Other Sports ****OFFICIAL NBA Regular Season Thread**** - Page 113

Originally Posted by MIAdragon:
The thing with Orlando is you can never count them out, if they get hot and start hitting their 3's look out.

Yeah. They certainly live and die by it, that's for sure.

Originally Posted by MIAdragon:
The thing with Orlando is you can never count them out, if they get hot and start hitting their 3's look out.

Thats not happening this year. That team is done. They'll be out in the first round. Team is a mess right now.

Originally Posted by -King-:
Thats not happening this year. That team is done. They'll be out in the first round. Team is a mess right now.

Agreed. The Magic team that went to the NBA Finals in 2009 got blown up by GM Otis Smith. Huge contributors in that run were Marcin Gortat, Mickael Pietrus, Rafer Alston, Courtney Lee, and Rashard Lewis.

Gortat wanted out because, obviously, he was never gonna be a starter with Dwight there. HOWEVER, he was a great trading chip and they ended up not getting crap for him. I mean, they traded Gortat, Pietrus, and Vince Carter for Jason Richardson, Hedo Turkoglu, and Earl Clark. For real Otis?

Originally Posted by MIAdragon:
I have not been able to see much of OKC but GD KD may be the best pure scorer since MJ.

He can ball with the best of them. There are games you don't think he's doing much, look up and he has 30 points.

I've been pretty impressed with Paul George for you guys. I've only seen him play a few times but he's gonna be damn good.

I'm all for the small market teams taking over :-)

I'm a Bulls fan but I would trade anything for OKC's roster straight up. They are in great shape for a long time. Stacked.

Originally Posted by Vanilla Thunder:
I'm a Bulls fan but I would trade anything for OKC's roster straight up. They are in great shape for a long time. Stacked.

I have no complaints. I would trade coaches straight up though :-)

Originally Posted by okcchief:
I have a feeling someone will get to them. They do have the best coach in the NBA by a longshot though, and should be considered the favorites.

I thought next year would be our run, but our youngsters have stepped up. With the trade and Diaw signing, I think our best shot is to win it this year.

Originally Posted by okcchief:
I have no complaints. I would trade coaches straight up though :-)

You guys are loaded. IMO you have the most talent in the NBA across the board. It's like a perfect picture where everything just fits you know? Very well done by your front office.

The Celtics seem to be coming back to life. Great job by Doc.

Presti is smarter than everyone else.

Presti learned from being in the Spurs org. A couple of his moves not noticed where locking up Collison and Thabo before their stock rose.

It's funny because Charlotte hired Rich Cho who was under Presti the first few years and are pushing the "Thunder Way"

It helps that Portland took Oden. Harden and Westbrook where outstanding reaches that he nailed. A lot of people knocked those at the time. Ibaka was a good one as well.

Of course he also picked Byron Mullens over DuJuan Blair so he's not perfect :-)

Eat shit and die Sixers. The Magic just whooped your ass with 2 starters missing and a god damn circus going on in their front office. On the road. Go get a cheesesteak and suck on that.