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

what's his background--did he play or something?

VDN just rolled out a cp3-crawford-bledsoe-odom-turiaf lineup in the fourth quarter of a four-point game. he's getting it started early.

Kobe is he in late dementia??

batum went into his european soccer flop rain dance there for a beat before realizing it's no longer the olympics

i think i could collect some boards against odom and turiaf

yeah, this'll do

Trail Blazers PR ‏@TrailBlazersPR
Damian Lillard is the first NBA player with at least 21 points and nine assists in his first career game since LeBron James on Oct. 29, 2003

is batum concussed?

He was the 8th overall pick by the pistons in the early 60s! He went into coaching instead of playing iirc and coached some middling NCAA teams for quite awhile. XP

i'm really happy that the clippers signed jamal crawford and cemented my nonchalance about their entire existence

btw VDN still has the odom/turiaf frontline out there... many z-bounds are being had right now

dribble handoffs from dwight howard 20 ft from the basket

meek mill ad on nba tv

lakers are going to be bringing some high drama to the L this year.

z-bo and marc have 33 points and 21 rebounds... in a related note de'andre jordan is getting paid $12m a year

hide the kids etc

David Aldridge ‏@daldridgetnt
After last-minute flurry of extensions, top RFA's from Class of 2009 next summer: Jennings, Evans, Collison, Maynor, Teague.

lillard with these fadeaways....

batum has put up 26 on MWP tonight... let's talk more about how he's the lakers' lebron stopper

paul allen looks relatively healthy

what was the T on Kobe for??

bitching about not getting a foul call cuz matthews picked his pocket

@kpelton

I think we have to at least consider the possibility that the Lakers were built to dominate a league that no longer exists.

oh we're considering it

z-bo and blake are beefing like crazy right now

if i've learned anything it's that it's not a good idea to beef w/someone named "z-bo"

kobe is hurt now too

Kobe's as pissed as I've ever seen him.

John Hollinger ‏@johnhollinger
Sure, they're gonna lose, but at least the Lakers played all their starters 40 minutes on a back-to-back.

hehe

hollinger seems to be enjoying LA's failures for whatever reason

@blazersedge
Good thing the NBA's Executive of the Year award doesn't allow absentee or early voting

meyers leonard, your plus/minus leader in this one!

i like this guy damian lillard

yeah but he went a small conference school

lionel hollins asleep as the wheel as the clippers leave deandre jordan in for a late game possession and they don't immediately foul him

fratello with the mike brown apologia

He seems like a genuinely sweet/nice/humble guy every time I see him talk. Xp re lillard

Oh Matt what was fratello saying about brown, must be all kinds of contortion there.

he's got a tough situation here with these new players

Poor guy

blake & z bo have are about to go to war

http://lakernation.com/2012/10/lakers-overunder-65-wins-this-season-video/

ZBo just thinks this kind of stuff is funny

Blake gonna front on Stephen Jackson next?

http://www.basketballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=2436

Andris Biedrins, PF DNP COACH'S DECISION

go clippers!

I've been watching GS/Phoenix but there is some preseason ball being played in Arizona tonight. Oof.

― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, October 31, 2012 7:41 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

horrible game to watch but I did. Curry and Lee combined for 4-30 and somehow we still won, oh yah cos against the Suns starring CJ Tucker & Co.

btw wtf at like 1000 new posts! If we all had league pass permanently we would need a new thread every week at that pace.

But for real, some uuuuuuggggggly hoops tonight.

xpost wes matthews

he score in a lot of ways, including the post, turns out that he isnt really effective at quasi-none of his repertory
in a way, the anti-harden (tho harden will shoot a lot of long 2s this year due to his situation as #1)

from this: http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/50812/conversation-starters-six-things-well-talk-about-this-season

The rest of the league has moved to a predictable half-court game. The high pick-and-roll is the new iso, and why not? It stretches the defense across the floor for quick point guards who can devour most coverages and dance into the paint.

(...) we may be stuck with the spread pick-and-roll’s ubiquity until the next round of rule changes.

Cuttino Mobley ‏@CuttinosLife
I'm putting it out there now. I love the Houston Rockets backcourt. Good luck guys. Great game Lin and Harden.

now that caught me off guard