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

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

He's been slightly better this year, like he knows that a p&r theoretically can be defended, knows where picks are coming from and prepares for them, there's a little less of his teammates having to cover for him on every play. But good pg's regularly burn him up pretty bad and in tight games it's usually batum defending ball handlers come the fourth quarter.

So no, still a -

he knows that a p&r theoretically can be defended

lol

man really last year that would have been news to him

Terrence Ross = Gerald Green with a brain?

supposedly the kings offered thornton or fredette for andre miller, the nuggets should be all over either one

What do the kings want with dre

people love Andre Miller in irrational ways

It looks like Pero Antic is a legit NBA player which is great stuff. The league needed a 7 footer who looked like a Vegas strip club bouncer.

Guilty as charged xp

I can get behind pero

@gswstats 6m

And with that three Thompson (435) takes sole possession of sixth-place on GSW all-time three-pointers list

The worst part of that wade travel is that he changes his pivot foot while at a dead stop, which is like first grade hoop fundamentals and also a ref should possibly be watching the ball handler during games

Wait no the worst part is that he took seven steps but only fathered four more children during that possession

Enjoyed this

http://deadspin.com/it-just-feels-sick-john-lurie-on-his-life-as-a-new-y-1495513675

― Clay, Tuesday, January 7, 2014 8:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So great. I was researching art sometime last year and learned about Bear Surprise and tried to convince my wife that we should get a print of it

the nyer piece on lurie from a few years ago is a total hatchet job and p amazing

I don't know who john lurie is :(

hes a cool dude

Oh shit he did http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Surprise

That's completely awesome

Get familiar dawg

Listen to some lounge lizards maybe or watch fishing w john

Or down by law

lakers announcers taking so many subtle shots at Dwight, p. funny

tsn stream featuring jonas fans

http://i.imgur.com/kM8d3L1.png

Ryan Kelly is engaged to Bill Cowher's daughter