2017/18 NBA Thread

The Juggler said:

tempo_n_groove said:

No Coder said:

Poncier said:

crookedcross said:

All those LA bums everybody raved about after one good game after the trade

The Cavs' mid season acquisitions tonight:

Hill: 3 points

Hood: 2 points

Nance: 0 points

Clarkson: DNP CD

That's some fine GM work.

The have certainly not performed, but I question the Cavs system as more of the problem. For the most part, it's LBJ bouncing a ball with 4 guys standing around waiting for a pass, similar to what Houston referred back to in Game 1 of their series (Harden /Paul with ball and everyone else watching).
 A good team (Boston) will beat that. Cavs should win the next game at home, but Boston's confidence has probably never been higher. Can't see them losing this series now being up 2-0

I agree with this.  

When the Cavs have actually played like a team they are lights out but that isn't often... 

The Celts are playing hungry and as a team and deserve to win against the Cavs.

Game 2 was over after Lebron got belted.  They would have won that game.  The rest of his team should have stepped up because LBJ was clearly out of it.

The rest of the team stinks.

Poncier said:

Love is good, but not always consistent.
Thompson plays hard.
Korver can shoot but can be exploited bigtime on the defensive end.

And that's basically it. Occasionally Smith with have a solid game, but the team is really like 2.5-3 bona fide NBA players and a lot of subpar spare parts. None of the 4 mid season acquisitions is very good, they'd have been better off trying to make a run with what they had...Dwyane Wade would have at least shown up in the playoffs and Crowder would give max effort.
Its probably as bad a supporting cast as LeBron has had since his 2007 finals trip. The trades that Altman thought would help keep LeBron in Cleveland probably will end up having the opposite effect and sealing the deal for his departure.

Cliffy6745 said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Poncier said:

Love is good, but not always consistent.
Thompson plays hard.
Korver can shoot but can be exploited bigtime on the defensive end.

And that's basically it. Occasionally Smith with have a solid game, but the team is really like 2.5-3 bona fide NBA players and a lot of subpar spare parts. None of the 4 mid season acquisitions is very good, they'd have been better off trying to make a run with what they had...Dwyane Wade would have at least shown up in the playoffs and Crowder would give max effort.
Its probably as bad a supporting cast as LeBron has had since his 2007 finals trip. The trades that Altman thought would help keep LeBron in Cleveland probably will end up having the opposite effect and sealing the deal for his departure.

LBJ sucks as a GM and Lue sucks as a coach.  There I've finally said it...

You mean Lebron sucks as GM and coach?

The Juggler said:

Poncier said:

But Mark Jackson told us last night Lue was a great coach.

Jackson is horrible. I pretty much hate all of the NBA tv guys

The Juggler said:

tempo_n_groove said:

The Juggler said:

Poncier said:

But Mark Jackson told us last night Lue was a great coach.

Jackson is horrible. I pretty much hate all of the NBA tv guys

I love Van Gundy and Mark team up.  Oh man.

I've mixed thoughts on Ryan Rucco...

I think Van Gundy is annoying too. Then you have Chris Weber and Reggie Miller over on TNT. Horrible.

I miss the days when NBC had the NBA. 

The Juggler said:

tempo_n_groove said:

The Juggler said:

tempo_n_groove said:

The Juggler said:

Poncier said:

But Mark Jackson told us last night Lue was a great coach.

Jackson is horrible. I pretty much hate all of the NBA tv guys

I love Van Gundy and Mark team up.  Oh man.

I've mixed thoughts on Ryan Rucco...

I think Van Gundy is annoying too. Then you have Chris Weber and Reggie Miller over on TNT. Horrible.

I miss the days when NBC had the NBA. 

I am just OK with miller.  I do like Webber though. 

I miss Craig Sager...

Much better opening montage/music on NBC too. John Tesh is a musical genius.

cutz said:

tempo_n_groove said:

GSW and Rockets G1 was not even a game.  Whomever mentioned above that it's all Harden dribbling then taking a 3 or passing off a grenade to a teammate is right.

I was wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy wrong about the Rockets.  The Warriors play solid team basketball.  The rest of the league needs to take notice and the Celts may be on that short list.

I'd throw the 76ers on that list too. I heard announcers saying late in the season the 76ers made more passes other then the GSW(I never looked it up). Not sure if they finished #2 or not but either way the 76ers do pass the ball around.

Will one of these Series go beyond 5 games?