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arsenal6106 · Post #1021 » by **arsenal6106** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 9:01 am

The Heat are 23rd in Def. Efficiency this year? I know we're only 12-14 games into the season, but 23rd.

Who has been watching them this year? Are they struggling on D? FYI, they had the 4th best Def. Efficiency last year. Oh and our Magic are 12th.

OrlandO · Post #1022 » by **OrlandO** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 3:53 pm

Pietrus signed a one year deal with the Raptors for the vet min.

BadMofoPimp · Post #1023 » by **BadMofoPimp** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 4:05 pm

arsenal6106 wrote:The Heat are 23rd in Def. Efficiency this year? I know we're only 12-14 games into the season, but 23rd.

Who has been watching them this year? Are they struggling on D? FYI, they had the 4th best Def. Efficiency last year. Oh and our Magic are 12th.

It is not so much that they are stuggling on Defense as they have switched up their offense to a more up tempo. Hence, there are more possessions for both teams playing. Notice all those 100 plus point games. Heat has all those scorers there now with Miller, Ray Allen, Lewis off the bench.

KingRobb02 · Post #1024 » by **KingRobb02** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 4:44 pm

BadMofoPimp wrote:
arsenal6106 wrote:The Heat are 23rd in Def. Efficiency this year? I know we're only 12-14 games into the season, but 23rd.

Who has been watching them this year? Are they struggling on D? FYI, they had the 4th best Def. Efficiency last year. Oh and our Magic are 12th.

It is not so much that they are stuggling on Defense as they have switched up their offense to a more up tempo. Hence, there are more possessions for both teams playing. Notice all those 100 plus point games. Heat has all those scorers there now with Miller, Ray Allen, Lewis off the bench.

Someone doesn't know what "Def. Efficiency " is...

The short answer is that the starters have been fine, but Ray Allen and Rashard have been highly flammable with the second unit. Also teams murdered them from 3 in the first few weeks. Their ranking will continue to improve as the new guys adjust and Wade gets health(ier).

Post #1025 » by **SD2042** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 5:15 pm

Something was mention this week about Rashard Lewis minutes would be reduce. Any reasons to why?

BadMofoPimp · Post #1026 » by **BadMofoPimp** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 5:33 pm

SD2042 wrote:Something was mention this week about Rashard Lewis minutes would be reduce. Any reasons to why?

I don't think any coaches or players stated this. So, I think this was more media speculation. Now that Battier is injured, Lewis has actually been playing more.

magicman123 · Post #1027 » by **magicman123** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 11:13 pm

The NBA has fined the Spurs $250,000 for sending stars Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili and Danny Green home before Thursday's road game in Miami on Thursday night

arsenal6106 · Post #1028 » by **arsenal6106** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 11:36 pm

magicman123 wrote::rofl2:

The NBA has fined the Spurs $250,000 for sending stars Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili and Danny Green home before Thursday's road game in Miami on Thursday night

To avoid this for the future, can't Pop just make up injuries for each player?

magicmamma · Post #1029 » by **magicmamma** » Sat Dec 1, 2012 12:00 am

Pop is cursed with honesty.

OrlandO · Post #1030 » by **OrlandO** » Sat Dec 1, 2012 12:01 am

magicman123 wrote::rofl2:

The NBA has fined the Spurs $250,000 for sending stars Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili and Danny Green home before Thursday's road game in Miami on Thursday night

Stern is going to be busy at the end of the season when every playoff team benches their starters...

MoMM · Post #1031 » by **MoMM** » Sat Dec 1, 2012 1:20 pm

NBA is awful, it was a normal play by the Spurs, they are old and they need to rest.

BTW, D12 had his 1st 20/20 for the Lakers yesterday against the Nuggets. He is averaging only 17.9/10.5... LOL!

D12: 18/11 over 36 minutes
Vucevic: 12/10 over 36 minutes

CourtsideTV · Post #1032 » by **CourtsideTV** » Sat Dec 1, 2012 7:13 pm

MoMM wrote:NBA is awful, it was a normal play by the Spurs, they are old and they need to rest.

BTW, D12 had his 1st 20/20 for the Lakers yesterday against the Nuggets. He is averaging only 17.9/10.5... LOL!

D12: 18/11 over 36 minutes
Vucevic: 12/10 over 36 minutes

Vucevic is younger so Vucevic>Dwight???

Post #1033 » by **damo[23]** » Sat Dec 1, 2012 9:17 pm

Spurs got fined for not sending down their big guns to the Miami game, 250K for that little en-devour.

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/22 ... 000_By_NBA

"The result here is dictated by the totality of the facts in this case," said David Stern. "The Spurs decided to make four of their top players unavailable for an early-season game that was the team's only regular-season visit to Miami. The team also did this without informing the Heat, the media, or the league office in a timely way. Under these circumstances, I have concluded that the Spurs did a disservice to the league and our fans."

I don't remember this happening before in the NBA, but I've seen it nearly getting there in Football (real football, not american throwball) where towards the end of the season some teams get annoyed when "bad" teams rest their good players against the good teams when they expect to lose, so that when it comes to the relegation fights against the teams they feel they can or need to win against they are rested up.

Javanar · Post #1034 » by **Javanar** » Sun Dec 2, 2012 7:26 am

Stern : "Spurs did a disservice to the league and our fans".. Accusing Popovich with disservice, who has been coaching SAS -one of the legit teams in NBA- for 15 years.. I think what Popovich served to the NBA is more than what Stern had served.

RickB-Orlando · Post #1035 » by **RickB-Orlando** » Tue Dec 4, 2012 2:11 am

First article I e read this season about Dwight testing free agency this offseason

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball- ... --nba.html

Optimus_Steel · Post #1036 » by **Optimus_Steel** » Tue Dec 4, 2012 3:43 pm

Isnt it funny that when Steve Nash got hurt the Lakers said he suffered a fracture in his leg and he would be out 1 week. I said yea 1 week lol, still not sure when he comes back....

arsenal6106 · Post #1037 » by **arsenal6106** » Tue Dec 4, 2012 8:55 pm

Jonathan Feigen ‏@Jonathan_Feigen
Chris Duhon to start at point vs. Lin.

arkknight1988 · Post #1038 » by **arkknight1988** » Tue Dec 4, 2012 9:19 pm

arsenal6106 wrote:
Jonathan Feigen ‏@Jonathan_Feigen
Chris Duhon to start at point vs. Lin.

dwight insults jameer and wants a better PG.Now he gets duhon.

Karma

Optimus_Steel · Post #1039 » by **Optimus_Steel** » Tue Dec 4, 2012 9:20 pm

arkknight1988 wrote:
arsenal6106 wrote:
Jonathan Feigen ‏@Jonathan_Feigen
Chris Duhon to start at point vs. Lin.

dwight insults jameer and wants a better PG.Now he gets duhon.

Karma

Lakers have hit a new low....

gp123 · Post #1040 » by **gp123** » Tue Dec 4, 2012 10:19 pm

Duhon gonna prove yall wrong!! wait. no.