Mega Thread The Official Bigfooty NBA Week 5 Thread - Where's Kyrie?

[fidstar]

1 game separates 4th and 10th seed in the West. Fun stuff.

Lots of "8 point games"

 

[Dez!]

So Zach LaVine is pretty f***ing good.

 

[BigBreakfast]

Charania] Brooklyn Nets have been granted a disabled player exception worth $5.7 million for the loss of starting guard Spencer Dinwiddie. The Nets have until April 19 to use the exception.

I think the nets also have the MLE available https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_salary_cap#Mid-level_exception - so they should be able bring in a couple decent players?

As long as they are offensive juggernauts right? Keep gettin those highlight reels...

 

[Marcel Proust]

Is baynes a free agenct now?

 

[Dez!]

Is baynes a free agenct now?

No, he's with Toronto but struggling.

 

[Catsnlakers]

Kyrie Lakers is the most ridiculous call on so, so many levels.

Agree, won’t happen, nor would I want it to happen, the addition of Schroder fits us much better with the one two punch of AD & Lebron.....Mark my words the big 3 of Brooklyn will not win them a championship.

 

[Catsnlakers]

I dunno much about the old days

It seems like recently it's a top like driven league recently.

Lebron. Ad. Kawhi. Curry. Kd. Etc.

Again , lebron didn't seem too happy with the dubs superteam. Especially with the kd addition. I wonder what he makes of the nets current and potential roster come the deadline.

Kyrie is probably very compatible with harden. Kd.

Like he was with with lebron.

The old days had it’s share of superstars as well trust me.....In the late 80’s & 90’s alone you had Johnson, Jordan, Malone, Olajuwon, Thomas, Ewing, Robinson, Drexler, Barkley, Bird, Miller & Shaq.....Plus a lot more that I cbf writing, it was as star driven then as it is now....The big difference is the reliance on shooting from the perimeter, the old days it was a lot more about the Centre & Power forwards, this era for the most part is more about the guards.

 

[BigBreakfast]

The old days had it’s share of superstars as well trust me.....In the late 80’s & 90’s alone you had Johnson, Jordan, Malone, Olajuwon, Thomas, Ewing, Robinson, Drexler, Barkley, Bird, Miller & Shaq.....Plus a lot more that I cbf writing, it was as star driven then as it is now....The big difference is the reliance on shooting from the perimeter, the old days it was a lot more about the Centre & Power forwards, this era for the most part is more about the guards.

And, most significantly, there was much less player movement and available dollars. About mid 90s players started to transcend towards compiling “super teams” i.e. Barkley to Suns/Rockets, Drexler to Rockets. Free agency changed the game from loyalties to team to loyalties to players.

 

[Catsnlakers]

And, most significantly, there was much less player movement and available dollars. About mid 90s players started to transcend towards compiling “super teams” i.e. Barkley to Suns/Rockets, Drexler to Rockets. Free agency changed the game from loyalties to team to loyalties to players.

Yep very true, I can still remember being a kid & hearing we had picked up Karl Malone & Payton to go alongside Kobe & Shaq, it was like how can this team possibly lose.....But come the Finals we did, a great duo with a lot of depth is much better than the alternative, I look forward to seeing Brooklyn finding this out.

 

[BigBreakfast]

Would anyone trade Ben Simmons for Ingram or Brown now? Same draft class and Ben was clear # 1. Hoped he might fall to 2 to Lakers at the time. I think both are out playing Ben right now and neither would make Team USA...

 

[Marcel Proust]

Would anyone trade Ben Simmons for Ingram or Brown now? Same draft class and Ben was clear # 1. Hoped he might fall to 2 to Lakers at the time. I think both are out playing Ben right now and neither would make Team USA...

Simmons looks handy in that 4th quarter b

 

[BigBreakfast]

Simmons looks handy in that 4th quarter b

Regardless of individual performance, would anyone trade Ingram or Brown straight up? If I’m Boston or New Orleans I don’t do it...

 

[fidstar]

The game was literally marketed on individuals in the 90s.

It was hard to watch many games, so the NBA sold players on their shoes, commercials and highlight VHSs.

And there was heaps of player movement back then. As much as today I would have thought.

 

[fidstar]

When's it time to talk about how bad Miami have been? They seem to be dodging the media 'heat'.

 

[Dez!]

Regardless of individual performance, would anyone trade Ingram or Brown straight up? If I’m Boston or New Orleans I don’t do it...

God yes, easily would do it but Philly rightfully wouldn't.

 

[Elmer_Judd]

Phew. Probably the best case scenario really..

 

[Dez!]

When's it time to talk about how bad Miami have been? They seem to be dodging the media 'heat'.

They were decapitated by Covid protocols and they simply overachieved last season.

 

[Marcel Proust]

$9.50 for JoJo MVP. Tasty.

Equal 2nd favorite with Kd...

 

[nahnah]

I don’t think Bruce Brown is as good at defense as he or the nets think he is

 

[Elmer_Judd]

Hawks vs Bucks is live on SBS tomorrow. That looks like being a real good game now, given Ice Trae's recent surge following a form slump (lol at all the knobs and experts who wrote him off)

 

[Marcel Proust]

Hawks vs Bucks is live on SBS tomorrow. That looks like being a real good game now, given Ice Trae's recent surge following a form slump (lol at all the knobs and experts who wrote him off)

Bucks by 45

 

[Marcel Proust]

Yep very true, I can still remember being a kid & hearing we had picked up Karl Malone & Payton to go alongside Kobe & Shaq, it was like how can this team possibly lose.....But come the Finals we did, a great duo with a lot of depth is much better than the alternative, I look forward to seeing Brooklyn finding this out.

Raps. 1-3 depending on how you rate siakham and lowry

Warriors 4 - kd curry klay green

Cavs 3 - lebron kyrie love.

Warriors 3


I'd give brooklyn more than 5 minutes before writing them off?

 

[Elmer_Judd]

Those Heat City Jerseys are trash.

 

[Elmer_Judd]

Bucks by 45

This from a bloke who said Sydney Stack was better than Sam Walsh lol

 

[Marcel Proust]

This from a bloke who said Sydney Stack was better than Sam Walsh lol

Less vanilla*