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

no one talks about cp3's step back jumper but i think it's been the best in the league for a while

in the playoffs vs the lakers two years ago he absolutely murdered their bigs off the pick and roll w/ that move

all hayward wanted for christmas was a pair of ice skates

CP3 was nice enough to get a pair for him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM_9bJtWkUM

Sly jack

You don't want big pieces of crap sitting on the floor during play. And you don't want to waste a lot of time or thought about how to dispose of it while the ball is alive.

Yeah its totally the right move.

classic

lebron about to climb above 30 PER

how many rings does he need in order for us to have a real mj v lebron GOAT debate?

five more seasons near the same level as the last several and it's a toss-up probably

five (at least 3) champs too. if lebron keeps delivering without winning idk, ppl are mad

championships are pretty much the only factor when all is said and done

zzz whats the difference between 6 and 3

3

favors last april (25.1 mpg)

April 25.1 4.0-7.0 .571 0.0-0.0 .000 1.8-2.6 .706 8.4 0.9 1.5 0.5 2.7 1.6 9.8

& this year (22.1 mpg)

2012-13 Regular Season 27 22.1 3.3-7.4 .443 0.0-0.0 .000 2.9-4.0 .713 6.4 0.7 1.6 0.9 2.8 1.4 9.4

haywards april

April 36.9 5.2-10.3 .507 1.8-3.8 .490 3.8-4.3 .875 3.7 3.5 0.3 0.9 1.3 1.9 16.1

&

2012-13 Regular Season 32 26.7 4.2-10.0 .421 1.1-3.0 .365 3.6-4.3 .841 2.9 2.3 0.6 0.8 2.1 1.9 13.2

xpost ppl going "u mad ", kevin

i doubt brons resume will match jordans when hes done, and im not even talking abt rungs cause thats a team achievement, but like even if he ends up being as good as jordan hell never compare to him as far as basketball skills go, bron is just a huge terrifying moster

what do you mean by basketball skills, bron would be like a mutant bird minus a little bit of shooting

minus a lot of shooting, come on bro

Nash and Maravich were both more skilled than Jordan, people don't really care about skills as the ultimate arbiter of greatness nor should they

obvs skills are not the ultimate arbiter of greatness but as far as all time greats theres something particularly crude abt bron

he's no more crude than Magic Johnson, Wilt or Bill Russell, who are all top 10 locks.

more crude

imo brons on-court intelligence has leaped a couple of levels the last two years, we'll probably only really know when he's like 35 and isn't the same bananas athlete he is now. right now it's hard to tell because he's just so physically overpowering but i think he's climbed to a mental tier a little bit below kobe, jordan, magic and bird- magic was more of an improvisational genius and kobes, bird and mj just had more competitive pathology

bron plays smarter than kobe imho

ya esp in the domain of ~shot selection~

bron's a basketball genius in a lot of the ways magic was. Bron is kind of a Rick Barry/Magic hybrid imo.

unfortunately hasn't learned how to shoot free throws as well as those guys

should go the ricky barry underhand route

yeah he kind of is! it's weird how he really has karl malone's body with magic's skills

btw all these terrible ft shooting big men (deandre, dwight) should absolutely shoot fts granny style

um excuse me but magic and brons skills are not that similar

bron's passing ability is a little magic-ish

but besides that

it was a stronger connection when they played him at pg as a rookie

i imagine a lebron late night show would also be a train wreck

i wish bron passed even more, besides his fast breaking its the most exciting part of his game

http://www.oocities.org/glare.geo/magic1a.jpg

but besides that

― lag∞n, Monday, December 31, 2012 10:29 PM (24 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think you're kinda forgetting how Magic was a physical force similar to Bron. Magic wasn't really a great ballhandler (probably a little worse than Bron really), but he was 6'9, fast and strong so it allowed him to use his passing skills and his incredible feel for the game.

magic was a great argument for the giant point guard, it must be sweet to back down little guards and be able to look and pass right over the top of people

i remember seeing one episode of the magic show where magic and whoever the first guest was were just lecherously fawning over tyra banks who was on second, it was suposed to be all in good fun but it felt a lil too real

^^^I REMEMBER THIS IT WAS WEIRD

was the guest arsenio??? or did the same thing happen on arsenio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa2553WddoA#!

lol magic in straight mac mode

dood ur on tv

obvs skills are not the ultimate arbiter of greatness but as far as all time greats theres something particularly crude abt bron

― lag∞n, Monday, December 31, 2012 4:47 PM (55 minutes ago)

dude wtf he's an amazing passer and ballhandler for his size/position, likewise but less so as a rebounder, probably one of the best wing defenders ever...he's basically a walking advertisement for what a basketball player should look like. you're using some kind of arbitrary standard for "basketball skills" i'm unaware of

also this has nothing to do w/ this particular argument but bron is shooting 77% at the rim this year...

bron is just big hes not good at basketball sry case closed