NBA Regular Season 14/15

ButtersSuki

ButtersSuki wrote: »

hard to beat Larry Legend for the trash talking alright. Nearly everyone who played against Bird has a story about him. Kobe (KOBE!) said he was the greatest trash talker ever. That's some compliment given Kobe's record!

ya that whole stonewalling guys seems to be a theme as well i remember magic saying he got the same treatment when they met in college.

malistheman

malistheman wrote: »

Yeah Bird is a bit of a legend for the trash talk. This is my favourite.



Taken from this list.

thats hilarious to i love that he seemed to back it all up and any of the guys he trash talked (or at least that iv heard talk about it) laugh it off and say he could do it because he bit as hard as he barked.

in todays nba i think guys would pull a fit at that kind of thing

GoldFour4

Kyle Korver officially in for Dwayne Wade in the All Star Game. Means that the Hawks will have 4 on the roster.

ButtersSuki

Anyone catch Dwight Howard's ensemble last night?

NufcNavan

Man I hate the Rockets..

NufcNavan

NufcNavan wrote: »

Man I hate the Rockets..

why???

D2D

Anthony Davis in out of the All Star Game, Dirk is replacing

padraig_f

It probably won't happen, but I'd love if they got Bill Walton doing NBA games.

Bill Walton talked about Bob Dylan on air for 3 whole minutes of a basketball game

ButtersSuki

padraig_f wrote: »

It probably won't happen, but I'd love if they got Bill Walton doing NBA games.

Bill Walton talked about Bob Dylan on air for 3 whole minutes of a basketball game

Walton is more than a little loco. Some of the stuff he comes out with is hilarious but equally some of it is just jibberish. Someone did an MTV Cribs type thing with him years ago (and years before Cribs) and I saw it on holidays in the US at the time. I think it's fair to see he was either drunk, high or just being himself on it (lol).

NufcNavan

NufcNavan wrote: »

Man I hate the Rockets..

Just don't enjoy watching them play. They play no defense. Dwight Howard is probably the most boring 20-10 player in the history of the NBA. Sure, James Harden can score, but I don't want to watch a player shoot 10-15 FTs a game.

Paully D

Going to be a tough night for the Bulls against the Cavs I fear, no Jimmy Butler.

padraig_f

Paully D wrote: »

Going to be a tough night for the Bulls against the Cavs I fear, no Jimmy Butler.

I nearly prefer when these games are on the road, because you're not expected to win as much (although the bookies have the Cavs 2.5 pt favourites anyway).

Should be a good game. Interested in the Gasol/Mozgov matchup. As good as Gasol has been, he's struggled against some of the better defensive centres. So that will be an important indicator for a possible playoff series.

Rose vs. Irving should be good too, Rose often seems to raise his game against the better point-guards. I keep saying it, but he needs to be aggressive and not settle too much for jump-shots.

Jimmy being out makes it more difficult, but the Bulls still have a decent chance. Snell is playing well and stylewise is a decent replacement for Jimmy (though I expect Lebron will try and attack this more now).

We've got Dunleavy back, and we'd need a good contribution from the bench.

Looking forward to it anyway, both teams closer to their potential than when they played earlier in the season.

NufcNavan

NufcNavan wrote: »

Just don't enjoy watching them play. They play no defense. Dwight Howard is probably the most boring 20-10 player in the history of the NBA. Sure, James Harden can score, but I don't want to watch a player shoot 10-15 FTs a game.

still i wouldn't say its as bad as the clippers constant moaning i feel like the clips are the team that feel most entitled for no reason and its not close

padraig_f

Dunno if we caught them on a bad night, but expected the Cavs to be better last night. Had heard they'd won 11 of their last 12 or something, and Lebron was much better after his break. Was expecting to see something like Lebron's Heat, but they were a good bit short of that.

Still seems to be a lack of chemistry....it looks more like 5 guys trying to do their own thing a bit, rather than acting as a cohesive unit.

For the Bulls...the Gasol/Mozgov matchup that I was looking out for never materialised too much. Gasol played a smart game, didn't really take Mozgov on in the post, but worked with Rose on pick-and-pop for jump-shots, set up teammates with 6 assists, and posted up Tristan Tompson when he was guarding him.

Rose played a great game, very aggressive all game. Been a bit frustrated with Rose's play at times, when he settles for too many jump-shots. But was hoping that he's saving it for the playoffs. Last night was a good indication that he was, and does have another gear to go to...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMkPkasdywM

It was vintage Rose and he really destroyed Kyrie Irving.

Tony Snell had a great game filling in for Jimmy Butler. Shot an amazing 9-11 (4-6 from 3) while guarding Lebron the entire game. Snell has long arms, which are a great defensive asset for troubling the ball-handler, and this contributed to Lebron's 8 turnovers.

Rachel Nicholls grabbed Rose for the post-game interview, and wanted to talk about his 30 points, but all Rose wanted to talk about was what a great game Tony Snell had, which was a nice touch.

Paully D

Does anyone have a schedule for the All-Star Weekend please?

padraig_f

Paully D wrote: »

Does anyone have a schedule for the All-Star Weekend please?

Saturday night, starting 1:30am Irish time...

1. Shooting Stars
2. Skills Challenge
3. Three-Point Contest
4. Slam Dunk contest

Guess I'll be watching that Sunday morning, looking forward to the three-point contest.


Sunday night, starting 1:30am

NBA All-star game.

I haven't watched this the last few years, exhibition games don't do it for me much.

Paully D

Thanks Padraig. No interest in the game itself either to be honest but I do enjoy the various contests on the Saturday.

GoldFour4

Thought that you had to buy an extra package to watch the saturday night events on league pass, just saw the tab at the top of the page to watch it. Happy days!

wow lavine had the best dunk contest performance i can remember in recent history his first dunk in particular was insane.

PizzamanIRL

Fell asleep somewhere between 1 and 1:30 with the laptop on my chest and missed what looks to be a quality night.

2 splash bros in the final round was perfect

Paully D

LaVine :eek:

Oladipo's dunks were actually quite good, but after LaVine's first round showing you could just see him thinking to himself "how the **** can I possibly beat that" :pac:

stuchyg

Just watched the highlights this morn. Levine really was something else. Plumlee was a poor contestant. Levine actually ducks his head at one point to avoid hitting the rim

PizzamanIRL

Thread from reddit with links to every event without the ads and talk in between etc.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/2vxx2l/video_compilation_of_every_event_from_nba_all/

NufcNavan

Lavine's first dunk was one of the best dunks I've ever seen.

NufcNavan

Durant apparently went in on the media over the weekend, "You guys don't know ****," "Only here cuz I have to be," kinda stuff. Westbrook's been rough with media too.

These dudes realise they play in Oklahoma right? They'd get eaten alive in a major market.

Carcharodon

NufcNavan wrote: »

Durant apparently went in on the media over the weekend, "You guys don't know ****," "Only here cuz I have to be," kinda stuff. Westbrook's been rough with media too.

These dudes realise they play in Oklahoma right? They'd get eaten alive in a major market.

Really, durrant went off, he is usually so pc and doesn't tock the boat, about time he grew a pair

ButtersSuki

Brick city in the All Star game., Westbrook in particular has taken some wack a$$ shots….though he has 20+ points in the first half

Dirk with an alley oop….now there's something you don't see every day.:eek: He got at least an inch off the ground.

ButtersSuki

Jeeez, it's busy in here lately!

GoldFour4

Knicks buying out Amare and letting him go. Should have done it earlier in the season. He's off to a contender now I'd imagine.

malistheman

malistheman wrote: »

Knicks buying out Amare and letting him go. Should have done it earlier in the season. He's off to a contender now I'd imagine.

leaning towards mavs by the sounds of it

ButtersSuki

malistheman wrote: »

Knicks buying out Amare and letting him go. Should have done it earlier in the season. He's off to a contender now I'd imagine.

Was just reading his stats as a Knick - 17ppg and 7rpg. Given the injuries and his on court trouble with Melo, they're impressive numbers. I thought his production was way lower than that.

For Forks Sake

Rumours of Larry Sanders being bought out by Milwaukee, could be a useful pickup for someone provided he doesn't decide he's doing something daft like retiring to Bangladesh to farm mushrooms. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2366315-larry-sanders-latest-news-buyout-rumors-speculation-surrounding-bucks-star

buyer95

Amare to Dallas is done. Best of luck big fella

jesus kobes claiming that the entire lockout was orchestrated to prevent the lakers making moves :D

ButtersSuki

Dragic telling the Suns he won't resign :eek: so that pouts Isiah Thomas in play as Suns can't really let Dragic walk for free.

Nets getting busy with possible Joe Johnson to Detroit for Brandon Jennings (contract dump) and Lopez to OKC trades are on the table again.

Last few days of trade deadline should see some crazy sheeeeeet go down as usual.

GoldFour4

Yeah apparently the Rockets are very keen to get Dragic back after letting him walk a few years ago. He'll want a big deal in the offseason though which is going to hurt the Rockets cap. Can see Donatas Motiejūnas being involved in any trade anyway. Ryan McDonagh is a good GM so will be interesting to see how he handles it.

padraig_f

Useful graph here showing the value of Dragic's Bird rights, which teams would be trading for a right to offer him:
Report: Suns will try to trade Goran Dragic, Celtics and Kings show interest

worth an extra $28m over 5 years, assuming he got a max deal.

I guess it was leaked by Dragic's agent, he wants the $28m guaranteed, he just doesn't want it from the Suns.

buyer95

Melo shutting it down for the rest of the season. Knicks enter complete tank mode(which I am more than happy to see.) Knicks have been 0-13 since Melo has been out. The NBA, where amazing happens.

ButtersSuki

buyer95 wrote: »

Melo shutting it down for the rest of the season. Knicks enter complete tank mode(which I am more than happy to see.) Knicks have been 0-13 since Melo has been out. The NBA, where amazing happens.

Melo. Where winning happens.

Oh, wait….

D2D

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Melo. Where money happens.

Oh, wait….

FYP:pac:

buyer95

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Melo. Where winning happens.

Oh, wait….

This season is not on Melo. Blame Phil, Fisher, Dolan or whoever but the Knicks have not been terrible due to Melo. Yeah sure he took the money, but this season is not on Melo. I'm not going to be watching the Knicks much the rest of the season but Atleast we've cleared decks and can try and rebuild properly, and hopefully snag a good draft pick.

me and the biz

Rumours of the wolves working to bring back Garnett... be a bit mad to see him back there

limerickfc

Any predictions on any trades likely to go down over the next 5 to 6 hours?

GoldFour4

Not sure really. The Phoenix situation with Goran is a disaster. He's gone from being a player who was liked throughout the league for his passion to coming across like a temper tantrum throwing child. Apparently he threw an awful fit at practice yesterday.

Him going to Houston could be a massive game changer though. Would take so much pressure off Harden as he'd have someone who could create plays for him. Gonna be an interesting evening anyway.

stuchyg

Lopez to OKC? Dragic leaves Phoenix. Allen signs with Caves to reform the real big 3

me and the biz

me and the biz wrote: »

Rumours of the wolves working to bring back Garnett... be a bit mad to see him back there

could be to help the young guys ala Gerald Wallace in boston. by all accounts the guy is still loved there jalen rose maintains that he will get a percentage of the ownership when he retires

malistheman

malistheman wrote: »

Not sure really. The Phoenix situation with Goran is a disaster. He's gone from being a player who was liked throughout the league for his passion to coming across like a temper tantrum throwing child. Apparently he threw an awful fit at practice yesterday.

Him going to Houston could be a massive game changer though. Would take so much pressure off Harden as he'd have someone who could create plays for him. Gonna be an interesting evening anyway.

apparently he wants no part of houston only the lakers or knicks and they have **** all to give back

stuchyg wrote: »

Lopez to OKC? Dragic leaves Phoenix. Allen signs with Caves to reform the real big 3

ray allen? he's far from big 3 material at this stage

arron afflalo gone to the blazers

edit: him and alonzo gee for will barton,victor claver a second round pick and a 2016 lottery protected pick

javale mcgee and a first rounder via okc to philly.

denver clearing out

brook lopez-reggie jackson deal done okc rumoured to be trying to get norris cole now