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

is that john wall photo real?

i think so, didnt really consider it tho

dying @ adidas capris

lol looks like jerry lewis wrestling

What does being a British person have to do with me being ignored?

― tsrobodo, Tuesday, January 8, 2013 2:43 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is what's called an "open goal" in your way of speaking i think

Spike Lee does more dishonour to his ancestors at Knicks games than Tarantino could even dream of.

― tsrobodo, Tuesday, January 8, 2013 11:47 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

smh

tbf dreaming of dishonour is one of the things tarantino excelles at

this is what's called an "open goal" in your way of speaking i think

― an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 19:52 (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Only if you're making a ton of additional assumptions.

hi tsrobodo welcome to ilh

otm

tsrobodo, who's your team?

thanks am0n (aw shucks got me feeling all welcome and what not)

I'm a Spurs guy. Didn't have much of a choice in the matter.

tsrobodo, atm ilh needs someone to provide energy off the bench, box out consistently, and contribute some extra fouls to our hack-a-dwight strategy. can you do that for us?

tsrobodo, where are you from, where do you reside now, how come you spelled dishonor with a 'u'

You mean the Tottenham Spurs right

New here and not sure if that's supposed to be a euphemism sooooo, maybe?

Born in London formerly residing in Houston + Toronto currently in London/Essex. (pretty sure that covers everything)

And yup, I'm most definitely in a hoops thread talking about Tottenham.

just reflecting on how funny it is that john hollingers first order of business upon arriving in memphis is to try to trade rudy gay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv2EpvWQjc0

melo anthony, shook one

lol

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2013/0108/nba_g_nash-dantoni01jr_576.jpg

"HIM"

first rule of ILH is no talking about soccer

other than that welcome!

I don't play by your rules man

welcome!

xpost Compu, was looking through Pacers stats (http://www.82games.com/1213/1213IND.HTM) and wow, they heavily depend on that starting 5. may be the team that most uses his starting lineup (also POR) or am i wrong?
when Granger comes back they can have one of the best (positive) top 6 in the league?

and this is v fun to sort by net on/off court & production: http://www.82games.com/1213/ROLRTG7.HTM (Andre!)

Isn't granger the Rudy Gay of Indiana? I thought I remember CP talking about how they're better off w/o him or he's at least extremely overrated?

xpost im not his biggest fan but he was +10.1 last year

zach lowe today, btw

Indiana Pacers

The lineup: George Hill–Lance Stephenson–Paul George–David West–Roy Hibbert
The numbers: 501 minutes, Indiana's most-used lineup, and the second most-used in the league

The headliner here is Stephenson, who has won Gerald Green's starting spot and lifted Indiana's borderline unwatchable offense close to top-five territory — at least when this one unit is on the floor. Indiana's bench is as awful as it was last season, though in a potentially positive sign, the combination of George and four bench players has done very well in limited minutes, per NBA.com.

Stephenson has been one of the season's nice stories. Once an out-of-control mess with the ball, he's cut his turnover rate dramatically and earned Frank Vogel's trust in the process. Stephenson's a solid rebounder for a guard, and he has the freedom to push the ball after a stop — a nice way for Indiana's grinding offense to find some easy points. Vogel now runs some actual plays for Stephenson in the half court, including traditional high pick-and-rolls, some duck-ins for post-ups, and other pick-and-rolls that come after some creative misdirection. Having a second distributor is helpful for George Hill, who isn't the kind of waterbug point guard who regularly gets deep into the lane. It also allows Hill to work as a spot-up guy.

The net result is a high-scoring lineup that protects the ball (unlike just about every other Indiana lineup) without sacrificing anything on defense or on the glass. Stephenson is still hit-or-miss as a defender, prone to crashing head-on into picks and taking one fatal half-lunge in the wrong direction, but he's making progress every day. At 6-foot-5 with a wingspan a hair longer than 6-foot-10, Stephenson doesn't take away from this lineup's overwhelming collective size.

wade is pretty much back to doing wade things now

robert sacre looks like he's trying to spike a volleyball every time he gets near a rebound

i can't believe sacre is actually playing

for posterity, tonight the lakers started sacre/world peace/bryant/morris/nash

lin pulled after 4 mins?

robert sacre looks like he's trying to spike a volleyball every time he gets near a rebound

― an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer), Tuesday, January 8, 2013 8:18 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is how he plays defense too! interesting

LANCE@

lebron's having maybe his worst game of the season?

god lebron just murders indy's bigs tho

http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/media.canada.com/48d772b0-440b-4862-9dea-94c061d8eb0d/rob%20sacre.jpg?size=l

paul george and ray allen switched bodies tonight

toney douglas has been an underrated pick up

7 TOs for bron tonight, yikes

harden is working kobe tonight

clutchfans is amazing

http://i.imgur.com/Comex.gif

http://i.minus.com/iKH0MnyDFZN9b.gif

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

parsons def has yellow fever

holy shit

http://i.imgur.com/T3HOQ.gif

http://i.imgur.com/JWyQF.gif

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

hahahah what in the world

haha, the romance continues

parsons is kinda fine

if the lakers sneak into the playoffs so many people are still going to assume that they're gonna win the west