2015-2016 NBA Game Thread
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Zach Lowe just did a podcast with Howard Beck talking about that deal. Immediately before it happened was Dwight Howard's weird decision to waive his opt out with the Orlando Magic and come back for one more year. Reportedly, Brooklyn wanted to go after Dwight as a FA that offseason and also had a trade offer on the table for him, one that presumably included the pick they dealt for Wallace.
The last couple of years would have unfolded very differently had that happened (ie, no Pierce + KG for all the first round picks deal).
Thus far. Golden State won't shoot 67% all game and in the NBA teams make runs. Cleveland will make one.
Not directed at you but I hear this constantly from many people both on and off message boards. Why the "but?" Selling the call is a part of the game and he's really good at is as most of the top scorers have learned to be.
And he still scored at a lower volume and with much worse efficiency than Curry (35 points on 18 shots in 28 minutes, while barely seeming to break a sweat).
Somewhat lost amid the (very mild) regression by the Ws as a team is the fact that 42 games into the season and Curry is still absolutely shattering the historical efficiency/volume curve: after tonight, 31.9 points per 36 minutes on .679 true shooting.
Why would anyone think that someone who scored 52 points in 2OT be more efficient than someone who scored 35 points in 28 minutes. I don't think Walker is even in the same stratosphere as Curry but not everyone has the luxury of playing with a supporting cast as talented as GS.
Well, I wouldn't think he'd be more efficient -- it is Curry, after all. Much more surprising is that Curry beat him slightly by scoring volume (on a per minute basis) which I thought was fairly remarkable given that Curry didn't really seem to be working at it on offense. Steph-ortless. 
Not everyone has the luxury of Curry's supporting cast, but that goes both ways: not all supporting casts have the luxury of Curry. Conjecture, but I suspect if you put Curry on his hometown Hornets (maybe with a healthy MKG) they'd be a 60+ win team and 1A/1B in the East with the Cavs. And I think if you put Kemba in Curry's place on the Warriors, they'd probably be a low-ish playoff seed and first-round fodder.
Not everyone has the luxury of Curry's supporting cast, but that goes both ways: not all supporting casts have the luxury of Curry. Conjecture, but I suspect if you put Curry on his hometown Hornets (maybe with a healthy MKG) they'd be a 60+ win team and 1A/1B in the East with the Cavs. And I think if you put Kemba in Curry's place on the Warriors, they'd probably be a low-ish playoff seed and first-round fodder.
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If the Suns can take a positive from this season it may be Devin Booker. Hard to say because some of the numbers over the last few days have been in garbage time, but he did have 32 points and hit 6-11 from 3pt range and 8-8 from the line. Didn't do much else but is scoring 16.9 ppg in the month of January and he just turned 19 year olds in October.
Philly wins again and is now 5-8 over their last 13. It isn't likely, but they may not be a lock for the 1 seed if the improvement is real.
Karl Towns is going to be incredible. Just watched him catch a pass in full stride around the 3 point line, calmly drive past the defender waiting for him at the FT line and slam it home. I don't know if it sounds like much but almost every other player of his size would have taken a charge, traveled, or found some other way to turn it over.
He looked this way last year in Washington too around the same time of year. Two things I'm thinking:
1- I don't think he'll have the same opportunities with LA that he did last year in the playoffs with DC so we may have very well seen the last of "clutch" Pierce too.
2- If only Red had pulled the trigger on those McHale and Parish deals once Bird was finished with his back injury. Danny took advantage of a great opportunity that Red didn't.
I go back and forth on this all the time but I can never decide which perfect storm was crazier--the one that brought KG to Boston for Jefferson and scraps or the one that shipped him and Pierce out for a bigger haul than any of us could have imagined.
I just hope over the next 5-7 years we have good reason to look back on Mikhail Prokhorov's purchase of the New Jersey Nets as one of the greatest unexpected moments in Celtics history right alongside the acquisition of Sebastian Telfair and Theo Ratliff.
Smith, as most guys not in Doc's 5 or 6 man circle, never got the right type of burn. Essentially the clipps got nothing back for him. So instead of cutting him and letting the rest of the league consider picking him up, they trade him back to Houston?
Boban.... What is his ceiling? Can be be a 30 minute a game starter? A rotation player? Or just a mop up player as he is now?
"Boban Marjanovic dropped the first double-double of his career against the Suns on Thursday, scoring 17 points with 13 rebounds and one steal in 22 minutes".
"Boban Marjanovic dropped the first double-double of his career against the Suns on Thursday, scoring 17 points with 13 rebounds and one steal in 22 minutes".
Yeah the suns are tanking hard now. Just last year they were a potential model for how to rebuild without a tank. Oops.
The sixers are playing better, well much better though not saying much, I do think that the bottom three will be Lakers sixers suns but the order is very unclear.
Right now it's a two stud draft too.
The sixers are playing better, well much better though not saying much, I do think that the bottom three will be Lakers sixers suns but the order is very unclear.
Right now it's a two stud draft too.
Boban would be starting on more than half the teams in this league he's that good.
MINNESOTA WON!
I mean we're never getting their first, but they and the Suns are running had at the top and the Nets.
PHX also winning, but plenty of time for them to blow that.
I mean we're never getting their first, but they and the Suns are running had at the top and the Nets.
PHX also winning, but plenty of time for them to blow that.
Match ups are funny. Chi always plays Cleveland hard but the Celtics can hang with the Bulls but have nothing for Cleveland
Boston struggles with Brooklyn and Lopez' length, owns Charlotte because they don't have long uber athletes who give us trouble, and has trouble with Dallas due to Dirk's length. It gives teams a comfort knowing that Lopez and Dirk can get them a hoop or at least a great look pretty much whenever they need one.
For those still awake, great first quarter at Oracle as the game of the NBA season is off to a furious start. The Spurs, even with Duncan sitting, are crazy deep.
Spurs playing poorly (for them), but hanging around. Dubs bench seems up to the challenge of SA's bench crew plaudits.
Fun game to watch for neutrals.
Fun game to watch for neutrals.
