NBA Season 2018 - 2019

[CelticSooner]

Magic destroying Raptors by 30 after 3 quarters.

Raptors human.

Bucks are the new team to fear apparently. I don’t think anyone fears anyone in the league at the moment.

[blink]

I'm not sure if we have a Nader Watch thread, but he's playing for OKC in a real dust-up with Phoenix right now.   

I know I am probably the last Nader fan on this site, but he did put up 18/5 in 33 min tonight.  Glad to see he did well with PG out tonight.

[Ogaju]

Is Rick Carlisle an idiot or did his team just totally ignore him at the end of today's Pelican game? They did not even look at their clutch star Doncic at the end of the game. The refs robbed Mavericks in this one. Doncic was clearly fouled towards the end and the refs swallowed the whistle.

[bopna]

Is Rick Carlisle an idiot or did his team just totally ignore him at the end of today's Pelican game? They did not even look at their clutch star Doncic at the end of the game. The refs robbed Mavericks in this one. Doncic was clearly fouled towards the end and the refs swallowed the whistle.

Doncic is still a rookie...But look out league because this guy is legit...man wished Danny found a way to nab him in the draft, would have been willing to sacrifice Brown, Rozier and the sac pick for him, I mean Brown and TRoz's value was at an all time high last summer.

[bopna]

I'm not sure if we have a Nader Watch thread, but he's playing for OKC in a real dust-up with Phoenix right now.   

I know I am probably the last Nader fan on this site, but he did put up 18/5 in 33 min tonight.  Glad to see he did well with PG out tonight.

What?..Nader put up astounding numbers better than our golden max player Hayward...that is blasphemous.

[SparzWizard]

Nikola Vucevic 30 points and 20 rebounds....who needs Anthony Davis 

[gouki88]

Nikola Vucevic 30 points and 20 rebounds....who needs Anthony Davis 

Me! He put up his fourth 48/17 game against the Mavs.

[cman88]

amazing that after our poor play we still are only 4.5 games out of first.

[hpantazo]

Nikola Vucevic 30 points and 20 rebounds....who needs Anthony Davis 

Me! He put up his fourth 48/17 game against the Mavs.

Scoring numbers across the board have been nuts this season, mostly because guys are basically no longer allowed to defend due to current NBA officiating,

[gouki88]

Nikola Vucevic 30 points and 20 rebounds....who needs Anthony Davis 

Me! He put up his fourth 48/17 game against the Mavs.

Scoring numbers across the board have been nuts this season, mostly because guys are basically no longer allowed to defend due to current NBA officiating,

No doubt, but I meant across his career. Davis has still dropped 40+ 6 times already this season, which is crazy. His scoring, rebounding and steal numbers have all increased, alongside a massive 2.3 assist per game increase (double what he averaged last season). Dude just won't stop improving.

[Phantom255x]

So the Bucks are pretty much the 1 seed in the East right now. Wow.

But yeah there's a 4.5 game gap between us (5 seed) and MIL (1 seed). We've got to find consistency. I'm not saying we have to beat every elite team in the schedule (though that'd be nice) but there are times we come out and look dominant against one team, then next game come out 100% flat. If we do that all season, then yeah we're finishing as a 4th or 5th seed. If we can improve on that, we're at least a 3 seed, probably even 2 seed.

Lot of time left in the season, but January will be a big month IMO. We're in a tough part of the schedule now but it'll ease up soon and we've got to take advantage again. I'm not concerned about the "we can't beat elite teams" notion because the truth is, we have beaten elite teams this season and we're capable of doing it (we've proven it). Problem is, we're just inconsistent on a game-by-game basis and play down to a lot of the bad/mediocre teams. Fortunately TOR/MIL haven't really run away with the East yet (TOR in particular has stumbled a bit lately) nor have IND/PHI increased the gap at the 3-4 seeds, so there's still a solid chance at a Top-2 seed.

I do think tonight is a must win though. Had a fantastic win against PHI, then came out flat against HOU. If we come out flat again and lose tonight, then I don't like where this season is going. The one great thing about last year's team was that even when they lost, they came back and rebounded in big ways. This year's team seems to have STRETCHES/PERIODS of bad play and that's not a good thing.

Injuries suck and they've especially hurt our depth at C, but as we saw in the PHI game if we put in effort and have confidence, good things will happen. None of that showed in the HOU game though.

[SHAQATTACK]

Nikola Vucevic 30 points and 20 rebounds....who needs Anthony Davis 

Me! He put up his fourth 48/17 game against the Mavs.

Scoring numbers across the board have been nuts this season, mostly because guys are basically no longer allowed to defend due to current NBA officiating,

sad for me ...i enjoy watching defensive effort .  Kinda takes the heart out of old school players that believe in defense.   Little kids want to see buckets , thats their entertainment.  Appreciation of great defense is an adult thing mostly Offense is a TV rating draw for kids and occasional fans without much insight.   True patrons of the game enjoy seeing defensive effort and intensity as well as dunks .

[nickagneta]

So the Bucks are pretty much the 1 seed in the East right now. Wow.

But yeah there's a 4.5 game gap between us (5 seed) and MIL (1 seed). We've got to find consistency. I'm not saying we have to beat every elite team in the schedule (though that'd be nice) but there are times we come out and look dominant against one team, then next game come out 100% flat. If we do that all season, then yeah we're finishing as a 4th or 5th seed. If we can improve on that, we're at least a 3 seed, probably even 2 seed.

Lot of time left in the season, but January will be a big month IMO. We're in a tough part of the schedule now but it'll ease up soon and we've got to take advantage again. I'm not concerned about the "we can't beat elite teams" notion because the truth is, we have beaten elite teams this season and we're capable of doing it (we've proven it). Problem is, we're just inconsistent on a game-by-game basis and play down to a lot of the bad/mediocre teams. Fortunately TOR/MIL haven't really run away with the East yet (TOR in particular has stumbled a bit lately) nor have IND/PHI increased the gap at the 3-4 seeds, so there's still a solid chance at a Top-2 seed.

I do think tonight is a must win though. Had a fantastic win against PHI, then came out flat against HOU. If we come out flat again and lose tonight, then I don't like where this season is going. The one great thing about last year's team was that even when they lost, they came back and rebounded in big ways. This year's team seems to have STRETCHES/PERIODS of bad play and that's not a good thing.

Injuries suck and they've especially hurt our depth at C, but as we saw in the PHI game if we put in effort and have confidence, good things will happen. None of that showed in the HOU game though.

I don't think we came out flat against Houston or even had a bad game offensively. We were good there. The problem was hot shooting for Houston. Houston scored 70 points in the 2nd half. Some of that was defensive effort but some of that was terrific shooting over good defense as well.

Harden was 5-8 from three after one quarter and that's with four of those makes being with tight coverage and a contested shot. Harden went for 17 in the 1st. He ended up 9-18 from three. He usually only makes 4.5 threes a game. That extra 13.5 points he got just from made threes was the difference in the game.

Houston as a whole shoots only 34% from three. They went for 40% that night. 18-45 from three. That's where the C's lost the game. Some of that was defensive effort but more than some of that was knocking down shots even while being defended real good.

Against most of the rest of the league, Boston wins with the performance Boston had against Houston.

[rondofan1255]

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[Phantom255x]

So the Bucks are pretty much the 1 seed in the East right now. Wow.

But yeah there's a 4.5 game gap between us (5 seed) and MIL (1 seed). We've got to find consistency. I'm not saying we have to beat every elite team in the schedule (though that'd be nice) but there are times we come out and look dominant against one team, then next game come out 100% flat. If we do that all season, then yeah we're finishing as a 4th or 5th seed. If we can improve on that, we're at least a 3 seed, probably even 2 seed.

Lot of time left in the season, but January will be a big month IMO. We're in a tough part of the schedule now but it'll ease up soon and we've got to take advantage again. I'm not concerned about the "we can't beat elite teams" notion because the truth is, we have beaten elite teams this season and we're capable of doing it (we've proven it). Problem is, we're just inconsistent on a game-by-game basis and play down to a lot of the bad/mediocre teams. Fortunately TOR/MIL haven't really run away with the East yet (TOR in particular has stumbled a bit lately) nor have IND/PHI increased the gap at the 3-4 seeds, so there's still a solid chance at a Top-2 seed.

I do think tonight is a must win though. Had a fantastic win against PHI, then came out flat against HOU. If we come out flat again and lose tonight, then I don't like where this season is going. The one great thing about last year's team was that even when they lost, they came back and rebounded in big ways. This year's team seems to have STRETCHES/PERIODS of bad play and that's not a good thing.

Injuries suck and they've especially hurt our depth at C, but as we saw in the PHI game if we put in effort and have confidence, good things will happen. None of that showed in the HOU game though.

I don't think we came out flat against Houston or even had a bad game offensively. We were good there. The problem was hot shooting for Houston. Houston scored 70 points in the 2nd half. Some of that was defensive effort but some of that was terrific shooting over good defense as well.

Harden was 5-8 from three after one quarter and that's with four of those makes being with tight coverage and a contested shot. Harden went for 17 in the 1st. He ended up 9-18 from three. He usually only makes 4.5 threes a game. That extra 13.5 points he got just from made threes was the difference in the game.

Houston as a whole shoots only 34% from three. They went for 40% that night. 18-45 from three. That's where the C's lost the game. Some of that was defensive effort but more than some of that was knocking down shots even while being defended real good.

Against most of the rest of the league, Boston wins with the performance Boston had against Houston.

Yeah Houston just had a phenomenal shooting night. Even Austin Freakin' Rivers was killing us.