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

blazers color guy on al jefferson: "He's a 20 and 10 guy, and he's only 29 years old. It's not like he's 38 years old. He's just been around for 50 years." #numbers

Pacers/Grizzlies just tipped... final score prediction of like 81-79

― IKEA metaballs (Spottie), Saturday, March 22, 2014 5:11 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao griz won 82-71

eastern conference so washed

BACK TO BACK TIAGO AND1s

YALL CANT HANDLE THE REALNESS

he missed both FTs by the way. never change, lurch.

I'm just finishing the 1st q. Yalls ball movement is something special. Also Boris loves playing us.

I forgot that was on tonight will be on it asap

finally a nice game to watch, dubs vs sas

oh yes tiago !!!

another monster game by anthony davis

haha Bynum out indefinitely with swelling and soreness in his knee

also torn acl for hickson rip

aw jj that sucks, get well soon bro

glorious save by kawhi

i feel like the warriors are wearing sleeves every time i see them

6th time this year and all on tv appearances i think.

harrison is just the worst player

would probably be a 17-6 guy on the spurs tho

clean block by bogut

Splitter puttin' in work

the spurs are a terrifying machine right now imo

yeah can't knock the hustle

who do u think wld win in a pacers/griz series

ha wait the bobcats beat the blazers by 30 wut

The cats are quietly kinda rolling along as a pretty good team. It's weird.

Pacers grizz would go 7 games and come down who could shoot better than 33% in that game.

it was kinda one of those games where one team makes every shot they throw up and the other doesn't. Blazers were playing with their tail between their legs by the beginning of the third and it just snowballed.

Without Aldridge the Portland is a sub-mediocre team when the outside shots aren't falling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxCihOz6_UU

I think Lopez is starting to wear down a bit from the strain of being the only legit big the blazers can roll out. LA will be back soon but freeland has to be available it they want to challenge Houston or the clips at all in a theoretical first round matchup.

mesmerizing video

maybe just dont give aldrige so many post ups http://grantland.com/the-triangle/pdx-problems-what-exactly-is-wrong-with-the-blazers

yeah that article is brutal and otm and basically what I've even saying all year* about this team being a particular flavor of fool's gold.

*not counting when I got the fever when they were like 29-5 or whatever because I mean hey that's when you get the fever.

the observation that teams are doubling LMA less and staying home on the shooters is really interesting. teams are getting smarter

yeah doubling lamarcus was always sorta silly when he's m/l a jump shooter when it comes down to it

Aldridge's game really improves when he's attacking the rim as the best way to get open for his m/l shots.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/psl_finder.cgi?request=1&match=single&type=totals&per_minute_base=36&lg_id=NBA&is_playoffs=N&year_min=&year_max=&franch_id=&season_start=1&season_end=-1&age_min=0&age_max=99&height_min=0&height_max=99&birth_country_is=Y&birth_country=&is_active=&is_hof=&is_as=&as_comp=gt&as_val=&pos_is_g=Y&pos_is_gf=Y&pos_is_f=Y&pos_is_fg=Y&pos_is_fc=Y&pos_is_c=Y&pos_is_cf=Y&qual=&c1stat=fg3_pct&c1comp=lt&c1val=.25&c2stat=fg3a&c2comp=gt&c2val=200&c3stat=&c3comp=gt&c3val=&c4stat=&c4comp=gt&c4val=&c5stat=&c5comp=gt&c6mult=1.0&c6stat=&order_by=ws

historic season for this top 10 forward

1:00 to go

118x116 wolves

love bad shot
2pt suns

118x118

love forces it and loses the ball to dragic, fastbreak, 2pt

118x120 suns

another bad shot, foul,
118x122 fin

rudy gay for MIP?

Lots of candidates but he didn't really figure it out til post trade

Miami has their first sub-.500 month since the formation of the big 3 going right now so maybe Daniel was onto something

Commissioner Adam Silver told Bleacher Report he intends to revisit the [sleeved jersey] issue after the season. He plans to meet with LeBron James, one of the loudest critics of the jerseys. The NBA could decide to curtail the use of the sleeved jerseys, leave it up to individual teams or simply kill the program for good.

"Ultimately, if the players don't like them, we'll move on to something else," Silver told Bleacher Report.

I suppose they could have asked the players before they introduced them officially, but who possibly could have thought of anything as bizarre as that? If they deep six them I guess that's good enough.

remember the synthetic ball lol

"Ultimately, if the players don't like them, we'll move on to something else," Silver told Bleacher Report.

http://www.famouspictures.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/I_want_to_believe5.jpg

haha otm

damn rip http://nypost.com/2014/03/24/former-nets-player-found-dead-in-shallow-grave

or is he?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/03/24/former-nba-player-quinton-ross-reported-dead-is-not-dead/

welcome back quinton ross! (sry other quinton ross)

i was just warming up to the sleeved jerseys as a better fan experience (less visibile pit hair, fans can wear jerseys without wearing an undershirt)

rockets throwbacks tonight are excellent

austin daye leading all spurs with 19 after 3 Q

might as well give us the title, we got the god firing 3s