What happened to Washington? Very mediocre ballclub over there. One of the more disappointing clubs along with Houston, New Orleans and maybe Milwaukee & Phoenix.
With @ Cleveland & @ Chicago coming, the Spurs might have a real chance to take over the no 1 spot in the standing at their away game in Oakland @ January 25th. All that historical start going for naught, it has to bite deep inside.
The Pistons game showed that a legit center can beat GSW small ball. GSW was murdered on board tonight. The Spurs are doing the right thing (as always) while the rest of the NBA is busy copying small ball when they don't have good 3p shooters.
Warriors feasted on a weak schedule thus far, but injuries and tougher opponents are going to bring them down.
What happened is that Beal is always injured and missed too many games and that they started the season by playing way too fast and small ball. And their bench even though it's contributing is kinda old. But they have been playing much better lately and they may still make the playoffs. Tonight they were without Beal and Porter their starting wings. Far more dissapointing is Boston who was hailed pre season as a supposedly 50 win team.
Who predicted the no-name Boston team would win 50 games? I'm not sure anyone predicted them to be .500. Brad Stevens is getting a lot of praise. Are you thinking of Atlanta being a disappointment? Even still, I can't really call any East team a disappointment vs some of the West teams like HOU and NOP.
Are you a contributing member? If you are check my thread history I made a thread about it because I was very surprised and kinda angry (about the boston bias). There were many analysts who based on their full of role players roster predicted Boston to be the no.2 seed. Pelton , Nathan Walker (i think his name is) from Nylon and that **** fiftythirty eight site. Supposedly based on stats if you have three meh players vs a star and a scrub the three meh players should win and bring Boston to 50 wins. I said I would bump that thread later to see who was right but I am waiting for the ASW. The dissapointing team in teh East is Boston (if you believed the projections ) and Chicago (if you believed their hype). Washington is also a bit dissapointing but I have watched them and lately they play much better and I fully expect them to get back in the playoffs. They are not far behind. As for Milwaukee you may say it has been dissapointing but for me it's the most exciting this month because finally now that Kidd has gone MIA there is development in every young player and every win they may get comes on the legs of under 25 y.o players. Even MCW has starting hitting 3s.
Please don't take this as an argument,,,,tretty much every prediction I saw had Boston under .500. Maybe there are some others. Regardless, so far, everyone is praising Brad Stevens, so that doesn't jive with Boston being a disappointment.
:grin: Wow lol Relax heypartner. If I take it as an argument so what lol Jeez I must be pretty annoying to you. =_= The ones who made those predictions were only analytical based "journalists". Every other had them around the 7th-8th seed but the analytical guys said noo they will be the second seed. Here is my thread I found it: http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=269629 here look my post with the links ;
well more with so called journalists who think projections is adding 1+1 =2 like players are like simple numbers and there is no chemistry or fit or gameplan. Like Pelton who is so often totally blind and rigid in whatever he says like the numbers mean anything. Too bad the so called analysts won't come out after the season is over to admit their mistake.
There really is not a lot of talent in Washington around Wall. His best teammate can't even stay healthy
