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

Heh I got the celtics winning the lottery and taking embiid on the third try, hopefully Adam silver will just redraw the lottery until that happens

http://espn.go.com/nba/lottery2013/mockdraft

An explosive athlete who can score from anywhere on the floor, Bennett is a beast in transition and a terrific finisher. He also has 3-point range and is a good ball handler. Bennett is undersized as an NBA power forward and can get lost on defense, but he had a terrific freshman season. The question is, at what point are you willing to draft an undersized power forward?

Oden is starting

Griffin just talked some serious shit to Ibaka after hitting a 3, a playoff series with these two teams would be very fun & contentious

Love that the Sunday abc doubleheaders are back! My favorite time of year.

We will never be rid of zombie Derek fisher hitting late threes will we

D fish die slow

Yeah spottie the Sunday doubleheaders are just in time to remind me that even though football is over, spring and the playoffs are coming

Yah man. Ballin ass weather. March madness. Spring training (the only interesting mlb time besides the playoffs). NBA playoff hunt and playoffs obv.

Jeez d fish having the best game of his last ten years

not watching game, just checkin in to see if d fish has died yet

the thunder are going small right now against the blake-deandre front line, there's really no excuse for perk ever playing

Wow Jamal's first actual time getting fouled on a made three pointer and it goes uncalled.

I think perk is hurt so let's not rush to give brooks credit for breaking his necrophilia

Blake is gassed

man, russy

Russ taking away late game shots from kd still ain't right

I will ride for Russ but he doesn't have his shot totally back and that was a terrible decision

Birdman cut his hair, big news

tragic story, really.

And right on queue jacks up two three point attempts smh

could the second-quarter score end at 0 -- 0?

heinrich has got to be one of the worst regulars in the NBA

scoring/shooting, yes

CHICAGO — Nuggets coach Brian Shaw is beyond the point of head-shaking. He was steaming after the Nuggets blowout loss to Chicago on Friday night.

How mad?

I’ll let him take it away. These were his post-game comments.

“As a coach and coaching staff, it’s our job to try to find five players that want to go out and play and want to have some pride and not decide night-to-night that ‘I’m going to play this game and I’m not going to play this game.’ I felt like tonight we had some guys that just decided they weren’t going to play tonight, they weren’t going to put forth any effort to try to get the job done. It’s unfortunate. It’s a nationally televised game that we’re professionals and as a staff we have to beg guys to give effort when they play.

“I told our team I wish paychecks were predicated on night-to-night performance. So if you play like a star on a given night then you get paid like a star. If you play like an uninspired player, then either you don’t get paid or you get paid like an uninspired player. And you can’t just pick and choose when you want. Last night we played Milwaukee, who is obviously down players, they have injuries, they’ve been struggling all season long and we act like the big bad wolf against Milwaukee. And then we come in tonight…and we tuck our tails and we hide basically. We don’t defend at all, from the onset of the game until the end. And thus another 30-point loss for us on the road.

Asked how he can get the message through to his players, Shaw said “I finished most of the fourth quarter with our two new players, Vesely and Aaron Brooks, with our young guys. So they’re going to be hungry, they’re going to want to play. They’re going to go out and make a lot of mistakes. But if they want to play, and the other guys don’t want to play, then I’m going to play the guys who want to put forth the effort and want to play like professionals and go out and earn their paychecks.”

I'm finally watching a raptors game and Kyle Lowry just caught a pass on a 2-on4 transition and just casually pulled up for a super long three

Of course it's vs the magic and also he nailed it

Also I know I've watched some magic bc I wanted to see oladipo but please don't clown me when I say I think I had the wrong mental picture of Kyle O'Quinn

I confess I also did not know he is literally a handdrawn cartoon

http://i.imgur.com/3hyrzCb.jpg

based on this thing the jazz totally fucked up their chances of getting jabari

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Sunday, February 23, 2014 5:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They may not care that much anyway. Fredette has been freely available (and they could use him!) and they haven't tried to get him at all.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhIeutxCMAAvreq.jpg

aw

Goran "Basketball Reasons" Dragic

dude is balling

i'm legit thrilled to see dragic playing like this, i was a big fan of his early years

lol u liked dragic in his indie days

u have all the goran eps on 4ad

yeah man remember that playoff series against...the lakers? super fun player

r u mad that he worked with butch vig on his jumpshot?

lol bise

I liked him better when he was in Indie............... playing against the Pacers

Vs spurs dawg

That's when he listened to Steve albini and randomly went for 23 in the 4th

Now he's all cool with Rick Rubin so whatev

Goran & Zoran shd be the Slovenian ratatat though just two bros shredding with a drum machine

love vs dame shoutout is pretty sick

harden, like most of the current rockets team, seems like an immature asshole, but his "i must disagree" commercial with anthony davis is far better than any other nba star-driven commercials this year.

http://djsdoingwork.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/5_1391532346_de0ac0f6f2b7b63a5c0866c440545e37.png

yeah man remember that playoff series against...the lakers? super fun player

― k3vin k., Monday, February 24, 2014 3:29 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah that magical quarter where he was like a tiny lebron

that was the best

That was a special quarter

I'm glad the Suns didn't do a short-term move at the deadline, just roll with these guys and make some good picks imo

they're kind of amazing? i think people predicted they'd be a lottery-team before the season started.

they probably deserve coach of the year and executive of the year