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

didn't realize this was called "nutmegging" now

― Clay, Wednesday, December 18, 2013 10:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Yeah I don't think bball ever had a good name for it. I will tolerate this Euro invasion

lol "chalmers has always kinda been the little brother they yell at"

entering this season he had never made a shot outside 15 feet in his career! He had a total of 5 attempts, presumably all on broken possessions.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, December 19, 2013 12:46 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Crazy, those clips looks smooth. That turnaround!

beyond the barnita lols this is really interesting: Center's Misfires Create Fast Breaks for Knicks' Foes

Is the wolves PA guy saying "riiiiii-cooo-laaa" after every Pek basket

i had a feeling he was taking flatter, lower arc shots

Where Novak's release compares to a restaurant waiter carrying a tray of food, with his palm held up and off to the side of his head, Bargnani—who has "good, but not perfect alignment," said Townsend—brings the ball near his eyebrow area, where he can't consistently straighten out his arm to get extra arc on his shots.

Haha what

niiiiiii-kooooo-laaaaaa (in the style of riiiiii-cooo-laaa) xp

Wow

Seems like a very Minne-soow-tah thing to do

xp dayo strange analogy but sounds about right

celtics trying to fleece the rockets of asik for bass lee and next years clippers pick, guess well see how much they really want to move him today

dont really understand how it makes sense for the celtics as asiks contract is up after next year and theyre rebuilding maybe they think they can sign him long term right away idk

Thief trying to steal from a thief xp

Would be shocked if Morey bites on that.

down by 1 and with less than 24 seconds left in the game last night, brandon bass ended up with the ball and proceeded to mindlessly back down his man as if there was 10 minutes left in the second quarter, never once considering that he might want to pass to a teammate. the celtics had to call a timeout with 4 seconds left so they could set up a play for someone who actually comprehends game situations.

so yeah, if just from an aesthetic standpoint, pls trade bass.

yeah me too xp

http://i.imgur.com/0iQDTtY.png

JR's shot chart from last night

http://i.imgur.com/1zu2KAU.png

when i take 1 shit we lose

hahah. tbh i would rather seem try to make those stupid shots than none at all, if he'll make some of them

that bargani shot/reaction cracks me up. i love how the announcer loses it, "what is he DOING?"

#OHWELL

when i take 1 shit we lose

― call all destroyer, Thursday, December 19, 2013 11:54 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

crapped the code

tbh if he made 1 more of those 3s he'd have shot a respectable percentage, i think ppl are focusing on that too much

nb i didn't watch the game

yeah its funny the knicks even won the game too, i think it was just a really really horrible game is the impression im getting

He didn't make any three's (or maybe one) up until the 4th I think

birds gotta fly. fish gotta swim. jr's gotta shit.

jr dropping shit (three pointers, actual shit)

IMPORTANT NEW THREAD TRADE MACHINE

fwiw rockets say theyre not trading him today

Was today the deadline to take advantage super sweet trade-deadline deals in the future

yeah

if they dont trade him today the players they get back cant be packaged before the deadline only traded individually

why does the nba have so many stupid rules everyone loves trades

Gameshow where they put three NBA GMs in a room and a chute drops 50 player contracts into the room and the GMs have 30 seconds to grab as many as they can

#hoopideas

wonder if that celtics-rockets deal was floated in the press as a way to get someone else to think, "we can beat that!"

@Lakers Kobe Bryant has a fracture of the lateral tibial plateau in his left knee. He is expected to miss six weeks.

lol?

is kobels cooked

when you are injuring body parts i've never heard of i think the answer is yes

Twitter says he hyperextended his knee and that's why

Need a sports doctor to tell me that hyperextending your knee is what you do when you don't trust your achilles

truly sad to see kobe entering that nash phase of his career where his body is just not on the same page as his will, it's really all over, rip you were a great player, maybe not such a great guy

damn I guess rip the bean for real good thing the lakers extended him for iirc about a billion dollars

pop is resting manu/timmy/parker for a national tv game, never change boo

@LakersNation Along with Kobe Bryant being out six weeks, Steve Nash will miss another month

look upon my works ye mighty and despair

ESPN Stats & Info ‏@ESPNStatsInfo 3m
Since his return, the Lakers have averaged 97.4 pts per 100 possessions with Kobe on the floor, compared to 104.6 with him on the bench.

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/86687/lol-knicks

pop is resting manu/timmy/parker for a national tv game, never change boo

― k3vin k., Thursday, December 19, 2013 2:07 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

WTF was for real pumped for tonights game, now it means nothing (except we need to improve our record)!

the good news is Kobe should be back just in time to start in the all-star game

lol