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

they said ibaka is out 4-6 weeks which would put him on a timeline to come back right at the start of the playoffs

yeah i like the thunder bench too, presti really did a good job of upgrading their depth on the low. unfortunately they needed someone to play that harden role and they just completely whiffed on waiters

morrow has been giving them really good minutes lately but that's not nearly enough obv

i may be in the minority but i'd still rather see the thunder than the pellies. playoff russ > brow for me

yeah i agree that the pells don't do much for me as a team. i would like to see brow in the playoffs with a roster that does not look like their roster.

otm

the thunder could win 2 games in that series i think

― J0rdan S., Friday, March 20, 2015 1:05 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if ibaka is healthy

― J0rdan S., Friday, March 20, 2015 1:05 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

let's not forget what happened last time ibaka was the second option in the playoffs though. i think the dubs defense would really expose him

i may be in the minority but i'd still rather see the thunder than the pellies. playoff russ > brow for me

― k3vin k., Friday, March 20, 2015 1:16 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the world just needs to know abt the brow the time is now

we already got a month of insane triple double russ what more could you possibly want

need more, on the big stage

dont know i can deal w sad russ if he fails horribly tho

he'll just juice more and come back 245 lbs of all muscle next year

terrence jones has a partially collapsed lung? jfc

yikes

this is interesting http://grantland.com/the-triangle/nba-russell-westbrook-kevin-durant-oklahoma-city-thunder-sports-media/

as it pertains to the thunder specifically, for our purposes

Athletes act like dicks to reporters all the time. Why is this a story?

yeah that aspect of the thunder going into overdrive sheltering their players from the media was something. that reggie jackson story was interesting too.

He's like 6'9 235.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, March 19, 2015 6:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Guys like that don't really get injured that much anyways. Injury risk greater for bulky guys or leapers.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, March 19, 2015 6:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

as far as i can tell when he was drafted he was around 6-11/220-225,

He was 6'9 in bare feet, these are publicly available measurements.

Even post insanity/injuries Sanders still had absurd DRPM numbers. He was/is a great defender.

You can't really fluke defense for a season, dude just was good.

My conspiracy theory is that kev doesn't like lanky shotblockers who are awkward offensively.

yeah that aspect of the thunder going into overdrive sheltering their players from the media was something. that reggie jackson story was interesting too.

― balls, Friday, March 20, 2015 4:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah kind of an odd situation where by sheltering their players too much theyre making them allergic to the media where it cld just be nbd and ordinary if everyone wld just chill

One thing I didn't see in those MJax articles: when bogut got injured and Jackson basically called him a pussy and then gave a fiery press conference blaming the media for printing what he said. Great guy!

lol

truly a man spreading god's love

i swear every national broadcast i've seen of a dubs game this year as soon as someone mentions what a great job kerr is doing etc there's an immediation interjection of 'WELL YOU HAVE TO GIVE MARK JACKSON CREDIT ETC'. fucking ridiculous.

yeah that talk should all die next year. jax just needs to get a coaching job so they can all just talk freely too.

i kinda love bogut as a human

blazers color guy on Damian's long floater "it's another weapon in his arsenal of... weapons."

this is interesting http://grantland.com/the-triangle/nba-russell-westbrook-kevin-durant-oklahoma-city-thunder-sports-media/

― J0rdan S., Friday, March 20, 2015 4:01 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was fascinating and so weird. i wonder how the spurs handle local media.

spurs fully spursgasming against the celtics rn

but hey who cares pacers lost tonight still tied for dat 8th

@CelticsHub: Marcus Smart with the flagrant 2 foul and ejection after a cheap shot on Matt Bonner in the nuts. A suspension is likely coming too.

i forget what pre-duncan media was like down here, but local coverage is fawning plus they know how pop is. he's generally more verbose with local reporters in interviews, ive noticed.

in re: to CAD

Smart hasn't shook that short fuse of his eh

Brow out :-/

Kind of sickly how thin ajincas legs are

smart def gonna lose a game's pay for that, NAGL marcus :/

xp thanks, it's obv a little different but i feel like if okc is actually stonewalling the local media that's going to be unproductive in the long run

He's like 6'9 235.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, March 19, 2015 6:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Guys like that don't really get injured that much anyways. Injury risk greater for bulky guys or leapers.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, March 19, 2015 6:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

as far as i can tell when he was drafted he was around 6-11/220-225,

He was 6'9 in bare feet, these are publicly available measurements.

Even post insanity/injuries Sanders still had absurd DRPM numbers. He was/is a great defender.

― Matt Armstrong, Friday, March 20, 2015 5:59 PM (5 hours ago)

again when i was questioning the sanders extension there was much less data to go on, and DRPM didn't even exist yet. i'm wary of buying into hype over a season or so's worth of defensive numbers, because they can fluctuate a lot. i never said he wasn't a very good defender. i questioned the contract because of 1) not a lot of data to go on on the defensive end 2) the fact that he gives you nothing on offense and 3) the fact that he had trouble staying on the court because of fouling. this is even before character issues became so problematic. obviously the jury is in at this point and he's a great defender, but even leaving the character issues aside, was he worth 11 million a year under the old cap structure? i don't think that's such a no-brainer

My conspiracy theory is that kev doesn't like lanky shotblockers who are awkward offensively.

― Matt Armstrong, Friday, March 20, 2015 6:02 PM (5 hours ago

i think it is definitely fair to say that i get less excited over one-dimensional players, particularly those who don't have a lot of ball skills

kyrie and k-lo officially in the playoffs for the first time

congrats 2 them

and potentially the last if k love goes to the LOLakers

KLove was actually a LOLaker in high school. His team was the Lake Oswego Lakers.

an actual lake

L.O. Lakers - d'y'see?

the lake oswego high school basketball gym was where i schooled tim hardaway btw

https://vine.co/v/OYi6vpMWbLu

angle 2: https://vine.co/v/OYi6K7tXEDO

L.O. Lakers - d'y'see?

― Aimless, Friday, March 20, 2015 11:10 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i.imgur.com/pIsWZLi.jpg