2018 Around the NBA - October

Do you think Russ wants his team to win without him? That ego is strong.

 

Simmons is right side dominant, even kicks a football with his right foot. His father made him use his non-dominant left hand growing up, and now Ben finds it uncomfortable to use his right. Imagine how unstoppable he'd be if he knew how to use his dominant right side.

 

Warriors don't look that unbeatable

 

They sleepwalk through the regular season nowadays.

 

I don't know, but Russ got an eyeful of what his teammates normally see in the 4th quarter of close games. Schroeder doing his best Westbrick impersonation, forcing and air balling a three followed by turning the ball over with the game on the line.

Schroeder is just Westbrick light, a turnover prone, stat padding, ball hog who can't even shoot .300 from 3-point range, but keeps forcing them up anyway.

BNM

 

Just realized Kerr has been to four straight NBA Finals as a player and as a coach. 7 championship rings total. Hall of Fame.

 

Barkley doesn't think we'll make the playoffs. Jesus Christ. OKC, Denver, and Utah are so overrated. None of those 3 are any better than us. Spurs aren't better than us either. What a joke. Of course, we brought some of this on ourselves by getting swept in the first round. We'll have to fight against that all year long as well we should. We reap what we sow.

 

Utah isnt, they're legit. But Denver (Can't defend) and OKC (Russ) are still very overrated for sure.

 

Yup. I was saying this summer that this acquisition was overrated and Schroder was just as bad of a fit as Melo, probably worse so. Both guys make that team worse.

They're very overrated.

 

I said it at the time, too. In addition to all the other negatives I mentioned above, Schroeder is also a terrible defender.

BNM

 

Utah are better than us and so are OKC IMO. Not sure about Denver. They have more depth but no clear star like Lillard.

 

Explain why they are better than us. We swept OKC last year 4-0. And we were the team that ended Utah's win streak and I believe we did it in Utah. We also beat Utah on closing night. How are these teams magically better than us now? I don't get it. We have First Team All NBA point guard surrounded by very talented pieces such as CJ, Nurk, and Aminu with young players on the rise. We're so underrated even by our own fans.

 

Fine but we're legit too.

 

How is OKC? How did OKC get any better? We swept them last year...

 

I still think Utah is better. Not by much but they're the 3rd best team in the West. I hope to have standings predictions uploaded tomorrow.

 

I think Westbrook is worse than Lillard but George is significantly better than CJ and Adams is better than Nurkic. The rest of their roster isn't that great but I think Schroder and Noel will be great additions. I think they missed Roberson badly last year and if he's back this year in some capacity from December they will improve significantly.

We are a bad match up for them though.

We are probably at a similar level.

 

Utah are significantly better defensively and play better as a team. They went into the second round of playoffs and even stole a game from Houston at Houston while we lost our last 10 playoff games and were swept by an average Pelicans team.

OKC I explained above. Perhaps not clearly better but similar level teams with similar outlook for this season IMO but if either is going to make a significant leap I think OKC are more likely to because they have more talent.

 

Utah beat OKC in the first round. We would've beaten OKC in the first round too. In 4 or 5 games. And we play great as a team. Like I said, we beat them at least twice last year including in their building when they were on winning streak. Apparently, if you're the Blazers--- even if you beat Team X and you have a better record than Team X, Team X is still better than you. MANY places higher than you. Also- I like how people hold it against us that we were only 3 games up on the 9 seed. Well guess what? OKC was only TWO games up on the 9 seed! And they're apparently a lock to make playoffs this year. What a joke. This is what RC2 is for me. A chance to vent!!! Well that and to call out players/teams as trash and start Season Over and Is **** For Real threads.