yeah i still think it's bizarre that jr smith starts for them but shump and mozgov are the type of players they needed
― call all destroyer, Friday, 27 February 2015 03:52 (nine years ago) link
b. knight and the suns running train on OKC
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 27 February 2015 03:53 (nine years ago) link
dude can you not say running train it's kinda gross
― call all destroyer, Friday, 27 February 2015 03:57 (nine years ago) link
apologies, honestly. was not thinking.
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 27 February 2015 03:59 (nine years ago) link
no worries
― call all destroyer, Friday, 27 February 2015 04:00 (nine years ago) link
i can no longer keep track of when durant is playing and when he isn't
man the thunder look bad
― k3vin k., Friday, 27 February 2015 04:01 (nine years ago) link
i think reggie just called brandon knight brandon jennings
― call all destroyer, Friday, 27 February 2015 04:03 (nine years ago) link
lol he would
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 27 February 2015 04:04 (nine years ago) link
he has never let thoughts or team roster sheets in front of him get in the way of speaking
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 27 February 2015 04:05 (nine years ago) link
kinda surprised russ leads the league in technicals, would've figured it was CP3 or blake (blake is only 5th)
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 27 February 2015 04:07 (nine years ago) link
rip earl lloyd, nba's first black player
― Clay, Friday, 27 February 2015 05:01 (nine years ago) link
the bledsoe trade was a monumental robbery for the suns
― J0rdan S., Friday, 27 February 2015 05:24 (nine years ago) link
reggie miller cliff paul commercial death to america
― J0rdan S., Friday, 27 February 2015 05:27 (nine years ago) link
bledsoe is good like every three games tbf
― Steph def def (Spottie), Friday, 27 February 2015 05:47 (nine years ago) link
still getting that guy for only jared dudley, washed up caron butler and two seconds is crazy. they got a really good young point player for essentially nothing.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 27 February 2015 05:52 (nine years ago) link
bledsoe has been the best player on the floor tonight
yeah but then they had to pay him
― Steph def def (Spottie), Friday, 27 February 2015 05:53 (nine years ago) link
hasn't lived up to his contract yet
i believe in soe
― lag∞n, Friday, 27 February 2015 05:55 (nine years ago) link
the waiters otoh trade looks................
― J0rdan S., Friday, 27 February 2015 05:55 (nine years ago) link
bledsoe is fine but just really inconsistent this year. see if he can take the team on his back now w out dragon
― Steph def def (Spottie), Friday, 27 February 2015 05:56 (nine years ago) link
literally where did the idea that waiters is good come from even
― lag∞n, Friday, 27 February 2015 05:57 (nine years ago) link
the knight contract wasn't ideal but he looks like a guy who could really lead a team soon
― J0rdan S., Friday, 27 February 2015 05:57 (nine years ago) link
er bledsoe
we'll see the knight contract
― J0rdan S., Friday, 27 February 2015 05:58 (nine years ago) link
waiters had some moments in his first few seasons where you could pretty easily see his jamal crawford potential
― J0rdan S., Friday, 27 February 2015 06:01 (nine years ago) link
he's basically marcus thornton with a worse attitude
― Steph def def (Spottie), Friday, 27 February 2015 06:03 (nine years ago) link
he has always been bad even in college
― lag∞n, Friday, 27 February 2015 06:04 (nine years ago) link
man do the suns badly need a wing who can hit an open 3
― J0rdan S., Friday, 27 February 2015 06:14 (nine years ago) link
they just needed to keep frye
― Steph def def (Spottie), Friday, 27 February 2015 06:16 (nine years ago) link
ya he was croosh
― lag∞n, Friday, 27 February 2015 06:18 (nine years ago) link
pj tucker traditionally hits that corner three tho
― Steph def def (Spottie), Friday, 27 February 2015 06:19 (nine years ago) link
good god tucker has been brutal
― J0rdan S., Friday, 27 February 2015 06:19 (nine years ago) link
hes a good backup, shouldn't be starting
the morris twins have mostly fallen into that top of the key spacer role, they need anthony morrow basically
― J0rdan S., Friday, 27 February 2015 06:20 (nine years ago) link
lol nice final play bledsoe
― Steph def def (Spottie), Friday, 27 February 2015 06:22 (nine years ago) link
man alive that bledsoe block
― Steph def def (Spottie), Friday, 27 February 2015 06:28 (nine years ago) link
kinda dig these suns grey alt jerseys
― Steph def def (Spottie), Friday, 27 February 2015 06:29 (nine years ago) link
bledsoe playing with 5 fouls too
― micah, Friday, 27 February 2015 06:29 (nine years ago) link
lmao wiaters
― Steph def def (Spottie), Friday, 27 February 2015 06:32 (nine years ago) link
dang he turned his ankle on that final drive
― Steph def def (Spottie), Friday, 27 February 2015 06:37 (nine years ago) link
huge win for the suns
― Steph def def (Spottie), Friday, 27 February 2015 06:42 (nine years ago) link
literally where did the idea that waiters is good come from even --lag∞n
idk where it came from but the idea that he is worth anyone's attention is being maintained by NBA writers who are more into the soap opera aspect of the league than, y'know, the actual games
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 27 February 2015 13:54 (nine years ago) link
he's playing major minutes on one of the most compelling teams in the league
― J0rdan S., Friday, 27 February 2015 14:17 (nine years ago) link
right, i guess a better way to put it is, it sorta baffles me (although maybe it shouldn't) that various nba writers spend a lot of time talking about him beyond "he is bad" and try to pitch this "he is bad but also compelling" argument, because all things being equal we should not be interested in a player who exemplifies constant mediocrity and frequent shittiness coupled with a complete and utter denial of said shittiness
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 27 February 2015 15:12 (nine years ago) link
like remember when a not insignificant number of people were saying that JR would prob be more damaging to cleveland than waiters would be to OKC, and that JR was the shit sandwich cleve needed to eat to get iman shumpert? i didn't understand that and it ended up being markedly not true
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 27 February 2015 15:14 (nine years ago) link
it's not that waiters is "bad but compelling" -- he's bad but important. he has been a pivotal role player on two of the most important teams in the nba this season!
think about why no one ever talks about derrick williams
― J0rdan S., Friday, 27 February 2015 15:24 (nine years ago) link
i talk abt derrick williams nearly constantly
― lag∞n, Friday, 27 February 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link
While working out this week, I joined an interesting conversation about analytics with some other applied mathematicians and statisticians. It mostly concerned Kirk Goldsberry’s presentation during the 2014 Joint Statistical Meetings about advances in basketball analytics. Everyone agreed it was embarrassing. He didn’t show recorded observations (“proprietary”) or predictive models (“proprietary”). Moreover, he couldn’t identify one accurate prediction. Why do basketball bloggers give people shit about being skeptical about the recent analytics trend? It’s a completely reasonable view. Ergh.
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 27 February 2015 16:15 (nine years ago) link
proprietary work is a problem across sports analytics i think
― J0rdan S., Friday, 27 February 2015 16:16 (nine years ago) link