2016-17 Running NBA Thread

The Warriors are the ones who have to do their part now. Really LeBron is the fool, and he's in the Finals every year and has been for a long time.

 

This jerk writer hasn't gotten the word that the Warriors' record means they're immune from criticism.

Visible infighting leaves Warriors unrecognizable in loss to Kings

Nor has this one who retweeted it.

 

I watched that game. Warriors looked like shit a lot of the time. Curry missing a layup that would have won it was kind of jarring to watch.

It was their third game in four nights. Shit happens.

The Kings just leave me shaking my head. The Warriors' biggest weakness is the defense around the rim. The Kings have a dominating center. So what does Sacramento do? Put Boogie out behind the three point line. It was one of those games where it was a shame somebody had to win.

 

I'm surprised Yogi-mania hasn't blown up as big as Linsanity did. But then again, we don't have the world's No. 1 media market driving the hype.

 

We also don't have the Chinese/Asian angle. An out of nowhere breakout representing the world's most populous continent (which had been sorely lacking such a thing after Yao Ming's retirement) is a definite part of what drove the Linsanity mania.

Yogi, on the other hand, is just another African-American kid. The League's already got an abundance of those.

 

Yogi's a really nice story. His game against Portland was insane. I love seeing 10-day guys make an impact and earn a roster spot.

Still... go back and look at what Jeremy Lin did that year with the Knicks. Practically overnight, he went from unknown guy on the end of the bench to playing as well as any point guard in the league. He was incredibly fun to watch. The team started winning. His stat lines were nuts.

"Linsanity" was incredible strictly on its basketball merits. Yogi's impact doesn't compare. Then, throw in the fact that (a) it was New York, (b) he's Asian, (c) he's from Harvard, and (d) he's an evangelical Christian. We may never see something blow up quite like that again.

 

Meanwhile, LeBron just hit an absurd turnaround fadeaway 3 to put the Cavs-Wizards game into overtime.

 

And then fouled out for the fifth time in his career.

 

Ferrell was an All-American at a blue blood college basketball program. I understand the undrafted angle, but he was pretty well-known in college.

 

Cavs/Wizards is every bit as good as that Super Bowl last night.

 

Completely invisible in the fourth quarter, Irving has been incredible after James fouled out.

 

Ferrell was a top-25 recruit who chose Indiana over Florida, Virginia and Butler. He was once tabbed the nation's best fifth-grader.

Think we're kind of missing on the "out of nowhere" portion of Linsanity.