Official 12-13 NBA Season Thread!

[Barwaaqoiyobashbash]

Warriors are getting swept.

Naaah.



Reaction from the bench.

[Barwaaqoiyobashbash]

[FAH1223]

Mike Conley took over the 4th quarter and had 26, 10 and 9. Big shot after big shot there.

Gasol had 24 points, most of them coming early. Randolph had 15. Collison defended him well in the 3rd there. But Ibaka isn't doing anything either. Randolph is shielding him away and let Conley get some lay ups in the half court.

Grizzlies got a huge win. They should be up 2-0 since this series is being played at THEIR pace and they choked away opportunities in Game 1.

I hope they can win their home games

[Murax]

Knick Hater FAH123, showing no love to the Knicks!



Knicks in 7 games.

[FAH1223]

Knick Hater FAH123, showing no love to the Knicks!



Knicks in 7 games.

ISO ball ain't going to work. One good quarter in the last 5 and you thinking something has changed?

Pacers got this

[Murax]

Knick Hater FAH123, showing no love to the Knicks!



Knicks in 7 games.

ISO ball ain't going to work. One good quarter in the last 5 and you thinking something has changed?

Pacers got this

Knicks defense on the perimeter will make things tough on hibbert/west. Pacers perimeter players are having difficulty getting the ball to them in the post. Also don't forget that Paul George is going to have a very tough time with Iman Shumpert. As long as the Knicks compete on the boards they'll be fine. Chandler has woken up and held Hibbert to 6 points. With Hibbert, George being guarded by the 3 of the best Defensive players in the game (Shumpert, Chandler, Kenyon Martin) the pacers won't find enough offense.


Btw who said anything about iso ball? The ball was flowing yesterday and Knicks had 4 in double figures. Felton, Prigioni, Melo, Shumpert.

[MenaceToSociety]

Mark my words y'all, the finals will be between the Golden State warriors vs The Chi Bulls

[MenaceToSociety]

Bulls in 5 games..call me crazy but we gona c who is sane

[Barwaaqoiyobashbash]

Murax,the knicks ain't winning shid this year,even if amare comes back they ain't winning the chip.
The bulls down by 45. cod damn.

[Barwaaqoiyobashbash]

Warriors up by 19.

GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS (47-35)
FIELD GOALSREBOUNDS
POS MIN FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A +/- OFF DEF TOT AST PF ST TO BS BA PTS
H. Barnes F 19:15 2-7 0-3 1-2 +18 2 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 5
D. Green F 18:09 0-4 0-1 0-0 +21 2 3 5 5 2 0 1 0 0 0
A. Bogut C 15:13 2-2 0-0 0-0 +13 1 7 8 2 2 0 0 0 0 4
K. Thompson G 24:00 11-18 7-8 0-0 +19 1 5 6 0 0 3 0 0 0 29
S. Curry G 20:50 4-9 2-4 3-3 +19 0 2 2 3 2 0 0 0 1 13
J. Jack 09:53 1-1 0-0 0-0 +5 0 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 2
F. Ezeli 06:50 1-1 0-0 0-0 +2 1 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 2
C. Landry 05:50 3-4 0-0 1-1 -2 2 1 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 7
K. Bazemore 00:00 0 0 0-0 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
A. Biedrins 00:00 0 0 0-0 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
R. Jefferson 00:00 0 0 0-0 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
D. Lee 00:00 0 0 0-0 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
S. Machado 00:00 0 0 0-0 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 120 24-46 9-16 5-6 9 19 28 13 10 3 4 0 1 62
52.2% 56.2% 83.3% TEAM REBS: 2 TOTAL TO: 5

Klay thompson with 29 points at halftime.

[FAH1223]

Grizzlies pulled out Gane 3. Thunder were in the game despite horrible shooting due to offensive boards and pretty good D on Randolph and Conley

But Gasol and Allen carried Memphis today along with some big shots by Pondexter, Bayless and Arthur.

The Knicks could be in trouble. I think they will go down 3-1 to the Pacers.

[Murax]

Dunno why David Stern let the Heat get wade, bosh, lebron. Nobody is even pushing the heat to 6 games this year.


Look out for the Clippers next year if they get Pierce, Garnett, Doc Rivers though.

[FAH1223]

Dunno why David Stern let the Heat get wade, bosh, lebron. Nobody is even pushing the heat to 6 games this year.


Look out for the Clippers next year if they get Pierce, Garnett, Doc Rivers though.

Pat Riley got back at Stern for what he did in 1996 when Juwan Howard signed with the Heat for $100 million but Stern and the NBA said the Heat miscalculated their cap space.

Back in 1996 Pat Riley and the Heat were trying desperately to get three marquee players on the same team. Sound familiar?

With Tim Hardaway and Alonzo Mourning already under contract, Riley thought Juwan Howard was the necessary piece to give the Chicago Bulls a run for their money.

Howard was a third year player at the time. During his inaugural year Howard received All-Rookie honors. In his sophomore campaign he was named an All-Star and received an All-NBA selection at the end of the season.

After the '95-'96 season Howard became a free agent. A free agent with whom the Heat and Bullets were both interested.

The Bullets offered him $89 million over seven years. The Heat topped them with a seven year $101 million offer.

Howard sided with the Heat, but all was not over.

Riley, if you believe the NBA, had miscalculated the Heat's available salary cap. The money they were offering Howard did not actually exist.

Riley, again according to the NBA, had failed to factor in Mourning's restructured contract, and performance bonuses for Hardaway and P.J. Brown.

The league invalidated the contract. The Heat would fight the battle in court, but threatened with a $5 million fine and a one year suspension for Riley, they backed down.

''There was not one mistake made by us when it came to the salary cap. We did not forget how to add. We never broke the rules. We played within the rules of the collective bargaining agreement. The only people who broke the rules were the N.B.A., because they changed the rules as they went along. That's a fact,'' Riley said in a conference call with reporters at the time.

The Bullets would be the team to make Howard the NBA's first $100 million man, and the Heat have never felt so lucky (well until that whole Wade, Bosh, James thing.)

Well wouldn't the Heat have been better equipped to compete with the Bulls who dispatched them in 1996 Eastern Conference Finals?

Unlikely. The Bulls dominated the series, winning in 4-1 fashion.

Oh, and it turns out, Howard wasn't that good.

Howard's 1996-1997 campaign was marked by injuries—injuries that would plague him the remainder of his career and large contract. He also had off the court troubles when a woman accused him of sexual assault after a party. (It's worth mentioning the charges were found to be false and Howard won a civil lawsuit against the woman.)

By the 2000 season Howard was considered a disappointment. With his large contract still on the books, Michael Jordan traded Howard to the Mavericks in 2001 at the trade deadline.

The Bullets, who by the end of Howard's time there had become the Wizards, failed to post a single winning record with him on the team.

[Murax]

FAH,

Riley is brilliant. At the same time though, it also helped that it was South Beach, Miami. Chris Bosh plays beautifully off of lebron/wade and although lebron/wade had a tough time coexisting at first now they found a way by playing uptempo where one can push and the other finish. In the half court, Wade moves off the ball and works the baseline on cuts while Lebron creates in the spread offense. Its just unfair.

[FAH1223]

Knicks are done