*The Official 2011-12 NBA Thread*

You cant be ice cold from the line two nights in a row and expect to win.
This sucks.

 

Well, we know what's coming now.

 

Oh no! Not 2 losses in a row.

 

Heat got robbed last night..but it doesn't matter.

You gotta make free throws. They lose two games in overtime back to back, and they shoot under 60% from the line in both? good grief.

 

Officiating was bad but they definitely had their chances.

The worst part was having my roommate stay up to watch the game just to say how the Heat are chokers every time the Clippers scored. He couldn't even name a player on the Clippers to begin with... Douche.

 

yes the regular season means nothing but losing is never fun.

Unless when the Knicks lose, then its fun.

 

BTW...my god. The MECCA of Bandwagonism was at staples center last night.

Lebron would dunk..the crowd would erupt in cheers....Blake would dunk..the same....bad call one way..jeers..bad call the other way..jeers again.

Then the sea of Heat jerseys and suspicious Clipper Chris Paul jersey's was the dead giveaway.

No sport lends itself more to bandwagonism than the NBA.

 

You gotta raise your happiness standard

 

the sickening thing was the complaining. just toss both lebron and paul and send a message. the demonstrations and complaining every call is terrible and bad for the league. and everyone does it but it was noticeably bad last night.

 

*was gonna post something in agreement, then remembered that this was a Blazers fan and that Lamarcus Aldridge plays there.* LOL

I will say this though..the flopping the Clippers did last night was embarrassing.

 

Te refs have been awful this year, even more so than usual which is really saying something. Horrible officiating in the Knicks-76ers game too. Called some real silly fouls on both teams all night long. I don't want to see a stoppage in play for some ticky tack foul being called on Tyson Chandler nowhere near the play, or Iggy being called for a ticky tack hand check on Melo. Let them play for ****s sake.

 

Lol I said everyone does it. Roy used to yell everytime he was around the basket. Bad calls are obviously going to happen but the players need to deal with it.

 

Someone should tell Shumpert he's a defensive role player. 20 shots, the ****?

 

A day too late if you ask me.

 

39 Free Throws for Dwight! A record.

 

Didn't catch the game but were they legitimate calls?

 

They were intentional fouls. Hack a Dwight. It worked. He only made 21.

 

Interesting strategy.

 

Jackson does it alot. He did it with Jordan when they faced the Clips too.

 

Not so sure that it worked. They did GIVE HIM 21 made FT's.

He averages much less than 21 made FT's.

 

That is a good point. I didn't really look at it in that way, just looked at his FT percentage.

 

I concur.

 

So is Flip Saunders the worst coach in the history of sports? Well after Eddie Jordan and Randy Shannon?

 

At least his team plays with some sort of resemblance of, you know, a team. Watching the Wizards makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a rusty fork. From John Wall having a worse jumper than Shaq all the way to Javale McGee actually seriously thinking he has the ability to score in the post. That team does not give a ****.

 

Man NY is getting handled by the Thunder something serious right now. Celtics got handled earlier. Unless some dramatic changes happen, we're a lock to win this division as far as I'm concerned. The Celtics just need to blow it all up. Including trading Pierce for cap space. Hope for some great draft picks. Build a team around Rondo.

 

Well they haven't been very good with Melo and Stoudemire playing either.

 

Think he meant that the Knicks haven't played well even with Melo and Amare, not that they individually haven't been playing well together.

 

This. The reason Stoudemire hasn't been that great is because he's settling for too many jumpers imo.

 

Think Boik just saw the words "Melo, Amare, playing poorly" and his brain went to auto pilot. With how quickly and efficiently he put that myth to bed, he must have been doing that all off season.

Probably has it pasted on a notepad that he can just copy from.

 

Amare's problem is Chandler. it is obvious. Problem is that Chandler is playing well now, and nobody wants Amare's contract.

best case scenario IMO is to try to sell the Nets on the idea of taking Amare and Fields for Deron Williams and Anthony Morrow. Then re-sign Deron.