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

just got v. sad that the wolves only visit to boston is like next week and before i get my annual bonus and can buy good tickets

Gary Payton is here. He looks like hell.

damn omen is so fearless

blazers with 0 bench points in the first half. That's getting to be a problem.

lol, meyers leonard bringing the first bench points

well damn

KEVIN DING ‏@KevinDing
Why did D'Antoni sit Pau down the stretch? "I was thinking I'd like to win this game, that's what I was thinking."

minnesota white out

ridnour-shved-kiri-love-pek

kinda worried about kirilenko logging so many minutes at SF

yes whiteout was achieved! Very exciting in person, would recommend.

i hope if the wolves make the playoffs this year they give out white shirts at every game

Joey Crawford really brought his A game tonight.

lillard just ran up court and jacked a 32 footer with 20 left on the clock. all glass.

sounds like a plan

blazers shooting 42% from the line, have hit 4 more threes than they have free throws.

Derrick Williams working on his second straight DNP-CD

yeah what's that about

austin daye has only played in three games this year, which is probably something that intrigues basically no one

vintage kobe game tonight btw, 30 points on 7-23 shooting

Derrick Williams has to be a better pick than Wes Johnson or Jonny Flynn, but at least they made it a full 82 games before becoming DNP guys

the jamal crawford experience has quietly taken a turn for the worst in the last three games, btw

yeah well flynn & johnson are two of the worst draft picks of all time -- williams will at least stay in the league for 5 years even if he never turns out to be a player

crawford shooting 16-45 in the last three games. i'm no math wiz but i'm pretty sure that = garbage

I mean yeah I'd guess Derrick Williams breaks the 4 year barrier but this is all eerily Wes Johnson like

Marcus Fizer got 6 years

Derrick Williams working on his second straight DNP-CD

― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, November 24, 2012 12:00 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah what's that about

― J0rdan S., Saturday, November 24, 2012 12:01 AM (16 minutes ago)

well there's the he's black thing

he's shooting 36% this season

Maybe Adelman is wrong about him and he doesn't totally stink on ice, but it's looking pretty grim

i was joking obv

The more I see of The Omen the more I think Anthony Davis will get a stiff fight for Rookie of the Year, and Lillard has the early lead on all scorecards.

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lillard has been great, but davis main competition has been his own health to this point, if he can stay ont he court he should be scary by the end of the year

lmao @ #2gasols1win

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sort of depends on yr tastes i guess

crazy that what was once considered one of the most lopsided trades ever now looks like a win/win, lakers got their rings and the grizz got to rebuild w/a comparable younger player

small sample size warning http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/51776/davis-on-pace-for-duncan-like-greatness

holy shit 2Gasols1Win is legendary

blake got hit with the "over-rated" chant by the brooklyn crowd last night and clanged two fts in spectacular fashion

vinny del negro was also protesting a non-call way too long and dick bavetta yelled clear across the court "put your hands down, vinny!"

caron butler was way out of position on a set play late in the 4th and vdn physically shoved him in the direction of the opposite corner

i forgot gerald wallace is actually a very good player when he's not hurt, he went hard at the basket a couple of times and still has decent range on his shot

wallace is sort of proto manimal

Sixers GM Tony DiLeo told reporters Saturday that Bynum, who has been dealing with bone bruises in both of his knees, is officially being listed as out “indefinitely” with no timetable for his return to the court.

think portland should use their max cap space on bynum so they can replicate what could've been the greg oden era

also since you guys were talking about GW I've been meaning to mention, with pdx playing brooklyn, but he was traded in exchange for the pick that became lillard and then the nets gave him $98mil so I wonder how the brass is feeling about that one.

lillard is presently a whole lot cheaper than $98mil.

i mean clearly for the future i'd rather have the omen but if wallace can stay healthy he fits really well on the nets- he can create occasionally, swing between 3 and 4, and he and humphries can both help alleviate lopez's allergy to rebounds

i think prokhorov clearly does not give a fuck about payroll size or spending efficiency in the way basically every other team (outside of the lakers) now has to or ought to, so i'm not sure we should bother factoring that into our calculations in any net-related case

fair enough but even if you don't give a fuck its sort of ridiculous to offer a 30 year old with an injury history whose game relies *entirely* on his athleticism $98m/5 years. It's not like Wallace can fall back on his jump shot in his declining years. (He is averaging 7, 4, and 3 in the 4 games he's appeared in this year)

even Paul Allen eventually got sick of the luxury tax

oh no doubt I would rather have lillard and trading for wallace was pretty ridiculous on its face for just the reasons clay noted. I'm just saying the nets owners (Russian Cuban in particular) doesnt care about the price tags attached, at least for now.

I would only care insofar as drafted, rising stars are some of the most valuable commodities in ball both in absolute and value-adjusted terms. which is why phx's insistence on selling draft picks during the Nash era was so galling.

even all that said u need a lot of luck to turn draft picks after 1-2 into real winning players.