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

brooks keeps playing perk this is awesome

nice frustration play kd

well so much for the Durant MVP thing

uhhhhhh lebron is doing really cool stuff

lebron is not a human being fyi

lebron with a disappointing 23-8-4 tonight.

oh wait did u say it's just halftime, oh well i guess he still has a chance to impress

heat look particulary insane tonight. if ray allen could shoot this would be 20.

they're making it seem inconceivable that they wouldn't take it all this year

the thing with the thunder is that they could still go supernova on any team even the heat but there's some pretty defined way to beat the heat and the thunder right now aren't built to do that

if the heat win this year they'll have more championships as a franchise than the knicks.

and only less titles than the spurs, bulls, lakers, and celtics. that seems really weird!

the way i look at it is, you can beat the heat in two ways

1. completely overpower them inside (pacers, bulls -- note: regular season only, at least so far)
2. counter their defensive aggressiveness with crisp passing in the half court and bomb them from 3 (oh, have tyson chandler as well) (mavs, early-season knicks)

basically the thunder have no inside presence (even serge is a jump shooter) and then they have durant/westbrook almost essentially going head-to-head with lebron/wade and they're just not going to win that battle, at least not this year

maybe when wade has another couple years on him or has some kind of nagging injury slowing him down enough that lebron can't compensate

Danny Martinez ‏
LeBron has 23 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists in the first half. Complete list of players who average that per game this season: LeBron James.

xpost rockets too

lebron is a walking inferno

Brian Windhorst ‏@WindhorstESPN
Coming out of time out LeBron looks over to Chris Mullin, who is doing ESPN radio tonight: "I'm just trying to get better Mully."

inspiration for us all

great image that was, lebron w his arms crossed while in background crowd going nuts

these are seriously legendary times w/r/t lebron

he could keep his 60% streak alive tonight while shooting like 5 threes

what's the league record for FG% for someone that's 6-8? lebron's gonna set that record right?

6-8 or under

barkley, bro

Cornbread Maxwell actually holds the record for 6'8 guys but Barkley wins cuz he was "6'6" (irl 6'4)

ah alright i thought barkley was more like 6' 9"

oh, well

that dunk puts lebron over 60% :)

but at this point if lebron got to 60% on the year i wouldn't even be stunned

barkley was like 6'4.5!

shorter than Jordan

and he blows it with the 30 footer! ha wtf

of couse you care, bron

btw thunder 34 fts

unbearable

this is the best valentine's day gift of all

lebron puts up as many points as durant nbd

so where is this lebron season shaping up to stand in single season nba history

just behind Derrick Rose's MVP season imo

has any player in history ever led the league in shooting percentage in the paint and also shot 40% from three?

well, reminder that MJ had 10 triple doubles in 11 games in 1989

well lebron is putting up 8/8 every game so he's not far off

i have pretty much zero doubt that lebron could put up a season of 20-10-10 on 50% shooting

yeah when lebron was coming into the league the general narrative around him was that he would be the 6'8" oscar robertson

deandre jordan just hit the far right side of the backboard on a freethrow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ddHskpU1TE

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/sports/basketball/nbas-site-to-feature-updated-statistics-database.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

oh my gosh that blake alley oop

Uh, KD has 11 techs this season?!

Kevin Durant ✔ @KDTrey5
3 techs in 3 games, not like me...@kendrickperkins is a bad influence on my life lol jk..I will be better, sorry guys
10:27 PM - 06 Jan 13

Lettin grandma down KD

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