2015 NBA 'OFFS

thru the lens of me wanting to root for them

Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley struggling to figure out why a team that went from Pat Beverley to Jason Terry as starting pg is having defensive issues

i want the clippers to win begrudgingly bcuz clips-warriors is the best possible west finals and i thought their no-cp underdog vibe was fun which made it easier to root for them

thru the lens of me wanting to root for them

― J0rdan S., Sunday, May 10, 2015 8:07 PM (50 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

u shd see the skeptical face im making at this post

: D

blatt should quit man https://twitter.com/mcten/status/597552813745545216

rose takes some selfish shots but with pau out he's only ever playing with max one player who has a chance in hell of creating a shot

― J0rdan S., Monday, May 11, 2015 12:01 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he takes a LOT of bad, dumb 3 pointers that would be called "selfish" if he hadn't been sanctified by the media for whatever fucking reason

http://bkref.com/tiny/XKGU7

it would seem coaching international ball does not in fact prepare you for the NBA, least not by default

lol matt if you can't understand why rose is viewed the way he is in spite of the flaws he clearly has I dunno man it seems obvious

what is it. What is the great thing about Derrick Rose

did he rescue a family from a fire

chris paul is everything right in the world

― J0rdan S., Sunday, April 17, 2011 6:00 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what a time

my life really went downhill that year, I think I started posting on here too

I'm not even going to say he's great because Iiterally I just said he had clear flaws, he has all the #narrative and native son of the city stuff behind him that the media obviously eats up, if that stuff annoys you, ok, but it's pretty obvious why he gets put on a pedestal and pretending not to understand that seems deliberately obtuse

he's put on a pedestal because he's from Chicago? That's it?

Stephon Marbury was from Coney Island

obviously there's some reasons they treat him like a basketball angel but they can't be good reasons

ohhhhh myyyyy gooddddd you're trolling, you have to be, this is like when people would say they didn't understand why jeter was as huge as he was because jeter kinda sucked in various ways (which he did)

in jordan's defense as incredible as chris paul is, Young chris paul was even better. watching some old highlights now, and man

the clippers environment def has something to do with the perception of him too

still wonder what lakers cp3 would've been like, maybe they never run into their 2012/13 wall

thank god that didn't happen

rereading that 2011 thread is a blast. fun times

whoa howard is pretty lucky it's the playoffs or he might have been ejected for that

Haha Barnes was like one crack away from getting Dwight ejected in less than four minutes

yo dwight just pushed that ref away twice!

ikr

hackajordan part 4: it begins

o good the hacka starts early

:|

clips letting ariza take any shot he wants is p funny

cp3 looking much more mobile

what is it. What is the great thing about Derrick Rose

― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, May 10, 2015 8:20 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I frankly don't really get the Cult of Rose either, but I think swooping in and getting the MVP Karl Malone style in the year that Lebron was the big bad villain for having gone to Miami is still a big part of it for old out of touch (white) sportswriters

can't wait for the massive cheers austin will receive when he goes in for the first time

which will prob be followed by a pratfall

xp the out of touch white sportswriters don't like rose much though

i think a lot of it is just that nobody knows how to evaluate a player of rose's caliber coming back from the injuries he's had

Ok I'm fine with the hack strategy but man does it threaten to turn these games into sox-yanks 4 hour jerkfests

the only reason i can think for rose getting the treatment he gets is the weird solemnity with which he carries himself, like he never looks like he's enjoying anything so he must be "important"

poor Austin's dunk doesn't count

lol kept going despite like 3 dudes tapping jordan repeatedly

hawse sighting

Still can't get used to idea of Blake as point forward no matter how many times he dribbled behind the back

Hawes needs some tattoos.

i do wonder if rose's lack of development can be tied to the injuries or would have been the case anyway. seems like so many sportswriters/whoever were looking for signs of the old rose or bemoaning what could've been, they weren't noticing the lack of development or if they were it was tangentially, another wrinkle to the late great derrick rose narrative. contrast to the speculation around blake griffin who came in the league two years later really (drafted a year later but missed rookie season) and the nitpicking until recently about him not taking his game to another level. ie if rose turns into marbury or steve francis or insert name here it's gonna get chalked up to the tragedy of derrick rose but isn't it possible this is close to the player he would've been anyway?

yeah possible tho obvs w an accelerated athletic decline

xp oh for sure, one part imo is that the bulls never asked him to do anything other than carry their entire offense in a v. inefficient fashion and the other part is that rose doesn't act like marbury or francis and dumbass sportswriters think all those guys are of the same easily-identified type

the austin rivers thing is getting a little out of control

ok that austin crossover was pretty legit

Uh so Austin rivers guys

Taking over.

I may be saying that bc he was pratfalling on a fast break 2 games ago and it's like grading on a curve but still