The Official NBA Regular Season 07-08 Thread

[tuq]

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westoff,

That title teh gay and now he tears his ACL the first week b/c of it, good job; Artdoog, tuq all Pho fans, when your season goes down the tubes you know where to point the finger. Amirite??!!

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I gave him that title. I don't approve of his Loc: though. Anyway, you make a compelling argument, SI Jinx and all that.

The problem with being a Suns fan is how goddamned close they get. Oh I just realized this is a bit of a repeat from earlier this year, but man it's tough. Coyotes? Cardinals? There are a couple of crappy franchises that no Phoenician should emotionally invest themselves in. But the Suns...they have a really compelling argument that in 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2005, and 2007 they had the talent to win it all but came up empty each year, sometimes in excruciating fashion.

(I barely and deliberately left 2006 off...I'm just torn about whether they could have beaten Dallas even with Raja Bell, I think they overacheived and luckboxed their way to the WCF that year, honestly.)

It's tough. It's also tough to imagine a Mavericks fan feeling an ounce of sympathy because their team has never won a title either, but they've largely sucked save for pockets of brilliance around 1987 and much of this decade. It's way less painful to pull for a sucky team since the letdown is negligible.

[tdarko]

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It's tough. It's also tough to imagine a Mavericks fan feeling an ounce of sympathy because their team has never won a title either, but they've largely sucked save for pockets of brilliance around 1987 and much of this decade. It's way less painful to pull for a sucky team since the letdown is negligible.

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It is tough for a Mav fan b/c of how good their teams have been compared to how God-awful they were. An NBA final appearance in which they were minutes away from putting the lockdown on a championship only 7 years removed from being the worst team in the NBA and 13 years from again being the worst team in the NBA--they went from possibly the worst organization in all of sports to everything class. Still nothing to show for it though so I understand but the difference is we experienced a great run w/ the Cowboys in the early-mid nineties as well as the Stars in the late 90's (title in 99--lost in the finals in 00).

When the Mavs blew it this last post season I was really bummed and it sucked but I was at least optimistic about the Cowboys in a few months.

[ClassicBob]

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Btw...ClassicBob,

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Will the *Spurs repeat?

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Well written and deserves attention--I know at least Pho fans will agree.

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Ya, I thought it was funny. But, while we're on that note, can we get artdogg and the other Phoenix homers to stop whining about it now that we're coming into a new season? After the BS reffing in the Finals of 06, I buried my head for a little while, and stopped posting NBA stuff. What I didn't do was troll every NBA thread with "we wuz robbed" posts. It's really annoying to read.

P.S. This is not directed at tuq.

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tdarko,

Yeah. I'd go so far as to say that Dallas in the Finals in '06 with the sweep all but inevitable to losing in six is clearly worse than even the Suns in 1993 because they were behind in that series and were only starting to make it interesting when Danny Ainge decided to double down on Horace Grant, leaving Paxson open for the three. They spent that entire series in the hole, whereas Dallas seemed like a mortal lock from the first game. Christ, I still can't believe they lost that series, they were SO MUCH BETTER than the Heat. Argh, hurts my head.

ClassicBob,

The reason I don't carry on about it is that nobody wants to hear it. Artdogg cracks me up though. It's like the Donaghy thing: he was almost certainly manipulating the over/under in that game three, but that works for both sides, right? So while Bill Simmons writes that it was the "worst officiated game he's ever seen" or whatever it's not really fair to say it cost the Suns the game. And I generally agreed with the Spurs homers that Nashty's nose injury in game one didn't definitively cost them the game (it didn't help though). The only thing that really annoys me here is people saying that the Spurs were "clearly" the better team. Nothing was made clear in that series.

I do take huge exception to those suspensions though, but from memory so did basically every non-Spurs-homer from that thread, except for Clarkmeister as he was being his usual nitty self. Bottom line, nobody cares so I'm not gonna annoy them about it.

This post is long but I'll make it clear: if the Suns are to be denied again on their quest for a title, the team I want to win is Dallas.

[ClarkNasty]

East
1. Bulls
2. Celtics
3. Cavaliers
4. Washington
5. Pistons
6. Raptors
7. Nets
8. Orlando

Playoffs
Bulls/Celtics/Cavs/Pistons
Bulls/Cavs
Bulls LOLHOMERAMENTS

WEST
1. Mavericks
2. Suns
3. Jazz
4. Spurs
5. Houston
6. Denver
7. Lakers
8. Hornets

Playoffs
Mavs/Suns/Jazz/Spurs
Mavs/Suns
Suns

Finals
Suns v Bulls
Suns

[tuq]

I am for the first time in love with another man. Unfortunately for me his name is "ClarkNasty". My mother will probably be pissed.

[Droogie]

The Suns will not win the title. Can't believe people still delude themselves in thinking they have a shot, especially now that they got rid of Kurt Thomas. Their run&gun style just doesn't make it through four playoff series.

[Artdogg]

cb,

Nice *, my mind must have been taken by too much nba hate to notice. Anyway, I promise I'll stop, all I really want this year is a full suns squad for the 2008 nba playoffs, I just don't see it happening since it hasn't for the last 3 years. The 2007 suns didnt play the 2007 spurs, but that should be the last time you hear it.

droogie,

die in a grease fire

[Assani Fisher]

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Durant PPG: O/U 16.5

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Way way over. I'd say 26.5.

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I'll take the under for whatever you want to bet

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How many PPG do you think he'll average?

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Less than 26.5 please bet me.

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LOL....

If my prediction is that he gets 26.5 that means that I think theres a 50% chance he gets more that that and a 50% chance that he gets less than that. Obviously you think that he will get much less than that. Why on earth would I make that bet? Moreover, I'm sure I can get a much better line at a sportsbook.


Just because someone predicts something doesn't mean that they'll bet on it happening.

[Assani Fisher]

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NBA

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