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

i mean

jarret jack
kevin martin
trevor ariza
louis scola
emeka okafor

+ odom

you could have worse teams

that's not a playoff team most likely but it's not the worst team in the world

RT @johnhollinger Hornets would need to renounce David West to make this trade work as reported.

well if they were picking up two power forwards in the deal, they probably would

Ha look at that line-up, it's a team of trade throw-ins! They're just completely being used as a fence for actual teams!

scola is pretty awesome

i keep confusing him with the local (and outstanding) miami circuit court judge who just got elevated to the third district court of appeals bench.

i picture him in his judicial robe, lobbing a pass to odom.

houston still has tons of cap room -- gasol's salary is 19m, but they're unloading 22m b/w scola and martin

oh yeah <3 scola just saying the league should have started running a team for the purpose of trade facilitation ages ago

houston's roster is for real so hilarious, i can never get over it

they have jonny flynn, hasheem thabeet and jordan hill on the same team!!!

and terrence williams!

bah. i want nene or dalembert on the heat. stop chasing them, houston rockets!

and yes, i realize we "don't have" the "cap space" to sign them. whatevs. make it happen.

i was just staring at the computer screen for 3 mins going "when the fuck did the rockets get goran dragic????????" but then i realized i was confusing him w/ marcin gortat

plz tell me morey is gonna go after marc

hey guys, ricky rubio is really cute :)

isn't he the guy that sings living la vida loca?

ricky rubio is pretty cute

SherrodbCSN: Celtics were confident they were of landing Paul. Source says they were already planning a physical for him.

oh right i forgot baot aminu, he's nice but seems like he should be a sixth man

yeah its kind of a lot of money for butler but i bet its going to be eclipsed by some legendary bad contracts in the next few days

might have a whiff of the cavalier's parade of bad signings to "convince" lebron to "stay" about it, except in this case lebron is blake

aminu will need to be the 6th man because they dont really have one

oh for christs sakes just when this was shaping up to be a good day

i'm already bored by chris paul as a laker. he needs to leave LA, to shake off the doldrums and rejuvenate his career.

next free-agent signing please!

so, if the lakers DON'T get howard, this is a pretty massive risk. they're gonna go into the season, at least at the moment, with one big man who has had a myriad of knee injuries his entire career. oh btw, did we mention that we're trying to cram 66 games into four and a half months and that's not even including the playoffs?

yep.

Russ Bengtson @russbengtson -- Sounds like the NBA is using their amnesty on the Hornets.

if the lakers do get howard, the only way they could lose would be for kobe to submarine the team

which, you know, *fingers crossed*

so you think howard on LA puts them far over miami?

just seems like both teams have odd chemistry and roster issues.

howard -- (who are their forwards?) -- kobe -- paul.

i would be scared of a team where dwight howard was the third best option on offense, yes

i don't disagree. but constructing their team that way leaves them with gaping holes at two starting spots, just like the issue miami faces.

paul
kobe
world peace
*somebody*
howard

WORLD F'N PEACE people!

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

yeah, very very good, but just like miami's construction (with players at different spots, obv).

the lakers are abandoning the triangle right?

yeah, very very good, but just like miami's construction (with players at different spots, obv).

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, December 8, 2011 5:54 PM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark Permalink

well right but "players at different spots" is a big thing cuz the lakers three would all be playing traditional roles

waht it's nothing like miami's construction!

it is, in terms of how a team spends its money.

i mean certainly the heat could win but paul and howard getting split up would be much, much better for them

it is, in terms of how a team spends its money.

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, December 8, 2011 5:55 PM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark Permalink

yeah but this isn't really the point

shannon brown signed with the suns? tmac is a hawk? this is so great and random

Based on their coaching hire I assume the Lakers are abandoning an offense all together. Just pick and roll, pick and roll, isolation, pick and pop, pick and roll, isolation.

u fools are forgetting that mike brown is coaching this team, which means Kobe is coaching this team which means implosion time is imminent

yeah... still interested in the dynamics of kobe playing w/ a PG as good as paul

kobe + paul have, like, one or one and a half good knees b/w them

feel like wo d12 this is a lateral move bc their inside presence was just stacked and now it's depleted

lakers havent had a legit point guard since... fuck I dont even know (nor do I pay attention enough)

i sort of feel the same way xp

it's too bad that melo & cp3 are good friends, cuz they need to never play together -- on the other hand paul + amare playing together would be like a 2.5 hour orgasm

why is that?