OFFICIAL AROUND THE NBA: MARCH 2024

we were just responding to the other poster—nothing to see here.

 

Trendon Watford has 17pts in 17m, Brooklyn trying to take down Toronto

 

Shohei Ohtani's interpreter agrees

 

one of the Morris twins got 5 minutes for roughing

 

Scoot just needs to become a respectable 3pt shooter. There is no doubt that he can do that within 2 years if he gives it the proper amount of attention.

 

Looking at our lineups for the last couple of games and I'm wondering...
How are we not in trouble with the league? Obvious tanking.

 

Because these injuries are not "load management" and they are not affecting All Star players there is nothing the NBA can fine the Blazers for. Now last year when they sat Lillard for the last 10 games they would have been fined under the new rules.

 

Is it me or are all the aging superteams looking over the hill? Suns, Clippers, Lakers, Warriors were also supposed to be contenders, but all of them are looking a lot like first-round exits. Look at the super-team you could construct from those rosters:
Guards: Curry, Booker, Harden, Beal, Klay, CP3
Wings: LeBron, Durant, Kawhi, George
Bigs: Davis, Draymond (this is the weak link, I guess, but wasn't this supposed to be the smallball era?)

 

I'm old enough to remember the glorious ass-kicking the Olajuwon-Drexler Rockets gave the Shaq-Penny Magic in the 95 Finals. Now they both have young exciting rosters again. Who you got out of the Magic and Rockets? Who's better now/who has a brighter near-future?

 

I was going to say his name but I already already forgotten it.

 

imho, they aren't injuries, they're "injuries."

 

we'd need a law office help explain the vocabulary in the new CBA. Except for the 2 small paragraphs about "Resting Players" rules. That part is very simple... the league will only fine a team for resting All-Stars. Especially during nationally televised games.

If a team has more then one All-Star, it's ok to bench 1, but the other guy(s) has gotta play. The All-Star nod must be relatively recent, minted in the last 3 years. Players who ran the show 8 years ago don't count.

Basically, the new CBA "resting players code of conduct" has no verbage about tanking. The league only wants their superstars on TV. The NBA has grown weary of good teams benching all the best players, making games boring for fans who came to see the best vs. the best.

> Blazers have 0 All-Stars, as do a few of the other tankers. There is no mention of resting "starters" in the new CBA. Tank away you cellar dwellars <

Last year the Blazers might have gotten in trouble asking Lillard to sit out last 12 games in order and tank the team's record. But the new CBA rules had not yet been activated.

 

Man Nick Anderson makes those FTs it'a a whole different series.

 

Yeah, it's 4-1 instead of a sweep...

I will grant you that it's a whole different rest-of-Nick-Anderson's-career.

 

https://nbaage.com/

 

it's easy to blame Nick Anderson choking at the line.... but I blame Brian Shaw for going ISO and shooting a deep 3 early in the clock. Orlando had 12 seconds they could have burned. Swing it around to Penny. Lob it down low for a Shaq attack. Brian Shaw skipped all criticism after his brain fart hero moment, because Nick Anderson hoarfed up 4 ugly FT's.

 

Dame can’t even take over games anymore. Screw Giannis and Middleton just take the shots like you used to. Dame asked for a trade to win a ring and unfortunately he’s not winning anything.