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

aaaaaaah

lmfao that gif

i am dying

that's great

wow horrible no-call on love there

tyreke w/ game winning j after lillard tied it w/ a 3

something really bad just happened to norris cole's face

lol the nuggs choose joel anthony to come off the bench to shoot cole's FTs -- he hits both. first FTs of the season for him. only the nuggets

what happened to cole?

mccollum supposed to debut in the next week btw

what happened to cole?

― Clay, Monday, December 30, 2013 10:39 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't think they showed it on my broadcast, but they must have shown a replay on the jumbotron because the crowd gave a really uneasy "eughhhh" as he was walking off. my guess is that he ran face first into the base of the hoop, because lawson didn't touch him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asAJBPNd6gE

i bet a broken nose and maybe some teeth

ugh, poor kid

not watching that

that link isn't working for me but was my guess right?

yeah face plant off a fast break layup, i bet concussion too

he basically nosedived into the hardwood from a layup attempt, didn't have a chance to break his fall xp

yah concussion was my first thought

Knicks are now tied for the NBA's second worst record

^^ In a year where every other team back east is tanking as hard as they know how.

:)

in a year where the knicks made an offseason trade to compete with indy and miami

i love the knicks. they bring such joy to our lives

in a year where the knicks made an offseason trade to compete with indy and miami

― lag∞n, Monday, December 30, 2013 8:57 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

so weird that barnita guy hasn't worked out for them

haha o man hadn't seen capn jack on the court yet... dude gained hella weight

totally just sunk down on a layup attempt, like went vertically down instead of up and completely missed the rim off the backboard

suns are seriously the best

WAU that pass by bledsoe

cp3 having an off night

suns are seriously the best

― k3vin k., Monday, December 30, 2013 10:04 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

blake got stuffed by frye in the post, def a new low for blake

Jazz now 9-7 with Burke and Williams starting

wow frye

man matt if you watched bobcats-jazz with all the sick games on tonight we really need to talk

haha respect tho if he did

haha no I didn't, I stat-watched it though

Dragic is kind of maraviching out there

The Clippers got booed literally 90 seconds into this game btw

was just gonna say I'm barely at half-time and he has like 5 highlights already, just carving out whatever he wants xp

haha they hope these clowns lose in the first round again

*I hope

super cool iced the game tonight with a 3 with 30 seconds left B-)

@billsimmons
If we're talking MVP candidates, the difference between LBJ/KD + everyone else is that LBJ/KD don't ever take nights off (like CP3 tonight).

this is BS tho, bron sleepwalks through games all the time these days, and paul's not taking tonight off, he's just not playing well. their game score distributions are almost identical

NB obv lebron is much better and should be MVP

so many highlights in this suns game

and just pure comedy watching blake all night in the post

bron sleepwalks through quarters not often thru games tho

i think the more accurate point is that bron is so good that he can sleepwalk through a game and still put up numbers that dwarf everyone in the NBA

not taking nights off is overrated, there are so many nba games

jordan otm

The Clippers got booed literally 90 seconds into this game btw

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, December 30, 2013 10:18 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I bet Donald Sterling started it

god that Kevin Love no-call...

Cool to see some Rubio thinkpieces start to trickle out, and happy that the Goldsberry piece hammers home the fact that Rubio's J is mediocre but not atrocious / real problem is around the rim. Reminds me of Rondo 3-4 years ago, when it seemed like the league all at once decided to start giving him +5 feet of space for any shots outside the lane. There was a month where it seemed like it was massively fucking with his head / would pass up the wide open shots and drive anyway (and finish because, unlike Rubio, Rondo is an A+ finisher). iirc Rondo started taking and making enough of those jumpers where defenders started playing him honestly again.

What sucks more is that finishing at the rim seems less ... practicable? The work involved with improving your jumpshot is basically the muscle memory of thousands and thousands of jump shots, tighting form, etc. Like maybe Rubio can bulk up a bit so he can use his body to clear out a bit of space for himself down there, or like I think Goldsberry mentioned develop a Jax teardrop from 4-8ft rather than bungling layups. idk just want lil Ricky to change face, have fun, enjoy.

Lol d wade what a scumbag