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

there's no way that Royce White is the worst first round pick ever. Probably not in the top 50 worst.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, January 30, 2014 7:56 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Names pls

― z-time champion (agent hibachi), Friday, January 31, 2014 1:11 AM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

LaRue Martin, Chris Washburn, Rafael Araujo, Joe Alexander, etc.

Pacers really turned the screws that quarter, yikes, those dudes can d up

lol how's the weather in Phoenix Daniel

Ha joe Alexander well done sir

46 more to go Matt

lol how's the weather in Phoenix Daniel

― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Thursday, January 30, 2014

dry and dusty, but the retirement-home has some fine cuisine.

With the NBA trade deadline just three weeks away, the rumor mill is about to go into overdrive. For the fans who live for scuttlebutt, it'll be a great time. For the players whose names are heard along the grapevine, it'll be an unsettling month.

In speaking with several league executives and agents this week, here are some of the things I was told: It's not unanimous, but most executives I spoke with think Chicago will go after Carmelo Anthony in free agency.

hehe

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Gross

Who was that big man from Spain that Orlando drafted a while ago who kept promising to come over and then backed out or something?

I would be happy to see him and his salary go except that I know nothing good will come of it as long as Jimmy D. is running the org

Who was that big man from Spain that Orlando drafted a while ago who kept promising to come over and then backed out or something?

fran vázquez? from the 2005 draft.

Yes! Nice

Ish Smith is a sun FYI this has been your 2014 who he play for

Ish Smith had some amazing blocks the other night, he's a cool player

One of my favorite nba randos

Hope Cavs GM Chris Grant lands on his feet

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ will be next miami dolphins gm.

I remember reading that the Cavs use all sorts of really unorthodox advanced stats and shit and that's why they picked Waiters and Thompson.

how's that workin out for ya cleveland

royce white is a first round pick who never played in the nba despite no catastrophic unforeseen injury or death

that alone makes him one of the worst first round picks ever. but there's a whole list of players who DID play in the nba and were actively bad and hurtful to their teams. whatever that list is... all those players were worse picks than royce white.

i wanna feel bad for chris grant because dan gilbert seems legendarily delusional

that having been said he's made some terrible moves

i feel like the draft picks are one thing... drafting players is a pretty delicate and fluky process. and he targeted kyrie immediately as the #1 pick over derrick williams.

more concerning to me are the free agent signings. jarrett jack and earl clark were openly bad signings, paying two players coming off career years that were clearly unsustainable. jarrett jack is a disaster and also made no sense given their roster on top of it all.

i was a fan of the bynum signing at the time but i can't imagine having seen him work out and then wanting to sign him. he's a shell of a shell of himself and that should have been obvious to anyone who saw him in the offseason. and given his reputation behind the scenes... jesus. another disaster move.

bynum signing I'm willing to guess was all Dan G.

the fact that all these first round picks have underperformed does make me wonder if there's a mid-90s clipperish negative atmosphere there. Kyrie was a no-brainer really and the picks that were reaches weren't crazy or anything.

hornacek seems like such an awesome guy. i hated him as a player

i still don't think the waiters pick is that bad considering what that draft is looking like right now

i mean, they should've taken drummond. but you could say that for every team in the top 8 of that draft except the hornets (brow) and blazers (dame).

the backcourt/wing players taken in the first round after waiters are: lillard (obv not a fit for cavs), barnes, terrence ross, jeremy lamb, kendall marshall, fournier, john jenkins, jared cunningham, marquis teague, jeff taylor

waiters may already be the best of that group now let alone in the future.

I think the Raptors pick of Ross might work out for them too, that was viewed as a big reach at the time as well.

that draft was hideous

best aside from lillard obv

brow, drummond, dame & maybe MKG and ross are gonna save that draft but the rest is almost beyond words

bynum signing I'm willing to guess was all Dan G.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, January 30, 2014

brilliant move by cavs signing bynum is key to wooing lebron back in 2014-2015.

j0rdan's list of backcourt guys in the 12 draft after waiters features conspicuous absence of austin rivers

beal and barnes will be pretty decent players too

j0rdan's list of backcourt guys in the 12 draft after waiters features conspicuous absence of austin rivers

― Clay, Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:30 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

haha fuck EXACTLY

beal is gonna be a star imo but he was a year after

jarrett jack is hellaciously bad by the way. one of my least fav players to watch. every 2 pointer he takes is terrible.

earlier in this game he drove to the basket and had one big in front of him so he dribbled under the basket and back out turned around and shot a midrange jumper

beal was the third pick, after davis and mkg!

@rodboone: .@drayblatche said he wants everyone to know his new name from now on is Young Seymour. As in, "They want to see more of me."

lmao

beal was the third pick, after davis and mkg!

― Clay, Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:32 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark

o_o

oh well see this draft is pretty damn good at the top

Only 2 1/2 guys in the top ten were bad depending on how you feel abt waiters

It's p slim picking after that though if you did that draft again plumlee and sullinger probably are lottery picks and maybe draymond green and it's real bad beyond that

tim hardaway jr looks like he's gonna be a big player

still too early to tell but he's definitely doing good stuff, i like him

Haha Blake pulling off the double step back j that melo taught him

good quarter outta gsw

lol turkoglu with some self-parody there

If there's anyone within 5 feet of Jamal on a 3 point attempt you best believe he's gonna end up on the floor once he lands

wow barnes in traffic

what are you thinking of Jordan Crawford so far? I enjoy his game when he's not gunning to a detriment

man this is how barnes should be playing regularly, hes a talented dude

bogut for three ;)

"The Cavs strongly refute report that head coach Mike Brown has lost control over the team."