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

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Bron being younger / coming straight through high school can def skew the memory

A faster game is a more interesting game, so I'm on board with the new rule, too.

― Aimless, Wednesday, March 5, 2014 8:38 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

eggzactly

― k3vin k., Wednesday, March 5, 2014 8:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah teams have been running off made baskets noticeably more this season great rule

except its not a new rule, just getting enforced now

oh man that mcw shot chart ricky rubio pt 2

btw pacers got owned by big al tonight love big al long time big al fan over here

haven't we questioned the credibility of that twitter before? i'd like confirmation from another source pls

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, March 5, 2014

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also,

6 Brooklyn 30 29 .508

and only 15 games back from the pacers with 23 to play. nets can do this.

pg continuing his stackhousian scoring spree for the third month running

looks like noah got another triple double. didn't watch the game but i imagine he's openly gunning for it

A rally to protest Knicks owner James Dolan’s handling of the sinking franchise is on tap for March 19 in front of Madison Square Garden before the team hosts the Indiana Pacers.

good timing since pacers will win, 128 -- 71.

noahs assist numbers are getting quite insane

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BiA1AM-IIAA-RcO.jpg

this looks like it shouldve been taken 30 years ago and yet

why, because the Knicks have a lead? BOOM.

SO TRUE

congratulations to paul-george on his historic scoring night

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BiA0fsfIMAA2q-W.jpg

Kyle Korver currently leads the league in TS% at 66.4%. Slightly ahead of Lebron. This is absurd, obviously.

not really since all he does is shoot 3s

i mean to his credit he makes them at a pretty good rate

damn the pacers got housed, rip pacers

they shall rise again . . .

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BiAuwc6CQAAMeL0.jpg

first team to clinch a playoff spot no worries can lose a few imo.

so nicolas batum averages 6.7 rebounds per game. over the last two games he's had 16 and 15 rebounds. previous career high was 13. he has 13 at the half tonight. what the hell.

"Sometimes in timeouts I'll say, 'I've got nothing for you. What do you want me to do? We just turned it over six times. Everybody's holding the ball. What else do you want me to do here? Figure it out,' " Popovich said, according to the San Antonio Express-News, not long before the Spurs used 14 3-pointers and a season-high 39 assists to dispatch the Cavs. "And I'll get up and walk away. Because it's true. There's nothing else I can do for them. I can give them some bulls---, and act like I'm a coach or something, but it's on them."

this guy is the best

caveliers trying to woo back lebron james -- openly.

damn you, cleveland caveliers.

so not gonna happen

HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT?

korver might not hit a 3 tonight

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this looks like it shouldve been taken 30 years ago and yet

― lag∞n, Thursday, March 6, 2014 11:19 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why, because the Knicks have a lead? BOOM.

― Clay, Thursday, March 6, 2014 11:26 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

SO TRUE

― lag∞n, Thursday, March 6, 2014 11:27 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

XD XD XD <3 ILH

omg kyle

yeah korver's streak is done, that's too bad

good luck to steph curry in his bid to obliterate it

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hm. maybe!

http://i.imgur.com/9vGJHt8.jpg

streaks are not the most real records rip korver or w/e

that simmons rant about the sixers was totally insane btw

he kept refuting his point -- no one in boston really cared that the celtics tanked for duncan, or durant, or that they ended up getting KG and ray -- but apparently the sixers fans are going through some torturous process because their team is tanking to become obviously better extremely soon?

also his entire obsession with young players "learning" from veterans is kind of bizarre and overstated, like why would you assume that a surly danny granger who just got kicked out of the franchise he was once a face of for the the worst team in the NBA would be willing to mentor michael carter williams?

he basis his entire point about MCW on what happened with antione walker during his rookie season without making even the slightest acknowledgment that maybe antione walker was just an especially "special" player who was going to squander his talent regardless of what "bad habits" he picked up in the final months of his rookie year. antoine walker probably isn't the precedent for any and every rookie!

Since the All-Star break, the Warriors have the NBA's 2nd ranked defense and 24th ranked offense.

antoine walker probably isn't the precedent for any and every rookie!

antoine walker: "everyone should hope i am the precedent for any and every rookie!"

everyone else: "oy, let's hope antoine isn't the precedent for any and every rookie."

http://instagram.com/p/lIhaW0Ar-K/

that entire simmons column was completely insane

especially the last third that transformed from his worry about mc-w into a anti-stern/pro-silver screed

and basically the whole thing is of a piece with every spring's "what do we do about tanking?!?!" media freakout that lasts a month then the season ends and no one cares

i think simmons and others are acting like the tanking this year is unprecedented and a problem that must be addressed cuz they're hoping they can actually spin silver into doing something. simmons is right about bottoming out and selling long rebuild as a means of keeping yr job (though is this what philly is doing? unless they fuck up picks they should be decent/in the playoff hunt in like two seasons right?)(and it's hardly worse than mortage yr future/make stupid signings so you can squeeze into a 7/8 seed and point at that as progress right?) but the whole point of a draft is maintaining or achieving parity and there isn't a reform short of going back to the pre-lottery method (in which case the tanking would be way beyond what we've seen so far this year) that isn't gonna have a negative effect on parity. barkley's suggestion is the only one i've seen that i could imagine being adopted though there is something very appealing about the wheel. also am i crazy or did he not even mention (or at least emphasize) that boston's tanking for duncan didn't even work? anyhow, and i say this as a hawks fan, personally there isn't a huge difference in entertainment value between watching an awful team w/ a couple (or one even) possible young brightspots and some hope of a good draft and watching a mediocre team that might make the playoffs or might pick twelfth in the draft or might not even do that cuz they traded a pick or picks for some guy you're never gonna win a title with as yr best player, if anything w/ the awful team at least you can score cheap tickets easy.

From the pov of the league, tanking is not a problem per se. It only becomes a problem only if it drags down revenue across the league.

Does he only care about tanking now cos the Celtics are involved cos....

tanking in 2014; poised for greatness in 2015.

http://www.brewhoop.com/2014/3/6/5478088/giannis-fan-driver-arena

the giannis story is incredible

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/qa-mike-conley-on-being-tricky-and-the-why-not-us-grizzlies/

good interview

You have to think about switching that one, huh?

Oh, man, I don’t want to switch onto a 7-footer like KD. No way. No way.