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

100 pts in 3 qtrs against bulls d goddamn

thats impressive

i will LOL if c's make the playoffs and lakers don't

we all will, so hoping that happens. sorry carne asada

how did i forget abt javale's mom

Kobe - zero assists. The PG phase of his career goes into decline.

Really not feeling the Celtics being 6-0 w/o Rondo.

Fools gold?

rondo was sort of playing like ass this season

pains me to admit it but

just dribbling around til he could get an assist

This has been a really bad year for beautiful basketball. Rondo/Rubio/Nash all having regressive seasons (although still hoping Minny puts it together enough to make the playoffs / Nash gets a fresh Gasol back in time for a playoff run).

denver finally living up to their potential tho

lawson was +40 last night

Houston is scoring 1.51 points per possession on trips in which he drives at any time in the shot clock. That is easily the highest mark among all players in the 15-team database with more than a token number of drives. It is a mammoth number; keep in mind, teams average just about one point per possession overall. Harden has drawn a foul on one-third of his drives, which is among the highest numbers in the data set, and sort of amazing when you think about it.

Jeremy Lin is averaging 8.1 drives per game, ninth among all players, and even though he’s having a disappointing season, the Rockets are scoring 1.32 points per possession when Lin drives — about what the Spurs have scored on Parker drive possessions.

he in the first paragraph = harden

good nerd shit here http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/50343/the-height-of-wonkery-an-in-depth-look-at-the-nba-with-the-most-innovative-technology-available

jesus christ, deron williams hasn't dunked once this season

he's terrible

from ILH in 2009: cp3 vs d-will

not a good thread for 6335

• Hilarious confirmation of the eye test: Boris Diaw, always maddeningly shot-phobic, has shot the ball on just 38 percent of his post touches and a hysterical 9 percent of his elbow touches. That’s right around Jan Vesely in each category, and Vesely quite literally can’t shoot and doesn’t do much at all off the bounce. Diaw’s shot frequency should not match Vesely’s, even on a loaded Spurs team.

vesely seems tskitishvili-leve bad

having watched almost all of their games this season, Houston is a funny team--some nights they look like a chaotic mess, massive amounts of turnovers, no one can get a shot except harden, and just basically a bunch of scrubs...

but once in a while, increasingly of late, all of the moneyball probabilities seem to fall their way and they absolutely steam-roll the competition. the irony is that that sort of statistical approach should consistently keep them in games but more often than not it seems to create this two-headed monster of win-big or lose-big. i believe they may have the fewest "close games" of any team in the league.

http://deadspin.com/5982894/jordan-crawford-says-kobe-bryant-hisses-like-a-snake-on-the-court

Heh, kind of decided early on not to pay much attention to the nu Rockets since it seemed like they were just Unproven 6th Man + Unproven Celeb + weird assemblage of young, talented tradebait. Thought they'd be a sub-500 team this year, but with Asik transforming into legitness, they can go on really scary spurts. Kinda wonder if they jiggered their offensive sets somehow that might help their defense, which can be atrocious.

if we somehow luck into a rockets/nuggets playoff series my heart is going to explode

vesely seems tskitishvili-leve bad

― d'eejban (J0rdan S.), Friday, February 8, 2013 3:14 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

correct, and thanks

Also the team feeds off the smoldering energy of two hearts that beat as one, cannot recall atm which moneyball stat measures this.

http://theinterrobang.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/biffles-4.gif

http://theinterrobang.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/biffles-4.gif

Maybe Lin would cheat on Parsons w Gallo over the course of a seven game series to really stir things up.

hahaha

rockets-nuggs could be as great as that thunder-nuggs first round a few years back

That was such a great series.

Before the year started the Western playoffs could've been all-time:

Nuggs
Minny
Spurs
Thunder
Rockets
Lakers
Grizz
Clips

Which also leaves out perennial favs Mavs / Blazers / Whatever Team Overperformed.

thundernuggs super tempting username tbqh

[btw Eastern Conference : Western Conference :: LeBron Teams : MJ Teams] :p

I never believed Minny would make it.

they got fucked this year but i wonder if kahn makes it to next year

minny was a legit playoff team for sure, just ravaged by injuries

maybe

yeah legit might be a stretch. but they could def be running with houston/utah/portland/LA right now if healthy

they looked pretty good when they had 3 or so of their top 5 operating and healthy, but sadly the brandon roy thing was just a mistake

mostly counterbalanced by the kirilenko renaissance but anyway i think they would have been in that lower-half western mix for sure

Before the season started the only sure bets (lol lakers) we had were:

SA
OKC
LAC
LAL
DNVR
GRIZ

So it was a tossup for the last two spots between:

MAVS
JAZZ
ROCKTS
PDX
MINNY
GSW

Report: Cavaliers prepared to offer Greg Oden two-year deal

NOOOOOOO depending on how much.

DNVR

― skeet-skeet-gate (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Friday, February 8, 2013 5:46 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark

what javale is calling his secret shoegaze-dubstep hybrid record

vesely seems tskitishvili-leve bad

― d'eejban (J0rdan S.), Friday, February 8, 2013 3:14 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

only player in the league who may be as bad as Skita is Austin Rivers

Tskita is one of a kind, really