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

What does Chris Copeland have to do to get some play btw

Tim Reynolds ‏@ByTimReynolds --“@ScottAgness: No sign of Roy Hibbert on the bench as the second half is about to get underway.” > Plot thickens.

hm?

Cope only plays in blowout wins, not blowout losses.

Yeah but he's not a disaster on D, is athletic enough and shoots well from 3, which is something they're sorely lacking. Just surprised that after a good season coming of the bench for NY last year Vogel couldn't think of a use for him.

what's the best result the pacers could have at the end of this season that leads to vogel getting fired? if they get bounced in the first round is he gone? if they get swept in the conference finals and only stumble into it due to their first and second round opponents just being overmatched is he gone? when pti did their april fools joke last week i totally fell for it

pacers have very little ball handling/ability to get to the rim makes offense hard

srsly doubt theyd ever fire vogel

bird is too smart/steady for that nonsense

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ this

true

when pti did their april fools joke last week i totally fell for it

i totally fell for this too and i indeed felt foolish

storylines are so fluid. if pacers beat miami on april 11, and win the season series 3 -- 1, everyone will be back to "what's wrong with the heat?"

the pacers could recover but that wldnt change the fact that this is a late season swoon unprecedented maybe ever in the nba

hoo boy the nat'l storylines if the pacers come back and win this game . . .

yeah the heat went through a little slump, nbd. the pacers were on track to win 70 games and now... this xp

the heat also are not that good tho

kover mane

he catches and shoots very fast

and is very good at maintaining balance even when it doesnt look like he is

lol pacers announcers laying-into roy hibbert, who is apparently sulking on the bench.

criticism's apparently not limited to the tv announcers.

Mark Montieth ‏@MarkMontieth -- Hibbert not getting off Pacers bench during timeouts. Right in front of Bird, Walsh and Pritchard.

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Ethan J. Skolnick ‏@EthanJSkolnick -- Pacers radio broadcasters now saying Hibbert, sitting alone on bench, is "letting his teammates down."
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Candace Buckner ‏@CandaceDBuckner -- Hibbert was watching "King of the Hill" promo while teammates focused in. Very, very poor body language from one of the "leaders" of this tm
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Candace Buckner ‏@CandaceDBuckner -- Again, only checking out body language: Roy Hibbert has not looked in the direction of Vogel or what he's drawing up this entire TO

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Candace Buckner ‏@CandaceDBuckner -- Hibbert and Bynum, who is inactive, the first ones to peel away from the team huddle - while it was still going on during this timeout

Candace Buckner ‏@CandaceDBuckner -- Hibbert was watching "King of the Hill" promo while teammates focused in.

ha what

in his defense, that's a v good cartoon show.

somewhere, dwight howard is watching spongebob squarepants right now.

@jordub: Waive Hibbert. Sign NBA Champion Dexter Pittman. @Pacers

finally, some sensible advice.

club trillion tonight from hibbert, what a moment

lol at the pacers signing bynum, never playing him, then allowing their all star center to become sulk buddies with him

lol @ sulk buddies

is bynum sulking? i thought he had supposedly fit in well, just got injured (again).

bynum is an entitled sulker by his very nature

Ethan Strauss ‏@SherwoodStrauss -- I watch every episode of The Pacers now. It's replaced The Knicks on my DVR queue

f--k you, NBATV, for switching to the studio, and not showing the post-game interviews with the pacers' players and coaches.

Sulk buddies <3

Medina Police arrested 26-year-old Dante Cunningham on suspicion of terroristic threats Sunday and he was taken into custody at 12:24 p.m., according to Hennepin County Jail records.

this dude is having a bad week

Omer asik's stat lines lately say 'y'all shoulda traded for me' but his face still says 'I fucking hate basketball'

what if rondo was on the pacers

The Pacers situation is bizarre. They just look so depressed (except for Stephenson who is seething with rage).

yeah makes u wonder whats going on behind the scenes

pacers are cooked, miami can cruise to finals and get wamped by spurs (or okc prob) LETS DO THIS

agreed

as cool as it would be to see a new challenger, another spurs vs okc conference finals would/will be insanely awesome.

dont think the spurs have too much chance of handling okc tbh

all these athletic young teams r not good for them, like what if they have to play suns > rockets > okc, thats tuff

eh they played w's and mile high nuggs last season. It is a whole season later

yeah but these are better teams this year

lol i forgot they just rolled the lakers over in the first round last year

dwight howard: so out of here

There won't be any easy first round matches in the west this year, that's for sure.

yeah i mean i wld be shocked if the spurs lost in the first but still they will play a good team

Haralabos Voulgaris ‏@haralabob 54s
Curry and Thompson or Dragic and Bledsoe - who you got? I think I go with EB and GD

good quesh

im taking the dubs