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

yolodipo stuffed melo something nice tonight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nZnv4LYCAQ

lol the knicks bench at 0:13

V happy for blazers success but lets remember they are playing a high school JV team tonight.

i truly enjoy watching melo struggle

ha blue balls xxp

Congrats to Korver who broke the record with 90 games in a row w at least one 3-pointer. Pretty cool. Bout as automatic as they come. Always seemed like a pretty cool guy too?

yeah utah is ridiculously bad. hayward really needs a new situation and burke isn't ready for primetime. alec burks is an intriguing scorer.

meyers leonard is prob gonna play the entire fourth quarter #leaguepassalert

hurrah for meyers leonard!

wow Josh Smith's defensive numbers this year are terrible

which I guess means he's been terrible

he looks so lost on that team

i truly enjoy watching melo struggle

― Clay, Friday, December 6, 2013 9:50 PM (1 hour ago)

well you are shit so that makes sense

why don't we have more recent nyc residents shit all over the knicks because there is no better way to identify garbage nu-new yorkers

funny how these shitbirds can root for the absolute worst franchise yankees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jioa-89VwSY

wait so am i a new yorker now not sure i get it

no you are not sorry

but i'm still shit tho right

yes ; )

how could any self-respecting New Yorker not root for this rag tag bunch of charming misfits

it's more about the quality of the transplants than the wretched franchise

bloomberg era nyers

otto porter finally played

why don't we have more recent nyc residents shit all over the knicks because there is no better way to identify garbage nu-new yorkers

― buzza, Saturday, December 7, 2013 1:25 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Garbage Bloomberg-era nu-new yorker here, your Knicks team has been trash for 10+ years, sorry you're stuck rooting for them. And watching a volume-shooting Melo struggle is classically beautiful, like a Roman triumphal arch or Ava Gardner.

2 get chill again, please enjoy this Giannis blog for some Greek website:

Hi everyone,

It's been some time since my first post in my blog here in NBA Greece. During this time a lot has happened. But I would like to distinguish two moments. Playing against LeBron James and the Miami Heat champions, and against my idol, Kevin Durant of Oklahoma City Thunder.

...

Until of course the next day and the game vs the Thunder. I have said many times that Durant is my idol. He is the player I watch the most. When I came out on the court for a workout, he was already there, shooting. Working. I stopped and watched him. He was deadly serious. I could see it in his face. He was not relaxed. He was warming up with tension. I felt a satisfaction, when I saw my idol, approaching basketball with such determination.

...

Here in Milwaukee, and where Thanassis is, is very cold. But I'm used to it now. Like snow. It doesn't surprise me anymore. But it was a terrible temperature difference when we went to play in Miami. We left from a snowy Milwaukee and we found summer in Miami. I liked Miami. Along with Chicago, they are the two most beautiful cities I've visited so far.

It is also incredible that, in every court I've played, up to now, there are always Greeks there to talk to me before or after the game. I see Greek flags and that makes me very proud.

And one last thing. These days I'm finishing my driver's lessons and I will take a driving test for the license. So wish me luck!

Be well and watch the Bucks!

Giannis.

Be well and watch the Bucks, ILH. Really <3 that Durant is his favorite players. Personally kinda think Bucks should be D-Leaguing him right now since he's so gd young and to spend some time working on defense against non-superhuman bballers.

really cool, thank u compu!

brings to my mind the similar MOZGOV BLOG. he was amazed with dwight and really excited to play against him.

bloomberg era nyers

― buzza, Saturday, December 7, 2013 2:05 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm giuliani 4 lyfe

xp haha interest piqued, searched around for the Mozblog :))))

By the way, here’s what I want to note separately. Finally – in my third NBA season – I got to face Howard on the court!:))) Well, it’s clear why they call this strong, aggressive and quick guy the best center there is. He is gifted with all these qualities in abundance. Actually, you already know his strongest traits.

Of course, he did his thing great against us. Let’s call things by their names: he buried us. Though, despite all that, there were some moments where you could realize that even “superman” is human. He, too, can be not perfect, he can feel the pain and it’s possible to compete with him.

Found that on a kinda cool blog dedicated to Russians in the NBA (looks like a very big Timofey fan!), Rush'n Hoops.

Shved should really try to rock this look outside of FIBA

http://chernykh.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/shved-fiba.jpg

this column is kind of a powerhouse http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/10089272/the-nba-e-league

yeah meant to post that, A+

yes! really good stuff.

Stefan Bondy ‏@NYDNInterNets 4m
Garnett points out flaw w/ plan: "Losing Lawrence and his philosophies, putting in new philosophies, it’s very difficult during the season."

the mutiny begins

He's not wrong

Also I assume frank is covered under the kg fierce loyalty umbrella from the year he was an asst with the celtics

Kidd just seems so far in over his head that it's impossible to tell if here ever could be a good coach, but he's definitely flailing at a historical level- I've never heard of anything like demoting an assistant as a way to gain control if a team. Maybe it's happened but it was probably way more quiet than this

seems like itd be a good idea to get a couple seasons as an assistant under yr belt first tho i guess there have been successes doc rivers not sure who else

also it's kinda weird bc kg and pierce are m/l Kidd's peers, like who wants the dude from a couple doors down bossing them around all of a sudden

pierce and kidd were pretty intense rivals for a while too

Kidd probably is in way over his head, but there are so many awful angles to this Nets team. If they had any sustained health, I think they'd be doing just fine-- Pierce and Garnett usage% would be down where they'd assumed it'd be, 2nd team would be one of the best in the league, and Williams would help Pierce/Johnson/Garnett/Lopez find much easier shots. They've already started 10 different players multiple games; w/o checking, I'd guess that's tops in the league. Considering that one of their strengths going into the season was their depth from 1-9, it would've been tough to find a scenario where, 20 games in, Tyshawn Taylor and Alan Anderson had both started multiple games. Zero continuity for a team w/ a ton of new faces, of course it's a total shitshow. Not to mention that, w/ all the injuries, you're now overexerting your Olds, which now burns them out faster and makes it less likely that they'll be ready for playoff bball.

But if you build such a creaky ass team and just kinda xfingers that no one gets injured or misses a ton of games, here we are. If they can find some way to prioritize player health over everything else, they can totally finish this season strongly -> have a decent shot in the playoffs.

seems like itd be a good idea to get a couple seasons as an assistant under yr belt first tho i guess there have been successes doc rivers not sure who else

― lag∞n, Saturday, December 7, 2013 2:22 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Bird, too. Mark Jackson, McHale, Isiah, and VDN too, I think? The severe lack in continuity is probably exacerbating Kidd's meltdown more than anything-- think you need a few years on a bench learning how to deal w/ shitty variables like injuries / juggling player egos / etc.

This is kinda like Mark Jackson's first year, too. High hopes entering the season -> bad injuries to key players -> POLL: JAX FIRED B4 XMAS?

Jackson didn't - look - lost tho. And expectations we're make the playoffs not contend for it all.

wait jackson is not getting fired

too late i fired jackson

mama there goes that man

Jackson has that Christian connection w his players. I think the whole team are believers. It works for now.

surely bogut is an atheist, that neckbeard is a dead giveaway, he probably has a FreeTheSheeple screen name someplace

Bogut def the outlier there hah.

really am glad we cleared up that melo sucks, i am shit, and new york is garbage.

two truths and a lie

also lmao at buzza for the first time ever, no one gives a hot fuck about NY