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

3ot

jesus, gallo

lol andre miller

so dre miller really wanted to shoot some 3s tonite

andre miller: pure point guard

paul pierce with a 27/14/14

LeBron's shooting performance pushing ESPN writers into dangerously experimental prose:

Here’s how his 65 shots look when you write it out:

Make, make, make, make, make, make, make, make, make, make, make, make, miss, make, make, make, make, make, make, make, make, miss, make, miss, make, make, make, miss, make, make, make, make, miss, miss, miss, miss, make, make, make, make, make, make, miss, make, make, miss, make, make, make, miss, make, make, make, miss, make, miss, make, miss, make, make, miss, miss, make, make, make.

It would have had much more visual impact as Xs and Os. His way just pads his word count.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/videos/detail/viral-clip-fan-meets-tayshaun-in-memphis/

Warriors to debut tight yellow alternate jerseys with sleeves against Spurs on Feb. 22

http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/sptusnbaexperts/Hit-em-with-that-shoulder-learn.-Image-via-adidas.jpg
http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/sptusnbaexperts/Harrison-Barnes-likes-T-shirts.-Image-via-adidas.jpg
http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/sptusnbaexperts/Harrison-Barnes-takes-a-leap-of-faith.-Image-via-adidas.jpg

I do wish the typography always looked like that but the sleeves are nagl.

gotta create more real estate for those ads in two years

Make, make, make, make, make, make, make, make, make, make, make, make,

rihanna remix

haha

i wanna hear jay williams doin a game (:

Lol Jordan

cautiously wondering if the light clicked on for jeff green over the last 8 or 9 games

so...deandre jordan just airballed a dunk

cp3 and kyrie are both playing amazing

cp3 with 19 and 7 with 5 stl in 21 mins

christ, barbosa gets carried off the court

http://theknickswall.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/BLAKE.gif

erm

also pretty sure cp3 has shaken off the rust. 23-2-11 with 5 steals in 24 minutes

where is deandre airball?

might have to go murder someone over those warriors alternates, been nice chatting w u all

ha, the sleeves are really embarrassing. I hate how tight they are too. I do not understand the extreme tight top with the uber-baggy/long shorts, it's a weird look.

#oldman

no yeah it's awful

Another reason old man kobe is kinda likable, he's totally bucked that trend and just kept rocking a comfortably semi-baggy jersey.

spurs win in chi town w/o big 3 (or Steven Jackson), kawhi with career high 26

#depth

barbosa torn acl, out for season

hope the jet is ready for 40 minutes a game

no surprise based on the immediate aftermath last night. he was a surprisingly fun dude to watch.

Barbosa has always been nothing but fun to watch.

RIP

did the play look real nasty?

it was one of those no contact, plants-foot-and-basically-crumples-on-the-floor type things

ahh poor guy, hate that

need for robotic acls reaching an all-time high, get going science

foreal, its getting sickening. Seems like these didnt happen as often even just as recently as like 5 years ago?

WASHINGTON -- Denver Nuggets star Kenneth Faried has become the first NBA player to join an organization devoted to fighting homophobia in sports, and said he hopes his involvement will raise awareness of gay rights in professional basketball.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2013/02/12/kenneth-faried-gay-rights_n_2665920.html

foreal, its getting sickening. Seems like these didnt happen as often even just as recently as like 5 years ago?

― skeet-skeet-gate (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, February 12, 2013 6:06 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Might be confirmation bias. I'd wager that ACL/MCL injuries might be on the upswing because players have more efficient ways of adding muscle now and their ligaments can't maintain the extra bulk? Not sure if there's a profile of the type of player/body that is most susceptible to ACL/MCL tears; more muscle would be a tough sell on guys like Rondo and Barbosa, maybe a little more so w/ guys like Rose.

Maybe the game is more stop-and-go with bursts of quick movements than it used to be? Not sure, seems like this is mostly guards having this injury too.

Again, think that's probably more confirmation bias w/r/t guards. You've got guys like Jamal Crawford, Rubio, Shumpert, Rose, Rondo, Barbosa getting ACL tears; but, there's also Al Jefferson, David West, Kendrick Perkins, Al Harrington, Josh Howard, etc. I'd guess that it has the most to do w/ certain players' ligaments just not being able to keep up w/ the players' weight/muscle distribution. IE, even though players like Barbosa and Rondo might look skinny, their bodies might be handling more weight/muscle than they were made to.

Oh yah, I forgot about those bigs.

wtf lineup does karl have out here? miller-hamilton-brewer-randolph-mozgov

so proud to be a faried fan. dude rules

hey guys if you're up to feeling completely sick to your stomach grantland has a big profile on shaun livingston and that devestating leg injury from a few years ago

can somebody link to Teh sick dunk he had earlier this wrrk

poor mozgov

http://www.sbnation.com/2013/2/12/3982420/demar-derozan-dunk-timofey-mozgov-raptors-nuggets

lebron missed a shot in the first quarter. only went 2/3 for 6 pts, 4 rebounds, 6 assists, and a steal. ho hum