#focus#mustwin#playoffs#drama? : 2013 NBA playoffs

dave zirin is terrible

his take is pretty simple minded. bomani on twitter has been better

roy apology http://www.nba.com/pacers/news/statement-roy-hibbert

Sean Highkin ‏@shighkinNBA 1m
LeBron gets Jordan/Kobe/Magic comparisons all the time but his best player comp is pre-injury Pistons-era Grant Hill if he'd stayed healthy.

feelin this

Hey yall heard Ps are one game away from the finals :O

Miami will be much tougher at home + Birdman playing more minutes + Wade can still have an efficient game even if hobbled + nobody would be surprised if Bron goes for 48/18/12/4blk/3stl/0to/0fl.

Plus whatever tumult Heat are going through now isn't as bad as after the 2-1 Pacers lead last year, and Heat whipped them three straight after that.

if the pacers win i hope everyone doesnt immediately forget what an amazing upset it is

Ethan Strauss ‏@SherwoodStrauss 2h
Have no clue what'll happen with Miami. But I'd guess that coaches will favor rest over win streaks going forward.

ya, tho personally as a fan i appreciate the heat going for the glory

Can promise that, if Heat lose, you'll hear more about that + LeBron's impending free agency rather than endless loop of D12 nonsense.

lesser of two evils imho

tho i guess rest v regular season wins an irl basketball issue and worth of discussion and is maybe not even actually evil

tbf tho win streaks are kinda bs, wouldve been cooler if they were going for all time win total, not that thats not bs too but its at least relevant in some way

Ha, think Haberstroh mixed up his black actors here:

Roy Denzil Hibbert, the floor is yours.

"You know what, because y'all m------------ don't watch us play throughout the year, to tell you the truth," Hibbert charged. "That's fine. I'm going to be real with you, and I don't care if I get fined. You know what, we play, we're not on TV all the time. Reporters are the ones that are voting. And it is what it is."

* nvmind, TIL that Denzil is actually Roy's middle name :/

haha

the regulator season should definitely have fewer games, 70 or so sounds right

imho 35-40 would insure that EVERY GAME MATTERS

i guess it's all just arbitrary but 35-40 seems like "too few", idk

16 game reg season, single elimination playoffs who says no??

the season doesn't feel "too long" to me, maybe chop a couple weeks off but reduce the games by a proportionally greater amount so there's less bunching of games

also maybe it's because this years playoffs has seemed historically lame but i'm starting to feel like i like the regular season more than the playoffs anyway

another reason why you can't shorten it to like 35-40 games is it increases the randomness so much wrt individual stats

the first week or two are really exciting and good where teams are amped to get started and prove themselves v competition but then theres a really long stretch until around the all star break where a lot of the time is spent going through the motions getting in shape and fending off exhaustion

IMHO

Yeah imho season length seems fine, but would love for some weird draft spot tweaks / 8th seed play-in or something. Major problem is just the lack of stakes at the end of the season.

having far fewer games would make the regular season less random imho due to more rest/fewer injuries/greater incentive to take every game seriously

Heh Bosh has looked very Sam Perkins for this whole series.

but the nba is already the least random sport so maybe that wouldnt be such a good thing

http://imageshack.us/a/img11/234/turbozonecardgoodluck.gif

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA 2m
Raptors GM Masai Ujiri's starting to clean house: Well-regarded scout Maury Hanks has been let go, source tells Y! Ujiri will hire own guys.

jesus masai

Terrence Ross ‏@T_DotFlight31 1m
On my way back to the T.Dot...

uh oh dudes terrence ross is abt to get fired

I really wonder if they'll get anything with Bargnani, and who gambles on him if he get amnestied.

lotsa stuff coming out (some leaks) that Lionel Hollins wasn't exactly well-liked in the locker room. Apparently Z-Bo wasn't the main source of friction tho.

https://vine.co/v/b3hWIpmXLVj

i kinda agree that brons game is often unbeautiful compared to many all timers, but if you think theres nothing to appreciate and enjoy there youre trippin

def enjoy and appreciate LBJ, just feel like he goes into cheat mode, "f this I'm just gonna run at the hoop full speed" when he knows his team needs buckets. at those moments it's boring and 1 dimensional.

like when you're calling the most complete player in the history of the game "boring"

most people are of the mind that Big O was "boring". don't know why you are incapable of separating things here.

youre boring and 1 dimensional

i wouldn't call lebrons game boring, maybe inelegant

youre inelegant

i know :( its one of my biggest flaws

with the long list of flaws ahead of it, i doubt it'll ever get fixed, sorry bro

sick burn, good one

Zach Lowe ‏@ZachLowe_NBA 2h
Heat are +5 for series total. They are -20 with Bosh, LeBron, and Wade together. I think that kind of split is unprecedented for them.

yo

#tradewade

i just finished this game a few hours ago and got dayum

that third quarter like a self-published e-book "how to lose a basketball game in under 12 minutes" by your miami heat esq.

"I am able to replay a lot of plays in my head," James said, and soon he started to list – one by one – the circumstance of every, easy Wade miss on Saturday night. No video clips needed, James remembered them all.

"We can state the obvious: They're both struggling," James said.

damn bron http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--lebron-james-dwyane-wade-chris-bosh-big-three-miami-heat-065701885.html

― lag∞n, Sunday, June 2, 2013 10:52 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

im not sure if i recall correctly (lol) but i think larry bird could do this too- or maybe it was magic or maybe both of them- if you describe a game situation to them they will take it from there and tell you where a teammate turned the ball over or whatever

as kerrs been hammering on during the games indys ability force miami to go big is killing their offense, its really the small ball lineups that are transcendent, w two bigs theyre ordinary

― lag∞n, Sunday, June 2, 2013 9:48 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark

this is killing me, i know birdman was suspended but you can't throw joel anthony out there and expect jack shit, dude is literally made of cobwebs at this point. you won last year going small and letting lebron go ham and have literally said that's the mistake you made in 2011. vogel is totally in control of this series at the mo

sry for excessive "literally"

i wonder how daniel esq is handling this

the heat could go small last year cuz roy hibbert was terrible on offense, they really had no choice but to give joel some burn last game

the heat can employ no strategy to overcome wade and bosh shooting 1-15 (or whatever) in the east finals

everything else besides that point is just noise

joel played well anyway