The Official 2013-14 Around The NBA Thread......

I've never seen 2 players get triple dubs in the SAME game let alone 2 rooks! WOW!

 

You are actually quoting King as if he speaks for us......wow!

 

I love this game. The fact that the Raptors were up almost 30 damn points on these guys! And look at what is happening in NYC and Brooklyn......what a fucking mess!

 

Watching this EPIC meltdown by the Raptors right now. AMAZINGLY HORRIFIC!

 

Nets are only two games out of the 4th seed. Its really effectively the 5th seed since they wouldn't have home court advantage. Knicks have the fewest wins in the NBA and are 3 games back from the "4th" seed. That seed gets to avoid Mia/Indy in the first round.

 

You want ridiculous? The Warriors trailed the Raptors, AT HOME, by 27.

 

I'm interested: do you view the Warriors as a "contending team"?

 

Iggy was a good addition, but their bench is definitely weaker this year. Ya I think we're better than the Warriors. They don't have a player they can throw the ball down low who can draw double teams. Biggest issue for us vs them is if Dame can guard Curry without Nic/Wes switching onto him for too long.

This whole Nov/Dec doesn't matter thing has some merit. But getting a ~5 game lead on these other teams this early in the season doesn't hurt.

 

I don't know to which 'proclamations' you are referring, but please be advised you must disregard anything stated by magnifier and Kingspeed in evaluating the overall outlook of the board.

 

How many teams in preseason play their starters in the 4th down 27?

 

The Blazers are the best team in the league.

The best...
The best.......

 

What's with all the broken hands this year? MKG? Pierce, A. Davis?

I now see even Stein is wondering:

http://espn.go.com/blog/marc-stein/post/_/id/523/the-nbas-broken-hand-epidemic

 

If it wasn't one thing with Davis, it would be something else.

I fear that he and Kyrie Irving will have careers riddled with injuries.

 

^^^ When 90% of the posts come from a handful of people, it's easy to think the vocal minority is actually the majority opinion.

 

Watching last nights Sixers vs Magic right now and I had to MUTE the TV. There is probably 4,000 people in the arena. So the sound of the game is all messed up. I'm watching the Philly show and even went and checked the Orlando show to make sure. It's so empty in the arena, the sound of people whistling, music, yelling and the thundersticks banging together makes it impossible to hear anything. All the sound is bouncing off the emptiness and it's fucking chaos! #headache

 

I was watching some highlights of the Wizards game and that place was empty as well. Do people on the east coast not watch basketball anymore?

 

Been like that for years. It's always empty in Philly, Atlanta, Detroit. Would love to see the numbers, but those arenas are empty EVERY year we show up.

 

While I'm at it........listening to the Magic announcers is like watching Arctic White paint dry while eating Saltine crackers!

 

Why not move the teams somewhere else? I'm sure there are a number of cities that would love to have them. I think it's ridiculous that Charlotte got a second team after abandoning the first team.