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

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?!

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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

that was an accident of phrasing fwiw, I did not at all intend to suggest that kev is turned on by the defensive play of andre drummond. furthermore whomever any of us gets our js off against is no concern of this board unless it is rondo.

lol

stephen jackson huh

Sam Amick ‏@sam_amick 2h
True story: when Rudy Gay learned he'd been traded,he asked for refund on Lakers-Raps tix he'd paid for since his people no longer attended

i wouldve gone to the game

that's fair lol

why did he even pay for them

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bau9BlBCYAABhDT.jpg

lols in light of:

“Do I have a philosophy approaching the game?” Gortat said to a crowd at Hill Country Barbecue Market in the Penn Quarter the other night, responding to a fan’s question. “My name is Marcin Gortat (pronounced MAR-cheen GORE-that). I’m coming from Poland. I represent 40 million people and an additional 40 million in the United States. I represent my mom and dad.”

polish guys, they're just like other guys, they work hard, they love their families, they want blowjobs

as a polish guy i can confirm

Haralabos Voulgaris ‏@haralabob 2m
Doc invented this move back when Celts were tanking for Oden, underrated tank move, pressure D when your team is in penalty. #subtletank

kemba went off on the dubs tonight in a shock bobcats win

guys is polish
40 million peoples is polish
knobs is polish

Gortat otm

Hey every Rudy gay article mentions to at this is part of the raptors "rebuilding process" but I have a question, were the raptors ever "built"? Seriously are they still in the process of recovering from losing Chris bosh and the ability to get bounced in the first round? Or is it rebuilding out of the destruction of colangelo?

Like basically my mental history of the raps goes bad expansion team, bad Vince carter team, bad, bad Chris bosh team but maybe promising, bad again

At no point do I remember the raptors ever being decent oh and also the 81 point game in there somewhere

yeah they've been sucky. but this new gm at least gives them some kind of identity and focus.

kemba went off on the dubs tonight in a shock bobcats win

― Clay, Monday, December 9, 2013 7:23 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Curry did 43-6-9-0-2. Curry and Klay shot 28 threes between the two of them!

They are a weird team w out Iggy.

weird as in bad at defense

sometimes. one game they give up 120 the next 80. just all over the place. generally tho, yes, defense w out iggy is the issue.

At no point do I remember the raptors ever being decent oh and also the 81 point game in there somewhere

― z-time champion (agent hibachi), Tuesday, December 10, 2013 2:38 AM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no they had a couple playoff runs before Vince forced his way out