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January NBA Season Thread - A No Puddin Zone

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kgHavok23

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I liked the little "Are Da Bulls Back?" bit afterwards. Only the 4th time in 499 games we are over .500??? Is that what I heard? WOW.
 
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AstroLad

Hail to the KING baby
Cloudy said:
http://www.blogmaverick.com/entry/1234000097028762

Cuban trashes Chad Ford :lol
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Man Cuban hates Chad Ford. Doesn't Simmons make fun of him all the time too?

Mark Cuban said:
The irony of it all, is that he writes for the ESPN Insider section of the website.The sad part is that ESPN.com charges for access to what he writes. This guy is so far from the inside of whats going on , that ESPN should be embarrased to take subscription money from its members.
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Haha, that's fucked up and funny.
 
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Incognito

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GaimeGuy said:
Obviously you haven't watched us play against seattle and portland, and the first 2.5 quarters tonight.
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why in the world are you mentioning the shitty ass blazers as a team that since you beat cements you as world beaters? the blazers fucking suck.

as for the sonics, ray allen shot 6-24 and the t-pups eeked out a win by 5. wolves officically suck,a nd im drunk.
 
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Loki

Count of Concision
Eh, that Gordon shake on Childress wasn't anything special imo. Nice floater off the glass, though. You guys are easily excited. ;) :p
 
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GaimeGuy

Volunteer Deputy Campaign Director, Obama for America '16
Incognito said:
why in the world are you mentioning the shitty ass blazers as a team that since you beat cements you as world beaters? the blazers fucking suck.

as for the sonics, ray allen shot 6-24 and the t-pups eeked out a win by 5. wolves officically suck,a nd im drunk.
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Hey, I'm not basing it on who we played, or how the other team played.

I'm basing it on how WE played.

and we played like we did last year. We played like we should be playing.
 
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BatiGOOOOOOL

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Damn Spurs, always lose the games I'm a 100% sure they would win. They just came out flat, probably tired after two big wins. Plus the absence of Rasho in the middle was notorious last night. But gotta give credit to the Blazers, who got anything they wanted on offense and were eager to erase the embarrasement they suffered last time the Spurs visited Portland.
 
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AirBrian

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Incognito said:
the bulls are in the east. therefore they suck.
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So what does that say about a supposedly elite team in the West that loses to Boston twice, Philadelphia, Orlando, and Washington? :D

Trash the East all you want, but don't touch the Bulls. You're just still bitter about 1996, aren't you?

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Cloudy

Banned
Another loss stokes frustration

Shaq criticizes Eddie Jones after Miami loses again

BY ISRAEL GUTIERREZ

igutierrez@herald.com


PHILADELPHIA - When the Heat was winning a franchise-best 14 consecutive games from Dec. 6 to Jan. 1, there was no reason for players to find blame, send veiled messages or worry about the mind-set of others in the locker room.

But 11 games -- and six losses -- later, the rose-tinted glasses are long gone, and frustration is oozing its way through the locker room as the Heat tries to figure out how it has gone from great to barely mediocre in a span of three weeks.

The Heat lost to the Philadelphia 76ers 106-98 on Monday at the Wachovia Center as Allen Iverson scored 45 points with 11 assists, leading a Sixers team that scored 27 points in transition and shot 39 free throws.

But it wasn't Iverson's 45 points or Samuel Dalembert's 11 rebounds, three blocks and three alley-oop finishes or Kyle Korver's 14 points, six rebounds, six assists and three steals that the Heat was dissecting after the game.

The team was more concerned with its own deficiencies, and there was little agreement as to what those deficiencies were.

Shaquille O'Neal, who scored 24 points with five rebounds, faced a double-team the entire night, said in thinly veiled terms that Eddie Jones needs to contribute more.

When asked about the frustration of not having a healthy Dwyane Wade, who was hobbled Monday with a turned left ankle and banged left knee, O'Neal said Wade still did his job.

'We have to make `Flash' look good,'' O'Neal said of Wade. ``It doesn't matter if he's 100 percent or not. When he cuts in the lane and draws and kicks, you have to hit the shot.

``Some of the guys on this team have to take it personal. When your man leaves you to go double on somebody, you have to take it personal. Because other teams are hitting shots when we double, so you have to hit shots.''

Jones was 3 of 12 from the field for the game for 14 points, getting most of his shots after the Philadelphia defense collapsed on O'Neal or Wade.

Wade was just 3 of 13 from the field for 17 points, but managed 11 assists and six rebounds despite limping badly through most of the second half.

Wade's comments didn't seem directed at anyone in particular, but he, too, said he managed to create plays despite his injury.

''The defenders were still coming to me, and I set my teammates up for open shots,'' Wade said. ``I try to be the one who brings the energy when it's not there. In the second half, once I came back, I couldn't do as much. We still got good shots, they just didn't fall.''

DOUBLE-TEAM

The poor shooting from the edges made it easier for the 76ers to commit two players to O'Neal, who normally likes that situation.

''I like when teams front-and-back me, because all you have to do is move the ball and then throw it over the top,'' O'Neal said. ``But you have to know how to make the pass, and you have to want to make the pass. We have to know what our strengths are and what our weaknesses are. We're not a team that's going to come down and shoot outside shots, so we have to go inside-out, inside-out. That's the only way we're going to be effective.''

But O'Neal's opinions certainly are not the consensus among the team. There are some in the organization that believe O'Neal could play with a more consistent effort, and that a more active O'Neal on both ends of the floor would help make up for any shooting woes.

POSSIBLE TRADE?

Meanwhile, there is a growing concern that the recent play will soon convince Heat president Pat Riley to pull off a trade before the Feb. 24 deadline.

O'Neal told the team that it should do no worse than 30-10 in the final 40 games. The Heat started its final 40-game stretch Monday.

''Luckily we had that 14-game winning streak and still have somewhat of a cushion,'' O'Neal said. ``But we can't keep playing like that.''
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:lol Shaq was 6-17 from the line in that game with just 5 boards and his junk rejected by Dalembert. He needs to STFU....
 
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Eminem

goddamit, Griese!
Loki said:
Eh, that Gordon shake on Childress wasn't anything special imo. Nice floater off the glass, though. You guys are easily excited. ;) :p
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did you see the whole thing, or just the clip they showed on sportscenter? what they showed on SC was the just basically the score, and it sucked, as i mentioned before. the whole thing was great, and a good 5 seconds longer
 
Guileless

Guileless

Temp Banned for Remedial Purposes
There's a free League Pass preview all this week for people with satellite or digital cable!

Tonight I will use it to watch "YOUR CHIIICA-GO BULLS" play the Nuggets. I hope the apocalypse isn't pending, but I am looking forward to watching the Bulls play. That backcourt is fun to watch.
 
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bionic77

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Eminem said:
did you see the whole thing, or just the clip they showed on sportscenter? what they showed on SC was the just basically the score, and it sucked, as i mentioned before. the whole thing was great, and a good 5 seconds longer
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Neither. Loki hasn't watched a basketball since Jordan retired. More likely then not he was just watching a tape of Jordan from 1989 with one hand down his pants.
 
Guileless

Guileless

Temp Banned for Remedial Purposes
RIP Don Poier, voice of the Grizzlies and NBA Live for several years until Marv Albert took over. Died in his sleep over the weekend.

Grade A play-by-play man. They are getting rarer and rarer these days.
 
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Loki

Count of Concision
Eminem said:
did you see the whole thing, or just the clip they showed on sportscenter? what they showed on SC was the just basically the score, and it sucked, as i mentioned before. the whole thing was great, and a good 5 seconds longer
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They showed a couple of crossovers and a juke move, and then the crossover that got Childress to bite and allowed Gordon to blow by him. Like I said, it wasn't terribly impressive to me. I mean, it was nice, but I'm not splooging over it. :p


Neither. Loki hasn't watched a basketball since Jordan retired. More likely then not he was just watching a tape of Jordan from 1989 with one hand down his pants.
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:lol


It was a game from '92, actually. ;)


Dick. :D
 
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bionic77

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Loki said:
They showed a couple of crossovers and a juke move, and then the crossover that got Childress to bite and allowed Gordon to blow by him. Like I said, it wasn't terribly impressive to me. I mean, it was nice, but I'm not splooging over it. :p




:lol


It was a game from '92, actually. ;)


Dick. :D
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:lol

Admit it, you don't watch half as much basketball as when Jordan played!

Damn, just imagine how bad my GAF mood is going to be if Kobe doesn't get to.... uh 43% .... like we agreed! ;)
 
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Loki

Count of Concision
bionic77 said:
:lol

Admit it, you don't watch half as much basketball as when Jordan played!

Damn, just imagine how bad my GAF mood is going to be if Kobe doesn't get to.... uh 43% .... like we agreed! ;)
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I actually watch nearly every game that's televised, usually, when my other obligations permit it. :) Except if it's shite like Atlanta vs. Golden State or something. :D


And it's 48%. :p What, you don't think that Kobe can shoot 55% the rest of the season? :lol BWAHAHAHAHAAAA. :D
 
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alejob

Member
Guileless said:
There's a free League Pass preview all this week for people with satellite or digital cable!

Tonight I will use it to watch "YOUR CHIIICA-GO BULLS" play the Nuggets. I hope the apocalypse isn't pending, but I am looking forward to watching the Bulls play. That backcourt is fun to watch.
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Cool, I got NBA TV right now, I usually don't get it.
 
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bionic77

Member
Loki said:
I actually watch nearly every game that's televised, usually, when my other obligations permit it. :) Except if it's shite like Atlanta vs. Golden State or something. :D


And it's 48%. :p What, you don't think that Kobe can shoot 55% the rest of the season? :lol BWAHAHAHAHAAAA. :D
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Damn, 48%?

That bet made a lot more sense in the beginning of the season......

Something tells me I will have to deal with more Jordan infamy when the season is over. :(
 
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Loki

Count of Concision
Whoa! How'd the Knicks manage to score 110 with 3:30 to go? :lol I haven't been watching the game...


I'm sure Phoenix (who has 120) wasn't expecting them to keep up lol.
 
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Ninja Scooter

Member
Earl Watson actually plays DEFENSE! See that Chucky/Tierreble? That son of a bitch Mitch better sign this guy in the offseason, he'd be the perfect PG for us. Bring Earl back to LA dammit!
 
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Bowser

Member
Ugh, once again Bobcats choke at the foul line and lose their 9th straight game. Okafor started 0-6, but then went 10-13 to finish with 10/19 FGM for 20 pts, 12 rebs and 5 blks. If only we could make our fucking free throws.
 
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VPhys

Member
Well this is definitely NOT the team the Lakers want to be playing to win their 3rd in a row. Sonics are #3 in the West!
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