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

lol was bosh upset about bron stealing his board there?

old pau is just really sad, i mean that sincerely

lebron is v v good

bron got pissed in the third quarter and turned on the jets

Lebron just pimp slapped the lakers with :06 left

it's funny watching lebron guard kobe. he just funnels him to the baseline and makes him take a fadeaway falling behind the basket. every single time.

he's just an amazingly smart defender

I get that Le Batard is making fun of Simmons, I'm just amazed that Simmons is this ignorant. New depths and all.

lakers lose by 9 to the heat despite miami only making 2 three pointers *gulp*

I get that Le Batard is making fun of Simmons, I'm just amazed that Simmons is this ignorant. New depths and all.

― Matt Armstrong, Friday, January 18, 2013 1:15 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

yeah. despite what now amounts to years of evidence against these theories, simmons still believes two things:

1. the heat are forever on the verge of panicking and trading bosh
2. russell westbrook & kevin durant can't exist together and are in a perpetual power struggle, as evidenced in the dynamic between stringer bell and avon barksdale

as evidenced in the dynamic between stringer bell and avon barksdale

haha

definitely an interesting, encouraging game from ray allen.

tonight sorta showed that the heat can run ray out there on defense vs. a non-threat PG (in this case steve nash..........................) and be okay. on offense he looked competent again finally.

it's crazy to me that all the TV analysts still say that "you need to dominate the heat down low" despite everyone saying that from the start of the big 3 era and it never having been proved as a way to beat them

chuck just called the clippers the fourth best team in the west -_-

have the heat played a team in the playoffs with any kind of personnel capable of dominating down low?

Vucevic having 45 rebounds in a game vs. them was a bit of an eye opener

the pacers for sure, who gave them a run but ultimately got steamrolled

but that was also w/ no bosh... not that he's been much of help lately but still

Hibbert and David West isn't exactly parish and mchale

or gasol and randolph

certainly their rebounding problems have a lot to do with being a donut team

yeah, well memphis would be interesting. i don't think that will ever come to pass tho.

certainly their rebounding problems have a lot to do with being a donut team

― Matt Armstrong, Friday, January 18, 2013 1:48 AM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark

yeah but then you watch them in a game like tonight where they're at full strength (give or take a gimpy battier) and exerting max effort and the size thing suddenly looks like a complete misnomer. they beat the lakers easily tonight at the end of the game in a small vs big match up (partly cuz they could just beat dwight)

still the best way to beat the heat imo is to have a bunch of three point shooters... that's always been their weakness in the big 3 era because they rotate so aggressively, despite everyone's insistence that they'd be weak defending the paint

that's why the mavs beat them and that's why i think they lucked out when OKC beat the spurs last year and it's why the knicks slaughtered them twice this year

heat are starting to creep up into the top 10 in defensive efficiency for the season btw

(partly cuz they could just beat dwight)

partly cuz they could just foul dwight, i mean

it's kind of a moot point cuz we're in a weird era where a lot of the best big men in the league are on shitty teams

I guess that's cuz so many of them are young

@ArashMarkazi Dwight Howard is pretending to walk around the Lakers locker room with his imaginary girlfriend, Judy.

― moullet, Thursday, January 17, 2013 9:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how about his imaginary girlfriend mary carey

http://distilleryimage4.s3.amazonaws.com/76e71bc2613d11e2a94622000a1fbd9f_7.jpg

lol per d

@WindhorstESPN
Pau just looked at fans in front row & raised his eyebrows after Dwight airballed free throw.

#teampau

lakers might want to work on that interior D, if only they couldve acquired someone in the offseason

http://i.imgur.com/clgSY.png

lawl

thats great

NBA commissioner David Stern says any team tempted to "eavesdrop" on opponents will face sanctions from the league.

the eastern conference is so bad http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2013/1/18/3889966/nba-all-star-game-2013-reserves-roster-picks

rip alvin gentry

fired?

y

weird, WHAT WAS HE SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THAT ROSTER?!!!!

mercy killing

oh ok. He is a good coach imo.

agreed

the lakers should trade pau to whatever team in the east is an 8 seed for their playoff berth

they should trade dwight

both, and nash

and kobe

otm sacre is untouchable, everyone else is fair game, THE BANK IS OPEN

no but really dwight is the only "trade chip" they have that could do anything signifiant to their roster

they should trade dwight on account of both he and the team being the worst