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QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Nov 1, 2013 -> 02:44 AM) These delay of games are so f***in stupid. Only NBA would try and speed up game by making players walk up court, stop, shoot, walk back, and start play.

Year of Evan Turner begins.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 31, 2013 -> 09:59 PM) 25 cold, hard American dollars. I can do paypal or chase quickpay. Done.

#STEALTHMODE

Yeah no push. I don't know what to bet. I block sigs at work so not sure that's really a threat to me. This is a sucker bet though, I don't know how I can lose. They are on pace to go 82-0.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 31, 2013 -> 06:22 PM) They won't win 17 games. I'll take that over.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 31, 2013 -> 05:14 PM) They will easily lose 60 games this year. Sample size, people. Right but winning 22 games is a far cry from people thinking this would be the worst team of all time. The article wasn't arguing they'd be a playoff team, just that they would be a lock to win over 17 (especially with other teams that will be tanking)

It's funny, yesterday a sixers fan friend of mine posted an article about how the 6ers are not trying to lose this season, but just didn't care about winning. Sure enough, team looks like it's a lot of efficient role players who will play hard.

Happy for Jake. Glad we've been able to send quality vets to teams that had a chance, like with Contreras.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 30, 2013 -> 07:00 PM) Devin Booker will announce tomorrow. Here's hopin for Mizzou. Doesn't sound like it's mizzou

That has to be one of the best debuts ever right? (Michael Carter-Williams)

I commented to my friend about how I thought Tony Snell missing the 3 straight 3pointers fed to him in the same possession was more embarrassing than an open dunk. He disagreed and gave this list : level 1: getting eyed (pull up in your face, usually following trash talk) level 2: getting crossed over level 2.5 (my addition): Taj Gibson clapping at Bosh to come at him only to easily get taken level 3: getting dunked on level 4: missing dunk level 5: ankle breaker crossover level 6: scoring in your own basket Anything we're missing?

I thought I was so clever trading for R. White. I hope I can play him this weekend and it's worth it.

Devin Booker will announce tomorrow. Here's hopin for Mizzou.

I'm reminding myself or what Bulls looked like in Nov/Dec of last year. Some thoughts: I think I have a post from last year saying Bellinelli was one of the worst bball players I'd seen. He was truly awful for the first month. And it reminded me how we all thought last years bench would be terrible, only to be lamenting in May how we were going to replace them. Dunleavy I hope is going thru same struggles that Bellinelli went through and will come out better for it. Snell - I just really haven't seen anything from him yet to get excited about. I was pumped about Butler from get-go. Trapping Rose - This was the old GSW treatment that frustrated the hell out of Rose. It blows my mind it can work for whole game, in these cases Hinrich and Jimmy have to be there for the help and they are good enough passers to HIT that forward that's free. If you can hit Noah/Boozer, they are great passers with each other and it should provide 6-8 pts in easy buckets that should prevent that from happening. Bulls need to eliminate this from other teams repertoire. Lastly - team will need time to play together. Heat played a hell of a game and had their role players on fire from 3. They are still unbeatable IMO when Battier is on (which seems to be any game 7, dude has some intangibles).

That said I like Texas and they do a lot right on housing policy.

Time magazine is really ahead of the world on this. They have to be the first magazine to write about Texas's growth I've seen. Great job Time magazine!

What is SportsNation?

Man, Nba is great. I'm pumped to see Twolves back healthy, Nola, Magic, Wizards, let alone all the established teams. I hope this is a great year and not some year of the injury or something. I'm even pumped for Boston to see how Pressey does in NBA and see if he can hack it.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 06:13 PM) Since 1999, the defending champions are 11-3 in their first home game of the next season. Well I'll be. I guess answer is just don't schedule Chicago teams.

KW on Abreu: "One of the things that we did not want to entertain was a guy who was just one dimensional. This guy is a hitter." ???

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 05:59 PM) I've always had such a hard time betting on a single NBA regular season game but I'll say Miami wins by 5-7 tonight, hopefully I'm a liar. It just seems like trophy ceremonies always work against the defending champs.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 05:21 PM) They won't be but the 6-8 seeds aren't going to have to be very good. Yeah I don't see how Detroit doesn't get in playoffs.

I like how J4L will ride the jock of any marginal player that happens to have a good game on TNT one night but refuses to acknowledge the value of upgrading from Keith Bogans to Jimmy Butler.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 29, 2013 -> 04:50 PM) I am in the minority I know, but I think the Nets will be an old, disjointed, injury riddled s*** sandwich. Like D'Antoni Knicks type s*** sandwich. It's possible. I would have never guessed the Lakers could be as bad as they were. I guess I just think Garnett will hold that team together defensively and there is so many teams to feast on in the east.