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

i appreciate any excuse for deploying the j-smoove missed 3/SVG pain face vine

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

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

*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%)

Donut Motiejunas is out for the season :/

dang

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

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

bummer about d-mo, there goes the only other likable rocket to the disabled list (unless terrence jones came back)

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.

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

Gotta stop betting Matt can't be good for your health

Can't quit in the black!

isn't that the perfect time to quit?

No way man clearly I'm on the road to being the next haralabos

D-Mo had the most beautiful post game in the league, get well soon man

"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

also lol at lance stephenson shooting 16/100 from 3.

how is that even possible?

Joseph Goodman @JoeGoodmanJr 20h 20 hours ago
Lance Stephenson checks in. Fan calls out in measured tone: "Lance, are you a bust?"

dass how

I bet baron davis had some 16/100 stretches

is there even a 5% chance the lakers max out rondo?

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.

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

"Thabo Sefolosha (arrest, ankle) out Wednesday"

oh I just really immersed myself in the thoughts of kobe playing again next year

it was fucking awesome

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

(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

https://nesncom.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/rajon-rondo3.jpg

I can't say I totally miss the rondo experience

Also sadly I think playoff rondo is dead and buried

oh I just really immersed myself in the thoughts of kobe playing again next year

it was fucking awesome

― 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

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

(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, April 8, 2015 7:42 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark

This is the best

https://twitter.com/NickiJhabvala/status/585850983973986305/photo/1

this is kind of ... interesting? i guess?

Man after that article Rondo is like my #2 fav guy in the NBA now

Jimmy Butler doesn't play good defense anymore

if it had touched on the free throw issues more deeply that would have been the definitive rondo article.

@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

mjax and JVG getting veeeeerrryyyy chippy in a debate about playoff structure

do tell

JVG is firmly in the top-16-teams playoff idea, mjax is not, it's calmed down now but at one point JVG shouted at Jackson after a typical Jackson platitude about balance, "now you're just throwing out cliche terms!" and mjax didn't talk for a good 4 mins after, I just imagine him seething and grumbling

lol i hope breen is ok.

christian minister blindly defends tradition shocker

Spurs look really n sync right now

Clays post haunts my head

'Clever girl' - me when I see the Spurs now

lol jeff just zinged the masters, he is ornery tonite

kawhi leonard is a top 5 player in the league rn, fuck everybody