THE 2015 NBA PRE SEASON THREAD: BEST WISHES TO LAMAR ODOM

[flyerthandelta]

Is Harden still hurt??

 

[finallyfamous]

whens the season thread getting made?

 

[nick.]

is Big J making it?

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

WOW, Flip Saunders will not coach this year. Am I late on this? Hope he gets healthy man

It'll be interesting to see how the Wolves develop 

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Zach Lowe 35 predictions

1. Houston Emerges As the Biggest Threat to Golden State in the West

4. Chicago Gets the No. 1 Seed in the East

6. Milwaukee Misses the Playoffs

7. Indiana Makes the Playoffs

13. The Spurs and Grizzlies Disappoint

I didn't realize Pels also got Golden State's assistant who is said to have turned their defense around. That is insane

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/35-crazy-predictions-for-the-2015-16-nba-season/

 

[equality]

 
WOW, Flip Saunders will not coach this year. Am I late on this? Hope he gets healthy man

It'll be interesting to see how the Wolves develop 

As bittersweet as this sounds they may be better without him

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

Big sam has a good track record with a young chris bosh right?

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

 
As bittersweet as this sounds they may be better without him

I 100% believe it. It's just an ******* thing to say of me at this time

 

[noblekane]

chicago the number 1 seed? Ummm....

 

[a-friend]

Zumekis Cubs WS champs 2015 prediction is closer to the truth than Lowe's Bulls will get the #1 seed prediction

 

[pjdabullsfan]

Nobody thought we were gonna get the #1 seed in 2010-11. #imjustsayin

 

[finallyfamous]

I can see it happening.

see the Cavs winning 50-55 games this season.

 

[a-friend]

whens the season thread getting made?

It's time. Pre-season is a wrap

@sea manup  @Big J 33  @nickmaz96  anybody else interested......

Let's get it. 

 

[bonez7 back]

I can see us hopefully getting by you guys (lebron) in playoffs finally,
only if all falls well.

But #1 seed is irrelevant to me,
dont even care about that,
Just want us to make noise in postseason.

 

[nick.]

 

whens the season thread getting made?

It's time. Pre-season is a wrap

@sea manup  @Big J 33  @nickmaz96  anybody else interested......

Let's get it. 

i'll do it if Big J doesn't want to for whatever reason

 

[rck3sactown]

I hope BJ does it

 

[pjdabullsfan]

I can see us hopefully getting by you guys (lebron) in playoffs finally,
only if all falls well.

But #1 seed is irrelevant to me,
dont even care about that,
Just want us to make noise in postseason.

Yep I just the team to be healthy and hopefully take out the Cavs

 

[nick.]

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[ny mavurs]

i'll do it if Big J doesn't want to for whatever reason

Represent NY and do it

 

[finallyfamous]

Yep I just the team to be healthy and hopefully take out the Cavs

oh the irony...

 

[pjdabullsfan]

oh the irony...

 

[big j 33]

http://niketalk.com/t/638376/2015-2...egins-tuesday-cle-chi-and-nop-gsw-on-tnt/0_20

nick can run the Playoffs thread

 

[qstorm3]

I can't believe former Georgetown Hoya Josh Smith has made the Houston Rockets roster. Wow.

 

[sea manup]

 
http://niketalk.com/t/638376/2015-2...egins-tuesday-cle-chi-and-nop-gsw-on-tnt/0_20

nick can run the Playoffs thread

repped

could you check the first post of this thread and copy over the poll results? 

should be cool to look back at the end of the season 

 

[jpzx]

Taylor: Flip Saunders will not return to coach Wolves this season

Wolves’ leader has been hospitalized since September.

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By Jerry Zgoda Star Tribune OCTOBER 23, 2015 — 10:46PM

Five days before his team opens its regular season, Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor said Friday that coach and president of basketball operations Flip Saunders won’t return this season because of complications resulting from his treatment for cancer.

Diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in June, Saunders has been hospitalized since early September.

When asked Friday if he expected Saunders to return to his jobs, Taylor paused and said: “Not this year. I just think his illness, I mean, it’s serious. At this point, if he came back I still think he’d have a hard time to recover all his energy and all that because he has been in the hospital for a long time.”

Shortly after Saunders was hospitalized, the team promoted associate head coach Sam Mitchell to interim head coach and expanded General Manager Milt Newton’s duties. The Wolves announced that Saunders was taking a leave from the team for a period estimated in uncertain terms, other than it would be months rather than weeks.

Doctors treating Saunders called his disease treatable and curable when the Wolves announced his diagnosis in mid-August. At the time, the team said Saunders intended to continue working while he received chemotherapy treatments, which he had completed by the time he was hospitalized in September.

Taylor called the developments “an unbelievable situation we hadn’t anticipated going into this season” and said he talked with the team’s players about Saunders’ condition and his influence on all of them as coach, chief basketball decision-maker and franchise part-owner during a team dinner at Taylor’s Mankato home earlier this month.

“I don’t care how old you get or how experienced you get, these friendships that are in your lives are so important,” said Taylor, who has employed Saunders two different times and known him since shortly after he bought the team in 1994. “They do affect your heart and your mind on a daily basis.”

Taylor said he and Saunders had talked enough throughout the summer that there has been a “blueprint” to follow that includes such things as buying out young forward Anthony Bennett’s contract before training camp began.

Taylor said Newton and Mitchell have the authority going forth to make trades and player personnel decisions in Saunders’ absence.

“We haven’t put anything on hold,” Taylor said. “Milt’s handling it just the way I’d expect him to. He tells me what he thinks, and we talk about things, just the same as I did with Flip. Milt’s just stepped in. Sam has to be his own coach. He won’t do things exactly as Flip does, and I wouldn’t expect him to.”

In September, Taylor told team employees to leave Saunders and his family alone so he could rest and heal. Asked how much he has visited or seen Saunders in these past weeks, Taylor said, “Well, I’m aware of daily what’s going on, that’s the best way to tell you.”

http://www.startribune.com/taylor-f...return-to-coach-wolves-this-season/336494291/