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

"He got all excited afterward. I told him to learn how to make a shot."
-- Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle, describing his response after losing to Rondo in Connect Four

lol

also lol at lance stephenson shooting 16/100 from 3.

how is that even possible?

Joseph Goodman @JoeGoodmanJr 20h 20 hours ago
Lance Stephenson checks in. Fan calls out in measured tone: "Lance, are you a bust?"

dass how

I bet baron davis had some 16/100 stretches

is there even a 5% chance the lakers max out rondo?

ain't gonna lie I'd love to see him on the lakers next year. I mean I wouldn't actually watch the games, but I'd get a kick out of reading about it a few times during the course of the season.

downsides: lakers are guaranteed moribund for at least 3 years, it's the fucking lakers, it would guarantee that his bizarro free-jazz style would never be implemented in a working system

upsides: he might get into actual physical fights and cause real damage to byron, kobe and perhaps jim buss if he can remember where the stadium is & comes to games

"Thabo Sefolosha (arrest, ankle) out Wednesday"

oh I just really immersed myself in the thoughts of kobe playing again next year

it was fucking awesome

lol good at math bad at people http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/12587848/old-questions-surface-new-dallas-mavericks-point-guard-rajon-rondo

(Rondo's Connect Four prowess has since become legendary and has made for heartwarming-yet-awkward community outreach moments. The day he was traded to Dallas in December, he spent his final hours as a Celtic at Boston Children's Hospital, crushing all comers in the game, repeatedly telling kids, "No mercy.")

oh

https://nesncom.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/rajon-rondo3.jpg

I can't say I totally miss the rondo experience

Also sadly I think playoff rondo is dead and buried

oh I just really immersed myself in the thoughts of kobe playing again next year

it was fucking awesome

― Clay, Wednesday, April 8, 2015 5:53 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I just tried this but with Carmelo surrounded by whatever bogus roster overhaul pjax attempts and it was pretty awesome too

xp I dunno I think cuban can egg him onto to hate the fuck out of Houston, and if you give him national television and fury it is always possible

(Rondo's Connect Four prowess has since become legendary and has made for heartwarming-yet-awkward community outreach moments. The day he was traded to Dallas in December, he spent his final hours as a Celtic at Boston Children's Hospital, crushing all comers in the game, repeatedly telling kids, "No mercy.")

oh

― k3vin k., Wednesday, April 8, 2015 7:42 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark

This is the best

https://twitter.com/NickiJhabvala/status/585850983973986305/photo/1

this is kind of ... interesting? i guess?

Man after that article Rondo is like my #2 fav guy in the NBA now

Jimmy Butler doesn't play good defense anymore

if it had touched on the free throw issues more deeply that would have been the definitive rondo article.

@bengolliver Flip Saunders on Andrew Wiggins: "You don't want [three-pointers] to become a major part of his game." Don't know whether to groan or cry

flip is so bad so so bad

mjax and JVG getting veeeeerrryyyy chippy in a debate about playoff structure

do tell

JVG is firmly in the top-16-teams playoff idea, mjax is not, it's calmed down now but at one point JVG shouted at Jackson after a typical Jackson platitude about balance, "now you're just throwing out cliche terms!" and mjax didn't talk for a good 4 mins after, I just imagine him seething and grumbling

lol i hope breen is ok.

christian minister blindly defends tradition shocker

Spurs look really n sync right now

Clays post haunts my head

'Clever girl' - me when I see the Spurs now

lol jeff just zinged the masters, he is ornery tonite

kawhi leonard is a top 5 player in the league rn, fuck everybody

'Clever girl' - me when I see the Spurs now

― 龜, Wednesday, April 8, 2015 7:21 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

Howard: We can make it if we run.
Harden: No, we can't.
Howard: Why not?
Harden: Because we are being hunted.

how many teams wanna play spurs first round, even with home court? how many feel confident beating em 4 times right now? GS is probably it.

agreed

gs prob hella scared of the spurs in rd 2, remember the jump the spurs made from rd 1 to the semis last year?

i mean all teams should be scared of the spurs when you get right down to it

the claw but to fuck some lives up

yeah for all the talk all year abt how crazy the west is, it seems like injuries have thinned the ranks and the obv class of the conf are gsw and sas

Warriors w homecourt is a big deal cos they really can't beat sa in sa

I think lac and grizz are right behind

kawhi leonard is a top 5 player in the league rn, fuck everybody

― brosario nawson (m bison), Wednesday, April 8, 2015 10:30 PM (36 minutes ago)

i wouldn't argue this

kawhi is who people thought paul george was. or wanted him to be. and more

so the cavs will totes rest bron against the celtics right

also, 4 years later, maaaaannnnn can you believe that the pacers traded kawhi on draft night

obv they "lost" that deal but they really needed a point guard, i get what they were doing at the time

the nuggets now have 3 big white guys with facial hair, the struggle is real for non-HD games

the blazers are experimenting with a live organist tonight, plz plz plz keep it

just dropped the hook from kiss from a rose ;)