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

netw3rk ‏@netw3rk 3m
Rudy Gay should ban all forms of writing and symbols from the locker room.

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/85058/a-new-king-what-the-rudy-gay-trade-means-for-toronto-and-sacramento

lowe on the gay trade

lol ok i actually clicked on lagoon's link, read it, then forgot i got it from this thread

haha meta

lol

why's he gotta hate on Landry Fields lol

I kind of hope that Rudy ends up the first significant player traded every year just for comedy value

That Cavs video reminds me that I'd really, really love to have Austin Carr and Quinn Buckner call a Cavs/Pacers game together. Both know / elucidate the game well + are giggly as fuck + sound like a cool mix of assistant coach & excited fan and get caught up urging players on.

greek freak is pretty good! what's your beef

― k3vin k., Monday, December 9, 2013 10:05 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

It just sounds bad and doesn't roll off the tongue

No announcer's gonna use it

His nickname is "The Greek Freak".[5]

yeah i guess something original like G-Ant is much better

Quincy Pondexter (foot) out for season

He doesn't need a nickname

I clicked on the citation and the only reference to to "The Greak Freek" was in the headline itself

Gonna edit the article to take that out

https://twitter.com/GreekFreakAlert

We need to talk about the youngest player in the NBA. The one they call the Greek Freak. The one who was sent here to save pro basketball in Wisconsin. Where did he come from?

BTW, good post from Lowe explaining the Gay to the Kings trade http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/85058/a-new-king-what-the-rudy-gay-trade-means-for-toronto-and-sacramento

xp Man, can't believe that the 'Greak Freek' has caught on over my strenuous objections

Terrible day for basketball

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We need to talk about the youngest player in the NBA. The one they call the Greek Freak. The one who was sent here to save pro basketball in Wisconsin. Where did he come from?

― fit and working again, Monday, December 9, 2013 2:34 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is like that movie where nolte finds shaq in a gym

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY-Jow6K-c8

hes already got the eurostep? the one legged dirk j?

Jordan Crawford player of the week here in bizarro world

I feel like the dirk J is technically not that hard, it's just that few players are tall enough to pull it off

But yeah impressive mastery for a guy who's.... 19 years old?!

clips official with capt jack signing

19 years old and played on some third tier greek team last year

Doctors say he has potentially 2 more inches to grow I think

Buildwise he reminds me of Jonathan Bender

But he's already much better at utilizing his length

hes already more muscular than bender or durant hes prob gonna be kinda huge in a lanky way

His game kinda reminds me of Barbosa

If you call him anything other than Gianntula you're doing it wrong imo

wow the competition to nickname this guy is really intense

He doesn't need one

He's been in the league for 15 minutes

i mean *i* have a eurostep, pretty sure everyone who plays bball dabbles in eurosteps

some of the passes in that video though o_0

a (nba game ready) eurostep, congrats tho

Impressed that k3v has a nba-ready Eurostep

You try out for any teams yet man

oh you guys

show me how to dirk kev

i am going to work on my dirk though for real, i was just thinking about that. my usual go-to move on the left side is to spin and drive baseline

Air balled a dirk attempt on Saturday! It's not easy cos in essence it's a fadeaway and fadeaways are v v hard. Eurostep scares me cos bad ankles.

Yeah the dirk is a fadeaway for people who can't jump

i am going to work on my dirk though for real, i was just thinking about that. my usual go-to move on the left side is to spin and drive baseline

― k3vin k., Monday, December 9, 2013 5:20 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if defenses have to respect the dirk that makes yr baseline move that much easier then the only question is where the double comes from if its the opposite corner you have an easy jump pass for the short three

In other words................................................................... perfect for k3v

its only a matter of time before the scouting catches up to him tho

gotta get that j off against drummond's d somehow, dirkin prob a good choice

lmao

j off against drummond's d

O___O

it is i LOVE hoops after all

lol whoa boy

ha i didn't even pick up on the innuendo, nice

The defender was aggressive but k3v k beat him off handily