2015-16 NBA Thread (feat. the Wives)

Green is kicking the wrong players in the nuts.

 

Thunder fans did get what they wanted as he ended up not showing up last night anyway.

He's the big loser in all of this -- pretty tiring to watch him concentrate on Being Draymond Green instead of playing basketball.

 

Is this not the "jump shooting team" label that they resent so much finally biting them in the ass?

 

Seems like a big part of it, yeah.

Barkley wins.

 

Yup. And here's a big example: They were within nine late in the third, and worked the ball to Barnes in the left corner for a wide-open three. He makes that shot, and they've really got something going. Instead, he clanked it badly. Durant hits a pullup at the other end, and the Warriors only got it back to nine one more time before the Thunder pulled away.

 

Except they won 140 games in 2 years and 1 ring. Which is more than Barkley ever did.

Maybe a jump shooting team is like a home run hitting team, over the course of regular seasons big hitters will win out. Over the course of a series, you can shut them down. Especially in the post season.

 

Except that's false, because home run hitting teams usually do better in the postseason too, unless the stats on that have changed the past five years or so.

I still think the Warriors are really good, but in hindsight, they probably got the best possible luck to get to 73, and now, they're getting some regression at the worst possible time. And as others have said in this thread, we might have been underrating the Thunder if things like the suicide of the co-owner and the death of Monty Williams' wife effected the team more than we thought. This doesn't seem so surprising if the Thunder are around 60 wins in the regular season.

 

Isn't there something to be said for the Thunder's two superstars taking some time to really getting used to playing together as superstars? Westbrook didn't really reach that level until last year.

 

More than I ever did, too. But that doesn't mean I can't watch basketball and accurately analyze what is occurring.

 

Woj:

"He's playing at 70 percent, at best," a source close to Curry told The Vertical. Curry refuses to make excuses, but privately the Thunder see something – no explosion, no ability to make the bigs switching onto him pay a price.

Kerr:

"Is that sources with knowledge of the team's thinking?" he saiid. "That's my favorite expression these days -- sources with knowledge of the team's intimate thinking. Who would that be? I don't know. Nobody has said anything about Steph being 70 percent to me. Our training staff, relatives. friends, sources with knowledge of our team's thinking. Nobody has told me Steph is 70 percent. Apparently they told the media but they didn't tell me."

 

Lucky they caught a shell of a team in the Finals.

 

Is there some atmospheric difference that makes the Raptors completely unable to play basketball in America?