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

damn

wow

I was gonna tune in too! missed it

Some awesome stat lines tonight

Rudy is just trolling us

*google image searches rudy gay fedora*

nugs with another monster offensive showing, back at .500

weird team

haven't paid close enough attention- has Dame's defense gone from - to + yet?

need a giannis/nate wolters documentary

Good west cost double header tonight on espn

how did I have no idea about this?
http://www.businessinsider.com/nba-is-negotiating-to-get-out-of-the-greatest-sports-business-deal-of-all-time-2013-11

haha yeah thats the best

just watched the espn 30 for 30 "Spirit of St Louis" documentary and they touch on that in there as well. So great.

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

http://i.imgur.com/LsQkRlf.gif

Get rid of the travel #hoopideas

a haha that video

JR Smith fined $50k for also trying to untie Greg Monroe's shoes

Also for the nickname game Miles Plumlee's nickname is "Plums" XD

lol whats wade up to

wtf 50k fine for that?? Just give the guy a warning

Apparently they did give him just a warning but changed it to a $50k fine after he tried to do the same thing to Greg Monroe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-albPeVPCHA

monroe was ready, studied the tape

Haha

that wade gif is driving me crazy, where's the justice

Best travel since Corey Spaghetti

zach lowe had a good #hoopidea today which is to give players techs for intentionally kicking balls

it's really fucking stupid that guys can just throw their feet up in passing lanes if they're out of position

honestly I feel like I see uncalled travelling like almost every game. Sometimes it's harmless, like on an three-on-one fastbreak dunk or something, but still.

i don't really care about uncalled traveling myself... if a dude takes 4 steps and dunks the ball or something at least it's fun to watch

I definitely feel like a lot of it is on dunks, which makes sense if you buy that the refs are under direction to keep the game exciting to watch

dunks or other fancy drives

@IanBegley: Story going online now w/@ESPNSteinLine & I: Sources say #Knicks... have started exploring J.R. Smith trade options.

lol

WHAT ABOUT CHRIS

imagine how much more fun it is to be russ' brother than j.r.'s

just on any number of levels

what makes me nuts is they call tons of travels every game on exactly what wade does there -- receive a pass, take a couple steps to get centered. But it's wade so no call. Then he takes three or four more obvious steps, but it's wade so no call. I'm sure that possession ended up, with dude at the line after an aimless drive and no contact fall to the floor. Just basically I hate wade.

#tradeeveryone

Seems like you can't get rid of travelling, because then you'd get rid of dribbling, too. Why dribble if you can take all the steps you want? So, you need some kind of standard for how many steps you can take before you must dribble. We have that already.

What we don't have is a consistently applied standard. Everyone needs to get called the same way and everyone needs to know what is allowed and what gets called. We don't have that.

I would be cool with just allowing the first couple steps Wade takes -- the "get your balance" steps. But once you come to an obvious fucking full stop

feel like the players n refs do have a p good understanding between them as far as whats allowed, tho it may be sort of opaque to outsiders

imo lots of travels on like what you see with wade there go uncalled. You see a couple of those a game tbf. it doesn't really give him much of an advantage so it doesnt bug me as bad, just looks bad on the league. They've been calling the quick first step before putting the ball down on drives a lot which is fine by me, thats a pretty major advantage so it should be taken away.

4 steps is too many on a drive, not fun to watch when its so blatant.

honestly that d wade play.... who cares

its def more funny that anything

ya

I care, man, I care

and the lebron countup just makes it better

truly inspired editing no doubt

4 steps is too many on a drive, not fun to watch when its so blatant.

― Spottie, Wednesday, January 8, 2014 5:19 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

esp with dudes like bron who already have such a natural advantage on a drive

yeah if its just on some open court barely contested slam dunk shit who cares but on drives it can be a major difference maker

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/19by6m4krv0cfjpg/ku-xlarge.jpg

haven't paid close enough attention- has Dame's defense gone from - to + yet?

― Call me Shitmael (CompuPost), Wednesday, January 8, 2014 1:28 PM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pretty much the same defense