2016/17 NBA Regular Season Thread

[Paulius]

[Member='mexi']

Does luke try dangelo at the 2 position ever?

 

[Paulius]

If he could play there, lakers should go for lonzo

Lonzo dlo ingram randle would actually be pretty cool

 

[buzzy]

Kawhi travelled on that game winner.
Refs will never have the balls to call a travel late in games.

 

[Rios15]

Not sold on the Raptors being able to compete with Cleveland yet lol. Even though we're without Lowry

 

[Hurricane Season]

The Pistons were 3-17 from the FT line last night.

 

[CameronCrazy06]

Not sold on the Raptors being able to compete with Cleveland yet lol. Even though we're without Lowry

You should never be sold on that

 

[Rios15]

You should never be sold on that

I mean I was kind of sold on us being able to make it harder than last year... still was sure Cleveland would beat us.
 
Last year was tough too... we played 2 game sevens, I was hoping we could be better than that too. Time will tell but I'm not sooo optimistic... I do like the moves we made regardless though.

 

[BNC]

Big game for the thunder tmrw . Would be a good win and half a game from the 4th seed

Slowly but surely getting there. 4th seed and the mvp is a lock

Lol

 

[CameronCrazy06]

Are you completely ruling out Russell winning it? I don't think he should, but I can totally see the voters giving it to him.

 

[Hurricane Season]

Say whatever you want about the usage or the efficiency, he's averaging a triple double and leading the league in scoring.  He's pretty clearly the MVP favorite right now.

 

[Delirium]

I'd give Westbrook the MVP too

 

[BNC]

Are you completely ruling out Russell winning it? I don't think he should, but I can totally see the voters giving it to him.

He said it's a lock, I don't think he's even the favourite let alone a lock to win

 

[bosoxlover12]

Say whatever you want about the usage or the efficiency, he's averaging a triple double and leading the league in scoring.  He's pretty clearly the MVP favorite right now.

31.2 ppg on 10.1/24 shooting, 10.3 apg, 10.6 rpg on a 7th seed
28.8 ppg on 8.1/18.6 shooting, 11.3 apg, 8 rpg on a 3rd seed
 
If Harden took as many shots as Westbrook does, he'd be the higher scorer. He's already averaging more assists. He's clearly leading his team to a better record (6.61 SRS v 0.82 SRS) on an equally bad team.
 
The main reason for you taking Westbrook over Harden is because Russ averages two more rebounds per game, as point guards? It's such a weak argument. 

 

[CameronCrazy06]

31.2 ppg on 10.1/24 shooting, 10.3 apg, 10.6 rpg on a 7th seed
28.8 ppg on 8.1/18.6 shooting, 11.3 apg, 8 rpg on a 3rd seed
 
If Harden took as many shots as Westbrook does, he'd be the higher scorer. He's already averaging more assists. He's clearly leading his team to a better record (6.61 SRS v 0.82 SRS) on an equally bad team.
 
The main reason for you taking Westbrook over Harden is because Russ averages two more rebounds per game, as point guards? It's such a weak argument. 

To be fair, if harden took more shots, he'd get less assists as a result. Let's use common sense here.

 

[CameronCrazy06]

And the rockets are not equally bad as the thunder haha

 

[bosoxlover12]

I said it before -- I still think Kawhi should win MVP

 

[Hurricane Season]

31.2 ppg on 10.1/24 shooting, 10.3 apg, 10.6 rpg on a 7th seed
28.8 ppg on 8.1/18.6 shooting, 11.3 apg, 8 rpg on a 3rd seed
 
If Harden took as many shots as Westbrook does, he'd be the higher scorer. He's already averaging more assists. He's clearly leading his team to a better record (6.61 SRS v 0.82 SRS) on an equally bad team.
 
The main reason for you taking Westbrook over Harden is because Russ averages two more rebounds per game, as point guards? It's such a weak argument. 

 
I'm not necessarily taking Westbrook.  I'm saying the voters will because most of them are dumb as fuck and way behind the analytics moment. 

 

[CameronCrazy06]

Since you love to do these comparisons

Norris Cole
Victor Oladipo
Doug McDermott
Taj Gibson
Steven Adams

Is not better than

Patrick Beverley / Lou Williams
Eric Gordon
Trevor Ariza
Ryan Anderson
Clint Capela

 

[bosoxlover12]

Come on man. 
 
You can't put out the most ideal situations for Houston, but put in a random list for OKC. List what was actually used instead of random lines
 
 
The two most used lineups with Harden were with Capela, Anderson, Ariza, and Beverley / Gordon (Beverley has 90 minutes more with those 4 than Gordon does). For OKC it is Adams, Sabonis, Roberson, and Oladipo, by a significant minutes gap from the next tier. 
 
I'm actually shocked how little Westbrook plays with Kanter, because he was a huge part of my reasoning for what I said.
 
And in either case, both of those supporting casts are not good. Yes, Houston's is better, but its still weak as fuck.

 

[CameronCrazy06]

How is that a random group? I put the best player at each position for both teams? I'm sorry OKC's lack of a supporting cast startled you