****The Official 2013-14 NBA Thread****

The funny thing is tha Bron/Wade/Bosh are unselfish enough to make it happen if they desire. Its more on Melo and what he wants.

It may be a pipe dream but that is what people said about the Big 3 too.

 

How about a 2nd Section?

 

nope.

 

If you want a good joke, someone edited the Heat Wikipedia page to include Pau on the roster. Says we traded him for Battier lol.

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I know they can opt out but I didn't think about a resign to re-join the team. I was thinking the Heat just try to avoid the tax by cutting some other players.

 

The Heat have the books clear save for Norris Cole...they have the opportunity to reshape their cap again. Pat Riley is good at his job.

 

Andersen too I believe. I was worried that LeBron might bolt if we didn't win this year until you said that. Wow, Pat can remake the team in his image next year, again. If they bring their salaries down to say $15 million per year, Miami could do some real damage again.

 

Kevin Love opened a can of whoop arse on the Pacers tonight, 39 pts, 16 rbs with 3 min. to go.

Hibbert 4 pts, West 4 pts, 11 rbsd combined.

 

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I was looking at the standings.

Pacers have played 29 home games, to Heat's 24. They are 26-3 at home, 15-10 on the road. They are up 2.5 pts on Heat and 2 games ahead. There is likelihood things will even out and Heat has a chance to get homecourt again, which is significant.

 

It's extremely significant, as good as Miami is to be able to win one in Indiana will be rough under the leagues current Pacers get all the calls at home rules. And even if they manage that task, if u are again the road team against an OKC?? Tough task.

 

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ugh, there goes my Heat Freak draft roundup for you guys hahahaha

 

Heat has made a trade apparently.

 

Roger Mason Jr. to Sacramento for a pick (protected 2nd rounder), and is now working to complete a deal that will bring one of two players in: Anthony Morrow, Caron Butler.

There was talk of Evan Turner. Price too steep.

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Not sure what to think about this. Hawes is better than Zeller, but he's an expiring and Zeller is getting better. At least it means less Henry Sims I suppose (who I don't find to be atrocious, just very limited).

Edit: Well looks like Sims got shipped to Philly in the deal, no loss, but we got rid of Earl Clark in the process?!? **** yea!!!

 

Creepy...

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GREAT TRADE for NY.

 

Was just about to Post that. LOL.

I saw you post that and I said to myself..."Interesting" (Guy I wanted for the Heat re-tool next year)

Then I saw that Houston took him from you and I said: "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

Good trade for Washington to dump Jan Vessely. I'm not sure why Whitman never played Maynor... I like his game. Can't hate on 'Dre Miller though. They have been fun to watch when I don't get the Heat games.

 

Danny Granger to Philly for Evan Turner and LaVoy Allen.

Not sure this trade makes Indy any better as I'm not a fan of Turner but granger has sucked this eyar.

And can I just say a hearty HAHA to that scum, wannabe thug, Granger. The guy on more than one ocassion in the East semis 2 years ago tried to break LeBron's arm.

 

Now some suggestion that Sixers will buy out Granger and that the Heat would have interest.

If that happens, forget everything I said in the last post, lol.

 

Still not convinced they can take down the Heat, but gotta give the Pacers credit for trying. Went ALL in with last summers moves, Bynum, this trade.

 

Thing is, Bynum and Turner aren't that good.

In fact, I doubt Bynum cracks the regular playoff rotation.

Our top 8 is still way better than theirs. You're not going to play more than that. Oden will probably be our 9th.

As long as Wade is healthy it's a 6 game series. If Wade is gimpy then it could go 7 and go either way

 

Disagree on Turner. He is a decent rotation piece. Bynum won't play much if at all. Was more just giving credit for the efforts they have made.

Wade will be gimpy more than likely. I feel Miami wins, but it is very tight.

 

It's certainly possible he'll provide more than Granger but I doubt he has even a Gary Neal sized impact in the playoffs.

 

I also don't like how he is a very good rebounder. Just adds to their dominance over us In that area. However as the Dallas game showed, when you have the best player in the league you can overcome things like rebounding haha

 

Not really.

Look at any anaytics or advanced stats guy. Haberstroh is laughing at this move.

Turner is a volume, inefficient scorer on a historically bad team. And even with all that he's only averaging 17 ppg.

He will make a minimal impact in the playoffs. He's not even a Mike Miller with a history of just getting scorching hot from 3 for a quarter or two. And that's why he won;t have the impact of a Gary Neal type.

Turner is irrelevant to Indy beating the Heat. They'll only beat the Heat is their stars outplay the Heat's stars. And if wade is ehalthy that is unlikely to happen.

 

He's a 29% 3 point shooter. He wasn't a good 3 point shooter during their two playoff runs either.

A talented offensive player should be scoring over 20ppg on a team like Philly. He's a decent slasher and rebounder for his position but those attributes too are overrated due to the 76ers ineptness.

He might give them more than Granger during the regular season, which might help them lock up the #1 seed, but he won't have much of an impact on the ECF, which is the whole point of the trade for Indy.

Let's look at it this way. Out of these two X factors, Turner or Oden, who do you think affects the ECF more?