J.R. Smith has literally been shanghaied away for the foreshortened 2011-2012 NBA season: rolling ILH sandbox thread

griffin really needs to stop taking these 22 footers

anyway clippers got pretty exposed tonight, their starting 5 can run with anyone but once they get tired it's pick your poison: either play with gassed stars or pray your thoroughly average second unit can break even

TBF they are playing one of the three best teams in the NBA

WHY IS PAUL STILL OUT THERE

so does vinny del negro make it through the all star break?

the bulls are just really good -- if rose is dropping 16 dimes and shooting 75% from three no one but the heat has a prayer of beating them

billups being out is a big deal too.

def

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBoDWNBcf0s

'-'

actually dont think playing the clips starters big minutes is a bad idea right now, its a bad idea if they do it all season, but right now they need time to gel, also their bench sucks, also ricky rubio gdamn kid can play, also the heat have barely beat two bad teams the last two games and despite being 4-0 their point differential is only 5.5, and batier was 0-5 all threes lol, norris cole had a dece game tho

haha batier has 4pts all season and is shooting 10%

someone was sitting around at home polishing his head ridges all lockout

ShaneBattier Shane Battier
Just telling you guys now that my New Year's resolution for 2012 is to make a shot........it's gonna happen.
9 hours ago

haha

man i know its hard when you're just watching someone's highlights but my god rubio plays such a slow and calm game and is making jokers like anthony randolph look great. here's to the twolves for being the endearingly wacky team of the next 2 years.

keep wondering if wolves had drafted greg monroe or cousins instead of wesley johnson

Ricky Rubio is the fifth Beatle.

Shane's awesome.

he's gonna shoot .777 next week to even things out

deandre's arms are insanely long

I wonder how he sizes up compared to dwight or javale

rubio looked pretty amazing, such a deft passer

last night proved i can't reasonably handle league pass without totally screwing up my life but:

ricky rubio is actually really good, v rondo-esque, though he is um not going to make an all-defensive team any time soon

is super cool beas usually benched for crunch time or was adelman just experimenting with tolliver/ellington?

sometimes i forget that dwayne wade is better at basketball than almost anyone else on the planet

watched the end and overtime of pacers/cavs (lol) but pacers look really good, david west was an excellent pickup for them, gives them some clutch scoring. even if he's only 75% healthy yet he reminds me of 05-ish elton brand, if you need 2 points just dump it to him in the post, really interesting team that plays hard

pistons are a dumpster fire

bulls just better/more cohesive so far and clips still figuring things out, as i think i posted a bunch of times last year griffin still needs to develop that elbow jumper that duncan and kg have and he will be unstoppable. i think he knows he needs to do this which is encouraging

vinny d will live out his contract this year and that's it

rose is so unbelievable, i'm always amazed when he dives into a bunch of big guys in the lane and literally disappears on my tv and a shot comes flying out and banks in

tldr: local boston and minnesota commercials are awesome and a primary feature of league pass

indianas a stacked young team, perfect possistion to trade for a superstar - rubios supposed to be an excellent defender from what everyone says, may take him a lil while to figure out the nba tho, heard him complaining in an interview abt how handchecking is a foul over here lol

yeah i saw him doing a lot of euro-style swipes at the ball when he was beat by his man, something manu did a bit when he first came over, he'll get better as he's probably just adjusting to how fast someone like wade can lose him on a pick or even just 1-1

@jadande
J.A. Adande
C) Kevin Durant RT @HeyJacquiDey: MVP of the first week: Derrick Rose or Dwyane Wade?
11 hours ago

...i can't even

ja adande is literally the worst

like how many times has this happened to you, you see the lil truehoop widget on the espn basketball home page, theres a headline that grabs you so you click through only to find its an adande post, at which point you dont even bother to read the first sentence

Did Rubio say if being balls deep in every UM coed was part of his reason for coming to the US?

had to factor into the decision

is super cool beas usually benched for crunch time or was adelman just experimenting with tolliver/ellington?

adelman benched ridnour/johnson/beasley hardcore to try and get the first win.

rubios supposed to be an excellent defender from what everyone says, may take him a lil while to figure out the nba tho, heard him complaining in an interview abt how handchecking is a foul over here lol

― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, December 31, 2011 10:28 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink

he's an awesome on-ball pest, but his team defense and off-ball defense have a long way to go.

sounds like a good start

deandre's arms are insanely long

― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Saturday, December 31, 2011 10:21 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink

I wonder how he sizes up compared to dwight or javale

― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Saturday, December 31, 2011 10:21 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink

deandre and javale both have 7'6 reaches, javale is an inch taller. Dwight's reach is 7'4.5, but it's more remarkable because he's only 6'9.

keep wondering if wolves had drafted greg monroe or cousins instead of wesley johnson

― moullet, Saturday, December 31, 2011 9:10 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

that's like the one totally awful Kahn move that's at least somewhat understandable. They couldn't go with another gravity-bound big man with Love and Jefferson around.

What's hilarious is that the next draft they actually had a chance to get an athletic center who would fit alongside Love, but they didn't do it because Kahn had invested so much of his reputation in Darko.

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

that's not even how you hold a basketball ye

ja adande is literally the worst

― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, December 31, 2011 12:08 PM (1 hour ago)

tbf durant has had a hell of a week too but i feel like lebron is only person this could happen to, like to be the most famous basketball player AND play by far the best out of anyone and still get snubbed like that

he should have said "C. Spencer Hawes"

lol kanye looks so scared

attn matt armstrong lebron's PER is like 40.5 right now

i love early season krazy statz

the heat's schedule is crazy easy too, he's gonna have a monster year

hah how so

don't all the best teams in the nba have the hardest schedules cuz they all get matched up for tv purposes

beasley is such a terrible nba player, there's no reason for him to be on the floor on crunch time until he learns how to play with four other guys

derrick williams dropped two big 3s in the fourth q last night tho

if beas is able to listen, adelman can give him a big boost in the right direction. he's a good coach.

ha, right

i hope wade & haslem were telling him to listen to his coaches and not do his own thing

At beasley's age, it's too soon to give up hope that he might do some growing up. look at how long it took zach randolph to learn how to mesh with his team.