The Official NBA Regular Season 07-08 Thread

[westhoff]

Bobbo,

Yeah, I have no idea why they try and have Barbosa run plays. Just stick him in the corner and have him do that baseline cut or shoot threes. He's one of the best in the league at those two things.

The Bulls better change something or shoot lights out every night. Do they have somebody injured I forgot about? The ball never gets in the paint on any possesion. And no leadership on either end of the floor. I don't know why I picked them to make the ECF.

Suns are looking better with every game. Especially Grant Hill.

[tdarko]

I can't stand his nonsense but Manu really has been playing out of his mind so far this season.

[tuq]

HAY GUISE WHO WON THE SUNS-BULLS GAME? MY POWER WENT OUT AND I CAN'T ACCESS THE INTERNET.

[tdarko]

tuq,

Haha, it wasn't the team that didn't even make the page on the Sagarin page you posted--quality win.

[mmbt0ne]

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tuq,

Haha, it wasn't the team that didn't even make the page on the Sagarin page you posted--quality win.

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Indeed. Maybe you now you guys can focus on breaking your losing streak to the Hawks later this year.

[xorbie]

Enough with the trash talking gentlemen, don't make us C's fans come in and lay down the law (BTW IN CASE YOU DID NOT HEAR WE ARE UNDEAFEATED)

ps. ON PASE TO BEAT DA BULLS

[anatta]

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Enough with the trash talking gentlemen, don't make us C's fans come in and lay down the law (BTW IN CASE YOU DID NOT HEAR WE ARE UNDEAFEATED)

ps. ON PASE TO BEAT DA BULLS

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In the future, please consider a kindly reminder to the gentle fans of "16 rings".

[tuq]

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Indeed. Maybe you now you guys can focus on breaking your losing streak to the Hawks later this year.

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Soulkiller diss mang. However a streak is >1, and one is the number of games in a row in which the Suns have lost to the Hawks.

Also, all of your upcoming lottery picks are belong to us. At least until we trade it away for a grilled cheese sandwich and six-pack of PBR as we did with Luol Deng a few years ago.

[tuq]

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tuq,

Haha, it wasn't the team that didn't even make the page on the Sagarin page you posted--quality win.

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While I appreciate your laudable attempt to troll me, the post was partly made so Clarkmeister would see it, and partly because even my dumb no-knowing Eastern Conference ass asked before the season what all the hype was about Chicago (unfortunately I don't keep a link to my predictions on my desktop like bobo does so you'll just have to take my word for it [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]). Who knows, they could still rally to 55-60 wins and a title, but they are a mess and unlike Dallas last year they don't seem to have the personnel nor leadership to make that kind of a run. The Kobe thing may be distracting too, dunno.

That said, the win against such a crappy team actually did drop them out of the top ten. So your comment was supposed to be hurtful but it was also fair. I know they take a couple of months to settle out but I do like the Sagarin rankings:

[tdarko]

tuq,

It wasn't supposed to be hurtful, it was just a joke.

We shouldn't put too much stock into SOS yet, we don't know what each of these teams are actually going to be yet so these SOS numbers are going to be skewed imo. Just like during the second week of the NFL when PokerFink was trying to tell me that the Cowboys had a much tougher schedule ahead than Green Bay and I told him there was no way to know that--it turns out that Green Bay has it tougher and Dallas' schedule isn't that bad.

Hollinger puts LA ahead of teams like Hou, Dal, Det, Pho, Orl, and Uta which is just nuts--every team I mentioned has a better record and a much higher point diff but LA has this inflated SOS...but they are a 4-3 team and they will be a just over .500 team every month unless something drastic happens.

Point is, beating Chi drops Pho is some math related polls but it could all even out when Chi has a nice Dec or tears it up in Jan. Hollinger and Sagarin don't mean a whole lot early on.