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

felton belongs there u know it

now this'd be more like it, tho i lol at the rockets:

NBA Legion ‏@MySportsLegion -- The Rockets and Celtics are discussing a Rajon Rondo trade, Celtics asking for multiple picks and Chandler Parsons. (via FOXSports)

second year wing for the clips, no one special. league rules state that everyone named reggie must be dealt today xxp

that sounds bad for the rockets. why do they need another ballhandler

cuz "assets."

some who can play defense/be mean to dwight and harden

new cavs gm trying to trade deng lol

but what do they do with lin and beverly?

lmao at the nets wanting thorton

he just landed on two diff worst contracts in the nba list i read this week

k3vin k.
Posted: February 19, 2014 at 6:23:00 PM
but what do they do with lin and beverly?

idk seems like the celtics are asking way more than the rockets want to give up anyway

new cavs gm trying to trade deng lol

― brimstead, Wednesday, February 19, 2014

clearing the position for bron.

anything to take Felton off the Knicks, I am happy with. i'll miss Shumpert a little, but whatever

NBA Legion ‏@MySportsLegion -- The Nets are on the verge of having a salary of over $200 million...absolutely insane.

lol curious how long they can do this

Seems like Ray Felton may have alienated more of the fans of the teams he's played for than any other player in the league. His main competition would be Super-Cool Beasley or Andy Bynum, but Beas has cleaned up his rep a little lately and I think there are still Lakers fans who genuinely miss Bynum.

Brooklyn Nets
Over Tax Line
$29,959,985
Cap Room
-$43,028,985

the nets are actually unbelievable

like, it would be one thing if they were doing this for good players. but marcus thornton is actively bad.

pretty sad that jet is gonna play his career out in sacramento tho

prob buy him out id imagine is he expiring

seems like a pretty good deal for the kings, cheap short contracts.
cousins is 6th in PER right now, 6 point jump from last year. Idk how volatile PER is but that's pretty damn good, right? Feel like the Kings could become decent next year if they don't fuck things up. Of course, they are in the West.

prob buy him out id imagine is he expiring

― lag∞n, Wednesday, February 19, 2014 2:15 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

no he still has another full year on his deal

apparently:

marcus thornton for JET/reggie evans

and

felton/shumpert for d collison/bullock

― k3vin k., Wednesday, February 19, 2014 10:54 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what even are those trades

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, February 19, 2014 10:57 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah who gaf about either of those

― k3vin k., Wednesday, February 19, 2014 10:58 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'll trade you my c. 2006 macbook and the dullest of my kitchen knives for your very good condition 5 year old ski jacket.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, February 19, 2014 10:58 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A+ work

NBA Legion ‏@MySportsLegion -- Rajon Rondo, James Harden and Dwight Howard is SCARY.....could very well win you the Western Conference.

could also result in rajon rondo trying to decapitate dwight howard with a machete. rondo's a little high-strung.

Feel like the Kings could become decent next year if they don't fuck things up. Of course, they are in the West.

their entire roster is kind of problematic on the defensive end to really compete tho

NBA Legion ‏@MySportsLegion -- The Pacers called the Cavs about a potential Luol Deng trade....

drudge sirens around this one.

wtf is that twitter account, seems bogus

not bogus, but not the definitive source either.

that sounds bad for the rockets. why do they need another ballhandler

― k3vin k., Wednesday, February 19, 2014 6:01 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

both of their point guards are mediocre starters

where are the cool trades c'mon

it'll all go down on wednesday at 11:57 pm.

that sounds bad for the rockets. why do they need another ballhandler

― k3vin k., Wednesday, February 19, 2014 6:01 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

both of their point guards are mediocre starters

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, February 19, 2014 6:56 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rondo is really overrated and i assume morey knows this

not that getting him for chandler parsons would be a bad move but the trade makes no sense for the rockets from a depth perspective, it seems like there would need to be at least another team involved

rondo wouldn't be good a fit for the rockets because harden becomes their primary ball handler late in games which would render rondo ruthless

which would render rondo ruthless

rondo isn't overrated btw, he has about $18 million left on his deal that's a fucking steal

which would render rondo ruthless

otm

― tsrobodo, Wednesday, February 19, 2014 8:18 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

this is what happens when you post to ilx while listening to biggie

agree he's not overpaid but he probably is overrated. he's just not the elite point guard people think he is

being bad at shooting is a very bad thing in the nba

he spent a very long time in a system that maximized his effectiveness imo

also he sometimes develops strong hatreds for certain teammates, so the rockets might become the nba's best story.

http://5throwjoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/rondo-dwight-640x400.jpg

Lin is also not very good and Morey gave him 24m over 3 years

imo he is an otherwise vv good player who just cant do the most important thing at all, like if he was as good at shooting as he was at other things he wld be a top ten player

not really sure why certain people can't become good at shooting over time, like how do you even end up playing basketball

yeah i dont really get it either, maybe its cause of the usas fucked up development system, like if youre good enough no one really even tries to make u shoot right until college

adopt the euro club system imho end aau/college athletics etc

i'm sticking with my hands-too-big theory

i mean i get it if you're shaq and your hands are the size of over mitts and the ball isn't big enough or whatever, but if you're rondo-sized it seems like you should learn to shoot okay and it shouldn't take more than like a couple hours a day over a summer maybe xp ha well maybe his hands are too big!

shooting is hard guys