mike woodson job search tracking thread, plus triangle offense knowledge assessment quiz (nba offseason news 2014)

scott brooks will figure it out

― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Friday, October 24, 2014 10:42 AM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

reg season board descrip

seconded

jermaine oneal is still unsigned btw.

stop the presses

feel like he shd prob sit out most of the season then pick a contender to help after the trade deadline, cld actually be useful

Why wait, just re-up with the Dubs, Nate Silver already anointed them.

cause he will get injured if he tries to play a whole season, guess they cld just rest him lol

agree w lagoons thinking

Def trust Kerr to see and try stuff that hand down man down stubbornly ignored

Like let's see Livingston handling the ball driving the lane with curry and klay standing in their preferred spot up shooter positions, if I'm a defender I'm already basically having a heart attack and I haven't even thought about the other two guys yet

Feel like iggy has a lot to add yet and staggering his minutes with more bench guys or just making him the super sixth man is already halfway there

Still feel like that team is paper thin but maybe that's just residual terror that a stiff breeze will ruin steph's ankles for good, though I do think any and all injury fears are still applicable to bogut

Everybody otm re reg season vs the offs on this though, basically if you make the playoffs with your top six guys in one piece you're good to go and can practically forget everything else

Grantland hour was pretty good! Lowe surprisingly decent on TV, seemed well rehearsed, doc seems a little older maybe since the Boston and sterling things but p chill and ready to go this year, the champ is here segment was p funny

Andrew Keh ‏@andrewkeh 55s56 seconds ago
The Nets announce they traded Marquis Teague and a 2019 2nd-round pick to Philadelphia for guard Casper Ware.

marquis teague must be HORRIBLE

Ha I was just thinking yesterday that the nets should have tried to trade for Marcus Morris and corner the market on not-as-good NBA siblings

marquis teague must be HORRIBLE

― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Friday, October 24, 2014 3:48 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol irl at this phrasing/sentiment

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/triangle-all-stars-kobe-bryant-the-perfect-teammate/

A thoughtful rejoinder to that ESPN article till this:

He’s Jordan with a sense of humor.

my literal kobe argument!

i'm pretty sure i typed that exact string of 7 words itt recently

ha that article is terrible

Kobe chased off teammates? Would the Lakers have been better off keeping Bynum? Or building around Dwight Howard for $100 million over the next five years? Or keeping Pau to try to win 40 games this year? I’m genuinely curious about which lottery ticket the Lakers missed out on because of Kobe Bryant the past few years

the answer is yes they wouldve been better off keeping dwight and pau, and even better off dropping kobe and signing some better dudes with his money

not to mention that scaring off roles players is also damaging to your team

srsly if i were running grantland and one of my basketball writers made the argument that having nothing is better than having dwight howard and pau gasol i wld fire them

Well then keep on making those fart jokes.

will do m8 *poot*

pretty sure - considering that the writer of that piece is the dude who writes the #hotsportstakes grantland pieces - that there's a biiiiiiit of tongue-in-cheekness going on with some of those claims. but yeah, most attempts to defend kobe that try to defend things other than what raw talent he has left are faaaaairly ridiculous.

feel like he was srs abt that tho

it's hard to say. i mean i hate the fucking lakers so its hard for me to accept anyone defending anything other than the absurd talent he once had and the talent he still has. folks who like the soap opera shit surrounding Kobe (aka many sportswriters, for various reasons) are gonna argue in favor of him somehow, some way, just to see the wreckage his continued presence leaves in its wake and make mad LOLs about it. i think thats all the article was, for better/worse

Marquis Teague's basketball IQ is one of the lowest I've ever seen on a NBA court

also iggy had his worst year since his rookie season which cld just be a super athletic player aging but one wld think we can improve on that, seems like the type of player that wld be helped a lot by better ball movement

― lag∞n, Friday, October 24, 2014 1:13 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The word on Iguodala is that he was pretty much liberated from carrying the offensive load so that he could focus on passing and D, dunno if the math nerds back that up.

― My Life with the Thrillho Kult (Leee), Friday, October 24, 2014 1:16 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he def had way lower usage than when he was the man in philly but youd think his %s wld go up and they did but not that much, his rebounding was off quite a bit too, which i guess he has bigtime rebounders in front of him is not that big of a surprise, i guess really its just this team shd be able to generate lots of open looks from three and he shd be able to shoot 40% instead of 35

― lag∞n, Friday, October 24, 2014 1:21 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

iggy was 3rd in real plus-minus last year, behind bron and cp3. i have issues with RPM but it's not unrealistic to believe that iggy accepted a role that deflated his box score stats but helped make the team better

Def. and he was hurt and took a while to get form back.

i dont abide by any rpm

btw i think there were some summertime adjustments made to the RPM formula. at the time of this writing bron had 17.07 WAR and now the RPM page has him at 19.87. he only played at most 3 games between

this is wild corny but it show some of the changes in the warriors offense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3sC6-f3q9E

#CoachingCriminality

lol bbalbreakdown

<3

yeah dude is like Lowe on crack sometimes but his videos rarely lack insight.

Why did he run it through that filter -_-

O I understand now

#CoachingCriminality

― Clay, Saturday, October 25, 2014 12:22 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

That breakdown is really good! Kind of confirming my suspicion that Kerr is gonna be excellent

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0zNPfMCEAAMQbb.jpg

:|

feel like nash might be underrated

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0uyABcCEAAgIVk.png

http://i.imgur.com/fX3OQg1.png

http://i.imgur.com/vUZDP6A.png

oops

http://i.imgur.com/KhM1KCc.png

A2A

kobe's diary march 7th 2013

Make sure to ask Depak best way to get Pau and Dwight into a A2A type situation.

Clay I luv u for this http://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=5032492&boardid=60&threadid=2955

Lmao xp