[Bytor Peltor]

Last night, the Houston Rockets made NBA History......they were 3 of 34 for the three point line. That is 9% shooting, the worst of any team taking 30 or more three point shots.





......the NBA has NEVER had an unanimous MVP for the season.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

Last night, the Houston Rockets made NBA History......they were 3 of 34 for the three point line. That is 9% shooting, the worst of any team taking 30 or more three point shots.





......the NBA has NEVER had an unanimous MVP for the season.

Yeah but this is hyperbole era of NBA where the media be swallowing the D of whatever "it" team it is and so it wouldn't be surprising if they disrespect all the othergreat players and all vote for Curry just because. I mean even Jordan never got unanimous votes and if anyone honestly ever deserved such its Jordan over Curry all day everyday.

I'd still take Lebron over Curry but since im biased ill say id take Westbrook over Curry too.. again somebody got to play defense yo

[Bytor Peltor]

55-5

Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

......the NBA has NEVER had an unanimous MVP for the season.

The league has NEVER had a team go undefeated at home during the regular season......Golden State and San Antonio both remain unbeaten at home.

Last night, Golden State tied the Chicago Bulls NBA record by winning their 44th straight regular season home game. Golden State will go for the record when they host Orlando on Monday night.

Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

Something special is happening up in the OKC.

Their 5 highest paid players have scored 162 points in 52 minutes (length of an overtime game) = 155% offensive rating, the highest for any five in the NBA this season, including Golden States lineup of death.

This lineup features THREE players in the NBA's Top 10 PER (Player Efficiency Rating)......no other NBA roster has more than two.

Kevin Durant
Russell Westbrook
Serge Ibaka
Enis Kanter
Dion Walters

Here is the kicker......this lineup above has only played in 18 of OKC's 33 games this season, crushing opponants by a whopping 52 points.

The not so good side of OKC......Thunder are now tied with the 76ers for most losses when entering the 4th quarter and leading this season.

 

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Im starting to ignore the win-loss records at this point because they are so unprecedented that we just don't know what they mean yet. Are they inflated by beating weak teams or are weak teams not actually weak but rather have bad records because they are getting smashed by all time great teams. Its a legit stats based question to ask. After all even the Bulls win records were in part inflated by a poorer quality NBA because of expansion teams

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

For example two seasons ago in NFL the AFC North had best overall record but analysts said it was smoke and mirrors from feasting on a weak NFC South. However in hindsight we see that the 6-9-1 Panthers and 6-10 Falcons were statistically better teams than their records and in actuality were just getting destroyed by the AFC North.

[Bytor Peltor]

With Atlanta beating the Lakers last night, the Lakers clinched their 3rd straight losing season at home......by comparison, the LA Lakers had 3 losing seasons at home in previous 65 years.

Also last night, Damian Lillard become the 2nd player in Trail Blazers history with 2 career 50-point games.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Haha warriors so you wanted a "historic season"????

How about falling victim to the WORST STATISTICAL UPSET IN NBA history!!!

This was the biggest gap in win-record percentage in an upset EVER! Elias hasn't reported yet but I'm willing to wager it might even be an all time record for ANY sport when you factor in where it occurred in the season!

[Bytor Peltor]

Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

Personally i am just increasingly more convinced that teams are disrespecting the warriors by NOT playing their "best" against them.

Doing my best SuchFriends impersonation......maybe Steve Kerr doesn't want Golden State to beat his Bulls team record

OK - back to all things serious......

Back in 96, the Miami Heat beat the record breaking Bulls with the Heat dressing only eight players. Via trade, Tony Smith flew across country from Phoenix to Miami on the day the game was played. Smith scored a season high 16 while Jordan had 31. Miami won the game dropping the Bulls record to 48-6, the Heat were 25-29.


61st game of the season

1995-96 Bulls entered 54-6, lost at Knicks by 32

2015-16 Warriors entered 55-5, lost at Lakers by 17


This is not Elias official, but it is from a Vegas betting blog and backs up what SuchFriends was willing to bet:

First time ever a .900 team loses to sub .200......minimum 50 games played.


Warriors Losses This Season
Mavericks 12th in win pct
Trail Blazers T-13th
Pistons 16th
Bucks 21st
Nuggets 24th
Lakers 29th


Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson had their worst combined 3-pt shooting game as teammates

 

Largest deficits faced entering 4th quarter
Warriors this season

Trail Blazers 25
Mavericks 19
Lakers 11

Warriors are 0-4 when facing a double-digit deficit entering the fourth quarter this season......Dubs trailed the Lakers by 11 after three, 84-73

Warriors' kryptonite

 

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

I think it goes without saying that warriors losses are all playing down to competition BUT this is important because they are getting so cocky that in playoffs they might just assume that all teams are inferior and completely underestimate the Spurs or Cavs

[Bytor Peltor]

Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

The league has NEVER had a team go undefeated at home during the regular season......Golden State and San Antonio both remain unbeaten at home.

Tonight on ABC, will the Spurs stay unbeaten at home or does Golden State get it's first win in San Antonio since 1997 (0-32).


Earlier this week, Golden State Warriors extend home winning streak to 50 games......have 6 wins by 30+ points this season, most in the NBA.

The Hornets 15-4 since start of February......only GSW and Spurs have been better.


Most Triple-Doubles - Wizards History
Darrell Walker 15
Wes Unseld 7
John Wall 6
Chris Webber 6


Most 30-Point Games in a Loss - This Season
James Harden 13
DeMarcus Cousins 13
Paul George 11

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

The hornets are an interesting wild card in the East. Semis looks increasingly like Cavs Heat and Hornets Raptors.

I don't bother with the west, this Warriors thing is simply ad nauseam so i just ignore it and keep with the other teams in NBA who i find more interesting

[Bytor Peltor]

Over the past 50 years, only four NBA players 37 years of age or older have scored 40+ points in a game: Kareem, Malone, Jordan & Dirk.

Saturday night was the first time this season the Warriors have lost to a top-10 team in the NBA (19-1).

Spurs: 44 straight home wins is tied with the 1994-96 Bulls for the 2nd-longest home win streak in NBA history.

 

On Friday night in Dallas, Golden State had 73 points at halftime.
Saturday night in San Antonio, Golden State scored a game total 79 points.

For the first time since ABC started the Saturday night games, Defense was on full display!

 

It was a little odd not seeing the likes of Duncan nor Ginobli on the court during the final 5+ minutes of the 4th Quarter.

If you expect Curry/Klay to go 2-16 from 3-point land four times in a series, then sure the Spurs will win......but they won't!

As we close in on the end of the season and the All-NBA Team decisions are made, which Forward (there can only be two) gets shafted:

Kawhi Leonard
Kevin Durant
LeBron James
________________________

Tim Duncan has passed Gary Payton for 10th on the NBA's all-time minutes played list tonight in Charlotte.

Hornets are 16-4 since Feb 6, only 1 game worse than the Spurs, who they just rallied from 23 down to beat.

The Spurs led by 21 at the end of the 1st quarter. They were 22-0 in team history when leading by at least 20 after 1.

With the Spurs loss tonight, 5 of the 7 teams to beat the Warriors this season have gone on to lose their next game.

Last team to score 7 or fewer in a first quarter and win ... Jazz against the Nets on Dec. 17, 2008 (trailed 27-7 after 1, won 103-92)

Jeremy Lin, who came off the bench, outscored San Antonio's bench 29-18. Spurs entered the game 3rd in the NBA in bench scoring at 39.7 PPG.

The Warriors are now 7-0 in games following losses this season.

The 76ers have lost 23 of last 25 games (6 straight); haven't beaten a team other than the Nets
since Jan. 26

Cavaliers have won 50 of their first 70 games for just the 4th time in franchise history (LeBron has played on 3 of these 4 teams)

Cavaliers clinched the division title; 4th straight division title in seasons with LeBron on roster.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

It feels increasingly like Cavs got my memo to lose some time in the playoffs, get humbled, then aim for next season.

[Bytor Peltor]

Last night, Golden State swept their season series against the Clippers for the 1st time since the 1986-87 season.

For the 35th time this season, Curry scored 30 or more points in a game.

 

Warriors are 12-1 against the NBA's top 6 teams this season

Clippers are 2-12

Warriors are now 64-7, best 71-game start in NBA history!

Consecutive Wins When Taking 15-point lead last 20 Seasons (Reg Season/Playoffs)

2004-07 Spurs 112
1998-02 Mavericks 111
2014-16 Warriors 110

Kerr - no rest for Curry, Golden State going for 73

If the season ended today, the Houston Rockets would miss the playoffs. However, Houston is only a half-game back of the 7th & 8th spots and hold tiebreakers against Utah & Dallas.

GM / Lue concerned about LeBron's Behavior......is this the beginning of the end?

 

[Rob Instigator]

Houston SHOULD miss the playoffs. Howard is leaving after this season, and we need to draft young talent.

[Bytor Peltor]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Houston SHOULD miss the playoffs. Howard is leaving after this season, and we need to draft young talent.

This does appear to be the better alternative than being humiliated by Golden State in the First Round.

If Dwight Howard is leaving at the end of the season, he's not helping his Free Agent cause at all......hasn't scored double digits in back-2-back games in previous eight games. Five of those eight games were single digit scoring.


Memphis 7
LAC 6
Minn 10
@ATL 8
@OKC 16
UTAH 5
TORONTO 2
@IND 11

NO LeBron when the Rockets play at Cleveland tonight......NOTE: Toronto is just two games behind Cleveland for the best record in the East.

IF Golden State wins tonight hosting Washington, The Warriors will join the Chicago Bulls as the only two franchises to win 67+ games in consecutive seasons. Golden State (66-7) reached 67 wins in the final game last season.

For Golden State to NOT surpass the Bulls 72 wins for a season, GSW would need to lose 3 of it's remaining nine games......all season long, The Warriors worst stretch was losing 3 out of 11 games.

For the first time in his carrier, Klay Thompson scored 40 points in consecutive games.

Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

Curry has 24 games to add to his NBA record 3-pointers made for the season. Let's say he reaches 350 3-pointers made, is beating the old record by 64 3-pointers equivalent to a MLB hitter breaking Barry Boands All-Time home run record by hitting 74 home runs? What if Curry makes 400 3-pointers, beating the record by 114 made shots......what do you compare that to?

Curry has NINE remaining games to make 400 3-points in a season. If he continues at his current average of 5 made 3-pointers per game, he ends the season with 395 3-pointers. I'm guessing Curry will up his average to reach or possibly surpass 400 made 3-pointers for the season.

[Bytor Peltor]

Tuesday night in Ckeveland, the Rockets were down 19 at halftime, down 20 in the 3rd Q and somehow outscored the Cavs 32-8 in the paint to win......and Dwight Howard only had 11 points in the game.

Rockets now just two games behind Portland for the 6th seed, host the Chicago Bulls tonight.

 

68-7 the Warriors are now 61 games over .500
Just the 6th team in NBA history to win 68 regular season games.

 

Curry now has 75 career 6 3-pointer games......nobody else in NBA history has more than 50 such games.

Draymond and Steph remain on pace for +1000 each, and are by far top 2 in +/- per minute.

 

Draymond Green has become the first player in NBA history with

1,000 points
500 rebounds
500 assists
100 steals
100 blocks......for the season!


With Kevin Durant active the last 2 seasons, the Thunder have won over 70 percent of their games (67-27)......without him, they're 30-33.

Gregg Popovich, on what the Spurs' 38-0 home record is worth: "Maybe a cup of coffee. Maybe."

You know who’s probably the MOST upset about this D’Angelo Russell/Lakers story?
Kobe......it's stealing his shine on his "farewell" tour.

[Bytor Peltor]

109 -106

 

 

During final play of the game:

 

Golden State became the first team to make 20+ 3-pointers and lose a game......Dubs with 22 turnovers.





Last night, LeBron passed Oscar Robinson on the NBA points scored list.

LeBron James has 129 games w/at least 20 points & 10 assists - 96 more than next-closest Forward in last 30 yrs (Bird, 33 games)

 

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Haha Warriors got exposed. Yes it is one game. But every Warriors loss has common theme. A gritty physical defense from teams with length and not losing composure when warriors make their runs. Its also how Griz and Cavs spotted 2-1leads on Warriors last playoffs. I see dubs winning the chip this season BUT they have a mortality to certain matchups. I think Spurs can beat them in WCF and i think Cavs can actually beat Spurs in 7 games

[Bytor Peltor]

Players To Win NBA Title With Team That Drafted Them #1 Since 1970

1974 Bill Walton
1979 Magic Johnson
1982 James Worthy
1984 Hakeem Olajuwon
1987 David Robinson
1997 Tim Duncan

Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan & LeBron James have appeared in 16 of the past 17 NBA Finals.

Michael Jordan & LeBron James appeared in one NBA Finals during their first 11 combined seasons.

Tuesday night in Utah, Tim Duncan joined an elite club:

 

Speaking Of Utah, Sad News For Jerry Sloan

 

Curry was held without a First Half Field Goal for the first time this season:

 

THIS SEASON - Curry has six games making 9+ 3-pointers.
NO OTHER PLAYER has five such games in their NBA carriers!