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

Vince Carter suspended one game by #NBA for elbow to Steven Adams' head

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need some ILHer perspective up in here

can i again point out the diantoni magic is working, some games theyll get blown out and others they will beat teams they have no business beating cause of magical diantoni 3ptrs

yeah its almost like 3 pointers are good shots to take

Lol this game. Harden gave up like 12 uncontested drives to the hoop tonight.

― Me & Mahomies (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Friday, November 8, 2013 3:39 AM (12 hours ago)

#1:

http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/820453239.gif?1383927126

hahahahahaha omg

that's me playing at seger park in philly

to harden's credit he never took his eyes off the ball

carne how do you feel about this Laker team?

― Me & Mahomies (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Friday, November 8, 2013 12:53 PM

i agree with lagoon. the diantoni magic is working well with this group. Nash in still ancient so if you get anything out of him it's a plus. Pau has a little run left in him and he looks healthy. lol nick young.love Jordan Hill's game and the bench has some athletes.

will Kobe come back and not be a total disruption and ball stopper with limited ability or play more the Grant Hill roll in diantoni's system??? haha yeah right!!

basically they will be fun to watch but struggle to make the playoffs and lose in the first round.

unlike last year where they were miserable to watch, struggled to make the playoffs and lost in the first round.

is there any really good reason for leaving Howard in the game when they start fouling. why not just put Asik in? he can hit enough FTs to make the tactic worthless, and you'd be hard pressed to argue that there's any drop off in defense at all.

like what's the rationale for letting the other team pull such a "stop hitting yourself!" move when you have a perfectly viable alternative lineup?

not to hurt his feeling

i mean, that's it right?

Using that logic, you would leave howard on the bench most of the time, except to give asik short rests.

howard shooting ~60% this year is plenty good to make hacka untenable if he can keep it up

lmfao that harden gif he looks stoned

xpost to Aimless: well it's situational. if they wanna rack up fouls in the first 3 quarters then why not let them? in 4th quarter take him out until 2 mins or whenever the cutoff is.

and yeah he's doing ok with FTs. last night was a clusterfuck on several over levels.

or maybe he looks like a really old man

that part at the end when his arms flare out slightly like hes saying oh no whats gonna happen

is there any really good reason for leaving Howard in the game when they start fouling. why not just put Asik in? he can hit enough FTs to make the tactic worthless, and you'd be hard pressed to argue that there's any drop off in defense at all.

like what's the rationale for letting the other team pull such a "stop hitting yourself!" move when you have a perfectly viable alternative lineup?

― ryan, Friday, November 8, 2013 2:11 PM (40 minutes ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdiGpkZoyho

you know how asik always looks sad? i'm 90% sure this is why. don't make the poor guy shoot free throws late

that part at the end when his arms flare out slightly like hes saying oh no whats gonna happen

― lag∞n, Friday, November 8, 2013 2:26 PM (29 minutes ago)

haha yes this is secretly the best part

ah he's not great but the Thunder tried this tactic on him during the playoffs and he made most of them. irrc it was, weirdly, during the 3rd quarter.

anyway just seems foolhardy to not engineer some sort of response other than "he's gotta make em" especially when you have the personnel to render it moot and hardly sacrifice anything.

well idk i mean that foul was with like 2:12 remaining, any intentional foul inside 2 mins is shots + ball anyway

they passed him the ball on an inbounds play where the lakers had to foul anyway was the really effed up think that happened

i missed the 2h of that game didn't see that, silly move if so rockets

what u dont trust me that it happened damn

its like the boy who cried wolf but the boy who used irony in too many posts

What

can't tell whats real anymore

Mark Medina
‏@MarkG_Medina
Why Mike D'Antoni kept Howard in game when teams tried "Hack a Dwight." "Well, we wanted to re-sign him."

haha

I agree with what u say re Lakers this year. I kinda like watching them despite intense hatred for the organization in general. Dantoni was built for systems like this.

I like Hill too

ok guys i'm watching the celtics for the first time this year.

"jordan crawford always feels like he's the best guy on the floor"

"boston guards are 3/12 to start the game"

they're getting better!

jordan crawford is the funniest person, has no self-awareness when it comes to how goofy he looks

bargnani trade looking pretty good for the knicks so far

man gerald green just almost dunked his own balls in the bucket

what is wrong with kg is he totally cooked?

celts are scrappy!

love 27-14-7 through 3 quarters, jeez

do you think Rambis sees those stat lines and thinks "empty numbers, Darko's still better"

Wow, Bargnani killed it tonight

spurs held the dubs to 74

and vice versa!