2016-2017 NBA Season Thread [ARCHIVED] Basketball • Page 112

Good, tough win tonight for the Celtics. Granted they had George out, but we're also missing two starters. Still sloppy with defensive lapses, but they did have that fire from last year at a few points

 

Pretty sure the clippers haven't missed a three tonight, even goddamn mbah a moute is draining them

 

Unless you're DeRozan apparently

 

Good call. I believe his free throw attempts are up, but yeah, he has been the exception to the rule the past few seasons when he was close to getting the "empty stats" label.

 

So damn close: 27, 6, 5, 4, 4.

 

my dude

 

The clippers look fucking excellent. Everyone chips in.

 

If they can stay healthy I can really picture them giving the Warriors a lot of trouble in a WCF series

 

I remember when everyone was a dick and tried to tell me the clippers would switch up their entire team after their playoff loss last year lol told you so

 

Cool to see Dunleavy starting today in JR Smith's absence.

 

Hawes missing a layup and a dunk to close the half.

Still a solid performance from the Hornets so far.

 

We are not defending you guys at all. I understand Kemba is a soldier and gets his, but make him work for it. MKG is a good player too, but too many blow bys are happening. That said, I like the way your team runs offense and overall plays hard for Clifford @Swoos. He's one of the underrated coaches in the league.

 

Just missing too many good looks today

 

You guys definitely could have won today. I don't Lue liked the energy today. Besides LeBron, he played all bench players.

 

Wiggins feelin' it tonight

 

Hornets look really good this year. Top 4 seed good.

 

I love how Towns' three point attempts he doesn't actually leave the ground. And he had a hand in his face lol.

I have the weidest FSN stream. It's Minny FSN announcers, but during stops it's just arena music and antics at a different volume. Really strange.

 

Fun first Wolves game for me this year. Wiggins 47, Belli 20+, Towns and Rubio with double doubles. I am interested in seeing what Belli can develop into. He's someone that jumped out to me.

 

People can hate the Warriors, but I swear when they get hot, it's the most exciting thing in the game right now.

 

I'm a big Bjelica fan, he's probably the most underrated guy on the Timberwolves right now in my opinion.

 

I like his overall game. I think the biggest question in what I watched was who he guards. Guarding Deng was a nice way to get his feet wet as a starter lol. Ideally, he guards fours, but I think some of the more athletic guys will be an issue. However, if he can force guys to help where Gorgi and Towns can double it would make it more manageable.

 

The Blazers look pretty off tonight. Was really looking forward to this match up with the Nuggets.

Edit: Never mind, they really closed the first half out well.

 

Awesome Wolves game tonight; fun seeing Belly and Payne actually make an impact. Sucks Thibs took Wiggins out when there was still time for him to go to 50. I got to go to the game for free as the Wolves had an open house session earlier today, where in exchange of talking personally with one of their sales guys and having them run through their pitch for their game packages, you got two free tickets to tonight's Wolves/Lakers. When I saw the deal I was like "uuuhh, yeah!". Basically BS'd my way through the conversation, saying my Dad was interested in a package and I was doing research for him, haha. Seats were waaay high up in the rafters though; had to hire a sherpa team to help get me up there, going through half an oxygen tank in the process, haha. Still, an awesome experience overall.

 

LAKERS HYPE TRAIN DERAILED.

47 BABY

 

It's fun, but it's also easy to hate on them when they need to get that hot in the last three minutes of a game just to beat one of the worst teams in the league who are coming off a back to back in GS.