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

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."

http://i.imgur.com/zTtLYdU.jpg

mchale raises an interesting question that you guys can probably answer better than I can: who's the best player to also be a good/successful coach? (jury still out on mchale I guess--he probably has another year at best to produce major results)

phil jackson?

or do you mean the best superstar player who also became a great coach

yeah I mean superstar players. I don't actually know how good Jackson was as a player!

Well he's already doing better than Isaiah

Larry Bird was a pretty great coach imo

i guess nate mcmillan or doc rivers

my fav wolves blog on the williams/camaroon prince of my dreams trade:
http://www.awolfamongwolves.com/2013/11/report-wolves-trading-derrick-williams-to-kings-for-luc-richard-mbah-a-moute/#more-2204

There is a certain point in which divorcing yourself of a player’s draft position becomes the only logical step in understanding what their value is in the NBA. Derrick Williams is one of those players. Yep, he was the second pick in the 2011 NBA Draft. That wasn’t very long ago. The potential he was dripping with leading up to that draft and his rookie season has dried up and isn’t anything people around the league are really counting on. It doesn’t mean he can’t be a really good player in this league; it just means nobody is pretending he can be a franchise-changing guy at any point in his career.

Because he’s a former No. 2 pick in the draft, it makes people expect him to still have star qualities. I don’t want to be harsh here but he just doesn’t have that. Even when he goes up for a dunk, there is a good contingent of Wolves fans wondering if he’s going to finish it. That’s mostly because he missed 12 dunks last season, which is a lot when you’re only attempting 80 of them. Of the previous 10 No. 2 picks in the draft (we’re not counting 2013), only a handful of them are guys you’d really want on your team.

Darko Milicic, Marvin Williams, Michael Beasley, Hasheem Thabeet, and Derrick Williams are guys that were either reaches because of poor scouting or reaches because their draft wasn’t very good. Darko, Williams, Beasley, and Thabeet were results of poor scouting. Williams was a product of being in a crappy draft with very little guarantee of an impact player at the time of the pick. And the jury is still out on Evan Turner but it’s unlikely he turns into a franchise guy. What was their value when they were dealt?

wait so is that trade happening or what

that trade still seems underwhelming to me but having a very good situational guy like moute is good for a playoff team

wow didnt realize gay was coaching the raptors now, doesnt seem like the best hire tbh

seems to be living up to his name, nipping butts and all, can't say they didn't know what they were getting themselves into

ok these new video things on nba.com are v cool, sort of wish they'd do it for in-game box scores tho

wow such demands

*goes to play bball*

checks kevins in game line

yeah this is cool tho in my imagination it was an elegant supercut, not a video playlist of individual possessions.

weird so according to zach lowe the pacers signed PG to the exclusive 5 year deal buuuuuuut gave him an opt out after 4 years?

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/10038731/paul-george-commitment-improvement-pacers-thinking-nba-title

george and love shd be p dece building blocks in l.a.

i guess it's worth the gamble if it frees up some money but idk how about they just pay a little bit of tax? hmmm

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BZ_4IekCQAAq0Jo.jpg:large

d will for luke richard trade went thru

Thank god the nets are rid of that monster contract

Tommy Beer ‏@TommyBeer 4m
Per @EliasSports, the Spurs are the only team in NBA history with a winning streak of more than 10 games in four straight seasons.

Haralabos Voulgaris ‏@haralabob
"You won't find experience, leadership, heart & toughness on a stat sheet” R.Gay - interestingly enough you won’t find them in R. Gay either

poor rudy gay

If you think you've seen the Blazers looking at iPads on the bench during games, your eyes are not deceiving you. Multiple members of the team are indeed viewing game tape on the bench, during games, with an eye towards strategic adjustments.

in a way gay is right, seeing that he went 6/19 is probably not gonna help anything. maybe team stats are good things for the coach to talk about when it comes to schemes

on sunday night i was watching bill belichick try and corral a stapled piece of paper with photos of formations on the sideline and was thinking why nfl teams aren't all using ipads all the time for this shit

nfl guys have been watching slightly delayed game tape for a couple of decades, though. Think it's cool nba guys are getting to look at tape and adjust next time they check in.

Bryant says Lakers extension "makes me want to run through a wall for them."

or ride in a helicopter over the wall

he can run into a wall I'm fine with that

read some thing abt ipads and the nfl apparently it's some league wide thing that they needed to agree on and theyll be using them next season, tons of teams use them during the week but arent allowed to during games wtf

in a way gay is right, seeing that he went 6/19 is probably not gonna help anything. maybe team stats are good things for the coach to talk about when it comes to schemes

― k3vin k., Tuesday, November 26, 2013 5:16 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

srs? its def super important to know how you did

Stats in larger samples are important, but I don't think it's important to know how poorly you did in one game right after it's over.