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

feel like there shd be some policy of allowing steroid use for recovery, obvs the details wld be hard to work out but still, like if someone had a season ending injury and stopped the steroids months before they returned thatd be okay right

lakers are an amazing franchise

ESPN Stats & Info ‏@ESPNStatsInfo 3m3 minutes ago
Lakers eliminated from playoff contention with Pelicans’ win, will miss postseason in consecutive seasons for 2nd time (1974-75, 1975-76)

amar'e on the mavs

I came here to win, and we're [4 ½] games out of being out of the playoffs, which is unacceptable. This is something we can't accept. We've got to find a way to refocus. We've got to key into the details of the game of basketball.

We can't cheat the game. We can't screw around in games and practices and joke around all the time and figure we're going to win games. This is the pros. It's the highest level of basketball. We've got to act that way.

not sure how well this is going to land since he's only been here a couple of weeks, but he's probably not wrong (amar'e would definitely have first hand knowledge of teams with bad work ethics). i never really entertained much hope of ultimate playoff success but the team has fallen off so precipitously. it's a bummer, esp in dirk's twilight yrs (not to say he isn't already cooked as well)

they were def playing over their heads earlier in the year like you look at their roster and it just didnt make sense, prob underachieving a bit now tho

yeah it's def a mix of regression and dysfunction

they are much more of a typical 8 seed than okc. hoping for them to slide to the 8 seed anyway

really desperately want BROW in the playoffs and i dont care who has to die to make it happen

yeah def

can't say i disagree

it shd tbh be the mavs, cause we need playoff westb too

long way to fall tho

KD should sit the year out imo. Let the juiceman ride

otm

mavs still at 95% in hollingers playoff odds

suns and pelis have rough schedules ahead iirc

mavs have a rough rest of season sched as well. keep that nola hope alive

pelicans are inexplicably rolling w like half their roster injured

yeah love that they kept winning sans brow.

alexis ajinca is p fn good now btw

is everyone still convinced monty williams is a bad coach

haralabob was just crushing him like every day for a while

he does seem pretty bad imo

good idea imo http://grantland.com/the-triangle/d-league-deconstruction-the-necessary-plan-to-fix-the-nbas-farm-system

Monty seems like a coach that dudes like to play for, while not a cult of personality MJax type. major major weakness is playcalling I guess? But they seem like they play hard for him and are engaged.

Btw what Westbrook is doing is probably the most incredible thing that has happened in the NBA in the 20 years I've been following it. Were this a sport with more defined methods of measurement the conclusion that he was doping would be inescapable, but it's nice to believe in magic.

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, March 11, 2015 3:43 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

But outliers exist though right? Like is it inconceivable that westbrook recovers really fast in general and also might be one of the top five athletic guards ever to play and also is a lunatic and also durant is out

Ok i mean the explanation with the fewest assumptions is probably correct but I want to believe xfiles.jpg

ya obvs nothing definite there but matt is right in pointing out that its suspicious, if i had to single one player out to bet on as a ped user itd be kobels tho

one of the things that made baseballs ped problem so obvious is that you had all these players extending their primes way past the usual window, which is happening in basketball now too

also their heads enlarged greatly

Tim Duncan?? xp

man if timmy turned out to somehow be a ped user i think that would hit the hardest

He's a former swimmer there's no telling with those dudes

more likely explanation would be that Timmy is a wizard and his D&D playing is just a cover

man if timmy turned out to somehow be a ped user i think that would hit the hardest

― head clowning instructor (art), Wednesday, March 11, 2015 2:47 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wld be p incredible and kind of beautiful in a watch the world burn way

also if he was just all shrug whatever about it

good idea imo http://grantland.com/the-triangle/d-league-deconstruction-the-necessary-plan-to-fix-the-nbas-farm-system

― lag∞n, Wednesday, March 11, 2015 1:51 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

love this

also the long-needed "chris paul kills from midrange" piece:

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/monster-of-the-midrange-dont-sleep-on-chris-pauls-deadly-elbow-jumper/

my mvp ballot

1 brow
2 cp3
3 who care

chris pauls automatic mid range shooting is one of the more game changing skills in the whole league imho

― lag∞n, Monday, March 2, 2015 10:12 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Was just thinking yesterday about how Paul/Deron/Felton got drafted consecutively, 3-4-5, and that a dude I knew insisted that Felton would be the best of them.

I want harden to win so he can get bumped in the first round and be sad and know the truth of man's vanity xps

lol xp

“I get my own playlist in warmups sometimes,” Butler told ProBasketballTalk. “My teammates don’t like it very much because it’s country music, but they get over it.”

Country? Yes. Starting with Taylor Swift.

“I like Taylor Swift,” Butler said. “I like music as a whole, but her music is kinda catchy. I’m sure she’ll hear this interview now and be like ‘what’s going on?’

Tim Duncan?? xp

― Romo... ROMO! Bring Back Sergio Romo! (Leee), Wednesday, March 11, 2015 2:42 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i already am a nonreligious person but tim being the juiceman would crush any hope of having any spiritual connection to anything of any kind ever

which butler xp

ya obvs nothing definite there but matt is right in pointing out that its suspicious, if i had to single one player out to bet on as a ped user itd be kobels tho

Blake Griffin's personal trainer refuses to be photographed in public, sometimes training him while wearing a mask.

matt what do you think of my plans for our beautiful white gazelle's career rejuvenation?

He's invigorated right now for sure, I think he can succeed in any system tho. More about not getting injured.

lol wuuuuut xp

hm that is news to me that blake's trainer is a Mexican wrestler plz continue

yeah gonna need some more info

http://www.menshealth.com/fitness/frank-matrisciano-trainer

it's jimmy butler lol