Official NBA 2012-2013 Season Thread

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stopcappin said:
But he played better ball then 3 or 4 of those players during this time.
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dude did you even watch this years Olympics ?

the ball would go thru Lebrons, KDs, Bryants hands and THEN melo so he would be wide open.

he was often the 3rd / 4th best player on the floor and it would be spaced and open for him.
 
Just read that JR Smith was at the 40/40 club last night watching the fight...saw it on RealMG (Knicks page). Anyone else think that's a problem?
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Joe Johnson was there too as if he deserves to leave his house l. Made think of this though.

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[h1]The Great J.R. Smith Sleep Study[/h1]

  1. I have mixed feelings about J.R. Smith. 

    His PER as of this writing is 16.7; his WS/48, .110. By those measures, he is an above-average player.

    But those numbers don't come close to encompassing the tumultous experience that is watching Earl Smith III play basketball. 

    This season, J.R. Smith has 13 games in which he scored more than 20 points and shot better than 50%. But he's played four games in which he took at least 11 three-pointers and 0 free throws.

    One of the biggest reasons for James Harden's success is his shot selection. He's not the most athletic player in the league, but he never takes a bad shot.

    J.R. Smith  is  one of the most athletic guards in the league. But he's a terrible decision maker. He has a surprisingly bad handle. And his signature move is one of the worst shots in basketball: The stepback jumper, often from just inside the three-point line.

    And yet, his numberspaint him as an above average player. Some of that has to do with his play over the past few weeks, as he's seemingly figured out after almost a decade in the league that a free throw is the easiest way to score.

    But aside from that, there are those nights when J.R.'s terrible decisions pan out; when the stepbacks fall. There's no way to predict it. Knicks fans know: Sometimes you get Good J.R., and sometimes you get Bad J.R.

    So sometime in January, I took it upon myself to figure out why. And since I have no access to the man himself, I did what so many of my fellow lazy 20-somethings do when they need an answer: I went on the internet.

    Lucky for me, J.R. Smith is a prolific tweeter. Every day when he wakes up, he tweets #GreatMorningWorld.


  2. JR Smith@TheRealJRSmith

    #GreatMorningWorld!

    3 MONTHS AGO
    REPLYRETWEETFAVORITE

  3. See? Knowing that, I realized I could fairly approximate how much sleep he was getting each night. And knowing that, I thought it might be interesting to compare how much sleep he got with how he performed on the court.

    And thus, the Great J.R. Smith sleep study was born.

    Obviously, this is nowhere near scientific. But here's what I did: I tracked J.R. Smith's tweets for the entire month of February, and compared the amount of sleep I thought he got with his box score from that evening's game. That only came to about 11 games.

    There were nights when it totally panned out.

    On Feb. 10, J.R. had this touching exchange with a woman whose cover photo is NSFW.


  4. JR Smith@TheRealJRSmith

    RT @JenStacks_: @TheRealJRSmith

    3 MONTHS AGO
    REPLYRETWEETFAVORITE

  5. (If it doesn't show up, he gave her a winky face.) That was at 2:16 a.m.; the Knicks played the Clippers at home less than 10 hours later. J.R. had apparently expended all this energy on winky faces, since he took nine shots and made just one.

    But overall, there was no real correlation that I could discern. Case in point: The latest tweet he sent before sleeping that month was the night before the Knicks lost to the Toronto Raptors at home.

    His night started with this:


  6. JR Smith@TheRealJRSmith

    Hmmmmmm what todo!

    3 MONTHS AGO
    REPLYRETWEETFAVORITE

  7. I still can't decipher what his next tweets meant. But his night presumably ended at around 4 a.m., when he sent this last message.


  8. JR Smith@TheRealJRSmith

    #InkLife  #BoutThatLife

    3 MONTHS AGO
    REPLYRETWEETFAVORITE

  9. I wake up really early—5 a.m. most mornings. When I saw that tweet, as a Knicks fan, my first thoughts were dark. But as a nerd who was keeping track of J.R. Smith's sleep patterns, I was excited. A bust of a game would be mean that there was a way to predict when Bad J.R. would strike.

    But eight hours later, J.R. awoke, ready for the world.


  10. JR Smith@TheRealJRSmith

    #GreatMorningWorld!

    3 MONTHS AGO
    REPLYRETWEETFAVORITE

  11. That night, he led the Knicks in scoring 26 points on 17 shots. It was Good J.R., even with a late night tattoo excursion. There was no correlation between a good night's sleep and a good night of basketball.

    So the Great J.R. Smith study turned out to be inconclusive. Like wild Pokemon, Good J.R. and Bad J.R. appear at random.

    Still, it was a fascinating exercise to read J.R.'s tweets every day. And at least I picked up some killer comebacks.


  12. JR Smith@TheRealJRSmith

    Things ugly people say! RT @PrettyazzVixen: @TheRealJRSmithdon't reply back to nothing he to good for his fans

    3 MONTHS AGO
    REPLYRETWEETFAVORITE
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Peep Game said:
In all this superstar talk, we forgot to ask, did the Knicks win or nah?
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well they dont have a super star.

this is gonna be the perfect series for Melo to assert his "superstar" status.

lets see if he can carry this team and put it on his back.

If it wasnt for the celtics having an atrocious game 6, they might not even be here.
 
JJs07 said:
Just read that JR Smith was at the 40/40 club last night watching the fight...saw it on RealMG (Knicks page). Anyone else think that's a problem?
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Smh back to his old habits. I knew the real jr would show up and it started when he hit that suspension.

I remember he said that he is doing better because he cut out all that ny partying but I stay seeing him at functions on females' ig pages, lol!

Those cats love going to starlets in ny
 
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Ballinsam23 said:
Lebron and KD thats it. Can we now move on to the next pointless/stupid convo that goes on here every other day.
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Like this?

Ballinsam23 said:
Yes Melo should be MVP, without Melo we're a 30 win team at best.
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No like this.

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JJs07 said:
Just read that JR Smith was at the 40/40 club last night watching the fight...saw it on RealMG (Knicks page). Anyone else think that's a problem?
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Dude has been so outta whack ever since the suspension...... Acts like he is a superstar or something after the 6th man award was given.....
 
Lmao After dude said kobe is no longer a superstar because his team wasnt a top seed should have ended the superstar talk
 
bballkid11 said:
Dude has been so outta whack ever since the suspension...... Acts like he is a superstar or something after the 6th man award was given.....
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in his mind the season has been a success , improved his stock to get paid, won 6th man, out the first round and got to play hero sinking some game winners he's done this season 
 
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That picture is the night before game 5 I think

Melo was going inside over and over and over **** outa here with this jump shooting nonsense. Hibbert should have fouled out 3 times

The rebounding was horrendous. Felt like the pacers gave much more effort
 
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Iamjusayn said:
I love Magic as an old nba legend but how much is he getting paid to continuously stutter on tv (when kids are in school grinding in broadcasting/communication/speech classes to get a job like his)?

:smh:
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Magic is horrible but he has come a long way, google a little late night talk show called "the Magic Hour"
 
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