2013-2014 NBA Thread - IND @ WAS and OKC @ LAC on ESPN

[Coupé It]

Wish the Hornets added some Carolina blue somewhere on the logo. I feel like the teal and purple are too dark. Nice logo tho. Pelicans are idiots.

If I was Doc Rivers I would have benched Blake Griffin after that "dribbling display". I don't care if he pulled it off.

 

[antidope]

Wow that was impressive. Reminded me of this

 

[T0INE]

 
Hornets logo is nice.

But I'm 95% certain they're going to butcher the unis

Agreed.

Hopefully we're wrong about them butchering the unis.

 

[datznasty]

cmon dude the guy is a cool dude , i remember him from his days in Greece



ON ANOTHER NOTE:


WHEN WESTBROOK PLAYS AS I PASS-FIRST PG OKC ARE THE ONLY TEAM IN THE NBA BESIDES SPURS THAT CAN MATCH MIAMI IN THE FINALS.

learn basketball 

as long as OKC has perkins for their starting C that results in that OKC cant hit heats achilles the paint and durant doesnt learn to defend , lebron is gonna abuse the hell out of OKC and draw 10000 fouls from them.no1 can guard him neither durant cause he is skinny , neither sefalosha cause he sucks , neither westbrook/reggie/lamb cause they are undersized.miami would hardly lose more than 2 games in a 7 game series against OKC.

only teams that are built to destroy heat are the pacers and the spurs because spurs are like playing artificial intelligence on insane mode 

Spurs can beat the Heat but can't beat the Thunder. Thunder have shown no aptitude to beat the Heat (losing 7 of the last , but probably could with better coaching, particularly this year with Wade;s decline and being so sometimes-y. To his credit, Brooks is playing Perkins less minutes, he rarely plays more than 20 minutes and is going small more (sometimes extra small with Westbrook, Fisher, Jackson at once) but I still wish he didn't feel the need to shoehorn the starting lineup of the past 4 seasons in every game then come back with them to start the 3rd. Also no reason Perry Jones to not be getting minutes with the way he is playing. He is the perfect smallball 4 or 5 for a team like the Heat. Indiana, if they take down the Heat, I am not the least bit concerned with fwiw.

Don't know why dude thinks Russ needs to be pass first. During this 9 game streak he is putting up like 23, 9, and 8, dropped 31 and 8 on Parker last night. Westbrook scores. People need to get over the whole true PG thing. You rather have him shooting than passing the ball to Perkins, Collison, Sefolosha, etc.

 

[gothmog]

Spurs can beat the Heat but can't beat the Thunder. Thunder have shown no aptitude to beat the Heat (losing 7 of the last

, but probably could under a different coach, particularly this year with Wade;s decline and being so sometimes-y. To his credit, Brooks is playing Perkins less minutes, he rarely plays more than 20 minutes and is going small more (sometimes extra small with Westbrook, Fisher, Jackson at once) but I still wish he didn't feel the need to shoehorn the starting lineup of the past 4 seasons in every game then come back with them to start the 3rd. Also no reason Perry Jones to not be getting minutes with the way he is playing. He is the perfect smallball 4 or 5 for a team like the Heat. Indiana, if they take down the Heat, I am not the least bit concerned with fwiw.

Don't know why dude thinks Russ needs to be pass first. During this 9 game streak he is putting up like 23, 9, and 8, dropped 31 and 8 on Parker last night. Westbrook scores. People need to get over the whole true PG thing. You rather have him shooting than passing the ball to Perkins, Collison, Sefolosha, etc.

yeah i agree that spurs would hardly beat OKC in a possible WCF , imo they cant just keep up with their pace and athleticism but its spurs/popovic afterall they can always suprise you hehe

i thought people would show more respect to westbrook after what happenbed to OKC last year he got injured and okc got eliminated by grizzlies so easily.with all the flaws in his game westbrook makes thunder so much better defensively and offensively since with his appearance in the court durant will never be double teammed and will have far more wide open shots cause of the closed lanes to the rim so westbrook cant slash in 

 

[big j 33]

Russ doesn't need to become a "pass first PG" he just needs to keep his bad tendencies in check.

 

[ny mavurs]

Spurs have a chance to beat OKC in the WCF. Yes OKC used their athleticism and youth to beat the Spurs last time but that was when Harden rarely missed a shot and Duncan was significantly heavier. Leonard was a starting rookie for the Spurs and has gotten better. Don't be surprised if the Spurs beat OKC if they make the WCF.

 

[datznasty]

And OKC got more athletic and deeper while the Spurs have gotten older. Reggie Jackson had 21pts (he went for 20+ on them last time too). Obviously nothing Parker is going to do with Westbrook, Duncan can be defended by Perkins (moreso father time) and even Adams did work on him defensively, and Ibaka always torches them because Pop still hasn't gotten the memo he can shoot and he is too athletic for their front court players. I mean it's possible they could win, but end of the day just too much athleticism on OKC's side. Thought it was doomsday when Harden left, and got to integrate a point guard who is basically mini Russ and a 21 year old 2 guard giving you damn near 50/40/100 and plays d.

 

[jumpmanfromdabay]

 
Hornets logo is nice.

But I'm 95% certain they're going to butcher the unis

Agreed.

Hopefully we're wrong about them butchering the unis.

Wishbone collar with Sleeves

 

[ny mavurs]

If Scott Brooks can get those new guys cookin vs the Spurs then he will deserve a tremendous amount of credit. We talkin about playoffs though...Pop ain't game-planning for no Reggie Jackson.

 

[finallyfamous]

Russ doesn't need to become a "pass first PG" he just needs to keep his bad tendencies in check.

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Exactly.

 

[datznasty]

If Scott Brooks can get those new guys cookin vs the Spurs then he will deserve a tremendous amount of credit. We talkin about playoffs though...Pop ain't game-planning for no Reggie Jackson.

just like how he doesn;'t game plan for Ibaka either and always gets toasted. Reggie is playoff certified now anyways, if anyone is going to freeze up, it'd be Lamb or Adams or Jones if he is even part of the rotation, the guys who haven't been there yet. Reggie started 9 playoff games in Russ's absence, 5 against a top 3 defense in the NBA. But yea it's still Russ,KD, and Ibaka going to do most of the work. I was just pointing out how Harden owned them year before last, now Reggie does the exact same to them off the bench. 22ppg in 2 games against them on 64%fg

 

[reggiekiller]

the vid

 

[sea manup]

went to a shi sha bar tonight with a few friends and sitting at the table next to us was shelden williams and my main man bassy 

went up to bassy and told him how i was a huge fan and used to rock his adidas sneakers back in the day and he was a chill dude 

he could have been the next big thing 

 

 

[reggiekiller]

So who knew that Ray Allens first name was Walter?

 

[awwsome]

went to a shi sha bar tonight with a few friends and sitting at the table next to us was shelden williams and my main man bassy 

went up to bassy and told him how i was a huge fan and used to rock his adidas sneakers back in the day and he was a chill dude 



he could have been the next big thing   

You in China?

 

[julius wrek]

Russ has been distributing very well as of late, but I don't recall those games being nationally televised...

Julius F. Wrek

 

[sea manup]

 

went to a shi sha bar tonight with a few friends and sitting at the table next to us was shelden williams and my main man bassy 

went up to bassy and told him how i was a huge fan and used to rock his adidas sneakers back in the day and he was a chill dude 

he could have been the next big thing 

 

You in China?

yup

 

[100027]

Could Bassy have been a star if he went to college, or did he ultimately just not have that ceiling anyways?

Opinions

 

[$tacy]

Bass he needed that jumper

 

[Peep Game]

Spoiler

Spoiler

 

[atransta]

 
GG Thunder fans

GG Anti

 

[clyde the glide]

who woulda thought born ready would be the only one still in the league out of all the coney islands prospects

 

[awwsome]

@ Peep Game with the Lin pic

 

[jjs07]

Could Bassy have been a star if he went to college, or did he ultimately just not have that ceiling anyways?

Opinions

Rode that hype train to being a 1st round pick in the NBA. If he went the college route, who knows? Dude is one of the best players to ever come out of PSAL, but may have flopped hard in college due to ridiculous expectations.