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

everything about the grizz remains wonderful

can't say the same about the Celtics.

rip suns / celtics

yeah can't say i know what the celtics are up to but i do not approve

Hoping Pierce saves them from oblivion. Danny didn't/couldn't make the moves he needed to rejuvenate this crew. Gonna be a rough year, like '91 with broke as Bird and McHale.

broke ass even. grrr.

I seriously try hard not to think about Steve Nash rotting what's left of his career away in Phoenix. Makes me sad. XP

Nashs loyalty, v sweet. v stupid

he'll sign with the knicks next year

ESPN Stats & Info
Russell Westbrook: 1st player to go 0-for-13 or worse in a win since the immortal David Wesley, 2000-01

didn't catch any of this clips game but shit that's pretty discouraging

lol david wesley is good company to be with, I guess

https://www.crazyboutsports.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/product_full/davis-wesley-card-1.jpg

*reminisces*

Baron Davis' career is so bizarre to me

josh harrellson sighting

Man that Clips game was atrocious. I can't decide whether the bigger takeaway is how far the Clips have to go or how fucking good the Spurs still are.

This first month of the season seems like it'll be about as much signal as it is noise.

so i guess the spurs are trying to have kawhi spot up for 3s? it's great if it works, but seems like a stretch for him. also i didn't see much of the spurs game tonight but manu is still a joy to watch.

followed by taunting cam newton!

― cad, Wednesday, December 28, 2011 9:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink

lol did this really happen

No Referrer (can't tell) 223

lol there are some looow shooting %s so far

ESPNSteinLine Marc Stein
It leads to perception OKC/Westbrook still haggling. Which also reminds you: Hornets wanted Westbrook for CP3 & that option now gone for OKC
2 minutes ago

why tf wouldnt okc do this, do they hate guaranteed rings idgi

followed by taunting cam newton!

― cad, Wednesday, December 28, 2011 9:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink

lol did this really happen

― Cooper Chucklebutt, Thursday, December 29, 2011 2:06 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

cam was sitting courtside and after hitting the shot dwade turned towards him with a slight smile and did the superman move while slowly backpedaling.

the warriors seriously have a player named 'ish smith' on their roster

ish smh

ith swish

looked like bosh was landing in a mcdonald's play pen

― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Wednesday, December 28, 2011 9:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink

lool

i love how there's a split second after he lands before wade & lebron run over to him, like they were totally all "wait, bosh? really?"

btw knowing the nature of the superfriends (whose third best friend is carmelo anthony) i doubt they were taunting cam as much as celebrating... with him.

lmao if you watch that clip again and just look at wade, you can see him gesture really excitedly towards LEBRON before realizing that lebron didn't even do anything

also this play

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaR9u1SmwHI

(in a tie game with under three minutes left!)

also this play

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwufQM0WzU8

btw knowing the nature of the superfriends (whose third best friend is carmelo anthony) i doubt they were taunting cam as much as celebrating... with him.

― How many days after a period? Started by Tuomas in December 2011 (v-shasty), Thursday, December 29, 2011 9:37 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

yeah it was def in good fun but i can't help but paint wade as the villain of this partic story

in a tie game with under three minutes left!)

― How many days after a period? Started by Tuomas in December 2011 (v-shasty), Thursday, 29 December 2011 14:40 (16 minutes ago) Permalink

Would it be exaggerating to say that that play already belongs in a regular season highlights reel?

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/7399464/oklahoma-city-thunder-kevin-durant-russell-westbrook-clash-timeout

nice post on gerald wallace/portland

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/34711/not-hollywood-not-new-york-not-miami

so i guess the spurs are trying to have kawhi spot up for 3s? it's great if it works, but seems like a stretch for him. also i didn't see much of the spurs game tonight but manu is still a joy to watch.

it's a rule, every spurs SF must shoot the corner 3. he's been working on his shot, but his overall offensive game needs polish. his rebounding for his size and position are ridic. combo of him and d Blair means you can't give up on the boards cos one of them will swipe the ball from you.

James Anderson is a beast off the bench, good defender, can create his own offense. avg 10.5 ppg in the first 2.

hay guys happy holidays been off travelin and watching BALL

this compressed schedule is going to kill me possibly, having the league pass preview last night i decided i can't actually sign up for it or i'll be watching five games at once like i tried last nite

never thought id be watching this much marquis daniels once the lockout ended, ughhh

also heat are balling this year, they are legit terrifying because they seemed to have figured out they have two of the best athletes in the world finally

spurs just mad professional as always, i forget every year how freaking good manu is, clips just folded in the third because they don't have a coach yet

i was watching that quarter and remembered, oh yeah this team wins 60 games every year like clockwork and didn't really make any changes, of course they're going to be good

My offer to take any ilh reg to a blazer game anytime they're passing through town is permanent.

― clay, Monday, December 26, 2011 1:33 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Permalink

^^clay i might be up in your hood in february for a few days and might have to make this happen irl fyi

teams w/personel continuity are gonna have a big advantage at the beginning of the season here is one thing were def seeing

could easily see this being the year where the spurs fall off

good post from haberstroh on why wade & bron's no threes strategy is helping much at all

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/miamiheat/post/_/id/10960/on-lebron-and-wades-vanishing-act-from-3

altho i think he's right i really do think that wade should be utterly banned from attempting threes for the rest of his career

yeah theres just fundamentally a problem w/being a perimeter player in the nba and not being able to shoot the three effectively, obvs wade n bron are better equipped to compensate for that shortcoming than any other players in the league, but the fact that they both have this weakness only compounds the problem #tradebron

thankfully it does seem that lebron is gradually moving further and further away from being a perimeter player

his mid range game is so good now that i understand why he still takes a lot of mid range shots but he's also been devastating in the post this year

just thinking in the past few mins that i think there's a slight chance that lebron worked out insanely hard this off season and is just gonna lap everyone in the nba statistically

feel like right now his only competition for mvp is carmelo and maybe durant

i dont think you can say hes really moving away form the perimeter until they play him at pf regularly which they totally should and he stops dribbling the ball around the perimeter so much which im not sure he should

i mean lots of perimeter players fuck w/the post regularly