Yup, true, true...

Rondo is a one man fast break, a mini LeBron, without a jumper...

http://celticshub.com/2013/04/24/predictable-bostons-offense-has-a-paul-pierce-problem/

Read this, great article...

I really, really think if they hit some shots in the 2nd half and get some home calls like NY, they're fine...

So Bill Simmons was ranking players..


30. Damian Lillard
29. Bradley Beal

ONE SMALL STEP FOR ACTUAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS, ONE GIANT FUCK YOU TO CHUCKERS EVERYWHERE :simmons:

PS: fuck Lillard, curry, kyrie (curry less cause at least he isn't an atrocious playmaker like the other 2)

Lillard = Kemba

Bill Simmons <3

The side-article about Wolves 2009 draft is fascinating and scary at the same time - LINK

(Can't believe that there's not a single KAAAAAAHN smiley :()

I appreciate the Jimmy Butler and Larry Sanders selections.

I'm a huge fan of Lillard I must say. He basically has no weakness. I don't think he has HOF potential necessarily but he's going to have a nice career with some all-star appearances sprinkled in. I'm a big Beal fan too. It really makes you wonder what the fuck the Bobcats and MJ are doing in the draft. Taking Michael Kidd-Gilchrist over the likes of Lillard, Beal, Barnes, etc. Hell, even Terrence Ross and Drummond would be better IMO.

2009 draft was nice as I look at the draft board. Thabeet goes #2 lol. Jonny "2k star" Flynn goes #6

I see the Jazz drafted Eric Maynor @ #19. Should have hung onto him but they couldn't have seen the DWill v Jerry Sloan feud erupting. Taj Gibson @ 26 is great

I despise Lillard & kyrie. Those 2 get dickrode by espn & they refuse to broadcast any of their weaknesses. Both are just chuckers, don't set up teammates (don't even try), they have absolutely no play making ability at all, hog the ball, play HORRENDOUS defense, are already prima donnas, etc.

Look @ what happened with waiters once kyrie went down. Dion getting the D-Wade comparisons didn't seen too far fetched. I watched about 20 - 25 blazer games this year, in half of those not even LMA could get the ball in the post. Then the coach gets blamed for not giving the ball to LMA, when fucking Lillard is the one with the ball

If these 2 were actually good, they should've made the playoffs. Everyone always wants to talk crap about how they need better teammates. All Lebron needed was people with a pulse to make the finals, you can't tell me Kyrie can't make the 8th seed?

I've never seen anyone in any sport that made his teammates better than LeBron does. He makes Dleague players into average NBA players. He got Boobie Gibson a 4 yr 25 mil dollar contract FFS. Gibson is barely DLeague quality and certainly not NBA. He's largely responsible for Drew Gooden getting an inflated contract from Milwaukee, only to discover he sucks too and never plays as a result. Anderson Varejao is a glorified Omer Asik and somehow he's making 9 mil per year. Larry Hughes is immediately banned from the NBA as soon as he's not with LeBron anymore, etc.

Lillard did more than Kyrie. Portland was a pretty decent team most of the year despite having virtually no bench. I agree that Kyrie is a little overrated. It only took 38 wins to make the playoffs in the East this year. Not exactly a tall task. At least Portland would have needed 44-45 wins against a tougher schedule. Kyrie doesn't have that excuse.

Yea that's why I don't get on Lillard TOO much for not making the playoffs. If kyrie is the savior that everyone thinks he is, he can make the 8th seed. Trade him while he still on inflated Blake griffin value & get a actual playmaker that can score & another good wing to play along waiters. Something like Curry & Barnes for Kyrie & Gee (curry is 1st player that comes to mind)

Something to remember Portland lost 34 of their last 47 games.. The same games that "cemented" Damian into the ROY award. As long as he doesn't play defense or is a complete offensive player, he'll never even crack a top 15 pg list.

Brad Beal will be the consensus top SG by 2015. Only Harden stands in his way & I'm starting to see a lot more people notice that he doesn't even try to score & that he attacks just to get to the FT line instead of having the mindset to score

This shit right here decided the game. Fantastic effort by the Rockets, though.

lol that pic is awesome. Looks like Chandler Parsons just watched someone die and he's trying to go save him and Perkins is holding him back so he doesn't die too going after him.

The Rockets look great going forward. It's kinda sad that they have about 5 PF's but none of them seem worth while. They really need to hope Millsap's stock slipped this year due to his lackluster season so they can get him at a decent price. It seems obvious he has no interest in returning to Utah.

PatrickBeverleyBall

I like Harden and he's been better than I thought in Houston but it's funny how flustered he gets when he faces a double team.

In trade value, yes, Simmons has a point, but right now who would I rather have? Lillard now of course, but for the future? Well yes, Beal, I don't know about Kyirie making the playoffs with that team, but he could've had a better record, although he missed some games again this year...

He gets injured more frequently than Lillard or any other pg in the league, but no season injuries, just minor injuries...

I dont see what would be wrong with taking Beal now. Since 2013 hes been avg'ing 20+ ppg & 5+ rpg & all that other good stuff with VERY high percentages.

Brandon Knight > Kyrie
Andre Drummond > Lillard (in terms of who's gonna be more important & who should've been drafted first)

Patrick Beverly's a little douche. Russell had to show him a thing or eight

I actually like Patrick Beverly more than Jeremy Lin, the guy has cojones and he rises to the challenge...

Beverley is just pure energy for all 48 minutes. He's leading NBA guards in offensive rebounds percentage and that stat is all about hustle and effort. Westbrook is mentally weak and gets annoyed at every defender who plays aggressive on him and doesn't back down. If Beverley continues to play this way, it's only a matter of time before Russell gets a technical or ejection.

Lin is a good player when he's aggressive with the ball. I hate it when he settles for long twos and dribbles around the basket aimlessly. He was missed in the second half last night.

Lillard and Irving remind me of Marbury, I think they'll have similar careers. Couple ALL STAR games, a few playoff 1st/2nd round exits etc. Slightly above average basically.

Just gotta say Bogus taking charges and that "brick wall" screen on Iggy are hilarious.

Makes me wonder what happens when Ty Lawson slows down in a few years, pretty useless imo. Too small to guard or post up, shoots ok, but you can contain that, ok playmaker, but uses speed for that too.

Ty Lawson's future



I'll be interested to see if George Karl can counter the ultra small ball from GSW or not. It's not looking good for Denver at this point. At worst GSW will split in the Bay but Denver looks like they might be ready to keel over and die with another knock out punch in game 3. Too many injuries taking a toll.

I'm somewhat excited for the games tonight. Bucks hung with the Heat fairly well in South Beach, maybe they can steal one tonight. Bulls v Nets in a pivotal game 3 and Clippers @ Grizz should be great. Mike Conley's last stand.

I think who wins the Bulls vs Nets game wins the f'n series, also the Clipps and Grizz game goes OT IMO and then the Clipps choke in OT simply because CP3 can't do it like Game 2, it's simply too hard, if he can then give the man the MVP lol...

I think Denver wins game 3, the Warriors can't shoot like they shot in game 2 (it will be close though, very close), in game 4 the Warriors win it just because Denver has too many injuries and Steph and Klay hit most of the shots and turn the ball over and that crowd gets them in a frenzy...

Milwaukee fear the deer,

BucksWinBucksWin :blake:

I'm hoping Brooklyn wins but I don't really care. I just think they pose more of a threat going forward in the playoffs than the wounded Bulls.

I've been impressed with Milwaukee tbh. Brandon Jennings has played his ass off and is likely making an extra million or two on his extension this month.

Grizz v Clips will be a blood bath.

Got 2k13 back again today. The expression FML has never felt more appropriate.

Reboot rumors return with every mention of 2K.

Back in the day writing #BucksWinBucksWin would result in Jeebs kicking you out of the league.

Again no play time for Duhon...

Andrew Bogut against Jeebs still lives on in my memory. Bogut was on a hot streak during that time. I remember him having 3-4 huge games (25+pts). It was a Linsanity type run IMO

I'm pretty sure Jeebs threatened to remove you from the league it was such a dominate performance. I seem to remember that too. And Jeebs didn't typically threaten to remove anyone so it was a serious threat.

Ken Stern era >

I can't find the specific posts on old forums. That might have happened on 2K10 if it's not there, and nbaforps3.7forum.net doesn't exist anymore.

Bogut wasn't the issue it was Delfino scoring like 36 just off 3's and drawing pumpfake fouls or something. And then I celebrated on forum and got some ugly posts thrown in my way.

Btw. during my search I quickly went through the full 70 page thread of S1 2K11. That's where real man played, not some ticky tacky "I don't want to play because I was called out" (-hatr07).
Over 70 pages there were 45 conflicts with word "fuck" thrown in one or other direction (mostly in both).
End of Felix' and Kims run and early Al, Nello and Kellz crossed-over with Hornets Ante and Jeebs being Jeebs.

http://isbaleague.darkbb.com/t50-the-official-isba-season-1-thread



(Possibly can only be topped by EDC 2K12 season 2)

It's unfortunate that we can't find more active sim members because I doubt that even 2k's bullshit would stop us from playing a few productive seasons of OA.

Occasionally we (I) get caught up with high trade restrictions and fights, but 2K takes blame with awful servers, CPU, roster updates, OA not working.

Here's 6 of us using the forum, I'm sure that some of the Vince, Paul, Sukan, Justin, Mulac, Ronin group would play. That's around 10. 3-4 more and we would be set.