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2021-2022 NBA Regular Season

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Who Will Win the NBA Title This Season?

  • THE CAVS

    Votes: 56 47.9%

  • The Lakers

    Votes: 4 3.4%

  • The Bucks

    Votes: 15 12.8%

  • The Suns

    Votes: 9 7.7%

  • The Hawks

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • The Warriors

    Votes: 17 14.5%

  • The Brooklyn Betas

    Votes: 9 7.7%

  • The Clippers

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • The Jim Chones

    Votes: 3 2.6%

  • The Timberwolves

    Votes: 3 2.6%
  • Total voters
    117
Eric Gordon is still so good. He can get into the paint and create offense when nothing else is going.
 
So the Warriors are having trouble beating more marginal teams lately, and the Jazz are outright losing to them, with Rudy Gobert recently going off a bit on the squad for playing bad D (looking at some of the box scores lately, I understand why he's mad). Also, Steph Curry is under 40% from 3 for the first time in his career (not counting the season where he played only five games). Warriors and Jazz are both 4-6 in their last ten. Out West, looks like it's the Suns who have been the most consistent (Grizz have been great too but are still very young); I remember some folks thought the Suns were a one-and-done Finals run last year, but they're once again the top team in the conference.
 
Jalen Green with 3 points on a dazzling 0-11 shooting.

His last 10
33.6% FG% (42/125)
20% 3pt% (10/50)
83.8% FT% (26/31)

28.1 MPG
12.0 PPG
4.0 RPG
1.9 APG
1.9 TO/G

Thank you, Houston !
 
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PIP said:
Jalen Green with 3 points on a dazzling 0-11 shooting.

His last 10
33.6% FG% (42/125)
20% 3pt% (10/50)
83.8% FT% (26/31)

28.1 MPG
12.0 PPG
4.0 RPG
1.9 APG
1.9 TO/G

Thank you, Houston !
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The one thing I never understood was all the hype about him being a transcendent offensive player...but not a good shooter.

Always though that was odd. So yes, I was wrong about Garland....But I was right about Barnes over Green.

@RchfldCavRaised

:chuckle:
 
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The one thing I never understood was all the hype about him being a transcendent offensive player...but not a good shooter.

Always though that was odd.
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I would be so deflated if I'm a Rockets fan. You just had Harden for basically 10 years and he's about as complete an offensive player you're gonna find in today's NBA.

Wasn't enough.

Then you get this kid and he's allegedly a future can't miss scorer.... Literally doesn't look to be 10% of the talent James Harden was for them...

Devastating!
 
^Not to mention that they passed on Jarrett Allen so we could get him for basically nothing.

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PIP said:
I would be so deflated if I'm a Rockets fan. You just had Harden for basically 10 years and he's about as complete an offensive player you're gonna find in today's NBA.

Wasn't enough.

Then you get this kid and he's allegedly a future can't miss scorer.... Literally doesn't look to be 10% of the talent James Harden was for them...

Devastating!
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The Rockets' Harden era is a cautionary tale. It was the true pinnacle of preposterous 1-on-5 basketball, and I don't think we'll see anything like it again. A twisted experiment where, in the end, a front office was seemingly afraid of its own star player after he'd been handed total control of the organization.

Personally, I have never watched uglier basketball than Rockets games in those years. It almost made me hate the sport.
 
Heat Check said:
The Rockets' Harden era is a cautionary tale. It was the true pinnacle of preposterous 1-on-5 basketball, and I don't think we'll see anything like it again. A twisted experiment where, in the end, a front office was seemingly afraid of its own star player after he'd been handed total control of the organization.

Personally, I have never watched uglier basketball than Rockets games in those years. It almost made me hate the sport.
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I mean it worked really, really well. I think Morey made a few mistakes with assembling the team, they really needed a few more elite 3nD guys. The heliocentric model is absolutely viable tho and Harden played a perfect game for it. Don't blame them for your bad taste
 
foucault87 said:
I mean it worked really, really well. I think Morey made a few mistakes with assembling the team, they really needed a few more elite 3nD guys. The heliocentric model is absolutely viable tho and Harden played a perfect game for it. Don't blame them for your bad taste
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It "worked", for a while. Sure.

It also made a mockery of the sport and was torture to watch IMO. Your mileage may vary.
 
foucault87 said:
I mean it worked really, really well. I think Morey made a few mistakes with assembling the team, they really needed a few more elite 3nD guys. The heliocentric model is absolutely viable tho and Harden played a perfect game for it. Don't blame them for your bad taste
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I'd say they had enough; Ariza and Tucker were absolutely ideal additions to that team. Gordon was also a flamethrower and Capela was defensively a monster for them. I hate James Harden, but I can admit that the Rockets co-headlined by him and CP3 was near-perfect roster construction and they likely win a title in most non-KD Warriors years (bitterly, same as the '17 Cavs.)
 
They should have beaten the Warrior in 2018. Game 7 was an absolutely epic choke job, and if CP3 hadn’t gotten injured they would have won anyway. I was enraged because it was the one time I rooted for them, would have preferred to play them in the Finals.
 
Heat Check said:
The Rockets' Harden era is a cautionary tale. It was the true pinnacle of preposterous 1-on-5 basketball, and I don't think we'll see anything like it again. A twisted experiment where, in the end, a front office was seemingly afraid of its own star player after he'd been handed total control of the organization.

Personally, I have never watched uglier basketball than Rockets games in those years. It almost made me hate the sport.
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We totally disagree on Dean Wade, but I'm 100% with you here. Morey almost single handedly ruined the NBA with his extreme, context-independent approach to analytics. Harden era Houston was just an atrocity for the sport.
 
Heat Check said:
It "worked", for a while. Sure.

It also made a mockery of the sport and was torture to watch IMO. Your mileage may vary.
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They took advantage of the rules to win games. This is the kind of logic people had in the 70s when they didnt like 3s and dunking.
 
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