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

Pau out 6 weeks

Sacre time!

I hope he gets demolished just so there can be a "Sacre Blew!" headline

lol

i take he's trying to look like a 70s soul singer there?

Daryl Morey ‏@dmorey
Lebron-X-X-X-X is +(really big) always (fixed) RT @tomhaberstroh Bosh out, Battier starting. Chalmers-Wade-LeBron-Battier-Haslem is +29

http://www.caller.com/news/2013/feb/06/spurs-splitter-taking-steps-toward-stardom/

ok, give the MVP to Bron again

Jesus how the fuck has Philly won any games this year. Tough team to watch.

Pacers closing out a back-to-back-to-back on the road at Philly and they're still winning all of the 4th quarter loose balls. Aside from maybe the Kings, Philly looks like the most uninterested team I've seen this year. Kinda perverse to expect Bynum to change that.

bynum's not played this season right?

tomhaberstroh Tom Haberstroh
LeBron has scored 57 points on 27 FGA over his last two games. He's 10/13 tonight with 26 points.

Oh shit, I thought Bynum was supposed to come back sometime during the 2nd half of the season.

Either way, fuck Spencer Hawes.

is there any kind of precedent for a wing player running at lebron's present productivity/efficiency?

OKC is blowing teams out lately

is there any kind of precedent for a wing player running at lebron's present productivity/efficiency?

― Clay, Wednesday, February 6, 2013 9:24 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

are we calling jordan a wing?

4 minutes for drummond thru 3 quarters

is there any kind of precedent for a wing player running at lebron's present productivity/efficiency?

― Clay, Wednesday, February 6, 2013 9:24 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

are we calling jordan a wing?

― manti 乒乓 (k3vin k.), Thursday, February 7, 2013 2:27 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Jordan wasn't that efficient.

In terms of scoring efficiency LeBron is way behind guys like Barkley or Dantley's best seasons (or Durant this season!) but what makes it crazy/unprecedented is that he's also dishing out so many dimes.

ok, not way behind, but a distinct notch below

http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/psl_finder.cgi?request=1&match=single&type=totals&per_minute_base=36&lg_id=NBA&is_playoffs=N&year_min=&year_max=&franch_id=&season_start=1&season_end=-1&age_min=0&age_max=99&height_min=0&height_max=99&birth_country_is=Y&birth_country=&is_active=&is_hof=&is_as=&as_comp=gt&as_val=&pos_is_g=Y&pos_is_gf=Y&pos_is_f=Y&pos_is_fg=Y&pos_is_fc=Y&pos_is_c=Y&pos_is_cf=Y&qual=&c1stat=ts_pct&c1comp=gt&c1val=.62&c2stat=pts_per_g&c2comp=gt&c2val=25&c3stat=ast_per_g&c3comp=gt&c3val=5&c4stat=&c4comp=gt&c4val=&c5stat=&c5comp=gt&c6mult=1.0&c6stat=&order_by=ws

yeah Jordan was never consistently efficient in the way lebron is making it happen right now. xxp

is there any kind of precedent for a wing player running at lebron's present productivity/efficiency?

― Clay, Wednesday, February 6, 2013 9:24 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

are we calling jordan a wing?

― manti 乒乓 (k3vin k.), Thursday, February 7, 2013 2:27 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Jordan wasn't that efficient.

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, February 6, 2013 9:38 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

young jordan (88-91) compares pretty favorably to what lebron's doing right now

http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/psl_finder.cgi?request=1&match=single&type=totals&per_minute_base=36&lg_id=NBA&is_playoffs=N&year_min=&year_max=&franch_id=&season_start=1&season_end=-1&age_min=0&age_max=99&height_min=0&height_max=99&birth_country_is=Y&birth_country=&is_active=&is_hof=&is_as=&as_comp=gt&as_val=&pos_is_g=Y&pos_is_gf=Y&pos_is_f=Y&pos_is_fg=Y&pos_is_fc=Y&pos_is_c=Y&pos_is_cf=Y&qual=&c1stat=ts_pct&c1comp=gt&c1val=.60&c2stat=pts_per_g&c2comp=gt&c2val=25&c3stat=ast_per_g&c3comp=gt&c3val=5&c4stat=&c4comp=gt&c4val=&c5stat=&c5comp=gt&c6mult=1.0&c6stat=&order_by=ws

move that ts% to 60% and here are your three best wings ever

so I guess if you don't call Dantley a wing the only guys who were more efficient scoring than LeBron this year are Mullin and Durant:

http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/psl_finder.cgi?request=1&match=single&type=totals&per_minute_base=36&lg_id=NBA&is_playoffs=N&year_min=&year_max=&franch_id=&season_start=1&season_end=-1&age_min=0&age_max=99&height_min=0&height_max=99&birth_country_is=Y&birth_country=&is_active=&is_hof=&is_as=&as_comp=gt&as_val=&pos_is_g=Y&pos_is_gf=Y&pos_is_f=Y&pos_is_fg=Y&pos_is_fc=Y&pos_is_c=Y&pos_is_cf=Y&qual=&c1stat=ts_pct&c1comp=gt&c1val=.62&c2stat=pts_per_g&c2comp=gt&c2val=25&c3stat=&c3comp=gt&c3val=&c4stat=&c4comp=gt&c4val=&c5stat=&c5comp=gt&c6mult=1.0&c6stat=&order_by=ws

like i'm thinking jordan dropping 35 a game while shooting 54% is pretty efficient, i don't know

Jordan compares favorably to it but doesn't quite match it, if LeBron keeps up this pace

when I say Jordan wasn't "that efficient" I mean he wasn't as efficient as LeBron is this season, which is just one notch below the most efficient scoring seasons we've ever seen

I mean shit, it looks like LeBron is charging towards 60% here

feel like you're sort of splitting hairs, the difference between a .605 and a .625 ts isn't all that much, and yeah older jordan wasn't in lebron's league efficiency-wise but young jordan >>> old jordan

and i mean jordan's got bron by like 8 points too, that means something (though that's not pace adjusted)

oh harden just put a nice move on bron

well when I broached this I didn't mean lebron 12-13, I meant lebron February 2013 thus far (a very small sample size I admit). I've just never heard of a guy scoring 25+ a game while shooting 90% from the floor and that guy not being wilt or shaq.

and i mean jordan's got bron by like 8 points too, that means something (though that's not pace adjusted)

― manti 乒乓 (k3vin k.), Thursday, February 7, 2013 2:52 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah that's a fair point

you still gotta give the efficient wing scoring crown to Dantley imo

harden is going nuts right now

dude i didn't realize bron was shooting 56% on the season, wow. he'd been hovering around 53-54 for a while

wau wade

Guess the Warriors decided to take this week off on defense.

Also Steph 8-32 over the last couple games doesnt help

Harden becomes just the 3rd opponent in Heat franchise history to go 36-12-7. The other 2? Fat Lever and... LeBron.

how long until we can just say lebron's better than jordan? two more years of this?

yeah two more full years of this insanity and I'd start saying it

I am essentially rooting for lebron to get a couple more rings real quick here simply to humanize Jordan and antagonize Kobe.

^

http://nesn.com/2013/02/report-kevin-garnett-exercises-no-trade-clause-to-end-trade-discussions-between-celtics-nuggets/
Man, KG on the Nuggets would be interesting

nuggs would probably have to slow way down. no idea who they'd want for him - gallo i assume would be the centerpiece

http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/531864_o.gif

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/8924249/kobe-bryant-challenges-dwight-howard-return-shoulder-injury-play-pain

Kobe Bryant once again has urged Dwight Howard to play through some pain while claiming that the Los Angeles Lakers center "worries too much" about media and fan criticism.

Howard has missed the past three games because of a torn labrum in his shoulder, aggravating an injury he initially suffered earlier this season.

Despite winning the three games Howard has missed, the Lakers (23-26) are 10th in the Western Conference playoff race. They also will be without star forward Pau Gasol, who could be sidelined four-to-six weeks with a tear in the plantar fascia of his right foot, an MRI revealed Wednesday.

"We don't have time for (Howard's shoulder) to heal," Bryant said Wednesday in an exclusive interview with ESPNBoston.com's Jackie MacMullan. "We need some urgency."

The interview with MacMullan came one day after Bryant publicly challenged Howard, stating that playing through an injury is "something that you have to balance out and manage."

Bryant also asserted that Howard is preoccupied with how he is perceived by fans and media.

"Dwight worries too much about what people think," Bryant told MacMullan. "I told him, 'You can't worry about that. It's holding you back.' He says, 'OK, OK, OK,' but it's always hovering around him.

kinda loving this ginobili and Duncan-less core of spurs, they won't be contenders in a couple of years, but I think they'll be a playoff team. Parker is at his peak right now, he's really grown into an elite PG, and danny green and kawhi leonard are really formidable wings on both ends. splitter is starting to come into his own. once Duncan and Manu retire, feel like they pick up a max type player and they're still relevant.

xp haha BE CRAZY LIKE ME!

BUt for real Dwight at 60% with one arm in a sling is better than anything else they have.

as long as Pop is around they will always be relevant imo xp