Dagger wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:Like I said earlier the real difference was the 3 ball. Hardaway and Anthony were cold tonight. Unfortunately for Hardaway he is either cold or hot and rarely is lukewarm.

Disagree, Hardaway has been fairly consistent all season. 5/13 shooting is not really a cold night.

I am referring to him shooting the three. I read a stat where he has around 20 games shooting above 50% and near 20 below shooting 33% and only shot 34%-49% twice.

MaTT4281 wrote:

gunsnewing wrote:We traded LA & Noah for Eddy Curry. Just thought I'd remind everyone

And Portland could be sporting an Aldrige/Durant frontcourt right now.

Doesn't make our situation any better, but misery enjoys company.

LAST TIME I checked, the Durant/ westbrook Duo was pretty damn good.. not sure where there is misery in that....

yellowboy90 wrote:

Dagger wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:Like I said earlier the real difference was the 3 ball. Hardaway and Anthony were cold tonight. Unfortunately for Hardaway he is either cold or hot and rarely is lukewarm.

Disagree, Hardaway has been fairly consistent all season. 5/13 shooting is not really a cold night.

I am referring to him shooting the three. I read a stat where he has around 20 games shooting above 50% and near 20 below shooting 33% and only shot 34%-49% twice.

Haha, that's a really silly metric. Typically, a guy like Hardaway is going to put up between 2 to 6 3-pointers a game.

If he shoots 2: 0%, 50%, 100%
If he shoots 3: 0%, 33%, 67%, 100%
If he shoots 4: 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%
If he shoots 5: 0%, 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, 100%
If he shoots 6: 0%, 17%, 33%, 50%, 67%, 83%, 100%

It's just difficult to shoot BETWEEN 33% and 49% in any one given game. Only shooting between 34%-49% twice means he only went 2-5 from the field (or something like 3/7) twice. That's pretty normal.....

TeamBall wrote:Just caught the replay of the game and I Melo doesn't have a case on that last play. He hooked the first player (Matthews?) and then elbowed Lopez in the chin. He initiated the contact really.

Thats the reason why Melo doesn't get any calls. When you have to hook a player to get in the lane.....either the refs calls an offensive foul.....Or he lets the following contact go. As a ref, you can't allow someone to hook his way into the lane, then bail him out with a ticky tack foul...especially at the end of a game.