The Official NBA Season Thread: USA Setting Up for a SFA

[rolaholic]

Magic seems to be on team #NoExcuses for Boston

 

[B Sox]

Wolves are NOT on the no excuses list. No one has these expectations for them to win the chip.

No excuses list are the Bucks, Celtics, Clippers and Suns. Thats it. They MADE their teams to go all in and win this season. Nuggets aint on the no excuses list, if they lose this year and add another superstar next year then yeah, add them.

The Goober trade ABSOLUTELY put them all in. They gave up all draft capital. They are tied for best record in the west.

Leaving them off the list is crazy.

 

[aepps20]

Yeah add the Dubs to the #NoExcuses. There was a lot of delusional slurping before the season.

A lot of them went AWOL too

Scary hours and league is F is what I was told

 

[broncos19dm]

 

[elpablo21]

Berry Bozier Back in respectable colors

 

[amitt5504]

Berry Bozier Back in respectable colors

Perfect opportunity to pull up in the red but nope

 

[rolaholic]

 

[Brownstone]

Terry Rozier is so good at basketball, my favorite player when watching the hornets

Heat do it again

 

[SORIANOTRON]

Bol Bol does move more fluid with the ball though

 

[sohi 23]

I just got scolded by sohi 23 about not giving Anthony Davis his due

Automatic no excuses

Pretty sure you implied Lauri was better than AD so as the resident ad defender on this site I had to say something.

Ad 25/12 nightly, best defensive player in the world and he’s finally learned how to navigate double teams to become a true offensive engine. Lakers roster and front office is failing ad this year but even if they fail it won’t be his fault. This is the best he’s ever looked as a laker. He’s finally become the undisputed best player on the team (even tho we all know Lebron will turn it up when it gets serious, word to the ist )

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Pretty sure you implied Lauri was better than AD so as the resident ad defender on this site I had to say something.

Ad 25/12 nightly, best defensive player in the world and he’s finally learned how to navigate double teams to become a true offensive engine. Lakers roster and front office is failing ad this year but even if they fail it won’t be his fault. This is the best he’s ever looked as a laker. He’s finally become the undisputed best player on the team (even tho we all know Lebron will turn it up when it gets serious, word to the ist )

Not better just that they wouldn’t trade for any of your guys

Sorry sohi
Sorry sohi
Sorry sohi
Sorry sohi
Sorry sohi

Ad is having a great year
Ad is having a great year
As is having a great year
Ad is having a great year
As is having a great year

 

[osh kosh bosh]

b

Bol Bol is 7-5?

Also:

"All these idiots say I was comparing them, I wasn't comparing

...actually I WAS comparing"

Lolwut?

 

[Blue Mamba]

Why would the Heat

Right now, at this moment, how/why are people picking the Heat to make the Finals?

Spoelstra? 34.5 year old Jimmy Butler?

Made the Finals in 2020, was one shot away from making the 2022 Finals, made it last year with an “overachieving” team. Not hard to believe they could do it again

 

[dacomeup]

Erupt’s Week 14 No Excuse Power Rankings

1. Celtics (best team in the league)
2. Bucks (Dame, Giannis got his Coach)
3. Clippers (Balling since the Harden trade)
4. Minny (Best WC team all season)
5. OKC (MVP candidate)
6. Denver (Jokic FG %)
7. Philly (Embiid)
8. Knicks (OG)
9. Suns (Getting the big 3 healthy)
10. Miami (Scary Hours)

Actually not the list I was expecting from you . Move Philly and a Phoenix up above #4 and I agree. Move OKC down too. They’re ahead of schedule.

 

[rolaholic]

 

[aepps20]

I really appreciate how this thread has embraced conservative values. NO EXCUSES, NO HAND OUTS, NO GREEN NEW DEAL, No means NO.

If you're broke and ugly, NO EXCUSES.

If you lost rent money on doing da under, NO EXCUSES

If you have to use BLACK OR WHITE ICE on your hair, NO EXCUSES.

 

[HIM]

Actually not the list I was expecting from you

 

[Arthur Shelby]

 

[dacomeup]

I thought you were going to troll way heavier

 

[had pants]

 

[Rootin4EverybodyBlack]

Miami needs to be higher up the no excuses list. This perennial underdog b.s. is getting old.

 

[B Sox]

Miami needs to be higher up the no excuses list. This perennial underdog b.s. is getting old.

Them and the Cs should be tied right up at the top. The 2 teams are in it every year.

 

[rolaholic]

Miami needs to be higher up the no excuses list. This perennial underdog b.s. is getting olold.

It's not the team who says/does this though

Jimmy tells everyone at the start of each season what the goal is.

It's everybody else who loves to overlook them or talk up everybody else's odds.

Every year it's the Celtics, Sixers and Bucks dominating the in-season discussion only for folks to still be surprised when Miami holds their own and gives teams hell in the playoffs.

They've always been confident in what they can achieve if you ask them

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

It's not the team who says/does this though

Jimmy tells everyone at the start of each season what the goal is.

It's everybody else that loves to overlook them or talk up everybody else's odds.

They've always been confident in what they can achieve if you ask them

A lot of us are guilty of this lol

 

[Cashflow]

Miami needs to be higher up the no excuses list. This perennial underdog b.s. is getting old.

No No No! We’re not supposed to be here. You ALL said this was barely a play-in team that was going to miss Gabe Vincent and Max Strus’ production.

Satisfied with this group just making the first round. We did not make THE LIST!