the lakers have just pooped their big-boy pants: 2012-2013 NBA regular season thread (part 2)

tyson is the real east all star center

http://deadspin.com/5966336/fuck-you-pelicans-are-awesome-a-defense-of-the-nbas-best-new-team-name

wtf, the knicks

looking forward to both melo and stat coming off the bench

... bron

lebron would like some help in this game

man i thought jr corpse would BREAK in that replay

steve novak/jr smith celebration was v. awkward

novak seemed kinda afraid

wtf novak

Novak >>>>> Bron

jr and novak love each other!

enjoyable

replies to this tweet (https://twitter.com/WindhorstESPN/status/276893844577071104) are hilarious

lotta people reading "spirit"

isn't that what he meant

dal-phx is such a garbage late game!

Jason Kidd is shooting 53-51-94 this season

he meant it? i should improve my engrishhhh

nice little -33 from wade tonight

yeesh

knicks were wildin damn, i just watched a min of the 2nd game a and reggie was going on an extended rant abt how kids these days dont know the fundamentals of the game because of youtube, srsly

reggie wants more long 2s

I had to change the channel from that Reggie Miller horseshit

http://deadspin.com/5966336/fuck-you-pelicans-are-awesome-a-defense-of-the-nbas-best-new-team-name

― k3vin k., Thursday, December 6, 2012 9:38 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

ok did Derek Fisher cut a side deal during the lockout negotiations

i'm saying, he's got a loooooooot of dirt on some important people

But he is SOOOOO good in the locker room! And he has that ever so sought after CHAMPIONSHIP EXPERIENCE!

Ricky Rubio is "angling to play" and make his debut on Friday, but the more likely scenario is for Rubio to return on December 15, a source tells Darren Wolfson 1500 ESPN.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ruav0KvQOOg

Hurrah! ESPN UK finally sorts out a deal to show NBA games this season. Of course they're mainly on during the middle of the night but dvr and watch later is no problem. Lakers/Thunder here I come.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8719297/how-kobe-bryant-missed-shots-translate-new-nba-statistic-kobe-assist

this is kind of fascinating

Ha, I read that earlier. Made my brain hurt.

a basic takeaway that makes a lot of sense that i'd never thought of before: if you've got 2 players, a guard and a big, who each shoot 45% from midrange, you'd prefer to have the guard take those shots because his misses are more likely to be rebounded by his team

how long b4 full-blown dwight meltdown

Toward the end of shootaround Friday, Los Angeles Lakers guard Steve Nash approached Dwight Howard and offered up a couple of tips on how to shoot free throws.

Though Howard is shooting just 46.9 percent from the foul line this season, while Nash is tied with Mark Price for the best free throw percentage in NBA history at 90.4 percent, the Lakers center said he's had enough of people giving him advice.

"Listen, he was just suggesting some things, but it's not something that we've already talked about or anybody else has suggested," Howard said. "My mind cannot get clouded with everybody telling me how to shoot a free throw. I just have to go up there and shoot it my way and not get caught up in what everybody else is saying, because that's when I miss."

"I just have to go up there and shoot it my way, because that's when I miss."

its true that dwight should prob just have one shooting coach and everyone else should stfu, but also hes always gonna be terrible at free throws

and the things that work for regular sized extremely coordinated human steve nash might not work for hulking man child dwight howard

dwight did fwiw shoot by far his best ft% his rookie season so he might be onto something

u love dwight

he is a superior human in every way

Javale McGee coast to coast finished with a scoop layin

did an inside out crossover at midcourt on George

guys I'm legit sad that Kev is missing this javalerie

6-6, 12 pts in 8 minutes

rondo ballin out, near trip dub at the half

CJ Miles cannot believe that call:

https://o.twimg.com/1/proxy.jpg?t=FQQVBBgpaHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0cGljLmNvbS9zaG93L2xhcmdlL2JqemZycC5qcGcUAhYAEgA&s=UibxBBrMtn0G5w5EY7ga6DRJTxljA9XUBJb9P4BAzvU

haws hair my god

Javale is still Javale.

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1847089/javale1.gif

Dan (CA)

I just looked at Austin Rivers stats so far this year... GAAAAAAAAHHHHHH NOOOOO. What is going on with him?
John Hollinger (12:27 PM)

My big worries about Rivers were that he didn't have the athleticism to cut it in the NBA as a slasher, and that he wasn't a good enough shooter to make up for it. That seems to be the case so far. But that said, keep in mind that there's a long history in this league of rookie guards getting absolutely slaughtered, before emerging in year 2 as a real basketball player.

Javale goes 9-9 with 20 and 8 but he has one bad turnover so lol look at this gif smh