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2013 Jan NBA Season lOT| Beautiful Black Bodies on Top
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Barack Lesnar
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Neither team will make the Finals.
ClovingWestbrook
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Just like the Lakers were the best team this year. Right. You're becoming the PhoenixDark of sports predictions.
Are you kidding?
obijkenobi
Member
They already have Kevin Martin. What more do you need?
Barack Lesnar
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Hopefully his return doesn't mess with their mojo in some weird chemistry way.
Kevin Martin would be the 2nd best player on the Lakers. smh
CherryWoodFuton
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I'll give you OKC but who in the motherfuck is gonna come out of the East besides the Heat????
ClovingWestbrook
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Dude... Look who you're talking too.
Jinx alert. just saying
Psychological Intellect
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that's what happens when you get in his grill. or actually double him and make westbrook do his thing.
Barack Lesnar
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I miss Lamar. Seriously.. his unique all-around game with his size and length was such an asset, kind of reminds me of Percy Harvin from the Vikings. Opponents always say how difficult Harvin is to defend with how he play so many roles. Lamar was the same way. This whole thing is a curse for dumping Lamar to save a few mil.
The hits keep coming.
Barack Lesnar
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Chicago. D-rose will be back and 100% before the playoffs. Chicago just beat Miami @ Miami a couple weeks ago without Rose and it really wasn't even a close game. They lost by 7 and were losing almost the entire game.
ClovingWestbrook
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I would say he is self-aware but...
Yea because Miami couldn't stop Chicago in 2011 when they lost the season series.
Smh.. at the very least answer its NYets or something.
Barack Lesnar
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D-rose cost them that series with a historically bad performance. He's not gonna have a series like that again. He was awful, shot like 20% from the field.
The Nets suck. Miami would sweep them
He got bailed out on some BS fouls like the 6th foul on thompson. pretty lame
You do realize that Chicago has always dominated the Heat in the regular season since LeBron has gone there, right? Even without D-Rose, they have beaten the Heat multiple times in the regular season. The playoffs are a different animal, and there is no way that the Bulls can beat the Heat in a 7 game series, with or without D-Rose. Thibs doesn't have the offensive ingenuity to get that done.
CherryWoodFuton
Member
I'm bored at work I wanna see where this goes.....
THERE YA GO!!!!!
obijkenobi
Member
I'm just speaking for Gondo. He says the Thunder offense is better with Kevin Martin. I don't believe that it will be the case in the long run, but that's what he's been telling folks
ClovingWestbrook
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Yea and missing more than a year with a torn ACL/MCL will allow him to be even better vs the best defensive team in the league in a 7 game series. Come on.
They had asik for half that series. And we have battier, and Allen now.
Barack Lesnar
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That one i was. Most of the time i'm serious but sometimes dick around. I do miss LO for real tho and have always thought dropping him was a huge mistake.
Lebron should win MVP because hes head and shoulders better than everyone. But hes reached that point where he's so dominant that, like he and Shaq/Kobe have found out, story+scoring can really sway votes toward another candidate (Rose/Nash).
If he keeps scoring the way he does, his other numbers are good enough (not James-good) for Durant to win MVP. Especially if OKC gets the #1 seed.
If he keeps scoring the way he does, his other numbers are good enough (not James-good) for Durant to win MVP. Especially if OKC gets the #1 seed.
Don't disagree.
Oh, Chris Paul is winning MVP. The media won't pass up on history by not voting for a Clipper as MVP.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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LeBron isn't going to win MVP because the Heat haven't been that good this year and his teammates have been great in the past.
I would argue that most of the guys on his team are giving no fucks so having Wade, Bosh, and Ray and being nowhere close to the Thunder in record or differential shouldn't be held that much against him, but it will.
Durant's having a pretty unbelievable season so him winning MVP isn't going to bug me.
Also, Heavy is cursing the shit out of my prediction of the Spurs winning the title, fuck, I might need to rethink this now.
I don't think the media can do the mental gymnastics of voting a guy MVP after not voting him MVP last year when his numbers were better.
It would be pretty insane.
I would argue that most of the guys on his team are giving no fucks so having Wade, Bosh, and Ray and being nowhere close to the Thunder in record or differential shouldn't be held that much against him, but it will.
Durant's having a pretty unbelievable season so him winning MVP isn't going to bug me.
Also, Heavy is cursing the shit out of my prediction of the Spurs winning the title, fuck, I might need to rethink this now.
I don't think the media can do the mental gymnastics of voting a guy MVP after not voting him MVP last year when his numbers were better.
It would be pretty insane.
Barack Lesnar
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What's your sample size, 10 games? do you know anything about statistics? Your point is irrelevant with a sample size this small.
D-rose is a gym rat, he's a machine when it comes to keeping his body healthy. D-rose is the one in a mil type that could have an Adrian Peterson quality return.
And CHI has a rejuvenated Boozer putting up huge numbers. Jimmy Butler can play a bit. They're not the same exact team, and neither are the Heat i agree.
Your point was one game played a few weeks ago!
EDIT: And yes, I do know a thing about statistics, considering I've taken multiple stat classes and did university level research for years. 10 games in the NBA is not a small sample size.
Psychological Intellect
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yea. Durant's a machine and If Bron doesn't get it. Either KD or CP3 should get it, but especially KD.
I will bet you anything KD wins MVP and CP3 will be 3rd at best
Barack Lesnar
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That win wasn't the basis of my point, just a part of it. I think Chicago has a great chance to upset a Heat team that isn't as good as last year for whatever reason (D-wade slowing down?).
Chris Paul, your 2013 NBA MVP, ladies and gentlemen.
Barack Lesnar
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And Wade was in his prime. Now he's a shell that can have a great game one night and be invisible the next. He's not the same consistent beast from a couple years ago. The way he plays a 'couple years' is a lot even tho it don't sound like much.
Edit- and CP3 has no chance of winning MVP. It will go to KD in a D-rose MVP type of vote, although KD will have a better case than D-rose did in his mvp year but LeBron still the MVP. His numbers are unreal.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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That 2011 Heat team had a +7.5 point differential compared to +5.5 for the current year though.
The Bulls need perfect health in the playoffs and to have Wade and Bosh not step up in the playoffs to beat Miami which isn't impossible, but I wouldn't bet on it...
The Bulls need perfect health in the playoffs and to have Wade and Bosh not step up in the playoffs to beat Miami which isn't impossible, but I wouldn't bet on it...
They were also 4th in Def Rtg compared to 12th this year.
it's insulting to call yourself a fan of celtics and lakers while also rockin an avatar of Magic and another play who appears to be Larry
also ironic considering they hated each other for awhile and the teams were rivals.
theignoramus
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if Durant has 50/40/90 stats at the end of the season hell get the MVP nod. Only way Paul gets it is if the Clips get that number one seed.
Psychological Intellect
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playoff talk has me excited
