Breaking -- The human race has waived Josh Smith: 2014-15 regular season thread part 2

aaaand boogie fouls out one assist short of a tripdub

but if they have the money you gotta do it

they could keep motie as their third big and maybe see what they can get for terrence jones

monta having yet another pretty excellent game altho that was a weak turnover damn

unrelated but i watched a full game of okafor tonight and he had a sort of miserable game by his standards and i still see zero reason for him not to be the number 1 pick ... watching the game it felt like he had minimal impact except he actually had 15-15, he'll roll out of bed and get double doubles in the nba

Hah the final score for the heat lakers was 78-75. Bosh 4/17

https://twitter.com/WindhorstESPN/status/554869299160944641

no tweets since then, really great job

I thought the lebron shove was nbd but looking at it again...

yeah i don't want to read too much into it but a player doesn't do that to a coach he has even an ounce of respect for

it's the look blatt gives him that clarifies the situation. it's the look of a kid who can't win the argument.

latest a lebron team has been under .500 since his rookie year

yeah I totally disagree, teams bench their whole starting lineup sometimes when the bench makes a run

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, January 14, 2015 12:08 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

benching a whole unit is another thing entirely. when you single one guy out (even if he's -20 for the game), after you've been having public issues with him, you're just asking for trouble.

ok where does love sign

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, January 14, 2015 12:04 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

hoops hype says houston only has $59 million committed for 15/16.......

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, January 14, 2015 12:09 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

read somewhere regardless where he signs hes gonna opt out this year, sign for one year, then sign his long term contract the next year to take advantage of the predicted higher salary ceiling - we cld be looking at two straight years of kevin love contract drama

seems like we know a little more which role is best for him, primary scorer on a team with a crisp offense and good defenders who can make up for his weaknesses on that end, he needs his plays called and gets a lil lost if hes just hanging around hoping someone gives him the ball

which makes sense as hes not a ball handler who can create his own shots or a specialist who can just stay in his zone or an athletic freak who can make something out of nothing

man got to fire that blatt

btw i enjoyed yr guys commentary on the suns game after the fact lol

read somewhere regardless where he signs hes gonna opt out this year, sign for one year, then sign his long term contract the next year to take advantage of the predicted higher salary ceiling

this is interesting.... i guess he's pretty much guaranteed to get a max in 16 if the did this but if this season goes really south for him he better make sure he finds a good situation for himself next year if he really wants to go one and done again

it seems like some teams weren't sold on him even before this season, now this one has been a disaster for him basically, and then if he goes to another situation next year and it turns out like this.... i dunno it's not a huge risk but it's a risk

it's getting harder to sell him for superstar bucks, that's for sure

the only risk is injury imo someone will max him out regardless, theres gonna be so much money flying around when the cap goes up, even without the cap raise tho hes a guaranteed max imo

yeah i'm with you

but what if the only teams willing to max him out in 16 are the knicks and the lakers

that wld be sad 4 him lol, dont see it happening tho

he should just sign with houston next year

cavs shd just fire blatt make this easy for everyone

jordan do u think u cld talk to some of yr sports colleagues abt getting this karl to cleve bandwagon going

likely seeing new uniforms from toronto next year wld think http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_logo_for_toronto_raptors_by_sid_lee.php

its funny how when u associate w a rapper this is what you get, drake is more stylish than jay tho which is guy isnt surprising since jay is liek the most unstylish person in the world

black unis w shiny gold details might be p cool

Weird that no one has it already

tru, prob have to be yr third color like the border on the numbers etc, prob wldnt read v well on tv as the secondary color

wld be insane as the primary! maybe for alternates

http://i.imgur.com/NeEShop.png

lol canada comn chill this isnt you

canada has been kinda wilding the last few years i guess tho

Should have something about healthcare as their tag tbf tbh

this is our shield... sorry

So sorry our ball is kinda torn up eh got raptors running around up here what can we do sorry

Blatt is so fired by the all star break bring on George Karl

If there's anyone who can unlock k love on this team it's him

That or get one time machine and get don Nelson from fifteen years ago

i.... don't think bringing in george karl is the answer

jordan is is important u get behind this crucial initiative

So sorry our ball is kinda torn up eh got raptors running around up here what can we do sorry

― we just form a f#!king wall (agent hibachi), Wednesday, January 14, 2015 10:15 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dinosaurs eh? whatre u gonna do

buddy runs in here all shrieking like a bird and tearing everything to shreds

Karl might not be the real answer but it'd be way more fun

He could probably get them scoring 130 and just see what happens

karl wld be great imo unless hes like slowly dying rn or something which seems like it cld be the case

the dino claw on ball is....not terrible but they better get the detailing right on the uniforms.

i'm interested in miami vs. cleveland and what they did/are doing on offense. i don't recall miami running a super structured offense and it worked ok. but it's a disaster for cleveland. is this just the skill level of thin bron/love/irving vs. huge bron/wade/bosh? less basketball IQ on cleveland? kevin love's complete inability to freelance? it's weird.

Latter part of this is somewhat illuminating
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKCBy0tdj3A

http://i.imgur.com/pYUokmo.png

blatts whole face

i don't recall miami running a super structured offense and it worked ok.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, January 14, 2015 11:39 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there was a lot of room to create in it which makes sense cause of their personnel but it was idk if structured is the right word but def very designed to use use players in a certain way and all three of the big three changed their games a lot in miami to fit in with each other and the offense

that makes sense--the adaptability seems to be missing in cle