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[Triumph36]

Re: Rooting for our team this year

I'm not so sure he likes what he sees in NJ at the moment.

Like your new avatar, BTW.

It's not that he doesn't like what he sees. It's that Orlando doesn't. Supposedly they weren't high on Lopez and that was before he went down for 2 months. Orlando not trading him at the deadline inadvertently forces him to Dallas though, IMO.

I'm not sold on the Pistons being better yet either. They are bad, but so is Cleveland. One of those teams just happened to be real hot from the floor, particularly 3, that game. Happens.

 

[Jon]

Re: Rooting for our team this year

I liked Scott's confidence in going back to Irving to finish out the game, not only did he preserve the 12pt lead, he extended it to 18pt.

We have an easy schedule to start out the season, but we should only get better as the players get used to playing with each other. If Scott can keep the minutes under control, perhaps even the rookie wall won't slap us so hard.

Nice win.

 

[rabman_gold]

Re: Rooting for our team this year

I liked Scott's confidence in going back to Irving to finish out the game, not only did he preserve the 12pt lead, he extended it to 18pt.

We have an easy schedule to start out the season, but we should only get better as the players get used to playing with each other. If Scott can keep the minutes under control, perhaps even the rookie wall won't slap us so hard.

Nice win.

Actually, I'm starting to feel this is an extended "pre-season" for us due to playing mostly in the East Great Lakes area. Indiana, Detroit, Toronto, Cleveland. So starting Friday, we'll finally finish staying around here and begin for real. And I was really happy that Irving got even a few minutes with Thompson, just so they could work together. You knew that Irving would attempt to reward him, unlike that second group on the floor. I look forward to that greatly. And Thompson earning more minutes later. He'll demand them soon enough. And so far, they both haven't touched dramatic minutes, so slowly get them conditioned and ready. I like that approach. Now just work on the rotations a little. I think Scott's starting to get them down a little bit more.

It may be easy right now, but they are hard earned as well. Any team that plays this hard can earn their victories. And if Andy and Boobie don't go down again, we'll most likely keep that. But if they can't oh. I'm still hopeful. They'll be a threat depending on their situation.

 

[Pavlovic3Ball]

Re: Rooting for our team this year

I still think its going to be like last season where we have an average start and people get there hopes up. Than once we start playing the top teams we hit that wall.

 

[Pavlovic3Ball]

Re: Rooting for our team this year

I'm not so sure he likes what he sees in NJ at the moment.

Like your new avatar, BTW.

I don't think Dwight is all about winning championships. He wants to play in Brookyln and get more recognition. Look at Rose who just signed a $250 million dollar shoe extension with Adidas. He wants to be in movies, television shows, etc. Orlando is a nice city and all, but you its a lot easier to get recognition playing for NYC, LA, Chicago, etc. There are some exceptions like Lebron in Cleveland or Pujols in St. Louis, but Dwight doesn't have the charisma or star power to do that.

 

[Huber.]

Re: Rooting for our team this year

I'm rooting for our team this year...rooting for them to upgrade players through lotto picks.

 

[WhoWeAre]

Re: Rooting for our team this year

I don't think Dwight is all about winning championships. He wants to play in Brookyln and get more recognition. Look at Rose who just signed a $250 million dollar shoe extension with Adidas. He wants to be in movies, television shows, etc. Orlando is a nice city and all, but you its a lot easier to get recognition playing for NYC, LA, Chicago, etc. There are some exceptions like Lebron in Cleveland or Pujols in St. Louis, but Dwight doesn't have the charisma or star power to do that.

Not true. He was just in a MW3 commercial. His marketability won't improve on a national level just because he's in NYC. It will basically improve the size of his local market. That will certainly earn him more money, but it won't do anything to improve his overall star power. The only team that might help with that would be LA.

 

[KI4MVP]

Re: Rooting for our team this year

Last year we were 29th in the league in defensive efficiency at 109.1, 4 games in this year we're 11th in the league at 96.9

 

[Tornicade]

Re: Rooting for our team this year

I still think its going to be like last season where we have an average start and people get there hopes up. Than once we start playing the top teams we hit that wall.

Yeah a wall that included the twolves, pistons and any other mediocre to bad team you can think of.

The wall that inluced key injuries and players playing with injuries that usually would result in the tour of a bench of 4 different starts and several prominent back ups.. not to mention the wall that included major disarray in simple execution. people on the team playing two different defenses. traddes cuts and any other turmoil inside the locker room you can think of but out of that a big rookie class of scrappers appear to have learned how to play basketball. no 26 game losing streak for the cavs this year.

 

[Triumph36]

Re: Rooting for our team this year

Last year we were 29th in the league in defensive efficiency at 109.1, 4 games in this year we're 11th in the league at 96.9

all that needs to be said.

not to mention they haven't played even one really good offensive team yet.

 

[6.19.2016]

Re: Rooting for our team this year

Yeah a wall that included the twolves, pistons and any other mediocre to bad team you can think of.

The wall that inluced key injuries and players playing with injuries that usually would result in the tour of a bench of 4 different starts and several prominent back ups.. not to mention the wall that included major disarray in simple execution. people on the team playing two different defenses. traddes cuts and any other turmoil inside the locker room you can think of but out of that a big rookie class of scrappers appear to have learned how to play basketball. no 26 game losing streak for the cavs this year.

Hollinger's formula, which weighted things like strength of schedule, point differential (severely underrated,) etc. predicted what we should've noticed: that the Heat were, in fact, THAT much better than their 9-8 start, and the Cavs were, in fact, THAT much worse than their 7-9 start.

We had both won a lot of close ones against bad teams (NJ, Milwaukee) during last year's start, and had blowout losses to bad (Toronto) and good teams alike. Meanwhile the Heat had lost a lot of close games to other top teams and were bound to turn it around at some point.

The 1-36 stretch last year was largely a function of schedule; we played a lot more good teams then, sandwiched by stretches of a lot more easier games.

 

[cavs_econ]

Re: Rooting for our team this year

We are 1 layup from 3-1! We nearly pulled out the Toronto game too. There will be plenty of losing this season - can't you guys enjoy the fun while it lasts?

 

[KI4MVP]

Re: Rooting for our team this year

all that needs to be said.

not to mention they haven't played even one really good offensive team yet.

if you can't see we're playing better defense this year than last, I don't know what to say. Last year we played 82 games, we certainly hit some poor offensive teams during the season. Yet only once all season did we hold a team under 85 points. This year already we held the Nets to 82 and held the Pacers to 84 in regulation, which would have looked better had we not let the game get to overtime. We're not only playing better defense than last year, we've already shown improvement this year since opening night.

 

[KI4MVP]

Re: Rooting for our team this year

btw: that pistons team that nobody wants to give us any credit for beating by 16 on the road just beat the magic by 11 tonight.

 

[Triumph36]

Re: Rooting for our team this year

if you can't see we're playing better defense this year than last, I don't know what to say. Last year we played 82 games, we certainly hit some poor offensive teams during the season. Yet only once all season did we hold a team under 85 points. This year already we held the Nets to 82 and held the Pacers to 84 in regulation, which would have looked better had we not let the game get to overtime. We're not only playing better defense than last year, we've already shown improvement this year since opening night.

i never said the team isn't playing better defense. i was simply pointing out that it's a small sample size, they haven't played any good offensive teams, and 29th -> 11th is way, way too big a jump for it to be at all indicative of the true quality of the defense