Around the NBA - 2017 Round 2 Playoffs

Recap please? I can't hear it at all.

 

He's pouting about getting benched in the playoffs. Leading up to this:

 

Really, 6 straight seasons with PER > 20. His last two seasons in POR he averaged 23.4/11.1 and 23.8/10.2. Hell even last year, playing with Timmy, he had a PER = 22.4 and the highest TS% of his career.

At the very least, you have to admit he was "on" for those first two games of that POR vs. HOU series, when he became the first player in NBA history to score more than 40 points (46 and 43) in the first two games of a playoff series on the road.

I get the Aldridge hate, but you can't re-write history.

BNM

 

If we didn't have Nurk, I would probably take a flyer on him, but there's really no point bringing him here now.

 

If he only had one year left on his contract, I'd bring him here for a year to back up Nurk, if it meant we could dump one, or more, of Crabbe, Turner or Meyers on the ATL. But, he has two years left at $23+ million a year, and Nurk is due for an extension next summer, so there is just no way it works financially.

BNM

 

Isn't one of those years a player option? He probably doesn't opt out now lol

 

Nope, he's locked in and 100% guaranteed at $23+ million a year for two more years.

BNM

 

So, Aldridge goes back to Texas and is the scapegoat. Howard goes home to ATL and is the scapegoat. I'm sensing a trend here.

Who, other than LeBron, has returned home as the conquering hero?

BNM

 

Oh boy - PER and PPG for a player who the entire offense was "built" around. I don't care nearly enough to get into it, but it should go without saying that there's a hell of a lot more to basketball than the numbers you tossed out. I'll leave it at this - there has never been a point in time where LA was better than David West.
Also, don't take everything so literally. The point was that he was never as good as many of you thought he was, not that he's never played a good game of basketball.

 

It all depends on how you define "on" and how you measure it. He was the leading scorer and rebounder on a 54-win team that wouldn't have advanced to the second round without him.

The original point is his performance has fallen off from where it once was. I think we can agree on that one.

BNM

 

Because he is hard.

Name some people who are bold enough to fight Jordan.

I'll wait...

 

I don't know if I agree or disagree, since the reason he is so "hard" is because he got beat up by his sisters his whole life. Does that make someone "hard"? I'm not sure.

 

Steve Kerr.

But I wouldn't really consider Jordan some sort of legendary badass when it comes to physical violence. Lots of players started shit with him on the court, trying to get him out of his game, the Pistons most notably but not the only ones. I don't think he was exactly feared as a fighter. Just as a basketball player.

 

You don't get into fisticuffs with the NBA's golden boy. And it wasn't players starting shit with him. It was HIM starting shit. MJ was the Bobby Boucher of basketball.

 

Byron Irvin!

BNM

 

I've been fantasizing about Avery Bradley on the Blazers for a couple years now. He's like Tony Allen aggressive defensively, but can score the ball and might be the best player at finishing a fast break in the league.

 

The entire bad boyz Pistons team. They hired Oakley as the enforcer because Jordan was tired of being fouled hard non-stop. Essentially punked.

 

Wow IT is unconscious right now!