sounds like its nbd anyway
― micah, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 15:05 (nine years ago) link
im sure antic and sefolosha can come up w/ some sort of easy plea bargain, at best they receive some slap on the wrist suspension - like silver clearly cares about "integrity of the league" type stuff but it's not like an obstruction charge levied on dudes who were probably heated up, drunk & concerned about their friend is somehow indicative of moral failing in any minds other than the most tight-assed, and silver doesn't seem quite that type of tight-assed
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link
@ESPNSteinLine: ESPN sources: Vlade Divac has emerged as Kings' top basketball decision-maker. Story link: http://t.co/UI77cZDpyB
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
vivek mullen crush over?
mullen jumped ship and took a college coaching job, so the writing was on the wall
― Giant Purple Wakerobin (Aimless), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link
lol, poor vlade's smoking habit gonna come right back full force (if it ever disappeared), too much stress
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link
wow did not realize that, crazy he turned down a pro job to coach at his middling alma mater where he has a chance to ruin his reputation xp
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
lol obvs did not read the article
the jokey tone of this piece is terrible but theres some nice shotcharts in there http://grantland.com/the-triangle/nba-least-efficient-shooters-josh-smith-michael-carter-williams-trey-burke-nerlens-noel-dion-waiters/
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link
i appreciate any excuse for deploying the j-smoove missed 3/SVG pain face vine
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 18:56 (nine years ago) link
it's pretty hilarious that the spot on dion's shot chart that is the most efficient (at least according to the rubric established) is the place he shoots the least, but then again i s'pose he could've just got lucky the times he did take shots there & is ultimately a bad shooter everywhere
this is the other reason why i am all about the pelis backing in (geaux pelis): keep dion waiters out of the playoffs as long as humanly possible
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link
xxp while i am not on team hate-grantland as much as you sometimes are, goon, i def agree re: this piece bc stuff like this is unfuriating:
So if you have a missed-shot fetish like I do, come meet me on Waiters Island. We’ll have the whole place to ourselves.
YOU'RE NOT ALONE, more than half your site's goddamn NBA writers won't shut the hell up about waiters as if those jokes & his bad basketball/worse personality were still funny, then again i'm talking about it & not just ignoring so in the end they win
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 19:37 (nine years ago) link
*infuriating
ya guys who arent funny trying so hard to make jokes is sad and lame, like how much better wld lowes columns be if he just played it straight (20%)
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 19:42 (nine years ago) link
Donut Motiejunas is out for the season :/
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
dang
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 19:44 (nine years ago) link
Lowe could keep trying to be funny but cut his word count in half and it'd be an even bigger improvement. he'll go for broke and do both. Concise and informative, what are the chances
oof sux xps
― Clay, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 19:47 (nine years ago) link
he'll supposed to be hell there, obv neither will ever happen.
at least lowe owns his inherent dorkiness & his corny jokes are just like dad humor, not getting in the way of readability (the wordiness sorta does that, but not too bad). and not this faux-edgy-millennial blogger shit that andrew sharp peddles to disguise his lowest common denominator/status quo ideas, or the weird smarm of goldsberry or the "PLEASE let me keep nick young relevant w/gossip items/fawn over prettyboy wite players" juliet litman style; she might be the most grating bc she def is a leaguepass junkie who understands the sport but is actively pretending not to in the NBA shit she writes/on the after dark podcast. (sidebar: man, i wish molly lambert cared about sports enough to sometimes write about them along w/her other stuff.)
OTOH, i continue to pay attention to their coverage bc of stuff like today's draymond green profile, which is really good & interesting
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link
bummer about d-mo, there goes the only other likable rocket to the disabled list (unless terrence jones came back)
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 19:59 (nine years ago) link
I just don't and never have read those ppl other than the occasional goldsberry when it was relevant to my interest. I mean grantland has simmons dna and will always have that pop-culture hook and they need to skew young for clicks so it's unsurprising that's what their roster looks like.
― Clay, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 20:01 (nine years ago) link
you're a wiser person than i. obv i get myself into such holes of interwebs frustration by bothering to read stuff aside from the straight-up coverage in the first place, much like (for prob the 6th time i've made this reference, apologies) michael bluth seeing the bag marked DEAD DOVE and looking inside as if the dead dove won't be in there
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 20:06 (nine years ago) link
Gotta stop betting Matt can't be good for your health
Can't quit in the black!
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 20:38 (nine years ago) link
isn't that the perfect time to quit?
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link
No way man clearly I'm on the road to being the next haralabos
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 20:52 (nine years ago) link
D-Mo had the most beautiful post game in the league, get well soon man
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 20:53 (nine years ago) link
"He got all excited afterward. I told him to learn how to make a shot."-- Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle, describing his response after losing to Rondo in Connect Four
lol
― pandemic, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 20:55 (nine years ago) link
also lol at lance stephenson shooting 16/100 from 3.
― pandemic, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link
how is that even possible?
Joseph Goodman @JoeGoodmanJr 20h 20 hours agoLance Stephenson checks in. Fan calls out in measured tone: "Lance, are you a bust?"
dass how
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 21:02 (nine years ago) link
I bet baron davis had some 16/100 stretches
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link
is there even a 5% chance the lakers max out rondo?
― pandemic, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link
ain't gonna lie I'd love to see him on the lakers next year. I mean I wouldn't actually watch the games, but I'd get a kick out of reading about it a few times during the course of the season.
― pandemic, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link
downsides: lakers are guaranteed moribund for at least 3 years, it's the fucking lakers, it would guarantee that his bizarro free-jazz style would never be implemented in a working system
upsides: he might get into actual physical fights and cause real damage to byron, kobe and perhaps jim buss if he can remember where the stadium is & comes to games
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
"Thabo Sefolosha (arrest, ankle) out Wednesday"
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 21:45 (nine years ago) link
oh I just really immersed myself in the thoughts of kobe playing again next year
it was fucking awesome
― Clay, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 21:53 (nine years ago) link
lol good at math bad at people http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/12587848/old-questions-surface-new-dallas-mavericks-point-guard-rajon-rondo
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 22:13 (nine years ago) link
(Rondo's Connect Four prowess has since become legendary and has made for heartwarming-yet-awkward community outreach moments. The day he was traded to Dallas in December, he spent his final hours as a Celtic at Boston Children's Hospital, crushing all comers in the game, repeatedly telling kids, "No mercy.")
oh
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 8 April 2015 23:42 (nine years ago) link
https://nesncom.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/rajon-rondo3.jpg
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 9 April 2015 00:06 (nine years ago) link
I can't say I totally miss the rondo experience
― juice college (agent hibachi), Thursday, 9 April 2015 00:14 (nine years ago) link
Also sadly I think playoff rondo is dead and buried
― juice college (agent hibachi), Thursday, 9 April 2015 00:15 (nine years ago) link
― Clay, Wednesday, April 8, 2015 5:53 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink I just tried this but with Carmelo surrounded by whatever bogus roster overhaul pjax attempts and it was pretty awesome too
― juice college (agent hibachi), Thursday, 9 April 2015 00:16 (nine years ago) link
xp I dunno I think cuban can egg him onto to hate the fuck out of Houston, and if you give him national television and fury it is always possible
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 9 April 2015 00:22 (nine years ago) link
― k3vin k., Wednesday, April 8, 2015 7:42 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark
This is the best
― 龜, Thursday, 9 April 2015 00:23 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/NickiJhabvala/status/585850983973986305/photo/1
this is kind of ... interesting? i guess?
― Clay, Thursday, 9 April 2015 00:53 (nine years ago) link
Man after that article Rondo is like my #2 fav guy in the NBA now
― 龜, Thursday, 9 April 2015 00:57 (nine years ago) link
Jimmy Butler doesn't play good defense anymore
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 9 April 2015 01:24 (nine years ago) link
if it had touched on the free throw issues more deeply that would have been the definitive rondo article.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 9 April 2015 01:47 (nine years ago) link
@bengolliver Flip Saunders on Andrew Wiggins: "You don't want [three-pointers] to become a major part of his game." Don't know whether to groan or cry
flip is so bad so so bad
― Clay, Thursday, 9 April 2015 01:53 (nine years ago) link
mjax and JVG getting veeeeerrryyyy chippy in a debate about playoff structure
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 9 April 2015 01:55 (nine years ago) link