3/16 Sunday NBA Game Thread

[OriginalRed]

Jesus Phoenix is awful.

[orlando_joe]

Well, good job Orlando Zebras, Tony Brothers was your MVP today.

Some of the worst no calls I've seen all season.

Oh well, still #1 team in the NBA, record wise.

Cry harder.

To be fair, the officiating was pretty one sided today. But that’s not why we lost.

yea all the no call slap of arms franz all game he should of had 15 free throws instead of turnovers ..it went both ways..lot of paolo no calls at basket also

[UcanUwill]

It all depends on Luka. If he can get back to 100%, the Lakers are absolutely contenders, even being thin upfront.

He still looks slow, pudgy, and gimpy. Playoffs are 15 games away. We'll see.

Dude, its Luka, he will be fine, he is fine.

He don't look fine. He looks at least 15lbs overweight, and still gimpy.

LeBron needs to get his ass in the gym.

He is overweight, but over last 5 games, he is averaging around 35/10/10, dude is fine.

[ValvPiti]

It all depends on Luka. If he can get back to 100%, the Lakers are absolutely contenders, even being thin upfront.

He still looks slow, pudgy, and gimpy. Playoffs are 15 games away. We'll see.

Dude, its Luka, he will be fine, he is fine.

He don't look fine. He looks at least 15lbs overweight, and still gimpy.

LeBron needs to get his ass in the gym.

Agree, but he's still dominating. It really gets scary if/when he actually gets in good shape.

[sp6r=underrated]

There is no way that trade gets done without the Owner approving it.

100% Nico is the fall guy. Hasn't the owner gone on radio shows talking about why they traded Luka? He wanted superstars with great work ethic or whatever it was.

Nico is an idiot because of how he acted after the trade got made. Laughing around and being an idiot. He should have just shut up.

But there is zero chance of that trade being made if the owner doesn't approve of it.

I agree the owner had to approve it. But the reporting has been very uniform that this was Nico's idea. And that means he isn't a fall guy.

Yeah, I was trying to say that Nico's only justification was if it was the owner's idea and that the owner forced him but that it was doubtful. And even then, he should have quit. He would easily find another job with the justification that he didn't want to trade Luka for AD.

I'm in middle management so I'm a bit more sympathetic towards Nico. To move up in middle mgmt., you do have to go along with orders you dislike and if you don't your career can get derailed.

But that said, some ideas are so idiotic that you can get away with defiance. And if owner really proposed Luka for AD, he could have quit and gotten another job.

Different story if owner said trade Luka I don't want to max him but I don't care where. There, he does have to make the trade but he can get a huge haul (way bigger than the actual trade).

[LakersSoul]

Austin Reaves is locking every Sun on defense. Man, this Suns team is garbage.

AR is no longer the weakest link. He has really upgraded his defense. Also helps that the lakers play solid team defense.

[UcanUwill]

Austin Reaves is locking every Sun on defense. Man, this Suns team is garbage.

AR is no longer the weakest link. He has really upgraded his defense. Also helps that the lakers play solid team defense.

Everyone tries very hard, I am very impressed with their defense. Right now, Suns have 44 Field goal attempts and 37 points, holly crap.

[JustBuzzin]

Melo was right KD should go home to Washington play with a young team and give that fanbase some hope. He gets them to the playoffs he's a legend.

[JXL]

It's time to bury the Suns season. They've just given up at this point.

[Rainwater]

Suns are trash

[thelead]

I agree the owner had to approve it. But the reporting has been very uniform that this was Nico's idea. And that means he isn't a fall guy.

Yeah, I was trying to say that Nico's only justification was if it was the owner's idea and that the owner forced him but that it was doubtful. And even then, he should have quit. He would easily find another job with the justification that he didn't want to trade Luka for AD.

I'm in middle management so I'm a bit more sympathetic towards Nico. To move up in middle mgmt., you do have to go along with orders you dislike and if you don't your career can get derailed.

But that said, some ideas are so idiotic that you can get away with defiance. And if owner really proposed Luka for AD, he could have quit and gotten another job.

Different story if owner said trade Luka I don't want to max him but I don't care where. There, he does have to make the trade but he can get a huge haul (way bigger than the actual trade).

I'm in middle management too and can understand that pain

That said, Nico's job is so high-profile that I would imagine it would be MUCH easier for him to find a job than us regular folk.

[TimberKat]

KD just aged 10 years. I don't know why they don't run more two men stuff with KD/Booker. It seems like it's one or the other with a bunch of not so good role players.

[thelead]

Suns are trash

Magic fans hoping that Booker asks out

[UcanUwill]

Yeah, I was trying to say that Nico's only justification was if it was the owner's idea and that the owner forced him but that it was doubtful. And even then, he should have quit. He would easily find another job with the justification that he didn't want to trade Luka for AD.

I'm in middle management so I'm a bit more sympathetic towards Nico. To move up in middle mgmt., you do have to go along with orders you dislike and if you don't your career can get derailed.

But that said, some ideas are so idiotic that you can get away with defiance. And if owner really proposed Luka for AD, he could have quit and gotten another job.

Different story if owner said trade Luka I don't want to max him but I don't care where. There, he does have to make the trade but he can get a huge haul (way bigger than the actual trade).

I'm in middle management too and can understand that pain

That said, Nico's job is so high-profile that I would imagine it would be MUCH easier for him to find a job than us regular folk.

If Nico really was forced to make the deal, he would have resigned. Its that simple, he was not forced, he really thought that deal was good, thats the only scenario where guy in his position does not resign and actually make the deal. He was high respected up to this point, his team just made the finals after he made great trade dead line moves, he would have been fine, now his rep is forever destroyed. He would have resigned, its simple.

[jym85]

gonna be hilarious if the Mavs actually make the play-in

[Tracymcgoaty]

Melo was right KD should go home to Washington play with a young team and give that fanbase some hope. He gets them to the playoffs he's a legend.

The wizards are a money laundering operation.


Looking it up in google reddit washington reddit agrees with this as well

https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtonwizards/comments/14cuocq/the_wizards_are_a_money_laundering_operation/

[Tracymcgoaty]

Reaves would legit be so much fun having his own team lol.

He's not good enough to be the first option but that team would be fun to watch.

[G R E Y]

Suns.

Oof.

[thelead]

Coach Bud has no answers and I don't blame him.

[sp6r=underrated]

I'm in middle management too and can understand that pain

I'm sure both of us have our horror stories.