@JTM. Gary Harris and Jokic didn't play. Harris has been solid since last year and only played 5 games this season. Jokic sucked as a PF but has been awesome again as a center.

Mudiay has barely improved from a near WOAT season. I'm starting to get worried that he'll never learn to put the ball in the basket, but those fears are erased when I see Jamal Murray. He's still very young though and has time, but it sucks to see a league-average (16th in SRS) team try to win with a terrible young PG.

Nurkic has been whatever.

They lose that game yesterday if Malone didn't wisen up and bench Mudiay and give his mins to Jameer.

re: DMo

So what the **** happens now??

Larry RaCoon's breakdown: http://cbafaq.com/blog/?p=381

Yeah this is weird. Personally I think he's going to fail the physical again and they are going for something out of the box to get paid, I have no idea, probably not possible.

The only "rights" he could potentially be referring to is the "2" days to report for a physical, maybe they are just waiting a day to survey the league or something? But that does no good, since Houston control his destiny at this point. Unless, Houston is working with Dmo and essentially both agreed to leave on peaceful terms, and the only thing they did was push Brooklyn away as a suitor, and found (rumored) Utah to be open to giving more cash.

Definitely seems like tampering, if that's the case. I doubt that's the case though. No idea what's happening.

6-3 last night. Let's keep the wining streak alive on Tuesday

Orlando @ Washington (-3)

Orlandos guards will have trouble stopping beal and wall and the Wizards will nail down a solid win 102-96

Bulls @ Pistons (-5.5)

I'm going to go with the pistons on this one I like the way they've been playing recently and their solid perimeter defenders in KCP and Marcus Morris will give an ailing Dwyane Wade and Mr Butler enough fits to cover the points 107-100

Knicks @ Heat (-1.5)

The Heat will be unable to recover from injurys to 3 of their important wing players in Josh Richardson, Dion Waiters, and Justice Winslow as the Knicks win their 4 straight in a tough road game 102-96

Sixers @ Grizzlies (-7.5)

The Sixers are expected to play without Joel Embiid tonight which will be big for Marc Gasol, Tony Allen and the patchwork Grizzlies fend them of 97-86 in a stifling defensive performance in front of their home crowd

Spurs (-4.5) @ Wolves

I like the spurs in this game they had an impressive road win last night against a very tough Bucks team and they're facing a wolves team that lacks consistency in both ends of the quart. 105-97 spurs

Suns @ Jazz (-6.5)

The Jazz continue to roll vs this young suns team. Booker shoots 32% and jazz win 102-93

https://streamable.com/ip0i

BOOM

I've seen that video posted before. Cool. My drivel is what drives me. What's it like living in San Francisco? You must feel so at home. No reason to deflect from the truth. You and your team were born bitches.

LeBron GOAT. nit3.runn3r out. :beer: me.

The Bulls are now 11-10 against the easiest schedule in the league with Jimmy in godmode and Wade shooting 36% from thre on 4 attempts per 36.

The regression is going to be rough.

Oh cool, we have one moron who thinks the ultimate insult is to refer to someone as a woman and then we have another moron who thinks the ultimate comeback to that ultimate insult is to insinuate that the first moron is gay.

You should both punch yourselves in your respective faces.

Then there's that one guy in here who's a CUCK.

So the Jizz with already 40+ games missed by starters, is the 6th best team in NBA, and they'll probably win the division

They really need to avoid 4th/5th place, they can beat the Spurs and Clippers in a play-off serie, but Warriors will certainly stomp them

How many wins needed to finish above spurs or clippers ?

mid 50s may beat the clips. spurs looking like a high 50s, 60+ team

A healthy Jazz are the only western conference team with nonzero equity against the Warriors. Hill/Hood/Hayward/Favors/Gobert is a lineup with 5+ defenders that can switch everything. I'm not saying they're the 2nd best team in the west btw (SAS/LAC are better in a vacuum, and favorites h2h) I just think matchup wise they're the only team that could give GS any trouble.

antoine walker had weird shooting stats:
http://www.basketball-reference.com/...walkean02.html

had a really low rate of long 2 attempts, (10-23ft) only ~11%. an ideal moreyball number, especially for a guy who aved 26usg career and was a good passer. also was really ahead of his time as a stretch 4, led the league in 3pa from 2001-2003, led the league in 3s 2001, and shot 36% career

with those facts you'd expect him to be somewhat efficient, but no he was pretty bad and cracked 50ts only ONCE. one reason being he was really bad inside, career 56% at rim which is quite bad for a guy his size, probably even more importantly he shot 35% from 3-10ft, which was 20% of his fga. free throw rate also wasn't great, and he was a career 75% shooter

would be interesting if his clone got drafted this year how he would go - he def seems like a legit bad defender and athlete in general

holy **** this GIF has potential

He shot 32.5% career from 3 not 36%. Given his ridiculous volume and the fact that he shot 63% from the FT line, not hard to believe his TS%.

They're missing their first two guys off the bench and management is forcing Hoiberg to play Portis ahead of Felicio, theyll be okay. It would be more concerning if you were a playoff team last year with an established coach and struggling to stay at. 500 (pistons, hawks) and big Al is missing bunnies playing for a coach who has never won a playoff series. The east is open for whoever wants to play LeBron in the ecf

yeah idk what i was looking at to get the wrong 3pt and ft%... lolhim in the normal way i guess

OK, Minnesota ma'am.

Not sure how factual this is, but his weak FT shooting supposedly had him rushing shots at the rim and avoiding contact, probably contributing to his low efficiency there.

The Pistons have virtually the same record as the Bulls but have played the fifth hardest schedule and have been missing their best offensive player. They have the second best drtg in the entire league and no one on the team is really due for any obvious regression. The offense should only get better with a PG who's actually willing to shoot 3s.

The Pistons are better than the Bulls by any objective measure even without Reggie. The Bulls are only missing two garbage bench players who arguably make them worse, not better.

I mean the pistons are paying Jon Leuer 10 million this season, hard to find a bigger indication that your organization is clown shoes than that one.

Took a look at the tough pistons schedule and see two losses to the nets, and one each to the suns and magic. I also saw a 32pt loss to the clips and a 23pt loss to the cavs. It's probable the pistons take the hawks spot but they'll probably open on the road with that sort of shrinkage from actual good teams.