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Its still a game that didnt matter. We would have locked the number 1 overall no matter what and had we gone 2 of 3 vs KState that would have been fine, hell id rather get the extra life lesson for the tourney then beat KState yet again.

Damn. I was really hoping we would lose that game. Fresh Loss = Better chance.

woah... 999 feet ehh? Was he shooting from the Natural History Museum?

Um... Trap? first off, its hard to compare a center and a shooting guard and determine who is the better overall player. These two positions are entirely different and there is no legitimate debate for either side. Second, positions aside, Jordan changed the game as a whole and every franchise completely revamped roster structure because of him. Hakeem while fantastically dominate, did not do any of this.

Included shipping costs. I mean, im just throwing this out there. Im not looking to constantly have to discuss my prices or what not as i will sell these no matter what. You guys can bid on them on EBay and get them at a cheaper cost then the buy now, or you can buy now for 65 flat with no shipping cost or tax. Even in a store it would be around 67 dollars after taxes and if you bought online you would add another 8 dollars for shipping. So for people who do shop online these are not bad deals at all, and unlike a store, i am willing to negotiate.

65 free shipping. My buddy owns a business and i'm getting games at wholesale costs.

65 with free shipping.

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Cavs and Atlanta. Orlando will spit some fire but this is not the same team that was able to make it to the finals last year, they are weaker. Boston, done unless KG and pierce can manage to be 100% for the play offs.

Not a huge LBJ fan myself. I will never deny his talent, but right now i view him more as a product then a player. Some of these no-calls are absolutely ridiculous btw and is the reason why i will take a bad NCAA game over a good NBA game any day of the week.

There are a lot of younger players i would like to see successful, but for now i will just go with the older players whose career only needs to be topped off with a ring. Steve Nash, Grant Hill, Jason Kidd, Antonio Mcdyess, Chauncey Billups (yes, i would love to see him with 2 titles), Peja, Nick Collison, K-Mart (the real one, not the fake Sac one).

Pierce was injured half the season. Wally was injured over half. Ok, sure. This one can be slightly excusable. But nothing else. Even so, good coaches create winning systems that do not have to rely on superstar players. BTW, Pierce played 47 games, win half of those and you are at 23, a good coach would have been able to pull out at least 7 more wins with a good system while PP was out. Rickey Davis was 20 point guy who was a good defender. Like it or not, he was a great role player for that team and any team that has two guys talented enough to get 20+ and 3 or so players who can get 14+ and 5 or 6 more who can get 8+ should not be expected to be below 500. If they are, then they are being very poorly coached. Hill was injured for much of his career with Doc. And he played 29 games, not 14. Take him out of the line up and you still have a team stacked with fantastic role players, old franchise hall of famers and a healthy TMac. Say what you want about the older players, but these are the guys that are added to championship teams year after year and many provide the necessary piece for that team to win that trophy (take a look at the past 10 years of titles for proof and see who teams added for that extra experience push). Fact is, come play off time any team would have been better off with a 20mpg 7/7 old experienced Kemp then a 15ppg 2-3 year player with little or no clutch experience. See a re-occurring theme here? Doc has proven time and time again that his system (what actually matters as a coach) is a poor one.

Ok. 06-07 - 24-58... this is overachieving ? 24 wins is what you consider overachieving? A team lead by Pierce and Wally (sorry, but Wally was a good role player with the Celtics) with a [expletive] ton of great young talent around them... and 24 wins is overachieving? 05-06 - 33-49.... Again..... Overachieving? Pierce, Davis (who was a 20 then), Blount, Jefferson, West, Wally, Green, Gomes.... 33 wins....Overachieving? GTFO. Orlando... McGrady, Grant Hill, Pat Garity, Armstrong, Big Ben, Outlaw, Mike Miller, Troy Hudson, Horace Grant, Patrick Ewing, Dee Brown, Jacque Vaughn, Shawn Kemp, Giricek..... Really? A first round knock out for those three seasons with all those great players for most of the years he was there and THAT was underachieving ? GTFO. That [expletive] was underachieving if i have ever seen it. Kemp, McGrady, Hill, Garity, Armstrong, Grant, Ewing, Brown.... NOT make the second round? Yea... GTFO with this underachieving crap.

I wouldn't put any team on the list who did their trades simply out of cap desperation. Lets face facts here, a blind monkey in a wheel chair could move Caron Butler, Haywood and Jamison for expiring.

Not buying it. Miami should be in a better position now and i can promise that the franchise expectations were not to be out of the play-offs (which supposedly them being a questionable 7+ seed is amazing and i cannot think of one news source that predicted them even that low). This is the almost same exact team as last season so there is no reason for anyone to hold them to any less then what they did the previous. Dallas had a little skid but they are still in the position to finish as expected.

I have. Before the big 3 Rivers was a garbage coach and he has never been great with a team that has not had multiple all-stars on it. We've never seen him take a team from the ground up and be successful with them. He was with the Celtics for what? 4 years with one(not 100% on that, but im pretty sure it was just one year) of those years being an over 500 team until they got KG and Ray Allen. And even when they did that, their championship season you could look at the bench during a time out and see KG talking more then Doc.

Dunno if that second part was as racist as the first. It just sounds like the owner is considering the olden days of basketball over todays game. Back when the league was mostly white the game itself was more fundamental, but it really had nothing to do with race, it was just the beginning of basketball. He might not understand the concept of evolution though.

Dallas has never been a seriously defensive team, at least not more so then offense and they are right around average for defense, which is where they always are. Im not sure if anything more was actually expected of them when their system has not really changed. According to insidehoops.com Dallas is 15th in overall defense (last season being 14th, so defense fallen apart does not really ring true). Maybe some individual efforts have fallen short, but some positions have also highly increased, as a team they are relatively the same though. In fact their defensive numbers are not much different from the year they went to the finals against the Heat. Miami on the other hand is doing almost worst in every category from last season. What where their expectations for the season with a healthy wade? Was it really to do worse? Improvements from their youth, Beasley, Chalmers, Cook, ect. Bringing in guys like Q-rich and an ultimate goal of keeping Wade happy this season and their expectations are for a questionable 7th-8th seed? Highly doubtful. They may not expect to be contenders, but right now they are questioning being in the play-offs. A B+ for a team that is falling apart (which definitely did not have those goals set for the year) vs a C for a team that is a solid 2-4 seed in the West (which is definitely an expectation) and is one of the few true contenders in that conference is not a very good grading scale.

Gonna go with two teams here. Blazers for picking up Camby. Most of the other trades really do not matter as none of the trades are really necessary for the teams success. Portland on the other hand really needed to pick up another big man, even a low level big man would have sufficed but instead they manage to get a great big man in Camby, this really helps them for the rest of the season and could be the difference between even making the play-offs and a WCFs appearance. And.. Other... Memphis, These guys did a fantastic job picking up Brewer with what could be a 15 pick or worse, lets not forget this team is only 3.5 games out of the POs. Brewer is a highly overlooked and underrated player. A 4th year 2/3 who is a great role player and provides some pretty good defense. With him on the team the Grizz could also try out a Mayo-Brewer-Gay guard line up since they seem to be getting little production out of Mr.Conley.

Why did the Heat get a B+? The reasons given do not really justify a B+ grade for them (Who will most likely be knocked out in the first round) but a C for the Mavericks (who are one of the few teams who have the depth and experience to contend in the West).

+1 Shaq Duncan Kobe That covers all but two rings.

No it does not automatically make him an A defender or great offensive player, but you are really the only person to suggest he is not. What puts him in that top 10 category (not me saying this btw, people who make millions to analyze games and players are the ones saying this) of Celtics is the fact that.... he really is a true badass. Offensively Pierce can do anything that any of the greats could. He has a great mid range jumper, has shot a career of 37% from the 3 (Kobe at 34 btw) being 4th in the NBA, 45 from the field (same as KB) and 86 for FTs (81 for KB) with an average of 23ppg career (2 shy of KB). Now, a cross SF/SG that has made eight all- star appearances and win a three-point competition, multiple All-NBA teams, a finals MVP award, ect. ect. ect.is not someone who is lacking anything offensively at all (given position at least). Defensively there is not much evidence to give simply because there are not many ways to accurately measure defensive production, however the best ways we currently have is by using Defensive Win Shares and Defensive Efficiency. Both of which he is rated higher then Mr. Bryant (with DWS almost 20 spots better). Also if you have not figured it out, i am using Bryant as a comparison because it is clear you think he is everything that Pierce is not. 2008 NBA FINALS SCOUTING REPORT OF PAUL PIERCE: Not all the time, no. But Doc Rivers would have been labeled a defensive moron had he not sent double teams at Kobe. But as the scouting report said, PP did a very respectable job guarding Kobe, which is about as high of praise as you can get when defending that man.

It would be nice to see them start doing the Dunk Contest once every two or three years instead of yearly. There is a limit to how many original dunks we can see and if they turned it into a bi-annual event then then anticipation alone would increase the value for the viewer. It could also push players to be more creative and innovative and hopefully push them to use less props and more natural skill.