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

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

yeah, i guess he's just blurring the lines a bit more

not to overload here but he's such a good ballhandler that he really should be handling the ball a lot, but i also would love to see him become a power forward

oh well

d-wade's jumper is okay I don't understand why he doesn't have a 3 point stroke

yeah but for lebron the post offense is in addition to his rebounding and shot blocking, which is obv unique for a generally perimeter oriented player

maybe wade just isn't that good of a stand still shooter? like so many of his jumpers involve him rolling off screens or fading away or banking off glass. idk if that's true tho.

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

― How many days after a period? Started by Tuomas in December 2011 (v-shasty), Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:46 PM (53 seconds ago) Bookmark Permalink

would be crazy if he made a leap, seems kinda unlikely as hes plateaued for the last x years, which is not to say that theres not likelihood of more subtle improvement

i don't necessarily think that lebron is going to make a leap (altho he has been playing insanely well) i just think that him being arguably the best athlete in the entire well is going to propel him to dwarf everyone else this season

yeah hes still the best player and has insane stamina so i dont see why not

yeah but for lebron the post offense is in addition to his rebounding and shot blocking, which is obv unique for a generally perimeter oriented player

― How many days after a period? Started by Tuomas in December 2011 (v-shasty), Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:48 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Permalink

hes basically ben wallace sized which is crazy to think abt, and according to this post not that much smaller than dwight howard http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/34789/kevin-love-and-height-liars-in-shoes

entire world**

there have been... i don't want to call them rumblings cuz they're not "rumors", but people (i.e. windhorst) have been casually saying that bron worked out like crazy this summer (and if you follow any nba players on twitter or w/e, you'd know this -- dude brought KD to ohio to work out w/ him, he was out at nike for a whole week working out etc)

yeah 'height' is a pretty inexact measurement

need to get some tailor tape measure around those rock hard pecs of lebron... just measure that arm circumference... oh yeah...

idk all the 'omg he worked out so hard this summer' 'packed on 15 pounds of muscle' articles are such boilerplate beat sweeteners i just ignore them

normally i'd agree w/ you (people have been saying the same thing about bosh, too) but i think it's more pertinent now bcuz of the compressed schedule, and lebron was already so far ahead of basically everyone anyway (in terms of athleticism/conditioning etc)

i just assume all the top guys go hard in the summer otherwise they wouldnt be the top guys

who was saying that cp3 looked fat?

lol he does :/

chris paul is magical tho

srsly

fat n magical

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u-22NQwbo0

love how lackadaisical smith is

a+

josh smith is really good

"Thunder's Durant, Westbrook clash on bench"

http://i.imgur.com/0Zbo4.jpg

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josh smith is really good

― Cooper Chucklebutt, Thursday, December 29, 2011 7:14 PM

^ posted from bizarro-ilh

wut he is!

it's always really strange for me to think of him as a PF

get him off of atlanta, stick him in a SF role

he can't shoot, he's a PF

den-por best game tonight

otm jord