***2012-13 NBA THREAD!!! New Season/New Thread - LET'S GO!!!!!***

[AsiaticSkinsFan]

Until the Lakers beat the Thunder in the playoffs the Thunder are a better team

The Lakers are old

Listen I don't want to say that because I am a Lakers homer but they're old and who knows how Dwight Howard is going to end up, what if he plays like Orlando Dwight Howard and disappears in the playoffs

when did that happen?

[ixcuincle]

when did that happen?

A few years ago

[AsiaticSkinsFan]

A few years ago

hmmm

[ixcuincle]

DC represent

[AsiaticSkinsFan]

so Eddy Curry is starting at center for the Mavericks tomorrow.

[MLSKINS]

I know I am late, but I have to say something....

I can't believe the Rockets late the Thunder hustle them so bad in that trade. They gave them Kevin Martin AND!!! Jeremy Lamb AND!!!!! Two First AND a Second. What the heck were they thinking?

I know the Thunders chemistry will be messed up in the beginning, but Martin can ball and I think Lamb will get his man too. I think this trade just decided the West for the next couple of years. I don't care who the Lakers and Clippers have, the Thunder is probably the most atletthic team in the West from top to bottom and they have probably one of the biggest home-advantages in the league.

The Rockets are dumb.

[stevemcqueen1]

Rondo is a hot head. Garnett takes cheap shots too, but he picks his battles and their is a method too it. Rondo just gets pissy and it usually hurts his team with his antics.

He played really well tonight though.

Bosh was outstanding.

Wade was great up until the final minutes of the game. He's just never going to have the vision and decision making to truly run the point and the offense stops moving as smoothly without LeBron.

The Heat were still a fantastic team even without LeBron though. Wade, Allen, Bosh is hard to deal with. Boston just couldn't get a strong enough run going to gain ground.

[MLSKINS]

Rondo is a hot head. Garnett takes cheap shots too, but he picks his battles and their is a method too it. Rondo just gets pissy and it usually hurts his team with his antics.

He played really well tonight though.

Bosh was outstanding.

Wade was great up until the final minutes of the game. He's just never going to have the vision and decision making to truly run the point and the offense stops moving as smoothly without LeBron.

The Heat were still a fantastic team even without LeBron though. Wade, Allen, Bosh is hard to deal with. Boston just couldn't get a strong enough run going to gain ground.

Man, I think the Heat might win over 70 this year.

[stevemcqueen1]

Eddie Curry. Elton Brand. Vince Carter. This Mavericks team would be amazing if this was like 2005.

---------- Post added October-31st-2012 at 12:44 AM ----------

Man, I think the Heat might win over 70 this year.

Too old for that IMO. But I do think they can put up the NBA's best record this season. It helps to be in the same division with Orlando, Washington, and Charlotte.

---------- Post added October-31st-2012 at 12:48 AM ----------

Brandon Wright looks like a black Adam Sandler.

---------- Post added October-31st-2012 at 01:03 AM ----------

Dwight Howard doesn't look like himself. He looks slow and like he's lost some spring.

Garnett looked a good deal quicker than Dwight does...

How is he going to cope with all of this new small ball from the other contenders?

[AsiaticSkinsFan]

Mike Brown not running a single PnR for the best PnR point guard and big man in the NBA


Howard dont look explosive at all tho.

[stevemcqueen1]

Man, Dwight can't catch a break. He's getting almost no help defensively and that last foul was weak. Though some of his fouls were just flat out dumb and he never should have committed them. You can't put yourself in that position to where one bad call takes you out.

---------- Post added October-31st-2012 at 01:28 AM ----------

You watch a team like the Mavs with 9 new players and see their instant chemistry and you wonder why it can't be the same for a team like the Lakers.

Having guys as unselfish as Nash and Gasol should mean a really seamless offensive transition for any team. They're herky jerky though, and their defense is bad. Defense also really shouldn't be an issue for a team with Artest and and Dwight. I'd be shocked if they stayed this bad on that end of the court.

I wonder if it's an issue of trust. Does the team trust the coach? Do the stars trust each other? Looks like they haven't figured out how to navigate each other's egos and the expectations from the media and the city yet. I don't know, I just don't get the sense that Dwight is all in. And another thing that gives me trepidation is that Kobe's teams are rarely greater than the sum of their parts. They've got a weird culture there. It's not all about basketball.

[AsiaticSkinsFan]

"I dont know what Im doing"

[Destino]

That offense doesn't seem to fit the lakers. They are running an offense that takes the ball out of Nash's hands and they look robotic.

[stevemcqueen1]

That offense doesn't seem to fit the lakers. They are running an offense that takes the ball out of Nash's hands and they look robotic.

Haven't been able to find a flow.

So far it's been Pau doing some facilitating and then everyone else just getting their own shot doing the handful of moves that made them stars.

They are precisely the sum of their parts right now. I wonder if this is going to get better for them? One of the keys for Boston and Miami was that there seemed to be a ton of trust and a really tight knit bond between the star players. The Big Three in Miami were friends before they joined up. They wanted to play together more than anything. And even still, it took them a while to get to the point where they could just focus on playing basketball.

This is going to be pretty fascinating to watch.

---------- Post added October-31st-2012 at 02:12 AM ----------

Kobe and Nash used to hate each other and Kobe has been a real dick to Pau over the years. Dwight seems guarded about this whole thing and doesn't seem like he really trusts anyone in LA.

---------- Post added October-31st-2012 at 02:11 AM ----------

Kobe and Nash used to hate each other and Kobe has been a real dick to Pau over the years. Dwight seems guarded about this whole thing and doesn't seem like he really trusts anyone in LA.

[Monte51Coleman]

Rondo is a little ***** and Garnett is a bully.

It was a pleasure to watch them go home losers once again.