Re: NBA thread : Sun Feb 19, 2012 10:56 pm  

...it keeps going.

Re: NBA thread : Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:22 am  

We all did well in fantasy. I had Ilyasova 29 points and 25 rebounds. Lin coming up big. Melo missing all week as well. 6-2 win for me.

Re: NBA thread : Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:36 am  

Mark wrote:

We all did well in fantasy. I had Ilyasova 29 points and 25 rebounds. Lin coming up big. Melo missing all week as well. 6-2 win for me.

I'm just routinely getting 6-2 wins every week, shooting %'s + FT's let me down every single week.

Re: NBA thread : Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:25 pm  

we all did really well. i dropped aaron afflalo and he goes and hits 27 just how my luck as gone. Still a 7-1 win will do i slipped up against Emerals in our league didnt do my team for 4 days and lost 6-2. should get intrested 4 of the top 5 teams will be in our division

Re: NBA thread : Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:36 pm  

I haven't looked since early January I think, completely keep forgetting to look, pity as I'm doing my best to stay up and watch a bit of NBA.

Which brings me to a few things that are getting on my nerves. The Clippers against the Spurs was such a weird game, they start unbelievably, but the Spurs rallied back. Then they got back into it but the Spurs got a bit lucky with a few calls, there was one where Griffin was on the break, about to blast past Parker for a dunk, yet Parker effectively punched/slapped him in the face to get the foul, it should have been a flagrant IMO (why do Americans give attackers almost zero advantage?). Then there was the point where Foye (think it was Foye) had the ball on the perimeter, he dribbled round and Tony Parker clearly blocked him, but because Parker flopped, they gave an offensive foul. Just those couple of decisions could have won the game for the Clippers, they're so close to being elite, the more they play together the better they'll get, but they're in dire need of a 2 guard, if anybody decent is available - even if it's only 'til the end of the season - they should look to sign one, Butler is solid at the three, Blake and Jordan are brilliant inside, but they have a glaring weakness at the 2 in the 4th quarter.

Next up, the Thunder. Russell Westbrook is such a good player, yet he can be so frustrating to watch, he's a bit like Josh Smith. He has so much athletic ability, yet he pulls up for soft jumpers all the time, I think he forgets he's a point guard. The Thunder were immense last night, but if the Thunder are to go far in the playoffs, it will be on the back of Durant, Westbrook will have to start passing the ball a bit more IMO.

Re: NBA thread : Mon Feb 20, 2012 1:23 pm  

The best pun left for Jeremy Lin that's not been used is clearly "Peking Dunk"

Re: NBA thread : Mon Feb 20, 2012 1:39 pm  

Roddy B wrote:

I haven't looked since early January I think, completely keep forgetting to look, pity as I'm doing my best to stay up and watch a bit of NBA.

Which brings me to a few things that are getting on my nerves. The Clippers against the Spurs was such a weird game, they start unbelievably, but the Spurs rallied back. Then they got back into it but the Spurs got a bit lucky with a few calls, there was one where Griffin was on the break, about to blast past Parker for a dunk, yet Parker effectively punched/slapped him in the face to get the foul, it should have been a flagrant IMO (why do Americans give attackers almost zero advantage?). Then there was the point where Foye (think it was Foye) had the ball on the perimeter, he dribbled round and Tony Parker clearly blocked him, but because Parker flopped, they gave an offensive foul. Just those couple of decisions could have won the game for the Clippers, they're so close to being elite, the more they play together the better they'll get, but they're in dire need of a 2 guard, if anybody decent is available - even if it's only 'til the end of the season - they should look to sign one, Butler is solid at the three, Blake and Jordan are brilliant inside, but they have a glaring weakness at the 2 in the 4th quarter.

Next up, the Thunder. Russell Westbrook is such a good player, yet he can be so frustrating to watch, he's a bit like Josh Smith. He has so much athletic ability, yet he pulls up for soft jumpers all the time, I think he forgets he's a point guard. The Thunder were immense last night, but if the Thunder are to go far in the playoffs, it will be on the back of Durant, Westbrook will have to start passing the ball a bit more IMO.

The Clips wanted J.R Smith but he chose Linsanity over Lob city(and more money). I haven't really paid attention to the rest of the NBA that much, too much Linsanity at the moment. Up at 6 each morning to watch game front night before, can condense a whole game into 1 hour and a bit.

Re: NBA thread : Mon Feb 20, 2012 2:18 pm  

Roddy B wrote:

I haven't looked since early January I think, completely keep forgetting to look, pity as I'm doing my best to stay up and watch a bit of NBA.

Which brings me to a few things that are getting on my nerves. The Clippers against the Spurs was such a weird game, they start unbelievably, but the Spurs rallied back. Then they got back into it but the Spurs got a bit lucky with a few calls, there was one where Griffin was on the break, about to blast past Parker for a dunk, yet Parker effectively punched/slapped him in the face to get the foul, it should have been a flagrant IMO (why do Americans give attackers almost zero advantage?). Then there was the point where Foye (think it was Foye) had the ball on the perimeter, he dribbled round and Tony Parker clearly blocked him, but because Parker flopped, they gave an offensive foul. Just those couple of decisions could have won the game for the Clippers, they're so close to being elite, the more they play together the better they'll get, but they're in dire need of a 2 guard, if anybody decent is available - even if it's only 'til the end of the season - they should look to sign one, Butler is solid at the three, Blake and Jordan are brilliant inside, but they have a glaring weakness at the 2 in the 4th quarter.

Next up, the Thunder. Russell Westbrook is such a good player, yet he can be so frustrating to watch, he's a bit like Josh Smith. He has so much athletic ability, yet he pulls up for soft jumpers all the time, I think he forgets he's a point guard. The Thunder were immense last night, but if the Thunder are to go far in the playoffs, it will be on the back of Durant, Westbrook will have to start passing the ball a bit more IMO.

Westbrook is just still a SG playing at PG I think, but he's that good a player everyone will just accept that he'll never be a pass first PG. They've got such a good blend there though at the minute, Ibaka is such a quality player on the sly, him + Perkins are fantastic role players to the Durant + RW. They'll go deep if they are both healthy.

Clippers are fantastic, definite weakness at the 2 though I agree, they kind of got by with Chauncey there as he's good on the defensive end, and Mo coming off the bench covered their scoring. Butler is one of the best pickups of the off season though, great player.

Kenyon Martins given them a bit of a stronger bench, and with Mo coming off the bench as well they have a little bit of depth. Just need that further role player, JR would have been perfect.

Re: NBA thread : Wed Feb 22, 2012 2:14 pm  

loooks like i may take this match up 7-1 just picked up Gerald Henderson as well. Teams lookin strongest it has all year lookin pretty good right now. Even with this trade talk us magic are still winning games. THink they have too trade Dwight but were too? if its the bulls id ask for deng and draft picks and bring a new centre in

Re: NBA thread : Wed Feb 22, 2012 3:42 pm  

oggy123 wrote:

loooks like i may take this match up 7-1 just picked up Gerald Henderson as well. Teams lookin strongest it has all year lookin pretty good right now. Even with this trade talk us magic are still winning games. THink they have too trade Dwight but were too? if its the bulls id ask for deng and draft picks and bring a new centre in

Deng and Noah + picks..

for

Hedo and Howard. (would prob want rid of him to get salary off books).

Noah
Anderson
Deng
J-Rich
Nelson