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

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― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Friday, May 24, 2013 12:15 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no, when Denver got rid of him a ton of writers said that he couldn't play anymore/didn't have the hops etc.

ha i was just referring to that last year he was there and couldn't find the court

Denver is one of the few teams that actually has a glut of centers, they probably didn't think he was that washed up

i distinctly remembered us wondering why he never played!

me too, i always liked bird, huge pickup for the heat

there have been so many different kinds of birdman, remember this birdman?

http://elitedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/0510-chris-andersen-birdman-2.jpg

ha not really

http://www.emptythebench.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/birdman1.jpg

young bird, so beautiful, so pure

i desperately want robert swift to be signed and for him to play against birdman

i distinctly remembered us wondering why he never played!

― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Thursday, May 23, 2013 5:43 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me too, i always liked bird, huge pickup for the heat

― lag∞n, Thursday, May 23, 2013 5:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah I remember asking about this. I've kinda always had a soft spot for him.

Vogel probably has one year left just because firing him right away for this one mistake is so brutal, but the players have to have no confidence in him now right?
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, May 23, 2013 5:33 PM (2 hours ago)

vogel's a genius imo and judging by the great team defense the pacers play, all the players have to have bought in to a degree that makes me think they'd all have his back. indy is just a shooter/ballhandler away from being an elite team i think, especially with PG and hibbert continuing to improve
― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Thursday, May 23, 2013 8:13 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

k3vin OTM. There's absolutely no way they're getting rid of Vogel any time soon, incredibly bad overtime decision-making notwithstanding. PG/Hibbert's post-game comments should be read with that in mind-- less pissed off and more just kinda wistful / good-natured / wish-we-coulda-had-Roy-in-there.

sa and memphis really get three straight days off, huh?

olds

The NBA wishes to avoid at all costs the catastrophe of finishing the Finals any time before June 15.

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

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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.