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

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.

http://media.giphy.com/media/2Faz80uCVuMvGy3Cg/giphy.gif

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

http://i.imgur.com/vq7vVed.png

twitter currently freaking out over this

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0-BP9DCAAEmqur.jpg

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

http://i.imgur.com/ALRgxV8.png

still think kd is going to dc

kd is 100% going to dc

john wall is the best in the league at creating open 3pt attempts for his teammates btw

he shd go to dc too imo f okc and their penny pinching terrible coach hiring cheating seattle out of a team ways

he should make the wiz change their name back to the bullets a requirement of him signing tho

Either that or make them change the name to the Washington Durantulas

the example of lbj going back to Cleveland surely has kd thinking about going to dc

dc vs cleveland 2016 is going to be what we have lived for

if okc wins a title i cld see that changing his mind but hes got to be out of there if they keep under performing, squandering his prime

Either that or make them change the name to the Washington Durantulas

http://i.imgur.com/r4Fg060.gif

tarantulas wld be a sick ass name irl imo

or spiders

Going back to DC doesn't have the same resonance, it's not some hardscrabble ex-industrial town where there's gonna be a lone local baller hero

it is kinda the worst place on earth tho

washington tarantulas has a nice rhythm

as does dc spiders

their mascot could just be millions of live spiders they release into the arena during player intros

More pro sports teams should go with arthropod mascots!

mascots nicknames

surprised there isn't a kraken team yet, prob inevitable

black uniforms w red details

f the sonics, seattle squids man

fyi the knicks definitely ran the triangle tonight

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okay someone start a thread before we collapse

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