By psychintellect Go To PostLol Brooklyn won
Who cares
WTF
By DY_nasty Go To PostWTF
Grizzlies up 8!
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What a season. Fuck the haters. Won the division even with all the injuries and McFail as coach.
Give me those Mavs fuckers. I want Cuban, Parsons ( that bitch even gonna play? what happened to him?) and Brandy to want to off themselves and whine, bitch, and moan at the Gods for creating Harden.
Though if somehow the Rockets getting knocked out by the Mavs in the 1st (still have memories of Michael Finley and the refs screwing the Rockets)... I'm going Into The Wild and giving up on sports.
By reilo Go To Post Oh cool we face the Spurs? Where the offseason thread at?
no you don't..
By reilo Go To Post Oh cool we face the Spurs? Where the offseason thread at?
i thought the Clippers did?
By reilo Go To Post Oh cool we face the Spurs? Where the offseason thread at?
Not if the Grizz do what they're supposed to do.
By reilo Go To Post Oh cool we face the Spurs? Where the offseason thread at?
You won't if the Grizzlies win.
By Diprosalic Go To Postno you don't..
Oh because of the Memphis game? ESPN's standings are wrong then.
By reilo Go To Post Oh cool we face the Spurs? Where the offseason thread at?
You're not a Clipper fan though. You guys are going to get the Grizzlies. We get the Spurs.
By Mamba Go To PostIt's a fluke because, as I said, their SRS and Point differential are worse than last year. they have a 49 expected win (right now), not 55. 6 games is pretty big.
Also, 82 games is still pretty small and is subject to massive randomness. A team is expected to go 50% in close games, even good ones. If you go, say, 13-5 in a season in close games, it's just random luck. Minnesota, for example, suffered the same but opposite fate last season. It's part of the game, it happens. You might randomly play against a team missing its star(s) for injury or suspension reasons. And on and on it goes. There's still a lot of luck involved. I'm not trying to knock Houston, it happens to all teams in some way over the years.
Do you think the Rockets are better this season because of the win total alone? Because they've won games by a smaller margin this year. Their SRS, and basically all overall team metrics, are down this season. That suggests they are a worse team than last season's incarnation. Win total isn't everything.
The "luck" part has nothing to do with injuries. It has to do with your team having a point differential of a 50 win team and not a 55 win team. In basketball terms, that is the definition of luck. If you win significantly more games than your point differential, you are lucky. If you win less, you're unlucky. If it was just 1 or 2 wins, it would be just noise. But it's not, it's a 6 game disparity.
My fan comment was in general, not just relegated to this board.
Again, I'm not saying something like "Well, with all these injuries, they were lucky to win X games." Not at all. I'm saying their point differential and any other team measure indicates they would normally win far fewer games than they did. Somewhere, they got a bit lucky.
If you flip a coin 100 times and end up with 70 heads and 30 tails, I'd say heads was pretty lucky. Randomness dictates such events must happen, but they're uncommon. And Uncommon = lucky.
So it's statistically irregular. If you actually understood our team, then you would fucking understand that our point differential has suffered (along with our offense) due to our injuries, which you refuse to acknowledge over and over and over again.
Where the fuck are you pulling these numbers from? 50%? 13-5? Don't try to use numbers you've pulled out of your ass as some sort of evidence. The difference between Minnesota of last year and Phoenix and the Rockets this year is that we're good, and they weren't. It's that we understood who our go to guy was, and they didn't. We've had close losses to Memphis, Spurs and Atlanta that could have gone our way, yet you only focus on the 'luck' that goes our way.
In the clutch, Harden is 1st in points, top 5 in assists, top 10 in 3P%, top 15 in FG%. In the regular season, he has been statistically more clutch than Curry, yet all you can do is explain it away as 'luck', when he has done it over and over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei34RqCmRXQ">This is luck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kr0_bVq4Yc">This is luck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-_KbUEmgw0">This is luck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYxdIrgagG4">This is not.
I love how one of your factors of luck for Houston is facing teams with injuries, yet you discount all of the injuries we've had as not being related to luck. Your inconsistency is mindboggling. Your definition of luck changes to suit whatever argument you want. Basketball is not just a game of chance. If somebody shoots one 3-pointer and it goes in, fine. Trying to explain away somebody who's done it over 20 times as just 'luck' is ludicrous.
Your coin flip example is terrible. There's a difference between Josh Smith shooting a 3 and Kyle Korver shooting a 3. Basketball involves skill, and you belittling everything my team has done in the face of all of our injuries down to luck is downright insulting.
Top of the Southwest, a division where ALL 5 TEAMS have made it into the playoffs. In the offseason, y'all claimed we wouldn't make it into the playoffs. All season you were willing us out of HCA. Hope you continue to wish for our first round exit. It might finally push us over the hump.
By reilo Go To PostOh because of the Memphis game? ESPN's standings are wrong then.
we won't move up to 5 unless we win.
By psychintellect Go To PostBrooklyn won
We're good
oh dang it would have been more exciting
By Wahoos007 Go To Post Spurs are going to be the 6th seed after all that work.
They didnt want the win.
By reilo Go To Post If Grizz lose, Portland faces the Spurs.
Get ready then.
i'm not even mad the spurs will stomp the clippers. if anyone does, i would hope it would be them, but not in the first round :/.
Damn shitty that Thunder didn't make it despite Westbrooks best efforts. That dude was just beasting.
And even shittier if the nets make it over the pacers (which is looking kinda likely now). These gys have been playing with their backs against the wall for the past two weeks, i feel like they'd make a lot of noise in the playoffs.
By jjasper Go To Post Houston won the southwest with a losing divison record. That just seems messed up.
Destroy Indiana plz.
By pilonv1 Go To Post More like King GONEdo am I rite.
14th pick has all star potential though. Plus Max Kanter. In all seriousness its for the best they miss. They'll be a force next year.
