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

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

Sad but true

well chicago vs okc sounds like torture to watch, way to ruin my night pop

fuck yall, bellinelli is basically ginobili, mills is aussie parker, splitter is brazilian duncan, its a globalization race to the bottom for replacement labor tonight
expect kawhi to take 15 shots tonight

spurs 4 through 10 rotation could play well against GS, but the odds of it are not especially favorable.

spurs hanging in there thanks to PATTY THRILLS and MARCO BELINELLTHREE

No chatter about the worst officiated game in the history of the NBA?

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

― lag∞n, Thursday, December 19, 2013 4:26 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow this

http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/psl_finder.cgi?request=1&match=single&type=totals&per_minute_base=36&lg_id=NBA&is_playoffs=N&year_min=&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=pts_per_g&c1comp=gt&c1val=24&c2stat=trb_per_g&c2comp=gt&c2val=4&c3stat=ast_per_g&c3comp=gt&c3val=9&c4stat=&c4comp=gt&c4val=&c5stat=&c5comp=gt&c6mult=1.0&c6stat=&order_by=ws

i don't understand that?

“Only thing we’re shooting in practice are layups and 3s,” starting point guard Patrick Beverley explains. “We don’t like midrange,” Garcia and Beverley say in unison.

The two of them have a firm grasp on Houston’s mission, but I want to know just how extreme their team’s approach is. “Did you know that LaMarcus Aldridge has shot ...” Beverley interrupts my question with the exact number of midrange shots Aldridge has hoisted relative to the entire Rockets team. As of Friday, the Portland power forward has attempted 98 more midrange shots than everyone on the Houston roster combined. That’s a startling statistic, but it’s not especially novel to Beverley, who “keeps up with everything,” as he puts it.

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/64813/rockets-in-revolt

LA has been the King of Midrange this season, but the overlooked point is that he makes them. The unanswered question for me is, have defenses begun to concede opponents the midrange, even funneling as many attempts they can into that area, to where it is becoming the point of greatest opportunity? If so, LA may be the guy who breaks that defensive scheme and starts the pendulum swinging back to defenses having to defend it more aggressively.

James Harden and Terrence Jones yell and laugh about something, but who can hear it amid the sudden distraction of Dwight suddenly singing and dancing in his underwear?

Clay I knew you found NBA slash before but didn't know you were gonna wait til now to post some

do u want some private time w that image

http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/psl_finder.cgi?request=1&match=single&type=totals&per_minute_base=36&lg_id=NBA&is_playoffs=N&year_min=&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=pts_per_g&c1comp=gt&c1val=24&c2stat=trb_per_g&c2comp=gt&c2val=4&c3stat=ast_per_g&c3comp=gt&c3val=9&c4stat=&c4comp=gt&c4val=&c5stat=&c5comp=gt&c6mult=1.0&c6stat=&order_by=ws

― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 20 December 2013 10:47 (9 hours ago) Permalink

i don't understand that?

― Nhex, Friday, 20 December 2013 13:31 (6 hours ago) Permalink

I understand it I guess, but Curry is barely over those numbers and you're comparing a small fraction of a season to whole seasons.

u guys I'm writing nba slash now but if it's not cool to post my drafts in this thread I'll start a dedicated one xp

Also I don't think anyone cares that much about a PG grabbing 4 boards per game, it just seems like a meaningless extra criteria thrown in. Robertson grabbing like 9-12 boards per game with those assists and scoring numbers -- that's pretty impressive. But I'm guessing some ballhead could give a good explanation as to why the offenses he played with or the style of play back then was more conducive to a PG getting rebs?

they played at a much much faster pace back then and shot really poorly there were so many more rebounds

counting stats from that era are muy inflatedo across the board

They shot like no 3s and hella midrange shots too, woefully inefficient times

smdh

"I like to do that because it's harder to catch a little guy," Diaw recalled of the block. When asked if he was a LeBron stopper -- he did well guarding James in the Finals -- or a Curry stopper, Diaw responded with a confident "None. I am not a stopper."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccDZk30lofw

omg

^ implications for the playoffs?

Also I don't think anyone cares that much about a PG grabbing 4 boards per game, it just seems like a meaningless extra criteria thrown in. Robertson grabbing like 9-12 boards per game with those assists and scoring numbers -- that's pretty impressive. But I'm guessing some ballhead could give a good explanation as to why the offenses he played with or the style of play back then was more conducive to a PG getting rebs?

― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Friday, December 20, 2013 1:14 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they played at a much much faster pace back then and shot really poorly there were so many more rebounds

that's true but no other PG back then put up those numbers. it's still pretty impressive.

if you bump the rebounds down to 3.0 the only player added is Michael Adams in that totally nonsense season where the Nuggets ran Westhead-ball.

Diaw responded with a confident "None. I am not a stopper."

― k3vin k., Friday, December 20, 2013 6:20 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

I'm feeling the Nets losing to the Sixers here, would be a lot of fun