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

he should have stayed retired but returned as an alter ego

Thrill Maxson

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i now fully believe the spurs are gonna get bounced out of the first round this year

aren't they just like BARELY getting healthy?

kinda, thats kinda why they will probably lose. i mean im happy to be wrong, they just look out of sorts and like the rest of the league has figured them out. max kawhi looking more like 13 mil kawhi is more appropriate.

like duncan is having a GREAT season, but i think parker and manu are looking cooked. i worry about their ability to turn it on in time for the playoffs.

yeah they def havent looked right yet. Like usually by now they've done some sort of 10 game win streak or something.

theyre having their worst season since 2010. a lot of that is games lost to injuries, but a lot of that is fatigue which is harder to handwave away. like that shit is not going away.

o my word isaiah is like greased goddamn lightning

whats team does he play for again?

idk some team w 17 titles whose name rhymes with...ok it rhymes with nothing what do you want from me

melt icks? yeltsin (if we count slant rhymes)

dallas mavericks, got it, but they only have 17 titles in beer pong, not sure if thats what you were referring to

btw as a matter of public record, the spurs are down 10 in the 4th q to the utah jazz on the fabled rodeo road trip when the spurs are supposed to get their shit together. on the verge of a 3-game losing streak in slc.

xp rude

chris paul just stuffed 6'6" nick calathes on the break it was pretty cool

am bummed by the spurs' troubles btw, especially if they involve losing to the jazz, ugh

spurs are not going to score 80 points in this game.

is there a secret underground trade deadline

Isaiah is roasting the Suns

and staring daggers at their bench every time he scores

amazing

uuugh YGTMYFT marcus

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That's the cp I loved at one point

its kinda crazy how nba teams are playing in uniforms sans roman alphabet, p cool, sleeves have to go tho

grizzlies with back to back road wins against portland and the clippers, pull within 3 games of gsw. looking v good lately.

ya they r very solid if their D returns to epic level they cld be v danger

cp really bad late game turnover

the majority of the rest of their games are back to backs tho lol great job nba

B2b's need to go away all together

otm

b2bs really are the worst it is v dumb

they give the bb gods heartburn and a smh

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― moullet, Monday, February 23, 2015 11:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

me irl

Harden might really win the MVP how do we feel about this

I think he's been kinda dope this year he is working his ass off and keeping what otherwise might be a kinda average rockets team in it

They're kind of easy to hate bc Dwight but harden really has been absurd

I think if he didn't grin with perverse glee every time he pulled his euroflop shit and got to the line for questionable contact, I would hate it/him a lot less. like Manu and CP3 do that stuff as well (and CP is hateable for various other reasons), but it's not quite as annoying w/them.

it doesn't help that he's on a team currently in the midst of its most hateable period. but he's astounding, like you have to actively shut off your hoops mind not to appreciate/admire the majority of his play

Only one player in the last 25 years has won without their team having at least the 3rd best record in the league (Nash). I think Curry gets it if the Warriors go on another run to close out the season.

hardens having an amazing season for sure kinda doubt anyones gonna vote for him over curry tho

i wld like his game more if he moved the ball more freely and stopped taking step back threes, both of those are issues of discipline that will hurt him against better teams imo, tho some of it might be coaching too

its kind of funny how both him and westbrook are having amazing seasons while playing in a completely insane manner

bill walker changed his name to henry? http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=12371408

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/12331388/the-great-analytics-rankings#

interesting stuff. for the NBA section, it should be absolutely zero surprise who's in first and who's dead last

feel like the flaw in that ranking is its not actually that informative to know whos using the most stats by weight, you want to know whos the most effectively using them, which is much harder to measure

like theres a good chance phillys regime is pure foolishness

it almost definitely is, i would think bc they're relying solely on analytics and literally nothing else - spurs/mavs/rockets obviously supplementing pure analysis with savvy spending, traditionally great coaching, great players, etc.

for the NBA, of the top 10 analytics users only 3 have losing records right now though, and more damningly 6 of the bottom 10 have losing records and even among the winners two of them (pelicans, clips) show signs of things cracking

def being a non analytics user is a very bad sign for a number of reasons only one of which is that you dont use analytics, but of course this ranking is also... not analytic lol

haha, fair point