2016 Official NBA Off-Season Thread: Former Greatness

[casper90403]

The city of Baltimore Olympic Hero is Michael Phelps.....

Melo can't even be the best back home 

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But yeah..

 

[casper90403]

Spoiler: All LOSERS

 

 

 
 

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[AEA18]

22 ESPN/TNT/ABC games for Boston :x

we byke

 

[pjdabullsfan]

OKC got a Xmas game?


Westbrook is still a big draw like that huh

Russ got the Juice

 

[Maximus Meridius]

Crazy that this will be the 1st time Lebron is highest paid player in the league.

 

[antidope]

Well looks like I'm going to three Spurs games in a three week window this year. The Philly Brooklyn and NYK games are too close together.

 

[703 hwy]

Melo had to get locked up long term. The jig woulda been up after about 2 yrs.

 

[jumpman91023]

Highschool Chip
NCAA Chip
Olympic Gold everywhere
NBA nothing. Definition of a Loser. 

'You must be winning" Zyzz, "teach me."

Being a nuggets fan, have we forgotten that Melo's best teammate was an out of prime Billups? And now he has to rely of Rose to stay healthy smh

 

[goldenface]

Being a nuggets fan, have we forgotten that Melo's best teammate was an out of prime Billups?   at the tail end of prime Allen Iverson. And now he has to rely of Rose to stay healthy smh

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Being a nuggets fan, have we forgotten that Melo's best teammate was an out of prime Billups? And now he has to rely of Rose to stay healthy smh

And completely ignore the other nuggets? Had a formidable deep team, with an assortment of bigs and wings

 

[jumpman91023]

Billups was better fit than AI was. I was a huge AI fan but every plan the took turns on who would shoot, **** was awful. But by having a TRUE point guard in Billups with practically the same squad we went to the WCF and gave it away.

 

[jumpman91023]

And completely ignore the other nuggets? Had a formidable deep team, with an assortment of bigs and wings

Post injury KMart, Nene, an even more immature JR smith, rookie Ty Lawson, Birdman, Dahntay Jones(got replaced by Affalo).

Not taking anything from the TEAM but as far as his best teammate its easily a out of prime Billups.

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Yeah you're right I was just saying I wouldn't downplay that team even with its shortcomings

Overall he hasn't had the help that other stars have I'll give him that. So the criticisms seem double standard and yes we all know that he forced his way to New York

 

[jumpman91023]

Yeah you're right I was just saying I wouldn't downplay that team even with its shortcomings

Overall he hasn't had the help that other stars have I'll give him that. So the criticisms seem double standard and yes we all know that he forced his way to New York

He hasn't but you know how it goes.

2013 playoffs:

Carmelo goes 15-29(.517%) in a closeout game has 39 points, 7 rebounds and 3 turnovers, he didn't pass the ball enough

Durant goes 5-21(.238%) in a closeout game has 21 points, 8 rebounds and 7 turnovers, he didn't have enough help

**** gets comical after awhile.

 

[carver]

OKC / Minny Xmas night will be fun

OKC got a Xmas game?


Westbrook is still a big draw like that huh

KAT/Wiggins/Lavine/Dunn

NBA preparing the audience for the wolves

 

[atransta]

He hasn't but you know how it goes.

2013 playoffs:

Carmelo goes 15-29(.517%) in a closeout game has 24 points, 7 rebounds and 3 turnovers, he didn't pass the ball enough

Durant goes 5-21(.238%) in a closeout game has 21 points, 8 rebounds and 7 turnovers, he didn't have enough help

**** gets comical after awhile.

OKC media protected KD a lot 

 

[Proposition Joe]

Westbrook was the scapegoat, no matter what happened it was always westbrooks fault. Either he should've played better or he should've made better decisions. Even though sometimes that was true KD seemed to never get any blame.

 

[Air Pope]

 

Yeah you're right I was just saying I wouldn't downplay that team even with its shortcomings

Overall he hasn't had the help that other stars have I'll give him that. So the criticisms seem double standard and yes we all know that he forced his way to New York

He hasn't but you know how it goes.

2013 playoffs:

Carmelo goes 15-29(.517%) in a closeout game has 24 points, 7 rebounds and 3 turnovers, he didn't pass the ball enough

Durant goes 5-21(.238%) in a closeout game has 21 points, 8 rebounds and 7 turnovers, he didn't have enough help

**** gets comical after awhile.

This is NOT the place to tell the truth.

 

[aepps20]

OKC media protected KD a lot 

No truer words have been spoken. I remember that series against the Clippers where Durant choked at the free throw line and the OKC media called him out. The next day the National Media and ESPN destroyed the OKC paper that called Durant Mr. Unreliable and the paper issued an apology. Can't wait to see this dude under the microscope. Everything was always Russy's fault but next year he'll be the scapegoat for the first time.

 

[Quincy McCall]

Heat have 13 national televised games, no Christmas game for first time in 8 years(Goin' to be fun). Also the first time since 96' not to have a Olympic representative (Not counting Justise)

This rate, the cheap floor seats should start comin' in.

Who still gives them a outside chance to make the Playoffs tho?

I think Wade leaving probably hurts more post-season than anything, last years team was a really ill-fitting team(Not all on Wade). Dragic/Wade never worked, Bosh/Wade was statistically Heats worst duo, Wade also didn't benefit from the team nearly posting negatives across the board and Hassan also did better without both of Wade/Bosh

Still have some hard nosed defenders and guys who can run, they could be tweener's defensively and offensively. I wanna' say they could still be top 10 defensively, even w/o Bosh, some of the additions; JJohnson, Weber, Reed, Waiters are known to play good defense in certain spots and the mix of em' with Whiteside, Winslow, Richardson, Tyler Johnson and Spo could probably make a top 10 defensive team.

Offensively, a few guys could step up but none of them really talented enough to be good second options, going to have to hope Whiteside/Dragic really clicks. If that happens then I'm gully enough to believe Josh Richardson or Tyler Johnson could step up and be a decent 13-15 ppg third option and a decent 3&D player at the 2. If Bosh is out then I could see Derrick Williams starting and trying to replace Deng's role late last season of pushin' with Dragic, after all it's all Williams is really good for. If the defense can be good enough for them to run often then I would take a flyer on them possibly being able to be a tweener or even 8-18ish depending on how much Dragic. Winslow as well, is just as good a stable for the transition game, where almost all his pts came from at Duke

If Bosh were to play and willingfully come off the bench, I could def see it, but I'll fold.

I think it'll look like

Dragic/Tyler/Winslow/Williams/Whiteside- Weber/Waiters/Rich/James Johnson/Reed or Weber/Waiters/Richardson/Bosh/Reed but who knows, as long as Waiters doesn't start (Really doubt it)

[/UnHeatBHZ]

Rich really needs to embrace the 3(I think I remember someone arguing with me about this on account that Lebron is a bad match-up for 99.7% of the league)

Some unproven D-League guys in Reed and Weber but Heat have been showing what development can do these last 2 years

Watch out for Weber,

not gon' say it no mo'

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Chris Paul shutting down durant still flys under the radar

Brooks should have been fired that night

 

[aepps20]

Chris Paul shutting down durant still flys under the radar

Brooks should have been fired that night

Delly pretty much did the same thing on Wednesday.

 

[Lovetohate3000]

OKC media protected KD a lot 

if they didn't he would've left when given the chance

 

[goldenface]

 

[jumpman91023]

OKC media protected KD a lot 

This is NOT the place to tell the truth.

I forgot where I was at, youre right