The Official 2014-15 NBA Thread
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Lol at delly defense.. let that ? pull ? on a pg like westbrook and see what happens..
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Should've played Shaun more in this game, Curry was ass tonight, shot wasn't falling and he wasn't creating for other guys....
Also put DAVID LEE at the 4 for TT. Draymond is getting beat bad on the glass regularly while giving ZERO offense...
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Blame mo speights
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Chi-Town Bully wrote: »Curry 2-15 from 3, at what point do you tell yourself to stop jacking them up
Oh nah yo they just wasnt fallin, he good
Now that ngga Bron tho? had an inefficient 18/38 44points, and this game 40 shots? Shoulda let Thompson or Deli get some of those shots
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BlackAX410 wrote: »Also im not too impressed with Draymond this series, whoever throws a max at him is gonna regret it lls
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The main difference between a guy like JR and Dellavedova? Consistent hustle effort and high BB IQ on defense :
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Chi-Town Bully wrote: »Curry 2-15 from 3, at what point do you tell yourself to stop jacking them up
Oh nah yo they just wasnt fallin, he good
Now that ngga Bron tho? had an inefficient 18/38 44points, and this game 40 shots? Shoulda let Thompson or Deli get some of those shots
? he won
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NoCanadiansEH? wrote: »BRON went super saiyen bruh
deserved it tho
11-40 is Super Saiyan, now? Goku is disappoint.
Don't let the triple double fool you: Bron shot like ? when they ran the ISO ? .
i meant celebrating the win after they won game
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Ill give em credit for their defense tonight, warriors missed some good looks as well soon as curry and green play decent this ones a wrap lolbless the child wrote: »BlackAX410 wrote: »Great win by the cavs, i don't expect golden state to play this poorly in game 3
They played like this 2 games in a row. Give the Cavs D some credit. Give credit where credit is due my ? .
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SHOULD CLIPPERS TRADE CHRIS PAUL FOR KYRIE IRVING?
On Friday afternoon I was listening to the Mason and Ireland show on ESPN 710 and an interesting proposal came about. Lakers play-by-play announcer John Ireland proposed that the Los Angeles Clippers should trade Chris Paul for Cleveland Cavalier All-Star Kyrie Irving.
Upon hearing it I quickly gasped at the ridiculous trade. Why would the Clippers move arguably the best point guard in the NBA? As I continued to listen to the radio program, Ireland laid out some good points. Then I started to warm up to the idea.
Irving unfortunately will miss the rest of the NBA Finals due to a broken kneecap. He had successful surgery on Saturday and will be out for 3-4 months. He also signed a 5 year $90 million rookie extension in 2014. When healthy, the 23-year-old guard is one of the quickest players in the entire league. He has exceptional ball-handling skills and is a deadly three-point shooter. Like Chris Paul, he’s never played a full 82-game season. Paul completed his first full season injury-free in the 2014-15 season.
Irving averaged 21.7 PPG and 5.2 assists while shooting 46-percent from the field and a career-high 41-percent from three. In his three-year career, Irving has earned rookie of the year honors and named MVP of an All-Star game, which probably convinced LeBron James to take his talents back to his hometown of Cleveland.
What can we say about Chris Paul’s greatness? He’s always been at the top of the totem pole of point guards. He’s one of the best defensive guards in the league. He’s also the best distributor in the NBA and is the perfect model for the point guard position. CP3 averaged 19 points and dished out 10 assists in the 2014-15 season.
So why trade him?
Reports surfaced after LA was eliminated (again) from the playoffs that there was a rift between Paul and DeAndre Jordan. Jordan had an outstanding season defensively for the Clippers. It’s almost a no-brainer that he will get a max-deal from the Clips. Moreover, Jordan is besties with LA’s other All-Star Blake Griffin. There have also been whispers that Paul hasn’t fully gotten along with Griffin. That can’t be good for a team who can’t get out of the second round of the playoffs. By the way, the two BFF’s are vacationing in Cabo together.
Chris Paul acknowledged that his championship window is rapidly approaching before the playoffs started. The 30-year-old guard out of Wake Forest could benefit from a move to the weaker Eastern Conference and link up with James. Cleveland will surely do everything in their power to take full advantage of James’ prime. Paul and James are great friends and would form a scary duo, which may even sway Kevin Love to stick around one more year with the Cavs.
Chris Paul is more of a pass-first guard, which would no doubt give, Love a more prominent role in the Cavs offense. Irving is more of a scoring guard and takes shots away from Love. Irving is not the type of defender that Paul is. James and Paul together will have no problem recruiting players to Cleveland.
Irving on the Clippers will certainly give him a chance to further compete against a plethora of young guards in the Western Conference. Irving is a capable passer in his own right. This season he surrendered ball-handling duties to James (for obvious reasons) but when he had full control of the offense, Kyrie averaged six assists, a steal and got to the free-throw line with ease.
Pairing Irving with two athletic 26-year-old’s like Griffin and Jordan would resurrect Lob City in Los Angeles. It would speed up the pace and add another scorer to the team. Coach Doc Rivers struggled to get Paul to shoot more for the Clippers. It’s just not in Paul’s nature. Kyrie will not hesitate in that department. Plus Griffin is a very underrated passer as he showed the world in this year’s playoffs.
Griffin is ready to jump into elite status in my opinion. His brilliant playoff performances are evidence that he is ready to lead this Clippers team. He extended his shooting range this year which benefitted his free-throw percentage to a career-high 71-percent. He averaged a career-best 5.6 assists this season as well. Griffin is morphing himself into a great all-around player. Darius Soriano of Forum Blue & Gold had an accurate description.
Blake was monster inside the paint in the playoffs when Chris Paul was not in the lineup. He took that team on his back to put them in a position to succeed. It’s no secret the Clippers played horribly when they went away from the Oklahoma product. The Houston Rockets triple-teamed Griffin as soon as he touched the basketball and led to many open opportunities for LA. The team failed to capitalize on those missed shots but it wasn’t because of Griffin.
A straight Irving and Paul swap is not possible because CP3 will earn $21 million in 2015-16 as opposed to Irving’s $14 million. Cleveland will have to include more to make the deal happen. The question is will both teams be willing to swap their All-Stars? Age will certainly play a huge factor for Cleveland to budge at any potential deal for their player. Paul is seven years older than the youthful Irving. But it looks like a win-win situation for both franchises.
From the Clippers standpoint if they can manage to partner Irving with Griffin and Jordan, they would extend their championship window by a few more years. They would lose a bit defensively but not as much because Irving is not a terrible defender. He showed he can play defense in game one of the finals when he made current MVP Stephen Curry work for every shot. Irving matched Curry’s game and had a great shot at winning the game if he didn’t get hurt.
As far as Cleveland goes, they would form a devastating duo with two of the best passers and defenders in the NBA. They would continue to be favorites in the East and both All-Stars will be locked in for the next few years. I don’t see James bolting Cleveland again and Paul won’t be an unrestricted free agent till 2018. -
They did a much better job on lebron in terms of him scoring in the paint this game.. he had only 4 of his 11 makes in the paint.
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BlackAX410 wrote: »Great win by the cavs, i don't expect golden state to play this poorly in game 3
How ? They played poorly how?
Draymond has nothin for TT
Mozgov is too big for them
Klay hit ridiculous shots and got his 30
Steph is a JUMP SHOOTER and 80% of his shots would be considered contested or BAD shots
Yall nggas dont know this game man haha need to start thinking for yourself and judge what you see, not what you heard. There is nothing about GS dominant othr than shooting, and as the old saying goes: live by the j, die by the j
You dont get to be the #1 seed in the nba by just being a great shooting team.
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curry my ? but
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So we gotta hear about Dellys "Great" defense for 2 full days smh. Skip bayless gone be on 10 tomorrow talking about delly d its gone be at least a 15 minute segment.
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Steph has to use his handle to get to the lane and draw fouls when his J isn't falling. I think he just couldn't get out his own head tonight and will shake it off in game 3. Props to the Aussie. He's a bothersome bastard. I'm still waiting for Klay and Steph to go nuts in the same game.
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BlackAX410 wrote: »Great win by the cavs, i don't expect golden state to play this poorly in game 3
Cleveland s defense had a lot to do with it. Delladova doesn't give Steph easy looks. Klay went off early then shumpert started guarding him. They also made Steph work on defense. He jumper get a short when u tired
Ehh i wont overreact here, im expecting golden state to take better shots next game and win by double digits in game 3, steph settled for a lot of trash 3's when he could've blown by delly -
SHOULD CLIPPERS TRADE CHRIS PAUL FOR KYRIE IRVING?
On Friday afternoon I was listening to the Mason and Ireland show on ESPN 710 and an interesting proposal came about. Lakers play-by-play announcer John Ireland proposed that the Los Angeles Clippers should trade Chris Paul for Cleveland Cavalier All-Star Kyrie Irving.
Upon hearing it I quickly gasped at the ridiculous trade. Why would the Clippers move arguably the best point guard in the NBA? As I continued to listen to the radio program, Ireland laid out some good points. Then I started to warm up to the idea.
Irving unfortunately will miss the rest of the NBA Finals due to a broken kneecap. He had successful surgery on Saturday and will be out for 3-4 months. He also signed a 5 year $90 million rookie extension in 2014. When healthy, the 23-year-old guard is one of the quickest players in the entire league. He has exceptional ball-handling skills and is a deadly three-point shooter. Like Chris Paul, he’s never played a full 82-game season. Paul completed his first full season injury-free in the 2014-15 season.
Irving averaged 21.7 PPG and 5.2 assists while shooting 46-percent from the field and a career-high 41-percent from three. In his three-year career, Irving has earned rookie of the year honors and named MVP of an All-Star game, which probably convinced LeBron James to take his talents back to his hometown of Cleveland.
What can we say about Chris Paul’s greatness? He’s always been at the top of the totem pole of point guards. He’s one of the best defensive guards in the league. He’s also the best distributor in the NBA and is the perfect model for the point guard position. CP3 averaged 19 points and dished out 10 assists in the 2014-15 season.
So why trade him?
Reports surfaced after LA was eliminated (again) from the playoffs that there was a rift between Paul and DeAndre Jordan. Jordan had an outstanding season defensively for the Clippers. It’s almost a no-brainer that he will get a max-deal from the Clips. Moreover, Jordan is besties with LA’s other All-Star Blake Griffin. There have also been whispers that Paul hasn’t fully gotten along with Griffin. That can’t be good for a team who can’t get out of the second round of the playoffs. By the way, the two BFF’s are vacationing in Cabo together.
Chris Paul acknowledged that his championship window is rapidly approaching before the playoffs started. The 30-year-old guard out of Wake Forest could benefit from a move to the weaker Eastern Conference and link up with James. Cleveland will surely do everything in their power to take full advantage of James’ prime. Paul and James are great friends and would form a scary duo, which may even sway Kevin Love to stick around one more year with the Cavs.
Chris Paul is more of a pass-first guard, which would no doubt give, Love a more prominent role in the Cavs offense. Irving is more of a scoring guard and takes shots away from Love. Irving is not the type of defender that Paul is. James and Paul together will have no problem recruiting players to Cleveland.
Irving on the Clippers will certainly give him a chance to further compete against a plethora of young guards in the Western Conference. Irving is a capable passer in his own right. This season he surrendered ball-handling duties to James (for obvious reasons) but when he had full control of the offense, Kyrie averaged six assists, a steal and got to the free-throw line with ease.
Pairing Irving with two athletic 26-year-old’s like Griffin and Jordan would resurrect Lob City in Los Angeles. It would speed up the pace and add another scorer to the team. Coach Doc Rivers struggled to get Paul to shoot more for the Clippers. It’s just not in Paul’s nature. Kyrie will not hesitate in that department. Plus Griffin is a very underrated passer as he showed the world in this year’s playoffs.
Griffin is ready to jump into elite status in my opinion. His brilliant playoff performances are evidence that he is ready to lead this Clippers team. He extended his shooting range this year which benefitted his free-throw percentage to a career-high 71-percent. He averaged a career-best 5.6 assists this season as well. Griffin is morphing himself into a great all-around player. Darius Soriano of Forum Blue & Gold had an accurate description.
Blake was monster inside the paint in the playoffs when Chris Paul was not in the lineup. He took that team on his back to put them in a position to succeed. It’s no secret the Clippers played horribly when they went away from the Oklahoma product. The Houston Rockets triple-teamed Griffin as soon as he touched the basketball and led to many open opportunities for LA. The team failed to capitalize on those missed shots but it wasn’t because of Griffin.
A straight Irving and Paul swap is not possible because CP3 will earn $21 million in 2015-16 as opposed to Irving’s $14 million. Cleveland will have to include more to make the deal happen. The question is will both teams be willing to swap their All-Stars? Age will certainly play a huge factor for Cleveland to budge at any potential deal for their player. Paul is seven years older than the youthful Irving. But it looks like a win-win situation for both franchises.
From the Clippers standpoint if they can manage to partner Irving with Griffin and Jordan, they would extend their championship window by a few more years. They would lose a bit defensively but not as much because Irving is not a terrible defender. He showed he can play defense in game one of the finals when he made current MVP Stephen Curry work for every shot. Irving matched Curry’s game and had a great shot at winning the game if he didn’t get hurt.
As far as Cleveland goes, they would form a devastating duo with two of the best passers and defenders in the NBA. They would continue to be favorites in the East and both All-Stars will be locked in for the next few years. I don’t see James bolting Cleveland again and Paul won’t be an unrestricted free agent till 2018.
Oh u didnt know, jr smith is done after tonight
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Lebron truly played a great game tonight. (Seriously it doesn't matter about the shots he missed. All jokes aside he played his ass off and won) Good entertainment even though my team lost
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its crazy, cuz delly started off as fresh bbq chicken on klay
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The Iconoclast wrote: »The main difference between a guy like JR and Dellavedova? Consistent hustle effort and high BB IQ on defense :
That s what Gsw dont want to understand. Curry has been LIMITATED by Delli 's DEFENSE. If he doesnt adjust gsw gon lose imo. -
Damn bron averaging 42 ppg
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