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

OKC is basically bad in a lot of fundamental ways...like, they had to beat this years sixers in overtime FFS

draymond is 5/5 on 3s btw damn

they still have the bad ghost as their coach (and an excuse not to fire him again this summer) xp

there are a lot of teams that cld beat the dubs tho imo, like i wldnt bet on any of them but the western conf playoffs r gonna be a bloodbath

feel like if okc misses the playoffs brooks has to be gone excuses or no

It bothers me that the jazz threw away kanter, Jefferson and Millsap and got better. What if they'd some good guards for them?

lmao three point finger roll

definitely, plus they're atrociously managed, like getting enes fucking kanter is their smartest move in what 3 years, that's pretty bad

they are starting dion waiters. repeatedly.

there are a lot of teams that cld beat the dubs tho imo, like i wldnt bet on any of them but the western conf playoffs r gonna be a bloodbath

― lag∞n, Wednesday, March 18, 2015 9:29 PM (53 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

agree completely.

lmao three point finger roll

― Steph def def (Spottie), Thursday, March 19, 2015 12:30 AM (13 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao the whole team loling at that shot

I wonder if brooks knows where okc's management has buried all the bodies or something

his glasses have seen things

wouldn't surprise me

in all seriousness I think it's bc KD and russ (and possibly others but those two for sure) really love that dude

yeah when a team wins and the players like the coach he becomes hard to fire, seems like a total company man who gets along with everyone too, he is the worst coach tho

dubs domination rn

glad mark jackson was such a dick to the organization cos we would probably be stuck in the same boat if he was a normal nice guy

their owners should go scorched earth on the front office this offseason

shrewder looks like he couldn't care less tonight

this crowd would be so much fun in the finals

glad mark jackson was such a dick to the organization cos we would probably be stuck in the same boat if he was a normal nice guy

― Steph def def (Spottie), Thursday, March 19, 2015 12:36 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah that was extremely fortunate

glad mark jackson was such a dick to the organization cos we would probably be stuck in the same boat if he was a normal nice guy
--Steph def def (Spottie)

I was reading an SI feature on the warriors from a while back and it boggled my mind to learn the extent of his bullshit - like turning players against each other, being all religious and saying hella homophobic shit about like jason collins, ugh x 1,000

he is a super bad human

link? xp

there was this from december http://www.insidebayarea.com/warriors/ci_27078013/warriors-co-owner-lacob-lists-reasons-firing-mark

"Part of it was that he couldn't get along with anybody else in the organization," Lacob said. "And look, he did a great job, and I'll always compliment him in many respects, but you can't have 200 people in the organization not like you."

link? xp
--lag∞n

http://www.si.com/nba/2015/02/20/golden-state-warriors-steve-kerr-stephen-curry-klay-thompson-joe-lacob

lots of good stuff about Kerr in there too

mjax also didn't like mike malone, a dude who clearly has some of the worst luck in the league

man that stuff about praying for jason collins when one of jackson's bosses was like the only out sports executive is just heinous

I had kind of forgotten the irony of Nelson being fired by two teams shortly after drafting the players that would change the face of the franchise.

Wtf at that article calling Barnes and klay Thompson "positionless wings," though. Come on.

"Bruce Jenkins is the dean of bay area sportswriters". eat a diiiiiiiick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj56UOT-pFk

The baron davis BS report is worth a watch fyi.

cld easily be a sub 30% 3 pt shooter on a team where opponents can afford to defend him

― lag∞n, Wednesday, March 18, 2015 11:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

this is true but his defense is so good that he would still be very very valuable

too many verys imo

his one-on-one post defense is kinda crazy good for someone his size and he can check wings, it's pretty valuable

warriors play really good team defense, suspect hes not quite as good on that end individually as ppl think, like i doubt the dubs wld be that psyched abt him guarding LMA for a 7 game series, hes this years role player on a great team who ppl have fallen in love with is my thesis m/l

like its easier to get up in ppls grill when u have bogut wandering around behind u

J0rdan S. wrote this on thread the lakers have just pooped their big-boy pants: 2012-2013 NBA regular season thread (part 2) on board I Love Hoops on Dec 23, 2012

it's completely absurd that draymond green didn't get picked in the first round

that is absurd but theres a wide gulf between the first round and the type of love hes getting

here's a great argument against the nba going to a bracket system http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2015/3/19/8257131/heres-the-nba-playoffs-bracket-we-will-not-get

i can't believe we're gonna miss out on such scintillating first round match ups as warriors-bucks, blazers-wizards, hawks-suns, mavericks-raptors and grizzlies-pelicans

instead well get the entire easter conference, cool

The baron davis BS report is worth a watch fyi.

― Steph def def (Spottie), Thursday, March 19, 2015 7:22 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This was great

cavs-heat is a more compelling first round match up than any of those i named, and i think at this point i'd rather see the celtics in the playoffs than this wheezing suns team

there's literally no way to make every playoff matchup good unless you reduce the number of teams in the playoffs

a. ur tripping. b. focusing on whatever the current matchups are is kinda missing the point c. if u r gonna focus on the current matchups at least consider that one of either durant/westbrook of anthony davis is missing the playoff

xp

if you continue to draw that bracket out you get

warriors vs cavs/spurs
rockets/thunder vs blazers

hawks vs mavs
grizzlies vs clippers

warriors vs ... somebody
hawks vs grizzlies

ziller is making a fairness argument which... whatever, i don't get why sports need to be as fair as possible

from an entertainment standpoint i don't think it makes the playoffs any better at least this year

at least this year... on this date... bizarrely overrating shitty eastern conf first round series lol

its not just fairness, putting the better teams in the playoffs will actually lead to better basketball this is not hard to understand