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

i'd sort of love melo as a smallball 4 for the clips, the problem is their weaknesses generally would be the same and they'd struggle against the spurs and grizzlies bigs

kinda think melo is broken too idk if anyone could fully make him behave

like hed play unselfish swing the ball take good shots then youre in a close playoff game and he just starts... dribbling

melo having to guard an elite power forward pretty much every night in the west would be pretty great stuff

yeah it would be... problematic

lol ryan hollins just chill man lol

wow kobe's averaging 6.3 turnovers since he came back

but they would also have to guard melo so, anyway i would not do that trade

....tony parker just airballed a FT

i would if i were the knicks, what's blake locked in for, another 4 years? xp

yeah the knicks obvs do that deal no brainer

i was speaking from the clippers pov if that was at all unclear

I wouldn’t trade Melo for Griffing straight up, then you expect to throw Iman Shumpert in the deal? Whoever wrote this article is completely lost. Melo can score in any way he wants. Griffin’s success is predicated on having a an above average point guard, which the Knicks do not. Knicks already have enough problems scoring. Griffin is in his fourth season and his game is still the same. He’s a 60% FT shooter and doesn’t play defense, and you think that trading the scoring champ for that guy is a good idea? STOP IT.

is there a tumblr that just reposts knicks fan internet comments

would follow

diaw is tooling on the clips bigs

gonna fall asleep like this after reading kevin's blake for melo post

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/006/026/futuramafry.jpg

wut

the clips obv don't do that trade straight up if it's not clear, contracts aside even

the funny thing to me about the bulls is that last year at the beginning of the season everyone was like "oh wow this team is just garbage, nate and bellini, jesus"

then those guys balled out, the bulls had a competent offense and then they both signed nice deals in the offseason

and now the bulls are actually completely untenable on offense with dudes like heinrich and dunleavy who look like they shouldn't be in the nba

pistons now have road wins over the heat and pacers but i still think that team is kinda trash

trash teams beat the heat every year

i know

pacers tho

is there a team that josh smith wouldn't make worse

maybe the knicks actually lol

melo 4 josh

they're weirdly similar players maybe

Pistons can be competitive from game to game. When two of your starters are two of the streakiest shooters in the league in can click on occasion.

I was kinda interested to see them play before the season but they are pretty gross to watch.

pistons now have road wins over the heat and pacers but i still think that team is kinda trash

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, December 17, 2013 5:31 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They're very very good at certain things though, because of Drummond. So if your team is weak in those areas (e.g. defensive rebounding), they can be dangerous.

so is this gonna change ever?

http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/psl_finder.cgi?request=1&match=combined&type=totals&per_minute_base=36&lg_id=NBA&is_playoffs=N&year_min=1980&year_max=&franch_id=&season_start=1&season_end=-1&age_min=0&age_max=99&height_min=0&height_max=99&birth_country_is=Y&birth_country=&is_active=&is_hof=&is_as=&as_comp=gt&as_val=&pos_is_g=Y&pos_is_gf=Y&pos_is_f=Y&pos_is_fg=Y&pos_is_fc=Y&pos_is_c=Y&pos_is_cf=Y&qual=&c1stat=fga&c1comp=gt&c1val=1000&c2stat=fg_pct&c2comp=lt&c2val=.37&c3stat=&c3comp=gt&c3val=&c4stat=&c4comp=gt&c4val=&c5stat=&c5comp=gt&c6mult=1.0&c6stat=&order_by=ws

seems like something he might want to work on at some point.

im not seeing any games these days, but im happy for josh harrelson. i think hes an nba player and could help the right team.

if u put the criteria to .40 fga, jason kidd is in, so ... idk. ricky is great.

ricky is such a bad scorer idk i think he might not make it

like jason kidd could make layups

btw just looking around twitter re asik trade and came across chris sheridans lame ass web presence lol wtf

Chris Sheridan ‏@sheridanhoops 10h
Breaking news plus informed conjecture equals good journalism. Latest on Omer Asik trade possibilities: http://www.sheridanhoops.com/2013/12/16/omer-asik-sweepstakes-source-says-five-teams-still-in-the-mix

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

"we have good journalism" lol okay buddy great job

so a 4-paragraph aside abt asik being a "bitch ass" in an international game three years ago is good journalism, ok, got it.

for intelligent readers only

"Analytics is really popular, so you have to worry about all that smart stuff now."

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/10148890/the-reliance-3-pointer-whether-not-hurting-nba

support widening the court to make the 3pt line uniform

Had a dream last night where the Trail Blazers ended up 9th in the West and missed the playoffs

But very specifically it was mentioned in my dream that they had a better record than the East 3rd seed ( don't recall which team it was in my dream)

hahaha

for intelligent readers only

― lag∞n, Tuesday, December 17, 2013

chris sheridan of sheridanhoops.com said the indiana pacers would win the nba championship even before the season started so he knows what he is talking about.

hey dayo stop havin such dumb dreams jeez

http://i.imgur.com/TMf69Wc.jpg

me irl

support widening the court to make the 3pt line uniform

― lag∞n, Tuesday, December 17, 2013 9:45 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

they really should bump the width up by a foot or so- some guys (lebron) can barely fit their feet between the three line and the out of bounds line in the corners! dudes are just bigger all around for the most part than the days when tommy heinsohn was a burly ass power forward at barely 6'6

also, why not, it's not like forcing someone out of bounds gets you points, it would just free up more movement for both sides

btw hall of fame lols by the knicks last night, every gm should just show melo the tape of that possession when presenting him with a lowball contract offer this summer

Make the court into a square and increase the number of baskets to four #hoopideas

everyone rides a bike on the court #hoopideas

mascots can be subbed in under two minutes to play #hoopideas