After a disastrous first half of the season the Ponies are back Feel free to troll them and not discuss!
Last time Warriors and Mavs met as 1-8 seeds, the 8 seed beat the 1 seed. I would love to see that happen again, or would love to see a Warriors sweep of the Mavs.
Fine by me. They screwed themselves out of a great draft pick and for what? A chance to get their asses kicked in the first round? Who do they think they are? The Rockets?
So glad. One of the best drafts coming up and they pretty much had a top 3 pick locked up. Enjoy that 14th pick. Err nevermind, they traded the 1st round pick for Noel. Top 18th protected........ Sixers are the dumbest team ever.
Can't wait to see them get smacked around by the Warriors or Spurs. Even better would be watching them barely miss the playoffs and then not have anything to show for it in the draft. Either way, Rockets win!
Good goood. Let mediocrity continue. They had an opportunity to find a successor to dirk similar to how spurs did it, but failed at the tank. Lost bogut and deron for nothing. Have overpaid Wes. Barnes on superstar money. Noel will probably get a Max. Dirk will retire after next year. Had a perfect opportunity to get a high high end draft pick and talent after acquiring Noel, but instead decide to go playoff hunting. I'm happy for them
Perfectly fine. They are like the Rockets of a few years back (8th seed) except without building pieces going forward and no superstar. Will be in mediocrity for quite a while.
The Thunder have a very tough stretch to end the season. I would love to see them collapse and let the Mavs slide in ahead of them.
I think it's kind of cool that they are doing whatever they can to make the playoffs. Much rather have a franchise icon play in meaningful games in the twilight of his career than toil around with a bunch of scrubs like Kobe did.
How ironic, the Mavs sneak up on the 8th seed and face the Warriors, and beat them, when 10 years the #8th seed Warriors upset the #1 seed Mavs
Mavs could've easily chosen to be in rebuild mode if they had wanted to. They decided not to tank. Lakers could've built a better team around Kobe for his last year if they had wanted to. They decided to tank.
Easily? not really. dallas had an immediate core team filled with vets who have no business in wanting to "tank". disregarding the moves just made, they went into the season with bogut, dirk, matthews, barnes, williams, harris, barea. There original starting 5 with barnes being the youngest in his 5th year is not going to "easily" choose to tank. Lakers could have easily built a better team...please tell us how. Lakers were starting there rebuild already. They didn't decide to tank. They just sucked with there best players extremely way too young. Kobe on his last leg. Randles basically rookie year. Russell rookie year. Clarkson 2nd year. Absolutely no bigs. That team wasn't going to win very many games at all.
And the mavs could have traded away anyone who wasn't a long term piece in order to continue to gain more Ls. If they wanted to. And the Lakers chose to roll with those young players. Anyway, way too down the rabbit hole. Point was, there are a lot of teams that choose to suck(or put themselves in positions to not succeed, or "rebuild") I like that they didn't choose to do that in what is likely Dirk's last year.
So that means they'll be good next year, since that will be when he plays for his next contract. I'm sure the Lakers will be able to build a good team around Brewer by then.
They remind me of the Lowry-Scola era Rockets. Scrappy team that can win against anybody on any given night, but lack that true superstar that gives them an anchor and a scoring presence when things go south. And just like that era of Rockets basketball, I see a lot of 8-9 seeds/#14 picks in their future.
All they had to do that summer was sign Jeremy Lin to keep their playoff hopes alive. but in all seriousness. You don't think a motivated Morey would have kept them afloat at .500, had he made moves earlier like Cuban did for Nowitzki's twilight. Plus, many GMs could have either convinced Gasol to stay, or got something to replace his $20m contract. They wanted the capspace for later, and they wanted to tank. Gasol posted 18/12 that year for the Bulls. Plus they let Kent Bazemore go. They are the Lakers. They can attract players for the spotlight. They could have fought for .500, which is what Dallas is doing now, had they wanted to do that for Kobe's final year. It was a conscious decision to not do anything, to tank and have capspace for the Durant year. Lakers got one of the few meetings with Durant, after all.
