waiting for the other shoelace to drop: 2013-2014 NBA regular season thread (part 2)

West has always had that leg up step back

not like that?

Idk I remember him doing that but maybe it's just the dirkification of the league

it's the dead middle of the season for a back to back championship team who knows they won't play a truly meaningful game until june

i was actually thinking recently about how the clock is gonna strike midnight on the heat at any moment, like the big three all look incredible but their role players are all so bad and/or old

― k3vin k., Saturday, December 14, 2013 8:42 PM (1 month ago)

still think this post is otm. battier, allen, lewis, haslem are all corpses at this point. norris cole is probably their 4th best player
--k3vin k.

we're in the dead middle of the season for a team that knows it won't play a meaningful game until the east finals... this is probably the absolute worst part of the season to be trying to draw any conclusions.

mark jackson timeouts drive me crazy:

"somebody gotta wake up"
"this is not championship material"

all their role players looked washed up last year too and then ray and battier won them the title so we'll see

jordan what part of the season are we in i didn't catch that

dude come on things do not look good now, you can't keep counting on that magic, at some point they need to look like a real team

again i will wait until wade is back at full strength to make a more complete judgment

until recently they were playing vv well in games when all big three started

what magic? the magic of trying?

Lleeeee

no back-to-backs in the playoffs is i think crucial for miami

i like lees quick catches into moves

What is happening so many non calls both sides

what magic? the magic of trying?

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, January 21, 2014 12:16 AM (1 minute ago)

i just mean that holding out on faith that things will all magically fall into place in a few months seems risky. not that it can't happen, obv the big 3 are all amazing, and assuming this is just a little defensive blip, they still have spo and their system. but it's the kind of thing you don't want to keep on counting on

Lee has been awesome over the last month

you could make an easy argument that the pacers are the favorites to come out of the east but that's because they have reached juggernaut status and not because a shell of the heat's team is giving up 121 points on their third game in 4 nights during a 6 game road trip in january

i mean the heat won 27 games in a row or whatever last season and it ended up meaning what exactly?

home court in east conf finals/nba finals for one thing

it also seemed to indicate that they were good

east was tougher last year, too

and yet they looked as crappy in the playoffs as ever and needed a miracle to win the title

it's almost as if the regular season... didn't matter

someone who watches 500 nba games in a season might *want* to believe that the back to back champions' mid january game at the end of a 6 game road trip is meaningful but........

the home court thing is valid & they might regret not going hard at that

warriors doing some good stuff

Defense picked up.

hope warriors fans can get used to jordan crawford spinning runners as steph curry calls for the ball

Not a fan of dude so far

Reffing is so bad both ways

need to read brad stevens ebook "how to mindfuck jordan crawford"

crawford will average 40+ a game for the shanghai sharks in his late 20's

Otm

Wow ft's

i mean the heat won 27 games in a row or whatever last season and it ended up meaning what exactly?

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, January 21, 2014 5:24 AM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

IIRC it meant they were the GREATEST TEAM EVERRRRR

Bogut out here we go coach jaxx

Nevemind

and now they're in "serious trouble"!

i mean the heat won 27 games in a row or whatever last season and it ended up meaning what exactly?

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, January 21, 2014 5:24 AM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

IIRC it meant they were the GREATEST TEAM EVERRRRR
--Matt Armstrong

and now they're in "serious trouble"!

bogut to locker room :(

He was jogging but never a good site

and now they're in "serious trouble"!

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, January 21, 2014 5:54 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

who are you quoting

man klay thomson aways has perfect form on his shot how does he do it

Big shots. Bodies flying

bogut looks pained

Prob just a bruise

ah if that pass to curry had been better

Curry rushed it. Damn

Good effort clawing back into the game tho.

yeah cool game, mightve been cooler if gs took the first half a lil more seriously

Def