2013-2014 NBA Season

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by RockHardTen1985

Listen, we should come together. Our team is #1.
Seriously though, before the season I said I prefer Houston and Golden St in the West. Golden St is on fire right now, no one says a word about them. The Knicks are 15-23 and because they won a few games in a row its news?

You are the Earlie Fires of internet boards. Loves to jump on the front runners....

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

You are the Earlie Fires of internet boards. Loves to jump on the front runners....

The Rockets simply don't belong in the conversation about being one of the West's best teams. And I'm a Rockets fan.

[RockHardTen1985]

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

The Rockets simply don't belong in the conversation about being one of the West's best teams. And I'm a Rockets fan.

They are 25-14. They have beat Golden St 2x, Portland once and they crushed San Antonio.... Glad its simple for you.

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by RockHardTen1985

They are 25-14. They have beat Golden St 2x, Portland once and they crushed San Antonio.... Glad its simple for you.

They've also been obliterated twice by the Clippers, pounded by the Westbrook-less Thunder, and beaten twice by Dallas.

In terms of teams they're supposed to beat, they've lost twice to Sacramento, once to Utah, once to Philadelphia, and once to the Lakers. They're 13-11 vs. the West and 9-9 against teams with winning records. They have great potential, but to consider them a team that can win the West right now is over the edge.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

The Rockets simply don't belong in the conversation about being one of the West's best teams. And I'm a Rockets fan.

Right now they are looking at Portland 1st rd and OKC 2nd both who are tremendous home teams who will have home court advantage.

[JJP]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Right now they are looking at Portland 1st rd and OKC 2nd both who are tremendous home teams who will have home court advantage.

We'll see how Portland does later in the season. This is a team who closed out last season on an 0-13 run.

[Duvalier]

Originally Posted by JJP

We'll see how Portland does later in the season. This is a team who closed out last season on an 0-13 run.

Not even close to the same team

[JJP]

They added one starter in Lopez, and Mo Williams off the bench. The other 4 starters were there last year. The Blazers got off to a great start, out playing expectations going 18-6 against the number. Since? 3-10 ATS. Its a long season, and teams who are in the bottom half of FG % defense don't usually last long in the post season.

[Duvalier]

Originally Posted by JJP

They added one starter in Lopez, and Mo Williams off the bench. The other 4 starters were there last year. The Blazers got off to a great start, out playing expectations going 18-6 against the number. Since? 3-10 ATS. Its a long season, and teams who are in the bottom half of FG % defense don't usually last long in the post season.

You said the team who closed out the season at 0-13 last year. Aldridge, Batum and Matthews missed a lot of those games. When you have Claver, Barton and Meyers Leonard starting during that stretch with the bench they had...what do you expect them to finish? They aren't a top team right now but they're certainly way better than the team that finished last season with the 13 game losing streak. Their bench is much improved over last year's disaster. I agree with you, the defense has been horrible...that has to get fixed.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by JJP

They added one starter in Lopez, and Mo Williams off the bench. The other 4 starters were there last year. The Blazers got off to a great start, out playing expectations going 18-6 against the number. Since? 3-10 ATS. Its a long season, and teams who are in the bottom half of FG % defense don't usually last long in the post season.

They have some issues but again as a 1st round opponent they are not a team that you'd like to see. Plus they might have been doing a lot of tanking last year when it became apparent they werent going anywhere.

Put it this way the East 6 seed is looking at Atlanta 1st round. Without Horford Atl is probably a sub .500 team.

[Duvalier]

Originally Posted by JJP

The Blazers got off to a great start, out playing expectations going 18-6 against the number. Since? 3-10 ATS.

They weren't playing as well when Stotts started messing with the rotation at about that time, giving Leonard minutes...he's pretty much clueless out there but he's a project. It was sort of a given after the kind of start they had the lines would be adjusted somewhat too.

The Blazers and Pistons OVER/UNDER records are really weighted to going over and show the deficiencies on the defensive end those two teams have...27-10 and 28-10. The Pistons have a lot more problems they need to get figured out too along with the D. I'd have to think the O/U's will start getting evened out once the lines get adjusted even more. They did start putting them above 200 a lot more towards the end of December

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by JJP

We'll see how Portland does later in the season. This is a team who closed out last season on an 0-13 run.

Portland has overachieved to a degree but what happened at the end of last season is not really pertinent now. Regardless Portland is not an easy place to win a game for visiting teams.

[JJP]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

You are the Earlie Fires of internet boards. Loves to jump on the front runners....

A little clarification. The horses BECAME front runners once Fires got on board.