Breaking -- The human race has waived Josh Smith: 2014-15 regular season thread part 2

yeah cavs won this game m/l by hitting 20 insane 3s in a row

yeah they could have the same problem as the thunder have had

but their real problem is gonna be trying to guard the hawks

second time a lebron team has had a miracle win over the Spurs because kawhi gagged on a free throw : D

i was thinking the same thing!

man am i glad this shit is happening in the regular season, but man im not glad this is happening in the worst spurs regular season of recent memory

that stat on nobody dropping 50 on the spurs since 84 is crazy

Another great stat line for shved

http://i.imgur.com/ADn3Cr0.jpg

that stat on nobody dropping 50 on the spurs since 84 is crazy

Definitely flukey too. I mean that Tarkanian team? No one could get 50 on that squad?

I kinda don't think Love can stay? He's just not a number 3 kinda guy.

Did we ever discuss that guy who wrote like 30,000 words on how Rodman is the greatest third banana.

lol that take on blatt v pop could melt steel

Wow kawhi bro make a free throw

Good god, phenomenal game between Spurs and Cavs

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_8_mrnWQAAXcg8.jpg

Haha

According to sportvu 30 of Kyrie's 32 shots were contested

BRon without the headband looks like stage 2 of a superhero transformation lol

it was unsettling he needs to put it back on

k3v - lowe was on simmons podcast the other day and basically agrees w/ you (however so does simmons) but i ain't gonna lie, the cavs scare the shit out of me. i'm already prepping myself w/ 'ecf would be the best the hawks have done and then we're picking in the top 9...' spin.

does bron have a bumpy head? i thought it was just his hairline but someone tweeted an overhead shot and it is much more serious than that, some prince william shit. dude should just shave it.

support born being a proud bald man and not shaving it

maybe lean in and go visit this barber - http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/05/us/feat-barber-shames-misbehaving-kids/

bron craves punishment

According to sportvu 30 of Kyrie's 32 shots were contested

― Matt Armstrong, Friday, March 13, 2015 1:55 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is really crazy

like what if he figures out (or has a coach who figures out) how to get open shots my god

Watching the highlights the high contest rate feels more like a feature of his game than a coaching fault.

imo its prob... both?

schemes r v key as far as getting open shots tho

it cld just be some cleveland curse too

btw bron had that freaked out look in his eyes last night prob has spurs ptsd

kyrie's chart
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_-8qkNU8AAVsg5.jpg

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Yeah its just he created so many of those shots off the dribble they were bound to be contested. Of course schemes would mitigate that but Kyrie flourishes when there's very little room for manoeuvre.

Plus I'm searching for reasons to not dislike Blatt. Even in the midst of the Cavs good form he still feels like the weakest link.

im pretty sure blatt is a doof

hes like an unhandsome pete carroll who hung out in israel instead of california

Kyrie flourishes when there's very little room for manoeuvre.

― tsrobodo, Friday, March 13, 2015 10:47 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

great tough shot makers who never learn how to get easy shots are an interesting phenomenon, kobe bean is prob the all timer

like kayrie has such great ball handling skills but he tends to over dribble, if he cld receive the ball w an advantage and head toward the basket hed be better off than his typical dribble dribble crossover crossover routine

Probably wouldn't be as fun to watch but you're right.

I guess I'm not surprised that a guy who's used to putting up insane numbers on a shitty team for years is capable of leaning on that in a big game

Doesn't seem sustainable tho

Blatt isn't the guy to coach it out of him and the only guy he's played with that's expressed a problem with it is Waiters who is Waiters.

kyrie still super young and has a good chance of figuring this stuff out, needs the right coach tho to put him in the position to become a mastermind

like if he went to the spurs tomorrow i doubt hed be dribbling so much next week

Could he ever truly be a mastermind though?

I mean talented as he is, court vision has never seemed to be his strong suit

who knows prob he doesnt seem dumb or awful or anything

i think he can prob learn to make the right pass like he doesnt need to be steve nash

Maybe. Of course playing with shitty teammates for years has been a factor but even then he doesn't seem to have smarts in that sense like even Wall Curry CP3 etc

yeah i dont think hes the playmaker any of those guys are, i mean certainly not cp3, but prob he doesnt need to be, the playmaking point guard is a little passe even, its all about complete team ball movement these days anyway, like the ball just needs to move, and players need to move w/o the ball

wizards def put the ball in walls hands too much, cp3 its not a problem since hes a super genius, and the dubs obvs have great ball movement