2011-2012 NBA Thread: The Chris Paul and Dwight Howard sweepstakes

[Rhinox]

Bulls at Lakers official for XMas Day. 4 p.m. Central on ABC.

[Kaslo]

Orlando at OKC at 8 EST on ESPN

was hoping for Grizz but whatevs

[Dimmauk]

So I was setting up my draft order and noticed some players have dropped down alot. Would you still pick Kobe in the first round? Maybe late first?

And yeah spurs opened the practice facilities and players showed up.

[Man0warr]

Are the Lakers still running the Triangle? I assume not. How will Kobe's role change in a Mike Brown system?

[Rhinox]

No practice though.

[kisada]

i'm guessing kobe will probably be more score heavy, assuming they don't use the triangle anymore

[Dimmauk]

Bulls at Lakers official for XMas Day. 4 p.m. Central on ABC.

Kobe and rose gunna build houses all day. I see a combined shot total of 18/51 for both of them. LOL

[Rhinox]

Kobe and rose gunna build houses all day. I see a combined shot total of 18/51 for both of them. LOL

I'm so offending I'm going to insult a spurs superstar. Oh wait they have none.

[Dimmauk]

I'm so offending I'm going to insult a spurs superstar. Oh wait they have none.

Just a bunch of champions.

[Rhinox]

Lakers do to but they don't suck.

[Man0warr]

Atleast the Spurs didn't get swept.

[Kaslo]

People need to stop hating on Westbrook.

But here’s an interest thing from John Schuhmann’s StatsCube profile on the Thunder on NBA.com: The more Westbrook was involved in the offense, the better the Thunder were. Consider this:

The two All-Stars didn’t spend much time on the floor by themselves. Of their 5,885 total minutes, 89 percent were played together. As a comparison, only 76 percent of James’ and Wade’s total minutes were played together. Bryant and Pau Gasol? 83 percent.

Durant’s usage rate was 35.3 percent in his 432 minutes with Westbrook on the bench, but just 26.5 percent when Westbrook was in the game. But both players scored more efficiently (had a higher true shooting percentage) when they were on the floor together.

When you rank third in usage rate and play almost all of your minutes with the league’s leading scorer, you tend to rack up a lot of assists. Westbrook ranked ninth in the league at 8.2 assists per game, but no player in the league received more assists from a single teammate than Durant did from Westbrook.

Overall, Durant (true shooting percentage of 58.9) was a more efficient scorer than Westbrook (53.8 ), but the simple facts are that Westbrook’s usage went up and the Thunder offense improved.

[Demosthenes11]

Being great 60% of the time and terrible 40% of the time is a net gain

[Correction]

i'm guessing kobe will probably be more score heavy, assuming they don't use the triangle anymore

Kobe runs the Kobe offense. The triangle just helped everyone else feed Pau to win games. Coach Whatshisface has a lot of work to do to but nobody is expecting him to do it.

[Dimmauk]

Kobe runs the Kobe offense. The triangle just helped everyone else feed Pau to win games. Coach Whatshisface has a lot of work to do to but nobody is expecting him to do it.

Mike Brown, lebron's old door mat.

[Rhinox]

Atleast the Spurs didn't get swept.

You're right they got embarrassed even worse by losing to an overachieving 8 seed.

[Man0warr]

Mavs would of lost to the Grizz, tbh. Bad matchup for almost everyone except the Thunder.

[Rhinox]

No lol.

[takethistoyourgrave]

Oh shit, need to get in on some shittalking action now that we are going to have a season!!




But I'm a Jazz fan.


I got nothing.

[Gredival]

Walton not retiring.

"I expect to be on the court," Walton said in a phone interview with The Times. "I can fight through any pain I have and finish up the contract. I feel great right now, so there's no reason to believe I won't be able to play and help out the squad."

Walton, 31, has two years and $11.5 million left on his contract.

"Help"