2011-2012 NBA Season

[Vanilla Ice]

FDB

 

I don't know how anyone can bet the NBA regular season. There are too many games that teams just throw away. I don't blame them either. The season is too long.

 

If you had the money to start you could easily make lots of money each season. Don't bet the line but rather just the who will win. If you bet 50 bucks each and every game against the Nets you will have won 59 times and only lost 7. Say you only get 50% return on wins that makes the profit equation (59x$25) - (7x$50). That would be $1,125 profit this season.

 

Obviously the Nets are having one of the worst seasons ever but you could each year wait a month to see who are the worst 2-4 teams and then do this. You would make 3-4 grand a year doing this but you would need the starting capital. Oh and you could do this for each sport, although I wouldn't do it with football (too unpredictable and too few games).

[ChiCubsFan]

I don't understand how people can claim the Thunder are still a better team. Miami has outplayed them for basically the entire series. It was a close game in Game 1 till the final 4 min I believe? They are up 3-1 because they are just a better team. It's unfortunate that so many people hate LeBron and can't just accept him at what he is. The best player on the planet. His defense on Durant has been unreal.

 

But I am sure despite winning Finals MVP, some meat-heads will find another made up bogus reason to hate on him.

 

There are plenty of reasons to hate him despite agreeing that he's the best basketball player in the world right now. I'm sure I would have hated Jordan in the 90s if he wasn't on my team. That's being a fan of a competing team, not being a "meat-head".

[Guest]

FDB

 

I don't know how anyone can bet the NBA regular season. There are too many games that teams just throw away. I don't blame them either. The season is too long.

 

If you had the money to start you could easily make lots of money each season. Don't bet the line but rather just the who will win. If you bet 50 bucks each and every game against the Nets you will have won 59 times and only lost 7. Say you only get 50% return on wins that makes the profit equation (59x$25) - (7x$50). That would be $1,125 profit this season.

 

Obviously the Nets are having one of the worst seasons ever but you could each year wait a month to see who are the worst 2-4 teams and then do this. You would make 3-4 grand a year doing this but you would need the starting capital. Oh and you could do this for each sport, although I wouldn't do it with football (too unpredictable and too few games).

 

That post was amazing.

[Soul]

I think the defensive matchups are part of why you're seeing that too. Durant and Harden are offense-first guys, and one or both of them has to spend a lot of energy guarding the best player in the NBA. A lot more than their other playoff opponents, none of whom had an all-star at the 3. I don't think it's a coincidence that it's those two that are the OKC stars that have faltered at times in the series. OKC requires defensive effort as well from that spot, but that's not really anything new for LeBron, who defends a variety of different guys depending on need.

 

Thank you. I'll just let you explain it.

[Formerly Snayke]

Christ, there isn't a single person outside of Skip Bayless who doesn't recognize what an awesome player LeBron James is. Just because a large majority of the population thinks he's a douche bag doesn't mean we aren't in awe of the things he can do. Like Vanilla Ice said, the Heat has outscored OKC by five points in this series. They look fairly even, and most people give the nod to the Thunder for the simple fact that they have better personnel.

[SpongeWorthy]

FDB

 

I don't know how anyone can bet the NBA regular season. There are too many games that teams just throw away. I don't blame them either. The season is too long.

 

If you had the money to start you could easily make lots of money each season. Don't bet the line but rather just the who will win. If you bet 50 bucks each and every game against the Nets you will have won 59 times and only lost 7. Say you only get 50% return on wins that makes the profit equation (59x$25) - (7x$50). That would be $1,125 profit this season.

 

Obviously the Nets are having one of the worst seasons ever but you could each year wait a month to see who are the worst 2-4 teams and then do this. You would make 3-4 grand a year doing this but you would need the starting capital. Oh and you could do this for each sport, although I wouldn't do it with football (too unpredictable and too few games).

 

That post was amazing.

 

Get that man one of those weekend slots on AM sports talk radio plugging the 800 number for LOCKS OF THE MILLENNIUM

[NonProfitCow]

FDB

 

I don't know how anyone can bet the NBA regular season. There are too many games that teams just throw away. I don't blame them either. The season is too long.

 

If you had the money to start you could easily make lots of money each season. Don't bet the line but rather just the who will win. If you bet 50 bucks each and every game against the Nets you will have won 59 times and only lost 7. Say you only get 50% return on wins that makes the profit equation (59x$25) - (7x$50). That would be $1,125 profit this season.

 

Obviously the Nets are having one of the worst seasons ever but you could each year wait a month to see who are the worst 2-4 teams and then do this. You would make 3-4 grand a year doing this but you would need the starting capital. Oh and you could do this for each sport, although I wouldn't do it with football (too unpredictable and too few games).

 

That post was amazing.

Jimmy the Greek up in this bitch.

[Splendid Splinter]

Like Vanilla Ice said, the Heat has outscored OKC by five points in this series.

 

 

Somewhat misleading... It's that close because OKC won by 11 in the first game. Miami in their 3 wins have outscored OKC by 16 points. It's true what you said, but it's not like Miami are winning by 1 or 2 points games in this series. The teams are pretty even and OKC needs just anyone on their team to step up with Westbrook and Durant. That's the difference between the 2 teams. Heat are getting it and OKC are not, but when you look at OKC, who is going to do that for them if Harden can't do it? Maybe Ibaka or Thabo can surprise some people and score 15 in a game, but is that enough though? Ibaka hit double digits in 8 out of 19 playoff games, but only 2 were more than 14 pts and 4 were right at 10 pts. Thabo hit double digits once and it was 19 pts. Maybe Fisher could get hot from 3 pt land. Really... Harden HAS to be that guy and he has LITERALLY disappeared in this finals. Harden was avg 17.6 pts a game in the playoffs before the finals. Only 10.8 in the finals and that's with a 21 pt game.

[TruffleShuffle]

FDB

 

I don't know how anyone can bet the NBA regular season. There are too many games that teams just throw away. I don't blame them either. The season is too long.

 

If you had the money to start you could easily make lots of money each season. Don't bet the line but rather just the who will win. If you bet 50 bucks each and every game against the Nets you will have won 59 times and only lost 7. Say you only get 50% return on wins that makes the profit equation (59x$25) - (7x$50). That would be $1,125 profit this season.

 

Obviously the Nets are having one of the worst seasons ever but you could each year wait a month to see who are the worst 2-4 teams and then do this. You would make 3-4 grand a year doing this but you would need the starting capital. Oh and you could do this for each sport, although I wouldn't do it with football (too unpredictable and too few games).

 

 

sounds foolproof to me. i'm pretty sure the nets were getting 2-to-1 odds to win when they were like 5-45 and playing on the road against the celtics.

[SouthSideRyan]

sounds foolproof to me. i'm pretty sure the nets were getting 2-to-1 odds to win when they were like 5-45 and playing on the road against the celtics.

 

TT and myself both called him out on this, and he abandoned his brilliant plan and moved on to a bizarre FCC tangent, where he continuously got beat over the head with wooden oars.

 

viewtopic.php?f=44&t=56101&p=2394103&hilit=rather+worst+nets#p2394103

 

I highly recommend it. 3.5 stars.

[Soul]

Like Vanilla Ice said, the Heat has outscored OKC by five points in this series.

 

 

Somewhat misleading... It's that close because OKC won by 11 in the first game. Miami in their 3 wins have outscored OKC by 16 points. It's true what you said, but it's not like Miami are winning by 1 or 2 points games in this series. The teams are pretty even and OKC needs just anyone on their team to step up with Westbrook and Durant. That's the difference between the 2 teams. Heat are getting it and OKC are not, but when you look at OKC, who is going to do that for them if Harden can't do it? Maybe Ibaka or Thabo can surprise some people and score 15 in a game, but is that enough though? Ibaka hit double digits in 8 out of 19 playoff games, but only 2 were more than 14 pts and 4 were right at 10 pts. Thabo hit double digits once and it was 19 pts. Maybe Fisher could get hot from 3 pt land. Really... Harden HAS to be that guy and he has LITERALLY disappeared in this finals. Harden was avg 17.6 pts a game in the playoffs before the finals. Only 10.8 in the finals and that's with a 21 pt game.

 

If all 3 of the Heats big guns play well, I don't see how OKC can counter often enough. It cascades down to the other Heat role players too. Plus, it grieves me that the Heat have Battier. Some league rule should have kept them from being able to have Lebron, Wade, Bosh, and then him too.

 

I still think OKC can win again, which would mean they take tonight's game. It makes sense to me that they won't go quietly, but after watching 4 games' worth of basketball between these two teams the Heat look like the better team to me.

 

If Lebron's injury is serious enough it could change things...

[hawkeyecub]

Damn I miss me some bum.

[17 Seconds]

about 9 hours until i kill myself forever

[Banedon]

about 9 hours until i kill myself forever

 

As opposed to temporarily?

[17 Seconds]

i temporarily killed myself when rose's knee asploded. the heat winning in miamii would just be too much to take.

[Soul]

If Lebron wins tonight I expect he'll go from thick-rimmed style to full-on Elton John.

[UMFan83]

If the Heat have a commanding lead tonight, I am turning off the game and not turning the NBA back on until the draft....which is strangely enough a week from today.

[Formerly Snayke]

Durant is averaging 30 and has shot 55 percent from the field. Is it just me or has that felt really quiet?

[Guest]

LeBron jumps into Sefolosha and Ibaka on consecutive plays and fouls are called on the Thunder both times even though the defenders went straight up.

[Formerly Snayke]

Everything is going right when Wade is hitting 20-foot fadeaway jumpers with Ibaka in his face.

[Formerly Snayke]

Nice help defense there.

[Splendid Splinter]

See Perkins... that is why Brooks goes to a lineup without you in it.

[Formerly Snayke]

I don't blame Harden for passing off to Durant, but geez, does he not think he can drive against Mike Miller?

[Formerly Snayke]

If the bench fodder LeBron had to play with in Cleveland would've shot like this against Orlando in '09...

[Guest]

OKC has to be feeling okay about things right now. Miami shot 57.9% to OKC's 37.5 and the combo of Battier/Cole/Miller has hit 4-7 threes, and the Thunder are only down five.

 

Hopefully Westbrook can start hitting some shots.