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

have they only played 8 games? didn't know that, thanks for pointing that out stats scientist

<3 ILH

noah is a good passer but guys like vaerjao and bogut are just as good

― pussy try it (J0rdan S.), Friday, November 16, 2012 6:07 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hes in this range for sure, decent passer, good skill to have, not a major differentiator tho

when you're comparing him to asik who is AWFUL on offense, it is

have they only played 8 games? didn't know that, thanks for pointing that out stats scientist

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, November 16, 2012 6:12 PM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sry it seemed like you were trying to say that these eight games were somehow comparable to the entire rest of his oeuvre

when you're comparing him to asik who is AWFUL on offense, it is

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, November 16, 2012 6:13 PM (27 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

his passing skill might come into play more if anyone ever had to guard him

i mean how many time have you seen him catch the ball at the elbow then his man drops back covering the lanes to the back door and he end up missing some sloppy running hook thing

it's a small sample size, no doubt, he could revert back to his career avg's. just ~something to think about~, numbers look pretty good when he gets 39mpg (flipside is he prob wouldn't be getting that many mins if Asik was still a Bull...cause Thibs loved Asik's defense).

i hope you don't attend a game he's playing in and are susceptible to imaginary bullets from imaginary six shosters.

i cant see him getting 39 the rest of the year, it just seems like too much, almost no one plays that much anymore, maybe 35 tho

deng plays that much but yeah that's too much for a 7 footer. too much for deng too really.

http://www.blogabull.com/2012/11/15/3649994/joakim-noahs-improved-shooting-is-no-joke

he's gunnin for you son

(haven't read that article)

you could build an internet house out of all the [insert shitty shooters name here] shooting has really improved articles that get written every year, and its never true, seems like mediocre shooters often improve but guys who just suck almost never do

people are saying the same abt rondo this year lol

yeah like Johnny Holls saying omg Ricky Rubio can shoot based on a 9 game sample

tbf no one actually saw his previous shooting tho as it took place in a mythical land far away

it's odd that Jord is all against per36 stats when his boy Hollinger is one of the biggest per minute obsessives out there

hence Jimmer having a 36 PER or whatever

I remember when Hollinger was super stoked about Ike Diogu after a season where he played 11mpg or something

i know, rmde when i saw that headline. but i do think/hope noah could at least get down that elbow jumper. i don't think bad shooters ever really develop into good shooters after they reach the nba, but players will practice and practice and practice that one shot they know they'll get most of in games and can become reliable at it.

jimmers for real you read it here first lmbo

btw I agreed with him about Diogu, he was pretty rad. Just super injury-prone

Yep, Diogu coulda been great if not for his glass knees.

yeah wasn't he balling a bit in the olympics this year

Yah he was, I think he was the only player on the team though.

aminu played well for them too

but Diogu def. carried them through qualifying

this truly is a friday afternoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieymkwx3wRU

that's truly one of the best videos of all time

man what a bad pass by john wall

Most of Thirkell Elementary’s offense ran strictly through Thompson and point guard Megan Rivers, whom the Pistons struggled to keep up with because the fifth-grader can dribble with both hands and doesn’t have to look down at the ball to do so.

Derek Bodner ‏@derekbodner
Bynum said he has had a setback recently. Overcompensated from injured right knee and damaged left knee. Has weakened cartiledge in both.

what in the world

you know the sixers are gonna max him out tho

Max Bynum

yeah i'm not sure i want any part of max bynum

Derrick Williams has reached the "getting booed 1 minute into the game after fucking up" stage

White, the 16th overall pick in the 2012 draft, has been absent from Houston's practices for almost a week and called the team ''inconsistent' for how it was helping him deal with his anxiety issues and obsessive compulsive disorder.
ESPN first reported that White was prepared to walk away from the NBA. According to the ESPN report, he will meet with the Rockets on Monday to discuss his future.
White posted on Twitter: ''I'm not PLANNING to quit, but if its between my HEALTH and BASKETBALL, health takes precedence.'' The team has not commented beyond White is ''not available'' and the Rockets will continue to support him.

he's lucky he's a first round pick and houston has money already tied up in him

adrian woj made the slightly inflammatory argument that he is trying to leverage his condition into playing time

woj? slightly inflammatory?

i know, shocking

adrian woj made the slightly inflammatory argument that he is trying to leverage his condition into playing time

― call all destroyer, Saturday, November 17, 2012 2:19 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh he's not arguing it, he's flat out stating it as fact. It is definitely the rumor going around; that not getting playing time is what led to everything falling apart and that he's stated not playing has worsened his anxiety.

I was amazed to learn that he has self-diagnosed himself with OCD and PTSD and that his only doctor is a primary care physician.

hahah you're right, since adrian woj knows no other mode of communicating information than "factual assertions" i tried to soften it a bit

sick touch pass by mark

*marc

holy shit kevin martin

Re: royce white. I can see where self-diagnosis is pretty shaky overall, but this is a kid who is trying to juggle chainsaws as a way of managing his nba career, so I have to believe he has some kind of difficulty doing it the standard way.

how is Asik shooting below 50% when he doesn't take shots more than 5 ft from hoop?

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, November 16, 2012 6:11 PM (3 hours ago)

he misses an amazing amount of layups. he usually gobbles them right back up so not much harm there imo