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

magic look like they just found out their dad is a furry

well, have you seen SVG in the shower?

6th beard of the year

this lmfao budweiser ad is a low point

it's bad, but on account of not being insanely misogynistic & homophobic, it prob doesn't even rank in the bottom 10 of bud/bud light ads

it's bad because it is stupid and because mark cuban is in it and he is stupid.

I kind of like the luke wilson for no reason

I thought Murphy and McRoberts looked really good for the Lakers, too bad Mike Brown is their coach.

Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber -- I really want to like OKC, but I find them exceedingly dull. NBA finals are going to be a little tedious if they come out of the West.

durant is kinda boring, but westbrook and harden can make some music

They're def. an ugly team in terms of turnovers.

but I mean, come on, we suffered through like 7 years of pistons-spurs BS, the Thunder are like snorting coke in a helicopter compared to that.

Gonna try that "snorting coke in a helicopter" thing, just to be sure.

wow hedo guarding durant

Spurs were a joy to watch. Excellence in execution. I haven't seen enough of the Thunder to judge.

The Spurs deserve a lot of the blame for the epidemic of flopping we have now.

and until last year their offenses were pretty much always hideous.

ban EZ snappin

I completely disagree.

I enjoyed the three man game they played on offense with their excellent weakside spacing. I blame flopping on the Vlade Kings teams (and Derek Floppin' Fisher) more than on Manu.

The Pistons were hideous to watch though, beyond Rasheed getting Techs.

BAN THIS BUDWEISER COMMERCIAL

f---g a, can't the federal gov't do something about that commercial?

i realize there are protections ensuring "free" "speech," but there are limits.

I'm watching online so I don't get the Bud commercial. Thank you ESPN 3!

what is this commercial?

it's a terrible commercial with lmfao

I had to ask my wife who they were.

holy hell, if it happens: dirk -- dhoward -- deron v. bron -- wade -- bosh in '12 -- '13. i suppose dallas would be favored, but what a matchup.

I'm hoping!

And thinking of actively lobbying Howard and Williams

that would be pretty amazing, a great rivalry

and yeah i assume dallas would win

it's already an interesting rivalry, with the way they traded finals wins.

i assume, but heat's firepower is muy impresionante

i think the c's are angling to have cap room this offseason, too. not sure how they'd do it, but dwight howard and rajon rondo would be a hell of a building block for the celtic nation.

heat have three players that don't fit at all, Dallas would have three players who are made for each other.

they fit pretty well today.

not really, bosh didn't do anything.

i think they'll fit fine, this year and next. there's some overlap, but there are plenty of workarounds.

and btw, bosh is the player who fits perfectly with either bron or wade. it's the wings who arguably have duplication in their games, i.e., redundancy.

bosh stepped back as a scorer because the two wings take up so many touches. but bosh will be damn good this year, i'm convinced. getting bigger will help him plenty.

they have two guys who can't shoot from the perimeter and need the ball in their hands all the time, and a soft PF who doesn't do dirty work and mostly is effective in iso situations. Great mix!

If Lebron is going to be facing up in the post and taking 12'-18' jumpers they don't need Bosh.

they might win because of the overwhelming talent of wade and lebron, but this big three was just three bro's going to a team, not three players who made sense alongside each other.

nah. the transition game they showed today was awesome. two prolific wings -- even ones that like the ball in their hands -- can work fine, if they can pass like bron and wade.

but eventually you have to score in the half court, and it turns into a nightmare

we saw it vs. dallas, if they couldn't spark the transition game with defense, their halfcourt offense was remedial.

v. dallas today or in the finals?

Today they could do no wrong.

right. like all teams in a shortened preseason, they'll need work, and bron has to be reminded to not just pound the ball at the top of the key. having said that, i think they'll be fine in the half-court. if they can get good production out of their center position (a big "if," i know), they'll be amazing.

and they'll likely be amazing, anyway.

I don't see how you could argue the three of them are a good fit, considering what has happened to Bosh.