NBA Season 2016-2017

[trickybilly]

2nd place, baby! If we keep things going, we could legitimately have a couple game lead on Toronto at the All Star Break. Just have to take care of business on Wednesday, which is a crucial game.

Don't jinx it please.  Unless your feed is minutes ahead of me.

Man, Raps did not quit there. Still SECOND PLACE BABY!!!

When was the last time this happened? Was Ray Allen still playing for us?

This deep into the season? Maybe Perk was around.

April 7th, 2011. Carlos Arroyo was our back up point guard.

Perk had been traded two months prior, along with Nate Rob, for today's Raps assassin - UNCLE JEFF GREEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(NB. Nenad Krstic was included in the deal too..)

[celticsclay]

Philly doing it again.

Ilyasova was a huge upgrade for that team, and Covington is blossoming further.

Would love to face them in the first round of the playoffs...

Unless you are assuming we overtake the cavs and stay ahead of the raptors how is that possible? Barring a miracle comeback today they are tied with the heat for 14th

[trickybilly]

Yes, I am assuming we overtake the Cavs. 

[greece66]

Found this post on Reddit, I hope it leads to some good discussion

>James Harden is on pace to be the 1st player since Michael Jordan (1987-1989) to lead the NBA in minutes played for 3 straight years.
If Harden  finishes out this season without missing a game, he'd have played 245 out of 246 games through the last 3 years. The one game he missed wasn't even due to injury but due to suspension against Atlanta 2 years ago.
Even more impressive? Harden has also played for a top 3 pace team for 2 out of the last 3 years (ranking 2nd in 2015 and 3rd this year.) The one season where they didn't finish top 3? Last year where they were 7th.>

He has some stats to back up his claim, but I cannot open the link rn. You can find the link to the stats and the replies to the post in the link below.

Source

[greece66]

And this one from tweeter

>Since Jan. 1, @JoelEmbiid has blocked more shots at rim (21) than he has allowed made FG at rim (15) #ProcessingPer36>

source

[Monkhouse]

Players like Harden, Westbrook, Durant, and a few others make me just shake my head. There is just so much talent out there.

[bdm860]

Quite the turn around for Washington.

They started the season 2-8 and have gone 25-12 since. 

Since 11/17 (when Washington was 2-8), the best records in the East are as follows:

Washington: 25-12
Cleveland: 23-12
Boston: 23-13
Toronto: 22-15

[greece66]

Quite the turn around for Washington.

They started the season 2-8 and have gone 25-12 since. 

Since 11/17 (when Washington was 2-8), the best records in the East are as follows:

Washington: 25-12
Cleveland: 23-12
Boston: 23-13
Toronto: 22-15

I knew they were doing better than before, but had not realized it was so dang impressive. What might have caused this? Adaptations by the coach?

[MJohnnyboy]

Quite the turn around for Washington.

They started the season 2-8 and have gone 25-12 since. 

Since 11/17 (when Washington was 2-8), the best records in the East are as follows:

Washington: 25-12
Cleveland: 23-12
Boston: 23-13
Toronto: 22-15

I knew they were doing better than before, but had not realized it was so dang impressive. What might have caused this? Adaptations by the coach?

John Wall getting his head out of his ass.

Stuff like this also puts the whole, "Celtics haven't beaten any good teams" narrative to bed.

[saltlover]

Quite the turn around for Washington.

They started the season 2-8 and have gone 25-12 since. 

Since 11/17 (when Washington was 2-8), the best records in the East are as follows:

Washington: 25-12
Cleveland: 23-12
Boston: 23-13
Toronto: 22-15

I knew they were doing better than before, but had not realized it was so dang impressive. What might have caused this? Adaptations by the coach?

The rotation has been really tightened.  Their starters are playing an incredible amount of minutes -- curious to see if they can maintain these minutes, or maintain their performance if they play fewer.  Wall and Gortat are both above 1600 minutes on the year, and Porter will be his next game.  All of their starters are above 1400 minutes -- only IT has played that many on Boston.  Morris has played the 5th-most minutes, and is only 5 minutes behind IT for the year.

Wall is on pace for the second-most minutes of his career.  Everyone else is on pace to set a new career high, some by several hundred minutes.  I think they're going to have a really rough March when it starts to catch up to them.

[greece66]

Quite the turn around for Washington.

They started the season 2-8 and have gone 25-12 since. 

Since 11/17 (when Washington was 2-8), the best records in the East are as follows:

Washington: 25-12
Cleveland: 23-12
Boston: 23-13
Toronto: 22-15

I knew they were doing better than before, but had not realized it was so dang impressive. What might have caused this? Adaptations by the coach?

The rotation has been really tightened.  Their starters are playing an incredible amount of minutes -- curious to see if they can maintain these minutes, or maintain their performance if they play fewer.  Wall and Gortat are both above 1600 minutes on the year, and Porter will be his next game.  All of their starters are above 1400 minutes -- only IT has played that many on Boston.  Morris has played the 5th-most minutes, and is only 5 minutes behind IT for the year.

Wall is on pace for the second-most minutes of his career.  Everyone else is on pace to set a new career high, some by several hundred minutes.  I think they're going to have a really rough March when it starts to catch up to them.

Excellent points. Many thanks.

It just amazes me how  incredibly well informed you are not only on the CBA but on p much anything bball related. Kudos!

[Denis998]

Quite the turn around for Washington.

They started the season 2-8 and have gone 25-12 since. 

Since 11/17 (when Washington was 2-8), the best records in the East are as follows:

Washington: 25-12
Cleveland: 23-12
Boston: 23-13
Toronto: 22-15

I knew they were doing better than before, but had not realized it was so dang impressive. What might have caused this? Adaptations by the coach?

The rotation has been really tightened.  Their starters are playing an incredible amount of minutes -- curious to see if they can maintain these minutes, or maintain their performance if they play fewer.  Wall and Gortat are both above 1600 minutes on the year, and Porter will be his next game.  All of their starters are above 1400 minutes -- only IT has played that many on Boston.  Morris has played the 5th-most minutes, and is only 5 minutes behind IT for the year.

Wall is on pace for the second-most minutes of his career.  Everyone else is on pace to set a new career high, some by several hundred minutes.  I think they're going to have a really rough March when it starts to catch up to them.

Last season there were talks that Beal would have a career long minutes restriction. Makes me wonder whatever happened to that.

[SparzWizard]

2nd place, baby! If we keep things going, we could legitimately have a couple game lead on Toronto at the All Star Break. Just have to take care of business on Wednesday, which is a crucial game.

Don't jinx it please.  Unless your feed is minutes ahead of me.

Man, Raps did not quit there. Still SECOND PLACE BABY!!!

When was the last time this happened? Was Ray Allen still playing for us?

This deep into the season? Maybe Perk was around.

When I was still a high school student. Geez, times have changed!

[Denis998]

2nd place, baby! If we keep things going, we could legitimately have a couple game lead on Toronto at the All Star Break. Just have to take care of business on Wednesday, which is a crucial game.

Don't jinx it please.  Unless your feed is minutes ahead of me.

Man, Raps did not quit there. Still SECOND PLACE BABY!!!

When was the last time this happened? Was Ray Allen still playing for us?

This deep into the season? Maybe Perk was around.

When I was still a high school student. Geez, times have changed!

It took DA less time to rebuild than for me to graduate college -_-

[jpotter33]

Anyone watching this Trailblazers/Warriors game? It's another epic ending with the Trailblazers coming back in the last minute.