.7TO
DJordan PER: 17.9 Stats: 35.5min 10.3pts (.670FG .449FT (.632TS)) 13.8reb 0.9ast 1.0stl 2.4blk 1.5TO
MGasol PER: 17.7 Stats: 33.0min 14.1pts (.461FG .783FT (.517TS)) 6.9reb 3.6ast 1.0stl 1.3blk 1.9TO
RLopez PER: 17.6 Stats: 33.0min 14.1pts (.461FG .783FT (.517TS)) 6.9reb 3.6ast 1.0stl 1.3blk 1.9TO
MBogut PER: 17.4 Stats: 26.4min 7.6pts (.627FG .344FT (.610TS)) 10.1reb 1.7ast 0.7stl 1.9blk 1.5TO
Varejao PER: 17.4 Stats: 28.3min 8.6pts (.494FG .685FT (.527TS)) 10.0reb 2.2ast 1.1stl 0.7blk 1.2TO
MGortat PER: 17.3 Stats: 32.7min 13.0pts (.539FG .683FT (.565TS)) 9.4reb 1.7ast 0.5stl 1.5blk 1.5TO
Chandlr PER: 17.0 Stats: 30.6min 9.1pts (.601FG .619FT (.619TS)) 9.8reb 1.1ast 0.7stl 1.2blk 1.3TO
Dalembt PER: 16.6 Stats: 20.1min 6.5pts (.568FG .717FT (.602TS)) 6.6reb 0.5ast 0.5stl 1.2blk 1.2TO
Sullingr PER: 16.5 Stats: 27.3min 13.1pts (.424FG .774FT (.493TS)) 8.1reb 1.6ast 0.5stl 0.6blk 1.6TO
Hickson PER: 16.3 Stats: 26.9min 11.8pts (.508FG .517FT (.521TS)) 9.2reb 1.4ast 0.7stl 0.7blk 1.9TO
SHawes PER: 15.5 Stats: 31.2min 13.3pts (.454FG .781FT (.551TS)) 8.3reb 3.0ast 0.5stl 1.2blk 2.2TO
Valancns PER: 15.3 Stats: 27.9min 10.8pts (.525FG .761FT (.573TS)) 8.5reb 0.7ast 0.3stl 0.9blk 1.7TO
Plumlee PER: 14.7 Stats: 24.8min 8.3pts (.513FG .560FT (.525TS)) 7.9reb 0.5ast 0.6stl 1.2blk 1.4TO
Hibbert PER: 14.3 Stats: 30.1min 11.2pts (.453FG .771FT (.513TS)) 6.9reb 1.2ast 0.4stl 2.3blk 1.9TO
Pachulia PER: 13.9 Stats: 25.0min 7.4pts (.416FG .865FT (.496TS)) 6.3reb 2.5ast 1.0stl 0.2blk 1.7TO
JaSmith PER: 12.5 Stats: 26.8min 9.7pts (.465FG .780FT (.495TS)) 5.8reb 0.9ast 0.4stl 0.9blk 0.9TO
Perkins PER: 6.1 Stats: 19.7min 3.4pts (.442FG .559FT (.467TS)) 5.0reb 1.1ast 0.4stl 0.5blk 1.6TO


Amongst the 28 starting centers Cousins is:
1st in PER
1st in Points
4th in Rebounds
6th in Assists
1st in Steals
12th in Blocks
1st (last) in Turnovers


To give you some idea what a 26.3 PER means, its the 27th best PER season by a center in the modern NBA era (1980 onwards). Of the 26 better PER seasons:
11 belong to Shaq (made an All NBA team all 11 seasons (First, Second or Third)
6 belong to Admiral (made an All NBA team all 6 seasons (First or Second)
4 belong to Duncan (made an All NBA team all 4 seasons (First)
2 belong to Amare (made an All NBA team both seasons (Second)
1 belongs to Moses (made an All NBA team (First)
1 belongs to Hakeem (made an All NBA team (First)
1 belongs to Yao made an All NBA team (Second)

No center in the modern history of the NBA has EVER posted a PER as high as DeMarcus Cousins' this season, and not made All NBA.

The gap between Cuz's current season and the highest rated PER season by a center in the modern era (Admiral's 1993-94 MVP year at 30.7PER) is 4.4PER. The gap between Cuz's current season PER and his nearest competitor is 3.8PER.

Paully D

Interesting night ahead with Pacers/Raptors, Wizards/Knicks, Thunder/Rockets and Suns/Trail Blazers. The Bulls should really be beating the Bucks so I'm a Pacers fan for the night :eek:

shamrock55

Paully D wrote: »

Interesting night ahead with Pacers/Raptors, Wizards/Knicks, Thunder/Rockets and Suns/Trail Blazers. The Bulls should really be beating the Bucks so I'm a Pacers fan for the night :eek:

Easy win for raptors tonight:D

ButtersSuki

moneyman wrote: »

Haven't posted here in a while but still reading everything. Just wanted to make a post about Cousins and whether he should make an All-NBA team (he should, and he should have been an All-Star... Not bitter or anything :pac:). I will spoiler the post as it's a topic some may not want to read, but definitely worth a look for anyone who wants to see just how dominant Big Cuz has been this season. Post was not written by me.

Completely agree and I've been consitent on this - it's a joke he's not recognised in this way. I said it last year when there were rumours Boston were going for him that I'd give up pretty much whatever it took to land him at the time.

Thinks I'd like to hear - moneyman on Joe Duffy saying "it's a disgrace Joe" debating the Boogie Cousins All Star snub with Joe. :rolleyes::D

buyer95

Paully D wrote: »

Interesting night ahead with Pacers/Raptors, Wizards/Knicks, Thunder/Rockets and Suns/Trail Blazers. The Bulls should really be beating the Bucks so I'm a Pacers fan for the night :eek:

Massive give for the Knicks tonight. Anyone know if any games are on BT tonight?

ec18

Just looking at the standings and does the second seed suit Indiana more? if things stay the way they are they'll play Charlotte while miami will play knicks?

Dublin Red Devil

I don't know If I would prefer NYK or CHA in the 1st round. Probably right now CHA would be slightly better but there's really nothing in it. Either/Or

BQQ

Could be an upset in golden state tonight.
With both Bogut and Lee sidelined, DaMarcus Cousins is going to beast and feast.

shamrock55

Raptors up by 8 at the half:)

Dublin Red Devil

shamrock55 wrote: »

Raptors up by 8 at the half:)

Tied a 82 with 8 min to play. Anyone's game