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

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

http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

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

― Al He Miola (Spottie), Saturday, December 7, 2013 4:10 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's true that their expectations weren't as high as the Nets' expectations this year.

But w/r/t parallels, that Warriors team was supposed to feature Ellis/Lee/Curry/Thompson/Nate Robinson/Rush, so it's not like they expected a flounderfest. Instead, Dorell Wright and David Lee were basically the only players to start a majority of their games; and, that's kinda where the Nets are headed right now. And now that things are running smoothly for GSW, I think it's easy to forget that everyone was piling on Jax those first few months for being a hilariously overmatched coach.

I think the big diff is that it was a predominantly young team, so it was kinda As Jax Learns, So Do the Youngs. Since the Nets wanted to contend for a title AND have a vanilla coach, they went the opposite route: surround him with vets so Kidd/staff had more latitude for error / wouldn't have to spend practice/gametime on rudimentary stuff.

But like, all of this said, Kidd does look totally overmatched right now, visibly; I just think it's not out of the question for him to turn it around, provided he has a half-decent team to coach. The cup spill + Frank stuff + awful record is tough to ignore, though.

Hahaha xps, fwiw a quick internet search on current NBA atheists brought up:

- Rondo
- Manu
- Bosh

:0

Bosh is a secret Redditor

Rondo, huh.

http://i.imgur.com/ui4NoiP.png

Hibbert has a portrait of himself above his fireplace

lol "hand painted."

wade has some really spectacular portraits of himself at his house iirc from cribs

if i were hella rich i'd prob have some sick portraits everywhere

check me out i'm rich this is my mansion there's a sweet portrait of my face i fuckin own u

yeah same why not

I'm not sure getting a portrait of myself would ever even occur to me

Unless it was me as a centaur

Like, that's what mirrors are for, then the rest of yr walls are freed up for like arts and stuff

If I were rich first portrait I would get would be agent hibachi as a centaur for shre

when i make my fortune first thing im doing is commissioning a copy of this masterpiece from tyrese cribs

http://images.tbd.com/entertainment/xandpac_crop_606.jpg

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

― Clay, Saturday, December 7, 2013 5:07 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol pls stay buzza seriously I don't think we have a single Knicks fan here

The Knicks have been so amazingly ridiculous for over a decade, I almost feel bad for them, last years barely cracked window of opportunity almost makes it worse since it was so obvious they would be bad

I think melo actually does suck because he only plays 50% of the game which would be a failing grade. I still love him as team usa's small ball 4 since no one plays defense in the Olympics etc anyway

Holy fucking shit is that PAC getting christened or resurrected my Malcolm X because I need that now

christened, the title is 'what if'

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2637/3843613352_d9edbd0b78.jpg

its a mural

WHAT IF INDEED

did tyrese oaint it because it's pretty good the landscape and the ladies in the back have a lil Van Gogh quality to them

he also has this last supper themed one, as you can see marvin, pac again (2 pacs), aaliyah

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/V1pPiPqBwac/maxresdefault.jpg?feature=og

tyrese def did not paint them

haha ok here we go hold on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1pPiPqBwac

Wow

Huh

Hold up I have been googling this and I see no evidence that Tyrese did not paint these himself

Also the last supper is p great actually

I clearly was not on black twitter in 2011 when this first broke

cool that biggie and pac are down to break some heavenly bread

There's no way he didn't commission that, cmon.

p sure he wouldve mentioned that he painted them if he did, not to mention they are very much in the style of a hack commercial artist which even if he could paint wouldnt be a category he would likely fall under

Actors got downtime mang u never know that they're gonna get into

But alright he probably did not paint them

I would also pay for a pen & pixel remix of those murals, has it been long enough to non ironically bring back that style

i like how the video artifacts make an oscillating halo around marvin when they zoom in tho that shit is super anointed

some good games on tonight

too bad love is out

Lebron is just effortlessly dominating this quarter

yeah filling up the statsheet like we haven't seen him do in a while

ooh and he's guarding martin now

5 turnovers too haha

bron's getting a quadruple-double tonight i'm calling it

with turnovers? he has one steal and no blocks.