NBA Discussion Thread

**Scipio Afracanis** · December 23, 2012, 06:46 PM

After all the Knick whinning in the previous Bulls game you know they were gonna get the calls/non calls.

**jukeness** · December 23, 2012, 06:56 PM

Knicks my least favorite team now for the year after that game, so many whiny pouty

in punks.

**NaptownKnight** · December 24, 2012, 11:58 AM

Teams take on their best player's idenity, and thats what Carmelo has always struck me as.

**Angrychris** · December 24, 2012, 08:30 PM

Lakers will take care of them

**Beorn** · December 25, 2012, 04:38 PM

there's some abysmal refereeing in the Lakers-Knicks game.

**Lorodim** · December 26, 2012, 03:44 AM

Can't be as bad as Thunder-Heat

**King Nud** · December 26, 2012, 07:56 AM

Can we all agree to just pretend Bulls/Rockets never happened?

Thanks.

**classical_hero** · December 26, 2012, 11:37 AM

Oh I believe it happened my friend.

At least your team will be in the playoffs this year.

**Scipio Afracanis** · December 26, 2012, 03:12 PM

Bad calls helped the Lakers in that 4th Q, I don't really care for either team but other than that it was a good game.

Rockets blow out good teams and struggle against lesser ones, go figure.

**crossjon** · December 26, 2012, 03:52 PM

Pacers-Bulls got delayed due to a blizzard.

**King Nud** · December 26, 2012, 05:57 PM

Yeah, Indy's been pounded by a blizzard for the last few days.

**crossjon** · December 27, 2012, 07:41 AM

Originally Posted by King Nud

Yeah, Indy's been pounded by a blizzard for the last few days.

Acually it was just yesterday.

Kinda sad It got delayed, I was really looking forward to going. But on the bright side I contacted Pacers customer service about exchanging my bulls-pacers tickets for something else, and I somehow managed to get equal pacers-grizzlies tickets and keep my pacers-bulls for whenever the new date is.

**NaptownKnight** · December 27, 2012, 10:37 AM

Originally Posted by crossjon

Acually it was just yesterday.

Kinda sad It got delayed, I was really looking forward to going. But on the bright side I contacted Pacers customer service about exchanging my bulls-pacers tickets for something else, and I somehow managed to get equal pacers-grizzlies tickets and keep my pacers-bulls for whenever the new date is.

Thats the Hoosier way. Yeah this blizzard sucks, been getting a lot of gaming in the past day though, cant wait for the Pacers Bulls whenever it is.

**King Nud** · December 27, 2012, 11:59 AM

Nets fire Avery Johnson. Wow.

**flota** · December 27, 2012, 12:55 PM

Originally Posted by King Nud

Nets fire Avery Johnson. Wow.

Deron has it his way

Sent from Holy Terra

**jukeness** · December 27, 2012, 10:15 PM

From what I've heard, a lot of Brooklyn fans wanted him gone.

**King Nud** · December 28, 2012, 07:37 AM

It's 28 games into the season, he had a flawed team that featured one point guard who is no longer as good as he thinks he is (career lows in FG% and assists), an injured center and a power forward in the doghouse. The roster was top-heavy and had next to no depth (JERRY STACKHOUSE?!?!).

Sure, the team had gone through a rough patch of schedule and had gone 3-7 it's last 10 games, but it's just not right.

I mean, who will they call in? Phil's not going to want any part of that because the roster doesn't suit the triangle offense, Stan Van Gundy has already said he doesn't want any part of it and Deron Williams won't allow the best coach that would take the job, Jerry Sloan, to take it after what happened in Utah.

And what's even worse for Brooklyn is they have $80m committed each year for the next three years.

Yikes.

**jukeness** · December 28, 2012, 10:37 AM

Maybe the interim will be a mastermind.

**mrmouth** · December 28, 2012, 03:16 PM

That Houston team is a force. Still not sold on Harden as one of two superstars on a championship team - but I was totally wrong about his game thus far. Although at 6'4" with average ball handling, a lot of that is predicated on getting to the line - which he does in double digits every game.

But Omer Asik is the real deal. A rare talent in how he can shift. And you can see that with how lost Taj Gibson now looks when he cannot count on Omer to be there.

The Boozer contract is criminal. The last year of the Omer contract wouldn't have overlapped with Boozer's, but you simply didn't know how much you'd have to spend to dig yourself out from the Boozer deal. Otherwise you could have absolutely rolled with Taj and Omer as a starting pair and dealt Noah to get your #2. That would have given you a legit 2-3 year window starting next year.

oy vey