#focus#mustwin#playoffs#drama? : 2013 NBA playoffs

his moves haven't been TERRIBLE... mahinmi is better than collison but he's playing 5 mins a game in the ECF, so how good is he really? augistin has turned it up a bit recently... he can at least hit an open three

i thought gerald green would work out. drafting plumlee was awful though.

but that graphic was def pretty funny.

the plumlee pick is underrated garbage too because when your starting line up is set you really need to find good rookies for your bench and that was just doomed from the start

i def buy the argument that it would be huge for the pacers if sam young didn't ever have to play but on the other hand they should have enter players than sam young

better*

so timmy is at least the second NBA player after shaq to divorce his wife because she cheated on him with her trainer

i wonder if 'cheated on me with her trainer' is actually code for something

am i the only one watching game 4?

no.

pondexter should play 30+ mins

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/2685923/manupass2.gif

http://cjzero.com/gifs/ParkerRaspberrySlo.gif

i was watching hockey

pop is great et al pero got me thinking how good the warriors were

i was watching hockey

― J0rdan S., Monday, May 27, 2013 10:47 PM (11 minutes ago)

o_0

elimination game playoff hockey > 3-0 playoff basketball

CJ McCollum ‏@CJMcCollum 15m
That triple baseline stagger is a killer in the NBA. PGs need to be able to read screens off ball as well. TP changes speeds off ball 2

i'd like to see a one-on-one between lance stephenson and tony allen where they can only take 90 foot drives at the basket

http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/775538563.jpg?1369710656

this dude looks 25

WHAT THE FUCK

that can't be right

hes 34 according to wikipedia.com, he looks like hes thinking 'why did i buy a basketball team'

http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/VIdfEt1yJEM1Y5ZekJ8pcQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NQ--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/sptusnbaexperts/RP21213.jpg

now i get why he wanted to hire hollinger and why hollinger decided to work for him

yeah def

lol def makes sense that a guy whos super busy becoming a tech billionaire would hire the most popular if not necessarily the most sophisticated analytics focused basketball writer

mike breen is very easily impressed

mike breen is one of our most exciting young basketball minds

breen is great at calling closeout games tho

i wonder waht the smallest margin of victory in a sweep is cause this series is prob it

oh no, quincy pondexter

tp9 15-20 fg

i wonder waht the smallest margin of victory in a sweep is cause this series is prob it

― lag∞n, Monday, May 27, 2013 8:28 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

somebody tweet this @ elias sports bureau or whatever, because i'd like to see lagoon vindicated on this

MARC

so who hits the dagger 3 here?

or does parker drill a mdrange j

spurs won by 9 last game tho

+the first game by 12, but still sweep usually have some blowouts

spurs get 12 days rest, lol

lol that is ridiculous

spurs go on vacation, spurs grow a beard, spurs read a novel

ESPN Stats & Info ‏@ESPNStatsInfo 1m
Tim Duncan will have 13 years between NBA Finals appearances, most yrs between 1st & last Finals appearance w/ same team in history. (Elias)

is simmons drunk?

Paul Flannery ‏@Pflanns 6m
The first time Tim Duncan made the Finals, Avery Johnson was the point guard and Steve Kerr and jerome Kersey played off the bench.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRVy6at84Uw

they swept through the conf finals that year too (against *cough* the blazers), but yeah that seems to almost never happen. xp

NBA History ‏@NBAHistory 10m
Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili are 1st trio on a team other than Celtics or Lakers to reach NBA Finals 4 times together @EliasSports

crazy stat

wager bron/wade/bosh will join them soon enough

idk bron has to make it this year and next before he goes back to cleveland

heat spurs will be fun, not sure waht to expect since both sides engaged in benching wars during the regular season

should be interesting. heat def vulnerable to teams that can shoot the three, but spurs have trouble with athleticism

I want a zach Lowe piece on what adjustments the spurs have made since last year to address their vulnerability to athleticism

cause they were looking p shook v warriors then they locked it down