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Quote from: wheelz1200 on November 03, 2021, 03:27:14 PM

Big test for the Knicks tonight. Gonna play a tough Pacers team on the Pacers home turf. Knicks took an ugly loss at home the other night I expect them to bounce back. Also looking forward to the golden state game as well that should be a good late night game as well. Used to hate watching stepb play but I respect his game. Dude is tough.

And if I'm not mistaken, they are the underdog here as per ML.
That's why I was quite surprised to see them, but yeah Pacers at home are very tough although they've lost to Toronto but it is very close game. So let's see how Knicks are going to respond with the crowd again I'll probably gave this game as pass, very tricky even at ML bet. A lot of good news today, even The Philly vs Bulls would be very exciting. Can Bulls continue it's magical run against the Sixers?

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Quote from: Jating on November 03, 2021, 11:42:14 AM

I think the Lakers have chemistry already, the problem is that with so many great players around, who will be in the final minutes of every game, we see Bazemore and Monk being insert late in the game, with AD + Lebron + Russ. Westbrook has finally settled, but still far cry when he was as dominant let's say last year with the Wizards. He has attempts wherein he can't just finished it. On the other hand, Carmelo has settled down with the Lakers and had a good statistically game now as compare to Portland last year.

I wouldn't say the Lakers already have team chemistry, considering they won a weak opponent by only 2 points. I mean, it's still not a good result for them. By the way, I guess Westbrook can't be the dominant player while Lebron is on the court. Regarding Melo, he looks very useful to the team as a bench player, and you're right that his stats have improved compared to last season.

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Quote from: wheelz1200 on November 03, 2021, 03:27:14 PM

Big test for the Knicks tonight. Gonna play a tough Pacers team on the Pacers home turf. Knicks took an ugly loss at home the other night I expect them to bounce back. Also looking forward to the golden state game as well that should be a good late night game as well. Used to hate watching stepb play but I respect his game. Dude is tough.

I think Knicks would get this win against the home team, their road record is 3-0 (still perfect), and since they are coming from a loss, I also believe that they will bounce back here. Trusting them today and good luck to us.

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Big test for the Knicks tonight. Gonna play a tough Pacers team on the Pacers home turf. Knicks took an ugly loss at home the other night I expect them to bounce back. Also looking forward to the golden state game as well that should be a good late night game as well. Used to hate watching stepb play but I respect his game. Dude is tough.

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Quote from: Pamadar on November 03, 2021, 09:44:08 AM

Focus on team efforts and continue to make more good plays. teamworks continue to give them more wins.

Which is the truth. They are the contrary of the Lakers team who are still looking for their chemistry from a 9 men change of their roster.
Somehow, I am still wishing they can work it out after playing together but they need to do it faster.
Another good example is the Miami Heat, they kept their roster intact and just added one key player that they think would give their young roster some help with playoffs and Finals experience. Kyle Lowry.
Winning against the Mavericks gave them their 5th winning streak.

I think the Lakers have chemistry already, the problem is that with so many great players around, who will be in the final minutes of every game, we see Bazemore and Monk being insert late in the game, with AD + Lebron + Russ. Westbrook has finally settled, but still far cry when he was as dominant let's say last year with the Wizards. He has attempts wherein he can't just finished it. On the other hand, Carmelo has settled down with the Lakers and had a good statistically game now as compare to Portland last year.

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Quote from: CLS63 on November 03, 2021, 04:49:27 AM

As far as I can see, the teams that have made the best starts are Miami Heat, Chicago Bulls and Utah Jazz. All of them have played 7 games so far and won 6 of them. Miami Heat seem to be the best in terms of statistics now as they have a quite big point average. But the team that I'm proud of their performance the most now are absolutely Chicago Bulls. Grin

Because after so many years, they finally have made the right choices for their roster and they are having a superb season now.

Looks like the the Heat won the Lowry-Dragic trade because on Toronto, Dragic isn't use and he is out of the rotation while on the other hand Lowry is their starting Point Guard and we know how reliable he is.
I'm impressed with how the Bulls started this season and right now they are the most improved team at least for me but lets talk a bit about the improvement of the Miami. Getting Lowry is the main reason why they are performing well right now. Another one is the improvement of Herro. He is averaging 22.4 PPG right now which is a huge jump after averaging just a single digit last season. We might see again the Herro-Robinson duo where they are pouring threes here and there. Anyway, glad to see some new teams at the top right now and this Bulls and Heat might end up at the top 5 after this seaon

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Not gonna lie but the Bulls seem like a whole different team for me right now. Even last season, I didn't think that they will be capable of playing this good. And getting Lowry has been the best decision for Heat in my opinion. Lowry has been incredibly reliable so far and I hope he can hold onto his good form. Seems like this season will be a close one till the end?

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Quote from: Pamadar on November 03, 2021, 09:44:08 AM

Focus on team efforts and continue to make more good plays. teamworks continue to give them more wins.

Which is the truth. They are the contrary of the Lakers team who are still looking for their chemistry from a 9 men change of their roster.
Somehow, I am still wishing they can work it out after playing together but they need to do it faster.
Another good example is the Miami Heat, they kept their roster intact and just added one key player that they think would give their young roster some help with playoffs and Finals experience. Kyle Lowry.
Winning against the Mavericks gave them their 5th winning streak.

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Quote from: CLS63 on November 03, 2021, 04:49:27 AM

As far as I can see, the teams that have made the best starts are Miami Heat, Chicago Bulls and Utah Jazz. All of them have played 7 games so far and won 6 of them. Miami Heat seem to be the best in terms of statistics now as they have a quite big point average. But the team that I'm proud of their performance the most now are absolutely Chicago Bulls. Grin

Because after so many years, they finally have made the right choices for their roster and they are having a superb season now.

Miami Heat has made it in the finals like 2 seasons ago. While the Utah Jazz was the top team in the West last year, so I would say it is expected of them to be good this season.

But the biggest surprised is still the Bulls, they have ensemble a good team this year to help Zach Lavine and it really pays off big time for them as there on the top now.

Chicago is no longer a Zach Lavine centered team. They've got a good star now.

With the help of good chemistries they are really competing so well, we might see more from this team, we are just in the early stage of this new season, if they continue to play like this, the chance of bringing the team to playoff or maybe more than that is very likely to happen.

Focus on team efforts and continue to make more good plays. teamworks continue to give them more wins.

Yeah see that is the thing with the Bulls right now. The fact that they are playing so well this early on is a pretty big testament to the coach and GM. For so long we had to deal with the Gar/Pax regime and there was never any hope because you knew that had no idea what they were doing. Now we have legit management who actually knows what they are doing and that gives me so much hope for the future.

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Quote from: cryptomaniac_xxx on November 03, 2021, 06:13:17 AM

Quote from: CLS63 on November 03, 2021, 04:49:27 AM

As far as I can see, the teams that have made the best starts are Miami Heat, Chicago Bulls and Utah Jazz. All of them have played 7 games so far and won 6 of them. Miami Heat seem to be the best in terms of statistics now as they have a quite big point average. But the team that I'm proud of their performance the most now are absolutely Chicago Bulls. Grin

Because after so many years, they finally have made the right choices for their roster and they are having a superb season now.

Miami Heat has made it in the finals like 2 seasons ago. While the Utah Jazz was the top team in the West last year, so I would say it is expected of them to be good this season.

But the biggest surprised is still the Bulls, they have ensemble a good team this year to help Zach Lavine and it really pays off big time for them as there on the top now.

Chicago is no longer a Zach Lavine centered team. They've got a good star now.

With the help of good chemistries they are really competing so well, we might see more from this team, we are just in the early stage of this new season, if they continue to play like this, the chance of bringing the team to playoff or maybe more than that is very likely to happen.

Focus on team efforts and continue to make more good plays. teamworks continue to give them more wins.

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Quote from: CLS63 on November 03, 2021, 04:49:27 AM

As far as I can see, the teams that have made the best starts are Miami Heat, Chicago Bulls and Utah Jazz. All of them have played 7 games so far and won 6 of them. Miami Heat seem to be the best in terms of statistics now as they have a quite big point average. But the team that I'm proud of their performance the most now are absolutely Chicago Bulls. Grin

Because after so many years, they finally have made the right choices for their roster and they are having a superb season now.

Looks like the the Heat won the Lowry-Dragic trade because on Toronto, Dragic isn't use and he is out of the rotation while on the other hand Lowry is their starting Point Guard and we know how reliable he is.

I'm impressed with how the Bulls started this season and right now they are the most improved team at least for me but lets talk a bit about the improvement of the Miami. Getting Lowry is the main reason why they are performing well right now. Another one is the improvement of Herro. He is averaging 22.4 PPG right now which is a huge jump after averaging just a single digit last season. We might see again the Herro-Robinson duo where they are pouring threes here and there. Anyway, glad to see some new teams at the top right now and this Bulls and Heat might end up at the top 5 after this seaon

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Quote from: ChiBitCTy on November 03, 2021, 07:55:02 AM

Quote from: cryptomaniac_xxx on November 03, 2021, 06:13:17 AM

Quote from: CLS63 on November 03, 2021, 04:49:27 AM

As far as I can see, the teams that have made the best starts are Miami Heat, Chicago Bulls and Utah Jazz. All of them have played 7 games so far and won 6 of them. Miami Heat seem to be the best in terms of statistics now as they have a quite big point average. But the team that I'm proud of their performance the most now are absolutely Chicago Bulls. Grin

Because after so many years, they finally have made the right choices for their roster and they are having a superb season now.

Miami Heat has made it in the finals like 2 seasons ago. While the Utah Jazz was the top team in the West last year, so I would say it is expected of them to be good this season.

But the biggest surprised is still the Bulls, they have ensemble a good team this year to help Zach Lavine and it really pays off big time for them as there on the top now.

As a die hard bulls fan this was never really much of a surprise to me. For whatever reason seeing all the preseason polls and what not most people simply had no love to give to them Neighor was surprising after how much we added in the off season. Now we aren’t winning any championships but still, nice start to potentially something great down the line.

Bulls would probably end up in the top 4 in the East, and that would help them to get the home-court advantage in the first round. They have their own big 3 (DeRozan, Lavine, and Vucevic), so as long as these 3 are healthy, they have a huge chance to upset the team who are currently the top favorites in the East like the Nets and the Bucks.

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Quote from: cryptomaniac_xxx on November 03, 2021, 06:13:17 AM

Quote from: CLS63 on November 03, 2021, 04:49:27 AM

As far as I can see, the teams that have made the best starts are Miami Heat, Chicago Bulls and Utah Jazz. All of them have played 7 games so far and won 6 of them. Miami Heat seem to be the best in terms of statistics now as they have a quite big point average. But the team that I'm proud of their performance the most now are absolutely Chicago Bulls. Grin

Because after so many years, they finally have made the right choices for their roster and they are having a superb season now.

Miami Heat has made it in the finals like 2 seasons ago. While the Utah Jazz was the top team in the West last year, so I would say it is expected of them to be good this season.

But the biggest surprised is still the Bulls, they have ensemble a good team this year to help Zach Lavine and it really pays off big time for them as there on the top now.

As a die hard bulls fan this was never really much of a surprise to me. For whatever reason seeing all the preseason polls and what not most people simply had no love to give to them which was surprising after how much we added in the off season. Now we aren’t winning any championships but still, nice start to potentially something great down the line.

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Quote from: cryptomaniac_xxx on November 03, 2021, 06:13:17 AM

Miami Heat has made it in the finals like 2 seasons ago. While the Utah Jazz was the top team in the West last year, so I would say it is expected of them to be good this season.

But the biggest surprised is still the Bulls, they have ensemble a good team this year to help Zach Lavine and it really pays off big time for them as there on the top now.

I hope they continue to dominate every team in the NBA and continue to make their way through the NBA playoffs. It's been a long time since they were having this kind of record and they just start to win every game from every contender team. I think we can really say they are improving and finally can face every team in the NBA with no problem. They might seem struggling at first in their last game but their comeback was amazing and shut everyone chants inside the GYM.

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Quote from: cryptomaniac_xxx on November 03, 2021, 06:13:17 AM

Quote from: CLS63 on November 03, 2021, 04:49:27 AM

As far as I can see, the teams that have made the best starts are Miami Heat, Chicago Bulls and Utah Jazz. All of them have played 7 games so far and won 6 of them. Miami Heat seem to be the best in terms of statistics now as they have a quite big point average. But the team that I'm proud of their performance the most now are absolutely Chicago Bulls. Grin

Because after so many years, they finally have made the right choices for their roster and they are having a superb season now.

Miami Heat has made it in the finals like 2 seasons ago. While the Utah Jazz was the top team in the West last year, so I would say it is expected of them to be good this season.

But the biggest surprised is still the Bulls, they have ensemble a good team this year to help Zach Lavine and it really pays off big time for them as there on the top now.

Remember that DeRozan is a superstar too, he has good seasons with the Toronto Raptors before he was traded to the Spurs for Kawhil Leonard. People maybe forget how good he was because Leonard when traded won a championship but the Spurs tank when DeRozan was with them as their leader.

Now, it seems like DeRozan has finally found his home where he can play good basketball in a new environment and I can tell he is loving it with his production that we are seeing now.

His PPG average with spurs is 21.6, now with bulls it's up to 25.6

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Quote from: CLS63 on November 03, 2021, 04:49:27 AM

As far as I can see, the teams that have made the best starts are Miami Heat, Chicago Bulls and Utah Jazz. All of them have played 7 games so far and won 6 of them. Miami Heat seem to be the best in terms of statistics now as they have a quite big point average. But the team that I'm proud of their performance the most now are absolutely Chicago Bulls. Grin

Because after so many years, they finally have made the right choices for their roster and they are having a superb season now.

Miami Heat has made it in the finals like 2 seasons ago. While the Utah Jazz was the top team in the West last year, so I would say it is expected of them to be good this season.

But the biggest surprised is still the Bulls, they have ensemble a good team this year to help Zach Lavine and it really pays off big time for them as there on the top now.

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Quote from: CLS63 on November 03, 2021, 04:49:27 AM

As far as I can see, the teams that have made the best starts are Miami Heat, Chicago Bulls and Utah Jazz. All of them have played 7 games so far and won 6 of them. Miami Heat seem to be the best in terms of statistics now as they have a quite big point average. But the team that I'm proud of their performance the most now are absolutely Chicago Bulls. Grin

Because after so many years, they finally have made the right choices for their roster and they are having a superb season now.

Agree with you on that, Bulls were a surprise this season as personally, I don't think they will be this good. They only have 1 loss now and they have been winning games against a team that is expected to be in the playoffs, imagine how improved they are and I can't wait to finally see them again in the playoffs.

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As far as I can see, the teams that have made the best starts are Miami Heat, Chicago Bulls and Utah Jazz. All of them have played 7 games so far and won 6 of them. Miami Heat seem to be the best in terms of statistics now as they have a quite big point average. But the team that I'm proud of their performance the most now are absolutely Chicago Bulls. Grin

Because after so many years, they finally have made the right choices for their roster and they are having a superb season now.

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Are there any timeline for a Kawhi Leonard return though? Maybe they are just stretching this season and hopefully Paul George can carry the load until Kawhi returns to the team. They barely escape OKC last night, just a 5 point lead when the opening line for them is -10.5 if I"m not mistaken. And it's good that George is playing very well, but I have to agree that someone needs to help him out. They have to comeback from the brink of a lost against OKC.

People underrate OKC way too much.

SGA and Giddey are the real deals. I don't think that people appreciate them enough and they are definitely not the worst team in the league by any means.

I think that Clippers will have a rough season without Kawhi for sure. But at the end of the day, this will let Terance Mann, Jason Preston, Brandon Boston etc. grow into their roles when he does return.

No, I appreciate OKC, specially SGA, that kid is something special and could be the franchise player of OKC. It's that they always fell short in the 4th quarter.

Tough expectations for Mann, I remember him exploding during the playoffs. However, he seems can't duplicate that performance as well. He should by now having a break out games since Kawhi is still out. He is needed to perform and help Paul George.

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Quote from: Dave1 on November 02, 2021, 09:16:17 PM

Are there any timeline for a Kawhi Leonard return though? Maybe they are just stretching this season and hopefully Paul George can carry the load until Kawhi returns to the team. They barely escape OKC last night, just a 5 point lead when the opening line for them is -10.5 if I"m not mistaken. And it's good that George is playing very well, but I have to agree that someone needs to help him out. They have to comeback from the brink of a lost against OKC.

If I remember correctly, he will miss the whole 2021-2022 season because of the injury that he got in the Jazz-Clippers match-up last year.

George is like the LeBron in Cavaliers where he single-handedly carry the whole team. Now George is on that situation also. He is in a situation that he needs to carry his team without Kawhi if they want to enter the playoffs again. They need a second scorer because George really is carrying a heavy load here in the Clippers. What if he got injured (hope not)? What will happen to them?

The effect of Kawhi not playing is very huge to this Clippers team. They are a strong team with him. Not saying that they aren't strong still though but... they have a great coach in Coach Ty Lue so lets see how they will perform this whole season without Kawhi.

They are indeed a different team if Kawhai is playing around. The caliber of this guy who can lift the team up is what the clippers are missing.

They need another scorer to step up and help PG same thing, what if PG got injured? What will be the fate of Clippers? too early to discuss, though, as there are still many possibilities.

Coach Lue needs to maximize everyone who is available. He can lean with Jackson and Mann to help up while PG is doing his part.

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Quote from: Dave1 on November 02, 2021, 09:16:17 PM

Are there any timeline for a Kawhi Leonard return though? Maybe they are just stretching this season and hopefully Paul George can carry the load until Kawhi returns to the team. They barely escape OKC last night, just a 5 point lead when the opening line for them is -10.5 if I"m not mistaken. And it's good that George is playing very well, but I have to agree that someone needs to help him out. They have to comeback from the brink of a lost against OKC.

If I remember correctly, he will miss the whole 2021-2022 season because of the injury that he got in the Jazz-Clippers match-up last year.

George is like the LeBron in Cavaliers where he single-handedly carry the whole team. Now George is on that situation also. He is in a situation that he needs to carry his team without Kawhi if they want to enter the playoffs again. They need a second scorer because George really is carrying a heavy load here in the Clippers. What if he got injured (hope not)? What will happen to them?

The effect of Kawhi not playing is very huge to this Clippers team. They are a strong team with him. Not saying that they aren't strong still though but... they have a great coach in Coach Ty Lue so lets see how they will perform this whole season without Kawhi.

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