EPTNBA 2013-14 Season - Page 104
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DystopiaX
United States16236 Posts
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seiferoth10
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Scarecrow
Korea (South)9173 Posts
On December 07 2013 17:05 Disregard wrote: Josh Smith is beyond awful, thinks he can shoot anywhere and gets payed way too much. What's he meant to do when he's played at the 3 and gets left wide open? | ||
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zulu_nation8
China26351 Posts
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hootsushi
Germany3468 Posts
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usedtocare
United States243 Posts
On December 07 2013 16:04 Jerubaal wrote: Eh....He did run the Pittsburgh Steelers equivalent of an offense in Boston, low scoring but efficient. The total opposite of D'Antoni, really. It's no wonder that the loosey-goosey Clippers team isn't responding as well as the battle-hardened Celtics. Although, really, he should have had a bit more success than he did in Boston. Two Finals appearances is great, but you can't attribute all of that dropoff to age. Maybe I'm looking at D'Antoni backwards. The knock was that he only wanted to coach a particular way and wouldn't adjust to personnel. The truth is that TEAM had to be coached a very particular way and it was the polar opposite of D'Antoni. I don't like calling Doc a fraud, but going purely by definition he just might qualify. I don't know what he is or was "running", but the championship came too easy for him to get enough coaching credits. And the job Thibs was doing is responsible for what Celts were considered good at. KG, Pierce and Rondo ran everything on the floor, if there was a team in NBA that couldn't care less for a coach it was that Celtics team. Supposedly, Rivers is good at helping players gel and is respected enough to manage egos. There's definitely some truth to that, but he sure had his issues managing personnel in Boston. Never for a second i regretted him leaving. | ||
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cLutZ
United States19574 Posts
On December 08 2013 02:10 usedtocare wrote: I don't like calling Doc a fraud, but going purely by definition he just might qualify. I don't know what he is or was "running", but the championship came too easy for him to get enough coaching credits. And the job Thibs was doing is responsible for what Celts were considered good at. KG, Pierce and Rondo ran everything on the floor, if there was a team in NBA that couldn't care less for a coach it was that Celtics team. Supposedly, Rivers is good at helping players gel and is respected enough to manage egos. There's definitely some truth to that, but he sure had his issues managing personnel in Boston. Never for a second i regretted him leaving. Yea, Doc is another "good" not great coach. It just that NBA people have a Boston hard-on in general that people consider hims Top 5 coach right now. | ||
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DystopiaX
United States16236 Posts
On December 07 2013 18:37 seiferoth10 wrote: You guys kept Gibson, which is the majority of the reason you couldn't (or wouldn't) pay Asik. wouldn't, but yeah ik. It's still a shame we didn't get to keep more of our talented bench players though. On that topic, Gibson's offense is looking a lot better this year. | ||
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Ace
United States16096 Posts
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DystopiaX
United States16236 Posts
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Jibba
United States22883 Posts
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Ace
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DystopiaX
United States16236 Posts
Detroit wins against Chicago, and they beat Miami the other day too. Things are looking up for them. if the Spurs come back this gonna be amazing. | ||
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RowdierBob
Australia13418 Posts
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jmbthirteen
United States10734 Posts
On December 08 2013 12:32 Ace wrote: Miami was injured vs the Pacers in the playoffs. Mid season Miami would have killed them. Pacers defense was too good to get killed by any team. Maybe Miami wins in 6 instead of 7. Oh and if we wanna talk injuries, Pacers didn't have Danny Granger. | ||
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Jibba
United States22883 Posts
On December 08 2013 12:39 DystopiaX wrote: Detroit wins against Chicago, and they beat Miami the other day too. Things are looking up for them. Wouldn't read too much into it. The defense has gotten a bit more cohesive (they tried running a fucking 2-3 zone today, and immediately gave up a layup) and Drummond is slowly adding to his offense, but overall the offense is still crap. Jennings was still taking terrible shots, he was just making them today. And somehow Josh Harrelson sparked the team. Bulls are just totally depleted again, and Boozer and Heinrich shot extremely poorly, as did the whole team from 3. | ||
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Jibba
United States22883 Posts
On December 08 2013 14:07 jmbthirteen wrote: Oh and if we wanna talk injuries, Pacers didn't have Danny Granger. I think that made them better.  | ||
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jmbthirteen
United States10734 Posts
It made PG step up. But this team is definitely better with Granger out there. Look forward to getting him back. | ||
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Disregard
China10252 Posts
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Doraemon
Australia14949 Posts
btw. can we just skip the eastern conference until the ECF and make indi and heat play a BO11? | ||
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