Around the NBA 2012-2013

[ATTL]

Hickson with 16/8 at halftime against the Blazers. Dominating Amare too... we should go back in time to trade Amare to Cleveland for him.

[lilfishi22]

Suns FO are pathetic that they want to salvage this season to sell tickets... This is my fear.
They will compromise getting real star pieces for the future to sell extra tickets...

Should it surprise you? We kept Nash around instead of trading him when he was still an asset, so we can keep up our exciting "brand" of basketball. We delayed a proper retool to prioritize "competitiveness" for many years.

[GrantHill]

Lillard just killed the Knicks. What a shot.

[ATTL]

Lillard is an amazing player, very poised for a rookie and is cold blooded.

[GrantHill]

Nash already reached his playoff form on his complaining skill. 76ers up by 10 with 6 minutes to go.

EDIT: I want to marry Jrue Holiday.

[ATTL]

Lakers lose! :]
Equally important is the fact that POR, DAL, and DEN all won as well. They are in direct competition with the Lakers for the last couple playoff spots.

[Twuan89]

Lakers Lose Again!

They play the Clippers next and the Lakers are heading into the tougher part of their schedule, that draft pick is starting to look better. Also believe it or not the Lakers are in trouble.

[gaspar]

Lakers Lose Again!

They play the Clippers next and the Lakers are heading into the tougher part of their schedule, that draft pick is starting to look better. Also believe it or not the Lakers are in trouble.

Yeah, their next 5 games: @Clippers, vs Nuggets, @Rockets, @Spurs, vs OKC. I'd say 1-4 at best.

[gaspar]

via GB:

At the start of the New Year, January 1 2013:

The Top 8 seeds in the WC are a combined 75-28 vs the entire EC.
The Top 8 seeds in the EC are a combined 49-48 vs the entire WC. (barely above .500)

The Bottom 7 seeds in the WC are a combined 40-46 vs the entire EC.
The Bottom 7 seeds in the EC are a combined 26-66 vs the entire WC.

Number of EC teams with fewer than 4 losses to the WC = 1
Number of WC teams with fewer than 4 losses to the EC = 6

Excluding the Miami Heat, the other 7 EC "playoff teams" are a combined 38-45 vs the entire WC.
Excluding the Miami Heat, the bottom 7 WC "lottery teams" are a combined 40-46 vs the entire EC.

Excluding the Miami Heat, the rest of the EC have a combined 64-111 record over the WC.
Excluding the Miami Heat, the WC has a combined 111-64 record versus the rest of the EC.

Western Conference is unfair.

[GrantHill]

Lakers lose! :]

Man Philly really tortured our former point guard on defense. they straight up isolated Holiday our directly went into the post when he was on Richardson. How are these guys going to defend a Westbrook-Martin-Durant trio?

[gaspar]

Last 10 games:

OJ Mayo 12.3 pts, 2.7 reb, 4.4 ast, 2.0 stl, 3.6 tov, .381 FG%, .263 3P%
Shannon Brown 13.5 pts, 3.7 reb, 2.9 ast, 1.1 stl, 1.5 tov, .452 FG%, .286 3P%

Just sayin'

[lilfishi22]

Lillard is an amazing player, very poised for a rookie and is cold blooded.

Perfect description of Lillard.

[LV-Suns]

"I think having a defensive coach for the first time in my career is going to help,'' Stoudemire said after practice in Greenburgh on Wednesday. "I've never been taught defense in my whole career. So to now have a coach who actually teaches defense and teaches strategies and knows positioning and posture and how to guard different plays, it's going to be helpful.''

Stoudemire vowed to improve his defense in his new bench capacity.

"I'm taking it as a challenge,'' he said. "I'm going to accept the challenge. And I'm going to try to improve as a player."

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I think I have heard the same song multiple times before.

[Frank Lee]

Last 10 games:

OJ Mayo 12.3 pts, 2.7 reb, 4.4 ast, 2.0 stl, 3.6 tov, .381 FG%, .263 3P%
Shannon Brown 13.5 pts, 3.7 reb, 2.9 ast, 1.1 stl, 1.5 tov, .452 FG%, .286 3P%

Just sayin'

Thats a nice right-left combo you threw out there Gas.... it will go unnoticed by the judges though, except for the swelling.


This next month is make or break for the fLakes.* They dig too deep a hole, with their age and lack of bench, it will be a steep hill to climb to make the playoffs. Thank goodness Stern has his 'Clippers backup plan' firmly in place.


*
Fri 4 @ L.A. Clippers
Sun 6 vs Denver
Tue 8 @ Houston
Wed 9 @ San Antonio
Fri 11 vs Oklahoma City
Sun 13 vs Cleveland
Tue 15 vs Milwaukee
Thu 17 vs Miami
Sun 20 @ Toronto
Mon 21 @ Chicago
Wed 23 @ Memphis
Fri 25 vs Utah
Sun 27 vs Oklahoma City
Tue 29 vs New Orleans
Wed 30 @ Phoenix

could very easily be a sub .500 Jan

[GrantHill]

Wed 30 @ Phoenix

Boy that game is going to be something to watch. We're even on national TV!