<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Offensive opening month, sadly, was inevitable The math is rather easy. Add up all the roster turnover in the league, along with all the new coaches -- and then factor in the ridiculous decision to allow veterans miss the first few days of camp -- and what do you get? You get New Jersey 84, Minnesota 61. You get Minnesota 73, Toronto 56. You get New York 75, Orlando 68. You get Denver shooting 29.2 percent from the floor -- and winning -- because the defending champs from San Antonio shoot 26.8 percent. You get Denver scoring only seven points in the third quarter at Indiana & and still having a reasonable chance to win in the fourth quarter. You get Dallas holding the Raptors to 77 points -- and still losing by six -- after losing Steve Nash. The Mavericks, remember, had an 83-point half against Sacramento in Game 2 of the teams' second-round series last spring. A rash of ugly basketball in the opening month was inevitable with all the changes around the league and less practice time than ever. It's also true that zone defenses, in their third season of legality, continue to be more prevalent, exposing bad shooting throughout the NBA and rushing unprepared offenses. How unprepared? Through Thursday's 64 games played, only 29 of a possible 128 teams had cracked the 100-point barrier. That's 22.7 percent. "I guess when you had Pat Riley (try) it last year, that was the ultimate notice that the zone has finally arrived in the NBA," said Wolves coach Flip Saunders. It's not going away, either.</div> Full Story
I bet you still get Stein ranking Seattle as the 2nd worst team in the league too. What's that Marc - 100 points in 3 out of 3 games? (Sorry people ignore me, i'm still bitter about his Power Rankings )
Nice way to sum up all this bad shooting though, which was why I posted this. Amazing that the Cavs are one of the youngest teams in NBA history, add that they have opened up with a rough schedule, have an 18 year old starting point guard, and you have not put up a garbage game like one of these teams listed above. I find that interesting.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting King James:</div><div class="quote_post">Nice way to sum up all this bad shooting though, which was why I posted this. Amazing that the Cavs are one of the youngest teams in NBA history, add that they have opened up with a rough schedule, have an 18 year old starting point guard, and you have not put up a garbage game like one of these teams listed above. I find that interesting.</div> So what, they are still 1-4 or 1-5 (not for sure which one) and all those teams listed have more wins than the Cavs. So does it matter you shoot a poor percentage and still win. Lebron and the Cavs have only played one team with good perimeter defense, And Lebron did nothing against Ron Artest and the Pacers perimeter Defense. the other teams he played play no defense Kings, Suns, Wizards. And he played portland,they didnt have there 2 best perimeter defenders (Derek Anderson & Ruben Patterson) and he and the Cavs did pretty bad against Denver. So please stop trying to praise Lebron and the Cavs for every little thing when they really done nothing special at all. Please talk to me when he and the Cavs play well against a team with good perimeter defense like NJ Nets (Kidd,Rj,Kmart and even Kittles on ocasion.) or the Spurs defense. Even the Lakers with GP and Kobe. Better yet talk to me after he and the Cavs goes up against that t wolves zone (that held T-mac to 4pts and the Raptors to under 70) next friday, that zone is gonna show us if lebron and miles can really shoot.
'Bron actually outplayed Artest I thought. Talk to you when the Cavs play a good team? I wasn't aware he was directing it at you in the first place - am I allowed to reply here or am I intruding? Chill out dude, he's just pointing out a few (valid) facts.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Sir Desmond:</div><div class="quote_post">'Bron actually outplayed Artest I thought. Talk to you when the Cavs play a good team? I wasn't aware he was directing it at you in the first place - am I allowed to reply here or am I intruding? Chill out dude, he's just pointing out a few (valid) facts.</div> First off I wouldnt say he out played artest he played equal to Artest just about the same amount of points on the same amount of shot attempts. I may have over stated that part. But when you repeat what I say kindly say it correctly. I didnt say good team, I said a good perimeter defense like teams such as NJ Nets And Spurs. Are you intruding, this is a general basketball conversation so every is allowed to jump in. Plus I expected to here from you because you and him seem to always defend each other. "Chill out dude" -I wasnt hot and that comment about the word you. I think you know my statement was made in the general sense as in the whole basketball forum not me directly so your comment wasnt funny,sorry
this may be off the subj but it seems scores of this years games so far have been lower than usual. just a thought.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting SiLVeRBLaCK:</div><div class="quote_post">this may be off the subj but it seems scores of this years games so far have been lower than usual. just a thought.</div> Ehh? That is what the subject is about, because the scoring is terrible. And thanks Sir Desmond for taking care of my light work.
