Shane’s awesome.

he’s gonna shoot .777 next week to even things out

deandre’s arms are insanely long

I wonder how he sizes up compared to dwight or javale

rubio looked pretty amazing, such a deft passer

last night proved i can’t reasonably handle league pass without totally screwing up my life but:

ricky rubio is actually really good, v rondo-esque, though he is um not going to make an all-defensive team any time soon

is super cool beas usually benched for crunch time or was adelman just experimenting with tolliver/ellington?

sometimes i forget that dwayne wade is better at basketball than almost anyone else on the planet

watched the end and overtime of pacers/cavs (lol) but pacers look really good, david west was an excellent pickup for them, gives them some clutch scoring. even if he’s only 75% healthy yet he reminds me of 05-ish elton brand, if you need 2 points just dump it to him in the post, really interesting team that plays hard

pistons are a dumpster fire

bulls just better/more cohesive so far and clips still figuring things out, as i think i posted a bunch of times last year griffin still needs to develop that elbow jumper that duncan and kg have and he will be unstoppable. i think he knows he needs to do this which is encouraging

vinny d will live out his contract this year and that’s it

rose is so unbelievable, i’m always amazed when he dives into a bunch of big guys in the lane and literally disappears on my tv and a shot comes flying out and banks in

tldr: local boston and minnesota commercials are awesome and a primary feature of league pass

indianas a stacked young team, perfect possistion to trade for a superstar—rubios supposed to be an excellent defender from what everyone says, may take him a lil while to figure out the nba tho, heard him complaining in an interview abt how handchecking is a foul over here lol

yeah i saw him doing a lot of euro-style swipes at the ball when he was beat by his man, something manu did a bit when he first came over, he’ll get better as he’s probably just adjusting to how fast someone like wade can lose him on a pick or even just 1–1

@jadande

J.A. Adande

C) Kevin Durant RT @HeyJacquiDey: MVP of the first week: Derrick Rose or Dwyane Wade?

11 hours ago

...i can’t even

ja adande is literally the worst

like how many times has this happened to you, you see the lil truehoop widget on the espn basketball home page, theres a headline that grabs you so you click through only to find its an adande post, at which point you dont even bother to read the first sentence

Did Rubio say if being balls deep in every UM coed was part of his reason for coming to the US?

had to factor into the decision

is super cool beas usually benched for crunch time or was adelman just experimenting with tolliver/ellington?

adelman benched ridnour/johnson/beasley hardcore to try and get the first win.

rubios supposed to be an excellent defender from what everyone says, may take him a lil while to figure out the nba tho, heard him complaining in an interview abt how handchecking is a foul over here lol

― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, December 31, 2011 10:28 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink

he’s an awesome on-ball pest, but his team defense and off-ball defense have a long way to go.

sounds like a good start

deandre’s arms are insanely long

― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Saturday, December 31, 2011 10:21 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink

I wonder how he sizes up compared to dwight or javale

― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Saturday, December 31, 2011 10:21 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink

deandre and javale both have 7’6 reaches, javale is an inch taller. Dwight’s reach is 7’4.5, but it’s more remarkable because he’s only 6’9.

keep wondering if wolves had drafted greg monroe or cousins instead of wesley johnson

― moullet, Saturday, December 31, 2011 9:10 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

that’s like the one totally awful Kahn move that’s at least somewhat understandable. They couldn’t go with another gravity-bound big man with Love and Jefferson around.

What’s hilarious is that the next draft they actually had a chance to get an athletic center who would fit alongside Love, but they didn’t do it because Kahn had invested so much of his reputation in Darko.

that’s not even how you hold a basketball ye

ja adande is literally the worst

― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, December 31, 2011 12:08 PM (1 hour ago)

tbf durant has had a hell of a week too but i feel like lebron is only person this could happen to, like to be the most famous basketball player AND play by far the best out of anyone and still get snubbed like that

he should have said “C. Spencer Hawes”

lol kanye looks so scared

attn matt armstrong lebron’s PER is like 40.5 right now

i love early season krazy statz

the heat’s schedule is crazy easy too, he’s gonna have a monster year

hah how so

don’t all the best teams in the nba have the hardest schedules cuz they all get matched up for tv purposes

beasley is such a terrible nba player, there’s no reason for him to be on the floor on crunch time until he learns how to play with four other guys

derrick williams dropped two big 3s in the fourth q last night tho

if beas is able to listen, adelman can give him a big boost in the right direction. he’s a good coach.

ha, right

i hope wade & haslem were telling him to listen to his coaches and not do his own thing

At beasley’s age, it’s too soon to give up hope that he might do some growing up. look at how long it took zach randolph to learn how to mesh with his team.

beasley is such a terrible nba player, there’s no reason for him to be on the floor on crunch time until he learns how to play with four other guys

― How many days after a period? Started by Tuomas in December 2011 (v-shasty), Saturday, December 31, 2011 2:14 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

starting to look like the Heat were the big winners in the Beasley for 2 second rounders deal.

damn jord u h8 super cool beas too much, need to chill w/that

At beasley’s age, it’s too soon to give up hope that he might do some growing up. look at how long it took zach randolph to learn how to mesh with his team.

― Aimless, Saturday, December 31, 2011 2:22 PM (42 seconds ago) Bookmark Permalink

or to find a team that didn’t whine about him and just let him do his thing?

Zach Randolph has been pretty much the same player for the last 5 or 6 years imo. He just happened to win some playoff games so now people are re-assessing because of results-oriented fallacies.

his forehead reflects mad quantities of light iirc

randolph has always been a good on the court player tho, you can’t even really say the same for beas. also randolph got infected by the isaiah knicks, so it’s hard to hold that against him. also he has an actual position in the nba.

damn jord u h8 super cool beas too much, need to chill w/that

― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, December 31, 2011 2:23 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

i’m still so pissed about him shooting 11–27 in the opener against the t wolves

er, against the thunder

Beasley is an ok player who could be good with a brain transplant.

Trade Beas to the Lakers!

^______________________________________^

irl lols

nba basketball is on right now y’all

the lakers are even floppier with mike brown. It’s pretty gross

I feel kind of ashamed about how upset I get about not updating my fantasy teams before afternoon games

wade is 8th in the league in blocks per game

they showed some guy sitting courtside and said it was tom petty but I’m 95% sure it was just a dude

holy shit nene

what the hell sneaks does Andre miller rock? they were untied

like... every nugget choked in this game.

gallo! :(

smh @ staples center starting the MVP chant

nene missing an easy dunk, lawson with the missed FTs, gallo with the missed layup ugh ugh ugh

maybe benching mozgov was a mistake?

dammit

whatever, choke in the regular season, save the clutch for the spring.

Brandon Rush

If Jeremy Tyler plays dirty Diana one more. Gonna break his damn headphones

like... every nugget choked in this game.

― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, December 31, 2011 5:49 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink

they have trouble w/late game scoring

swhat happens when theres no number 1 dude

spurs three point shooting is RIDIC tonight, 7/8 as a team so far

Wow, so all five Knicks starters in double figures tonight and none of them were Amare. Three with 20+. Josh Harrellson had a double double. Are the Sac Kings just that bad?

why didn’t amare start?

oh he was hurt

Fresh off signing a five-year contract extension with the Bulls worth nearly $95 million, Derrick Rose is said to be closing in on another lucrative deal.

Actually?

Lucrative is seriously underselling it based on the figures dribbling in to us.

One industry source insisted to ESPN.com this week that Rose’s new shoe deal with adidas will easily crack nine figures and could legitimately approach the $250 million range — as in $25 million annually over a 10-year span — in what is known in the shoe game as a “lifetime” deal.

How can the reigning MVP possibly command those kind of dollars as a shoe endorser? Here’s how: Rose, as it was explained to me, is adidas’ only counter to Kobe Bryant in China. I’m told Rose already outsells LeBron James there.

O________O

I presume deals like this have all sorts of injury clauses?