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

they wld be the best team ever

If wishes were horses, would we all be buried under horse shit?

Last years lakers woulda been kinda nice too

It looks like Pero Antic is a legit NBA player

he's really pretty terrible on defense unfortunately

but yeah, legit

lol that foul call on curry

Man in Pekovic gave a few less fucks he'd get near Shaq levels of leeway from the refs.

curry out of control

always lazy with the ball

whoops steph

Amin Elhassan ‏@AminESPN -- If everyone on every roster were in their prime, would the Nets be the best team in the NBA?

a prof journalist over here

payroll would be like $450 milli

CURRYYRRYRYR

oh damn its a two

chase !!!!!

dude on espn pontificating about how you need to be 11 deep to win in the nba i guess hasn't been paying attention much to the league ever

15 deep imho

a prof journalist over here

i'm sure we've all asked these hypothetical questions to ourselves. "if everyone on every roster were on their deathbed, would the nets be the best team in the nba?"

top 8 must be solid xpost

yeah 8 solid guys is usually good, trying to think of a recent team top team that was legitimately 11 deep it just never happens

well they all have literally at least 11 players

breaking: brooklyn is in playoff position

4-0 in 14.

why isn't detroit better, i thought they might be alright this year

i was a skeptic but they are def worse than i expected

i guess brandon jennings + josh smith ain't really winning basketball tho

jeannings really suck and monroe/josh is a cruel overlap
cant watch them anymore

they sould trade monroe + whatever for gordon hayward, doubt utah would do tho

Yeah seems like they should still improve a little but we've kind of made mention that Josh Smith is basically the worst fit and brandon jennings kinda just sucks. j Smoov needs to never shoot outside of 5 feet but he has no business being in the paint on this team when monroe and drummond are in there.

did they really give smoove $14mil a year dang

every atlanta fan mustve been loling so hard aver that contract

Lakers announcers now huge fans of the hackahoward strategy

was joe dumars just like "well we've got to sign somebody we have all this money, it'd be embarrassing not to spend it"

like maybe think twice about giving a big contract to a guy whos entire fan base yells nooo every time hes about to do a thing he does all the time

he's been known to do that before!

Charlie V and Ben Gordon

hah i forgot about that charlie v signing, it's weird how everyone though joe d was a couple years there

was a genius*

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

― lag∞n, Wednesday, January 8, 2014 8:45 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow this was quite a read

cj mccollum in the game word

btw Barbosa in a Suns uni just feels right

was joe dumars just like "well we've got to sign somebody we have all this money, it'd be embarrassing not to spend it"

― Clay, Thursday, January 9, 2014 3:24 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's exactly it, and if they find a sucker for for a trade partner some day it might be worth it

chase !!!!!

― moullet, Wednesday, January 8, 2014 8:05 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good to see him back

sort of hate barbosa

one of the worst foul calls of all time on a point blank missed layup by one of the morris twins there

tonight's Plumlee-Pekovic matchup is sponsored by GNC

eastern conference features epic first round battle between no. 1 pacers and no. 8 nets. lock the brackets now.

Pekovic really is a solid, decent defender. Big gap between him and Love there.

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

― lag∞n, Wednesday, January 8, 2014 8:45 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow this was quite a read

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, January 8, 2014 10:26 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yo i know right

sort of hate barbosa

why? I mean he's not very good any more at all but he was a blast in the mid 00s with those suns teams.

the thing I always remember with Barbosa is that when he came out in the draft he wasn't really on anyone's radar but there was this talk of a "Barbosa tape" of his Brazilian games that was blowing everyone away

wow dont think the nba was ready for that type of thing back then but now people are more open minded so itd prob be ok