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

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

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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

so uh, I have discovered that there are people on tumblr who are shipping lin/parsons, it's called linsons, and there was a reddit post and accompanying imgur

http://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/16534a/jeremy_lin_and_chandler_parsons_the_best_bromance/
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/linsons
http://imgur.com/a/U8VdV

XD http://linladiesfanfiction.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/linsons-a-budding-bromance-part-1/

This was getting too dangerous, Chandler thought. He didn’t want to break the kiss, but he knew he had to. He was afraid of it going any further, plus it didn’t help that he now had a raging hard-on.

it never does, does it

as if i needed more of a reason to ove the rockets

omg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/e55a1a6557473f078c71cc517f44bb4b/tumblr_mfylytJ0Qp1rhpt5ro1_250.gif

that is a very modern suit/shirt/tie combo

chandler's tank top upthread is killing me. so chillwave.

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

dude the look parsons gives lin in that one

'look at that....between the legs'

the gif i meant but still