NBA 2015-2016 Season Thread

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£100?! Geez man that's nuts compared to the price we paid for Magic tickets in Orlando. Good game, sucks about the result though. Toronto probably deserved it seeing how they led for so long.

[Benjamin]

6 hours ago, Twist said:

Just left the London game. Great fun. Can't say I'm a fan of people jeering the home team during free throws but such is the beast. Gutted I don't get to watch games more often.

Which team was the home team?

[Monkey D. Lars]

 

Lovely introduction.

 

 

[Twist]

2 hours ago, Benkid Nada said:

Which team was the home team?

Orlando, which is probably why it was annoying me so much.

I don't mind the loss so much. Would have bothered me if it was a blowout but the comeback to force overtime appeased me. Just a wonderful sport though and it's a shame it's not more popular over here. Though I am going to go watch Surrey play some time soon.

[VerbalPuke]

The Pistons beat the Warriors tonight, same night we honored Ben Wallace by retiring his jersey. Definitely a big win for a young team still growing, very nice.

[Monkey D. Lars]

Yeah, great game by the Pistons! But I'm wondering, great shot by Curry but even though you're the best shooter ever, why would you pull up with 20 seconds on the shot clock left from the logo? 

[JasonM]

Joakim Noah out for 4-6 months with a seperated shoulder which requires surgery.

Bulls can't catch a break, at this point i'm wondering if the medical staff are a bunch of hacks.

[Monkey D. Lars]

Just watched the Warriors - Cavaliers game and damn, I thought the Cavs could've put up more resistance. Maybe they didn't click but they got over classed. Now it's waiting for next week Spurs - Warriors!!!

[Your Mom]

I am happy the Warriors are only beating us by 12 right now  

 

I wish there was more inside play though. All this long distance shooting is grating on me. Get in the lane man!

[JasonM]

I'm amazed that the Warriors have managed to completely ruin the excitement of draining a lot of threes in less than two whole seasons.

[Benjamin]

That's been a problem long before the Warriors came along. The whole outside shooting has kind of ruined the game a little for me, so much that I fall asleep if I'm not watching the team I'm supporting because that's the only one with stakes for me. 

[Pizza]

12 hours ago, Ziggy Srardust said:

I am happy the Warriors are only beating us by 12 right now  

 

I wish there was more inside play though. All this long distance shooting is grating on me. Get in the lane man!

Sorry your team is better at defending than Kevin Love.

 

 

 

[Quom]

As much as I like making fun of Love's terrible defence and he's way out of position because he went under on a really weak screen he has presumably been told to front on Curry until Irving can recover on high ball screens, Irving is a mile out of the play because he gets stuck on the screen (in retrospect he would have been better off going under the screen, but he goes over because even from well outside the 3pt line Curry is a risk if you give him any space). Mozgov does the right thing helping the help defender, LeBron is actually slow in his rotation.

Like Love looks like a tit, but if Curry shoots that which there is every reason to think he might then Love is doing the right thing (after doing something god-awful in losing his man). It's more that Love is 3 steps behind and everyone else on the team is 1 step behind and Irving does nothing to get back into the play.

[gunnar hendershow]

14 hours ago, Jasonmufc said:

I'm amazed that the Warriors have managed to completely ruin the excitement of draining a lot of threes in less than two whole seasons.

Don't worry this is like when Shaq and Duncan completely murdered basketball in the early 00s and they had to change the rules to put in more scoring. So, yeah, expect some rule changes to make games more competitive. And naturally expect teams to begin looking at and building around smaller, faster perimeter defenders and less clunky big guys in the future.

[Plubby]

23 hours ago, Ziggy Srardust said:

I am happy the Warriors are only beating us by 12 right now  

 

I wish there was more inside play though. All this long distance shooting is grating on me. Get in the lane man!

 

Of course you do, the Bulls would flatten the Warriors if they did that. Their best big is Bogut who is made of papier-mache. And that's probably an insult to papier-mache!

[Quom]

Josh Smith has been traded back to Houston.

David Blatt has just been fired by Cleveland.

[Mofoticon]

I really have no idea how a 1st place team fires its HC....

 

Guess LeBron had enough?

[Quom]

Ty Lue has been promoted on a multi-year deal apparently.

[DYSI]

That really came out of left field...

 

But as a Nets fan, I'll gladly take Blatt as our 18th coach in the past 3 seasons. >_>

[Meacon Keaton]

Dan Gilbert just realized they didn't win in the finals last year.