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

lamb is a really fascinating player

not necessarily in a good way

chuck's old "you can't win shooting jumpers" doesn't seem to apply so much to today's league, maybe

david lee: fit but you know it

nice q&a btw http://nba.si.com/2013/11/05/david-lee-video-games-call-of-duty-ghosts/

depends on the jumper xxp

little late ahn SERGE

"The warriors offense gets crazy iso heavy when steph isn't in"

They love going to Barnes in the post and if either j oneal or speights are in then ball stops with them.

Russ looks sharp

<3

chuck's old "you can't win shooting jumpers" doesn't seem to apply so much to today's league, maybe

― Clay, Friday, November 15, 2013 5:04 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well the idea that you need postup play from a bigman stopped applying 20 years ago.

Thunder just don't have enough players

of course it's great to hear Barkley lecture against jumpers when his 3pointer habit made him about 10% worse as a player.

i think ultra polyvalent wings are worth more than post scorers these days

ever heard of corey bewer?

also how exactly does this spacing works?

blows my mind

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/sam-cassell-honored-many-players-choose-mimic-obscene-013104183--nba.html

Proud of the refs not calling that durant sweep through

Ugh that's a foul?

Might be the worst call of all time?

gs crowd pretty into it for a mid-november contest

Yah they are.

holy god russ

Ugh I hate him

wau

He says he's legitimately "honored" anytime he sees someone bust out the Testicle Dance.
"When I saw Kobe [Bryant] do it [in the 2009 playoffs], I knew it was big-time," Cassell said.
He says he's legitimately "honored" anytime he sees someone bust out the Testicle Dance.
"When I saw Kobe [Bryant] do it [in the 2009 playoffs], I knew it was big-time," Cassell said.
He says he's legitimately "honored" anytime he sees someone bust out the Testicle Dance.
"When I saw Kobe [Bryant] do it [in the 2009 playoffs], I knew it was big-time," Cassell said.
He says he's legitimately "honored" anytime he sees someone bust out the Testicle Dance.
"When I saw Kobe [Bryant] do it [in the 2009 playoffs], I knew it was big-time," Cassell said.

!!!!!!!! what a game

Swwoooooooooooooooooon

Omg

My heart

fuckin A
best game of the season for me

Otm

spottie just book some tickets for the playoffs

http://instagram.com/p/guZwhBBaNb/

Might have to xp

might just have to move back to Cali just to get season tix too

Also lol @ cassel story

Chucks insistence that you can't win with shooters is so weird.

hopefully that video gets posted because I forgot that he was gonna do that "lesson" after the game

Haralabos Voulgaris ‏@haralabob 56m
Help Defense when you are a big is so overrated, Roy Hibbert would have never gone over to help there like Bogut did.

idk it depends on the scheme

If Roy Hibbert doesn't do it, how can it be good? [buys bitcoins]

Sweet game. Dubs folded at the end against Thunder on a back to back but Iggy bailed them out

yeah the offense got gross

ClutchFans ‏@clutchfans 2h

Omer Asik had the NBA's longest active streak with 239 straight regular-season games played. That ended tonight on a "DNP - CD".

so nice to have kevin harlan calling that game last night

If Roy Hibbert doesn't do it, how can it be good? [buys bitcoins]

― Matt Armstrong, Friday, November 15, 2013 2:10 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

feel like there's gotta be something going on with asik beyond match ups. mchale playing a frontline of francisco garcia, omar casspi and terrence jones seems insane

this was way upthread but i dont think it was addressed. apparently Asik asked for a trade again. think mchale is a little upset at his effort coming off bench.

funny thing is rockets are a terrific small ball team (as they were last year). dwight has been ok defensively but a non-factor on offense. he hasnt really delivered on being any kind of low-post offensive threat but he does seem to draw double teams still and passes out of it well--but the team is shooting 3s at an awful rate and id wager that, even more than the defense (it was this bad last year), is the big problem right now.

Lin is the literally the only one of the team hitting 3s

huh didn't hear about the trade request

yeah dwight was a nightmare on offense last night but i thought he had a really good run at the end of the game on D

but i mean it did work against the knicks because they have no low post scorer... melo was getting to the hoop but houston had decent success bringing help and forcing him to throw some wacky shot off the rim

so maybe it was a match ups thing

this windhorst story seems pertinent

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/9979264/nba-houston-rockets-learning-fly