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

i mean think of all the amazing defensive centers out there now. duncan, kg, chandler, asik, noah, healthy bogut, healthy dwight, larry sanders, bynum, varejao

Brian Windhorst ‏@WindhorstESPN
Cavs and Grizzlies agree to cash dump trade, will get Memphis below tax & allow them to keep Gay & Randolph for now: http://es.pn/11OgRIw

Brian Windhorst ‏@WindhorstESPN
Wayne Ellington also going to Cavs as part of deal. Will save Grizzlies $6 million, get them safely under tax line.

Brian Windhorst ‏@WindhorstESPN
Deal would potentially save Grizzlies more than $4 million and take them below the luxury tax.

rian Windhorst ‏@WindhorstESPN
Just filed to ESPN: Cavs & Grizzlies are in talks on a deal that would send Marreese Speights & Josh Selby for Jon Leuer. Picks involved

btw whats up w leuer, he had a really solid rookie season then doesnt play this year

yeah srsly

xpost hibbert

our man johnny hollinger gone digging in the secondary draft

wouldnt trade ellington. hes on pace to a 5+ 3pt-M game in playoffs

Dwight unhappy about 5 field-goal attempts tonight: "Look at the stat sheet."

I asked Dwight how he can get more shots. He said: "It's simple. Play inside-out."

dwight u r not helping

HOLLINGER SEAL

JON LEUER, PF

+ Long pick-and-pop threat who can also finish at rim. Rarely turns it over.
+ Capable finisher but doesn't draw fouls. Very poor rebounder for size.
+ Must add strength. Competes on defense but fouls too much.

Leuer had an awfully productive rookie season for a guy who was included as a throw-in and then summarily waived. Despite no apparent rhyme or reason to his appearances in Milwaukee, where he was an occasional starter and occasional 12th man, Leuer was one of the league's most productive rookies. He scored at a very solid clip for a secondary player (15.1 points per 40 minutes) and made 41.9 percent of his long 2s.

Leuer also converted a surprising 73.3 percent in the basket area, and had the sixth-lowest turnover rate at his position. However, the other metrics weren't as inspiring -- he was 50th in rebound rate, had the 10th highest foul rate, and never got to the line.

The worst part, however, is what those numbers portend. High-efficiency rookies like Leuer tend to regress in their second season, especially when it's built on 2-point shooting percentage, as much of the time that efficiency turns out to be an outlier. You can ask Patrick Patterson or Ed Davis if you don't believe me.

Nonetheless, even if Leuer regresses this season he's still likely to be a useful player, and one that Cleveland snagged very cheaply after two other clubs cast him aside.

yeah getting leuer def wasn't just a throwaway

Brian Windhorst ‏@WindhorstESPN
This is the 6th first round pick the Cavs have traded for since 2010.

liking the cavs future, especially once they get bron back

guess the griz gave them a pick

ive randomly seen leuer play in person twice and he has a good semi-set shot ala pau gasol but otherwise literally seems kind of stiff- like he can't really move much. i think he doesn't turn it over because he doesn't try to move with the ball like, ever, and bigger rebounders just box him out

8 games in the dleague this year, 20/12/2 & (!) .47 from downtown

Brian Windhorst ‏@WindhorstESPN
Cavs announced deal. Pick very convoluted. Cavs get Griz pick in '15 or '16 if between 6-14, top 5 protected '17-'18, unprotected in '19

Brian Windhorst ‏
This is the 6th first round pick the Cavs have traded for since 2010.

Brutal. Cavs ur doing it wrong.

I disagree

The Grizzlies will reportedly sign free agents Delonte West, Bill Walker and Sasha Vujacic to free-agent contracts.

all 3pt shooters

delonte was a FA?

y dal waived him

@WojYahooNBA
Suns GM Lance Blanks and center Jermaine O'Neal engaged in a loud, expletive-laced confrontation on Monday, league sources tell Y! Sports.

O'Neal will not be accompanying Suns on road trip.

O'Neal wants off the sinking ship, I guess.

lance blanks is the gm of the suns??

i remember having an old nba player guide with scouting reports from like '91 where they made a firing blanks joke abt him

#Beanthoven
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BBOAPI4CEAE8vsH.jpg

Not sure if Jermaine fully understands that his body needs the Phoenix training staff more than the team needs Jermaine.

haha was gonna say

hey guys

been in wolves depression

but i can't still lol at the lakers

this was a good article

http://www.ocregister.com/sports/howard-408753-lakers-team.html

DING! Time to hold Dwight accountable!

It would serve poetic justice if somehow or other Dwight were exiled to the Raptors. Dwight is such a huge douchebag as a teammate, it almost makes me sorry for the other Lakers. Almost. After all, they are all Lakers.

the talented mr kobels

xp

kobe is live tweeting his 80pt game right now just fyi everyone

Kobe Bryant ‏@kobebryant
Youthful metabolism!! I'm fresh of pepperoni pizza and grape soda! #countonkobe

Kobe Bryant ‏@kobebryant
Down 14, I'm heating up...at this point I wouldn't pass a kidney stone #countonkobe

Kobe Bryant ‏@kobebryant
Watching the game now, the easy shots I missed, I could of had 100 pts! #countonkobe

my fav kobe quote, ever: 'Like, I have no idea what you guys are talking about.' on jeremy lin

http://24.media.tumblr.com/501b89c738d3b9c5d1718bca3b77e75d/tumblr_mh1rzuDi4N1rfimo0o1_1280.jpg

Kobe Bryant ‏@kobebryant
I wonder what Phil was thinking #countonkobe

Kobe Bryant ‏@kobebryant
.@nikebasketballI I felt like I was looking at a Salvador Dali painting #masterpiece

Kobe Bryant ‏@kobebryant
Luke, the only white boy with a jerry curl #countonkobe

After the game he brought a stat sheet around the locker room to show some teammates and reporters how he got only five field-goal attempts

says all you need to know about dwight

seriously

Never dreamed in a hundred years that anyone on the Lakers would be more deserving of my (our) hatred than Kobe, but here we are.

Is it time to renew the Howard/Okafor debate? lol

hahaha

hey poly how you feel about our dubs this year? generally speaking

I feel like they're gonna get knocked out in the first round.