2013-2014 NBA Season Thread

[jonathanlambert33]

Jason Kidd thinks the Nets secondary break is as effective as anyone in the league?
 
 

 
 

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Brook Lopez does not touch the ball enough, if you take at the top 10 centers we ranked in the league on SI, Dwight Howard touches the ball 58 times a game, Marc Gasol 68 times a game, Tim Duncan 54 times a game, Joakim Noah 64, Roy Hibbert 42, Al Jefferson 44, DeMarcus Cousins 60, Al Horford 62, and Tyson Chandler 36 times a game. You can even throw some other guys like Andre Drummond 37 times a game, Nikola Vucecic 69 times a game, Spencer Hawes 69 times a game, Nikola Pekovic 41 times, Chris Bosh 47 times, and Andrew Bogut 42 times a game.

Now how many times does Brook Lopez tough the ball a game? Only 39 times a game. That means Dwight, Gasol, Duncan, Noah, Hibbert, Jefferson, Cousins, Horford, Vucecic, Hawes, Pekovic, Bosh, and even Bogut touch the ball more more times a game than Lopez. That's just a horrendous coaching job by Jason Kidd.

 

[youngguru]

meh. brook also has no idea how to properly get position. thats not totally on kidd

 

[jonathanlambert33]

There are literally hundreds of ways to get a player the ball, that doesn't force him to get in position beforehand.

 

[youngguru]

you're talking about a player that can't catch or pass after he catches it. 

 

[jonathanlambert33]

And even if he was great at getting position, it wouldn't matter. I know they're up, but even when they were down, everything has been on the perimeter.

 

[youngguru]

Lol. Do you even watch Nets games or just look at stats? Everything ends up being on the perimeter because we try to get it inside for 18 seconds, fail, and chuck a jumper. 

 

[NV]

D-Will lookin good right now, breaking ankles. 

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Lol. Do you even watch Nets games or just look at stats? Everything ends up being on the perimeter because we try to get it inside for 18 seconds, fail, and chuck a jumper.

How would I look at stats and then come to the conclusion that the Nets can't enter the ball into the post? There is no stat that could lead anyone to believe that. You're also greatly exaggerating the Nets inability to perform the entry pass, the other 29 teams find ways to do it. Here is what I do know, they rarely did it in the first half tonight, but came out and threw the entry pass to Brook Lopez during the first few half court possessions of the second half. So obviously there was emphasis there at halftime, and isn't nearly as impossible as you are making it out to be. Lopez probably has more post touches midway through the 3rd than he had the entire first half. He's doing a fine job passing out of the post as well. They're also getting bigger guards like Deron and Joe Johnson down in the post.

I can also go back and watch all of their previous games, and in the clips I watched, I see not an inability to get the ball into the post, but a reluctance to get it into the post. For example, early in the Boston game, Jared Sullinger fronts Brook Lopez (something teams do to make the pass harder to make, but not something that causes teams from shying away from it), with Jeff Green 14 feet away from Lopez. Instead of making the pass over the top, something every teams practices, he reverses the ball on the perimeter, it ends with Lopez breaking out of the post with under two seconds left on the shot clock and draining a shot from the left short corner. In another, Brook Lopez seals Faverani on the left low block, no double in position to come, and the possession instead ends in a Andray Blatche 22 footer from the left wing. Blatche makes that shot just 12.5% of the time, but Lopez scores 1.19 points per possession in the post, shoots 60% in the post, or gets fouled 16% of the time. That makes him the 3rd most effective post player in the NBA. Lopez should get that shot every single time. On another possession, Alan Anderson takes a 3pt'er from the right corner (a shot he makes just 27% of the time) when Lopez has John Henson sealed on the low block with a foot in the paint. Point should be made, the Nets play a lot of iso ball with guys jacking up ill advised shots early in the shot clock, a lot of "I'm gonna get mine" ball.

 

[youngguru]

Welp, they didn't tonight.

 

[Mexi]

WCF preview tonight 
blazers rockets
 

 

[BwareDWare94]

So Houston would have to be in OKC's bracket? Because Portland isn't beating OKC in the playoffs.

 

[Pugz]

Greivis Vasquez was an integral piece of the trade between the Toronto Raptors and Sacramento Kings and the point guard expressed excitement about his new opportunity.
Vasquez also hopes to spend the rest of his career with the Raptors, which would include re-signing with the organization as a free agent in the offseason.
"I'm excited here," Vasquez said. "I want to play for the Toronto Raptors and win a lot of games here. And hopefully I stay here my whole career.
"Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't work and unfortunately it didn't work in Sacramento, but I have nothing against the franchise or the guys who played there. It's just I've (turned) the page."

 
 
lol

 

[jonathanlambert33]

I'd bet Greivis said the same thing about Sacramento lol. Greivis is a guy that really thinks it's an honor to be in the league.

 

[BwareDWare94]

I really wonder why Dwight shoots FTs right handed when he's left handed. That's like switch hitting but being awful from one side of the plate.

 

[CameronCrazy06]

I'd bet Greivis said the same thing about Sacramento lol. Greivis is a guy that really thinks it's an honor to be in the league.

 
From someone from Maryland's perspective: Greivis is cocky as hell. Time in the league might've changed him but back in college he was super-arrogant. I had friends (Maryland fans) who saw him around the malls and stuff and said the same thing.

 

[elcheato]

LeBron is a left handed off the basketball court.

 

[BwareDWare94]

LeBron is a left handed off the basketball court.

 
Of all the silly things. Are these guys just ambidextrous or did they somehow teach themselves how to shoot with their off hands?

 

[elcheato]

Some people are weird like that. They write, eat, do all this stuff left handed, and in sports they use their right hand. Hard to explain.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

From someone from Maryland's perspective: Greivis is cocky as hell. Time in the league might've changed him but back in college he was super-arrogant. I had friends (Maryland fans) who saw him around the malls and stuff and said the same thing.

Oh he definitely is, talks WAY too much. One of the thigns I didn't really liked about him, at some point you just have to shut up. Especially when a guy like Chris Paul is murdering you in every aspect of the game.