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

i don't see what the problem is. it would be unsuccessful basketball & would weed itself out of the game

i guess my point is that the nature of basketball rewards keeping the lane clear, i have no idea why dwight howard can't take 5 seconds to post up if that's what a team really wants to do

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Saturday, January 4, 2014 3:20 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but if you allowed that, Shaq and Wilt and the like would dominate the game too much. People want to live in a world where Jordan, Bird and Magic are the best basketball players ever, not 300 pound giants.

also it's such an arbitrary rule, such a stupid and random way to lose a possession that has nothing to do with anyone trying to make a play

aaaaaaaaand JR pulls a bargnani

fantastic

ahahha udrih foul

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA SMITH DID THE SAME THING BARNITA DID

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN YOUR NEW YORK KNICKS

tbf barnita's was worse, they were up

jr knows one thing and one thing only

yeah i was just gonna say actually, that's not a horrible look. STILL

jr shouldn't be on the floor

ever

lolllllllll what an amazing possession

omg knicks

hahaha awesome ending

........that last possession

halfway down

what the hell is udrih doing

JR is shooting 35/35/60 on 12 FGS and 1.5 FTs per game. he's gotta be one of the most harmful players in the nba

totally

also bargnani got that board and didn't even think for one tenth of a second about turning around and putting the ball up even tho no one was in front of him

was gonna say he had a wide open 2 footer if he wanted it

JR is shooting 35/35/60 on 12 FGS and 1.5 FTs per game. he's gotta be one of the most harmful players in the nba

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Saturday, January 4, 2014 3:29 AM (38 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and hardaway jr. has been good!

the knicks have done SO MUCH to massage the ego of an insane, occasionally above-average shooting guard

yeah it deserves it's own 3,000 word article

he's done there

he tried so hard to be good last year and now the relapse is so much worse

btw, Carmelo's foul at the end of the first half was just as bad as anything in the last minute

Nothing at the end of a half can be as bad as mistakes in the last minute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y3PAgNjJeY

There was a loud heckler all game and Iggy ran straight to him pointing and then ran off the court hah

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdGwv0RCYAEYMym.jpg

lol

maybe not the best sweatshirt to buy

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hahaha

ty-nate-gallo-willy-tim would be a pretty ok crunch time lineup. would get killed by big guards tho

paul out 3-5 weeks. WHYYYYY

o wow

not the worst thing tho

Kendall Marshall in D'Antoniball is pretty fucking cool

idk, the clips are probably royally fucked. they'll be lucky to go .500 for those 5 weeks.

bunch of games v east coast teams. if they maintain .500 they should be fine. Blake has been playing really well.

can blake keep it up with paul off the floor? i get some amar'e w/ nash feelings from him sometimes.

gonna hurt their playoff seeding regardless, though, west is too tight.

yeah that's the thing. they ain't falling out of the playoffs, but they're not gonna be happy about falling out of the top 6 and having to play SA or OKC

they're currently one game ahead of houston or homecourt in the first round, and three games up on dallas for the eight seed, that's even tighter than i thought dang.

was it his shooting shoulder?

the west is super tight

was it his shooting shoulder?

― Spottie, Friday, January 3, 2014 11:53 PM (33 seconds ago)

yep

god, JR, whyyyyyyyyyy