NBA 2010-2011 Thread

[Omnis]

Pat gave Eric some of his pimp juice. Bosh also had a double-double, if you're going to mention Howard's.

 

[FishforRent]

For the record: Bosh is UNEVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is a patsy! When teh heat fall to the East ELETE, then Bosh will be cut./

*loves beeing amotional*

 

[Paulie]

I like Bosh, Bosh put the beat-down on ya'll Spurs. I also think he's extremely funny, he has some strange mannerisms.

 

[JohnBM01]

That game was ridiculous between Bucks at Hawks. What was it... 110-85 with Joe Johnson making it rain with 3-point bombs? Tough task upcoming for the Hawks tonight because they will be hosting the Nuggets tonight. I didn't know there were back-to-backs on the same floor. Most back-to-backs I see usually involve either two road games in a row or a home/road game followed by a road/home game. Nuggets at Hawks should be a good game.

Other winners from last night (home team in CAPITAL LETTERS): CHICAGO (PLEASE burn those ugly green uniforms!) winning 98-79 over Washington, INDIANA taking down the New York Knicks 119-117, and PORTLAND taking down Dallas 104-101.


My Rockets will host the Bobcats after a big win at home against the Suns back on Monday. Charlotte is no pushover. The Rockets just have to play focused and just take the fight to the Bobcats.

Best of luck to your teams as well tonight.

 

[Villain]

Clippers are on tonight! Hopefully I'll be able to follow the game while I'm "working."

 

[JohnBM01]

The Rockets never trailed as they won in a blowout- 94-78. I heard that the Suns lost tonight to/at the Hornets. We now have made up a little ground but still have a ways to go to get to that 8th or better Playoff spot. There was a BEAUTIFUL alley oop dunk from Chase to Patrick Patterson as the Rockets were just ballin' tonight! Can't say the same for Charlotte, though. The Bobcats just seemed like they were down a few cylinders or had faulty transmission. Just didn't seem into the game. Fortunately, we didn't play down to the Bobcats. Patrick Patterson was ballin' too. The Kentucky Wildcat got himself a double-double for the Rockets. I think he had 15 points and 11 rebounds.

That's enough about my team. How did YOUR team do tonight (granted they played tonight)?

 

[Villain]

Clippers are getting smacked around. It still hurts to see Elton Brand on the 76ers, and especially when he's got a double-double in the 3rd quarter We're really missing Eric Gordon, too.

 

[Paulie]

Raptors and Heat did poorly today.

 

[JohnBM01]

Madness in college, but also madness in the NBA. The Rockets played like they're pissed off and wanted to beat somebody down for fun. That's what we did to the Boston Celtics tonight here in H-Town. We won in a 93-78 blowout. Even more special is that Rick Adelman is now tied with Red Auerbach for most all-time coaching wins. I think the Rockets are now a half game behind Memphis. I don't know if have the tie-breaker against the Grizzlies, but every win is crucial. We need to win; the other teams we're chasing need to screw up. That's the mentality for a Rockets fan who want to see the 2010 Rockets make the playoffs. The one fear is... are the Rockets getting hot too late to make any significant noise? And if they DO make the playoffs, will they be good enough to play like they want it?

The Rockets rock, but the Utah Jazz want to try to mellow us out on Sunday. In other words... I'm expecting bulls:censored: calls by the refs because they don't want us beating the Jazz (or Spurs or Lakers) But, we'll see what happens Sunday night.


[UPDATE] Rick Adelman now has 938 wins to be tied with Red Auerbach. I forgot to include the total number of wins. I just feel really good for the guy. I do. Even more so if we somehow can win our first NBA championship under Adelman since the back-to-back Clutch City years (1994 and 1995).

 

[FishforRent]

Funny thing about having rings. When its time, its time. Dallas, ermm...........yah, exactly.



















Not saying we'll go all the way, just sayin dallas won't

 

[Villain]

Am I a bad person? College basketball is not interesting to me at all. I'll probably only watch the Final Four...

In NBA news: Clippers have Eric Gordon back and they are playing the Cavaliers right now. It's Mo Williams' and Jamario Moon's first game against Cleveland since the trade, and they seemed pretty pumped for it. As of yet, Moon hasn't gone in, but Williams is playing reasonably well (it's half time). Baron Davis is sitting out due to "back spasms" What a drama queen! It's so sad to see him be such a poor sport, but then a relief to see Mo play his heart out. There must be something to Mo Williams's guard play, he seems to excel with an ultra athletic forward like LeBron.

Follow my logic, Mo excelled with LeBron and now I'm not saying that Blake Griffin is the next LBJ, but him and Eric Gordon might add up to that. Griffin doesn't have the PG shooting range that LBJ has, but he has the power, speed, and athleticism of LeBron. Eric Gordon has that LBJ three point range and shut-down ability. So there you go. Blake Griffin + Eric Gordon = LeBron James.

 

[FishforRent]

Feels odd rooting for the Lakers right now.💡

 

[a6m5]

Here's Patty Mills post from me Paulie might actually like:

Wall Street Journal

By DARREN EVERSON and BEN COHEN

Since we're all brushing up on the finer points of college basketball this week, here's a new vocabulary term to remember: "Three-point goggles."

As you'll see in the NCAA tournament this week, players on teams from Duke to Kentucky will celebrate three-point buckets by fitting themselves with pantomimed spectacles, the kind your kindergartener might make while pretending to be a superhero.

To make the gesture, players form the 'A-OK' sign over both eyes to form "goggles" with their thumbs and forefingers, and (to denote the change in the score) stick the other three fingers up in the air.

Duke star Nolan Smith, Vanderbilt's John Jenkins and Marquette's Darius Johnson-Odom have all donned the goggles in recent games. Kentucky freshman guard Doron Lamb was an early adopter: He's been doing the goggles for at least two months now.

The goggles are the latest fad in a sport that's increasingly full of them. A few years ago the gesture of the moment was "jersey-popping," where players would tug at the chest of their jerseys to show off the school's name. Pre-game dance huddles have had their moment, and continue to be popular. Some players continue to beat their chests after big shots, too.


Last season's craze was the inexplicably popular John Wall dance, which was named for Wall, the star Kentucky guard who later went on to be the No. 1 pick in the 2010 NBA draft. The "dance," such as it was, involved making a muscle with one's bicep and twisting one's fist back and forth.

"Last year we had the John Wall dance," dumbfounded Kentucky coach John Calipari said. "I didn't even know. Now there's a goggles T-shirt that came out, and I'm like, what is that? I'm just trying to make sure they run back on defense."

The goggles started earlier this season in Portland as a joke. Patty Mills, a guard for the NBA's Trail Blazers, liked to tease teammate Rudy Fernandez about his poor eyesight. "I'd always give him a little bit—well, not a little bit, but a lot of grief for not being able to see," Mills said. In the first half of one particular game, Fernandez struggled from long range. Mills said he told Fernandez at halftime that he needed glasses or contact lenses—something.

After halftime, Fernandez hit a few three-pointers. He turned to Mills on the bench and brought his pointer finger and thumb together in a circle over his eyes, with his three other fingers extended upward. "It was like, 'I don't need glasses. I've got these three goggles that work perfectly,'" Mills said.

The goggles caught on with the rest of the team and later, Blazers fans. Before long, as with any worthwhile fad, there were T-shirts. The rest of the NBA took notice, too: The Denver Nuggets' J.R. Smith has flashed his own goggles, as has Detroit's Ben Gordon.

The fad has filtered down to the college ranks and grown to the point now that the three goggles sometimes don't even have anything to do with a three-point shot.

On Sunday, when CBS revealed that St. John's had won a spot in the tournament, the network cut to a live shot of the celebrating team. One of its guards, Dwight Hardy, could be seen mugging for the camera by putting on the goggles.

Teammates had no idea what he was doing. "I can't even tell you, to be honest," said injured guard D.J. Kennedy. "I think he's just showing his love for his neighborhood."

While some teams don't even know where the goggles came from or what the gesture means, others are fully aware. Marquette's players started to mark three-pointers with goggles for their Jan. 10 home game against Notre Dame after Wesley Matthews, a Marquette alumnus now with the Trail Blazers, called Johnson-Odom, a Marquette junior guard, and told him about the latest trend in Portland. "He made sure that we did it," Johnson-Odom said.

When it comes to the goggles, the Golden Eagles are more fanatical than other teams. Because they were early adopters, Johnson-Odom said he expects the fad to endure past this season in Marquette. His teammates wear the goggles after every made three-pointer—and he says students on campus like to flash the goggles on campus. He says he's looking forward to the NCAA tournament, when the three goggles will be on display for everyone to see—even if Marquette's coach, Buzz Williams, pretends not to notice. "He knows that we're doing it, but he doesn't pay attention to it," Johnson-Odom said.

The goggles may have the look of tomfoolery, but most coaches don't seem to mind that their kids are doing it. In fact, the sight of players having such fun might be considered a recruiting tool.

"What happens is the players here are known," said Kentucky's Calipari. "People know who Wall is, who DeMarcus Cousins is, who Josh Harrellson and Darius Miller are. That's what it's about. If that's what happens, that's great."

From Portland, the sight of all these college kids donning make-believe goggles is an unexpected sight. "It's kind of weird to see it catch on," Mills said. "It's cool when you see it. Like, oh, we had a part in that."

I found this article, because there is a story on our local paper website about how the coach wants the players to get back on defense, not making these goggles.

If you've never seen it.....

 

[Villain]

Dude that is so awesome. ^^^

It's like in baseball with the Texas Rangers. If you get a hit you do a small claw, and if you hit a double it's a big claw. Any big play with speed and you do antlers.

The Claw:

Antlers:

 

[Paulie]

Glad to see Toronto beat the Wizzards and not become their 2nd road win of the season. Bargnani and DeRozan combined for 63pts, Reggie Evans had another big rebound night.

 

[JohnBM01]

Rockets had to dig deep to finally hold off the Utah Jazz. It was a 110-108 winning effort for the Rockets. Best of all is that we picked up a huge win in helping us inch closer to Memphis. My biggest fear, still, is that we may be playing great too late to get to at least the 8th playoff seed or better. Our next game isn't until Wednesday. We got the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday night in our next game.

So how are your teams doing today/tonight?

 

[Paulie]

I'm glad you asked John, because today the Raptors beat Oklahoma at their home court! Impressive play from all the players, I'm feeling good about next season.👍

 

[a6m5]

Antlers:

Antlers. 👍 I love baseball!

I'm glad you asked John, because today the Raptors beat Oklahoma at their home court! Impressive play from all the players, I'm feeling good about next season.👍

I heard KD struggled quite a bit in that game. You take his output away from OKC's offense, and that alone makes it an uphill battle for them.

Blazers got beat by the Lakers, but not in the usual fashion. Lakers have clearly kicked it up a notch. I hope they can carry this high into the Playoffs. Kobe was money against the Blazers in the fourth, the game before. He was again, last night. 👍

 

[Paulie]

He still scored 20pts, I think he missed a couple shots but the Raptors played extremely tight defence on him. We got annhilated by the Nuggets today, but I sort of expected that after all the energy they expended last night.

 

[a6m5]

He still scored 20pts, I think he missed a couple shots but the Raptors played extremely tight defence on him.

That's not what I heard. It's a secondhand information, obviously, but what I heard was that he really struggled with his shooting.

 

[Paulie]

That's not what I heard. It's a secondhand information, obviously, but what I heard was that he really struggled with his shooting.

Well wouldn't you if you had great defence being played against you? But yes, he shot 6-21 from the field. I don't recall him getting many if any open looks.

 

[JohnBM01]

As Michael Wilbon would say, tonight is 'Ball Night. Three games are on the card for tonight; two of which on TNT.

You got the Bulls at Hawks followed by the Suns at the Lakers. And then, the non-TNT game is the Wizards at A6m5's Trail Blazers.

There was no NBA on TNT last Thursday night because of the March Madness coverage. Enjoy some NBA 'ball tonight!

 

[a6m5]

Well wouldn't you if you had great defence being played against you? But yes, he shot 6-21 from the field. I don't recall him getting many if any open looks.

Well, you said he had 20 points, with couple of missed shots, so I said that's not what I heard.

On Durant struggling with this shot, I don't think you are giving Durant's game enough credit. Sure, numbers indicate the Raptors did a heck of job defending Durant. But if great defense slowed him down every night, he wouldn't be the player he is today.

 

[sumbrownkid]

Bulls game got boring midway through first quarter. But Mr. Rose gives us another game as evidence why he is the MVP.

Man I'm fired up for the post season.

 

[Villain]

Does anyone else find it to be ironic that the Nuggets are doing better than New York after the Carmelo trade?

 

[JohnBM01]

Good news and bad as far as the playoffs are concerned... the Rockets blew out the Golden State Warriors 131-112 thanks to a solid second half performance. Chuck Hayes (whom I call "Hustle Hayes") FINALLY records the first triple-double of his career: 13 points, 11 assists, and 14 rebounds. The crowd was rocking at Toyota Center as Chuck Hayes finally got that triple-double. All he needed was one point. Now the bad news- Memphis upset Boston on the road. I think they won 90-87 or something like that. We're still two games behind Memphis.

If that's bad news, potentially worse news is to come- three-game East road trip for the Rockets including a back-to-back. Sunday, my Rockets are in Omnis country to go against the Miami Heat. I think we should have won that first meeting had the Rockets played better in Houston against Miami, but a chance to split the season starts this Sunday. Then in the back-to-back, it's at Nets on Tuesday next week followed by at 76ers on Wednesday next week. We're going to have to win while everybody else gets mental lapses to have any 8th seed West aspirations.

If we do eventually make the playoffs, it will guarantee at least one Texas team in the Semifinal round of the Western Conference bracket since it would be San Antonio vs. Houston. And... San Antonio would probably beat us convincingly. Speaking of the Spurs, we get them at home after this three-game Eastern Conference road trip


Other score notes I want to make:
* The Knicks got hammered 111-99 hosting Orlando.
* Big win for the Sixers as they beat Atlanta 105-100 in Philadelphia.
* Raptors get burned 114-106 in Phoenix.
* Heat knocked out the Pistons 100-94 in Detroit.

Games in progress as of this reply: Spurs at Nuggets (98-97 in favor of San Antonio with 7:35 left in the 4th) and Wizards at Clippers (91-90 in favor of the Wizards with 5:04 left in the 4th).

 

[a6m5]

Does anyone else find it to be ironic that the Nuggets are doing better than New York after the Carmelo trade?

Another team belonging to unbelievably self-centered player struggling..... I won't complain. But like Miami, they have too much talent in that organization. If they don't make statement this year, they will next year.

 

[Paulie]

Raptors came so close to winning in Phoenix, they were up by 10 at one point and up by 6pts still with 4mins to go. They obviously died in the arse in the final minutes.

 

[sumbrownkid]

Another team belonging to unbelievably self-centered player struggling..... I won't complain. But like Miami, they have too much talent in that organization. If they don't make statement this year, they will next year.

And that statement is we are a lower 5 seeded team in the foreseeable future.

Until D'Antoni employs defense, Knicks will be cannon fodder for the Celts, Heat, and the Bulls. Especially in the playoffs. The Knicks centers also suck compared to the top three teams in the East.

 

[Villain]

I made a comment on the Nuggets playing better than the Knicks and what happens? Knicks lost to Orlando (no shame in that) for their fourth loss in a row. Nuggets beat San Antonio.

/head explodes.


Worth noting - Blake Griffin had his first** NBA triple-double and in the process beat Elton Brand's record for most double-doubles in a season by a Clipper.


**Game went to double OT.