NBA Season 2021-22

[pokeKingCurtis]

By the way there was a pretty good article on espn a few months back about star hunting or just having a superstar isn’t the way to build a team a team anymore. In the past there were times just rolling the ball out with Gianni’s, Durant, jokic, Embid, doncic would guarantee you win the series. Teams would always talk about star hunting. I think because of a combination of the super max and teams really improving on picking on a teams weakness depth and a bunch of good players is now better than one superstar.

I'd like to read that because I've never found that to be true.  Yes, you've historically needed a top 5 player to win championships, but those guys lose playoff series all of the time and do so to teams that don't have those top 5 type players.  And if you look at the champions the last time there wasn't a champion with a clear cut top 5 player was the 14 Spurs and before that was the 04 Pistons (though it is certainly a real possibility this year - Boston, Miami, and Phoenix all could win this year and don't have an arguable top 5 player).

I wanna see the article too , just to see what they're basing their assertions on

[SparzWizard]

Are we the only home team that failed to blowout the away team in Game 5 and end up puking it back out?

Memphis up 77-50 at the half.

[hpantazo]

What the heck is up with the Warriors tonight? They are down by 35 in the 3rd to a Morant-less Grizzlies team!

[gouki88]

What the heck is up with the Warriors tonight? They are down by 35 in the 3rd to a Morant-less Grizzlies team!

Completely asleep at the wheel

[SparzWizard]

What the heck is up with the Warriors tonight? They are down by 35 in the 3rd to a Morant-less Grizzlies team!

Warriors and a 3-1 series lead, ahahahahahahaha

[tazzmaniac]

What the heck is up with the Warriors tonight? They are down by 35 in the 3rd to a Morant-less Grizzlies team!

Guess they decided to wait until they get back home.  Maybe the owner wants that extra home crowd payday. 

[Kiorrik]

Dude, that's a 50 point game. Holy balls.

69-121

[tazzmaniac]

Dude, that's a 50 point game. Holy balls.

69-121

At the end of 3 quarters. 

[gouki88]

Klay Thompson is currently a -45

Bane is a +46!

[SparzWizard]

Worst defeat in Warriors postseason history I would say.

That victory performance at home from Memphis should have also been us tonight. The only home team to lose a Game 5 this round. Sigh

[Moranis]

90-29 run in 25 minutes.  All star games they don't score 90 points in 25 minutes and in those the other team is keeping pace.  Absolutely incredible game from the Grizzlies.  If they wouldn't have blown game 4, they'd be firmly in control. 

[Roy H.]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/family-sex-trafficking-north-texas-003255569.html

What a horrific story.

[kraidstar]

By the way there was a pretty good article on espn a few months back about star hunting or just having a superstar isn’t the way to build a team a team anymore. In the past there were times just rolling the ball out with Gianni’s, Durant, jokic, Embid, doncic would guarantee you win the series. Teams would always talk about star hunting. I think because of a combination of the super max and teams really improving on picking on a teams weakness depth and a bunch of good players is now better than one superstar.

I'd like to read that because I've never found that to be true.  Yes, you've historically needed a top 5 player to win championships, but those guys lose playoff series all of the time and do so to teams that don't have those top 5 type players.  And if you look at the champions the last time there wasn't a champion with a clear cut top 5 player was the 14 Spurs and before that was the 04 Pistons (though it is certainly a real possibility this year - Boston, Miami, and Phoenix all could win this year and don't have an arguable top 5 player).

I wanna see the article too , just to see what they're basing their assertions on

Is Curry honestly a top-5 guy right now? Not so sure he is better that Tatum.

But I do think the league is shifting. Ball movement is finally getting its due. The Jordan/Iverson/Kobe/Stern street ball era is gone. A team like the Warriors are great not just due to individual talent, but how they play together. Same with the Suns, Heat, Celtics, Grizz.

Note I didn't mention the dysfunctional Sixers. Or the dysfunctional Nets.

Stars only take you so far unless they mesh with the guys around them. This has always been true, but with the 3pt game getting more and more important,  so does team chemistry.

And despite what we've seen against Giannis, for the most part the officiating is more fair than it used to be. In the Stern era superstars would get calls until their team won. Period. As much as we gripe now, it used to be much worse. David Stern would never have allowed the CP3 Suns to beat the Lakers.

But in the modern league with slightly less corrupt refs the 2001 Kings probably raise the banner.

[Moranis]

By the way there was a pretty good article on espn a few months back about star hunting or just having a superstar isn’t the way to build a team a team anymore. In the past there were times just rolling the ball out with Gianni’s, Durant, jokic, Embid, doncic would guarantee you win the series. Teams would always talk about star hunting. I think because of a combination of the super max and teams really improving on picking on a teams weakness depth and a bunch of good players is now better than one superstar.

I'd like to read that because I've never found that to be true.  Yes, you've historically needed a top 5 player to win championships, but those guys lose playoff series all of the time and do so to teams that don't have those top 5 type players.  And if you look at the champions the last time there wasn't a champion with a clear cut top 5 player was the 14 Spurs and before that was the 04 Pistons (though it is certainly a real possibility this year - Boston, Miami, and Phoenix all could win this year and don't have an arguable top 5 player).

I wanna see the article too , just to see what they're basing their assertions on

Is Curry honestly a top-5 guy right now? Not so sure he is better that Tatum.

But I do think the league is shifting. Ball movement is finally getting its due. The Jordan/Iverson/Kobe/Stern street ball era is gone. A team like the Warriors are great not just due to individual talent, but how they play together. Same with the Suns, Heat, Celtics, Grizz.

Note I didn't mention the dysfunctional Sixers. Or the dysfunctional Nets.

Stars only take you so far unless they mesh with the guys around them. This has always been true, but with the 3pt game getting more and more important,  so does team chemistry.

And despite what we've seen against Giannis, for the most part the officiating is more fair than it used to be. In the Stern era superstars would get calls until their team won. Period. As much as we gripe now, it used to be much worse. David Stern would never have allowed the CP3 Suns to beat the Lakers.

But in the modern league with slightly less corrupt refs the 2001 Kings probably raise the banner.

Curry is arguably a top 5 guy.  I think you can really only say that Giannis, Durant, Embiid, and Jokic are definitively better than Curry at the moment.  And yes, Durant is still better than Tatum despite what happened in the series.  I think you can realistically argue several guys in that 5th spot, I just don't think Tatum is there yet. 

[Who]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/family-sex-trafficking-north-texas-003255569.html

What a horrific story.

That is insane. Who could consider her a runaway when she goes missing in the middle of a ball game!! That is awful.

I am not mad at the Mavs. 20,000 people coming through the door every game; how are you never going to let someone with a fake ticket pass through? It'll happen. That is the way it is.

But the police reaction afterwards? Awful.