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

Kind of sickly how thin ajincas legs are

smart def gonna lose a game's pay for that, NAGL marcus :/

xp thanks, it's obv a little different but i feel like if okc is actually stonewalling the local media that's going to be unproductive in the long run

He's like 6'9 235.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, March 19, 2015 6:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Guys like that don't really get injured that much anyways. Injury risk greater for bulky guys or leapers.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, March 19, 2015 6:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

as far as i can tell when he was drafted he was around 6-11/220-225,

He was 6'9 in bare feet, these are publicly available measurements.

Even post insanity/injuries Sanders still had absurd DRPM numbers. He was/is a great defender.

― Matt Armstrong, Friday, March 20, 2015 5:59 PM (5 hours ago)

again when i was questioning the sanders extension there was much less data to go on, and DRPM didn't even exist yet. i'm wary of buying into hype over a season or so's worth of defensive numbers, because they can fluctuate a lot. i never said he wasn't a very good defender. i questioned the contract because of 1) not a lot of data to go on on the defensive end 2) the fact that he gives you nothing on offense and 3) the fact that he had trouble staying on the court because of fouling. this is even before character issues became so problematic. obviously the jury is in at this point and he's a great defender, but even leaving the character issues aside, was he worth 11 million a year under the old cap structure? i don't think that's such a no-brainer

My conspiracy theory is that kev doesn't like lanky shotblockers who are awkward offensively.

― Matt Armstrong, Friday, March 20, 2015 6:02 PM (5 hours ago

i think it is definitely fair to say that i get less excited over one-dimensional players, particularly those who don't have a lot of ball skills

kyrie and k-lo officially in the playoffs for the first time

congrats 2 them

and potentially the last if k love goes to the LOLakers

KLove was actually a LOLaker in high school. His team was the Lake Oswego Lakers.

an actual lake

L.O. Lakers - d'y'see?

the lake oswego high school basketball gym was where i schooled tim hardaway btw

https://vine.co/v/OYi6vpMWbLu

angle 2: https://vine.co/v/OYi6K7tXEDO

L.O. Lakers - d'y'see?

― Aimless, Friday, March 20, 2015 11:10 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

xp cotdamn

xp is kevin love the red dragon clothed with the sun? that would explain his weird introverted nature

https://vine.co/v/OYO97tMZrOO

Wow I've never seen anybody die on live TV before

very excited about nerlens

also what kind of person would hit matt bonner in the nuts

Steve Nash is retiring.

All time FT% leader, third all time in assists, two MVPs (and one second place).

gotta figure he ends up in the hof

Absolutely

One of my top 3 players for watching all time. Pretty much singlehandedly got me back into the nba about ten years ago.

yeah nash owned so hard

he was on something like 7 of the top 10 offensive effcientcy teams ever spanning two different franchises and rosters

nash is a no-brainer HOFer, rip big man you were really cool

dude was a sight to behold running an offense. had most impressive pregame warmups out of anyone I've seen in person (along w/KG).

Marcus Smart has to do one crazy thing per season I guess

cheap shotting someone in the nuts is hella lame, like i can deal with taking a cheap shot as long as its not designed to injure, i mean we all get upset, but why the nuts thats just so childish

Joe Johnson by all rights owes Steve Nash abt $80 mil at least

also never forget Nash at the 2003 all star game press

oops, press day thing wearing a "no war for oil" tshirt

Marcus Smart has to do one crazy thing per season I guess
--Matt Armstrong

wasn't the thing he did in college incited by being called a racial epithet? not that the thing last night is comparable, it clearly isn't, smh @ marcus for the latter

IIRC that's what Smart claimed but no one else heard it.

I'm pretty comfortable saying Nash is one of the 3 greatest PGs ever alongside Stockton and Magic.

Oscar?

cp3

Hate to say it but isaiah probably up there

shved?

dragic

xxp isiah totally is despite his execrable status as a human being, isaiah meanwhile is on is way obvs

*his

how does westbrook even play the same position as these guys

its crazy how quickly the position changed to where westbrooks game is standard

Hate to say it but isaiah probably up there

― Clay, Saturday, March 21, 2015 8:48 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

overrated

CP3 is way up there, yeah...

Oscar is a combo guard and also a dinosaur.

Hate to say it but isaiah probably up there

― Clay, Saturday, March 21, 2015 8:48 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

overrated

― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, March 21, 2015 5:41 PM (52 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya tend to agree a least a lil

seems to me that Isaiah's post-career tragicomedy has if anything led ppl to underrate his playing days, but I'm just slightly too young to really remember the guy well. all the footage I've seen makes prime look like genius stuff though, barring some famously dumb mistakes against Boston in the playoffs.

Oscar is a combo guard and also a dinosaur.
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, March 21, 2015 4:42 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Moving the goalposts