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Wolves hired Thibs apparently.

Just curious, but how do you not like the guy? I get thinking he is in over his head, but what has he done to make you dislike him? I mean, name one thing he is good at. "Motivating" players? Being "inspirational"? What does he do well as an NBA coach? Also, the lack of any inte...

At least they're not interviewing Mark Jackson and Sam Mitchell... Kings are such poor bastards

Flagrant Fowl wrote:The second round in the West is going to be fantastic. The East is a snoozefest as usual.

Yesterdays game would beg to differ

What about Blatt? Would you be interested in him? I don't think his firing had much to do with his coaching skills.

Mori Chu wrote:Ws now have 70 wins. Wow.

Jinx.

There's gonna be mental fatigue doing what they do on a nightly basis. They've pulled out an incredible percentage of last second shots and miracle comebacks. The poise that they displayed during those times of desperation are particularly impressive. But eventually it catches up to you. I think th...

Warriors look much more vulnerable than for the majority of the season. Maybe they peaked too soon, like Hawks last year.

It has to suck being a Philly fan so much (at least currently). Three years of absolute garbage and their picks don't even play.

Doesn't seem like they learned anything from last year.

Mori Chu wrote:LOL @ Brooklyn Celtics.

It's nice when other teams do the tanking for you.

I don't think Archie is considered a piece of the future. Not sure why, but they seem to be treating him as a lost cause. That leaves only the d-league signing without minutes.
I also believe it's better for Booker to play in a "serious" line-up rather than with 3 other guards.

Isn't Budinger the only other 3 on the team though? I'm not sure anyone would be much happier with him getting more minutes. And with Tucker's 9 shots it's not like he's stealing the spotlight.
Though I suppose if they played Dragic at the 3, they could try it with Goodwin or Jenkins.

Miami's rookies are balling though. Not KAT level ofc, but very valuable.

I believe you can still swap them?

Warriors defense hasn't been anything worth mentioning lately. At least when I watched them, haven't checked the stats. Dallas scored 36 in the first against them just now.
They still lead though because Curry is a maniac.

I actually really agreed with a lot of the Xs-and-Os stuff Jeff spoke about, but his issue was getting buy-in from players. I think he expected the effort would come from players more naturally and struggled with pushing their buttons. Watson has the exact opposite issue. Put them together and you ...

Split T wrote:Surprisingly, Amare ranks like 6th among PF in defensive rpm, ESPN's new stat. Not sure how accurate it is though. In support, almost all of the highly thought of defensive players score at the top of the ranking.

I don't think Amare even plays PF.

Miami has a corpse of a frontcourt. Haslem, Anderson (they traded him mid season though), Amare are all old, Bosh and McRoberts have a lot of health problems. I guess that's why Deng is their PF now.

He has occasional 20+ minute games, like yesterdays 28. Bucks have several injured guards. Freak looks awesome now that he's their playmaker.