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

xps Heh also fwiw basically every Yahoo! page over the last year has timed out in Chrome + Adblock for me and my life remains unaffected.

think we already established that the top 3 pt shooters of all time, with the exception of ray and reggie, are just above average 3 shooters who also play 25 seasons

Disco Matt sez, "If these trends continue ... "

http://i.imgur.com/PSk6gaF.jpg

ya kinda depends on what you mean by top xp

yeah durant's funny because he's always been a great shooter and has been known to be a great shooter, but this is the first year he's actually putting up great shooting numbers

hah well we can talk about best 3 pt shooters ever by % and w/ arbitrary number of 3's made, or by most number of 3's made

really happy that steph curry is gonna turn out to be a better 3 shooter than kyle korver

you have to balance the % w year played attempts per game types of threes taken and then you will know the truth

"Which newish guy has a chance to be the greatest 3pt shooter of all time?"

Becoming the G.O.A.T. requires so many factors to come together that such players come around very infrequently. so, most years the right answer to that question is "nobody".

afaics, no newish guys have demonstrated they have much of a chance. Curry has showed he has the stroke, but those ankles of his look to be so fragile that his odds of coming out on top of every other player of all time by the time he hangs it up look like about 50 to 1 against him right now. otoh, his becoming a top ten 3 pt shooter seems much more likely. More like 2 to 1. against.

And, if 3 pointers had been around in his day, the real G.O.A.T. was Freddie Brown.

afaics, no newish guys have demonstrated they have much of a chance

dude guys are shooting so many more threes and hitting them at such a higher rate its more like some newish guy is p much guaranteed to be the best ever

I mean ray Allen even shoots better than young ray allen

so, which newish guy do you like for g.o.a.t.?

idk curry durant Ryan Anderson Kevin Martin some college kid Steve Novak Austin rivers

also: Steve Nash

Austin lol

Right now Curry is #2 all-time in % (has about 2/3 as many shots as career leader Steve Kerr). I don't know Curry's attempts-per-game, but I'd guess it's higher than Top % guys but lower than Top Made guys. If he ended his career in the Top 10 of both, he's as strong a g.o.a.t. candidate as anyone. atm Nash is the only other guy in both Top 10s. Only 5 out of Top Made shot 40% or better; Jason Kidd is #3 and shot at 35% for his career.

w/r/t Curry's ankles, ask a Sonics (RIP?)/ Bucks fan if they thought Ray Allen would still be jacking 3pts in 2013.

if this year is any indication he will have plenty attempts, career hes less than 1 attempt per game behind allen, tho obvs thats not an apples to apples comparison

Nash shoots about 2 threes a month

hes 10th in 3pt shots made ever

Gotta love Matt Bonner:

"I don’t make sandwiches. Remember, I’m The Sandwich HUNTER, not the sandwich maker. Making a sandwich for myself would be like Ted Nugent giving up his guns and taking up laser tag."

Yeah, plus I'd bet that Allen's attempts-per-game were lower during the 1st half of his career, where he was asked to be more of a slasher/driver scorer. Curry has the benefit of his team building around Curry's 3-pt shooting, ie they build a solid chunk of their offense around getting Curry 3pt looks.

Also <3 B0nner now and forever.

Curry and Thompson

The whole Bonner mailbag is amazing. His bucket list, his unabashed New Hampshire homerism (I can't say I feel the same way about the place, but he's right that Funspot rules), his "How I get on Sportscenter" answer, everything.

http://www.hardwoodparoxysm.com/2013/01/25/bonner-on-bonner-the-matt-bonner-mailbag/

Playing for Coach Pop is wicked awesome.

haha yes

I still catch myself breaking out a "wicked awesome" now and again.

lag∞n, you're a Vermonter, right? "Wicked awesome" still in common parlance up there?

I grew up in Boston mostly, vermont some, they say wicked in Vermont tho not w the gusto of nh ma me

I have been pegged as Bostonian so many times via wicked awesome

but idgaf deal w it B-)

anyway great interview bonner is hilarious

huh. Maine was Wicked Good more than Wicked Awesome, probably because with the dropped letter accent awesome becomes AAHHSsm, with that "m" merely hinted at by closing the mouth. Growing up in the Upper Valley everything good was wicked awesome and everything bad wicked gay. An enlightened culture, for sure.

let us not forget wicked retahded in the pantheon of cool sensitive things to say

Oof. That was for when wicked gay didn't quite cover it.

Ayatollah Tagomata asks: Who would win in a staring contest: Tim Duncan or Kawhi Leonard?

Kawhi would win because he is 14 years younger and would most likely out live Tim.

Love the idea that they would just keep going until death!

Hahaha CJ Watson mockflopped JJ Barea last night XD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vmKcK_eQ15U

Faried is the best:

http://youtube.com/#/watch?v=Kik0ZrVeh08

Sorry, can't seem to get the code right on the iPad. Look up Faried praising his two moms. It's super sweet.

holy shit i did not know that

http://kwgn.com/2013/01/25/denver-nugget-kenneth-faried-supports-civil-unions-and-his-2-moms-4/

good to hear his mom w/lupus is doing better now, remember reading about her when he was in college

wade with the reverse jam in drummond's grill

wade is destroying this team lol

i know we all remember the way wade played around this time last year

lol 4 step layup for bron

@SteveNash The basketball Gods are so mad at us, they asked the Big Boss to make it rain in LA. Sorry Clips, you don't deserve this weather.

or idk maybe it's just raining and you guys suck?

holy shit @ bron and wade this quarter O_____O

didnicejjxjdnsjjs

Gonna embed that Faried video-- too cute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kik0ZrVeh08

my brother is at the heat game tonight, nice little show

oh shit drummond just clowned wade