in these, the waning days of stern: 2013-2014 NBA regular season thread (part 1)

Wade obviously the most important Heater.

― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, October 30, 2013 6:30 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he's at his best when he's on the bench.

How did this Laker team beat the Clips? Blowing my mind.

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Im def interested in detroit this year

@ZachLowe_NBA: It has taken NY fans one game to sour on Bargnani. This has serious toxic fan-player relations potential.

*throws a log on the fire*

is that the only fan base where you have to deeply consider w each acquisition whether they will hate him

bargnani seems like a delicate flower who will be mashed and ground into the nyc pavement

How did this Laker team beat the Clips? Blowing my mind.

― Me & Mahomies (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Thursday, October 31, 2013 1:12 AM (9 hours ago)

they went 14-29 from 3. that'll happen probably 0 times again this year

any chance that spoelstra is borrowing from pop's rest-key-players-on-b2b's?

occam's razor says wade's knees are just permanently borked, prob

they're def putting wade on the pop sched but lol the dude is 31 he can play the second game of the season

http://www.denverpost.com/kiszla/ci_24414900/kiszla-new-nuggets-coach-shaw-knows-transitional-change

sort of hate shaw already

@JasonCFriedman: A little extra perspective on Dwight Howard's monster rebounding night: During his 35 minutes of PT, HOU corralled > 46% of its missed shots

Lin looked pretty good last night. it's a cliche at this point, but he's such a great 6th man type player. comes off bench and is immediately attacking the basket.

yeah I saw that beverley only got 10 minutes of burn

looking at the rockets roster it seems kind of...topheavy

they def have some trades to make

they went 14-29 from 3. that'll happen probably 0 times again this year

― twist boat veterans for stability (k3vin k.), Thursday, October 31, 2013 11:09 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

im betting it happens a bunch more times this year #diantonimagic

i mean the lakers will still suck but diantoni can kinda do his thing w/o the ballstoppers kobe and dwight in there so like a bunch of players will have career years from three

good interview w larry sanders he seems like a cool guy http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/80534/qa-larry-sanders-on-the-new-look-bucks-and-being-larry-sanders

whoa jordan farmar is back and playing for.... the lakers

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9627011/photos/sanders.gif

I started writing your name on Grantland in all caps, and with an exclamation point at the end. It has randomly caught on. The Bucks tell me they use it sometimes in internal communications. Do you know about this?

Yeah, yeah, I do. That’s awesome.

And, most importantly: Are you OK with it?

Oh, yeah! That’s fine! It’s cool.

Good. I mean, I just felt like your game merited that kind of treatment. Part of that was the emphatic shot blocks, but I have to admit, the stuff with the referees and the ejections played into it.

That’s funny. But it’s cool. Keep doing it.

His biggest struggles, obviously, were off the court during his time in Philadelphia. The guiding force for Iverson, and the man whose name he couldn't bring up without crying, was former teammate Aaron McKie.

mckie was the best, AI was the best, man, emotions

Yeah that retirement speech thing :(((

ai is the realest ever

wish he could play forever

"But I'll watch tapes of AI, too. I don't take anything from AI. Well, I do -- his will. They say he was 6 feet, but AI was like 5-10½. Do we even want to say 160? 170 [pounds]? Do we even want to give him that much weight? And he played like a 6-8 2-guard. He was one of the greatest finishers we've ever seen. You could never question his heart. Ever. He gave it his all. AI was like my second-favorite player growing up, after MJ."

Asik had 14 boards last night, so he and Dwight combined for 40. Pretty good.

fuck analytics imo http://www.thenbageek.com/teams/phi?season=2000

then bag eek?

they def have some trades to make

probably, but at the same time i really buy that they want Asik/Howard to work. (there's just no cool way to combine those two names, sadly. Asward? Howsik?) in much the same way i think Lin/Beverly are kind of a cool second team wreck crew. how many teams can transition from a two towers rebounding and paint protecting behemoth to rapidfire small ball like that?

i got it: Ho-mer!

the crash brothers

im sure dwight will figure it out (the stupid name, that is) if asik sticks around.

poor asik

i got a lot of pleasure at asik's hang dog and exhausted looking put-uponness last year--paired with dwight he seems like the long-suffering straight man in a bad comedy routine.

haha yes

still can't believe that article on shaw i posted earlier. pound the ball inside...what year is this?

Hours before deadline, it remains unlikely that Utah and Gordon Hayward will close the gap and agree on extension, league source says.
5:15pm - 31 Oct 13

NBA STATS 13/14 fyi

yeah I saw that beverley only got 10 minutes of burn

looking at the rockets roster it seems kind of...topheavy

Beverley left the game with an injury.

still can't believe that article on shaw i posted earlier. pound the ball inside...what year is this?

Shaw is a Triangle guy and it's a post offense.

IMO when they get Gallo back they should run the post with him a lot since he's the best passer on the team.

Apparently the Kings declined Fredette's option.

nuggets talk will be banned when they slip below .300, everyone agree?

lol sorry jimmer you'll be great in china next year

I always thought Miles Plumlee was way more talented than Mason

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, October 30, 2013 11:11 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i love some nba randoms but holy cow i had no idea there were two plumlees

otm

Jimmer will get one more shot with a team before heading overseas, no?

the asik-howard dynamic reminds me of perfect strangers except the straight man is the euro and the wacky guy with bad fashion sense is the american

also they're not cousins

im sure someone will give jimmer one more cheap contract- probably a contender looking for threes off the bench- but the league is p close to full employment right now and there is a deep draft coming

of course the likes of daequan cook and james jones hung around forever so who knows

hope no one ever floats to dwight that he belongs in sitcoms xp