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

In basketball, there are so many possessions that a blown call or two is never the cause of a loss. I mean, if Memphis shoots better than 27% from 3 they win.

conely seems to have a lil bit rondo disorder in passing up layups

The refs aren't responsible for ZBo shooting 5-21.

It's nice to want to blame refs -- I've done it probably 100s of times -- but it's almost always bullshit in a basketball game.

They still blew it on the shot clock violation. No excuse for that.

I just totally disagree. Stuff like bringing up ZBo's FG percentage is the kind of crap people do whenever a team gets robbed. We heard all the same stuff after Sacto game 6.

Like oh they didn't have a marvelous performance so it's ok they got screwed

it's the sports version of "Well Gore didn't even win Tennessee"

No it's not, but then you and I don't agree on much of anything when it comes to hoops.

I mean, they blew a few calls, some in Spurs favor (for example, the shot clock violation) some in Grizzlies favor (foul on Bonner when Randolph clearly pushed him into the shooter). They didn't screw one side over the other in any sort of egregious manner.

That's a matter of debate but zbo's fg percentage has nothing to do with it. It's just a way to dodge the issue of officiating in general, as if a team only deserves a fair shake if they play well

didnt notice that game being particularly poorly officiated overall tho obvs the back to back bad calls in overtime were v high leverage

I never said that! I said they weren't screwed because a couple of blown calls have less effect on the outcome then shooting like shit.

yeah and if Al Gore had just won Tennessee no need for a recount

in the grand scheme of things it's probably just typical home court bullshit, but it provides the margin of victory in a lot of NBA games

Whatever, dude.

btw Larry Sanders' twitter handle is Nappy Gilmore

Okay, that's pretty awesome.

it just dawned on me that my twitter feed is clogged up w/some pacers blogger who live tweets every play of every game so i unfollowed him... but hes still there

srsly just chillin in my feed, go away dude

there's rumors of Boston trying to get Gortat, that would be cool

its would kill me to do so but im willing to part w/jeff green

He has the kind of contract Phoenix seems to dole out to middling guys. He'd fit right in.

Hansbrough just did a megaflop

After a somewhat tentative start to the flopping season to see how the league would enforce the new rules, nba floppers have decided the percentages favor them.

nice sunday for the fans, david, thanking u

YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/tim-duncan-and-tony-parker-pose-with-guns-pointed

holy shit

uhhh

hahahahahah bad boys spurs era has begun I guess

man they'll get killed for that

pops should make them sit on the bench for a game or two. that'd learn 'em.

I was totally down with Crawford ejecting duncan for the bench heckling btw.

wtf

of all the horrible grandstanding Crawford has done it's weird that that was the one thing that got his wings clipped

That's not gonna do them any good.

Ha awesome pic, Timmy looks so creepy like its natural to him.

god I know it's uncouth as a mod to say this but Armstrong u betray the spirit of ILH more than any person who has ever posted here, and I include morbius in this assessment

not even mad atcha, ur just the sir nose d'voidoffunk to our collective starchild sometimes

armstrong is the token republican on an msnbc panel

in other news, i see we have not yet discussed sheed's ejection today?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hZqHXeZ7Tyg

i think everyone is now wise to ball don't lie

aw i appreciate matt's contrarianism

Yeah me too.

thx guyz

also post very much in character:

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duncan parker gangster gangster

so this is devin ebanks.

kobe shooting w 2 people on him <3

we want phil

jacque vaughn clowning dantoni pretty hard

execrable pick and roll defense by the Lakers