General NBA Discussion Thread.

[Scotty's Flat Top]

Anthony Davis, sheesh.

 

[005]

Was just about to start this. Noice!

 

[Scotty's Flat Top]

How many ppg will Kobe Bean put up?

 

[005]

Not enough. 24.8?

 

[NochNoch]

On how many shots?

All the shots?

 

[Vercingetorix]

Anthony Davis, sheesh.

As I predicted last year after walking out of a Hawks-Pelicans game, the next consensus best player in the world after LeBron is going to be Davis, not Durant.

 

[005]

You ready for Hawks basketball, verc?

 

[Vercingetorix]

You ready for Hawks basketball, verc?

Sadly, I'm pretty excited about the season starting up. Sports has made me a battered wife.

 

[005]

Hawks'll be pretty good.

 

[NochNoch]

How healthy will big Al be?

 

[Vercingetorix]

They have a chance to be pretty good, and the're definitely fun as hell to watch. Night and day compared to the Joe Johnson/Josh Smith days.

 

[Scotty's Flat Top]

As I predicted last year after walking out of a Hawks-Pelicans game, the next consensus best player in the world after LeBron is going to be Davis, not Durant.

I'm a believer, he isn't close to his ceiling yet. Which is scary.

 

[005]

Hawks good enough to be 3rd in the East?

 

[Vercingetorix]

How healthy will big Al be?

Supposedly he'll be all right. Not completely full speed to start the season, but should be within a couple months. Really looking forward to seeing him and Paul Millsap back together.

 

[Vercingetorix]

Hawks good enough to be 3rd in the East?

If Horford comes back strong they've got a shot. Washington, Toronto, Atlanta should finish 3-5, probably in that order.

 

[005]

Follow-up was basically gonna be are they better than the Wiz

I'll probably get Hawks games on some random "local" channel so I may have to watch them some.

Trynna go see a Hornets game at some point.

 

[005]

Is Lowry hurt for a while? I vaguely remember that from the offseason.

Jonas could be sort of a badazz underneath for them. It'll be a good battle after Chicago and probably Cleveland.

 

[Vercingetorix]

I'm not sold on the Wizards being as good as everyone seems to think. The "Hey, let's add an old guy who used to be good to put us over the top!" strategy almost never works in sports.

Forgot about the Hornets. Whether they're good depends mostly on whether Lance Stephenson can carry a team. I'm thinking 6 seed for them.

In any event, that's a four-team group that will probably finish 3-6 in some way and who all have almost no chance to advance to the finals. The Hawks should be right there.

 

[005]

Pierce doesn't seem to fit as well as Ariza did and Beal is out for a while.

I'm a very very big John Wall fan but they may have overachieved and Pierce could just look plain bad.

I may have to venture over to the motherboard and see what Huff is thinking about this basketball season.

 

[wU-Tang Vol]

I finally have cable. Gonna turn up my Grizz fandom