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Perknose said:
Lollers @ ticket price disparity:

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That 2000 available at San Antonio surprised me. It's not like Indiana is a patsy team either. They played Miami tough. I thought the attendance at Spurs games were better than that.
 
The Spurs tickets are going for $1. That seems crazy; the most consistently good team in the league for the past decade and change and they can't sell tickets?
 
Not buying those numbers. I go to mavs games a couple times a year minimum for like the past 6 years now. They have 2000 tickets supposedly available for the Portland game and starting at $2. Yeah right. Just checked the Dallas mavs website and maybe 150seats available and cheapest is $11.
 
Atomic Playboy said:
The Spurs tickets are going for $1. That seems crazy; the most consistently good team in the league for the past decade and change and they can't sell tickets?
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I thought SA sold out pretty consistently. They're known for having one of the better home courts in the NBA.
 
AznAnarchy99 said:
You would never see those prices at Staples Center 🙁
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Or at the United Center... I got lucky and grabbed some great seats for the home opener on Halloween in section 104 for $135 though. Even though the Bulls only played Sactown it was a great time as usual. I usually sit in the low 300s mid court for better value and you don't get goofy stares from fake corporate sponsor fans like I usually do down in the 100s. Being loud and cheering is frowned upon down there by that crowd unless your seats are behind the baskets.
 
Cobalt said:
Or at the United Center... I got lucky and grabbed some great seats for the home opener on Halloween in section 104 for $135 though. Even though the Bulls only played Sactown it was a great time as usual. I usually sit in the low 300s mid court for better value and you don't get goofy stares from fake corporate sponsor fans like I usually do down in the 100s. Being loud and cheering is frowned upon down there by that crowd unless your seats are behind the baskets.
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Sounds exactly like Staples. Rich boring people sit in the 100s, super fans in the 300s but you never hear them on TV.

Im going to New York in January and wanted to catch a Knicks game at MSG, nose bleeds were going for $200 ish D:
 
Ok what if the Lakers hire D'antoni and run that offense with Nash? They could fall back to Dwight for defense.. Too old?
 
Princeton offense, my @ss! This is the princeton offense, and what the lakers are doing looks nothing like it. They are making one read and basically going man to man occasionally hitting some cutters. Same sh!t, different day. The lakers movement off the ball is horrible, particularly compared to a real princeton offense, and [what I saw] Kobe gets his points being Kobe, not from running the princeton offense and exploiting what it produces.

Lakers are too old and lazy to run the princeton offense. It's an offense that requires a lot of constant movement, passing, and exploiting the overplay or laziness of the defense. Associating what the lakers are doing with the princeton offense is an insult to pete carril and his predecessors.
 
jjsole said:
No way can anyone buy nba tickets for $1-4, unless its a package deal and they have to buy a 2nd for $100+...
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Those lowest prices are for seats being re-sold by season ticket holders and stubhub-type operations.
 
jjsole said:
Princeton offense, my @ss! This is the princeton offense, and what the lakers are doing looks nothing like it. They are making one read and basically going man to man occasionally hitting some cutters. Same sh!t, different day. The lakers movement off the ball is horrible, particularly compared to a real princeton offense, and [what I saw] Kobe gets his points being Kobe, not from running the princeton offense and exploiting what it produces.

Lakers are too old and lazy to run the princeton offense. It's an offense that requires a lot of constant movement, passing, and exploiting the overplay or laziness of the defense. Associating what the lakers are doing with the princeton offense is an insult to pete carril and his predecessors.
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Doesn't help that they have Metta World Peace in the lineup. Everyone else in the starting lineup is capable of running the princeton.
 
Don't sleep on the Mavs this year. Just saying. 2-1 start and have looked pretty good while doing it. Single loss came on a back to back at Lakers then at Utah. That's a loss for most teams period. Last night blew out a Bobcats team that had just beaten the Pacers the night before.
 
OILFIELDTRASH said:
Don't sleep on the Mavs this year. Just saying. 2-1 start and have looked pretty good while doing it. Single loss came on a back to back at Lakers then at Utah. That's a loss for most teams period. Last night blew out a Bobcats team that had just beaten the Pacers the night before.
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You're celebrating a win over the Bobcats as indicative of the Mavs having good chances this year? OK....
 
Atomic Playboy said:
You're celebrating a win over the Bobcats as indicative of the Mavs having good chances this year? OK....
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Its based on how the team is playing more so than the opponent. There is good ball movement, Collison has been playing as good as any PG in the NBA through 3 games, defense has been playing on a string, low post scoring through either Brandon Wright or Kaman, and this is without Dirk. So yes I'm optimistic. I don't base my opinions merely on the opponent. I love basketball and watch and have been playing since I was a child. I'm not saying I'm some basketball genius or anything but I do have an eye for it.
 
OILFIELDTRASH said:
Don't sleep on the Mavs this year. Just saying. 2-1 start and have looked pretty good while doing it. Single loss came on a back to back at Lakers then at Utah. That's a loss for most teams period. Last night blew out a Bobcats team that had just beaten the Pacers the night before.
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Spurs played a tough Hornets team first and then played OKC on the second night, and won both. The SW division is going to be brutal this year.
 
dougp said:
Spurs played a tough Hornets team first and then played OKC on the second night, and won both. The SW division is going to be brutal this year.
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Spurs look tough. And that's even without Manu. Duncan looks like he's playing angry. Those blocked shots and dunks in the OKC game were awesome. 80 games is a long season though. Eventually those old bones will need some rest.

OKC has some major questions on offense and I don't think Brooks has the coaching chops to answer them. I think him and Mike Brown are nothing more than byproducts of having incredible talent at their disposal. They can't seem to figure out how to get the most out of their players or react to the game with appropriate substitutions/rotations.
 
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