Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2015 1:49 pm Post subject: Durant undergoes another foot procedure
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OKLAHOMA CITY -- Kevin Durant underwent a minor procedure to help reduce pain and discomfort in his surgically repaired right foot, according to Oklahoma City Thunder general manager Sam Presti.
Durant will be re-evaluated in a week. The expectation is he will return to play in the regular season.
Is it time to start worrying about Durant's durability? Foot injuries like this tend to be a recurring issue, especially for 7-footers it seems (which Durant basically is). I'd be a little worried about giving him a max contract right about now.
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Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2015 9:34 am Post subject:
The worst is hearing talk about Westbrook considered fot the MVP... _________________ -----------------------------------------------------
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The worst is hearing talk about Westbrook considered fot the MVP...
Why? He's playing better than anyone in the league this season. _________________ “It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
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_________________ “It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
― James Baldwin, Collected Essays
It's a bit concerning. Fortunately advances in medicine and surgical techniques ease the mind. I'd like to think they would have helped Bill Walton. _________________ Smrek 2, Nevitt 1, Barkley 0
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Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 1:53 am Post subject:
KobeBryantCliffordBrown wrote:
carlosLisboa wrote:
The worst is hearing talk about Westbrook considered fot the MVP...
Why? He's playing better than anyone in the league this season.
Maybe it's jus me, but I really think he is quite overrated.
His pushy impetuous style only leads to high numbers, because he takes the ball upcourt and hogs half of the possessions.
His shooting does not convince me, and I do not believe he will get so many times to the rim as he does in the regular season. The ball does not move well, with him at the helm, also. _________________ -----------------------------------------------------
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The worst is hearing talk about Westbrook considered fot the MVP...
Why? He's playing better than anyone in the league this season.
The voters aren't picking Weatbrook over Curry at this point.
Curry has already slipped to a comfortable second amongst the voters, to see him slide further wouldn't really be shocking. _________________ I believe everything the media tells me except for anything for which I have direct personal knowledge, which they always get wrong
The worst is hearing talk about Westbrook considered fot the MVP...
Why? He's playing better than anyone in the league this season.
The voters aren't picking Weatbrook over Curry at this point.
Curry has already slipped to a comfortable second amongst the voters, to see him slide further wouldn't really be shocking.
Are the Thunder even going to win 50 games? The voters almost never give it to guys who don't win. The Thunder haven't been winning this season. If they don't care much about team record, then wouldn't Anthony Davis run away with the award?
The worst is hearing talk about Westbrook considered fot the MVP...
Why? He's playing better than anyone in the league this season.
The voters aren't picking Weatbrook over Curry at this point.
Curry has already slipped to a comfortable second amongst the voters, to see him slide further wouldn't really be shocking.
Are the Thunder even going to win 50 games? The voters almost never give it to guys who don't win. The Thunder haven't been winning this season. If they don't care much about team record, then wouldn't Anthony Davis run away with the award?
Maybe? They're playing way better than anyone else right now. It'll be tough
But wins aren't really the correlation to mvp, it's player of the months (it's hard to win player of the month if you aren't winning though), so let's look at the west, they've been better than the east to a fairly sizable advantage (and November is considered the least important historically for correlation).
November - Steph Curry, Runner up(s) - James Harden, Anthony Davis
December - James Harden, Runner up(s) - Steph Curry, Lamarcus Aldridge
January - James Harden, Runner up(s) - Klay Thompson
February Nominees - James Harden, Russell Westbrook (i'd bet on Russell)
Harden is way in front right now, it's certainly not guaranteed but that sort of performance (you've been better than everyone 3 out of 4 months, and when you're not, it's only just) gives one a sizable lead.
Now I'm not saying Russell will win, or that he's currently ahead of Curry, but even if he wins another after this one, while they still may not want to give him the win, voters putting him in 2nd ahead of Curry wouldn't shock me.
The east's winners have been Lowry, Butler, Atlanta starting 5, so the contest is out west. _________________ I believe everything the media tells me except for anything for which I have direct personal knowledge, which they always get wrong
The worst is hearing talk about Westbrook considered fot the MVP...
Why? He's playing better than anyone in the league this season.
The voters aren't picking Weatbrook over Curry at this point.
Curry has already slipped to a comfortable second amongst the voters, to see him slide further wouldn't really be shocking.
Are the Thunder even going to win 50 games? The voters almost never give it to guys who don't win. The Thunder haven't been winning this season. If they don't care much about team record, then wouldn't Anthony Davis run away with the award?
Maybe? They're playing way better than anyone else right now. It'll be tough
But wins aren't really the correlation to mvp, it's player of the months (it's hard to win player of the month if you aren't winning though), so let's look at the west, they've been better than the east to a fairly sizable advantage (and November is considered the least important historically for correlation).
November - Steph Curry, Runner up(s) - James Harden, Anthony Davis
December - James Harden, Runner up(s) - Steph Curry, Lamarcus Aldridge
January - James Harden, Runner up(s) - Klay Thompson
February Nominees - James Harden, Russell Westbrook (i'd bet on Russell)
Harden is way in front right now, it's certainly not guaranteed but that sort of performance (you've been better than everyone 3 out of 4 months, and when you're not, it's only just) gives one a sizable lead.
Now I'm not saying Russell will win, or that he's currently ahead of Curry, but even if he wins another after this one, while they still may not want to give him the win, voters putting him in 2nd ahead of Curry wouldn't shock me.
The east's winners have been Lowry, Butler, Atlanta starting 5, so the contest is out west.
To be fair, Nash didn't wint it once in the 05/06 campaign and he stole the MVP. Kobe was tied with Lebron for 2 Players of the month.
People held the Lakers record against' Kobe. I understand since he played with a starting lineup with Smush (who was immediately cut by the Heat), Luke Walton (who was yeah, Luke Walton) and Chris Mihm who's greatest claim to fame was actually not being on the floor. Oh wait, while he was healthy, Laron Profit played a lot of minutes. Oh right, Sasha and Devin Green did too. Damn those guys had their best moments as Lakers but let's go with the narrative. KOBE MAKES EVERYONE AROUND HIM WORSE.
Damn, none of these guys were even good enough to hang in the league after. Like at all.
Literally other than Kobe and Lamar, it was (bleep) d-league gashes. So many people don't even realize just how freaking HORRIFIC our 'talent' was behind the first tow. Truly dudes that didn't even belong in the NBA.
Man, I pretty much loathe the NBA media and casual fan. Utter trash.
The worst is hearing talk about Westbrook considered fot the MVP...
Why? He's playing better than anyone in the league this season.
The voters aren't picking Weatbrook over Curry at this point.
Curry has already slipped to a comfortable second amongst the voters, to see him slide further wouldn't really be shocking.
Are the Thunder even going to win 50 games? The voters almost never give it to guys who don't win. The Thunder haven't been winning this season. If they don't care much about team record, then wouldn't Anthony Davis run away with the award?
Maybe? They're playing way better than anyone else right now. It'll be tough
But wins aren't really the correlation to mvp, it's player of the months (it's hard to win player of the month if you aren't winning though), so let's look at the west, they've been better than the east to a fairly sizable advantage (and November is considered the least important historically for correlation).
November - Steph Curry, Runner up(s) - James Harden, Anthony Davis
December - James Harden, Runner up(s) - Steph Curry, Lamarcus Aldridge
January - James Harden, Runner up(s) - Klay Thompson
February Nominees - James Harden, Russell Westbrook (i'd bet on Russell)
Harden is way in front right now, it's certainly not guaranteed but that sort of performance (you've been better than everyone 3 out of 4 months, and when you're not, it's only just) gives one a sizable lead.
Now I'm not saying Russell will win, or that he's currently ahead of Curry, but even if he wins another after this one, while they still may not want to give him the win, voters putting him in 2nd ahead of Curry wouldn't shock me.
The east's winners have been Lowry, Butler, Atlanta starting 5, so the contest is out west.
To be fair, Nash didn't wint it once in the 05/06 campaign and he stole the MVP. Kobe was tied with Lebron for 2 Players of the month.
People held the Lakers record against' Kobe. I understand since he played with a starting lineup with Smush (who was immediately cut by the Heat), Luke Walton (who was yeah, Luke Walton) and Chris Mihm who's greatest claim to fame was actually not being on the floor. Oh wait, while he was healthy, Laron Profit played a lot of minutes. Oh right, Sasha and Devin Green did too. Damn those guys had their best moments as Lakers but let's go with the narrative. KOBE MAKES EVERYONE AROUND HIM WORSE.
Damn, none of these guys were even good enough to hang in the league after. Like at all.
Literally other than Kobe and Lamar, it was (bleep) d-league gashes. So many people don't even realize just how freaking HORRIFIC our 'talent' was behind the first tow. Truly dudes that didn't even belong in the NBA.
Man, I pretty much loathe the NBA media and casual fan. Utter trash.
Here's a graph for you, yes i mercilessly stole it from someone else, but its a correlation of players of the month vs first place votes and wins vs first place votes
For the maths, the correlation of potm vs wins is almost 3 times higher (60% vs 22%)
Yeah there are a few outliers, but it's pretty consistent vs not really at all, once you hit the higher range it's basically an automatic win.
Nash might well be that one outlier (which gives credence to Kobe's claim that the media stiffed him), and hell, Curry might be another as well, it might also be that there is a tolerance level for the winner, but they've never really had an issue putting people in with mediocre team records to the minor places which is my comment re Curry, if Curry isn't winning it, i don't think his team record will necessary keep him 2nd instead of 3rd.
Curry had a ton of early money, so he'll probably carry Vegas til the end, but part of the reason was they thought he would be the team's overwhelming best player, but he hasn't been. _________________ I believe everything the media tells me except for anything for which I have direct personal knowledge, which they always get wrong
The worst is hearing talk about Westbrook considered fot the MVP...
Why? He's playing better than anyone in the league this season.
The voters aren't picking Weatbrook over Curry at this point.
Curry has already slipped to a comfortable second amongst the voters, to see him slide further wouldn't really be shocking.
If the MVP voting were done today, I think it would come out: Harden, Curry, Lebron, Westbrook in that order.
Hard to imagine OKC winning enough games for Westbrook to get it. But I could see it coming to either Harden, Curry or Lebron depending on how teams play in the last quarter of the season.
RW continues to stake his claim as the best player in the league and MVP. Amazing that people say he is overrated. _________________ “It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
― James Baldwin, Collected Essays
RW continues to stake his claim as the best player in the league and MVP. Amazing that people say he is overrated.
LeBron says hi.
RW says "I'd kick your ass in the Octagon." _________________ “It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
― James Baldwin, Collected Essays
I don't think many people doubt that Lebron is the best player in basketball, but he was pretty average for the first 3 months, and even now he's taking rest games as though he's a 36 yo. _________________ I believe everything the media tells me except for anything for which I have direct personal knowledge, which they always get wrong
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Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:49 am Post subject:
Telleris wrote:
I don't think many people doubt that Lebron is the best player in basketball, but he was pretty average for the first 3 months, and even now he's taking rest games as though he's a 36 yo.
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