The 2008/2009 NBA season thread

[w.axl.rose]

Who's excited for tomorrow's game?

And I don't mean Spurs/Suns. 

im ready to see the Celtics winning streak come to an end   

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

Who's excited for tomorrow's game?

And I don't mean Spurs/Suns. 

im ready to see the Celtics winning streak come to an end   

I wish man, I just hope it's a close game.  I can't see how we could beat Boston, considering we lost to those two Florida teams. 

That, and Boston is really really good.  Rajon Cajun' Chicken Kickin' Rondo is the premier PG in the NBA, I thought they would have lost their edge when Posey left.

[w.axl.rose]

here comes the 19th losing streak for boston 

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

Merry Christmas Boston!

[Eazy E]

Boston dropped two in a row... what's going on?

[D]

Its called west coast trip.

[faldor]

Its called west coast trip.

Yeah I wouldn't worry too much about Boston.  I'm amazed they got off to such a great start actually.  I didn't expect them to be as good this year, but so far they've been better.  We'll see if that keeps up.  Unfortunately for them, Cleveland has been almost as good.  Could be a battle for home court advantage, which could ultimately lead to the finals.

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

The regular season all of a sudden matters now.

[Bodhi]

The regular season all of a sudden matters now.

not really...wake me up when the Celtics/Lakers Finals starts in June....no other teams have a chance of stopping either of these teams....It sucks, I'm a Jazz fan, but im also realistic, nobody is stopping L.A or Boston except for L.A or Boston...

[Eazy E]

The regular season all of a sudden matters now.

not really...wake me up when the Celtics/Lakers Finals starts in June....no other teams have a chance of stopping either of these teams....It sucks, I'm a Jazz fan, but im also realistic, nobody is stopping L.A or Boston except for L.A or Boston...

You've never heard of Lebron James?

[D]

I will go out and make a bold prediction that it won't be Boston vs LA


Too many variables in play. Injuries etc


Cleveland should've beat Boston last year. U add Mo Williams and a possible trade for Shawn Marion and u are damn right Cleveland can win. Especially if Lebron keeps driving to the rim.


LA, I don't know..........  Utah are looking amazing and have been without Carlos Boozer almost all season. They have been banged up and not at full strength for any part of the season.

The emergence of Paul Millsap in Boozer's absence will prove huge in the playoffs.

I'll take Boozer, Okur, Millsap, Kirilenko over Gasol,Odom,Bynum and Walton

They have Ronnie Brewer and AK47 to throw at Kobe, Deron williams will eat Fish alive.

so, I think Utah have a nice chance

U can't forget Houston also. When Healthy they are very capable. they have Battier and Artest to guard Kobe and Kobe doesn't do well against Ron.

Don't sleep on Phoenix or Dallas either.  We played LA very close at LA without Josh Howard.

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

I will go out and make a bold prediction that it won't be Boston vs LA


Too many variables in play. Injuries etc


Cleveland should've beat Boston last year. U add Mo Williams and a possible trade for Shawn Marion and u are damn right Cleveland can win. Especially if Lebron keeps driving to the rim.


LA, I don't know..........  Utah are looking amazing and have been without Carlos Boozer almost all season. They have been banged up and not at full strength for any part of the season.

The emergence of Paul Millsap in Boozer's absence will prove huge in the playoffs.

I'll take Boozer, Okur, Millsap, Kirilenko over Gasol,Odom,Bynum and Walton

They have Ronnie Brewer and AK47 to throw at Kobe, Deron williams will eat Fish alive.

so, I think Utah have a nice chance

U can't forget Houston also. When Healthy they are very capable. they have Battier and Artest to guard Kobe and Kobe doesn't do well against Ron.

Don't sleep on Phoenix or Dallas either.  We played LA very close at LA without Josh Howard.

I just want to dispute your points about Utah and Houston.

Boozer has fouled up the chemistry in that locker room with all his talk about getting a raise and becoming a free agent and so on and so forth.

Houston...haha.  Not while Yao Ming is still there!  T-Mac has never done anything in the playoffs, and Artest is liable to go beat up a grandma in the stands because the tennis ball off her walker rolled down to the playing surface.

[D]

Just saying, if u go roster for roster, those teams match up very very well against LA

Rafer alston and Fish is a draw

U got Artest and Battier who can really make Kobe work on offense

Yao is better than Bynum
Luis Scola can do decent on Gasol.

Defensively LA have no body who can guard Yao and really no one that can guard Ron Artest.

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

Just saying, if u go roster for roster, those teams match up very very well against LA

Rafer alston and Fish is a draw

U got Artest and Battier who can really make Kobe work on offense

Yao is better than Bynum
Luis Scola can do decent on Gasol.

Defensively LA have no body who can guard Yao and really no one that can guard Ron Artest.

Do you watch basketball?

You make Yao sound as if he's Shaq in his prime.  No one can guard Yao, HA! 

Artest vs Kobe

The numbers don't lie.

KOBE: 7 Wins, 30.8 ppg, 5.9 rpg, 7.2 apg, 1.7 spg, 102-210 FGs, .486 FG%, 19-45 3-pt FGs, .422 3-pt FG%.

RON RON: 3 Wins, 20.0 ppg, 4.3 rpg, 3.3 apg, 2.4 spg, 72-168 FGs, .429 FG%, 18-48 3-pt FGs, .375 3-pt FG%.

[D]

U are skewering the statistics my friend.

Andruw Bynum or Gasol have no chance guarding Yao in the post.

Yao is averagine 20  and 10 this season. u are acting like he is a scrub or something.


I argue with people on my sports forum all the time.

I would watch Ron against kobe and count ONLY the shot attempts while Ron was guarding Kobe and most of the time he held Kobe way under 45 percent and 20 pts.

That was with Sacramento and Kobe would really get his when Ron would have to switch over to Odom since he was the only one that could guard him also.


Watch sometime the matchup when they play head to head. Don't look at the boxscore because like I said, Ron isn't on him the entire game but when he is, Kobe has problems.

They play January 13th. I will watch and personally count shot for shot what  Kobe does when Ron is guarding him and post it.

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

Yao is a scrub when it matters.

He is softer than a ball of cotton and crumbles in April/May.  Yao makes Pau Gasol look like a manly-man.

Bynum is one of the premier big men in the NBA. 
 
Fuck it, I'll keep my eyes peeled on Kobe and Ron too.  I'll have a scorecard handy and anytime those two are paired up, we'll see what happens.

[D]

No one is gonna shut Kobe down, I am not tryin to say that, but he really makes Kobe work hard and he does a very good job.

Yao is soft, I give u that, but Scola and Landry, Battier.. they got some nice workhorse grinders on this team.

[LunsJail]

The regular season all of a sudden matters now.

not really...wake me up when the Celtics/Lakers Finals starts in June....no other teams have a chance of stopping either of these teams....It sucks, I'm a Jazz fan, but im also realistic, nobody is stopping L.A or Boston except for L.A or Boston...

Me too. And if it's anyone else besides Cleveland then don't wake me at all.

[D]

Boston could go out like my Mavs did a couple seasons ago after winning 67 games or whatever it was.

Atlanta gave them all they could handle a year ago

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

Atlanta gave them all they could handle a year ago

It was all part of the plan.