Official NBA Thread 2008-2009

I've watched the Lakers in preseason and Gasol and Bynum don't know how to play together yet.

But once they do, it's lights out.

 

It will be a struggle for a while I think. Plus its an unwritten alw that the Lakers have to suck against the Blazers and Kings so I dount we will see too much tonight.

Ill admit though, Bynum is playing a lot better right now than I thought he would. With Bynum back The Lakers will be able to sub five and have a team better than a few other NBA teams.

 

Farmar led the entire team in scoring in the preseason.

 

He's starting to play well, consistently. Also should have mentioned Ariza being back will make a huge difference too.

What's Battier's deal?

 

some sort of leg/foot injury of some sort.

I haven't kept up with it too much because it's nothing major.

He will miss a week or two of the season, most likely. Maybe 3-4 weeks at the most.

The plan is to start Battier at the 3 and Artest at the 4. But I just can not see that happening with some of the great PF's out west.

Maybe against a small-ball team, but Artest can't guard Gasol or Amare, etc...

So I expect them to move Scola to the 4 (he's been a beast in preseason) and use Ron as 6th man.

We'll see.

The big guy to keep an eye on for Houston is Brent Barry.

He was a major pickup, because if they go with a lineup late in games of:

PG: McGrady
SG: Barry
SF: Battier
PF: Artest
C: Yao

if anyone doubles on one of the big 3, Barry and Battier will bury you.

Should be interesting.

 

i am watching the Bulls.

Tough to beat their bench.

PG: Hinrich
SG: Gordon
SF: Noicioni
PF: Noah
C: Who cares?

That's a loaded bench.

A lot of guys on that team will play in the 25-30 min range on that team, but I see no one playing 40 mins, because they're really, really deep.

 

I haven't had much time to keep up with basketball during the off-season but I see some of you pick the Lakers to win it all.


When did Los Angeles re-sign Shaq? :hihi:

 

Having the Mavs fourth is . . . crazy.

But I've been wrong before.. We'll see.