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

Some Minny hoops blogger compared Williams to a good boxer who was caught between two weight classes. Comparison is even more apt since he's tried to slim down to play 3, when really he should be beefing up to be a really athletic 4.

yeah theres no way he has the skills to play the 3, his only hope is as a stretch 4

Tim Reynolds ‏@ByTimReynolds 3m
Michael Beasley wanted to play while wearing black leather Polo boots tonight. "LeBron said no," Beas said.

Lebron: poo pooer of shenigans

Eh, his shot isn't good enough to be stretch-4. He should just beef the fuck up and start learning a Karl Malone game. Either way he needs to not be playing for Minny.

Hahaha George Hill very close to picking up a second technical by egging on the Indy crowd to cheer for the foul called against Minny.

I'm kind of shocked at how awful the Bucks are right now. That's good news for fans like me who are just in it for A) high draft picks and B) cheap tickets

― frogbs, Tuesday, November 26, 2013 1:22 AM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they're really bad, worse than they should be, but they've had a ton of injuries.

Derrick is the classic tweener but he shot so well his last year in college that everyone thought it would be fine. The shooting just hasn't been good enough.

it doesn't help matters that he was drafted into a terrible situation because his GM didn't understand how positions in basketball work.

It's impossible to look at Williams' frame and not think PF-- he's built like a David West who can run the floor very effectively. Hope he goes somewhere that puts a lot of time and effort erasing everything he's been told for the past two years and starts rebuilding him as a floor-running PF.

Mchale closing out the Grizzlies with line up of Beverley-Asik-Garcia-Parsons-Casspi

same shit, different terrible team: spurs up 36 on pellies after 3.

wes matthews missed an open spot-up three, the dream is dead.

xp, sorry, 26

god the knicks are so fucking awful

blazers play-by-play guy just claimed that "you have to watch out for stoudamire on defense"

he's right--amar'e may be standing there doing his best statue impression and you could run right into him

just dangerous and reckless, suspend amare

K.C. Johnson ‏@KCJHoop 2m

That's top-five despondent Bulls' postgame locker room I've worked in 15 years on beat.

oh did they lose to the jazz, dang this is gonna be rough as hell. sorry, chicago.

Marquis Teague looks really bad. Thibodeau seems physically ill when he's in there.

hope Thibs does deep breathing exercises every once in a while. Maybe look at a zen garden.

the statue of mj is cursed imho and a mob of brave chicagoans def need to throw it into the river

Tim Reynolds ‏@ByTimReynolds 3m
Michael Beasley wanted to play while wearing black leather Polo boots tonight. "LeBron said no," Beas said.

― lag∞n, Monday, November 25, 2013 8:27 PM (Yesterday)

this just kills me

kudos to Kobe for pulling a Harry Anderson on Joe Johnson's Larroquete.

i mean i'm happy for beas that he's in a good situation now. he needed someone he respected to tell him to turn down the shenanigans a lil

was on the road all night but looks like lebron had a pretty godly game, 35 points on 14 shots

man when did bron get so old

http://fearthehat.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/old-lebron.jpg

wow, watching the highlights, wade definitely on that

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m63rz6hdAc1rwqzifo1_500.png

wait so someone explain the nba.com video upgrade to me, i don't see what is different

wade has to be the most variable player in the nba i dont really get it

in the box score you can click on any stat and it will show you video of all the relevant plays, like for instance you can see all of chris pauls assists from a game, pretty fn siiiick

it's insane, one day the guy can't walk and the next day he looks like the most athletic guy in the league again, there's no other explanation

whatre u sayin theres like two different wades or what

lmafo wow i feel super bad for anyone who doesnt understand how superior the nba is to all other sports leagues http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/save-our-bucks-com-billboard-project

gonna try to make it a habit to click on carmelo's assist highlights every game

*knocks on wood furiously*

looking back at lebron's career numbers his resistance to injury is really a marvelous anomaly, he was playing 42+ minutes a game some of those years in cleveland

wilt averaged more than 48 minutes one year

Karl Malone missed like 3 or 4 games due to injury in his first 16 years in the league

so i realized tonight that if rose is conceivably cooked he might be the first ever non-hall of famer to win an mvp award

It’s common practice that after every game each player is provided a scoresheet. The sheet breaks down the individual players’ contributions as well as team totals.
That won’t be happening anymore in Toronto. Rudy Gay has put a stop to it.
Gay sees the scoresheets as an unnecessary barrier to team unity or even a temptation to be more focussed on what is best for the individual as opposed to what is best for the team.
“We’re not playing for stats,” Gay said.
Gay said there was no incident or no moment that pushed him toward this decision but as a leader on this team, he felt it was just something that was best for the team.
“I wanted to just nip it in the butt before it became an issue,” he said. “We come in here after losses, after wins and people are staring at those stat sheets, but that’s not what we’re about. We’re a team and the stat that matters is the W.”

"damn rudy did you really go 4 for 21 tonight?"

"get these stat sheets outta here, we're about winning games."

point guards are shooting 31% from the field vs. Stephen Curry this season.

The Pistons have the worst defense in the NBA according to Synergy, and the best postup defense o_O

wade is kinda the future rose feel good history, he cant play because of the swellen on his knees etc i guess rose follows the same (if he returns etc)

but yeah, wade boggles me

wow, the raptors just a lock to playoffs right now

christ

Asked if he was surprised that Kevin McHale never returned to Howard down the stretch, Asik said he had not considered it. “I don’t think about that,” Asik said. “I just play whenever I get minutes. I just try to play hard.”

a bit worried about what rudy's nipping the butt of

Man never knew this about Wade

No wonder

Dwyane Wade, after all, has been where Rose is—not just literally, as a fellow product of the Chicago area, but also figuratively, as an involuntary veteran of knee ailments.

So, after resting his knees for a week—and before scoring 27 points and defending dynamically down the stretch in a 101-99 win against the Magic—Wade was asked to recall his own experience with a torn meniscus, at a time he was trying to make his way at Marquette.

"It was 13 years ago, so technology was a little different," Wade said. "When it was taken out, it was the thing to get me back on the court quick, but it wasn't a long-term type of thing, so it opened me up to having some knee trouble. The only thing you do, the doctor that you choose, they give you the best advice."

Did Wade have any say in the decision to take it out rather than repair it?

"No, I wasn't educated, I didn't know anything," Wade said. "I just knew it was hurting, and I wanted it fixed. That was after my first year at Marquette, and I never dealt with any injury until that time. So it was all new to me. And I just wanted to get back on the court."

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