Around the NBA - March 2018

Why? They've been bad this year. Indiana's been slept on and they're basically the Portland of the east in terms of the lack of respect they get.

 

Hot take: Paul George is garbage

Pacers got better when he left and Thunder didn't improve at all when they got him.

 

Nowhere there do I say that the Nuggets are trash. I said that they suck which at your age, you must know is a good thing.

 

Go Cavs

 

Cavs finished last year pretty badly too. LeBron knows how to win in playoffs. He has never lost in the first round. Oladipo has never won in the first round. I would root for Pacers to make it a series but if you have a gun to your head, you pick Cavs in a sweep. And Blazers are way better than Pacers, geesh. And I wouldn't pick us to beat Cavs in first round either. Cavs are tough in playoffs.

 

This post makes me excited at the prospect of dying, so there's that.

 

They also had Kyrie. LeBron is older than he's ever been (duh) and has the worst defensive group he's ever had... When he had those "scrub" teams before he left for Miami, those teams could at least defend at a respectable level. This team? Awful defensively. They'll get lit up in the postseason.

 

LeBron is better than he has ever been quite frankly and he doesn't need Kyrie to win a first round series against Indiana. Now, after the first round? Who knows? But if you had to bet a million dollars, you'd still probably put it on the Cavs to make the Finals. You'd THINK about Toronto but you'd pick LeBron. 7 straight NBA Finals is no joke. He still has Kevin Love and JR Smith and Tristan Thompson and they're deeper offensively with Green, Clarkson, and Nance.

 

What a silly ass post.

Indiana had Jeff Teague and Rodney Stuckey at PG last year... They upgraded to Collison and Joseph.
They added a starting caliber big in Sabonis.
They added a very good scorer in Bogdanovic...

Oladipo and George are about even right now. Thunder didn't improve because they lost as much as they got, and no matter who you put next to Russ, he'll freeze them out. Plus, Russ was a lot better last year.

This post makes 0 sense.

 

Also- keep in mind, without Kyrie or IT, the Cavs went 18-1 early in the season just for fun and LeBron was probably like "oh we're good" and then they got better with the trades if not overwhelmingly better.

 

All four other relevant games close so far:

NOP 96
CLE 99

DAL 64
MIN 67

MEM 47
UTA 52

DEN 106
OKC 110

BNM

 

Jeff Teague is All Star.

 

I'm not arguing that Cleveland will lose in the 1st round, just that they won't SWEEP like you claim.

You're the one always preaching that it doesn't matter who "should win" because past records aren't predictive, even if the record is because of the organizations current team. But here ya are, using past records to try to predict the playoffs based on Lebron's past teams... That's silly.

No mention of defense. I don't care what they do offensively, they can't stop anyone.

 

Also- Cavs swept Indiana in first round last year too so they have experience beating down on Indiana.

 

Jeff Teague is extremely overrated, Darren Collison is extremely underrated, and Cory Joseph is a huge upgrade over Rodney Stuckey.

Compare Teague's and Collison's stats this year, then come back to me.

 

They can stop teams enough. Look at their recent win over Toronto. Nonetheless, I hope you're right. Let's have a wild first round!

 

Yeah, with two completely different teams. There's 5 different starters among the 10 between both teams. Half the starting lineups in that series will be completely different.

 

One great win where they gave up 129 points means their defense is solid enough?

 

what the fuck was that defense, Denver??

 

Gerald Green at the buzzer to beat Suns!