martin wrote:

Nalod wrote:I fear JR will break his slump.

Lebron will no doubt have his "Consortium of intellectual, marketing and financial advisers" based in NY at the game.
Also, his Cowboy friend "Maverick" Carter.

JR may not even play, hurt knee previous game.

He brush or land wrong?
What about Shump? He got a special hair style for us?

CrushAlot wrote:

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Tim is having a decent bounce back year..But this story is more about Korver than about Tim...

WaltLongmire wrote:I know some around here were impressed by the T-Wolves' roster before the season. If you look at some of the individuals they have on that team they seem to have a pretty good group, yet after tonight's loss to GS, they are now 6-18, which puts them well into contention for the #1 pick in the draft.

I haven't watched them except for the 2 Knicks games. Do we overrate some of their players (Except for Towns, of course)...Are some of their "stars" incompatible?...Do we give them a break because they have a new coach?... Do we blame Thibs?

I just see them as one of the big disappointments so far- I figured them to be at least at the .500 mark by this time.

Young teams don't know how to win the NBA..Young players are trying to find their way and establish themselves in a long season..It tough to ask them to have team goals when they are trying to figure their bodies out..It takes time..Which is why the Knick bench concerns me, btw..

Thibs will run these guys into the ground..Lavine 42 mins, Wiggins 41, and Towns 39 mins in a regular game..

holfresh wrote:

WaltLongmire wrote:I know some around here were impressed by the T-Wolves' roster before the season. If you look at some of the individuals they have on that team they seem to have a pretty good group, yet after tonight's loss to GS, they are now 6-18, which puts them well into contention for the #1 pick in the draft.

I haven't watched them except for the 2 Knicks games. Do we overrate some of their players (Except for Towns, of course)...Are some of their "stars" incompatible?...Do we give them a break because they have a new coach?... Do we blame Thibs?

I just see them as one of the big disappointments so far- I figured them to be at least at the .500 mark by this time.

Young teams don't know how to win the NBA..Young players are trying to find their way and establish themselves in a long season..It tough to ask them to have team goals when they are trying to figure their bodies out..It takes time..Which is why the Knick bench concerns me, btw..

Thibs will run these guys into the ground..Lavine 42 mins, Wiggins 41, and Towns 39 mins in a regular game..

Wiggins has improved his 3pt shooting, and Lavine improved his shooting consistency- Dieng is solid but unspectacular, and Rubio can still distribute. Figured this would show up in the W/L column.

Towns seems like a bull...not sure Lavine or Wiggins can play Thibs type D and be the same on offense. Rubio has slowed because of injuries. The minutes played by the starters for yesterday's GS game WAS pretty ridiculous- says a lot about their bench.

They might need some kind of glue guy on that team- if they don't finish around .500 I could see either Wiggins or Lavine moved in the offseason... perhaps even at the trading deadline if they are truly bad.

Have to say that our bench might be better than you think, but we will see. Seem to have a lot of options. I like Jennings, despite having doubts about him when we picked him up ($$ was great, though), Holiday is solid, Lance and Kuz give us some good things, Willy/IOQ have been pretty good for the most part, and Sasha, for the money we pay him, gives us a jolt now and then.

WaltLongmire wrote:Houston missed 49 shots against the Nets...Brook Lopez played 32M and had 1 rebound to go with his 26pts.

Rockets did take 43 3s, and missed 26 of them (long rebounds?)

Brook is also setting up outside more because he is shooting threes now. Opens the lane up for the guards, but not good for offensive rebounding.

Nets hung pretty tough with the Rockets though. Lin looked pretty good for them (he was +17 in 20min). Sean Kilpatrick is also very solid.

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To be honest, if someone wrote about my sister like that, I'd be hacked off too. I think journalists can play a very passive-aggressive game, whereby they can be as obnoxious as they like in articles, but when they're called out on it, they act like they're the most sensitive people on earth and then they suddenly make out that they are these heroic soldiers of virtue who are simply trying to uphold democracy. Journalists can be heroic and honest, but most of the time , most of them are actually being lazy and damaging peoples lives just to get people to read their crap (as this article is an example!). I don't have a problem with what he did- those sac town journalist can't have it both ways, why are they allowed to tear into him in their articles, but he's not allowed to react to that or tear into them?