NBA 2012: Running thread

That sucks. His sometimes-pissy attitude aside, he's one of my 4 favorite players (Rose, Wade, Durant).

C's might win 5 more games the rest of the season.

 

Jeff Green just posterized Bosh. Damn, that was a strong move.

 

Might even beat the Heat.

 

They'll win more than that just by virtue of being in the Eastern Conference. Also, unless Bynum comes back healthy (and can be successfully integrated into the lineup) somewhat soon, they'll probably still end up as the 8th seed.

 

That's more the Heat should be ashamed of themselves than the C's rallying it up.

A backcourt of Lee and Barbosa wouldn't be the worst thing. Lee has come on of late and Barbosa is a little sparkplug.

 

Funny how it all works some days, like today, when the atrocious Lakers and fading Celtics had no business beating the two best teams in the NBA, yet beat the two best teams in the NBA.

 

Andre Drummond with 18 points and 18 rebounds in 28 minutes tonight for the Pistons. Yes, it was in a blowout loss, but he's still only the second teenager with an 18-18 game, joining Dwight Howard.

 

Woj took a shot at Hollinger in his latest column: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--rudy-gay-trade-shows-lebron-james-the-future--super-team-era-ending--065716242.html.

The part on Hollinger: "Levien is making these deals based largely on the recommendations of John Hollinger, a statistician who worked for a cable sports company. The San Antonio Spurs once used him as a consultant and regretfully took his advice to sign a free agent named Jackie Butler. It was such a disaster, the Spurs had to attach Luis Scola to a trade to get Butler out of town.

This wasn't the '86 Celtics broken up in Memphis today, but, still, a contender became something far less over the past week. All of this didn't need to happen so fast. Between an owner guaranteed to make a profit and a front office guaranteed to believe it's smarter than everyone else..."

 

IJAG can confirm this: I've long thought Hollinger was an overrated dipshit.

 

So they've now given away Pau and Gay. Idiots.

 

Last night the Heat and Nets are tied at the half. Pretty good game.

Then the Heat went fucking nuts on the Nets in the third -- 36-14. One of those blitzkriegs you had to watch to appreciate. When they're on the Heat are devastating. And this was against a Nets team with a January-best 11-3 record. The chasm is wide still.

 

Considering they got Marc back in the deal for Pau, I don't think that could be considered giving him away. Granted, that deal looked absolutely terrible at the time, but Marc Gasol is a very good offensive player who is also a beast defensively.