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

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

Imagine how good Josh Smith would be if he had ever had a coach.

yup

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

email a dude. this thing will happen.

josh smith's problems are all his own fyi.

He has his own issues but never having a coach worth a shart isn't his fault.

he maxed out in the 09/10 season, woodson's last as coach. he was a borderline allstar but still lacks any focus whatsoever which leads to erratic play. only thing a good coach would do is bench him quicker imo.

"Thunder's Durant, Westbrook clash on bench"

― polyphonic, Thursday, December 29, 2011 7:28 PM

Westbrook, who finished 0-for-13 with six assists, three rebounds and four turnovers, was not available for comment after the game.

this seems mostly otm to me

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2011/12/29/2667922/russell-westbrook-kevin-durant-oklahoma-city-thunder-hook

That reads right to me too. I think the problem is that there hasn't been much good basketball played yet (obviously a few exceptions here and there) because it's still training camp for these guys and a brutal one at that. Once the basketbal gets better (and boy do I hope it does) there'll be other story lines to follow.

we should do a poll of the worst roster in the NBA

I'm looking at this suns roster and I can't even

I thought my sixers were bad but jeez

this seems mostly otm to me

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2011/12/29/2667922/russell-westbrook-kevin-durant-oklahoma-city-thunder-hook

― How many days after a period? Started by Tuomas in December 2011 (v-shasty), Thursday, December 29, 2011 4:40 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink

Maybe the central thesis is ok, but my god there is so much idiotic stuff in that article.

He's not your typical point guard, and certainly not the type of point guard the world at large likes to see on its great teams. (Compare Steve Nash's reputation as compared to that of three-time champion and one-time Finals MVP Tony Parker, who happens to be a decent comparison for Westbrook in terms of style and production.)

This is just so so so dumb.

josh smith is really good

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

^ posted from bizarro-ilh

― amon, Thursday, December 29, 2011 2:51 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

Josh Smith is a lot like Zach Randolph pre-2011 playoffs. People seem to only focus on their mistakes and not how they're awesome basketball players. Smith also doesn't get enough credit for calming down and becoming a smarter player the last 2 seasons.

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

― Cooper Chucklebutt, Thursday, December 29, 2011 12:40 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

I firmly believe that Lebron would get his 3p% up to 37.5 (league average) if he just cut out all the ridiculous circus attempts. If he just shot open ones he'd be fine.

Wade is another story, his shooting mechanics are those of a pure midrange shooter imo.

yeah youre prob right abt bron re shot selection

bron's stroke is not v pretty imo

it has a certain effortlessness to it

yeah but it's a shot built for distance, while wade flattens out around 18 feet. xp

"According to 82games.com, the lineup of Maynor, Durant, James Harden, Serge Ibaka and Nick Collison had almost identical offensive and defensive points-per-possession numbers as the same unit with Westbrook."

hmm interesting

wonder abt other units

tho obvs not that hard as i could just look it up lol

scola killin duncan

BATMANU!!!!

guys the mavs are ahead in a game right now its says on espn.com

'espn.com'

likely story, would have been believable if you had used a real basketball website

ach Harper, Daily Dime Live: Tiago Splitter looks lost on defense. lol name dropping

lol @ popovichs face listening to tj ford

spliter teachin defense to timmy

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwyvkn8D9y1qi0ij1o1_500.jpg

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwx0c2GcmR1qi0ij1o1_500.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/9vglfr.jpg

O_O