the lakers have just pooped their big-boy pants: 2012-2013 NBA regular season thread (part 2)

uh

yeah so amir johnson got ejected because the ref wouldn't let him hold the ball for a while when the Blazers were shooting FTs and then after ejection decided to throw his mouthpiece at the ref

it was so weird that I'm a little suspicious of what was behind it. Most refs do let players hold the ball for a bit between FTs

so, about lin reverting to linsanity the minute that harden sits out.........

― J0rdan S., Monday, December 10, 2012 10:29 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good job morey

― 乒乓, Monday, December 10, 2012 10:30 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they need to figure this out

between ft's Amir grabbed the dead ball and a ref went over to take it. Amir wouldn't let it go. They both held onto the ball for a few seconds until Amir said something that led to the ref ejecting him. He had to be restrained and threw his mouthpiece at the ref as he was being held back. XP

Harden isn't making Lin brick open three pointers guys

thats not lins game!

i mean hes not a great shooter

everyone knows

i'm sort of like iatee with cars on this issue in that i support just about any ref action against any player hijinks during free throws. this includes high-fiving, stepping across the lane at the last minute, holding the ball, etc

Harden isn't making Lin brick open three pointers guys

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, December 10, 2012 11:40 PM (57 seconds ago) Bookmark

well he is in the sense that his role has been dwindled to exactly that at times, so you're sort of missing literally the entire point

yeah lin should not be a jump shooter is the thing

during Linsanity Lin chucked up a ton of threes

i'm sort of like iatee with cars on this issue in that i support just about any ref action against any player hijinks during free throws. this includes high-fiving, stepping across the lane at the last minute, holding the ball, etc

― k3vin k., Monday, December 10, 2012 11:42 PM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my #hoopidea for having only one free throw ever that would be worth one two or three depending would solve everything

eh his game obv is pick and rolls, getting to the rim and drawing fouls. he's not going to last long as star shooting jumpers xp

he's actually getting more attempts at the rim in HOU than he did in NYK and shooting a better percentage on them. It's everything else that's plummeted.

Luke Babbitt is funny

@jwquick I just watched Luke Babbitt drive past Mickael Pietrus and dunk over Ed Davis. For real. I swear

IIRC Babbitt had like a 40 inch vertical at the combine, but that's combine jumping not game jumping

toronto's interior defense is a joke

the toronto draft pick tanking is gonna be wild and woolly

if they crater this year how can colangelo survive

i mean i know he will so that's sort of rhetorical but really

the Blazers went 0-20 from 3 and won by 18

NBA record for three-pointers attempted without a make.

lol, deserves a place in the stats thread.

records of human futility have a special place in my heart

Oh man lillard 2-14 ouch.

Also, the Raps went 3-21 so both teams combined 3-41 oooooof

good job great effort

Tim MacMahon ‏@espn_macmahon
DeMarcus Cousins says shot to O.J. Mayo's, um, groin was "not intentional." Mayo: "That guy has some mental issues."

hah

http://hoopspeak.com/2012/12/houstons-offense-a-combination-of-great-shot-selection-poor-shooting/

Last season, the other teams that populated the top of the Long Two Leaderboard were teams like Charlotte (last in offensive efficiency), Philadelphia (20th), Boston (25th), Toronto (29th), and Washington (26th).

this argument would be much better rendered in ts% not efficiency! of course then the celtics wouldnt be cellar dwellers and yr argument isnt as good, celtics problem as always was turnovers, good piece overall tho

yeah v interesting. parsons drilled 4 or 3 threes in the last 5 minutes last night. toney douglas is shooting p well last games (strange)

LMA in this houston team is my morey-project. a scoring big who could pop out. could turn out to be pretty (& efficient) bball.

anthony davis back tonight!

sweet

Givony (draftexpress): "As a Suns lottery pick, it is downright disturbing how poorly point guard Kendall Marshall is playing for Bakersfield of the D-League."

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/heatindex/articles/20121210phoenix-suns-putting-bad-bad-news.html

In their landfill of losses, the Suns were dumping the same empty regrets and re-commitments after one of their more lame losses when an opposing player summed it up more succinctly.

“We’re the ‘Bad News Bears’ and they’re worse than us,” the player told a cohort.

I realllllly want to know who said this.

beasley

has super cool been shitty? once adelman gave up on him i knew there was no hope

super shitty.

tbh Adelman hates a lot of players who are good, he's a fickle dude

remember when he took forever to bench Nick Anderson for Peja? Man I'm getting old.

*finicky, not fickle

Shaun Powell ‏@Powell2daPeople
Suns source: Michael Beasley is "toxic," team in tailspin, could lead to major shakeup.

fickle or not, beasley is a headcase beyond belief

"I don't know who labels people stars, but even [T'wolves owner] Glen Taylor said: I don't think Kevin Love is a star, because he hasn't led us to the playoffs," Love told Yahoo! Sports. "I mean, it's not like I had much support out there.
"That's a tough pill to swallow."

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--kevin-love-remains-unsure-about-timberwolves--future-200009299.html

oh no kevin.

twolf karma

the player told a cohort.