The Official NBA Season Thread: Season Starts Now

[HIM]

Am I supposed to know who Beyonce is?

 

[ill steelo]

he was 11.3 per 100 possessions for his career. In his peak season only Shaq attempted more per 100 possessions, and only by like a shade.

this was in a league where more physicality was generally allowed on the perimeter.


You think he should have gotten more FTA than prime Shaq?

Y
E
S

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Y
E
S

I find this highly improbable,

Prime James Harden the ultimate foul drawing grifter had 14.7 at peak.

Allen Iverson is supposed to get to that number, shooting the same % of rim shots as harden
in a league with more perimeter contact allowed, and no BS foul drawing tricks?

 

[MVP]

The biggest myth in the NBA “ The West was a gauntlet “

Explain? Elite teams and players (I think like 70%+ of the all NBA selections for Bron's East tenure were from the West. The

 

[freeze]

Goat.

 

[wavycrocket]

he was 11.3 per 100 possessions for his career. In his peak season only Shaq attempted more per 100 possessions, and only by like a shade.

this was in a league where more physicality was generally allowed on the perimeter.


You think he should have gotten more FTA than prime Shaq?

Yep

Like whatever the refs thought of AI, it didn't seem to inhibit their ability to give him foul calls.

He got more foul calls than anyone not named Shaq, more foul calls than any other perimeter player.

how many more should he have gotten?

Yes. More

 

[Based Jesus]

Am I supposed to know who Beyonce is?

Solange's sister

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Yep




Yes. More

This is like when old heads would say stuff like "yah Kareem could make skyhooks from the 3 point line"

older we get the longer the walk to school was.

 

[wavycrocket]

This is like when old heads would say stuff like "yah Kareem could make skyhooks from the 3 point line"

older we get the longer the walk to school was.

AI should’ve gotten to the line a lil more = Kareem could make Skyhooks 3s



The debate you are fishing for isn’t going to come.

So once again, YEP!

 

[king j]

Explain? Elite teams and players (I think like 70%+ of the all NBA selections for Bron's East tenure were from the West. The

Cant be a gauntlet when 2 teams make up majority of the finals appearances from said conference and some years those 2 teams didn’t lose more than 4 games and couple of those years they swept the conference

Saying the West was a gauntlet was always a way to discredit what Bron was doing in the East even though the West was always a 2 team conference.

 

[broncos19dm]

Nice pickup

 

[ballinsam23]

Another cornerstone.

 

[elpablo21]

No excuses

 

[MVP]

Cant be a gauntlet when 2 teams make up majority of the finals appearances from said conference and some years those 2 teams didn’t lose more than 4 games and couple of those years they swept the conference

Saying the West was a gauntlet was always a way to discredit what Bron was doing in the East even though the West was always a 2 team conference.

The East was straight trash during Bron's tenure, that's just a fact. Which made it even more egregious when he linked with the next best player in the conference in Miami

 

[antidope]

That's a great pickup. Allows AD to keep being soft and running from being the 5

 

[king j]

No excuses

 

[baik]

He getting married?

 

[king j]

The East was straight trash during Bron's tenure, that's just a fact. Which made it even more egregious when he liked when the next best player in the conference in Miami

Both things can be true East was trash & The West wasn’t a gauntlet

 

[elpablo21]

The No Excuses list isn't a short one

 

[broncos19dm]

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Yep




Yes. More

im not fishing for anything. im just trying to understand, but I get it now.

it's pretty clear you reason for thinking this, is based around emotions and feelings.
and not any kind of reasoned deduction.

you simply feel like it should be that way in the face of all available evidence.



Which is fine, like all the old heads, the older we get, the longer the walk to school was.

 

[B Sox]

Those Pistons teams were legit good.
Won a chip in 04.
Lost in G7 of the finals in 05.
Won 64 games and lost in ECF in 06.
Lost in ECF in 07.
59 wins and lost in ECF in 08.

Miami won a chip in 06.

Then Celtics came along and won the chip in 08.

That’s a different non-Cavs team from the East winning it all every other year.

 

[broncos19dm]

 

[lawdog1]

Congratulations Brosizzlew30.23

 

[wavycrocket]

Cant be a gauntlet when 2 teams make up majority of the finals appearances from said conference and some years those 2 teams didn’t lose more than 4 games and couple of those years they swept the conference

Saying the West was a gauntlet was always a way to discredit what Bron was doing in the East even though the West was always a 2 team conference.

the west is a gauntlet, because of **** like this:



Chris Paul and the Clippers (a 56 win 3 seed) upsetting the Defending Champion Spurs (Also a 56 win team, a 6 seed)….meeting in the FIRST ROUND.

And more **** like this. Most years, the 7th to 8th seed in the west has to win between 46-50 games. While in the East, it is about 38 to 43.

And these:

Plus the west just dominates by damn near every single thing you can count, for the past 25 years lol.