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

Haha so David Lee and Blake kinda got into it cos Blake was flopping and just before the refs spit them up Lee is in his face yelling over and over STOP FLOPPING STOP FLOPPING... I hope someone makes a gif of that.

Carl Landry is ballin for real.

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i'm in on THE OMEN, that was a big baller three, dude looks legit

otoh lin and harden looked kind of exhausted by the 4th and def OT

asik's stat lines so far are all-time

kind of ridiculous that the c's needed every second to squeak out a win over the wizards but then for some reason that team has kind of had boston's number the last few years

watched much of bklyn-raptors and enjoyed it, cj watson was a great pickup for them and of course gerald wallace gets injured in the last couple of seconds

Haha so David Lee and Blake kinda got into it cos Blake was flopping and just before the refs spit them up Lee is in his face yelling over and over STOP FLOPPING STOP FLOPPING... I hope someone makes a gif of that.

― Luchinski pourin' from the sky, let's get rich (what) (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Sunday, November 4, 2012 2:28 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

would love a citizen's arrest aspect of the new flopping rules so guys could report on each other and just watch it go out of control

oh and the raptors seem like they could be kind of good?

Yo bear bear how's kicks!

oh & I also saw ray allen ^_^

― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Saturday, November 3, 2012 10:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh yeah?

oh and the raptors seem like they could be kind of good?
― questionable motor (agent hibachi), Sunday, November 4, 2012 7:48 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Will say both Raps and Cats look much improved this year, or at least both teams are expending much more effort. Looking out for teams w/ some bad chemistry problems to take over the bottom-of-league spots. Kings have more talent than both Raps/Cats -- and Thomas seems like a good leader -- but the Evans/Cousins/Thornton trio isn't the kind of nucleus you'd want to build around.

raptors improved from a historically bad league last defense two years ago to middle of the pack last year fwiw

Lillard gets my full approval. My only remaining concern is how quickly rookie burnout catches up with him, playing 30+ minutes a night across a full NBA schedule. The talent is all there, and the maturity. So glad he flew under radar until his college senior season was over.

bobcats improvement could have something to do w/ better coaching - http://blogs.charlotte.com/inside_the_nba/2012/11/pre-game-chatter-on-charlotte-bobcats-zone-defense-kembas-minutes.html

They really got raked over the coals for that hire too. Media likes it better when you hire a color commentator with funny catchphrases.

VDN/jackson was 'interesting' last night

the warriors are gonna be good until bogut and curry get hurt

Bogut has all these injuries but never really loses any athleticism

His injuries havent been chronic, just unlucky bone breaks. Im waaay more worried about Currys ankle tbf. He should just play in hiking boots or something.

This Bogut sequence at 1:25 got me out of my chair.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcJpciYNWqY

nice

Also I found the David Lee STOP FLOPPING video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6mTpsBObXg
haha Blake is the scum of the earth

i dunno, looks more like "pop locking" or "jump stopping" to me, dunno what he's on about

haha this is the best time of year to look at the standings. your division leaders: knicks! bucks! 1 and 0 ORLANDO!

west...san antonio 3-0 snoooooze

Blake really is the goddam worst.

yeah fuck him

feel like i was early on hating howard and i hope we can all be early off the blake bandwagon

that being said both are great players

yeah I mean dude is an extraordinary athlete, I just totally sympathize with lee there. everybody's played with a guy you felt was cheating a bit and after the nth time it's hard not to lose your cool a bit.

the dragic/dudley/scola/gortat core for phoenix is kinda entertaining to watch. granted they're playing the magic -- and michael beasley is still hanging around -- but some nice things are happening

xp yep. and there's something so pathetic abt a guy that physically gifted making flopping a reg part of his game.

the dragic/dudley/scola/gortat core for phoenix is kinda entertaining to watch. granted they're playing the magic -- and michael beasley is still hanging around -- but some nice things are happening

― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Sunday, November 4, 2012 6:28 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i think people were kinda overstating how bad they were going to be. they won't be in playoff contention by any stretch of the imagination, but it's hard to suck that bad of you've got several decent players. there really might not be any truly horrendous teams this year

oh there definitely will be

the problem is that every player on the suns besides those four is irrepressibly awful

wes johnson is truly the worst player in the history of the NFL... he shot a jumper from the top of the key in this game and hit nothing but backboard

errrr NBA

He's such a crap basketball player he should've been a tight end like Antonio Gates.

Kirilenko looks so good. What a strange career/player.

no set of back to back top 6 pick disasters can compare to the Wes Johnson/Jonny Flynn combo. Childress/Marvin Williams is way better.

the problem is that every player on the suns besides those four is irrepressibly awful

― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Sunday, November 4, 2012 6:58 PM (49 minutes ago)

again though it's just not possible to be an all-time bad team if you have several good players, even with an awful bench. look at the bobcats last year and the suns this year. the cavs of a couple years ago had like, mo williams and antawn as their best players?

I watched the suns vs. the warriors and it was pretty ugly. Warriors got bored by how bad the suns were.

Man Kevin Martin is killing it for the thunders

for reference, the suns got massacred by THE MAGIC tonight

i for one am shocked to find out that a "week to week leg fracture" doesn't actually exist

Mike_Bresnahan: Steve Nash could miss up to four weeks with the small fracture in his left leg, a Lakers source said.

obviously the commentator is a douchenozzle but man this is damning stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVitzGz9g2s

westbrook 5-17, 12 points. Martin 8-11, 28 points.

westbrook also just made a ridiculously boneheaded play saving the ball under his own basket and throwing it right to al horford for a dunk

guy isn't even really that bad; what a brutal breakdown for russ

Jonny Flynn signs with a team in Australia

better than turkey imo

where would an all-time current syracuse squad do vs other colleges if carmelo had to play with johnny flynn, wes johnson and fab melo? i guess they'd have waiters