#focus#mustwin#playoffs#drama? : 2013 NBA playoffs

man if the nuggest even let masai leave for toronto

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--nuggets-gm-masai-ujiri-to-meet-with-raptors-about-taking-over-toronto-s-front-office-160104856.html

ugh

"We worked on some things," Hibbert said. "We’re trying to stop it at the point of the ball screen so I don’t have to be tested at the rim like four or five times in a row. We’re working on ball screen defense and the guard-guard pick-and-roll.

Timmy D and his wife are apparently going through a divorce atm :(

"We worked on some things," Hibbert said. "We’re trying to stop it at the point of the ball screen so I don’t have to be tested at the rim like four or five times in a row. We’re working on ball screen defense and the guard-guard pick-and-roll.
― moullet, Friday, May 24, 2013 3:09 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, that's what I was talking about w/ that screen-handoff stuff they do on the side. What's weird is that most teams make that attack from the middle, where you hypothetically have more even spacing. But, when you have Wade or LeBron getting to the outside (rather than Game 1 when the Pacers' defenders were giving them that outside lane next to the out-of-bounds line) with even a tiny bit of space, they just start barreling in. At that point Hibbert comes to help and the rest of the Pacers run around trying to guess passing lanes. Bron/Wade are such good at-the-rim passers that they can commit to the jump and still wait that extra second for Battier/Birdman/whoever to slide toward the rim for the dumpoff->dunk.

xp Ms. Duncan only person alive not impressed by Timmy's PER :/

BTW

everyone should go download/stream the simmons podcast with windhorst from yesterday

i think windhorst is the most plugged in dude in the league after woj... really fascinating stuff throughout

they were talking about the harden trade and windhorst said two interesting things

- every league exec he talked to in the days after the trade thought the thunder were completely insane

- after the first few practices with jeremy lamb, everyone in OKC was panicking because it was clear that he "couldn't compete"

dang

more recap plz

I think he also mentioned how the OKC management felt like they're always ahead of the curve w/r/t orgbuilding and, in the Harden case, they were dealing w/ inevitabilities that other teams just flat-out refuse to face yet.

Yeah, Windhorst / Lowe NBA podcast combo is a good one.

youd think if all the other teams thought they were insane then okc couldve found a better deal

nah they were probably all like shhh

Outrageous even for Sager.

Tyler Hansbrough: worst hands in the NBA?

lawl

http://twitpic.com/csyij3

http://twitpic.com/csyij3

ref thinks about calling a double technical, realizes one of them is Lebron

Heh, Shaw getting T'd up -> yelling BALL DON'T LIE on the Ray Allen missed ft.

Damn Mike Miller reaching new levels of greeaaaazzzzzzzzy.

Tom Haberstroh ‏@tomhaberstroh 26s
That moment when you remember that Joel Anthony learned how to play basketball by reading a book from the library.

haha what

Paul Flannery ‏@Pflanns 21s
36 free throws this quarter. Scott Foster and Bill Kennedy were dominant

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/miamiheat/post/_/id/6021/joel-anthony-the-spectacle-who-works

Should be noted that Sam Young got a T for looking at LeBron, literally.

Anthony was at the Big & Tall clothing store -- an unofficial hotbed for scouts searching for the next basketball prospect -- because, at 6-6, he had outgrown his clothes.

hah

LAAAANCE

wade stuffs hibbert O_O

omg paul gorge

!

damn.

Also, these refs suck.

Holy fuck PG

bron ;)

I'm pretty sure 30% of all 8 second violations I've seen were that exact same idiotic fuckup and they changed them

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_George_(basketball)

nvm. Edit removed.

dudes are taking turns blocking hibbert out there

woj article on Ujiri + Raps, sorry kev

if hansbrough had decent hands he'd average 15 and 8 or something

bosh 3 :)

ugh xp clay

I don't understand why the nuggets spend so much on payroll but hate to spend on a GM

Heh, have always loved Jason Whitlock's goofy Twitter background

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

oh ha meant to post the URL to that article http://t.co/h5cuRcOWmn (that's the woj on Ujiri)

wow nice move hibbert

#INJUREWADE

why was Wade jumping there when he decked Lance?

also how was it invisible

i wonder if hibbert's ever had a game where he had no blocks but was blocked twice

ugh wade

Happy Pacers actively trying to lose this game.