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

chicago & the cleve in rd 2 could get bloody but yeah otherwise

the west is not going to be that great until round 2 :/

RIP when we thought it was gonna be the craziest playoffs ever

Last years first round would be hard to top re west

yeah bottom of the west derailed by injuries m/l :(

Except pelis if they get in tho they are finally healthy

derailed by injuries and/or rondo

the pelis would get rocked by the dubs

what east 1st round series has a chance to go 7, even?

Yeah probs but they beat em easily a couple weeks back xp

pelis are gonna get rocked regardless but even in losses I think brow will make it watchable

derailed by injuries and/or rondo

― Clay, Tuesday, April 14, 2015 11:22 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:(

someone named lester hudson is playing professional basketball on national television right now

pelis r healthy but they wldntve gotten in w/o the entire thunder roster in the hospital

i mean they still prob wont get in

Both teams were just playing absolute junk out there

lester hudson is the most "bass player for a funk band" name imaginable

ugh the corpse of OKC and the juiceman are not gonna be a fun watch

pelis are not beating the spurs tomorrow no, so it's down to westbrook not shitting the bed against the twolves tomorrow

kevin harlan describing the fall of the Suns with such poetry

if minny wins tomorrow they will tie the knicks for worst record so they will prob be trying to lose rip pelicans

here's a question: which franchise is run more poorly and/or has made worse decisions - OKC or pelis?

pelis made win-now moves and kinda look bad rn plus Monty williams, OKC has kinda been poorly run and coached for years but are bailed out by their absurd talent + made a few good recent moves to make presti look good. it's kind of a toss up

its tuff to say okc had prob the all time great run in the draft but on the other hand they traded james harden, pelis are just like a normal boring poorly run team

Reggie is so stupid

monty & brooks pretty much on the same level, but brooks seems to have his hooks deeper in the organization. monty will prob get chopped this summer.

https://vine.co/v/eu9HueeqHZz

they're so similar in that they're great coaches of players, like they really care about them as people but are sort of lost regarding au courant basketball IQ

yeah monty was an assistant under nate mcmillan and there's years of me bitching about nate's aggressively anti-intellectual stuck in the 90's approach to the game

bitching *on ilh* i should say.

OMG CHUCK IS SO STUPID :/

that isn't a novel statement and doesn't deserve all caps but he just said deandre was the clips best player

i think hibachi or cad once asked me what i thought about mcmillan in the first year portland was doing pretty good with roy & aldridge and i'd had a couple beers and wrote like a 6,000 word post about how severely i disagree w/ like every basketball decision mcmillan had ever made

lol

following the battle for the 7/8 seed in the east the past few weeks (partly cuz i want the nets in the lottery, partly cuz i want to be able to see someone interesting/entertaining) has really really driven home for me how bad the east is. curious if thibs ends up in new orleans. orlando would be an interesting fit but supposedly billy donovan is going to finally take that job.

keep thibs away from brow plz he is too precious

yeah what anthony davis really needs is spending his early twenties averaging 46 minutes per game on a 46 win team.

yeah i thought that too. trying to think of other locations he could land. maybe he just stays in chicago.

the suns' level of DGAF in this game is almost admirable the dedication is so complete

like a samurai preparing for seppuku

wow just dawned on me that playoffs start this weekend

very pumped

:D

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CCm5E7TW0AEkZxZ.jpg

crazy that on the eve of the last day of the season the only thing we know is the eastern conference 2 vs 7 matchup.

Pretty cool

curry hit 77 practice threes in a row http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=12692542

― lag∞n, Tuesday, April 14, 2015 11:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

evidence of 77 entering the collective subconscious

The D League allowing teams to pick who they face in the playoffs, is that an experiment to see if they could use it in the NBA or just a D league 'fun' thing? I like the idea of the team the Warriors/Hawks choose to face feeling extra slighted. Like especially if the Warriors were to pick the Rockets or something crazy.

hmm. if playoff teams are sometimes doing things like resting starters or going half-assed to move their seeding down and get more favorable matchups anyway, why not allow top seeds this privilege in the first place?

obviously this wouldn't be quite the same thing & teams with lower playoff berths would prob still do the late-season shrug from time to time, but if you dominate as thoroughly as the dubs have why not have the preordained right to potentially breeze through the first round? maybe it shouldn't just be for 1-seeds tho, maybe only if you are #1 and also won like over 60 games. so last year's indy would be exempt (and rightfully so imo the wheels so clearly fell off that cart, or rather poor hibbert meekly, depressively pulled them off the cart with tears in his eyes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxw2FZBd7aY&feature=youtu.be

i love the spurs