OFFICIAL 2014 Around the NBA thread - February edition

Chicago is putting a beating on Denver.

Chicago with 44 points off the bench through 3 quarters. A bench of Snell/Augustin in the backcourt (17 pts each) and Muhammed/Gibson in the frontcourt (10 points). It seems at times that the Blazers can go a week without that much bench scoring, yet look at the scrubs putting up points for Chicago tonight.

 

Shaq with 11, I believe.

http://www.basketball-reference.com...&c3val=&c4stat=&c4comp=gt&c4val=&order_by=pts

 

Tough choice for me. Memphis/Dallas are both only 5 games in the loss column behind the Blazers for the playoffs. I'd rather they start losing games as long as LMA is out.

 

Doesn't Dudley hold that record?

 

I dunno... if we do our job and at least get some wins... the people below us can't make up ground, and we can gain ground on the ones that are right with us.

 

Watching this game tonight against Utah, the Blazers are going to need teams behind them to lose. If it's either Memphis or Dallas that go on a losing streak, then great. If it's both, even better. Without LMA, the Blazers are a non-playoff team, and may not win even 25 games.

 

Luckily he's only out for a couple weeks (I say a couple just in case when he gets re-checked he misses a bit more time)

 

I get so tired of hearing what the team won't be able to do..the more time bench players get before the playoffs, the better they'll be. Never understood why some folks can't see the big picture and just go off snapshots of individual performances or games. It's 82 in the regular season and it always has ups and downs. This is the perfect time to rest joel and LaMarcus.

 

Huh?

 

Well, to be fair, we're not resting them... they have injuries and are required to stay out...

 

You could as easily spin, without LeBron James the Heat wouldn't be a playoff team, Without Paul George the Pacers won't be a playoff team, etc...what is your point?

 

If this was Cleveland, yes... but the Heat actually have a good record when Lebron isn't in the line up (and they beat us when we were rolling)

 

Actually, we had a much better record than the Heat when LeBron was out. Still has nothing to do with my point which is that you subtract the allstars from multiple teams and they may not be playoff teams. I stand by my point, whether it's LeBron, Melo, George, Kobe, etc...in our case LaMarcus. This was in response to the post about we're not good team without LaMarcus. It was also not one of your posts.

 

I think if you're in a suit, you're resting

 

Melo is on New york, and they aren't a play off team. Outlier? Perhaps.

And why can't I respond to a response that wasn't to my posts? Message boards would cease to exist if that were the case.

 

So, Kobe is resting? He's not sitting out for months rehabbing? Just resting?

 

My point is that the Blazers aren't as good without LMA, so I want the teams behind them in the standings to lose games. I still view making the playoffs as a big goal for the season. Next year, this young team will still be able to add pieces to it. Every win counts, IMO, and tonight's win by the Blazers was a big deal, IMO.

 

So you'd be resting LMA right now, even if he wasn't injured?

 

ah c'mon now...that's just silly. yeah, Kobe is resting. I've rested from injury many times

 

I'm not the coach, but Pops does it all the time with his starters. I'm also done arguing semantics