NBA 2014-2015 Game Thread

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HomeRunBaker said:
When I have a "sore left calf" I typically don't have two 240 lb men carrying me first to the bench and later to the locker room to avoid me putting any weight on either leg.

Rushing George back while he is still favoring one leg places his other leg at great risk. And there ya go.
Well he said he felt it "pop", but he apparently stood on it in the tunnel and walked to the locker room on it. They did an MRI, just a pulled calf.
Someone had vines and he was favoring the broken leg ridiculously, like coming down on the wrong leg on dunks to avoid it. Such a dumb decision to rush him back, luckily it looks like they dodged a bullet.
 

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Seeding shouldn't matter *that* much, but somehow two of the top three teams in the NBA (Spurs and Clips) are facing off in the first round.
 
As a Warriors fan, I love it, but I think a league-wide seeding system is long overdue.
 

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Agree with the sentiment, but aren't they likely to add Embiid, Saric (is he coming?), and a top 3 pick this year?  
 
In the East, they might not be that terrible.  Maybe. 
They'll add Embiid a high pick and Saric is still a maybe, it's certainly possible, but he may need to stick to his second year of his contract and come the year after.
Next year they won't be good but they will not be at the bottom if Embiid is healthy. Which is the big if.
It's going to be seeing how Noel and Embiid play together and how whoever they pick this year fits.

I would expect them to offer max contracts to people who will likely not be interested but the Spurs etc. I doubt they throw too much money around this offseason, but anyone young and worth the max with the cap about to spike they could be involved with.
But I can't imagine any real star would consider going to Philly yet. In a year if Embiid is healthy and looking good, Saric coming, another couple of picks I could see some people wanting in. But think this year is too soon.

Everything about Philly right now is about Embiid. If he's ok that team is going places. If he can't stay healthy they have some pieces but no stud. If Embiid can be a stud they can use Noel and Saric around him. I think the Laker pick will still be useful next year, only top 3 protected and I expect them to struggle, if not be this bad. OKC is not ideal, they'll get it next year but it's likely not going to be very useful. The Heat pick is random one. This looked all year like it was coming. They could be a lot better in the still bad east. That is the painful one.

Still some minor nice part is that if someone jumps into the top 3 from outside the top 10 the Sixers are likely hurt by that but will get the Heat pick if they're pushed out to 11. Same for the Lakers, if the lottery is mental and teams outside the top three jump in this hurts the sixers but if two teams jump them the lakers pick (assuming it's not them of course) could still transfer.

In short the Sixers have some potential hedges if the lottery goes weird. It's still possible for them to end up with 1 6 and 11 - not likely but possible.
 

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Can we talk briefly about how the Heat played 6 guys tonight, including 4 of them for ALL 48 MINUTES?
 
As opposed to the Sixers, who benched all of their starters (including their only real point guard) and actually had Embiid drawing up plays in the huddle?
 

 
 
Link:  http://www.businessinsider.com/sixers-heat-tanking-2015-4
 
radsoxfan said:
 
Agree with the sentiment, but aren't they likely to add Embiid, Saric (is he coming?), and a top 3 pick this year?  
 
In the East, they might not be that terrible.  Maybe. 
 
76ers have a 17-18% chance of getting the Lakers pick, but it will be outside top 5 if they do.
 

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Sam Ray Not said:
Seeding shouldn't matter *that* much, but somehow two of the top three teams in the NBA (Spurs and Clips) are facing off in the first round.



As a Warriors fan, I love it, but I think a league-wide seeding system is long overdue.
What epitomizes this the most is last night when ESPN2 was doing whip-around coverage and they cut from the SA/NO game to BRK/ORL. Both games had teams playing for the same reward but the level of competition was so different, it looks like two different leagues. What person is excited that the Nets made the playoffs and OKC didn't?
 

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This was the arguably the best regular season in NBA history. If the they seeded the playoffs 1-16 than I'm not sure this season is what it is. 
 

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Best regular season for the Western Conference, maybe. The Eastern Conference was a complete shitshow all year with zero intrigue.
 
Honestly, though, that's a whole lot better from a competitive perspective than something like the 2008 season where it was plainly obvious that the league had two elite teams and the rest of the league was essentially a doormat, or countless other seasons where there was only one elite team and the entire league was a doormat.
 

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Kliq said:
What epitomizes this the most is last night when ESPN2 was doing whip-around coverage and they cut from the SA/NO game to BRK/ORL. Both games had teams playing for the same reward but the level of competition was so different, it looks like two different leagues. What person is excited that the Nets made the playoffs and OKC didn't?
 
I'd like to see them bump teams under .500 IF there is a non-Top-8 team in the other conference over .500, and then re-seed accordingly. If you're over .500 and in the top 8, you're in, since you at least succeeded as much as you failed. If you are under .500, you failed more and if there are better teams they should be in. And since you sucked you get in the lottery, which is probably better. 
 
Instead of
 
6 Milwaukee
7 Boston
8 Brooklyn 
 
it would be 
 
6 OKC
7 Milwaukee
8 Boston
 
It's not a perfect solution since OKC would have an easier path than NO (maybe if there's a tie for 8th, let the tiebreak winner switch conf), but I'd much rather see OKC in the playoffs than Brooklyn (and I basically hate the Thunder). I don't like seeding 1-16 since it reduces the chances of year-over-year playoff rivalries like Bulls/Knicks, Mavs/Spurs, LAL/Spurs, Det/Bos, Bos/Cle etc. 
 

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Cellar-Door said:
Well he said he felt it "pop", but he apparently stood on it in the tunnel and walked to the locker room on it. They did an MRI, just a pulled calf.
Someone had vines and he was favoring the broken leg ridiculously, like coming down on the wrong leg on dunks to avoid it. Such a dumb decision to rush him back, luckily it looks like they dodged a bullet.
So agreed and i saw those clips too as well as a game last week he did similar in the lane. Completely irresponsible to bring him back this season.....lucky this was is a torn calf and not an achilles. Don't believe that report.....between the precautionary measure taken and the pop it is a tear.

Edit: The more I think about the team knowing he heard a pop and then was listed as questionable to return I wouldn't even believe that it isn't an Achilles.
 

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Infield Infidel said:
 
I'd like to see them bump teams under .500 IF there is a non-Top-8 team in the other conference over .500, and then re-seed accordingly. If you're over .500 and in the top 8, you're in, since you at least succeeded as much as you failed. If you are under .500, you failed more and if there are better teams they should be in. And since you sucked you get in the lottery, which is probably better. 
 
Instead of
 
6 Milwaukee
7 Boston
8 Brooklyn 
 
it would be 
 
6 OKC
7 Milwaukee
8 Boston
 
It's not a perfect solution since OKC would have an easier path than NO (maybe if there's a tie for 8th, let the tiebreak winner switch conf), but I'd much rather see OKC in the playoffs than Brooklyn (and I basically hate the Thunder). I don't like seeding 1-16 since it reduces the chances of year-over-year playoff rivalries like Bulls/Knicks, Mavs/Spurs, LAL/Spurs, Det/Bos, Bos/Cle etc. 
 
You'd have a lot of teams in the western conference tanking in the last few weeks of the season to try to get into the eastern conference playoffs. 
 

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Just take the 16 best teams, fuck conferences. You can still have the idea of rivalries by scheudling the regular season games biased towards geography, but by screwing around with conferences, the NBA is denying their fans the best possible product. For the all-star game just vote for two captains and then have a school-yard pick'em.