Re: NBA thread : Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:44 pm  

Durant and co. were outstanding against the Spurs. Game 6 was amazing in so many ways.

I can see whoever wins the East winning it though - I think both teams defend better than San Antonio and will make it much harder for the Thunder.

Re: NBA thread : Fri Jun 08, 2012 5:41 pm  

inside_man wrote:

Long live the king.

I don't understand your LBJ loving, I can't stand him at all mate. Hope he get's beat in game 7 or gets bummed in the finals. I hate the Heat, have since the mid 90's and can't stand LBJ. Needs to accept he's bald as well. I fully understand he's a great player but no balls.

Re: NBA thread : Sat Jun 09, 2012 2:57 pm  

Mark wrote:

I don't understand your LBJ loving, I can't stand him at all mate. Hope he get's beat in game 7 or gets bummed in the finals. I hate the Heat, have since the mid 90's and can't stand LBJ. Needs to accept he's bald as well. I fully understand he's a great player but no balls.

Not particularly fussed about the Heat, just LeBron. He's what got me into the NBA, watching him at the Cavs.

Re: NBA thread : Fri Jun 22, 2012 7:00 am  

"MVP, MVP, MVP"

Re: NBA thread : Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:04 am  

inside_man wrote:

"MVP, MVP, MVP"

Didn't see any of the games, couldn't possibly stay up that late unfortunately. Russell Westbrook; is it time they tried to turn him into a proper point guard? Surely the team with the scoring champ and the best impact scorer in the game don't need a scoring point that gets 25ppg?

Think the Thunder will have plenty of time to win championships, their team is so young and if they can keep them all together, they will be a finals regular IMO.

Re: NBA thread : Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:54 am  

Roddy B wrote:

Didn't see any of the games, couldn't possibly stay up that late unfortunately. Russell Westbrook; is it time they tried to turn him into a proper point guard? Surely the team with the scoring champ and the best impact scorer in the game don't need a scoring point that gets 25ppg?

Think the Thunder will have plenty of time to win championships, their team is so young and if they can keep them all together, they will be a finals regular IMO.

Harden was the let down this series, not Westbrook. He can't be blamed for his team losing a game when he scores 43 points! He had a crap game 6 but everyone knew the series was over by then, you could see it in their attitude after game 5.

Plus the other thing is, who could you get for Westbrook? Any PG who would be a step up isn't going to be traded by their team (Rose, Paul, Rondo, Williams), so unless you get someone like Nash in and use Westbrook to get you an upgrade elsewhere I can't see the virtue in trading him.

Overall though, LBJ was just too good. To average the numbers that he did was unreal, and he always did enough down the stretch to keep OKC out of it, whether it be scoring or him just finding open guy after open guy. Full deserved, and it's about time he got one.

Re: NBA thread : Fri Jun 22, 2012 11:05 am  

Thunder don't need to trade him, they need him to change his playing style a little. He has to be more of a distributor and the third choice on offense, at the moment it seems like he's their first choice when it really should be Kevin. Harden seems to have had a poor series, but he's the most inexperienced of their 'three' and it had to show eventually. Westbrook is a supreme talent, as good as there is in the league, they really shouldn't trade him, but when you have two better scorers and a really underrated big in Ibaka, Westbrook just needs to distribute and score when they need it. He clearly shoots too much, which is a problem because he's the PG.

Re: NBA thread : Fri Jun 22, 2012 3:01 pm  

Roddy B wrote:

Thunder don't need to trade him, they need him to change his playing style a little. He has to be more of a distributor and the third choice on offense, at the moment it seems like he's their first choice when it really should be Kevin. Harden seems to have had a poor series, but he's the most inexperienced of their 'three' and it had to show eventually. Westbrook is a supreme talent, as good as there is in the league, they really shouldn't trade him, but when you have two better scorers and a really underrated big in Ibaka, Westbrook just needs to distribute and score when they need it. He clearly shoots too much, which is a problem because he's the PG.

That's just not Westbrook though, I don't think he'll ever be able to become the distributor that they want. If he tries to do that he'll take away so much from his biggest strength, his scoring.

Re: NBA thread : Fri Jun 22, 2012 7:18 pm  

Good news for you there Mark, apparently Lin + Novak both have full Birds rights after the hearing today. Leaves that full mid level exception free for you to chase (+ fail) Nash.

Good news for the clippers as well, can resign Billups outsign of the salary cap.

Re: NBA thread : Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:07 am  

Am I the only person thinking Charlotte drafted MKG so they could bomb again this season and try to land Shabazz?

Don't get me wrong, MKG is a fine player, but they are so weak offensively and MKG won't change that too much. I think he's a fine piece to have whilst they won't improve too much in his first year. Possible good move in the long run.