yeah, i'm talkin dwight / yeah, i'm talkin steve: 2012-2013 NBA regular season thread (part 1)

Really happy to see Collison play well last night. He can be a contender's pg as long as he doesn't have to be a big-time distributor / half-court pg.

starting to feel like bosh is underrated nationally now that he's been put thru the "you're way worse than wade & bron" gauntlet. he has to have the most complete offensive game of any big man in the league (maybe outside of... dirk?)

i love PP yelling at sullinger calling him "sully" during defensive possessions

Would like to go on record saying that both TrueHoop & SBNation's redesigns A) look prettier, and B) suck beyond belief now that there's about 3X more worthless pageview posts and I have to go clicking around for posts longer than a paragraph. Gonna have to figure out the feed URLs to I can just have a calm reverse-chron view of this shit.

I know this thread is named after that kanye song but I keep thinking of the fat joe song and imagining fat joe 'singing' the title and it's like ew

also want to register my late approval for 'LeBum Gaymes'

starting to feel like bosh is underrated nationally now that he's been put thru the "you're way worse than wade & bron" gauntlet. he has to have the most complete offensive game of any big man in the league (maybe outside of... dirk?)

― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, October 31, 2012 10:29 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pau

pau doesn't hit threes also bosh is the best big man in the league cutting to the hoop (i learned this yesterday reading SI's nba preview issue which has an arguably unnecessarily long spread on the pick & roll)

lebron's... noises during/after a fastbreak dunk as mic'd by TNT were pretty "....."

so lebron's cramps - is this a thing now, didn't he cramp up real bad in the finals too

I mean is nobody feeding him potassium idgi

yeah that AAAHHHHHHH was really funny sounding, really flat and ogreish. xxp

Yeah he's had cramping issues before.

a handful of times in this game i saw terry doing something and immediately thought it was nate robinson. terry totes should've kept 31.

rondo's form looks way better too

pau doesn't hit threes also bosh is the best big man in the league cutting to the hoop (i learned this yesterday reading SI's nba preview issue which has an arguably unnecessarily long spread on the pick & roll)

― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, October 31, 2012 11:00 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

youre right about those skills, it's close - and one is a natural 5 and the other a 4 - but pau is a much better passer and probably better with his back to the basket

yeah pau is better w/ his back to the basket def

pierce mic'd up is amazing... dude could totally be a coach if he wants to be

don't 4get abt me... http://2daysports.com/img/articles/image1265-small.jpg

tim "gollum" duncan

league pass bros - how bad are the blackouts? thinking of just getting the broadband $27 a month option since I don't have a TV

Darko Milicic, C .......... DNP COACH'S DECISION

well you're in NYC right? so you wouldn't get any of the nets or knicks games, plus any of the games on national TV

gah

does anybody have a billing address in wyoming I could use

http://i.imgur.com/3hceS.jpg

holding onto his knee.... holding onto his knee and down

dayo it's actually not based on billing address afaik... at least if NBA is the same as MLB. it's just based on where you're accessing the net from.

there's ways to get around it... i.e. tricking your browser into thinking you're overseas or using some sort of number to do that. if you google around a bit, you could prob figure it out. i saw people tweet/post about it during the MLB season from time to time.

ah, ty

jeez chalmers played well last night

yeah do people still underrate him

eh i think he's pretty properly rated, he's up and down but never really gonna give you a huge night and isn't a great defender

holding onto his knee.... holding onto his knee and down

― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, October 31, 2012 11:38 AM

that ad is terrible. #thereturn #datestillpending #glassacl

Most estimates have Rose returning sometime after the All Star break in February, but there's no guarantee that Rose will be able to play at all in the 2012-13 season.

maybe the bulls will tank to remove the impetus for coming back too early

some dece games tonight

den-phi
hou-det
sas-noh (davis vs duncan!)
mem-lac
gsw-phx (just kidding)

eh i think he's pretty properly rated, he's up and down but never really gonna give you a huge night and isn't a great defender

― all mods con (k3vin k.), Wednesday, October 31, 2012 12:01 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

recently tho he's showed flashes of, like, if not carrying the offense for stretches than at least bailing it our really effectively. he had a bunch of huge buckets last night in the fourth and iced that one game in the finals (both times when bron was out w/ cramps, coincidentally enough)

man that's weird that igou's first game as nugget is in philly!

hahaha j. o'neal is on the suns

*steels self for epic j. lin flameout*

chalmers voodoo

staring at that schedule & i find myself most wanting to watch the rockets.......

man, kyrie is 20, wtf

yeah lin-harden is gonna be must-watch this year i think

god, cole looks fucking stupid

http://i.imgur.com/3hceS.jpg

― 乒乓, Wednesday, October 31, 2012 11:36 AM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol

good thing the ink is dry on this one... http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/8576622/eric-gordon-new-orleans-hornets-indefinitely

so, new contracts:

lawson 48/4
curry 44/4

nuggets now pay 25M/Y for the dynamic duo Lawson/McGee.
good value for curry, if he stays healthy of course

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=spcFbnXcZiY

scary ray

both of those seem about right

danilo glassinari a game time decision, sucks

Rookie Austin Rivers will start at shooting guard in Gordon's place Wednesday against the Spurs.

well thank god