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2016-17 NBA - 1st Half


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Last season ended with Cleveland hoisting the trophy while everyone rightly laughed at the most deserving collapse in NBA history. 

This season features a GS team that's (on paper) better than the last one. And no one on the East's side remotely ready to take the throne from the king. The same 2 teams have never met three straight NBA Finals, but this may be the year. 

Of course, regardless of how it ends, this season will also be it for GS since:

a) Curry's fluke contract ends at the end of this season,

b) they WILL break up the team because they're not letting the best shooter in the era leave, and they don't want to pay an insane luxury tax; and most importantly...

c) The owners are locking out the players about 60 seconds after the Finals end. 

But, for now, game on!

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1 hour ago, Dolfan in NYC said:

 

c) The owners are locking out the players about 60 seconds after the Finals end. 

 

Supposedly the new CBA is all but a done deal, so we'll avoid this at least.

The Thunder waived Mitch McGary and it sounds like he's headed overseas.  Don't do drugs, kids.

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CBA looks to be locked for nearly a decade now.

GSW will have no trouble bringing back their big four next year, and they'll go the Miami route and just keep adding vets who want a ring more than money.

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Serious question. Does Klay Thompson average more than 14 ppg this year?  Whether he likes it or not, he's probably about to become 2014 Wes Matthews...3rd option, 3 and D guy.  That is not a bad role to have, but will he like it?  I know this GSW team is scary on paper, but they have problems if you dig in. Interior defense being the biggest, and the issue of sharing the scoring load.  If they find a way to have 3-4 dudes averaging 15-20, rather than 2 dudes scoring 30, THAT is a scary team.  They WILL miss Bogut, not just on defense, but passing out of the high post too.  Zaza is good, but he's not Bogut.

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San Francisco-based billionaire/hedge fund manager Chris Hansen is now going to privately fund a new arena in Seattle, so the pressure on the NBA to revive the Sonics is going to be increased signifigantly.

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I feel like whoever wins sixth man of the year this year is going to have a huge say on the title picture like no other sixth man has previously. Looking over it this year, standard of bench depth is probably at an all time low. The top 3 teams from last year all took a huge hit in respect of this year, and obv. quality in starting fives across the league is way up as a direct effect.

Knicks' starting 5 is as good as its been in years. That bench has maybe 2 guys that will definitely have a contract by the end of the season.

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F the Dubs. I hope they never win a game. 

This is part 3 of Steph Curry's deal with the devil. Part 1 was the glory (winning the championship). Part 2 was the fall (choking in the finals). Part 3 is the pestilence. Expect an injury or embarrassing scandal (like cheating on his annoying wife).

Durant should've stayed in OKC.

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11 minutes ago, Lawful Metal said:

F the Dubs. I hope they never win a game. 

This is part 3 of Steph Curry's deal with the devil. Part 1 was the glory (winning the championship). Part 2 was the fall (choking in the finals). Part 3 is the pestilence. Expect an injury or embarrassing scandal (like cheating on his annoying wife).

Durant should've stayed in OKC.

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On 10/24/2016 at 11:57 PM, RandomAct said:

Serious question. Does Klay Thompson average more than 14 ppg this year?  Whether he likes it or not, he's probably about to become 2014 Wes Matthews...3rd option, 3 and D guy.  That is not a bad role to have, but will he like it? 

On the upside, Klay will get a lot of open threes this season. On the downside, Klay is a streaky shooter and as a result he will have nights like last night which will look even worse because he won't have as many layups or pull ups. Plus he goes from being the secondary scorer(primary most of the time when Steph wasn't on the floor) to third scorer(secondary when either Durant or Curry isn't on the floor.)

That said we lost to the Spurs. If we lose to the Pelicans I'll start worrying.

 

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   He didn't just drop fifty. He went for 50, 16 boards, seven steals, five assists and four blocks. Nobody has ever filled a stat sheet like that in NBA history. It's the first 45 point, 5 assist, 5 steal game since they started counting steals, and then throw in the rest.

And they lost. 

Granted, Holiday and Evans will theoretically make them better, but yikes

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WOOO!!!   LAAAKERS!!!!  Tied for the best record in the league!!!

Definitely some sloppy basketball, I guess we'll see if LA has actually improved or if Houston is just that terrible.  

And that's even with Peace apparently thinking he was still a Rocket.  I think he literally helped Houston get six points or so in the two minutes he was on the court.

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A guy in Philly got kicked out of the game last night for flipping Westbrook off. What kind of bullshit is that? It's Philly, the city that hates you back. Flipping off a visiting player is the city's birthright.

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