caught that game. dwight still has no post game. his last turnover had me rofl'ing. and linsanity returns. looks like mchale was holding him back the whole time. worst coach in the league by a mile. he benched anderson most of last year as well.
Wow, seriously? Lin wasn't being held back by McHale, he was being held back by Harden. Anderson? He was cut by the Spurs before being picked up by the Rockets, because he's too damn streaky. This will be his one good game for a month or two - he only played that much because MCW was out. I don't think McHale is a great coach, but he's far from the worst coach in the league. Ever heard of Isiah Thomas?
i've never seen mchale draw up a decent play, last night included. none of his players listen to him either. there's a clip floating around of harden completely ignoring his directions and doing his own thing late in the 4th a few games ago, and he had lin stand in a corner spotting up all of last year. makes me go wtf? that and he's using a 7 man rotation to start the year.
Ever heard of Isiah Thomas?
1st Flopping fine for the amount of $5000 goes to............ wait for it...........
JAMES HARDEN!!!!!
I wish flopping fines were based on the player's salary, but I am glad they're cumulative fines.
Nothing, IMO, has decimated the quality of the NBA's on-court game more than flopping, and why I have a hard time watching it.
Once this is gone, maybe I'll return...personally.
Flopping is prevalent in sports where contact is penalized - and it's hard to remove it. It's largely a European thing, brought over in the 90's with Divac and then even more with the international surge in the early 00's. Don't expect it to go away, just expect it to become a lot more subtle.
Why on Earth is the All-Star Ballot already out? The season is 2 weeks old. Shouldn't the All-Star committee have slightly more data to work with to determine who should be included? And is it designed by people who don't watch basketball? I only ask because a quick perusal turns up a name I wouldn't expect to see on an All-Star ballot: AMAR'E FUCKING STOUDEMIRE. He is literally one of the worst players in the NBA this season by any metric you use (he's dead last in PER among qualified players). Who decided that he was someone who had to be on this list? According to statistics, Amar'e's (that's a weird name to make possessive) inclusion on this list means that literally every player in the NBA should be on it, since they've all been better.
I suppose I shouldn't be angry, since the All-Star game is more about "who have you heard of" and not actually "who is the best basketball player right now," (which is why Blake Griffin will start despite Kevin Love being a potential MVP) but having the ballot come out basically as the season starts means the people who compile the ballot have to work with last season's data. Which, by the way, still doesn't justify Amar'e's inclusion (there's that weird possessive again), as he was terrible last year too. "He won't get voted in," you say... True. But why include him at all? There are literally hundreds of players who have played better than him and aren't on the list. Why bother having the list at all? Was this just someone's idea of a joke?
Only joy I take is the Nets doing so god awful. FUCK YOU KG & Pierce, and Doc Rivers can eat an Elephant Penis. All that "in the for long haul" talk he was spouting off about a few years ago was was pure BS.
Only in Boston can people be so fickle with their loyalties. After the 1980s, the Celtics were largely terrible, Pierce, Garnett, Allen and Doc come in and win you guys a championship and now they are HATED by Boston because apparently if you don't retire a Celtic, "FUCK YOU." Shit, my team hasn't won a championship in 35 years, our best chance left town to go win one with Houston, and everyone in Portland LOVES Clyde Drexler. Couldn't be happier for the guy; we have streets named after him. "You can't win one here? That's fine, you tried, go win one somewhere else. You're awesome."
I do agree with you about the Nets though; I think it's strange just how much they've underperformed. But if last year's Lakers taught us nothing else, it should be that taking a bunch of aging superstars and throwing them together does not work as well in real life as it does in NBA 2K13. I hope the Nets keep losing (for the entirely selfish reason that Portland plays them on Monday on the second night of a back-to-back).
Then they turn around and do the same shit. If they hadn't opened their stupid mouths about Allen leaving, them leaving would have been a sad, but "I understand" moment for me.
The Brooklyn Nets officially acquired future Hall of Fame forwards Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce and reserve guard Jason Terry in a blockbuster trade with the Boston Celtics, the teams announced Friday.
Derrick Rose is out for the season for knee surgery. Bad luck for Rose; he was always a great player, but with knee issues causing him to miss basically two complete seasons in a row, will he ever be the same? And does it strike anyone else as a little ironic that his injury happened while playing in Portland, a team that has become synonymous with knee injuries? Stop greasing the court before games Portland.
I don't begrudge those guys leaving, it's been funny to me how many dinosaurs Prokhorov is willing to stockpile in his pursuit of a quick championship.They pushed for the trade. KG has a no trade clause and couldn't go anywhere unless he agreed to it. He wouldn't go to Brooklyn without taking Pierce with him. Pierce did not have a no trade clause as far as I know, but the C's wouldn't have dealt him unless he was in agreement with it.
It's too early in the season to mean anything, but I do enjoy seeing my team, a team that the national media gives less than a shit about, doing better in the standings than Miami, Boston, Chicago, New York, Brooklyn, Houston, Oklahoma City, Golden State and both teams from LA. It won't last (the Blazers have benefited from an easy opening schedule), but it's still fun to see.