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Just now, Bluefire4 said:

He's a career 39% 3 point shooter. All he is known for is shooting. If he couldn't shoot he wouldn't be in the league.

That's misleading....He couldnt do it late in games

Bulls counted on him...traded picks to get him...

 

They expected much more than he gave,.,.they gave up on him

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Just now, oldunclemark said:

21 turnovers.....109-103 FINAL...bad loss.....

 

bad start to a week on the road...

 

Could be worse. You at least don't look like the Pistons. How would you like to have traded for Griffin and be on the road to nowhere?

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Two more games against the Hawks this season. One on Wednesday and one next Friday (March 9th.)

 

Every other game for the rest of the season will be against tough teams that are over .500.

 

Hopefully the Pistons and Heat keep losing. And hopefully we can beat teams like the Wizards and Bucks in the games we play against them.

 

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We are still 34-26 and 6 games ahead of Detroit who is in 9th at 28-32. No need to panic regarding not making the Playoffs. We just have to take the good with the bad. We have won a lot of close games this season so I am not going to get too upset about this. Occasionally this happens where you just lose to a bad team, we couldn't overcome their ridiculous 3 point shooting.

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6 minutes ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:

It was their 3 point shooting that beat us. Did they even miss 1 in the 2nd Half?

I think they were 6 of 10 in the 4th Q...

Bogdonavic had 17 points and 8 rebounds..Myles with 24.,.Glenn with 10 in limited time

Vic scored 21 in 22 minutes..and he finished with 4 fouls..we might have mishandled his minutes a bit

 

But you are right...they lots of 3s and we didn't..

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7 minutes ago, oldunclemark said:

I was wrong....only 13 turnovers...not 21......just looked it up..

16 of 23 from the line.....

 

we just didn't make enough shots...they only shot 45%

 

On to Atlanta

We stunk from the FT line and closing out quarters. The 3 at the end of the 3rd was terrible clock management and turned out to be 3 big points. We struggle when Vic isn't out there and that showed tonight. Sabonis never got going strapped with fouls. I thought we looked out of sync most of the game. We didn't pass the ball the way we usually do. We didn't play very well and let a game we should win on paper get away. 

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Just now, oldunclemark said:

I think they were 6 of 10 in the 4th Q...

Bogdonavic had 17 points and 8 rebounds..Myles with 24.,.Glenn with 10 in limited time

Vic scored 21 in 22 minutes..and he finished with 4 fouls..we might have mishandeld his minutes a bit

 

But you are right...they lots of 3s and we didn't..

Yeah I guess Dipo was in Foul Trouble early, that didn't help either. The only thing that bothers me about the Pacers is, we are a different team when Dipo is out or doesn't play. We are 0-6 in games where he has missed. If anything happens to him our season would be ruined. I been saying pretty much since the end of December once I realized we would be Good that we will probably be a 7th or 8 Seed anyway. The East is pretty good this season. We could still overachieve and finish higher at maybe 4/5/or6? But I am looking at probably a 7th as of now. I think we are better than Miami and Detroit, the others not sure.

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I had us only winning 35 games before the season started. Hated that we had to trade PG-13, never thought Dipo would be an All-Star or Sabonis would be better than Average. So if we get in and make the 7th or 8th Spot being above .500 I would say in mind we overachieved and had a Good season. We went 42-40 last season with PG-13, so if we can better that without him it's all Good. 43-39 will get us into the Playoffs IMO because I don't see the Pistons getting better. Pistons would have to go 15-7 to go 43-39 and they look like crap right now. The Hornets would have to go 16-6 to reach 43 wins - not happening either IMO. If we end up 43-39 that would mean we would have to slump and go 9-13. We are real safe folks on making the Playoffs. I give us a 90% chance as of now getting in if Dipo stays healthy. There is always that 10% chance we wont because of key injuries, so nothing is never a sure thing is why I didn't say 100%.

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Yeah that Nets pick looks good for the Cavs, but not as good as it did last year. Nets were the slam dunk easy worst team in the league last season. This year there is a whole pile of garbage at the bottom that can make many games unwatchable.

 

The lottery is gonna be fierce!

 

But if Lebron does leave I bet some will go into conspiracy again if the Cavs get the first pick in the draft this year or next year.

 

First pick in the draft doesn't mean it all though. Hello Markelle Fultz anyone? Is he still alive?

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7 minutes ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:

I had us only winning 35 games before the season started. Hated that we had to trade PG-13, never thought Dipo would be an All-Star or Sabonis would be better than Average. So if we get in and make the 7th or 8th Spot being above .500 I would say in mind we overachieved and had a Good season. We went 42-40 last season with PG-13, so if we can better that without him it's all Good. 43-39 will get us into the Playoffs IMO because I don't see the Pistons getting better. Pistons would have to go 15-7 to go 43-39 and they look like crap right now. The Hornets would have to go 16-6 to reach 43 wins - not happening either IMO. If we end up 43-39 that would mean we would have to slump and go 9-13. We are real safe folks on making the Playoffs. I give us a 90% chance as of now getting in if Dipo stays healthy. There is always that 10% chance we wont because of key injuries, so nothing is never a sure thing is why I didn't say 100%.

 

Pacers will be in the playoffs.

 

Pistons still have time but they have looked pretty bad since the all star break. I love picking on Detroit teams so.......I have tonight.

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1 minute ago, Jules said:

 

Pacers will be in the playoffs.

 

Pistons still have time but they have looked pretty bad since the all star break. I love picking on Detroit teams so.......I have tonight.

Yeah Miami is in that 8th spot at 31-29 so they are catchable but the way the Pistons are playing it looks bad for them lmao 

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8 minutes ago, Jules said:

Yeah that Nets pick looks good for the Cavs, but not as good as it did last year. Nets were the slam dunk easy worst team in the league last season. This year there is a whole pile of garbage at the bottom that can make many games unwatchable.

 

The lottery is gonna be fierce!

 

But if Lebron does leave I bet some will go into conspiracy again if the Cavs get the first pick in the draft this year or next year.

 

First pick in the draft doesn't mean it all though. Hello Markelle Fultz anyone? Is he still alive?

If the Rockets cant get by the Warriors this season I bet LeBron considers going to the Rockets strongly.

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10 minutes ago, Jules said:

Yeah that Nets pick looks good for the Cavs, but not as good as it did last year. Nets were the slam dunk easy worst team in the league last season. This year there is a whole pile of garbage at the bottom that can make many games unwatchable.

 

The lottery is gonna be fierce!

 

But if Lebron does leave I bet some will go into conspiracy again if the Cavs get the first pick in the draft this year or next year.

 

First pick in the draft doesn't mean it all though. Hello Markelle Fultz anyone? Is he still alive?

Last I looked he had one foot in the grave :dunno:. He may be a huge wasted #1 pick.

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Miami could blow it, they did last year. Still weirdly too many games left. Miami has been very solid this season though so I almost hate to see them blow it again.

 

Washington is the team I can't figure out. They love to beat the good teams and lose to the bad ones. And they always seem to play Boston and give them fits or rage. They seem better without John Wall too, will him coming back hurt them? No idea.

 

I still cringe at last years Celtics/Wizards 7 game playoff series. That was PHYSICAL and brutal. It was the series I think that ended the career of Isaiah Thomas sadly. He got a tooth knocked out and his hip knocked out and everything.

I think the refs swallowed their whistles a lot in that series to make it more exciting.

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