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

NATE

wait i asked this in the wrong thread:

is dame better than kyrie now

i mean if you had to have one of the two of them for this season only you'd definitely take dame right?

oh for sure

dame, hes a WINNER

but for the next three seasons it would be tough to pass up kyrie

oh i put this on the stats thread, but dame might seem on kyrie's level b/c he's a number two guy whereas kyrie is carrying his team.

Damian seems to have some strong intangibles that have catalyzed the chemistry of the blazers as a team this year. He was pretty amazing last year as a rookie, too. I love kyrie's game, but as a blazer fan I would not mess with this team no matter what was dangled in front of me (or almost no matter what). If I were the blazer GM, no way I'd take a straight up trade of kyrie for dame right now. How can you argue with 22-4?

kyrie in a perfect situation would be a better player but it's hard not to feel like (dumb intangible alert) you could always go to war with dame

I do think Damian has been climbing up the pgs under 25 opo ladder for sure

like a few weeks ago I was the only one saying dame > wall but I have a bias obv

we're all lucky to be alive

lillard's game winner against detroit was unbelievable

lillard is two years older than irving, never forget

he is v good tho

One of the best things about lillard is that stats and touches mean absolutely nothing to him. His coach might have strong opinions about how he needs to be involved in the offense, but lillard invests zero importance in his personal numbers once a game is over. His whole demeanor shouts the truth of that.

yeah seems like a real pro.

Iggy is back btw, all is right in the world.

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ooh ryan anderson with the dirk(TM)

the blazers announcer just guffawing is prob the only appropriate response to dame right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ4FJiIrclI&noredirect=1

billy king giving the blazers a top 3 protected first round pick for gerald wallace's floating corpse doesn't exactly make up for brandon roy and greg oden but i feel like we're 20% there

Ryan Anserson shot was O__o he is way more than just a typical spot up shooter.

dame mean-mugging >>>>>>>

the funny thing about the crab dribble these days is lebron seems to be the only one who does it without traveling most of the time

Rose was really good at the crab dribble

i mean i guess it's not a crab dribble technically unless you travel but you know what i mean

RIP

I still can't believe Austin Rivers is in the league

disgusting stepback from steph

was just typing that

classic spaz outing from amundson

amundson just fouled out in what seemed like 5 minutes

how cool would it be to be some tall athletic guy who cant really play basketball that good but you get to be in the nba

haha what was amundson doing? that last foul he was called out on was bogus tho

sounds like a dream xp

yeah that last call was bad

amundson and hansbrough were both on the pacers at one point right? we need to unite them, meyers leonard, and maybe ryan hollins for the all-intense benchwarmers all-stars

it's been pointed out elsewhere, but batum's cockiness/early claim on that lillard shot is p fun

Guess it's a little too early to tell, but happy that it seems like Lillard isn't going to have the same career arc as Damon Stoudamire. Think he's getting better at using his athleticism to play proper defense, probably something that will continue to improve with more reps. Hope Portland manages to continue dropping his minutes a bit-- already down from 38 to 35 from last season.

having a proper backup helps. McCollum's return (?) could drop him another couple.

If McCollum becomes available real soon, I could see them trying to work him into the regular rotation to see what happens, but unless CJ shows fairly quick success, the desire to keep the present chemistry and momentum intact could severely limit his minutes. After all, McCollum has not played a single nba minute, yet.

blazers barely beating bad teams last couple games chemistry is over good ride while it lasted rip rip city

chandler back tonight, go Knicks

happy about that, but don't anticipate him to come out the gate 100%

if it means less barnita in my life then I'm against it

we can have our chandler and barnita too

amare is out indefinitely anyway lol

that's really sad, he finally seemed to be doing better (or trying?)

when he tries thats when he has to sit down for a week