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

whoa the rare cp3-getting-pickpocketed

hey guys did you know that #1 clipper fan billy crystal is the world's foremost clipper fan and is also star of this holiday season's classic, "parental guidance"?

smh

huh, this got tight.

what the hell is cp3 doing

i love petulant van gundy.

"but they're all big possessions! every possession is important!"

haha d'antoni forced to play pau

sick

niiiiiiice

lakers were .500 for one brief shining moment

kobe had a great game tonight all things considered

yeah he played the best of anyone probably

heh "MVP!" chants for cp3 in staples, wonder if those fans are doing that with their middle fingers saluting high at ol' kobles

gordy hayward nearly had a 14 trillion tonight

griffin smashing those kids was the highlight of the game.

pretty sure the lakers pooped their big boy pants tonight.

xp wow that doesnt read quite right. ANYWAY that was crazy, felt bad for that kid but he came back and seemed fine

haha yeah i was like ok spottie.......

Jason Whitlock @WhitlockJason 26m
Chris Paul still has lot to learn and prove at crunch time...

lol whutlock

arent there like stat nerd breakdowns that show cp3 is always one of the best in crunch time?

unless he's defining crunch time as "one third of the way through the season and 10 games out of first"

good piece http://www.nba.com/heat/news_recap/when-chicago-cut-corner

btw i think the court should be wider

should be a giant square w/ 4 baskets

and trampolines

eliminate traveling

Chris Paul @CP3
Sittin here watching the game from 2nite on my ipad n lil Chris says "Daddy, lemme see when Kobe dunked on you" #ForgetYouChris #HeGotMe lol

#ForgetYouChris

the pacers just turned the ball over like 8 times in a row
― an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer), Friday, January 4, 2013 9:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

psycho t absolutely smoked sullinger one on one a couple times
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Dammit would've loved some live-action blogging of this game. Apologies that you saw probably the worst Pacers game since the first week. George Hill was out, and the Pacers offense just doesn't work w/ DJ Augustin in there; Augustin has easily been the biggest disappointment for the Pacers this season, and no one should have to watch the Pacers play an Augustin-led game.

How vocal was Vogel? Feel like he's one of the consistently loudest coaches in the league. Hear any fun chatter? Looked like things were getting kinda personal in that 4th quarter, esp. w/ Hbro being very Hbro the whole game. Paul George / Lance Stephenson look good live? Feel like no one has noticed that Paul George has made a big jump this last month, esp. watching his perimeter defense-- dude has been getting a ton of smart steals.

Speaking of which, totally forgot how joyful watching Avery Bradley's perimeter D can be. One of the few NBA players whose D demonstrably rattles opposing players. Glad he's back.

yeah the pacers looked awful for the most part, particularly the guard play. stephenson and augustin ranged from invisible to actively bad. david west got some easy baskets but looking now his overall shooting was as bad as everyone else's so idk. basically they might not have any viable guards other than hill.

things definitely escalated after that dumb flagrant 2 call on garnett. sadly i was too far away to hear anything but vogel did get t'd up so maybe that's in character.

on the celtics side it was indeed great to see bradley, he's super rusty on offense (had no idea where to be in a couple sets and his shot is off) but the defense is still there. love seeing sullinger rebound and battle but he's got some holes in his game re: scoring near the basket and playing one-on-one defense.

celtics have to give serious minutes to two black holes in collins and jeff green. green in partic i have no idea what he was even doing most of the time.

Jeff Green

$8,100,000

$8,700,000

$9,200,000

$9,200,000

ungh

http://www.nba.com/heat/#/story/news_recap/when-chicago-cut-corner

Yeah, was bummed to watch the game and see Lance not play better-- dude has made a major step this season. Basically, his game only works when he's in there w/ the starters since the bench players can't handle his passes. He's got a crazy bball IQ but it's only applicable when he can make crazy no-look bullet passes to people like Granger/West/PGeorge/GHill. Otherwise, it's an instant turnover. Heh, during the game Augustin made one of the worst telegraphed behind-the-back passes I've ever seen. Would love to find a way to package Augustin/Sam Young for what Augustin was supposed to be: a serviceable packup PG. Honestly, would be awesome to have a shoot-first, driving-oriented pg in there and just let Hbro and Manhimi pound the offensive glass.

But bummed you had to see that. I swear Indy is a really fun team to watch now! Last night's game was awful to watch-- had to turn it off early 4th quarter. Esp. since there isn't much joy in watching Garnett sink 18-20 ft jumpers over and over again.

hahah omg kobes tiwtter av

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gross

#mambatweets

Jerry Zgoda ‏@JerryZgoda
BREAKING: Love has re-fractured the third metacarpal on his right hand.

Dr. Armstrong was right

indeed

so that's what another 4-6 weeks min?

presuming it doesn't require surgery it should be 4-6 weeks.

Love re-fractured third metacarpal on his right hand when giving middle finger repeatedly to Timberwolves management

the curse of brandon roy

pek is wearing a sleeve covering his new tattoo so ill be crying for the next 2.5 hours if you're wondering.

there's been some kyrie tonight

The Celtics are infuriating. They come out in the second half aggressive & hustling and the Hawks big lead disappears. Imagine if they started the game like that; might not fall behind by 18. The inconsistent effort just pisses me off.

heroic fat guy in bird jersey sitting behind dominique tonight

celtics win TWO GAMES IN TWO DAYS thats right haters

hawks announcer calls all the players by their first names: josh, ivan...

lots of announcers do that

d-will is 5/8 tonight from the field. if he keeps up this blistering pace it'll be the third time this season he's shot over 50% in a game