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

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

Wroten just called glass on a 3, but I think he did it with the realization that he'd missed

lol perk grump dawg http://espn.go.com/chicago/nba/story/_/id/10170423/kendrick-perkins-cries-foul-joakim-noah-presence-oklahoma-city-thunder-locker-room

is PG gonna guard harden?

btw this game better be good, i finally had an evening free to play some bball and the gym was closed for some track meet >:(

fuck track.

otm

birdman just shot a straightaway 3 with 20 seconds on the shot clock and was immediately benched, lol

yolo

harden looks uncharacteristically locked in on defense tonight, we'll see how long it lasts

birdman just shot a straightaway 3 with 20 seconds on the shot clock and was immediately benched, lol

― k3vin k., Friday, December 20, 2013 8:26 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yolo

― lag∞n, Friday, December 20, 2013 8:26 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think birdman is on his third or fourth life at least

harden looks uncharacteristically locked in on defense tonight, we'll see how long it lasts

someone whisper to harden that there's two-for-one beers at a local strip club. his mind will wander.

Btw cad I was listening to that celtics pistons game and the radio guy was losing his mind as bass was backing down with no real time left on the clock- and he's not really a bad homer. He spent half of the subsequent timeout praising Stevens for recognizing that bass was in some twilight zone and calling the timeout

This is what I meant when I said it seemed like bass is just logging time waiting for a trade- no real reason for him to be on that team

Lol this game just turned into a block party

Also hey it's Danny granger!

I've never seen Scola take a shot beyond 12 feet and he just nailed a three