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

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

obvs the warriors r not the heat tho

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.

― J0rdan S., Monday, May 27, 2013 4:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Mahinmi was the only pickup that has worked out-- dude has done a fantastic job on defense. He forces up a lot of bad shots but that's more of a function of an offensively awful 2nd team; if Granger were 6th-manning that unit, it'd be a much different story.

Augustin, Young and Green haven't lived up to expectation at all, though. Seems like Augustin really needs gameflow to play well, which isn't a good sign for your 2nd team pg. Young looked shook even in regular season games; and Green, ugh. Feel like he might have a secret problem w/ the intellectual side of the game -- offensive sets, defensive rotations, etc. One of the most athletic dudes in the league somehow devolved into a dude who just jacks 3pts until Vogel takes him out. idgi, he should be back-dooring people and throwing down lobs.

And eh, Plumlee was a bottom-of-1st-rnd pick who they didn't expect to really play this year. They got him to replace Jeff Foster, ie dude who can pick up a ton of rebounds, so it's way too early to really judge the pick. Even if he's gonna be a 18min/game junk player, he still has to be developed.

Also RIP Grizz, very unceremonious exit from the playoffs after a great run. Guess they have Conley/Zbo/Gasol locked in for a few more years; just need to resign Tony Allen (although they'll have to pay like 2X as much now), move some of their bench trash, get healthy, and finally make the full run in the next few years-- got a two year window.

if allen is going to be expensive i would definitely think twice about re-signing him. dude's just too much of a liability on offense

http://espn.go.com/nba/preview2012/story/_/id/8517161/2012-13-nba-predictions-western-conference-champion

look at hollinger's

ha, good call

how did they know? http://espn.go.com/nba/preview2012/story/_/id/8517268/2012-13-nba-predictions-coach-year

lol they voted for everyone

Vinny Del Negro

Scoop Jackson
ESPN.com

everyone except for NBA champion coach Mike Brown

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

haha timmy is secretly one of the most fun players