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

picture?

he has a fat face so even when he's only a few pounds up he looks extra big

twitter has a new tool shows u where nba teams followers are https://interactive.twitter.com/nba_followers

p cool

― lag∞n, Wednesday, January 14, 2015 12:12 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I did this for the Jazz and my expectations were met precisely

Oh and I just looked at the whole thing...ugh the swaths of laker purple across the country

http://basketball.realgm.com/analysis/236243/Cutting-Up-The-Revisionist-History-Of-The-James-Harden-Trade

In Game 1 of the Finals, Harden (22) played fewer minutes than Derek Fisher (25).

haha

well when you put it like that

the glasses made him do it

NBA on ESPN ‏@ESPNNBA 50s50 seconds ago
Demar DeRozan returns to Raptors' starting lineup tonight. DeRozan missed 21 games due to torn tendon in left groin.

think lance is playing tonight too after like 15 games out.

read that zach lowe piece on the magic today so i tried giving houston/orlando a shot but it's really difficult to muster enough interest about either team frankly.

basketball confessions:
i know houston is really good and james harden is probably on mvp pace rn but i just can't/don't care about this team

i love pat beverly but really dgaf about them either.

toronto and philly is more engaging and it took the sixers like five minutes to even score

did the cavs hire mark jackson yet

no but d-rose just got a 3 from half court and made it for the buzzer beater

17 points in Q1

'allo

http://nbcprobasketballtalk.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/melo-and-harry.jpg

Coach Core... kind of a weird last name tbh

last name is core coach is a title dumbas

Damn... You learn something new every day #schooled

did not know the prince of wales' scepter is a shoe, great britain is a wild place

hawks are downright murderous and aside from not getting rebounds and putbacks they prob could get I see no major flaws in their game

even tho this is the celtics they're facing, so not a major challenge, they're resting korver and al and still look incredible, their ball movement is dynamic as hell.

damn budenholzer resting guys in january huh, he truly is the son of pop

hawks on pace for 60+ wins, COTY race is bud vs kerr
pop shouldnt have been so generous, now all his proteges are killing it

hawks on pace for 60+ wins, COTY race is bud vs kerr
pop shouldnt have been so generous, now all his proteges are killing it
--brosario nawson (m bison)

well, except for brett brown.

well to be fair, that shit is not his fault and also they are playing....something better than horrible right now

oh definitely. none of that team's problems are identifiably caused by him. he's just in a terrible situation

d-rose up to 32, including 6 triples, dag

for all the good that it did his team

what is wrong with the bulls u guys

idk if anything is specifically but the wiz in particular seem to have their number, know how to fuck with their defense

I do however know what's right with the blaze tho they're amazing even if the clips have the edge at the moment

ty ty, v kind
stotts has to be in the convo for COY too, the blazers defensive improvement this year is unprecedented

i feel like this is a safe space for me

and i just really need to say

i do not like mark jackson

i think he is not a good broadcaster

please do not judge me

what is wrong with the bulls u guys

― Clay, Thursday, January 15, 2015 3:50 AM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they have one of the worst starting point guards in the NBA and a coach who has no control over him

I think that's a bit strong

rose is definitely not back to his MVP year levels and he's had a hard time diversifying his offensive production to include threes and other shots outside of the paint but he doesn't seem like clueless w/r/t running the floor and passing

feel like numerous starting PGs inside the east and even outside are far worse than rose by multiple standards. fucks sake, elfrid payton is a starting point guard in the east.

i get the sense that lamarcus doesn't respect blake much but i guess that's just the way it is

what's the deal with nic batum???

but like he seems to take some sort of personal joy in backing down on blake and putting points on his face xp to self

batum is having an off year offensively but that little stretch was surreal

looks like he's grabbing at his wrist, he's been nursing a wrist injury for awhile

I think that's a bit strong

― i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Thursday, January 15, 2015 4:24 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he's a terrible defender who chunks up tons of bad shots at a terrible percentage

other than players starting merely due to injury there have been only a couple worse starting PGs this year

I would say Burke, Calderon, Nelson, Payton and Cole are the only worse "true" starting PGs this season, and I'm conflicted about Payton.

evan turner is worse by a significant margin

not this season

Rose has played 30 games, his season is what it is at this point and if you want to know what's wrong with the bulls there you go

I mean it's cool that he breaks down the defense and creates OREBs I guess

well that's the real thing - he is not a great defender and that's never been a huge part of his game but considering how thibs's system works does he need to be? I don't think he definitively is the thing that's causing them to lose the games they've lost

Calderon has been downright shameful