OFFICIAL NBA 2017-2018 Off-Season Thread

[trynafeelmink]

I think the expectation for OKC was that they were at least going to break 50 wins, come on man.

The expectation was that they would finish a 3/4th seed, they're a tiebreaker or two away from that happening & people are acting as if they underperformed

 

[everysingletime]

I think it'd be tiresome having to guard Westbrook. He's relentless. I'd rather guard Lillard.

 

[B Sox]

A few things, this OKC team is clearly better
2) Carmelo Anthony played nothing like an All-Star this year, Nor last year for that matter.
3) The entire conference improved, OKC with 47 Last year was a sixth seed. Denver is sitting out with 47 Wins, Hell the 10th place Clippers have more wins at 42 then the 8th seeded Blazers did last year. As you can see by seeding 3-9 this year Things in the West became more difficult. So no I don't knock OKC for their seeding.

You don't think it's at all disappointing that they weren't a better seed than the Jazz, Blazers, or Pelicans? Come on man.

 

[second2nonee]

jazz out here playing like they don't want home court. the hell is this.

 

[Peep Game]

There were predictions putting OKC at #2.

 

[trynafeelmink]

You don't think it's at all disappointing that they weren't a better seed than the Jazz, Blazers, or Pelicans? Come on man.

No I'm Not Dissapointed that they Tied with three of the teams & lost tie breakers. The Only team i didn't expect to be in the mix is Utah & they've surprised everyone.

 

[Moheezy]

Youngest ever to record a triple double

First team ever to end the season on a 16 game winning streak

Took that title away from BBB

 

[hardens beard]

jazz out here playing like they don't want home court. the hell is this.

 

[Moheezy]

Wall didn't play against the Hawks. Team isn't better without Wall.

Betting on the Raptors was always a fools errand. That's why it was so hilarious when all the anti-Bron dudes in here were swearing by them.

Team is definitely not better without Wall but they are definitely mot better than the Raps.

Only betting on them against Bron is fools errand but they can take on anyone else. Especially with Boston crippled.

 

[trynafeelmink]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...m-by-team-record-predictions-and-playoff-odds
https://www.si.com/nba/2017/10/13/n...rence-standings-warriors-cavs-celtics-rockets
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...ard-predictions-2017-18-nba-season/769030001/
http://www.nba.com/2017-18-season-preview-oklahoma-city-thunder#/
http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/projected-2017-18-records-standings-nba-team/story?id=49080322

This was a simple Google Search... Outside of "barbershop" talk nobody had OKC being favorites or even runner ups to winning a ring. Most people had them as a 3-4 seed, they are 2.5 games back from being right where they were projected to start the season.

& against any team not named Hou or GS, they have a very good chance of advancing. they aren't underachieving they are what people said they were gonna be, a top heavy team with a lack of scoring outside their big 3. a bad bench & now that Roberson is out a very mid tier defense. They are what most people thought they were gonna be.

This was just a few of the Websites & their predictions for OKC coming into the season....

 

[second2nonee]

my jazz hatred has rekindled.

 

[ill steelo]

Giving Wilson those minutes were absolutely a mistake, but i can't blame him too much for not continuing to try & attack Gibson off the Pick & Roll rather than give Jokic the ball To go one on one With Taj on him. Murray bricks shots off the pick & roll & people are complaining about Jokic being "frozen" out. He put the ball in his best players hand & tried to work offense out of it, as he's been doing & it just didn't work.

Part of... coaching is making things easier on your players. Not just throwing them the rock against good defenders and telling them to make it happen, you get diminishing returns like that... which is exactly what happened in this game.

Minnesota is a bottom 5 defensive team and Malone’s strategy down the stretch was to go at their best post defender.... in the post? With Chandler out there shrinking the floor on top of that. Silly any way you slice it.

 

[buc em]

Donovan Mitchell out here down 17 on 3-17 shooting

Cool sweatshirt though bro

 

[second2nonee]

damn. now i wish the nuggets won if the jazz are gonna lose like this

we out here getting the 1 seed only for the warriors to have an easier path

 

[noblekane]

clippers mascot name is chubby chuck?

 

[P C H]

This was just a few of the Websites & their predictions for OKC coming into the season....

I randomly clicked the USA Today link and they projected OKC to finish w/59 wins.

59.

59 was too high, but all I'm saying is 50 wins. Most people projected at least that for them. They didn't even break 50. In fact, they barely got to 48. They CLEARLY underperformed, but keep being disingenuous and pushing your agenda. Just because the West was mediocre thereby allowing OKC to finish in the 6th seed, doesn't mean they didn't underperform

No matter how you slice it, they did not get PG and Melo to win under 50 games. Stop bull****ting bro

 

[hardens beard]

Green needs 6 more attempts to break the 3PA record.

 

[noblekane]

Hot dogs wrapped in t-shirts.

woah

thats whats up

 

[k3stacks]

Wiz either going to knock off Toronto which will lead to them never being taking serious again
or
Wiz going to self destruct and literally come to fisticuffs with each other in the locker room.
Im hoping for the upset

 

[chrisftdot]

I randomly clicked the USA Today link and they projected OKC to finish w/59 wins.

59.

59 was too high, but all I'm saying is 50 wins. Most people projected at least that for them. They didn't even break 50. In fact, they barely got to 48. They CLEARLY underperformed, but keep being disingenuous and pushing your agenda. Just because the West was mediocre thereby allowing OKC to finish in the 6th seed, doesn't mean they didn't underperform

No matter how you slice it, they did not get PG and Melo to win under 50 games. Stop bull****ting bro

They're gonna finish 4th if POR wins, which looks likely

 

[second2nonee]

thunder are gonna throttle the jazz

 

[JD617]

There were predictions putting OKC at #2.

There was a prediction of them winning 60 games.

It was Dipset General but still, if other NTers can use ridiculous opinions in their favor then so can I.

 

[addict4sneakers]

Dame is tough man.

He should be first team all NBA

 

[P C H]

They're gonna finish 4th if POR wins, which looks likely

Seeding is a product of the west as a whole being down this year.

Idk, maybe I'm tripping. I didn't look into OKC's preseason predictions and what not. Maybe people were that low on them to the point where they had them winning under 50 games. If that's the case then I'll take my L but everything to me suggested that they were pegged to win at least 50 games.

 

[youngthundercat]

Lowkey dissapointed at how the west seeded turned out.


I wanted thunder vs warriors
Wolves vs blazers
Spurs vs NO