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

Kobe's publicist confirms he will not tweet during games anymore after yesterday's reaction.

Marc Gasol defensive player of the year. Good thing NBA finally give this to a rim/paint protector who is miles better than any highflyer. Also his understanding of PnR defense is just another level.

compupost thnx for watching pacers-hawks so we dont have to, please keep it up

Yeah compu, I'd love to hear ur thoughts on my hawks bc I'm not putting myself through watching that

Heh, Pacers held up their side-- plenty of fun PG / Lance plays, out-of-control HBro coast-to-coast dunks, etc. Keeping fingers crossed that Knicks/Pacers both plow their way through the 1st round so there's at least one solid 2nd round matchup in the East. The only worry is that George Hill might aggravate his abdominal strain from a few weeks ago; Pacers won't go anywhere fun w/ Augustin at the point. I'd almost rather move HBro into the starting lineup and shift Paul George/Lance to sg/pg if something happens to Hill.

Hawks ... not really sure how they're the 6th seed! Aside from Horford, Teague and Johnson, no one else really showed up. Korver couldn't keep up on defense; Josh Smith was very low-energy; whole team looked ready for the off-season. Horford could've had a pretty big game-- had a slew of beautiful moves on DWest in the first half for maybe three or four big jams; problem was that Horford didn't even play 30 minutes. Although no one else should care, I love watching the George Hill vs. Jeff Teague matchup. To me, both play a very Indianapolis-style of pg (Conley a little less so ... I forget, but totally wouldn't be surprised that he moved to Indiana for high school). Cool to see them squaring off; just sad that Teague doesn't have much help.

Rough to look at the Hawks' roster for next year, too. Total shitshow. Hope they don't desperately sign Josh Smith this offseason. Heez, from the team as it stands now, who would you want to see return besides Horford and Teague? Just such a MOR roster; Atl deserves better.

i'm whatever on gasol winning DPOY. i think he's kinda overrated

Have been waiting since November to type this: hope the Bulls regret waiving Kyrylo Fesenko earlier this season, esp. since they stuck w/ Radmanovic instead.

i'm whatever on gasol winning DPOY. i think he's kinda overrated

― brony james (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:02 (16 minutes ago) Permalink

he's an elite post defender for sure. Sanders or Hibbert deserved it more but they don't have star status.

Marc has incredible footwork and anticipation, he also has reached the Timmy/KG level of defensive captain telling ppl where to be

Hibbert is fine but doesn't do much for me

Sanders blocks lots of shots and is hilarious but otherwise I wasn't watching lots of bux on purpose even w league pass so I dunno

Heez, from the team as it stands now, who would you want to see return besides Horford and Teague?

Well the bench is kind of depleted atm, lou wiliams will be back next year and zaza's a solid backup 5. the rook john jenkins proved that he can play in the league - he's a great shooter and can actually defend. i'd be cool with resigning ivan if the price is right... outside of that it should be a complete rebuild.

the fact that ferry ditched marvin and joe and somehow came out of that with a 1st rnd pick is encouraging. josh smith will get over paid but i agree with simmons that he's actually underrated at this point. the other question is about the coach. not sure if the fact that this roster was a 6 seed has more to do with larry drew or the fact that the east is mostly garbage.

i'd love to steal pek from minny and build slowly from there.

heez, welcome to ILH btw!

i'm whatever on gasol winning DPOY. i think he's kinda overrated

― brony james (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:02 (16 minutes ago) Permalink

he's an elite post defender for sure. Sanders or Hibbert deserved it more but they don't have star status.

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, April 22, 2013 8:22 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah he's great, overrated might not have been the best word but i just never understand how these consensuses form

pj carlesimo doesn't seem to be shortening his rotation and threw out a full-on second unit featuring lots of kris humphries and jerry stackhouse, meanwhile this is probably gonna play boozer 47 minutes and noah is visibly straining to even get to lopez to defend outside shots

it's interesting

*thibs i meant, not this

Luol Deng led the NBA in mpg

HEEZ if u are new welcome, also please let us know what you think about danny granger, andre miller, and rajon rondo vs luol deng

lol deng xpost

your opinions on whether thabo sefalosha should be left open in the corner would be appreciated too

what was the granger argument i forget

also, do you think chris bosh can hit threes? (he hit one yesterday!!)

well great adjustment from thibs

boozer also clearly on PEDs

"blatche has to step away..."
*closes eyes*

Luke Babbitt got a sixth man of the year vote

justice has prevailed.

Jordan Crawford. probably a typo tho

I wish Belinelli was a better shooter, he would be really cool

heez, welcome to ILH btw!

― 乒乓, Monday, April 22, 2013 8:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"how many games will it take for thabo to pass bosh in threes made" is obv secretly my favorite running subplot of the playoffs

Thabo >>> Curry obv

btw can i take a moment out to lol that we have another lakers themed thread title, wouldve been funnier if they didnt make the playoffs tho

I am a trailblazer fan from the year the franchise came into existance and I am here to say that Luke Babbit deserved that vote for sixth man of the year as much as Shaq deserves an award as Sportscaster of the Year.

Thread title is good despite being Lakers specific imo

lol aimless

i'm fine with it as long as we have no lakers thread titles next year

the lakers were really the only compelling regular season storyline + i'm on board with a #mambatweets thread title, seems particularly relevant

i think we should have lakers thread titles until the become a good team again and then we should stop

the #drama? seals the deal for me

Good to know that people are up on Jenkins-- Hawks aren't the youngest team, and I wasn't sure if he was someone they're looking to make a big 1st -> 2nd year jump.

I would not want my team to spend max money on Josh Smith. BTW does Horford always do that scream when he dunks? Never really noticed it until last night (and btw think they're mic'ing up the court really well this year ... wonder if it's just TNT or broadcast-wide).

to me what makes it funny is the lakers seemed like they shouldve been a compelling storyline but really they were just super dull, and everyone kept on like they were interesting anyway

Yeah #mambatweets lovely enough to draw inspiration from / this one in particular captures the spirit of the playoffs imo.

yeah totally agree lagoon. seriously the only intriguing sub-plot of the Lakers season was Kobe in Nash mode for like 7 games or whatever. Made everyone think hmm "what if" for a minute.

you've just gotta let these guys take open threes

http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/psl_finder.cgi?request=1&match=single&type=totals&per_minute_base=36&lg_id=NBA&is_playoffs=N&year_min=2013&year_max=2013&franch_id=&season_start=1&season_end=-1&age_min=0&age_max=99&height_min=0&height_max=99&birth_country_is=Y&birth_country=&is_active=&is_hof=&is_as=&as_comp=gt&as_val=&pos_is_g=Y&pos_is_gf=Y&pos_is_f=Y&pos_is_fg=Y&pos_is_fc=Y&pos_is_c=Y&pos_is_cf=Y&qual=&c1stat=fg3a&c1comp=gt&c1val=250&c2stat=fg3_pct&c2comp=gt&c2val=.415&c3stat=&c3comp=gt&c3val=&c4stat=&c4comp=gt&c4val=&c5stat=&c5comp=gt&c6mult=1.0&c6stat=&order_by=ws

lol matt and jordan will be sniping at each other about this in 2019

clips lineup on the floor right now is kind of scary offensively

thabo scraping into the >250 criteria

I mean having butler and billups' shooting, griffin and jordan's power and chris paul all at the same time

lol matt and jordan will be sniping at each other about this in 2019

― brony james (k3vin k.), Monday, April 22, 2013 11:01 PM (53 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no one even remembers how it all started *shakes head*

did cp3 just flop while being helped up by his own team

thabo has now shot well from three in his career for a grant total of four months. but yeah, teams will def have to be guarding him in the playoffs

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, November 27, 2012 4:14 AM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

greg smith looks like the baby from toy story 3

^ btw i tweeted this yesterday, feel pretty good about it but there might be a better comparison that i just can't put my finger on...dude's face just creeps me out

http://cjzero.com/gifs/GriffinFlopZBo.gif

fine him