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

pelicans in the 8th spot rn

if i were an nba player i would use my immense power to shout out matador records bands from the 90s that like 500 people care about, that's a weird thought.

Nice Spottie

i would talk about how important fka twigs was to my pregame ritual, esp "lights on"

was she the girl thats from the cheerleading squad
u lie and u lie and u lieeee

looollllll

what the actual bloodclot just happened w that series of turnovers

the funny thing is not only do the rockets barely miss dwight howard, they got a dude who looks almost like him to take his minutes

probably a little soon to make bloodclot references around a blazers game considering the patches on their jersies

and bosh :(

feel like bosh, wade, dragon, whiteside, deng coulda been a pretty tough team (if healthy and/or not suspended for tackling people)

woulda at least made the playoffs yeah

mchale has a goatee about a quarter grown in and it looks really bad

as a nuggets fan (who has always hated afflalo)/blazers secondary fan, afflalo in place of wes is so depressing

barry referred to mchale as possibly the best power forward ever which no offense to celtics fans but that seems like idk i can think of about 5-10 off the top of my head i'd take before him

at least 3 of whom are still active in the league!

as a blazer fan since day one of the franchise who has purely agnostic feelings about afflalo, afflalo in place of wes is hugely depressing any way.

whats yr beef with afflalo, kendrick lamar wrote a song abt him so he cant be all bad

xp

afflalo vs wes is just kind of a senator you're no jack kennedy thing

barry referred to mchale as possibly the best power forward ever which no offense to celtics fans but that seems like idk i can think of about 5-10 off the top of my head i'd take before him

― Clay, Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:34 PM (53 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk kevin mchale was really, really good

he's also not better than Duncan, KG, or Dirk

fwiw the mchale as greatest 4 is a simmons hot take also. never heard anybody but him make the claim before

mchale was awesome but the three bise mentioned, karl malone, charles barkley, elgin baylor (i think he was a 4?), chris webber, bob pettit, elvin hayes i mean there's some guys, brow & LMA & bosh & blake & love all probably could get there in time

also mchale was a sixth man which always seems to undercut the arg

oh god what is dwight wearing

he should be honest w/ himself and just start during urkel cosplay

that having been said i never saw him play so what do i know

I never watched mchale play really, hard to judge.

fwiw the mchale as greatest 4 is a simmons hot take also. never heard anybody but him make the claim before

― head clowning instructor (art), Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:42 PM (55 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

simmons has never claimed this iirc

barry referred to mchale as possibly the best power forward ever which no offense to celtics fans but that seems like idk i can think of about 5-10 off the top of my head i'd take before him
--Clay

um has barry heard of ser tim of house duncan

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_3gLAiUgAAzd3l.jpg

"did i do that?"

maybe im misremembering but thought that was in his book

dwigt

mchale was awesome but the three bise mentioned, karl malone, charles barkley, elgin baylor (i think he was a 4?), chris webber, bob pettit, elvin hayes i mean there's some guys, brow & LMA & bosh & blake & love all probably could get there in time

― Clay, Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:42 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah some of these are fair but mchale is still prob top 10 for the moment, he made 6 all-defensive teams and shot over 60% as a forward in his prime, i don't see bosh/blake/love/lma accomplishing anything like that

maybe im misremembering but thought that was in his book

― head clowning instructor (art), Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:47 PM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

duncan, barkley, malone all higher in the book

defense is a good point. i def think he's a top 10 pf, just "best all-time" seemed like uh karl malone will fight u jon barry

maybe it was something else then. i either lost or gave away my copy. apologies for the incorrect attribution good sirs

32 second temp ban

he's also not better than Duncan, KG, or Dirk

― brosario nawson (m bison), Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:39 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

duncan is a center can we never discuss this again thank you

also mchale was a sixth man which always seems to undercut the arg

― head clowning instructor (art), Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:44 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he just didnt like to start games for some weird reason, he played starters minutes finished games etc was totally a starter except didnt like actually start the games instead wld be inserted at the first whistle

checking simmons bball pyramid thing he has it as duncan > pettit > malone > barkley > garnett > mchale > nowitzki > hayes > rodman > webber

duncan is a center this drives me more crazy than it shd, like has anyone ever watched him play basketball, if the spurs for fun listed him as a point guard wld ppl say he was a point guard, prob

Melvin Hunt might keep this job

duncan is a center this drives me more crazy than it shd, like has anyone ever watched him play basketball, if the spurs for fun listed him as a point guard wld ppl say he was a point guard, prob

Is Mchale a center too?

no

mchale was awesome but the three bise mentioned, karl malone, charles barkley, elgin baylor (i think he was a 4?), chris webber, bob pettit, elvin hayes i mean there's some guys, brow & LMA & bosh & blake & love all probably could get there in time

― Clay, Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:42 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah some of these are fair but mchale is still prob top 10 for the moment, he made 6 all-defensive teams and shot over 60% as a forward in his prime, i don't see bosh/blake/love/lma accomplishing anything like that

Had mchale never broken his foot he could very well have been the greatest.

How is duncan more centery than mchale

Melvin Hunt might keep this job

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, March 11, 2015 11:58 PM (Yesterday)

hard to tell if it's anything specific he's bringing or if it's just addition by subtraction, but i like it

le goon...peak/mvp-winning duncan was a pf bc d-rob was C. after robinson retires, duncan is a C. so i agree with you.

btw in my mind, i only rank kareem, wilt, billy russ, and olajuwon ahead of duncan in all time centers.

How is duncan more centery than mchale

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:00 AM (7 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

duncan is generally the biggest guy on his team plays closest to the basket and guards the other teams center, mchale was not

I thought they should have just promoted Hunt when they fired Karl, he did a great job

le goon...peak/mvp-winning duncan was a pf bc d-rob was C. after robinson retires, duncan is a C. so i agree with you.

btw in my mind, i only rank kareem, wilt, billy russ, and olajuwon ahead of duncan in all time centers.

Rasho was the center after D Rob.

wau spurs fan putting hakeem ahead of duncan, you must just be being modest