* Offiical NBA Off-Season Thread: I'll give one of my damn kidney's for these Melo rumors to stop *

[Deleted member 38182]

Originally Posted by youngmoney

im down rck

lets do yahoo tho...

You got it.
Has anyone tried ESPN???? I like their football over yahoo's...

 

[do be doo]

Not really into all that Fantasy stuff.

  

Last years 1st NT mock draft was dope tho.

 

 

[Deleted member 38182]

^i second that notion

 

[pmatic]

Kobe needs to sit and rest. 

 

[kiddin like jason]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/nor

New Orleans 90, Miami 76
Light work.

 

[duba169]

yeah but wade and that other guy weren't playing

how did CP play?

 

[pmatic]

Originally Posted by Do Be Doo

Originally Posted by PMatic

Kobe needs to sit and rest. 

damn is KOBE really "2-22 in preseason overall."???


Game 7 was the down fall of KOBE.

  

He made a shot so 3-23.

 

[do be doo]

Originally Posted by PMatic

Kobe needs to sit and rest. 

damn is KOBE really "2-22 in preseason overall."???


Game 7 was the down fall of KOBE.

  

 

[japanair21]

Originally Posted by Kiddin Like Jason

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/nor

New Orleans 90, MiamiToronto 76

Light work.

Marco with a good game,

Jrue with the trip-doub in pre-season?

Roy showing how he can be an elite big,

. 16/14/4 with 7 blocks in 30 minutes?

SICK.

 

[Deleted member 38182]

^now that is what im talking about from Big Roy

 

[steve cash]

Originally Posted by Im Not You

Javale McGee is some sort of science experiment.

Dude is 7'2 (possibly still growing they say). He plucked a guard near mid court...went around his back...evaded another guard and finished on the fast break with a dunk.

Who does that?

dude gonna beast this season, hes still raw but dude has a lot of potential.

 

[steve cash]

you guys made a fantasy league? i wanted to play with yall

 

[mister916]

Roy was beasting tonight. So glad I picked him up on my fantasy team.

 

[japanair21]

Originally Posted by Mister916

Roy was beasting tonight. So glad I picked him up on my fantasy team.

For my first draft this year I actually got auto-drafted because I can't get Yahoo! to work on my computer for some reason, but my roster actually turned out pretty damn good for an auto-draft, even though I was pissed because it was the first time I ever got the first overall pick, but this is how it turned out.

KD, Monta, David West, Blatche, Garnett, Hibbert, Brand, Diaw, George Hill, Lou Will, DeMar, Outlaw, and Omri.

Some picks weren't that good, I would have much rather had Kevin Love over David West, and Brand ain't my cup of tea.

 

[h3at23]

STEIN_LINE_HQ Marc Stein

Two more familiar NBA names offered jobs in China while waiting for something to materialize at home: Vet guards Jamaal Tinsley & Mike James

 

[airjordan jb23]

Hmmm, haven't heard those 2 names in awhile.

 

[proshares]

If Kev's in this, we're going for 2nd place. Waiver wire guru over there has me pulling my hair out sometimes

I prefer Sunday night on Yahoo (it's football day for everyone JA) but if we do it on NT, I'm not gonna complain.

 

[CP1708]

^
But we want to play the best of the best, waiver wire or not. 

Chester wants Yahoo as well. 



So uh.....Roy will be getting along with Andre Miller just fine eh?  Sure, ok. 

Roy Says "I want the ball": There is almost no doubt that Brandon Roy is the Portland Trail Blazers' best player, so hearing him call for the ball more is welcome news. The problem with the concept is that Roy is hardly durable enough for the bulk of the offense to flow through him every night, even though he's the best option the team has offensively.

"I want the ball a lot more," Roy said to Jason Quick of The Oregonian. "I want to be maximized every game."

What Roy really wants is to handle the ball more, something he did a lot of as a rookie, however he has slowly transitioned into a more traditional two-guard role as Portland has brought in true point guards.

"That's a position that I'm strong with, with the basketball," explained Roy. "I'm extremely confident with it."

Portland has not looked very sharp through four preseason games, mainly because they have yet to install their offensive system, something Roy believes he can and should have a role in honing.

"We haven't really put in the offense we're used to working with," Roy said. "The first three games, we didn't even have an offensive play. We're not really the type of team that plays loose. I don't play loose. I kind of need some plays, some organization there. That's some of the reason why I think we're not panicking, because we're not really running plays yet."

Andre must love reading this. 

 

[pmatic]

NBA whistles while its players work

NEW YORK – The fans wanted this, the NBA emperor tells everyone. David Stern tosses out some vague claim of market research to demand of his players what the commissioner has never demanded of himself: a control of his temper, the grace to react instantly to the incompetence of his officials with a robotic restraint.

That’s the irony: NBA employees have long described Stern’s private disposition as something that could make Rasheed Wallace blush with embarrassment. Nevertheless, Stern delivers a desperate mandate that does nothing but try to cover the flaws of his referees and remind the rank-and-file union members they’re ultimately under his control in this labor fight, ultimately at the mercy of his whim.

Just beyond the shadows of the NBA’s Olympic Tower Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden, Boston’s Jermaine O’Neal drew his second technical in two nights for moderately reacting to a referee’s foul call. Kevin Garnett was given a technical moments later for trying to show an official how a New York Knicks player had hit him, and was then ejected for laughing over the legitimacy of that tech.

Finally, the Knicks’ Timofey Mozgov muttered to himself in Russian, and these lost, young referees carrying out orders teed him up, too.

“These new rules are very, very excessive,

 

[pmatic]

Lamar Odom got called for a bogus technical last night too. After he got whistled for a foul, he left his arm in the air and got a technical.

 

[CP1708]

Stern is dumb for trying this again.  Have some people use common sense.  It can't be this hard. 

Imagine playing in an Overtime game in the playoffs and have people not be able to respond AT ALL to any single call. 

  I don't care about complaining, let the players do what they need to do, just try to keep it to a minimum.  Guy complains for 10 seconds, fine.  Guy complains for 30 seconds, tech him.  Waves his arms once, let it go, waves it 57 times, tech him.  It's not rocket science here. 

 

[T0INE]

 @ Heinsohn.

Based on the new no complaining about calls edict Stat should've been hit with a technical in that vid.

 

[pmatic]

Another ridiculous one from Wednesday.

 

[shuges]

Originally Posted by CP1708

let the players do what they need to do, just try to keep it to a minimum.  Guy complains for 10 seconds, fine.  Guy complains for 30 seconds, tech him.  Waves his arms once, let it go, waves it 57 times, tech him.  It's not rocket science here. 

Pretty much.

 

[duba169]

the one on mozgov was weird too. he was walking away and muttering in russian.