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

"this is not the jumpshot you are looking for"

http://celticshub.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/gabe-pruit.jpg

lmao

this is cracking me up btw, ball don't lie's season preview of t'wolves:

http://mit.zenfs.com/207/2011/12/BucksPred.jpg

bucks?

oops yeah

that gabe pruitt thing is my fav photo ever

• Softest thing from Italy since gelato. Abhors contact, rarely rebounds.

guys guys guess who paid off his spanish contract and is gonna be in the nba this year

that's right BISMACK BIYOMBO

i wish our regular season thread could be audio of marv yelling his name

thread title i mean

i really wish i knew what concept kg was trying to get across in that photo also, i feel like hes explaining the psychological advantages of using your war face in the post

happy trails, peja stojakovic!

also also, baron can be flat-out awesome when he's engaged and having fun, but between the lockout and his back i cant see him being in decent shape in february. that said even fat baron was really fun playing with blake for a minute last year

predrag is retiring? aw!

also also, baron can be flat-out awesome when he's engaged and having fun, but between the lockout and his back i cant see him being in decent shape in february. that said even fat baron was really fun playing with blake for a minute last year

― concussion section, Monday, December 19, 2011 4:50 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

Strangely enough, he started playing better after Sterling started openly berating him courtside.

god, i totally forgot about that

I would have taken Biyombo 2nd, btw. I'm all in BB.

other than it being totally tacky and inappropriate that was probably the only time sterling has ever been OTM

peja's stats for 03-04:

81 games played. 48% FG, 43% 3P, 93% FT, 6 boards, 24.2 PPG

that is pretty insane for a jumpshooter

3rd place MVP that year iirc

it was, imho, the greatest shooting season anyone has ever had.

lmao

http://home.tiscali.nl/~miki/stojakovic/peja073.jpg

what's the highest TS% hollinger has ever recorded?

the sexiest shooting season

http://www.basketball-reference.com/leaders/ts_pct_season.html

^^ why the hall of fame is a total joke. Colangelo had to create a ABA separate committee to squeeze Artis in because the hall of fame committee was filled with idiots.

true shooting percentage is kind of a joke unless you're using it right

wtf at sam dalembert not being signed a week before opening day!

maybe he goes back to the kings?

spurs for the mini mle

nah jk, matt bonner is a legit starting C

nah jk we shd play kawhi leonard at C

i think dalembert made clear he wouldn't accept even the full mle.

he was looking for 8 -- 10M a year, IIRC, and thought he could get it.

lol too late, who even has room for that?

rockets and/or kings?

true shooting percentage is kind of a joke unless you're using it right

― k3vin k., Monday, December 19, 2011 9:07 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

well it's better than PER, which can never be used right.

well this game has already been awesome, couple of crazy kobe shots, some cp3 magic, monster deandre jordan dunk

xp gtfo

PER is total nonsense, an "efficiency" stat that rewards inefficiency.

paul's defense has slipped a lot, blake has embarrassed him a couple times. Still an offensive genius though.

mcroberts is a totally fun player, shame he both played for duke and now the lakers

I've always been a McRoberts stan

I feel like he's always taken too much shit because he disappointed at Duke

PER is total nonsense, an "efficiency" stat that rewards inefficiency.

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, December 19, 2011 11:01 PM (5 minutes ago)

this is very much more of a theoretical concern than a real one, in any event look at the top 10 players in the league in PER and then the top 10 in TS%, which one better reflects a player's worth? obv it's not a perfect stat but there's not a better one i don't think, composite or otherwise

getting beat backdoor by steve blake is pretty embarrassing, but paul's still one of the best defensive 1s in the league, his advanced numbers were not great last year but he wasn't 100% obviously - it'll be interesting tho to see how he plays on d this year.

this morris kid has no idea what the hell he's doing out there

this is very much more of a theoretical concern than a real one, in any event look at the top 10 players in the league in PER and then the top 10 in TS%, which one better reflects a player's worth? obv it's not a perfect stat but there's not a better one i don't think, composite or otherwise

― k3vin k., Monday, December 19, 2011 10:19 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

TS% is a stat that actually means something, PER is just a hodgepodge of garbage.

a list of the top 3p% wouldn't be a list of the top players, but it at least means what it claims. PER means nothing.

lmao @ cp3's little re-enactment of bynum's post move

<3

I seriously don't understand why Utah still has 47 power forwards.

well one of them has to be the next karl malone right

Favors went off tonight, should be the starter.

It just seems like millsap and jefferson are very tradeable, why not trade one of them now since Kanter and Favors are the future.

Billups at the 2 may be brilliant.

clips looking explosive