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

nice to see dudley playing well again. the clips really coulda used him but he wasn't right all year with them.

rundown of the duds trade fallout in todays lowe column about how the clippers are good

Spencer Hawes might represent the Clippers’ only hope for such an injection of crazy, in part because of the way the Clips signed him. They lavished the full midlevel exception upon him, triggering a rule that caps the Clippers’ payroll at $4 million above the luxury tax. The Clips were only about $1 million below that after beating out Portland for Hawes, and they had just 12 players under contract.

They needed flexibility in case they encountered injuries or a chance at a good trade. How Doc Rivers achieved that flexibility was nothing short of a disaster. Rivers flipped Jared Dudley and a first-round pick to the Bucks for two players he could waive immediately with little penalty. That freed up money to sign Hedo Turkoglu, Chris Douglas-Roberts, and Ekpe Udoh to minimum contracts.

Udoh doesn’t play, Turkoglu probably shouldn’t, and Rivers traded Douglas-Roberts in the three-team deal that netted his son. The Clippers lost Reggie Bullock, a potential end-of-the-rotation wing, in the same deal, and they flat waived Jordan Farmar after using the precious biannual exception to sign him.

The Clippers in essence paid a first-round pick to dump Dudley, and then cycled through a half-dozen players who have contributed next to nothing — all while Dudley thrives as a hybrid forward in Milwaukee. They could have simply kept Dudley and signed a 13th player to the minimum salary. That might not have been realistic, since the Clips would have had zero flexibility in case of an injury wave, but it’s a better alternate universe than their reality. The Clippers do have enough room now to chase someone on the buyout market, and if things break right, they could find some valuable depth there over the next six weeks.

to get to the truly disastrous mistake tho you have to go one step further back to when the clips traded bledsoe cause they thought he cldnt play w cp3

Spottie that is an aces dn.

^5

xp yeah they were so deep two years back and now they have no one besides crawford (who is on the age decline) and hawes (if he gets going eventually)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjU7BYcJwIw

ugh

she just bruised that avocado

That Lowe bit tracing the Dudley-related moves by doc is just...oof

Like didn't pop run the gm stuff for the Spurs for a while and then realize he needed someone to do it even if he still had a strong hand in it? Might be time for doc to think about that

Also he traded for his son

the clippers bench a couple seasons ago was so fun and good, bledsoe/crawford/barnes/odom/turiaf used to blow teams off the floor rip

Yup

pistons looking pretty good against miami right now. monroe has been tossing around some pretty dimes tonight, highlight of which was this one armed hook pass that arced vaguely out of bounds but delivered to singler who used his vampire strength to put up a 3

lol the celtics beat the knicks and kid mero is losing his fucking minddddd on twitter, it's like a jose canseco meltdown but with even less basis in reality

hey robin lopez is back

I dropped in on the ESPN NBA scoreboard web site and discovered that every nba team had a leprechaun for a logo. (We'll see if this works. Flickr changed their interface yet again.)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/29988498@N05/

Tries again.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7422/16438336211_18a2decae9_z.jpg

blazers broadcasting leaning a little too hard into this "stifle tower" thing

trey burke has been a lot better off the bench, maybe a mirage

blazers broadcasting leaning a little too hard into this "stifle tower" thing

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have they mentioned the ryan hollins similarities

ha

why is lma better with a torn ligament in his thumb idgi

why is lma better with a torn ligament in his thumb idgi
--Clay

c h a o s r e i g n s

gordon hayward is like legit movie star handsome

Guys did we all know that Joey Crawford is injured and out for the season!?

http://img.bleacherreport.net/img/images/photos/002/020/535/enhanced-buzz-25384-1354477549-4_crop_north.jpg?w=625&h=417&q=75

??????

omg dame just ridic packed it on gobert

Haha xp. Caught that lillard jam. Good game so far

Fropez is back!

has been a good game. thought portland was blowing it open a minute ago but utah isn't letting up.

Ho is ingles?

another aussie apparently

wow big shot there

undrafted 27 year old who played well enough in the world cup that the clippers brought him over, waived him, and then the jazz picked him up i guess so exum could have a buddy

Hmm def does not look like a Bball player

Always weird to miss a free throw to win a game. Still clutch!

jazz are feisty as hell, they pick up another piece and mature a bit and they'll be v good in a couple years

lol @ "yo, i'm gonna miss this freethrow"

Yah they are competitive

DJ Augustine is kinda ballin for Detroit eh?

Ingles is weirdly productive, I like him

you always check at the end of the game and it's like 7-5-3

Ingles is sort of what danilo will look like in 2019

As in his game or his actual looks?

ingles got that paul pierce slow man game

dwight got that kobe again http://es.pn/1F6fxBw

looks like something different? didn't have to go to germany

Korver has a 20-point checklist that helps him determine how sound his shot is. “It’s things I’ve identified that are keys to my shot,” Korver said.

1. Wide stance.
2. Exaggerated legs.
3. Drop through heels.
4. Engage core.
5. Slight bend at waist.
6. Up strong.
7. Elbow straight.
8. One hand.
9. Fingers spread.
10. Slight pause.
11. Elbow up.
12. Land forward.
13. See the top of the rim.
14. Ball on fingertips.
15. Strong shot.
16. Shoulders forward and relaxed.
17. Ball and arm risen straight.
18. Hold the follow through.
19. Keep the release point high.
20. On turns, square shoulders.

http://gifyu.com/images/DamianLillardOverGobert.gif

Me dunking on matt armstrong irl

"I started breaking down every single little detail of this simple stroke and tried to make it perfect. Get one perfect stroke and try to do it again. And just got lost in trying to perfect the stroke. I focused on one detail and after 100 strokes, that didn't feel like a detail anymore. That felt natural."

- Kyle Korver
On masturbating

hhaa

nice