NBA Thread 2006-2007

[MaestroZidane]

He can dream all he wants, Its NEVER gonna happen

 

[Deisler]

Sacramento likely will loose the Kings to Anaheim or Las Vegas quoting ESPN

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Vegas NEEDS a professional sports franchise. And the Maloofs are just the people to do it.

 

[Hopeunited]

oh what the hell, the Hawks are amazing. They're playing like they've played together for a decade, the teamwork and spirit is unbelievable. And when it does get a little dull for them, there's Joe Johnson to ask upon. Damn...

and Yao Ming with 7 rejections! 5 of them on Eddy Curry I think, haha.

 

[Jacky]

jose calderon is playing good..told ya he needed time to adjust to the quicker nba gam.... someone on sg was hating on him last year... who was it?
*points up*

 

[Hopeunited]

jose calderon is playing good..told ya he needed time to adjust to the quicker nba gam.... someone on sg was hating on him last year... who was it?
*points up*

hahaha. No I'm still not convinced! It was only one game! I know his scoring ability improved this season, but he still has a long way to go in terms of effectiveness as a playmaker and decision making, etc.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

jose calderon is playing good..told ya he needed time to adjust to the quicker nba gam.... someone on sg was hating on him last year... who was it?
*points up*

Thanks for Villanueva by the way. Looks like you really needed TJ Ford

 

[Jacky]

Thanks for Villanueva by the way. Looks like you really needed TJ Ford

yeah... I miss CV.. I like him more than bosh somehow...
calderon is playing with the confidence of a world champion co-captain pg...
tj is playing a little out of hand.. to me it feels like he is playing ahead of himself trying to impress everyone.. if he calmed down a bit he might be better...

 

[Hopeunited]

that was the most pathetic openning 3 minutes I've ever seen.

 

[$teauA]

Man Okafor is averaging like 20 points, 13 rebounds, 4 blocks on 50% shooting so far this season. He has really come back stronger than ever. He's pretty much the only bright spot on a team coached by an incompetent fat ugly bastard who needs to die.

 

[rony31]

surprise surprise, the Raptors are **** again this year. cant believe I stayed up til nearly 1am to watch Baron Davis go off in the 4th Q and rape us up the ass Mitchell's gone this season unless he turns it around.

 

[Hopeunited]

Mitchell's an incompetent douche. Should've been gone a year ago when he made those pathetic decisions with timeouts down in crunch time.

 

[$teauA]

I don't understand the Bobcats. The 5 wins that we have have come against teams that at the time were leading their divisions (3 of them against Cleveland, San Antonio and Detroit) yet we stink it up against everyone else

 

[Deisler]

Much like the Knicks. Out of those 6 wins 5 came on the road. Our Garden Record is 1-7. Pathetic.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

The Bobcats are stupid. Felton, Morrison, Wallace, May, Okafor. There's your starting five. None of this Brevin Knight bull****, he couldn't play for any other team in the league, so why give him those minutes when you don't have to?

By the way, can you all apologize for telling me I was stupid when I said Deron Williams was better than Ray Felton back on draft day 2005?

 

[$teauA]

The Bobcats are stupid. Felton, Morrison, Wallace, May, Okafor. There's your starting five. None of this Brevin Knight bull****, he couldn't play for any other team in the league, so why give him those minutes when you don't have to?

By the way, can you all apologize for telling me I was stupid when I said Deron Williams was better than Ray Felton back on draft day 2005?

DUDE trust me I KNOW!! That is the concensus feeling among all Bobcats fans and everyone here in Charlotte. Brevin Knight is nothing more than a back up 15 minutes per game PG but our coach Bernie Bickerstaff has a f*cking man crush on him. In a recent interview he actually stated, honest to God, that Brevin Knight is the best player on our roster......he actually said that . The only time Felton gets to play PG is when Knight is out injured, and the two games this year when Brevin has been injured and Felton has started he has averaged 16 points and 10 assists with a 1-1 record. Felton can't produce as an SG, he's never played that position but Bernie is an absolute f*cking moron. If he was our starting PG every night he would put up the same numbers that Paul and Williams are putting up, it has nothing to do with his skill, he's just constantly played out of position and it's all because of Bickerstaff. EVERY BOBCATS FAN HATES THE HELL OUT HIM AND WANTS HIM OUT!! He makes the most retarted substitutions too. On the Bobcats forum that I visit, we have come to the conclusion that they are just completely random, in other words he has no substitution patterns and he also has no idea who should be on the floor in certain situations. Even worse, he keeps playing the most retarted line-ups with Wallace at PF when he has May on the bench who has been putting up 10 and 7 with 48% shooting only getting about 20 minutes a game. The man would be putting up 20+ easy if he was given the minutes, yet Bernie only plays him sparingly .

There's so many things that make me angry about this team and they all start and end with Bernie f*cking Bickerstaff. He is the worst coach I have ever witnessed as a basketball fan. Doc Rivers owns him, no contest (in fact in the first Bobcats - Celts game this year, Rivers outcoached him down the stretch, go figure....Doc Rivers outcoached somebody and that somebody is still an NBA coach).

One thing is for sure, as long and Bernie is our coach the Bobcats won't improve or go anywhere. As long as Bernie is our coach BK will start and play PG for us with Felton being shoved aside and we will lose 75% of our games.

When your coach thinks that BK is the best player on a roster with Emeka Okafor, Gerald Wallace, Adam Morrison, Sean May and Raymond Felton you're not really gonna go anywhere. (btw I believe all those guys are WAY better than BK and should all start).


I hate that I've been putting up with this s*it for 3 straight years now. I'm at the point where I'm actually wishing for BK to go down with a season ending injury just so Felton can be our PG

 

[$teauA]

Hell just look at what Sean May has done when he has gotten at least 25 minutes per game:

vs. Indiana: 33 minutes, 10 points (5-11), 10 rebounds
vs. Cleveland: 27 minutes, 14 points (6-13), 9 rebounds, 3 blocks
@ Boston: 29 minutes, 10 points (4-12), 1 rebound*
@ New Orleans: 29 minutes, 18 points (7-16), 11 rebounds
@ New Jersey: 25 minutes, 20 points (8-12), 7 rebounds, 5 assists
@ Atlanta: 38 minutes, 21 points (7-16), 17 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 blocks

*he was played out of position the whole game at SF and had to guard Pierce in instances

You're telling me that if you gave this man 35-40 minutes a game he wouldn't be averaging 20 and 10 with 2.5 assists and 1.5 blocks??? Why is he not playing?????????????? Why is Gerald Wallace starting games at SF????????? Why can't I see Okafor and May out there for 35-40 minutes a game averaging 38 and 24 together? WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY????? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I HATE THIS S*IT

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Well, I won't go so far as to say that May would go for 20 and 10, but he has exceeded the tiny expectations I had for him as a pro. May has definitely proven me wrong and it's a shame that he doesn't play more as you have shown.

The Bobcats have actually drafted pretty well too. I thought the May pick was outrageous, but he's turned out decent. The Okafor, Felton, and Morrison picks were all ones that not only I endorsed, but I felt were the ONLY picks available. Those picks were ideal. Wallace is a solid player too and a legit starter in the league.

But you know what Alex, I think the Bobcats need one more ****ty year. If I'm MJ right now I let Bernie ruin the season and make a push for high lottery in the 2007 draft. If you land a Kevin Durant, a Brandan Wright, a Josh McRoberts (if you are around 9 or 10; he'll be a nice player in the league as long as he doesn't have to score), a Joakim Noah or Al Horford, or even Greg Oden, you're all of a sudden legit. Then you can spend that cap space on a scorer. And all of a sudden you're sitting with Felton and Knight at PG (Felton starting of course), Morrison, Wallace, and a good free agent on the wings, and May, Okafor, and Wright/Durant/McRoberts/Noah/Horford/Oden in the front court. Or if you draft someone like Chase Budinger then you sign a FA big man. This draft is going to be incredibly deep (especially for big men at the top), and I think scorers in the NBA are a dime a dozen. You could be a playoff team next season, but I think pushing it with a good coach and a sensical rotation puts you at the 12th pick and a some good feelings going into next year. Big deal.

 

[$teauA]

Well, I won't go so far as to say that May would go for 20 and 10, but he has exceeded the tiny expectations I had for him as a pro. May has definitely proven me wrong and it's a shame that he doesn't play more as you have shown.

The Bobcats have actually drafted pretty well too. I thought the May pick was outrageous, but he's turned out decent. The Okafor, Felton, and Morrison picks were all ones that not only I endorsed, but I felt were the ONLY picks available. Those picks were ideal. Wallace is a solid player too and a legit starter in the league.

But you know what Alex, I think the Bobcats need one more ****ty year. If I'm MJ right now I let Bernie ruin the season and make a push for high lottery in the 2007 draft. If you land a Kevin Durant, a Brandan Wright, a Josh McRoberts (if you are around 9 or 10; he'll be a nice player in the league as long as he doesn't have to score), a Joakim Noah or Al Horford, or even Greg Oden, you're all of a sudden legit. Then you can spend that cap space on a scorer. And all of a sudden you're sitting with Felton and Knight at PG (Felton starting of course), Morrison, Wallace, and a good free agent on the wings, and May, Okafor, and Wright/Durant/McRoberts/Noah/Horford/Oden in the front court. Or if you draft someone like Chase Budinger then you sign a FA big man. This draft is going to be incredibly deep (especially for big men at the top), and I think scorers in the NBA are a dime a dozen. You could be a playoff team next season, but I think pushing it with a good coach and a sensical rotation puts you at the 12th pick and a some good feelings going into next year. Big deal.

Not if Bernie is still our coach :fool: (he did say he was stepping down at the end of the season though).


BTW I've been thinking this stuff over and I tend to believe the same things that you just said. Bernie is not a bad GM, he's actually pretty good (we'll see how he handles all that cap space when the time comes to sign big free agents) he's just a HORRIBLE coach and he has his son and Jeff Capel to assist him

BTW Wallace is looking more and more like a 6th man this year (:/). He started off great against Indiana and then in the latter stages of the 2nd quarter got fouled really badly by a flagrant from Granger (he was flying for a dunk and Granger came from his blind side and smacked his arms which caused Wallace to completely lose his balance and fall back first on the hard ass floor, he hasn't been the same ever since).

If we ended up sucking this year and got the 1st pick and ended up with Oden I'd be stoked but I just don't like to go into a season thinking that "we'll just play it out for the lottery" mindset, it doesn't make it fun to watch games and it almost seems like some games are lost on purpose.

 

[$teauA]

The Suns just beat the Nets 161-157 in double OT

Nash had 42, 13 and 6, 3 of those 42 a 3 in the last seconds to take it to overtime.

Kidd tied Wilt for 3rd most ever triple doubles with 76, he had 38, 14, 14.

crazy numbers, both teams shot over 50% from the field and over 50% in 3s and both shot over 80% in FTs

NBA at its best