Official NBA 2012-2013 Season Thread

[markangelo]

Had Splitter squeezed that past Lebron, it would've been dunk of the century lol

 

[illest35]

^^He's already been yammed on b4 by a college player..And Gerald Wallace(when he played for the Bobcats)..

But on the biggest stage and get yammed on, at home on top of that, by Splitter on top of that..

Damnit why didnt Splitter come harder than that..

 

[jumpman91023]

I forgot Melo is a great champion

One ring makes you a great champion? But the initial post didn't say anything about championships just criticized styles of play.

 

[do work son]

yeah i wasn't talking about championships, just that people criticize melo for shooting too much but want lebron to shoot more, and vice versca

anyways

 

[7thave btn 31stn33rd st]

yeah i wasn't talking about championships, just that people criticize melo for shooting too much but want lebron to shoot more, and vice versca

anyways

I'm dying.

Deandre Jordan.
Kobe's 1992 banded collar shirt.

 

[shoelyesses]

IMO I thought that 3 sec call on Duncan was suspect..And that 1 call for Chalmers when he barely got tapped, but then TP gets beat up all night and no call..

Other than that, the TO's are really what beat the Spurs..Not the Heat..Or the refs..

Anxious for Game 3..

but tp keeps the off hand/arm out...and in doing so initiates alot of the contact...same with manu...especially manu, half the time with his spin move, he doesnt beat the defeneder with the move, he basically pushes off of them, push the player off balance to get around them.

True lbj does it as well, but if they were to make those calls, tp/manu etc...would go to the line damn near everytime they penetrate/drives to the basket. It would just kill the flow of the game.

 

[ThaxbyChamblis]

I'm glad the refs aren't falling for TP's shenanigans, I'm glad they aren't responding to Wade's shenanigans and I'm glad they're not honoring the Lebron "yell" as a foul when something goes awry. Officiating has been very good this series.

 

[franco23x]

yeah i wasn't talking about championships, just that people criticize melo for shooting too much but want lebron to shoot more, and vice versca

anyways

Exactly why Melo will never win a chip.

 

[8pm at msg]

That block by Bron was

I'll give Splitter credit for being aggressive at least. Most of these guys would've hesitated a la George Hill

 

[markangelo]

I hope this goes to 7 games..would be amazing to watch

 

[kdawg0508]

That block by Bron was

I'll give Splitter credit for being aggressive at least. Most of these guys would've hesitated a la George Hill

I would've loved to see Howard, Deandre, or Griffin do that against LeBron and see what would happen

 

[7thave btn 31stn33rd st]

Exactly why Melo will never win a chip.

Tell me more.

 

[antidope]

yeah i wasn't talking about championships, just that people criticize melo for shooting too much but want lebron to shoot more, and vice versca

anyways

Well I just read that ****

 

[bigmike23]

I'm glad the refs aren't falling for TP's shenanigans, I'm glad they aren't responding to Wade's shenanigans and I'm glad they're not honoring the Lebron "yell" as a foul when something goes awry. Officiating has been very good this series.

 

[certifiedflyboi23]

Well I just read that ****

yeah i wasn't talking about championships, just that people criticize melo for shooting too much but want lebron to shoot more, and vice versca

anyways

 

[Bert.]

DJ

 

[johnnyredstorm]

Greg Anthony on had be dead man

 

[durantula]

I'm glad the refs aren't falling for TP's shenanigans, I'm glad they aren't responding to Wade's shenanigans and I'm glad they're not honoring the Lebron "yell" as a foul when something goes awry. Officiating has been very good this series.

I was at the game and I havent watched it on tv yet, but im pretty sure lebron flopped on a play and it got called, I saw it from the upper deck and im just sitting there like How can I see this, but they cant?

 

[coldcity]

I'm glad the refs aren't falling for TP's shenanigans, I'm glad they aren't responding to Wade's shenanigans and I'm glad they're not honoring the Lebron "yell" as a foul when something goes awry. Officiating has been very good this series.

I was at the game and I havent watched it on tv yet, but im pretty sure lebron flopped on a play and it got called, I saw it from the upper deck and im just sitting there like How can I see this, but they cant?

 

[ThaxbyChamblis]

I was at the game and I havent watched it on tv yet, but im pretty sure lebron flopped on a play and it got called, I saw it from the upper deck and im just sitting there like How can I see this, but they cant?

So 1 play?

Refs did a good job then.

 

[jpzx]

Amin Elhassan provides insight on Phoenix Suns ops tenure, describes rise through organization
Posted by Michael Schwartz on June 10th, 9:10 am (2 hours ago)

Many sports business students dream of leveraging their degree into an internship with a professional team after which they can work up the ranks of the organization’s operations department. Yet we are always warned that for most people such a path is a mere pipe dream with operations jobs so sought after and difficult to come by.

Former Suns assistant director of basketball operations Amin Elhassan did exactly that, starting as a Suns intern while earning a sports MBA degree at ASU and advancing his way up to the Suns’ assistant director of basketball operations post, a job he held between 2008-11.

Elhassan tells his story in a podcast I co-hosted for my SDSU sports MBA blog that you can listen to at the top of this post or on iTunes. Elhassan describes the myriad duties he undertook, from analytics and scouting to watching over rookies during Summer League and many things in between.

“I was kind of like just the utility guy,” Elhassan said. “Any one of these basketball operations I would be there to assist. I did everything.”

I encourage you to listen to the whole podcast — the first half in particular if you are interested in Elhassan’s story and the second half for some nuggets on the Suns — but below I have pulled out some particularly noteworthy points Elhassan makes:
On the three keys to getting a basketball operations job: “You’ve got to be lucky, you’ve got to be prepared, and you’ve got to know the right people. If you have those three things, you’ll get it.”

On the state of advanced stats: “There at least certain concepts we all accept [such as] … offensive efficiency, defensive efficiency, rebound percentage. I feel like the optical data tracking is the future. This is going to be the be-all, end-all of statistics. It’s no longer an estimation or an overall look.”

On Kobe in Game 6 of the 2010 WCF: “I always go back to Game 6 because we did execute and it didn’t matter, and sometimes it just doesn’t matter. You can have the cheat sheet and you’re still not going to pass the test, and that’s where individual talent sometimes just rises above it.”

On Grant Hill: “We used to joke around that if you wanted to create the perfect athlete in the lab, you would create Grant Hill. All those on-court things, and also the pedigree of being the son of a pro athlete, but as a human being, how to treat people. He treated everybody with respect and gave them the time they deserved like they were all the owners of a franchise. … Grant as a person, that makes me want to be a better person every single day.”

On the 2009-10 Suns: “I think a lot of that whole year was the Culture of We, and everybody in that locker room bought in. We all understood if you do the right thing, rewards will come to you. … After that year obviously that team broke up and everybody went their separate ways, and I would see David Griffin or I would see Louis Amundson or I would see Jason Richardson after we traded him, and all those people we always said the same thing, ‘We didn’t know how good we had it.’ Because what we had in Phoenix that year, that’s not the NBA, that’s something special, and the NBA was what followed, which is people griping over minutes and people griping over shots and front office guys complaining about their coach, coaches complaining about their front office guys and coaches coaching for their jobs instead of coaching for the team. That’s what the NBA is.”

On searching for 2009-10: “I said something when it first started to break up, I said something at the time and to this day it’s the truest feeling ever. We’re going to spend the rest of our lives searching for that feeling one more time, and it’s true, everyone I’ve talked to, no one’s been back to that feeling. We’re searching for it forever.”

On players with elite basketball intelligence: “I can count three guys that I’ve been around that I would put them up IQ-wise against anybody in the NBA right now: Steve Nash, Grant Hill, Boris Diaw. Brilliant. Basketball-wise IQ, brilliant as far as being able to recognize things on the fly, process and figure out all the different audibles. Nothing like those guys.”

On writing for ESPN Insider: “Now I’m officially a media member, and it’s weird because I never dreamt about this, I never thought it could happen even. I never thought people like me had a place in the media. Usually when they say ex-NBA guy in the media you’re thinking about Jeff Van Gundy, you’re thinking about Hubie Brown, guys with name cachet. I was in the room for big decisions, but I was a very small potato in the grand scheme of basketball operations. But now that I’m here, I love it. It’s opened me up to a completely different side of the game that I never got to experience, and it’s been a fun experience.”

On the Spurs team he picked to beat Miami in six: “This is a franchise — and I know this from personal experience — this is how they beat us when we were better than them: they don’t make mistakes, or at the very least they make less mistakes than you do. Whatever that weakness in the armor is, they’re going to get to it. They will exploit those mistakes that you make, and they will make less than you.”

Link: http://valleyofthesuns.com/2013/06/...hoenix-suns-tenure-rise-through-organization/

 

[pmatic]

I enjoy Elhassan's work on ESPN.

Good stuff.

 

[Maximus Meridius]

The Dr. J special finally comes on tonight

 

[durantula]

I was at the game and I havent watched it on tv yet, but im pretty sure lebron flopped on a play and it got called, I saw it from the upper deck and im just sitting there like How can I see this, but they cant?

So 1 play?

Refs did a good job then.

I agree, but its like damn how can I see this but they cant

 

[dirtybuhbuhnew]

I see Amare signing with Miami once this contract ends.