2014-15 NBA regular season thread: 82 games of injuries and inevitabilities

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lmao when the ball bounces back and hits him

i forgot about how the ball bounces back and hits him on the head xp ha

You can also see the exact moemnt where he injures his wrist

we need barnita back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tFDsL_mwBY

"sleep, that's where i'm a viking!"

-- andrea bargnani

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Puple Prijan

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lmao

You guys are psyched.

stoked 4 the madness

it's gonna b a very good and weird season for sure

psh yall say that ever year (and are correct)

like cool subplots include:
* cleveland extreme makeover
* lebron is home
* return of rose
* kobe is back and will possibly murder all of his terrible teammates
* lol derek fisher is coaching the lol knicks for lol phil
* there's like 20 cool rookies
* russ has his own team for two months
* taylor swift is playing for the knicks

playing fantasy for the first time ever is how psyched i am. got the splash bruvs, obv

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* spurs quest to repeat, duh

had to recut this gif drivin me nuts

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feeling not too excited about this season actually
hopefully the regular season shakes out differently from last year

cmon the best player switched teams

yeah

shakes out differently from last year

It's kind of rare for any team to rise or fall more than three or four notches in their relative position in a single year. That can still translate to some significant shaking out when you apply it across the board.

think cleveland might be better than three or four notches over last year

well, yeah, but it's still a rarity

nhex u crazy

ok besides cleveland/miami obv
but maybe you're right aimless

lol derek fisher is coaching the lol knicks for lol phil

Fish is literally gonna be a phil sock

Russell MVP quest might be my favorite early season plot also the number of talking heads that will detonate when he goes 17 for 48 in a game will be awesome

Mario Chalmers' tenure as the Miami Heat starting point guard will come to an end when the 2014-15 regular season tips off. Chalmers has been in that spot since he came into the NBA in 2008, with the exception of 2010. Chalmers says he will focus on making sure he gets crunch-time minutes with the shift to a bench role.

"Of course you want to start, but you want to finish the game," Chalmers told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. "It's more about the minutes. At the same time, it's a mental thing."

Chalmers lost the starting spot to Norris Cole during the preseason. Ether way, head coach Erik Spoelstra expects both players to produce as each will get plenty of time on the floor.

"Regardless of whether who's the starter, who's not, those guys are going to be pivotal players, both Rio and Norris," he said. "They're going to have to play significant minutes for us."

lol forever at the heat point guard rotation

how many teams have two better than their best one, or three even!

mario chalmers is like the bugsey siegel (as portrayed on boardwalk empire, at least) of the heat mafia - occasionally he gets shit done but is really volatile and whiny about things and more or less just makes excuses when he screws up.

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if you cant beat norris cole out for the starting job... m8

yeah that's a pretty good indicator of washedness. y'know, plus the whole "looking like a slapped ass in the postseason" thing.

chalmers wld make a perfectly fine backup imho, problem is they have no starter

weird they didnt try to upgrade that spot a lil so many good point guards in the league rn

there is a flaw in yr system http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11752978/2014-nba-player-rankings-8

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twitter currently freaking out over this

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is sully a boss now or something?

He loosened his hams

sully is a good player mane thats why im constantly in a state of sorrow about how out of shape he is, he has allstar skills and the main thing holding him back is lack of athleticism which cld be solved by losing a lil fn weight gdamn it

suprised woomeyp norris cole was held back for this long

after his freshman season sully was a consensus top 10 pick, then he stayed in college another year and injured his back which is why he went so low

No I remember! It's just been a couple years and he hasn't dented my radar sense really, just surprised to see him cracking elite adv stats even if it's exhib

i feel like "waiting for sully to be in shape" is going to be the new "waiting for rondo to learn to shoot" i.e. a train i need to get off of.

*since xp

kevin love did it sully can do it why cant he do it ughhhhhhhh

No I remember! It's just been a couple years and he hasn't dented my radar sense really, just surprised to see him cracking elite adv stats even if it's exhib

― Clay, Monday, October 27, 2014 1:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

put up a 13 and 16 per his first two years, hes been good celtics were just terrible last year so no one noticed, and i mean its not liek he put up monster numbers but very solid certainly

good trajectory

i mean he did shoot super poorly last year but some of that has to do w the celtics having no good offensive players at all, also if he lost some weight he could get a lil more lift

crazy

When was the last time both the Lakeshow and the Knicks were in the bottom 5 of the League

it's possibly never happened?

Incredible time to be alive

god bless america

the lakers have only finished below .500 13 times in 66 seasons

in 59-60 the (minneapolis) Lakers were 25-50 and the Knicks were 27-48

nic batum wore a Je Suis Charlie shirt in warmups btw

in 59-60 the (minneapolis) Lakers were 25-50 and the Knicks were 27-48

― Clay, Friday, January 9, 2015 4:01 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

8 team league though, it was tough out there!

you had to play wilt and russell a heck of a lot

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if kemba is in supernova rn, then lillard is in ultrasupernova and I think we'd need several more degrees above that in reserve for later

Kemba, Teague, Lillard, #blessed

A hypernova (pl. hypernovae or hypernovas) is a type of supernova explosion with an energy substantially higher than that of standard supernovae.

dame's back looks hurt :[

get dwyane wade tf outta here

get dwyane wade tf outta here
--Clay

h8 him so much (and the heat in general but especially him)

what he do now?

awkwardly plowed his old ass into dame and knocked dame on his back, wasn't intentional but I'll take any excuse to yell at his washed kneeless ass

yeah it wasn't intentional but it was definitely reckless

the wade line

dame looks m/l alright fwiw still ban wade

fyi the knicks definitely ran the triangle tonight

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okay someone start a thread before we collapse

Breaking -- The human race has waived Josh Smith: 2014-15 regular season thread part 2