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

i'd really love to see the grizzzzzzz miss the playoffs but we've been over this

wtf scal is a cool guy, who could possibly have a problem with scal

Over the past two years, Jackson's difficulty with managing his coaching staff and creating a functional work environment has developed into one of the issues that threatens his future on the job, league sources said.

spottie can you elaborate on this? haven't heard anything about the situation honestly.

Yeah first I've heard of it.

uh yeah if management wont let him fire scal then thats not looking too good for jackson long term

its a dis

news to me. weird to hear about him and mike malone not talking for weeks too.

heard multiple ppl suggest if they don't make conference finals he's toast

this is terrible news for my television

he shd coach the knicks

Phil Jackson Mark Jackson they have so much in common already

heard multiple ppl suggest if they don't make conference finals he's toast

― balls, Tuesday, March 25, 2014

unfair expectations.

warriors disapprove of jacksons 'grown man moves'

or just his lack of offensive game plan

this seems pretty legit

There have been no conversations about an extension for Jackson – nor are they expected to take place, sources said.

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2014/0318/ny_a_jackson_dolan_b1_608x342.jpg

so gentle

so happy together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsm05cQDalI

this is a dude who doesn't want to play for this team anymore

damnit, https got me at last

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsm05cQDalI

emolove

Knicks vs Lakers must watch tnt tonight zzzzzzzz

#freelove

kevin love has stolen rand paul's hairpiece.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-hidden-value-of-the-nba-steal/

here is a good example of how not to use statistics

Grant hill is on the magic broadcast right now, I almost forget he was on Orlando for so long because of how injured he was

(I was just trying to figure out why they were talking to him in particular at the moment)

Poor kevinlove is like five minutes away from having his version of kg's "I'm losing man...I'm losing" interview

They have to just go ahead and trade him this summer right? The closer they get to next years trade deadline the worse lowball offers they will get

Suppose they could just let him walk as a free agent and revel in cap space - z Lowe seems to have suggested a few times that this is not the worst idea for teams in that situation- but I like how somebody (mchale maybe?) said something like he'd never seen cap space win a game

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-hidden-value-of-the-nba-steal

here is a good example of how not to use statistics

― surfbort memes get played out, totally (k3vin k.), Tuesday, March 25, 2014 7:50 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lool this is the guy who thinks rodman was better than jordan isnt it

yeah i figure he'll try to force himself out this summer if he thinks it's at all doable xxp

Haha TNT has the total b-team in the studio right now bc of the tournament aside from Shaq-fu but they do have BOOM DIZZLE!

I'm gonna apply what I learned from grantland to 538 and not look at it for at least the first three months or so

Hopefully they remembered to hire a couple of copy editors this time

kinda surprised tnt would have shaq on tv today!

lool this is the guy who thinks rodman was better than jordan isnt it

― lag∞n, Tuesday, March 25, 2014 8:03 PM (2 minutes ago)

lmao it is, smfh

538 is getting so much hate right now lol

someone shd make a data visualization

kinda surprised tnt would have shaq on tv today!

― Clay, Tuesday, March 25, 2014

why is this night different from all other nights?

He's normally just bad on tv rather than actual under a current accusation of assault

omg really? wow!

Making him talking about flagrant fouls and pretending to elbow himself with not-Ernie's arm p uncomfortable

538 is getting so much hate right now lol

― lag∞n, Tuesday, March 25, 2014 8:07 PM (2 minutes ago)

what else did they do? i know ppl were mad because white people write there but was there another thing?

i know ppl were mad because white people write there but was there another thing?

ppl need another reason?

silvers beefing w krugman and everyone just generally seems to be all this is not that good/what is the point of this

whoa need infos on the silver/krugman beef

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/paul-krugman-nate-silver-criticism

Haven't read anything on 538 yet but the whole thing kind of feels like silvers I'm Keith Hernandez moment after the last election, probably time to wrap up that victory lap there buddy

it'll probably be interesting in a few months and it would be nice to have someone wreck shit with math and pick up the slack from the freakonomics guys

feel like theyre gonna realize "telling stories with data" is a lot harder than they thought, especially when youre trying to publish a bunch of stuff every day, and that just like putting a couple charts in a blog post isnt really any different than anything else anyone else is doing

Tru esp the daily part which is part of I think what still grinds grantland down they just produce too much barely considered content which lowers the prominence of their best stuff (I think even their best weekly writers like Lowe and the football dude should be able to skip a week or write more irregularly since you can tell when they're just hitting deadlines with a bunch of annotated screenshots and dry technical analysis)

Although I think starting from data to find stories is a noble idea when a lot of formerly interesting sites (slate etc) have devolved into buzzfeedesque headlines + outraged premise + a few pieces of anecdata