Official 2016-2017 NBA Season Thread - NBA rules Chris Bosh has a career ending injury

[DCAllAfrican]

Austin Rivers is my favourite high school basketball player. Enamored with his game.

Ben Wallace doesn't get in but Tmac does

Stick with your dude.

It is so hard for people to understand how a favorite player can be a non star.

 

[captaintuxable]

Not surprised that TMac got in but just that he got in earlier than some more deserving candidates.

 

[Retroballer]

Austin Rivers is my favourite high school basketball player. Enamored with his game.

Ben Wallace doesn't get in but Tmac does

Is this where we try to pretend Ben Wallace is better than T-Mac?

 

[rbk93]

One of the best defensive bigs in recent history(with a ring) compared to an underachieving prolific scorer(like Melo).

 

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Is it TMACs fault that the teams he played on didn't have more success?

 

[everysingletime]

DC is out of his damn mind lol

 

[captaintuxable]

Is it TMACs fault that the teams he played on didn't have more success?

So had his teams had more success, he would be due more credit? I don't quite understand this line of thinking.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

So had his teams had more success, he would be due more credit? I don't quite understand this line of thinking.

So one person should get the majority of credit and blame in a team sport? Cool.

Which TMAC team lost to a team (in playoffs) that they were supposed to beat?

 

[Peep Game]

I love the John Wallet and Walls Fargo names

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

Stick with your dude.

It is so hard for people to understand how a favorite player can be a non star.

In a way it kinda reflects your own self esteem/image

 

[rolaholic]

So had his teams had more success, he would be due more credit? I don't quite understand this line of thinking.

So one person should get the majority of credit and blame in a team sport? Cool.

Which TMAC team lost to a team (in playoffs) that they were supposed to beat?

Only one I can think of is Utah the season hey went on that 20 game win streak

 

[captaintuxable]

So one person should get the majority of credit and blame in a team sport? Cool.

Criticism and acclaim has to be spread. I never thought one dude deserves all the blame/credit. TMac shares some of the blame for not getting to a Conference Finals/Finals when he was the man of his own team.

 

[rbk93]

So one person should get the majority of credit and blame in a team sport? Cool.

Which TMAC team lost to a team (in playoffs) that they were supposed to beat?

05 Mavericks and 07 Jazz.

 

[rbk93]

Only one I can think of is Utah the season hey went on that 20 game win streak

Yao went down with a season ending injury that year.  We could have won the series, but Houston wasn't favorites that year.

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

As long as you do your part you should be relatively slander free. But a guy like CPCheeks is often directly involved in his team's collapse

 

[ill steelo]

Austin Rivers is my favourite high school basketball player. Enamored with his game.

Ben Wallace doesn't get in but Tmac does

Is this where we try to pretend Ben Wallace is better than T-Mac?

Most DPOY awards ever, 15th all time blocks, NBA champ.

Both only had 7 real years.

He was just as effective at his role as Mac was, arguably more.

And every title team has been elite defensively, so don't act like scoring 30 is more important than locking the other team down.

Not saying you were going to say that, it's just something I've seen.

 

[art vandelay]

After a while will anyone really care about the HOF, to me it seems that if you are a marginally good to superstar caliber player and have been marketable for the league then you get in. Maybe not the first time, but eventually it'll come to you. Pretty soon, everyone will get in, get ready for HOF'er Raef LaFrentz 2021, you heard it hear first.

 

[art vandelay]

As long as you do your part you should be relatively slander free. But a guy like CPCheeks is often directly involved in his team's collapse

He gets killed in here, along with Blake.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

As long as you do your part you should be relatively slander free. But a guy like CPCheeks is often directly involved in his team's collapse

Tmac elevated his numbers in the playoffs though. So why are we blaming him?

 

[rbk93]

Tmac elevated his numbers in the playoffs though. So why are we blaming him?

Those numbers were misleading, he shied away from the moments in the clutch.

 

[Mr.Guy]

I gotta watch some videos of Zion, haven't seen any yet but heard he's a monster.

 

[antidope]

 

 

Austin Rivers is my favourite high school basketball player. Enamored with his game.

Ben Wallace doesn't get in but Tmac does

Is this where we try to pretend Ben Wallace is better than T-Mac?

Most DPOY awards ever, 15th all time blocks, NBA champ.

Both only had 7 real years.

He was just as effective at his role as Mac was, arguably more.

And every title team has been elite defensively, so don't act like scoring 30 is more important than locking the other team down.

Not saying you were going to say that, it's just something I've seen.

Besides Kawhi Leonard, I haven't seen anyone play as good of defense as Ben Wallace. That to me carries more weight than what T-Mac did.

 

[Mr.Guy]

Zion looks like a Shaq/Lebron hybrid. I hope he has a jump shot.

 

[ill steelo]

antidope word for word man.

 

[carver]

Zion gotta be at least 25