Board 8 > NBA Stats and Discussion topic 2- Where Jeremy Lin happens

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Rock, stats only take you so far.

Maggette can't do what Melo did last night; put an entire team(city) on your back and say F It were not losing.

The reason NBA teams hate trading superstars is because there is no replacement. Even if they get 99 cents back it isn't a dollar.

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TheConductorSix posted...
Rock, stats only take you so far.

Maggette can't do what Melo did last night; put an entire team(city) on your back and say F It were not losing.

The reason NBA teams hate trading superstars is because there is no replacement. Even if they get 99 cents back it isn't a dollar.

Melo couldn't do it, either. Denver didn't accomplish a damn thing until Chauncey Billups came along, and since trading Melo they're doing the exact same thing that they were doing WITH him.

Melo sucks at taking over. This year, his clutch statistics are horrible. .354 FG%, .392 eFG%. One game doesn't suddenly make Carmelo the take-over master that you seem to want him to be.

Carmelo isn't a superstar. The number of people that deserve that label can be counted on one hand, and Carmelo isn't one of them. It's why Denver could trade him and still be successful at about the same rate. It's why New York hasn't experienced some huge uptick in winning percentage. Blame Amar'e all you want but you know what, they were 28-26 before Carmelo became a Knick. Both of these guys are ridiculously overpaid and the Knicks are going to be a perennial 7-8 seed with them both under contract.

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melo does better when he's the only offensive-minded player on the floor. he doesn't seem capable of playing off the catch. it's why he flourishes so much when amare/lin are off the court.

top 7 depressing games... jeez... i don't think i could pick just 7! and i'm not sure i care to relive the experience!

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Carmelo sucks

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Fisher has a lot of rings.

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I wouldn't take Melonoma on my team if you paid me.

Also can the playoffs start already?

I'm finding it really hard to care about the regular season at this point.

Actually, why don't we just crown the Heat champions already? They're going to win, right?

F*** this season.

The Western Conference playoffs have some suspense this year. They'll be pretty fun to watch. Can see any of 4-5 teams making the WCF.

Eastern Conference...well it certainly looks like it'll be Heat/Bulls ECF rematch, though the Celtics and Knicks will likely not go quietly into the night. Though the Knicks have a shot at the 6 seed by virtue of the Magic imploding, it's likely they'll have a first round matchup against either the Heat or Bulls, which has massive epic potential.

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would love knicks-bulls or knicks-heat in R1

hoping for the C's to draw atlanta or orlando at this point

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Didn't realize that Dallas was that close to falling out of a playoff spot. Suns will be within 1 game of them with a win tonight(which they should...up by 20 with 8 minutes to go).

Shanon Brown has been playing pretty well too since he took over for injured Grant Hill.

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From: SirDiemsma | #259
would love knicks-bulls or knicks-heat in R1

hoping for the C's to draw atlanta or orlando at this point

bos/orl 3/6 would be ideal, i think?

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Melo is a superstar. Period. Replace Amare with someone like Greg Monroe who does the tough things and the Knicks are an elite team. The dude can be a ball stopper, but he's getting better at it. He gets his team involved and if you watched the game you saw it. More importantly, Melo connects with the New York crowd. They love each other. When he single handedly kept the Knicks in close games vs the Celtics, New York respected it even though they got swept.

Anyways, Celtics will stomp the Magic. Knicks would rather get Chicago than Miami.

The Grizzlies are going to be terrifying and none of it matters because Miami is going to God Stomp.

We are still all Witnesses.

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realo, the knicks already have a guy who's better than monroe (and the 2nd best center in the east). also melo and the knicks got booed like hell in their home games last year's playoff series

huge win for the celtics here

ideal path is orlando, NY, miami (or if we manage to draw someone else in the ECF, all the better)

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the world feels right when the celtics are clicking

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Melo is a superstar. Period.

No. He's not. Period. End of sentence. There is no argument for Melo being a superstar other than "durr he takes over/scores da points." There's too many of these pseudo superstars that get that label because of their willingness to overshoot and ball-stop. The fact that Carmelo is having the worst season of his career and you still want to argue he's a superstar is ridiculous at this point.

If he's a superstar then so was Mark Aguirre cause they're basically the same player.

Also, don't suggest replacing Amar'e with Monroe. Dumars might overhear you and actually do, at which point I will not see my 26th birthday as a free man.

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shabazz and nerlens make their announcement tonight

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pierce jacking up 3 after 3... yeah... it's lockout basketball

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shabazz to ucla
nerlens to UK

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Another all around pathetic effort by the Thunder

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cp3 had 31 points and 4 assists huh

chris 'derrick rose' paul?

or chris 'westbrook' paul? lolololol

anyway that celtics game was awful, but a triple-double's a triple double, and a win's a win. now 2-0 in the whole 5-games-in-6-nights thing

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From: MRNlCEWATCH | #268
shabazz to ucla
nerlens to UK

this kills me

Oregon State would have had their best chance to win the Pac-12 and go dancing next year but Cunningham declares for some reason and now UCLA will be a powerhouse again.

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you don't like 4-2 overtimes come on

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From: SirDiemsma | #270
anyway that celtics game was awful, but a triple-double's a triple double, and a win's a win. now 2-0 in the whole 5-games-in-6-nights thing

yeah. the officials did not want that game to end in any sort of graceful manner

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Wolves are now officially eliminated from playoff contention.

Whee.

dammit grizzlies

you guys need to keep winning to take the 3 seed... and let LA/LA face off in the first round!

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Saints owner Tom Benson buy Hornets for $338 mil.


http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/7809655/report-new-orleans-saints-owner-tom-benson-lines-buy-new-orleans-hornets

tonight's gotta rank as one of the lowest moments of the season

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Not gonna root for the Lakers, but they better beat Denver for me. Also, go Portland!

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Howard out with a herniated disc. Probably done for the regular season. Magic could very well nosedive to the 8 seed.

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I'll take a Howard-less Magic over the 76ers or Knicks in the first round of the playoffs happily.

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Okay so do we WANT the Bobcats to end up with the worst winning percentage of all time? I'm not sure which side I'm on because it'd be hilarious but also sad.

And what do we want the new name of the Hornets to be?

rose AND howard out with significant injuries this year... dat lockout schedule

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Celtics and Spurs gonna roll all the way to the finals.

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From: blindhobo13 | #281
And what do we want the new name of the Hornets to be?

The Jaz--

oh. right.

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So what happens when Chris Kaman lays out Lebron with a flagrant 2

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damn, rondo just got his ankles broken by deshawn stevenson of all people

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From: CherryCokes | #284
The Jaz--

oh. right.

They can just swap around a few names.

New Orleans Jazz
Give the Hornets name back to Charlotte. The Bobcats are cursed.
Utah gets some new name.

I wonder how the Utah Jazz name came to be

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The franchise began in 1974 as the New Orleans Jazz, in New Orleans, Louisiana, but the team moved to Utah in 1979 after just five seasons.

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I was hoping it had to do with some unknown jazz movement in Mormon country

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celtics 4-1 over 6 nights

no big

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Suns in that 8th seed, oh yea! Just gotta hang on to it now.

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Thunder played well for a half, then had a quarter where the only 2 guys who scored were Ibaka and Perkins

We refuse to give a 4 quarter effort against the Clippers

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We also picked a horrible time to have our worst free throw shooting night of the year

Im still confident if the Thunder ever actually gave 110% they would dominate the Clippers, but they clearly don't care

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http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/2000208-sports-and-racing-nba/62131561

this topic keeps on giving

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Just heard about this wet willy thing with West

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pierce with 14/3 A/TO

paul 'rajon rondo' pierce

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only a couple more daysssss

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The Bulls are going to end up with the 2 Seed...I just know it.

If the Mavs don't pull something the Pacers will look to make a statement and their currently riding a 7 game winstreak. I feel weird seeing the Pacers with the 5th best record in the NBA.

Then the Bulls will be stuck playing the Knicks in a 7 game series... Here's hoping Amare's return ruins Melo's groove.

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OInsaneOne posted...
The Bulls are going to end up with the 2 Seed...I just know it.

If the Mavs don't pull something the Pacers will look to make a statement and their currently riding a 7 game winstreak. I feel weird seeing the Pacers with the 5th best record in the NBA.

Then the Bulls will be stuck playing the Knicks in a 7 game series... Here's hoping Amare's return ruins Melo's groove.

it's either the knicks in round 1 or the celtics in round 2 ... ain't no easy outs! i think miami would actually rather face knicks and pacers than sixers and celtics....

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