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

carmello the other?

Wonder what the market will be for Chandler after next year-- he seems to be closer to old Chandler this year, but it's tough to gauge (same w/ Shump) on this Knicks team.

― Call me Shitmael (CompuPost), Monday, March 3, 2014 7:03 PM (2 hours ago)

wait what he's been awful this year and was good last year

yeah a lil over a month ago xp

ha, melo had zero assists that game, i didn't notice that at the time

chandler is not actually that good imo, seems like no one can actually keep straight who are the great defensive centers. is it larry sanders, chandler, marc gasol, etc, dudes are just products of whatever crappy secret defensive metrics are in vogue at the moment

most points ever tallied w/o an assist! xp to myself

haha. some already speculating that durant will aim for 62 points tomorrow (v. 76ers).

. is it larry sanders, chandler, marc gasol, etc, dudes are just products of whatever crappy secret defensive metrics are in vogue at the moment

― k3vin k., Tuesday, March 4, 2014 3:06 AM (38 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what the hell, man

idk man i'm tired of it

like look at sanders, dude is going to be a complete bust. tbf to myself i did call that

gasol obviously is a couple of levels above either of those guys, i shouldn't have included him

picked a great day to work 13 hours huh, smh at me missing the bron show

do YOU look at Sanders? Cuz it seems like you don't.

I totally missed you calling him breaking two bones and missing 3/4s of the season, great call dude

i'll take the under 0.5 career all star selections, even considering he plays in the east

yeah but... he's still really good at defense. Why don't you believe he is?

Ersan Ilyasova somehow went 13-14 tonight btw

a friend just texted me about how lebron is "the world's biggest ball hog" for having 61 points tonight. "it's a team game," they said.

he's definitely a good defensive player but he ain't worth 11 million dollars a year. the guy barely plays offense and can't stay out of foul trouble

obv q: is your friend white?
xp

also i think u should stop being friends

right but to make one team better you have to make another team worse

this implies there's a set number of quality teams at any given time. set range, prob.

oh totally white yeah, mostly the person is a really pure lebron hater xp

i asked him if lillard goes for 61 in a win tonight if he would be equally critical. "wouldn't ever happen -- blazers play the right way. unlike the Miami cHeat"

so yeah i think i won't talk to this dude about basketball for awhile.

he's definitely a good defensive player but he ain't worth 11 million dollars a year. the guy barely plays offense and can't stay out of foul trouble

― k3vin k., Tuesday, March 4, 2014 3:22 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

his foul rate the past 2 seasons has been high but not unreasonable. Comparable to Hibbert and a function of how much he protects the rim.

tell him the right way is to win, remind him of blazers slide smh indie

i love the miami cheat thing, like man u really showed lebron right there damn

the world maybe jumped the gun a bit on LARRY SANDERS! but it's really tough for me to believe he's anything other than an excellent defensive player having a bad year.

how you value that is a different story of course.

it's not like he's Ben Wallace on offense.

has lebron already wrested the MVP narrative away from KD?

on the new podcast episode simmons & lowe talk about growing buzz in the league about melo signing with miami lol

Kind of a lost year for Sanders, but kinda tough to judge him w/ all the injuries this year.

Beautiful comeback by Blazers, love them in 4th q.

lol pdx in another close one eh, whodathunk

lost to lakers at home :(

omg the Wolves had 64 free throw attempts tonight!!

robin lopez for MIP btw

Knicks in sole possession of 5th worst record, half game ahead/behind of the Celtics for 4th

Aldridge got hitched on that screen but he was totally there to make a play, pass/catch was totally perfect.

That game was sort of everything good about D'Antoni in a nutshell. Pau and assorted riff raff beating a top 5 team on the road.

correct me if wrong, but I think Bron's 61 did not include a single dunk

*Kendall Marshall and assorted riff raff

xp

Oh man if Dantoni can make a player our of the Bazed Gawd I will love him forever

I think Bron was assisted on only 2 of his 22 buckets?

I only saw the second half, but the Lakers played manic defense, not exactly under control, but throwing themselves around like madmen, while the blazers looked like all their passes were sluggish and their shots all looked rushed. It was the 'right' outcome tonight, but the Lakers still aren't any better than their record indicates and the blazers played much worse than normal.

god the ball sounded so good going through the net on lebron's shots tonight. dude wasn't even hitting rim ever. i'm gonna dream of the net ripping that cleanly tonight.

http://groundctrl.s3.amazonaws.com/clients/jd-straightshot/media/10/02/large.r2m164m9h4hx.jpg

unlike the Miami cHeat"

Delightful Morbsian wordplay

BTW I'm at a hospital about to get an MRI on my knee

Reason?

Dodgy meniscus

I caught the injury bug

Russ I feel you. I feel you so much

yeah I immediately thought of morbs!

feel better Dayo, can't have you out 6-8 weeks with the playoffs looming