2015-16 NBA Thread (feat. the Wives)

Carmelo Anthony HOF?

 

Easy. For some reason, basketball seems like the Hall with the lowest standards. Probably because there are fewer players, positions and need for different contributors to success.

 

Even with the lower standards. Carmelo easily passes a high bar. 9-time all-star. 4 3rd-team all-nba, 2 second teams. career 25-point per game average, is 35th all time in scoring, will pass Drexler this week for 34th. Healthy next season and he gets into the top 30. Two more healthy years gets him into top 25. Based on winshares, he is 102nd all-time. His one season at Cuse means a lot to that end as well, plus his Olympic medals.

 

Warriors down 11 after three quarters at Lakers.

This certainly isn't one of the six you'd think of in "55-6."

 

Curry 1 for 10 3pts.

 

No kidding. I think Jalen Rose and Simmons on separate shows said that it would be the also-rans (Bucks, Lakers) that tripped them up more than the contenders though. IIRC, didn't the Bulls lose to the expansion Grizzlies or Raptors in their 72-10 season?

 

I'll just leave this here so LTL can zip up his pants.

Lakers: 112 - Warriors: 95

HAHA!!!

 

They did lose to the Raptors in '96.

 

Lose by 17 to a team you're 44 games ahead of. Makes sense.

 

ABC noted that the matchup was the largest difference in winning percentage in NBA history.

 

I enjoyed the graphic that said it was the first time a sub-.200 team beat a plus-.900 team. Except there was no qualifier for games into a season. So it happens every season when some 0-1 team beats a 1-0 team.

 

They lost by 32 to a decent Knicks team on the road, coincidentally in early March.

Was just looking at their scheduled from that season, and it's incredible how close those Bulls came to being even better than 72 wins. Other than that loss to the Knicks, only one loss was by 10 or more points (a 106-96 loss at Phoenix in game five of a six-game West Coast swing in February, which was also the only time they lost back-to-back games; Phoenix finished 41-41, and the other loss was to a 35-47 Nuggets team).
Their last three losses were all by one point. Two of them were to a 21-win Raptors team and a .500 Hornets team.