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

Like, atm I read Granger Back This Friday and think, eh, he'll probably be back some Friday in January, who cares, ship is sailing pretty smoothly w/o him.

Bosh on tonight's game: "No, it's not a championship game. It's like the 20th game of the season. It's tough to play like there's no tomorrow when there is."

yeah he could conceivably be very helpful to them in the playoffs

He was probably going to start coming into the season, but at this point there's absolutely no way they could take Lance out of that starting line-up. I guess it won't hurt to have him coming off the bench and taking some shots, but honestly I'd rather have Scola shooting spot-up 17ft shots than Granger willing his way to 40% shooting.

how long has it been since granger was playing totally healthy, like two and a half years?

The beginning of last season-- the Pacers set everything up with Granger as the only #1 option, he gets injured, and for the first half of the season the Pacers had an almost historically bad offense.

theyre still only middling even tho everything seems to be clicking beyond anyones wildest dreams, if grainger could come back and score decently off the bench that could help to stabilize things for sure

he could be a great scorer off the bench if he embraces the role

i forgot where i even heard this -- it must have been some podcast -- but bill simmons said that jalen was down with the pacers in the phillipines and he came away thinking tha granger was totally finished

Based on what? Seeing him at a charity event?

“I put a high premium on talent and character, and Rudy Gay has an abundance of both,” said Bryan Colangelo, the former Raptors general manager who acquired Gay from Memphis last January in a deal that was widely regarded as a salary dump by the Grizzlies. “Obviously, Pete (D’Alessandro) has a mandate to increase the talent level of his team as opposed to depleting it. This move is a pretty good indication of that.”

Based on what? Seeing him at a charity event?

― polyphonic, Tuesday, December 10, 2013 6:17 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

watching him play pick up games? i'm not saying its gospel or something, just an interesting note from someone who saw a guy up close that no one in the public has seen play for like an entire year

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lolz wow

would love to see bron take it personal tonight

like the pacers play such good D maybe just trying to dunk on the everytime rather than being tricky will work out better

watching him play pick up games? i'm not saying its gospel or something, just an interesting note from someone who saw a guy up close that no one in the public has seen play for like an entire year

Didn't mean that sarcastically btw

yeah i mean, that was however many months ago, and granger still hasn't even played yet. safe to say jalen didn't catch him at 100%

nobody's interested in colangelo defending Rudy Gay and backhanded sniping at Ujiri?

I thought it was funny but also I secretly want Rudy Gay to do well for some reason.

Colangelo still feeling salty

wow the knicks might get blown out again here

25-9

birdman would go 0-100 on post ups vs Hibbert

bron taking it personal

lebron is destroying the pacers

Pacers should be down 10.

so bummed i'm missing this

the heat are going for broke for steals on every possession

K Love with 19-11-5 at the half

Seriously West's passing this quarter has been almost hilariously bad.

it took vogel three quarters to just stick a shooter on the weak side cuz the heat are just flooding the ball but better late than never

lmfoa ray allen defending george

cavs 88 knicks 69

lol. if heat lose to indiana and cavs beat knickerbockers, lebron's def going back to cleveland next season.

epic time machine dunk from wade, holy hell

wade being on the timmy/manu schedule was the best thing to ever happen to him

yeah smart for sure

bron in attack mode going at George and hibbert

nobody's interested in colangelo defending Rudy Gay and backhanded sniping at Ujiri?

― Clay, Tuesday, December 10, 2013 7:07 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

nope sorry

dad clearly got all the talent and class there was to go around in the colangelo family

lol ref w the steal

hibbert owns the heat so hard

what is this tipoff

that game got so wacky at the end

an overturned goaltending!

hopefully super cool is back when the heat are in miami next week, feel like he could alter heat-pacers match ups a bit

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Team employees now trying to lead a "Brook-lyn" chant right behind the press section.

i'm going to heat-cavs on saturday, p excited

nice, i'm seeing cavs/celts with friends later this month

to add insult to the knicks injury, it looks like anthony bennett hit a garbage time bucket against them

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- After Kobe Bryant downplayed the Los Angeles Lakers' modest success in going 10-9 without him, saying Monday, "It's not like we were gangbusters before," coach Mike D'Antoni came to the defense of Bryant's teammates.

"I have to disagree with that," D'Antoni said after Tuesday's shootaround in advance of the Lakers' game against the Phoenix Suns. "We were 6-2 in the last eight [games before Bryant's return] and I thought we played extremely well, winning three [in a row] on the road. ... So, that's not quite right. I'm really proud of what the guys did."

nets have a guy named Tornike Shengelia

btw deron williams is back scored 25 and the nets won

knicks might actually be worse than the nets, still can't tell