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

AK:

1) back injuries & others. nbas really a hard demanding league. no practice, no rehab, nothing. just travel travel travel play meaningless games year after year until june
2) sloan
3) he absolutely destroyed everyone on european competition playing for russia the last few years. and he had more time off between games

ilx teams:

loved the list, would add warriors (jordan OTM, remember when they upset dallas? amazing atmosphere!)

i like jazz but foye......
they need to trade and release enes/gordon h./ALEC core!

and favors!

dude what heyward is the best player to watch on that team by a mile

the jazz tho wtf, what do you guys even like about watching the nba idgi

yeah i can't really sign off on the jazz

me neither

i like gordon a lot but tyrone is playing randy foye 30 minutes every night.

btw hayward just a much better defensive player this year

some nice numbers http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/haywago01/on-off/2013/

"Extremely, extremely big win for us," Jackson said of his message to the team. "I apologize for not being a normal coach. But we are 15-7. Enjoy it. And I put a warning out there. I know that Miami is undefeated, as far as this place goes, so I told the guys to be awfully careful. Enjoy themselves and let's get back to business tomorrow."

goddamn dude

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/12/13/3724431/wife-of-bobcats-player-arrested.html

women be fighting

whoa

WOW THE GRIZZ HIRED HOLLINGER

holy cow

eyyyyyy ILH is fully aboard the grizz bandwagon now

*cancels espn insider*

Thats big news!

you know who else used to be a sportswriter?

david kahn

Good thing they aren't making Hollinger the GM

yeah there's no comparison to the lunacy of hiring Kahn, as much as I dislike Hollinger

hiring David Kahn is like hiring a bartender or something

Is he just going to be an analyst then?

i dunno, the bartender at my fav bar in mpls knows his basketball

Glen Taylor asking around for a GM to hire and David Stern suggesting David Kahn. That's a thing that happened.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/8745158/espn-columnist-john-hollinger-join-memphis-grizzlies-front-office

Glen Taylor asking around for a GM to hire and David Stern suggesting David Kahn. That's a thing that happened.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, December 13, 2012 5:25 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^god i forgot that part...one more reason to hate stern

this is gonna alter my consumption of the nba so dramatically

who will fill the vacuum? I'm not sure it's possible.

yeah idk what espn's gonna do. maybe get haberstroh off the heat beat?

Maybe Pelton will make the jump.

oh that would be awesome

excited about this game

I can't get over how bad Dwight is on D

lol @ lakers

WOW THE GRIZZ HIRED HOLLINGER

― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Thursday, December 13, 2012 6:11 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fn a man wtf, first they take pruiti from us

Kidd (still) shooting 50-53-92

the knicks can't shoot like this all year right?

ya theres no way, i think the question is what will happen to their ball movement once they start shooting like theyre in reality

like 6 guys shooting between 5-15 percent above their career 3p% for 30 games, incredible

part of it def theyre passing real good and getting better looks but still

as long as it lasts long enough for us to LOL lakers tonight i'm cool

are they gonna go lux city for JR this summer?

John Hollinger (1:01 PM)

Folks, that's all the time I have, but thanks again for all the great questions -- really enjoy the back and forth with everyone.

...last words

I guess the Lakers just stink?

http://i.imgur.com/HkFDm.jpg

btw reading that final hollinger chat two people brought up the argument the mvp isnt a an award for best player which is just the stupidest fn thought in the world and a good argument for outlawing sportswriting, like people think it wasnt originally just a fancy way of saying best player in the nba, they think one day someone was all hey we should give an award for not the the best player who cares who the best player is lets give one for the player who has the worst backup since that makes so muh sense

I guess the Lakers just stink?

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, December 13, 2012 9:21 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i still think they can be real good but obvs a lot of things have to happen

mostly health and a return to defensive form from dwight which prob goes under the heading of health too

the way theyve assembled the rest of the team is obvs shameful tho

dwight trying to kill melo is one thing that could help i guess