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Opinions varied, but Miami was boom or bust coming into the season. Looks like they might be have an outside shot at being first loser in the East.
 
bigfoot5415 said:
Someone has to bite the injury bug eventually on that team. Two years of healthy play in a row seems unlikely to me.
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the difference is their youth + lack of injury history both work in their favor. curry had injury-riddled seasons early on but found a solution and has been healthy since then. only other guy with serious injury concerns is bogut. everyone else has been super reliable for years. on the other hand, taking the cavs for example, kyrie is legitimately injury prone. so is shumpert. so is varejao. so even with luck being a factor, it's still more likely for guys on the cavs to be hit with injuries than guys on the warriors because they have less established durability.

also, it's worth pointing out they don't need two years of healthy play in a row. they need two playoffs of healthy play in a row. that is especially true given their sick hot start. they can afford to lose a guy or two to injury for a few weeks in the regular season. only thing that matters is how they look come april-june.

SteelSmack said:
They won by 30, I think he's doing just fine.
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you may want to recheck your math. but more importantly, lol @ using a single game result against a fringe-playoff team to justify an inexcusable coaching decision made when the game was neck-and-neck. durant and westbrook are the best duo in the league and okc has one of the worst benches in the league (especially at positions 1-3); you never ever ever ever sit both at the same time unless it's late & the game is out of reach. no exceptions. anyone who would even consider doing this is a moron.

but you're right, they beat a team with virtually no legitimate experience so everything is alllllll good. plenty of reasons to be confident in the great billy d come playoff time.
 
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SteelSmack said:
Yawn. They were up 31 with 2:02 left in the game. The final score wasn't indicative of how badly they beat the Jazz.
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still misses the point. not going to be playing the jazz in the second round, much less the wcf or finals. how do you justify sitting both durant and westbrook at the same time, especially given the rest of that team? how do you have confidence in a coach that'd make such an elementary mistake?
 
Triumph36 said:
still misses the point.
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I may have missed the point, but you missed the argument, captain strawman. All I'm saying is you picked a stupid game to make that argument when they were up 31 with 2 minutes left.

If you think an NBA coach is a failure that cannot be fixed after 15 games (and a 9-6 record with, arguably, their best player out for 6 1/2 of them), I disagree. If you think his rotations 15 games into the season will be exactly the same after 80, I disagree. He'll be fine.
 
So it comes down to the Lakers tonight to stop history from happening... Not very confident in that.

But they do have chuckers in Kobe, Lou and "Swaggy P" so long as the chuckers shots are falling, plus if the young guys(Clarkson, Randle and Russell) can play mature/error free ball and Metta & Hibbert can channel their former defensive selves then the Lakers have a punchers chance to keep history from happening. However I doubt any of that happens, though I will be rooting for the upset.
 
Hasn't taken Paul George long to look like the 2nd best player in the East again.
 
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Triumph36 said:
still misses the point. not going to be playing the jazz in the second round, much less the wcf or finals. how do you justify sitting both durant and westbrook at the same time, especially given the rest of that team? how do you have confidence in a coach that'd make such an elementary mistake?
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Because it's still November? That's what the regular season is for: experimenting.
 
Rich said:
Hasn't taken Paul George long to look like the 2nd best player in the East again.
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This little tear he's on his making him my favorite player in the NBA to watch right now. Eff Stephen Curry. PG is old school NBA incarnate.
 
ESPN during the Hawks, Celtics game calling the Warriors thh most fun team to watch in all of sports. Does anyone agree with that?
 
Snarly said:
ESPN during the Hawks, Celtics game calling the Warriors thh most fun team to watch in all of sports. Does anyone agree with that?
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yes (besides us), watch them
 
Always nice to see Celtics get beat the fuck down.
 
Snarly said:
NBA fans can be so dumb. Yeah like 7 foot 3 kid who can move kinda like Dirk is a bad pick. I really liked the kid and thought all those fans would eat crow.
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gotta raelize, out of all the high picks used on euro bigs, Dirk is practically the only one to pan out, and he was taken 9th.
 
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