2014-15 NBA regular season thread: 82 games of injuries and inevitabilities

i think okc dressed 8 players with the nets game and BK played them VERY physically down low, basically daring them to take outside shots once they were up by 12 or so and then banging them when they got under the hoop. i dunno if it was strategy or pride or what but even down by 20 telfair and both jacksons kept crashing inside and picking up fairly rough fouls. injuries are begetting injuries there.

otoh maybe their very smart coach should tell them to take it easy out there since they don't have enough healthy players to dress for the game

forfeit the season

when the coach ends up having to suit up, perhaps a clever fellow will take his talents to okc and institute the T.I.E. system

it is truly mindboggling how bad LeBron looks

yeah it's weird

he looked great in the first quarter and then he looked bad

otm this is really strange

lbj is cooked!

http://cdn2.newsok.biz/cache/r620-40429d90c5bd0722a96d080702570a77.jpg

i'm not entirely convinced blatt really gets nba personel rotations yet

its really early they all have a lot to figure out

only like 4 guys on that roster were there last year

i think i just got to the part that made matt say that fwiw, back to back unspeakably dumb travel followed by an airball fadeaway from lebron, w/ abt 7:30 left in the 4th.

it is truly mindboggling how bad LeBron looks
--Matt Armstrong

he was shooting 42% coming into tonight and now he's like 4-13 from the field

this is a bad match up for the cavs tho in the sense that the blazers have basically been playing together for three years, cleveland for three games

pdx tough at home too.

lebron's barely even jogging to get back on defense

― Clay, Tuesday, November 4, 2014 9:20 PM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark

misposted this elsewhere

https://twitter.com/windhorstespn/status/529863778817417217

had this thought too, looked like one of those weirdly almost anti-social games he would have with the heat sometimes

“I know it’s upsetting to many of you when you hear ‘no boots on the ground,' " Krzyzewski said. "It upsets me too because that’s like saying I’m not going to play two of my best players. Because that’s what you are trained to do. And for decades and decades, the fact that we are a free country and we don’t play home games here is a result of having boots on the ground.

“It’s about letting your opponent know that we are going to use our best players. Now whether you use them or not, that’s up to the coach. You never tell an opponent you are not going to use them, like I’m not going to play Grant Hill, J.J. Redick, Laettner. Like for the Olympics, 'Hey, Spain, I’m not going to start LeBron and Kobe tonight.' I don't think you do that."

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/the-dagger/coach-k-criticizes-president-obama-s-military-strategy-214645764.html

fuck this guy to the moon and back jesus christ

that www.windhorst tweet def otm. his body language was horrible.

in other news welcome to the 2014-15 season dame lillard!

what are the chances lebron & the cavs ends up on some angels & pujols shit

15-20%

yeah blazers looked like the blazers of last year, happy to see that. xp

i'm wondering if lebron's secretly hurt or something? he looks v slow to me.

needs to eat

byron said he'd start monitoring kobe's minutes starting w/ tonight's game. he's played 37 minutes with 7 to go.

31 points on 11-29 shooting. 1 assist. <3 you, kobles.

gotta keep those career averages up

nba tv guys are more or less betting at the beginning of each lakers possession on whether kobe will shoot

whats he gonna do when nick young comes back to take half his shots

"A lot of bad habits have built up over the years." LeBron James on the Cavaliers

it begins

haha

what even

kobe is breathing like he has a collapsed lung

but yeah that lebron quote makes no sense unless he's putting 100% of the blame on kyrie and tristan thompson and varejao and the guys selling cotton candy in the stands.

#old

xp

<3 Suns

so much schadenfreude at kobe's dead-eyed stare from the bench

bron : D

maybe he's just talking about waiters

Gerald Green & Isaiah with 48 combined off the bench.

Isiaha 22-3-9-3 and got more time than both Goran and Bledsoe

THESE GUYS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NsfdGZ_cXU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vexVNeimOq0

kobels ended up w 37 shots

Clips/Dubs tomorrow night on espn btw. must watch tv

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1qAky-IcAAJO1K.png

bron talking like he quit the NBA to go coach a team of handicapped high schoolers

he's really running with this "my return to cleveland is essentially charity" angle isn't he? maybe that's why he looked so bored tonight

"But I'm here to help."

lebron james, NBA SJW

this is nagl