OFFICIAL Around The NBA Thread...... August

Here lemme give you my expectations.

I expect Portland as they sit to land anywhere from 3-8 in the standings.
I expect 3-8 to be separated by 1-2 games and tiebreakers playing a heavy role on who seeds where.

I expect Portland to do better in the playoffs this year regardless who they play.

Spoiler

unless it's NoP because then Stotts will run P&R at AD again hoping he tires as the main strat

But I don't expect Stotts or NO to be fired.

If I had to put an exact number on it. I'd put Portland 4th with HCA against the Lakers.(Utah 3rd)
But then again that's not really HCA cause it's the Lakers and LBJ so...

 

I am definitely biased !!! I do believe Dame has gotten better every year.

 

He has, if you go by PER:



BNM

 

I will use whatever stats support my feelings on the Blazers and dismiss all the rest because I’m a Blazer Homer.

 

Blazer homer huh.
Lets test this.

Give me one basketball reason which will allow Nards to be an NBA all-star someday.

 

The coaches will vote him in out of pity.
He will watch and sing along to Shrek.
The NBA starts a G-league all star weekend.
He gets traded to the east and Dominates.

 

The Russians deploy a "ground to NBA player" missiles that eliminate anyone useful in the NBA, leaving him as a probable candidate among the remaining NBA check earners?

(I am eagerly waiting your "it would have been worse if Hillary was president" posts about the subject).

 

1) He's a late bloomer - REALLY late.
2) Kim Hughes comes out of retirement to be the next Blazer head coach, the Blazers have the best record in the West at the all star break and Hughes lobbies his fellow coaches to vote his star pupil in as a reserve.
3) He changes his name to Meyers Ming and is voted in as a starter by the Chinese fans.

BNM

 

My offseasons have been resigned to waiting to see who Neil signs on two ways and praying it’s someone I can buy into.

 

Nevermind basketball reason
I don't get the Hillary part.
I'm not a supporter of trump nor Hillary.

 

why not...Layman already fits that bill..Mo and ET are about that tall..Stauskas is an inch shorter than that....point being ...we're not an undersized team and we have youth and speed this season we haven't had for a long while...especially the speed part.

 

He becomes a Rocket...gets a Chinese endorsement...becomes buddies with Jeremy Lin and Yao Ming..opens a basketball camp in Shanghai offseason and plays the first white guy to die in several Kung Fu flicks ..instant flood of allstar votes...betcha didn't see Jeremy Lin getting the allstar nod......hell David Lee got an allstar nod

 

OMG.

Can you not see I was trying to make a joke and mock the bolded?
OMFG dude.

Other people got the joke I was making.
Why aren't you.

 

probably my meds....honestly...didn't see the joke in your post...I'll read it again and try to find it..

 

I wouldn't say I dislike him. I understand what he brings, it's just that his stupid mistakes and out of control play drives me crazier than most.

 

I said nothing personal to you....if I missed your joke...you got serious pretty fucking quickly about it....my sense of humor is fine.....yours...seems to be trying to put words in my posts that honestly...just aren't there dude...get over it...insert HC ranting about riverman not getting his joke....sheesh....talk about the topic....not me...way too much of that crap around the forum these days. A funny guy would just say....I was joking …..and I'd like their post ….good comics don't berate an audience for not laughing....fact...your post didn't make me laugh.

 

I thought you were talking about the team.

Dame's definitely gotten better each year. It's going to be hard to top last year.

 

And you're not? The only pressing thing that was said was "OMFG"... Other than that, it was a couple sentences of him asking how you can't tell he's joking. He madr a joke about you taking another post personally, and I guess you didnt get that joke either, because you respond by taking it personally with a long 12-sentence post.

You tell people to get over it and let things go but you always have these long-winded responses directed at others...

Why not just let it go? Why put so much energy into making it a big back-and-forth over something small?

 

I didn't say anything personal.....pretty simple...get over it....and as to long winded responses...dude..give me a break..you write short story posts daily and I don't care if you do..return the courtesy

 

So everyone else should get over it except you? You're sitting here telling everyone to get over it except you're the only one worked up.

Bring me an example of the bolded from the past month that was off-topic and in a back-and-forth with someone else. If I do it every day it shouldn't be hard to find a few.