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Season starts tonight!

New season = new thread.

Get your predictions in and what not. Some of you have done that already in the off-season thread.

Tonights predictions:

Wizards at Cavs
Celtics at Heat
Mavs at Lakers
 
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#872 ·
Re: NBA Thread: 12/13 Season - Screw y'all... Mike Brown was GOAT

Not happy with D'Antoni. You can't play the Speedy Gonzalez offense with Kobe and Nash, they not young anymore. He can try, but he will fail, the season is long.
 
#877 ·
Re: NBA Thread: 12/13 Season - Screw y'all... Mike Brown was GOAT

Lmao, this team is way too old to be running a fastbreak offense.. Oh well, better than Phil imo. If Phil was hired then Nash would be pointless because the triangle offense makes the PG position obsolete.
 
#878 ·
Re: NBA Thread: 12/13 Season - Screw y'all... Mike Brown was GOAT

No, you don't understand. Unless Pringles made a drastic change in his coaching style, in no way shape or form was this "better than Phil". This was just an ego move by the Jim Buss. Knick fans are laughing at this move, and Heat/OKC/Spurs/etc are blessed by this. The Lakers ceiling is now WCF loss in 6.
 
#883 ·
Re: NBA Thread: 12/13 Season - Screw y'all... Mike Brown was GOAT

No, you don't understand. Unless Pringles made a drastic change in his coaching style, in no way shape or form was this "better than Phil". This was just an ego move by the Jim Buss. Knick fans are laughing at this move, and Heat/OKC/Spurs/etc are blessed by this. The Lakers ceiling is now WCF loss in 6.
I agree wholeheartedly, but I just don't think the triangle offense would be necessary now that they have a star PG.. Phil did a great job masking all of Old man Fisher's faults with the triangle, but he'd have no faults to hide with Nash at the helm. Obviously, the 7 second or less offense isn't the answer but i'm not so sure the triangle offense is the answer either.

I was being a bit dramatic when I said he's better than Phil.. I do think they should have hired Phil, but I still think the end result would have been the same (a loss in the WCF or Finals)
 
#879 ·
Re: NBA Thread: 12/13 Season - Screw y'all... Mike Brown was GOAT

Phil had unusually unrealistic demands (too much money, not traveling to road games etc) so that's why they probably settled on D'Antoni.

Interesting to see how this works though. They're a bit too old to run a uptempo offense over the course of an entire game although I will say D'Antoni has a bad rap about his lack of emphasis on defense. In PHX, they didn't have good personnel (Nash on the perimeter, Amare in the paint, Diaw playing C at times) and they were still a middle of the pack defensive team so he's not as bad as people make him out to be and of course, LA will have Dwight to anchor the paint and Gasol's length can also bother/alter shots.
 
#881 ·
Re: NBA Thread: 12/13 Season - Screw y'all... Mike Brown was GOAT

Even if Phil made these demands (which I doubt), they still had Brian Shaw, Nate Mcmillan (although he might become the defensive coach), anyone besides D'Antoni. I thought the rest of the league learned by watching him in New York, I guess it'll take another failed playoff run or two before he doesn't get another job
 
#884 ·
Re: NBA Thread: 12/13 Season - Screw y'all... Mike Brown was GOAT

D'Antoni? Are you fucking kidding me? The Knicks got BETTER when D'Antoni left. D'Antoni? Really?



Really?









Really?




[/Miz]


God damnit Buss
 
#887 ·
Re: NBA Thread: 12/13 Season - Screw y'all... Mike Brown was GOAT

Apparently Nate McMillan will be apart of D'Antoni's staff as his defensive assistant.

So basically when/if the Lakers shit the bed with D'Antoni, they'll have a replacement lined up with Nate.

Also the 76ers are reporting that they are targeting December 10th as for the date for Bynum to begin participating in normal basketball related activities.
 
#892 ·
Re: NBA Thread: 12/13 Season - Screw y'all... Mike Brown was GOAT

I fail to see the hype of Nate McMillan. Sure he's probably better than Pringles, but this is a guy who's only led his team past the 2nd round once and has missed the playoffs just as many times as he's made it. When it comes down to his team's successes, he's been a fail.
 
#894 ·
Re: NBA Thread: 12/13 Season - Screw y'all... Mike Brown was GOAT

Can Nate become D'Antoni's Tex Winter?

Nate gives me hope, tbh, because now it will be more than just MIKE forcing his Speedy Gonzalez rush hour all the time.
 
#895 ·
Re: NBA Thread: 12/13 Season - Screw y'all... Mike Brown was GOAT

Old guys running and gunning like it's an all-star game should be entertaining at the very least if not completely hilarious.
 
#896 ·
Re: NBA Thread: 12/13 Season - Screw y'all... Mike Brown was GOAT

They'll be fine.. Kobe, Howard and Artest will make sure these guys play D.

Plus, Howard/Nash and Pau/Nash will be running the Pick and roll.. Remember, how much good the P&R did for Amare in Phoenix? LA fans shouldn't be worried at all.
 
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