Official 2016 NBA Off-Season Thread: Westbrook staying in OKC for 3 more years. Confirmed MVP

Doesn’t really matter Spurs are 7-0 this season when Duncan sits and beating opponents by an average margin of 23. 107 off, 84 def.

Granted none of those teams are currently over .500 but they have had the easiest schedule up to this point.

Pop not gonna tip his hand and give GS a look at the squad at full strength. Better belief he’s running some experimental lineups too.

Pretty much if Leonard can be stopped GS will win free

They got Boban the GOAT to carry the load.

Unpopular opinion, but I think GS overall defense is overrated. They’ve got one great individual defender (Iggy) and two good defenders (Klay & Dray), but their team defense benefits from the rate at which they put up points on offense. Teams get out of their offensive scheme just to try to keep up.

Iggy is their best hope in slowing down Leonard. He’ll torch Klay - too strong and skilled for him.

Lamarcus playing D on Draymond and Danny Green taking advantage of Curry guarding him are gonna be key matchups. I’ll be surprised if they put Curry on Parker.

calling draymond green a “good” defender is borderline retarded. he should have been dpoy last year, he had the highest defensive rating in the league last year, and in rating, draymond, bogut, and ezeli are all rated higher this year than iguodala.

and iguodala is great… but its a team defense that switches and works as a team. its almost like you have never really understood how the warriors do anything.

warriors might lose tonight because their defense isn’t up to snuff, and that’s fine… but your analysis is wrong.

Not sure why you still reply to the guy. He thinks stopping Curry is as simple as trapping him off screens. Of course he doesn’t know much about the Warriors.

I think the key here is how Tony Parker will play. I expect Kawhi to put a solid performance (more on the defensive end actually like last year’s game) but really I’ve seen the Spurs having meltdowns on offense when Parker does retarded plays.

Didn’t watch because I was sure there was no way we would beat the Bulls. Pretty surprised at the result.

where the hell can I watch the spurs warriors game?? Surely the nba knows no one has nbatv

Reddit is useful for things like this sometimes.

Looks like the posted streams getting bodied, a lot of people must want to see this right now. Looks like a VLC media player stream posted there is good if you have that installed, they are usually best streams during NFL for me.

Man, I think hella teams can beat the bulls. I know their record is good, but eye test they have huge issues. As long as you can win at the 3 and 5 positions, bulls are fighting up hill.

Bulls are not that good, but no way should they have lost to a Heat team missing two starters. It just shows how much they’ve fallen.

Festus Ezeli has gotten really decent. Doesn’t get enough credit for how much work he puts in.

The Bulls always tend to play at the level of the opponent and it almost never goes well.

Re: Sixers game

Doesn’t really apply to this one since their opponent has an elite defense, and it showed with them only shooting 39%. Butler was like 5-15.

You would think Bulls would have enough offense to counter, but they played right into what Heat like to do. If a team gets caught in a low scoring trap, Heat usually get the win.

Warriors are basically a younger, more athletic version of the Spurs. That’s essentially what this game is proving.

:slight_smile:

I didn’t expect the game to go like this. Even w/o Duncan.

GS is going to win, better fire Pop.

If the warriors win. "Its just a regular season game doesn’t mean anything.
If the warriors lose. "Everybody knew they were overrated.

LOL! Games not even over yet and the excuses are already starting.