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

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

dam

http://i.imgur.com/0SAhW.gif

bobcats beat the bulls in chicago today, life's a funny thing

Vucevic has 13-16-1-3-1 2 minutes into the 3rd

I think that Vucevic got around five rebounds on the same play. Tipping it up and up and over and up and in.

they gave him 4 on that I think

25 rebounds with 6 minutes left

wow

Bynum trade looking pretty rough for philly

man vuc drills a clutch 18 foot rainbow

oh man overtime!

vucevic 29th rebound, breaks shaq's franchise record

wow

some other stats from that game

bron 17 pts in the 4th
wade 3-10 from the line

holy shit harden

18-8-6-4-2 for kemba tonight, dude is just quietly a very solid player

I think I mentioned this upthread but kemba rules and his stats for December are pretty eye-popping.

19.9 ppg, 2.5 rpg, 6.1 apg, 46-38-77%s, throw in 1.5spg.

I think it's mostly that he shot 36% from the floor on the year last year. 46 is a leap. And 30 to 38% for three b/w last year and this.

pj tucker is playing some amazing defense on durant

dragic is doing some things tonight

10.5 FTA/36 for harden in december

one of the painful things about the nba draft is that sometimes guys learn to shoot (Kemba?) and sometimes they just don't (Rubio?)

btw remember when the 2011 draft was supposedly super terrible

yeah that was pretty obviously wrong about halfway into last season. kyrie, faried, klay thompson, kemba, kawhi all look like solid starters for the foreseeable future

plus you have a bunch of solid role players on top of that

kyrie kemba klay kanter kawhi... reads like a list of roger clemens's kids

should start a boy band

wilt was just big hes not good at basketball sry case closed

shaq was just big hes not good at basketball sry case closed

malone was just big hes not good at basketball sry case closed