Official 2013-14 NBA Thread

[rapmusic]

There is no excuse. Miami just lost end of story

 

[The Lonious Monk]

That shit makes Miami haters, aka angry Bulls, Knicks, Jordan and Kobe stans, feel better and if the legacies theyre guarding in MJ and Kobe are more protected to diminish anything associated with LeBron. I said it last night some already going so hard to discredit Miami they're shitting on SA and what they accomplished not just last night but over the past 15 years in general. It boosts their own legends of Jordan and Kobe up to say LeBron lost to an inferior team when in reality Kobe lost to the Spurs too and there's no way to say for sure had Jordan played through those 2 years if he would've gotten the Bulls past Hakeem's Rockets.

lol @ this bullshit. How am I shitting on Lebron? If I was doing that, I'd be pointing out that hes 2-3 in the Finals or blaming this loss on him. I'm not. I'm saying that his team isn't all that great, and the only reason it has been successful is because he is that great and the league as a whole sucks. This isn't about shitting on Lebron. He played his part and did what he was supposed to do. He didn't fuck up this series, his teammates did.

Lol what is your reasoning for this statement

There are only like 6 good teams in the league. There is no parity between the two conferences. All your elite talent is consolidated on a handfull of teams. Players in the league lack versatility; even many of the supposed superstars are really only good on one side of the ball. The players have become to accustomed to using cheap tactics (e.g., flopping and that dumb shit Wade does where he purposely jumps into defenders to get the foul). I could go on and on, but I think those are my top gripes.

 

[Focal Point]

I'm convinced the dudes from Mike n Mike don't know shyt about basketball. .. smh...

Lol....u just noticibg that

They are football experts

They both said some stupid shyt that even a casual fan should sth at..

(Skinny mike) "if it comes down 2 picking a good team and a great player I would pick the great player to win" then turns around and says " this is not a discredit 2 lebron he just didn't have any help" when history shows in the nba you NEED a good team to win championships... why you think lebron left cleavland... or A . I don't have a ring.. ect..

(Big mike) "I picked the heat to win... but if I was betting money I would have chose the spurs"... so yo picked the team you knew was gonna lose just because you didn't bet money? Smh...

I gotta disagree with you. I don't think any of the Miami championship teams were good teams. I think they were teams who had the best player in the league, a couple other superstars, and some decent role players. They weren't bad teams, but Lebron's greatness is a lot of what made them good.

To me, the fact that MIA won two championships is proof that Lebron could have won in Cleveland. That's just how weak the East is. He could have given them a chance to improve. They already went to the Finals once. They only needed a couple more pieces to be perennial championship contenders especially after Boston fell off.

He's not saying this, this is what some idiot sports announcers who know football and hardly anything about basketball were saying

 

[IceBergTaylor]

I been a Wade fan for a long time now so to see his fall off sucks cause you kinda saw it comin. So with that said I gotta make this statement, as of right now

Joe Johnson > Wade

Someone tell me I'm lyin. Joe would have at least bodied up niggas in the post and you can't leave him open. As of now Wade has no post game and his jumper has been hit or miss. Wade's decline has been lethal

 

[Crude_]

You know you done fell when niggaz saying you on Joe Johnson status.

 

[playmaker88]

um wade has on of the best midpost games in the league fam

 

[A$AP_A$TON]

I don't know if it was posted or not

 

[greenwood1921]

regressing.deadspin.com/the-2014-heat-were-worse-in-the-finals-than-lebrons-200-1591454897?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

S/O to dis years Heat team being worse then da 07 cavs finals squad statistically LMAO @ da Wade/Bosh combo almost averaging da same as da Boobie Gibson/ Drew Gooden combo

Bron need to stop signing with these cheap teams. Go somewhere where they'll pay any price to give him some help an' stuff. Shooot.... Like San Antonio.

 

[zerocool]

I been a Wade fan for a long time now so to see his fall off sucks cause you kinda saw it comin. So with that said I gotta make this statement, as of right now

Joe Johnson > Wade

Someone tell me I'm lyin. Joe would have at least bodied up niggas in the post and you can't leave him open. As of now Wade has no post game and his jumper has been hit or miss. Wade's decline has been lethal

He don't even have lift no more....saw him drive last night which would hqve been a dunk in years past....but he drove and got blocked....

Kobe>>>>>>Harden >>>>>> johnson>>>>>>>> wade

 

[playmaker88]

I don't know if it was posted or not

in 2011

 

[Knock_Twice]

Nigga said Joe Johnson Lol...dayum Wade..

 

[greenwood1921]

There is no excuse. Miami just lost Spurs just won, end of story

Co-sign, but fixed for emphasis.

First Take got nikkas forgetting who won in sports these days. Just love talkin' about who lost. I swear "star teams" that lose get more pub than teams that win.

 

[nycest_1]

That shit makes Miami haters, aka angry Bulls, Knicks, Jordan and Kobe stans, feel better and if the legacies theyre guarding in MJ and Kobe are more protected to diminish anything associated with LeBron. I said it last night some already going so hard to discredit Miami they're shitting on SA and what they accomplished not just last night but over the past 15 years in general. It boosts their own legends of Jordan and Kobe up to say LeBron lost to an inferior team when in reality Kobe lost to the Spurs too and there's no way to say for sure had Jordan played through those 2 years if he would've gotten the Bulls past Hakeem's Rockets.

lol @ this bullshit. How am I shitting on Lebron? If I was doing that, I'd be pointing out that hes 2-3 in the Finals or blaming this loss on him. I'm not. I'm saying that his team isn't all that great, and the only reason it has been successful is because he is that great and the league as a whole sucks. This isn't about shitting on Lebron. He played his part and did what he was supposed to do. He didn't fuck up this series, his teammates did.

Lol what is your reasoning for this statement

There are only like 6 good teams in the league. There is no parity between the two conferences. All your elite talent is consolidated on a handfull of teams. Players in the league lack versatility; even many of the supposed superstars are really only good on one side of the ball. The players have become to accustomed to using cheap tactics (e.g., flopping and that dumb shit Wade does where he purposely jumps into defenders to get the foul). I could go on and on, but I think those are my top gripes.

the entire western conference (8 teams btw) had series that either went to 6-7 games.

not to mention the 1 or 2 that just missed the playoffs

 

[playmaker88]

Nigga acting like Joe johnson aint ball hard since he been on the nets thought.. thats not a diss thats a reality

 

[A$AP_A$TON]

I don't know if it was posted or not

in 2011

Makes sense

 

[Beta]

I don't know if it was posted or not

Mann I remember in 2011 I saw this and never laughed that hard in my life..but 3 yrs later it's like..ehh

And I know shittin on wade is the popular thing right now and the thing is, I can't even argue with none of it.

 

[Crude_]

Wade is ass cheeks but he'd be foolish to opt out and leave all that money on the table that nigga will never see a contract like that again.

Unlike Lebron he doesn't have over a dozen endorsements that will allow him to easily make up that money.

 

[greenwood1921]

Wade should go somewhere and get his last dope contract, play for a couple years (clorox performance or not) and then get his GM career cracking.

I think he'd make a decent GM for a team willing to spend. Get him a b-ball nerd to crunch the numbers as his sidekick and go from there.

 

[The Lonious Monk]

That shit makes Miami haters, aka angry Bulls, Knicks, Jordan and Kobe stans, feel better and if the legacies theyre guarding in MJ and Kobe are more protected to diminish anything associated with LeBron. I said it last night some already going so hard to discredit Miami they're shitting on SA and what they accomplished not just last night but over the past 15 years in general. It boosts their own legends of Jordan and Kobe up to say LeBron lost to an inferior team when in reality Kobe lost to the Spurs too and there's no way to say for sure had Jordan played through those 2 years if he would've gotten the Bulls past Hakeem's Rockets.

lol @ this bullshit. How am I shitting on Lebron? If I was doing that, I'd be pointing out that hes 2-3 in the Finals or blaming this loss on him. I'm not. I'm saying that his team isn't all that great, and the only reason it has been successful is because he is that great and the league as a whole sucks. This isn't about shitting on Lebron. He played his part and did what he was supposed to do. He didn't fuck up this series, his teammates did.

Lol what is your reasoning for this statement

There are only like 6 good teams in the league. There is no parity between the two conferences. All your elite talent is consolidated on a handfull of teams. Players in the league lack versatility; even many of the supposed superstars are really only good on one side of the ball. The players have become to accustomed to using cheap tactics (e.g., flopping and that dumb shit Wade does where he purposely jumps into defenders to get the foul). I could go on and on, but I think those are my top gripes.

the entire western conference (8 teams btw) had series that either went to 6-7 games.

not to mention the 1 or 2 that just missed the playoffs

Going 6-7 games doesn't mean the teams involved are good. It just means they are a good matchup. It's possible for a terrible team to take a good team 6 games if the terrible team's one strength just happens to be the good team's one weakness.

That said, I said there are 6 good teams in the league and at this point 5 of those teams are in the West. Some of the East teams are coming up though and may be legitimately good in the next couple years.

 

[A$AP_A$TON]

What's fucked up tho, Idk if it was a coincidence or what but they showed that cooling towel commercial this morning but they left Wade out of it. They just had some famous fisherman and Mia Hamm who is retired. It's like they said hell na, we don't want our product associated with that performance.