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

...boston celtics

ClutchFans ‏@clutchfans 6m

Kevin McHale was asked for his thoughts on Jason Kidd spilling the drink to create a timeout: "Expensive."

jfc, east conf has 2 teams w winning records, ridiccccccccc

west has 10

nets are down 26 at the half

please vote in my jason kidd fire date poll

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/i_voted_9.jpg

cavs down 22 to the celtics

mike brown is the matt flynn of nba coaches

pretty good game in okc despite a real stinker from thompson so far

omg Lance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIeSa4bLHd0

hey mark jackson might be useful to run some kind of play when you can seal a game, idk just a thought i had

holy shit the end of that game holy hell

Zach Lowe ‏@ZachLowe_NBA 6m
GSW clearly got its hands on OKC's crunch-time playbook for tonight, which is just a one page stick figure sketch of Durant shooting.

jackson vs brooks not really a meeting of the minds

nets starters shoot 8/32

lol melo blocked at the buzzer on a potential game-tyer

Just finished dubs/okc game. Wow that was insane at the end, everything about it, toe so close to the line. Shoulda put it away like 3 times. Revenge for the Iggy shot two weeks ago I guess. Curry working the glass all game so nice. Warriors playing really well overall just getting off nights from Klay and Lee is the difference, plus no Iggy.

http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/824794474.gif?1385783753

Best thing about that melo getting blocked on game tying shot was that it was by... Randy Foye

yeah I was thinking during that play "well the Knicks got melo isolated on randy foye, woodson not calling a timeout worked" and then.... that happened

I seem to remember Foye winning a game with the twolves in that manner too, during that 20 game stint where he was good.

longest L streak of melo's career

the MSG aftershow was funny with the announcers constantly saying "... by RANDY FOYE(!?)" in clear disgust/disbelief

j.r. has been unbelievably bad

nugs btw :)

Might need to step back on the bus for a bit. Been missing Wilson Chandler's fade anyhow.

This is becoming some really strange shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lt3Xw_8oMI

pretty sad

before and after

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BZrnOnJCIAArg8F.jpg:large

oh man, Charles is calling the Knicks/Nets game next week on TNT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgON8L91834&feature=youtube_gdata_player

What's the implication there? He stopped working out or he was on PEDs in college? xxp

Biggest bust since Kwame

the jump shooting is one thing, but i'm amazed at how badly he gets destroyed near the basket, by basically anyone who's guarding him. also he doesn't really bend his knees when he jumps?

sick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgON8L91834

He might end up being a Kwame-sized bust but it's still sooooo early. W/o having watched much of him, it seems like he manages to find good looks inside; there's a chance that he's just in some transitional period for his shot-timing. Also, pretty tough to ignore the fact that dude turned into a butterball (via non-shooting arm shoulder injury, which is kinda suspect since he should still have been able to work in some kind of cardio work)-- I'd imagine the Cavs staff will drill out 20lbs as fast as they can. Unless Bennett is a stress-eater, in which case gonna be a miserable season for him.

wow xp dope fanflick.

lol at basically all the fans with significant screen time there, old lady who hugs russ, macho bro in durant jersey who also hugs russ then tries to high five the security people

whoa bynum just had an amazing quarter

come back boo

He might end up being a Kwame-sized bust but it's still sooooo early. W/o having watched much of him, it seems like he manages to find good looks inside; there's a chance that he's just in some transitional period for his shot-timing. Also, pretty tough to ignore the fact that dude turned into a butterball (via non-shooting arm shoulder injury, which is kinda suspect since he should still have been able to work in some kind of cardio work)-- I'd imagine the Cavs staff will drill out 20lbs as fast as they can. Unless Bennett is a stress-eater, in which case gonna be a miserable season for him.

― Call me Shitmael (CompuPost), Saturday, 30 November 2013 20:31 (Yesterday) Permalink

he was an absolute beast in college. Shot 74% at the rim. And now he can't make wide open dunks.

crazy how out of shape he looks compared to that ripped before pic

like what exactly was he up to in the offseason

just gorging on poutine

I thought that was just jersey puff. Billowy fabric

naw his face and arms and everything

Those are some crazy Dwight-esque shoulders in the first pic though.

Maybe he has psychological issues like Kwame. Although there isn't a Jordan or Kobe on the team to grind his psyche into a fine mash

Kinda fucked up that Kwame had to endure abuse from two of the most psychopathic players to ever play the game. I would be on so much Prozac

didnt help that he was unable to catch a basketball

Yeah

I think I read somewhere that that was partly due to his severe performance anxiety or something