2012-2013 NBA Regular Season Thread

[Rios15]

Stephen Brotherston of HoopsWorld believes any player on the Raptors roster is liable to be traded, and predicts a major move in the near future. Brotherston thinks GM Bryan Colangelo and coach Dwane Casey might not be long for Toronto, either.

Not sure what to think about this.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

LeBron is down and in a lot of pain, looks like he stretched out the marbles.

 

[BwareDWare94]

Not sure what to think about this.

Lowry and Valencunas are the only safe players, I'd say.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

NBA made a call to the American Airlines Arena to make sure the Heat didn't lose their third straight game, good god.

 

[Elite]

Lowry and Valencunas are the only safe players, I'd say.

No player is worthy of being untouchable on that roster, if a good deal comes along for one of those two they shouldn't hesitate.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

No player is worthy of being untouchable on that roster, if a good deal comes along for one of those two they shouldn't hesitate.

The word "untouchable" is used way too much.

 

[CameronCrazy06]

lol @ Lopez not being a "true center". He's one of the few back to the basket centers left in todays game.

*in be4 he cant rebound*

He can't rebound, but that doesn't NOT make him a true center. To me a not true center is a PF playing C, and he's DEFINITELY not that

 

[Elite]

OJ Mayo and James Harden going HAM

 

[Hurricane Season]

Raymond Felton put up 30 shots tonight.

Deng and Noah are going to die before the end of the season if Thibs keeps playing them 44+ minutes every night.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

He can't rebound, but that doesn't NOT make him a true center. To me a not true center is a PF playing C, and he's DEFINITELY not that

Lopez is JUST below the league's center average on total rebound rate, but is well below the centers average on offensive rebound rate.

 

[Mexi]

who wants to join the fuck OJ club?

 

[Mexi]

Raymond Felton put up 30 shots tonight.

Deng and Noah are going to die before the end of the season if Thibs keeps playing them 44+ minutes every night.

 

[RipCity32]

Greg Monroe has been awful lately, damn. Nice game from Brandon though.

 

[Mexi]

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[BwareDWare94]

I sympathize greatly with Kevin McHale for the loss of his 23 year old daughter. I can't imagine going through that, and hope he's doing as well as it appears, but I do want to point out a few stupid things he did tonight in his coaching return:

1. Marcus Morris did not see the floor. What the fuck is this? Sure, he won't drop points every night, but he does everything else, and he's much less limited offensively as the likes of Cole Aldrich.
2. He played Cole Aldrich over Greg Smith at backup center. GSmith only saw a handful of minutes tonight. What the fuck is that? Did he just forget that the Lakers game happened?
3. He left Carlos in there even though he couldn't hit a thing. Carlos Delfino is worse than useless when his shot isn't dropping. He's like James Jones. If he's not draining threes, the rest of his game suffers.
4. Asik was on the bench way too much. Sure, Aldrich plays hard, but he is not the defender that Asik is. Dallas got a few paint buckets that were way too easy near the end, and Asik would have prevented or at least challenged each of them.

Again, my heart goes out to McHale and his family in the wake of such a terrible tragedy, the likes of which I would not wish upon my worst enemy, but Kelvin Sampson had this team going, he had the rotation figured out...why couldn't McHale come back and just take the reigns instead of reinventing everything? Fuck this. This team had no business losing at home to a less than impressive Dallas squad who is missing their only star. UGH!

 

[Pugz]

lol at that jr tweet!!!!!!

 

[buzzy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avVZqiPvgcA&feature=g-high-u

some sick dunks last night

 

[Elite]

The Lillard dunk, the LeBron dunk, and the guy who dunked it after the MKG steal were sick

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Greg Monroe has been awful lately, damn. Nice game from Brandon though.

Pistons are doing a bad job getting him the ball where he's comfortable, and the opposing team is throwing a lot of attention his way.

He's catching the ball above the key where he's not a threat, and he's either taking the shot (which teams are giving him, he only converts 26%) or he's driving to the goal, but by the time he's getting there the shot is being contested by two or three guys, and he's not athletic enough to beat them there or go over so he's taking touch shots.

 

[Pugz]

yea its pretty clear gmoe is our only consistent go to guy and he gets man'd up fast when hes in his area, or like you said forced away from the basket.

its pretty ugly to watch but if he wants to be great(im not saying he is or will be!) then he needs to make them pay for leaving him out there or fight harder to score.