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

Thanks J0rdan.

Jimmer!

haha vince carter?!

what year is this

yeah vince is a good defender, he's got good size for a wing and i guess is trying now

Ha yay I was hoping that perimeter D thing would pop up here :) Damn that's some fun number-crunching.

BTW if anyone wants to throw out some good NBA podcasts, would love to hear. Really looking for podcasts that aren't built around slaphappy chucklehead style, but more toward stats/strategy-heavy stuff.

Just tried Basketball Jones for the first time in a while and realized why I couldn't listen to it in the first place-- one of the dudes sounds like this pud from In the Loops:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU9MqT9ZZYA

* Loop.

12 and 11 for drummond in 15 minutes #freedrummond

i don't think drummond took 10 shots in a game once last year

Haralabos Voulgaris ‏@haralabob
Been saying this for 2 years. RT @marcel_mutoni: Who dresses Monty Williams, and why aren't they behind bars?

Ethan Strauss @SherwoodStrauss
There's a lot I like about Austin Rivers. He left school early and made a quick buck before scouts caught on. Smart.

lol

haha

lol @ kobe turning into jason kidd this week btw

portland was down 21 to dallas in the third, are down 3 with 52 seconds to go. their season in a nutshell.

dagger

oh, god

haha this goddamn team is so silly

first 3 of the season!

lol @ jj getting subbed at offense

nnoooooooo shit wow

lamonster

:00.2 Portland Trail Blazers POR LaMarcus Aldridge makes a 19-foot turnaround jumper along the left baseline. Assist: Wesley Matthews

nicolas, dirk, lamarcus, oj mayo (lol), lamarcus

iirc that's his second career game-winner, the other was in dallas.

holy shit that 2nd half

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BB1Ug_5CAAACkPW.jpg:large

oh my fucking god the hornets seriously have austin rivers guarding kobe one-on-one

jesus christ what the fuck is monty williams deal

lakers up 3 with the ball, kobe backs down austin rivers, double team is forced to come, kobe dishes to earl clark who swings to nash for a completely uncontested 3

pau out last few mins. seriously

Monty Williams must be working under the idea that austin needs such experience to develop his nba game and his future development is more important than trying to win games today. I am not sure whose idea this is, but he seems to be working under that idea. My prediction was that Austin would be sent down to d-league right about now, so he could develop his game in a more appropriate setting.

He'll never come back though.

Lakers were kinda fun to watch tonight.

lakers are kind of a stealth fun team to watch, both for the schadenfreude and they're actually near the top in the league in pace. nothing like the recent past

14-8-11 for kobe iguodala, lmao this fin guy

Stealth fun? Fun fun! <3 <3 <3 pg Kobebean. Would love to read a long-formish piece about the last few weeks in Lakerland that isn't some dumb speculative opinion piece. D'Antoni makes it sound like he finally had some revelation that his system wasn't fitting the team; but, I feel like there was some silent mutiny and all the vets just decided to do what they thought worked.

Also think Kobe leads all athletes in quoted expletives. "I'm like Neo out this m----- f-----."

And now that Greivis Vasquez is getting pt, Davis/Lopez/Gordon/Vasquez/Anderson will be a really fun team to watch next year. Shame they whiffed on Rivers.

http://rlv.zcache.com/fear_the_pelicans_tee_shirts-r06680fcc67c741bfab2249bc9d89fb74_804gs_216.jpg

Rivers missed like 15 layups last night.

Seemed like anyway.

he was actually 3-8, which raised his season average. I'm not joking. On the season he's shooting 33%.

haha

http://i.imgur.com/5tTpXSH.jpg

haha, tremendous.

guys, http://www.cbssports.com/nba/blog/eye-on-basketball/21622844/behind-the-screen-inside-the-defensive-mind-of-andre-iguodala

front page of espn all on lakers nutsack today... u beat the hornets f'christsake!

I don't know what to make of Klosterman on Royce White. Interesting, at least:

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8890734/chuck-klosterman-royce-white

the Lakers are on a rollllll!!!

White's problems began at age 165, in a cabin outside of Minneapolis, on the first (and only) day he ever smoked marijuana. The episode may superficially seem like a standard case of weed-induced paranoia, but that's not how it felt to White. "I think it was in Forest Lake, Minnesota," he recalls. "I had an out-of-body experience. It felt like I was watching myself have the experience. It was so traumatic for me, and I had such a bad reaction, I started having panic attacks for the next two or three months, in rapid succession. Sometimes two or three a day."

The son of a cosmetologist and a social worker, White was prescribed Prozac at the age of 18 (he's still on it today).

trivia: royce white coach on college was fred hoiberg