The Official Dwayne Wade <<<<<< you thread

I stand corrected. Instead of being an idiot and watching on my phone, I searched for videos on the computer. It's odd to me that the Cleveland video Swagg posted slows down the play at a moment that makes no sense - I say no sense because the ball wasn't on the backboard. Once I found some other videos, it seems more like a clean block. That being said, if this went to court, there is no clear cut evidence. The video needs to be played in super slow motion if you wanted to be sure.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:That video was made to make it look like a goal tend.

Such a shitty angle lol watch this.



It's clearly a block, I love it how everytime I'm right it's hating though.

Yeah that video angle makes it look more like a block than the other one, that's super close close though.. I need to see the video at like 1:48.5

Either way the human eye can't differentiate that in real time

That's about as close as it gets. It probably hit the backboard a split second before, but in real time, I've got no problem with that being called a block, could've been called either way.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:
But seriously main man Boogie Cousins went off again, I wonder how long Sac can keep this up

Didn't see the game but Boogie had 30 and 10 or something crazy in the first half alone. He only played 22 minutes the entire game. And Rudy Gay 29 points on 12 shots.

http://www.courant.com/sports/la-sp-sn-bill-simmons-blasts-espn-again-20141106-story.html

Actually with Bill Simmons on this one...

He was simply offering up an opinion, and it certainly wasn't to "grab a headline". They all work at ESPN and you're going to attack a colleague over his opinion?

This is from a show(Mike and Mike) that's never had a unpopular opinion on ANYTHING. They both go with the grain and never take any hard stances. Watered down sports show tbh.

Wonder what's going to happen to Simmons now that it's his 2nd time he criticized ESPN recently.

I've just come to say that this is utterly disrespectful and Nerlens Noel should be BANNED from the NBA

Wade and Lebron had issues adjusting to each other's game too in 2010-11. Difference was, Wade is(was) Lebron's 29 year old friend while Kyrie is a 22 year old....team mate. Not as easy to iron out(I know its only been 4 games, mind).

Blue Barrett wrote:Wade and Lebron had issues adjusting to each other's game too in 2010-11. Difference was, Wade is(was) Lebron's 29 year old friend while Kyrie is a 22 year old....team mate. Not as easy to iron out(I know its only been 4 games, mind).

Kyrie is also trying to make a name for himself still, this is going to take a long time.. Even it even works out

I wouldn't be surprised of he gets shipped out, Blatt stated he wants Bron and Love to 'eat first'.. We'll see if Kyrie can adjust or not

It will definitely take longer IMO, for starters Miami was a lot more versatile team and obviously had much better defenders.

Not to mention in Miami, Lebron had leadership around him in Wade and Riley who he could lean on at any time.
Now it's Lebron's team and everyone else is leaning on him so it's a completely different scenario.

I would be quite surprised if they get it together this year for a multitude of reasons but the main one would probably be that lack of leadership.

Can I just point out, block or goaltend..it doesnt make up for anything...thats 2 points taken away and 3 points added, at best

Barkley " I'm fasting until Lakers win a game "

Dude ain't eating till they play Philly.

So my friends are gassed about the Raptors this season.. I've learned my lesson when it comes to that

They better beat the Wiz tonight, they should win games like this.. I'm probably the only out of us who thinks the Wiz are better when healthy, and that John Wall is better than Lowry

John Wall needs to take the next step this season. He's been on that hibernation mode for way too long. What is he like 25 now? Really hasn't reached the overwhelming reputation he came into the league with.

24.. 5th season in the league, he's had injury problems as well.. Still very early in his career

Wizards are better than the Raptors, unless Wade and Bosh stay healthy they are 3 seed.

Don't call me James wrote:John Wall needs to take the next step this season. He's been on that hibernation mode for way too long. What is he like 25 now? Really hasn't reached the overwhelming reputation he came into the league with.

I feel like thats because they dont watch the Wizards.

Because the only points better than him are Paul, Parker and Curry, a not injured Rose and Westbrook, and he isnt far from those 3.

Anyways

Bulls are weird this year, offense is quite good but defence is quite frankly crap compared to what we are used to under Thibs.

I think a couple of things with that.

Noah has been sick for like a week, obviously he is a big part of their defence.

Rose is a horrible defensive player, he gets beat off the ball really often. At least he tries, but he really has no clue.

They have missed Butler, who has missed time.

McBuckets and Mirotic I imagine are having a culture shock on that end.

Speaking of Butler he really is balling, I did expect a improvement offensively as we discussed before but he's surpassed them expectations so far.

Orlando's jerseys are awful. Get them some other ones pls

Gordon is going to be an all-defense player for many years, holy shit he's good at times.

The Franchise wrote:I think a couple of things with that.

Noah has been sick for like a week, obviously he is a big part of their defence.

Rose is a horrible defensive player, he gets beat off the ball really often. At least he tries, but he really has no clue.

They have missed Butler, who has missed time.

McBuckets and Mirotic I imagine are having a culture shock on that end.

Yeah, Rose is pretty bad now. Before the injuries he was solid strictly off athleticism.

IDK about Mirotic but McDermott has never been asked to play defense in his life, definite culture shock.

Boston's 3 PG defense last night was something to behold ffs, never seen so much effort in my life Rondo, Smart and Bradley were flying around like crazy

Freeza wrote:Orlando's jerseys are awful. Get them some other ones pls

Gordon is going to be an all-defense player for many years, holy shit he's good at times.

Should bring these back:



Raptors are bringing their early 2000s purple jerseys back. Might even be tonight, read about it this week.

Yeah those magic Jerseys are very good, would love those. Should bring some of the retro jerseys back instead of the sleeves tbh. And not just as a gimmick one off game, but for a season.

Freeza wrote:Boston's 3 PG defense last night was something to behold ffs, never seen so much effort in my life Rondo, Smart and Bradley were flying around like crazy

Not for much longer, Smart just got took off on a stretcher.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:

Freeza wrote:Boston's 3 PG defense last night was something to behold ffs, never seen so much effort in my life Rondo, Smart and Bradley were flying around like crazy

Not for much longer, Smart just got took off on a stretcher.

FFS the two greatest franchises just hit with some *bleep* up voodoo shit..