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

I love the dragic/Bledsoe backcourt so cray that phx right now would miss the playoffs...but would be third in the east

crazy the Noah family has three generations of pro athletes all in diff sports

the heat beat writer I follow is convinced LeBron's back is a real issue for him right now

Gortat's pointy beard weirds me out a lil, kind of makes him look like the bad guy in a lost van damme movie where the Eastern European strongman turns out to secretly be....THE DEVIL HIMSELF

lol oden may not be the solution to hibbert

Loved Lowe's #1 pick truthbomb that Bron, Duncan and Glenn Robinson are the only firsts with rings in the last 20 years.

great officiating here folks one guy trips bron the other takes away a sure thing indy fastbreak for no reason

phil's gonna put a ring on barnita's finger pretty soon iirc

ok this Gorgui Dieng thing

Late-era Vince Carter only player I can think of as a Big Dawg 2.0. Robinson/Rice clones not very popular right now.

Dieng 10-13-1 at halftime

Wtf how did Lebron see and throw that pass from the floor

he knew, bron knows

does doris burke usually do halftime shows/pregame/postgame? I'm a fan.

ya i like her

Doris is the best

avery johnson looks pretty great for 49, damn.

Loved Lowe's #1 pick truthbomb that Bron, Duncan and Glenn Robinson are the only firsts with rings in the last 20 years.

― Call me Shitmael (CompuPost), Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:29 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Where was this / context? P mindblowing but also that means 20 people and at least 3 were destroyed or significantly changed by injury (Yao, oden, rose; maybe Elton brand and Andrew bogut) so you're talking abt 15 dudes who failed to win q ring during the reigns of Shaq/Timmy/Kobe/Lebron

Also lol big dog's banana rider championship

Oh and probably everyone drafted after rose doesn't count yet bc no one wins a ring in their first 5 years or so anymore, vets are too good

yep

oden might win one this year lol

i mean but also how many of those #1 picks ended up on the like 5 teams that won championships over those 20 years

how many champs in past twenty years w/o a #1 pick, jordan, or one of the first to go straight out of high school when those players could still be undervalued?

mavs, pistons, uhh

i guess mavs had chandler who counts as a straight outta hs guy but not overvalued when he was drafted if anything

pistons had darko lol

Yeah, context was Mavs building vs. bottoming out for #1 pick. Stat is worse if you consider that Glenn won his ring w/ Duncan, and LeBron didn't even bring one in for Cavs.

yeah i just meant the first couple of years when teams were super hesitant to use a high pick on a high schooler and there were hot takes on whether ANY high schooler could be worth a #1. i mean kobe and kg basically.

Oden needs to get that Hurrycane

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whoa that was a serious dunk

indeed

wow relearning to hate lebron all over again

damn bron took hibbert down brutal

rip big man

rough game

lol at the announcers still trying to make paul george happen all game like sure he hasnt been as efficient recently, dudes hes shooting sub 40% for the last three months superstar nba players dont do that

i missed it, what happened to hibbert?

Clocked by a Lebron elbow mid-drive

right in the chin, took him down hardcore

Seemed quasi intentional at least like bron was trying to create space and solve the *verticality* problem

Got a flagrant 1 but hibbert is back on the bench

At least if this is the east finals they might be 80 pt games but they will be durrrty

if these teams do meet in the playoffs someone is gonna die

lol solving the verticality problem *bron in lab coat, consults clipboard, punches hibbert in his throat*

right in the chin, took him down hardcore

― lag∞n, Wednesday, March 26, 2014 7:27 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

lebrondo bloomps

gj lance, lol

Lol wade politely requested that technical on lance

that was a pretty weak T imo

it was a super weak t but lance is an idiot

fuck the heat forever #tradewadetohellforfuture2ndrounder