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

i bet if u check his records at the juice college, his senior thesis is "like, what would happen if you put all your juice into ONE dude?: theoretical and empirical models of team juice distribution"

haha

what are the chances of bogut making it to the finals with all his cartilage and ligaments intact?

That's all I think about all day every day

let me remind you that when you google "bogut" the first suggested search is "bogut injury"

he's been fine since he last came back, I would hope/assume that kerr rests him for at least a few of the remaining reg season games

i am glad lagoon will always be with me in the cp3 = all-time great argument

― k3vin k., Sunday, March 29, 2015 11:11 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

props

the clips are full of holes tho. the friggin celtics were down 40 to them today and the final deficit ended up being 13, if the celtics can fight back from that and make a serious enough dent, any team in the west could do that and win

― are... are you saying you fucked a gazelle? (slothroprhymes), Sunday, March 29, 2015 11:06 PM (3 minutes ago)

i was at this game and the clips took their starters out when it was a 25-30 pt game

Yes this is almost always how comebacks from deficits this large happen, often against teams with awful bench players like LA's.

every team shits the bed in the playoffs until the year that they don't

Come on, man

If the clippers did anything to improve their talent base I'd be interested but they are going in the opposite direction. Also if you root for them you should be ashamed of yourself.

it's true that depth matters less in the playoffs but i think the fact that jj redick is their best wing player is going to burn the clippers in the first two rounds.

the supporting cast doc has assembled is borderline criminal, he started out with cp3-blake-dre-bledsoe and just failed at putting anyone around them, its very sad actually

imagine if they had hired JVG instead of trading a first round pick for doc

the clippers could make the finals

wld love to see cp3 n blake go ham this playoffs / am now a clippers fan just to spite all the h8rs itt

you guys are slanting the odds way too heavily in favor of the best teams in the west imo

hollinger's odds have clippers as a more likely west finals participant than the spurs btw

yeah i feel like the spurs have been doing their thing playing well recently but theres a lot of time all sorts of things can happen

houston could win two rounds too

lotta good teams out west

only one i feel like has a real advantage is DUBS tbh

i would 100% pick the warriors but saying the nba is a 4 team league at the very least puts way too much faith in the spurs imo

agreed

also no eastern team has a chance so just forget abt cleve/hawks imho

every team shits the bed in the playoffs until the year that they don't
Come on, man

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, March 30, 2015 12:40 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you know what team can't win in the playoffs? the spurs. what kind of team with championship potential loses a first round series to the grizzlies? remember when they were 30 seconds from a title and kawhi shit his pants at the FT line and then they couldn't box out chris bosh, the guy who averaged 7 rebounds a game? except...all the times they didn't choke

you know who can't perform in the clutch? lebron. what kind of alpha dog gets swept his first finals appearance and then plays his worst basketball since his rookie year the next time he gets back there? until...he started winning rings

paul's teams have not done much in the playoffs but they've generally been lower seeded so it's not exactly shocking. and yeah, you look at their roster and you don't believe they are a real contender, but then you realize they have the best offense in the league and the 2nd best point differential. they have as good a shot as anyone. their roster certainly isn't worse than houston's, and somehow that team is the 2 seed right now

i would 100% pick the warriors but saying the nba is a 4 team league at the very least puts way too much faith in the spurs imo

― J0rdan S., Monday, March 30, 2015 11:41 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hollinger's odds don't take into account the fact that the spurs were beat up most of the year tho

houston obv on paper has as good a shot as anyone but i just have this gut feeling that they don't have enough talent to win more than 1 series. i mean they'll smoke the thunder or the mavs or whatever but i can't see them ever beating the warriors

Tom Haberstroh ‏@tomhaberstroh 1m1 minute ago
Shooting since All-Star:
Russ: .416/.320/.870
Harden: .393/.328/.859
Steph: .485/.509/.963
CP: .517/.410/.903

i know ive said this a million times but harden dominating the ball too much is imo a problem for houston in the playoffs, you need more sharing to get past prepared quality defnses

heard Morey on a podcast from yesterday and he was claiming that hardens reliance on FT isn't a liability in tightly called playoff series because he is the best at beating his man and getting to the basket. seems like a rosy interp of his skills, and i am still totally unconvinced that houston is anything but a strong reg season team that is entirely dependent on possibly an outlier yr for harden. i dont buy dwight as a worthwhile contributor except on the defensive end and with Beverly out you're basically depending on harden to will the team to success which i don't feel like is reasonable in a seven game series against a competent WC team

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

I went one year without thinking about bron's fucked up foot

its crazy how an elite athlete can have such a messed up foot

Probably is because he uses PEDs

maybe somehow that's the key to healthy feet/ankles all these years

nikes squeeze your foot #staywoke

JFC @ Bron's gnarled foot.

*barf*

so the rockets are probably done as a contender now

wtf kind of dark elf casted Cripple Limb on bron?

wha happened

feel like they could maybe weather the beverley thing if dwight comes back and fortifies the back line and they can find a few guys to make shots off the ball but yeah it's not promising

like the warriors could weather an injury to one of their secondary guys but the rockets are already so thin as it is

paul's teams have not done much in the playoffs but they've generally been lower seeded so it's not exactly shocking. and yeah, you look at their roster and you don't believe they are a real contender, but then you realize they have the best offense in the league and the 2nd best point differential. they have as good a shot as anyone. their roster certainly isn't worse than houston's, and somehow that team is the 2 seed right now

Maybe your estimate of the team with the better record not having a superior roster is incorrect.

As for all teams crashing in the playoffs until they don't, tell that to the KG Timberwolves, the Payton Sonics etc etc

peyton made it to the finals

i think they're pretty comparable, and now that beverly's out i like the clips xxp

the point is you can't say there's something inherent to paul's game that's keeping his teams out of the finals. if it happens it happens, if it doesn't it doesn't. it's certainly not his fault

i mean if paul had the good fortune to play in the eastern conference how many finals appearances does he have right now?

fun exercise: go count all the 50-win teams lebron's beaten in the playoffs. it won't take long

Oh sure Paul's awesome and all that, but some teams crash and burn a lot in the playoffs a lot for real reasons such as being coached by George Karl

haha :(