NBA 2012-2013

[MarkGrace]

Can someone younger and hipper than me, explain what LBJ's new touchdown dance is. He pounds the his chest, then looks like helooks like he is pushing something down. I'm sure it is a fine imitation, but I don't know what the heck it is.

BYU71, you are are being requested.

[Art Vandelay]

BYU71, you are are being requested.

and explain to me what he is doing at the 10 second mark.

[CardiacCoug]

and explain to me what he is doing at the 10 second mark.

He only does that on the road so I think it's his way of telling the crowd to sit the f*** down, although in Cleveland it sounds like he has plenty of fans cheering for him.

[BGRTHNUMEGO]

Deron Williams the last 3 months:

Jan - 42% 3pt, 92% FT
Feb - 49% 3pt, 86% FT
Mar - 43% 3pt, 83% FT

He's also brought his turnovers down again this year. If he's hitting shots like that and taking care of the ball, he certainly vaults back into the top 5 PG discussion.

[FN Phat]

I just had a long debate with a coworker who is sold on Dwill being the top pg of the league. I told him he was at the bottom of a top 5 list, if that. I was just going off the top pf my head. With stats like that, and like you mentioned taking care of the ball, I could see him as high as 3 but most likely top 4 pg

[BGRTHNUMEGO]

After maybe the most impressive month of basketball in NBA history, LeBron had let his FG% slip in March. All the way down to a horrible 49%. So he decided to start to fix it the last two nights, combining to go 23-29 from the field. And after 29/8/8 against Detroit, he dropped 32/8/10 with 3 steals and 3 blocks against Charlotte before sitting out most of the 4th quarter.

While watching some of the Heat game today and seeing some of his unbelievable passes it seemed that he's making plays similar to what made Magic an absolute star, while also putting up 30 points and playing great defense.

[MarkGrace]

Deron Williams the last 3 months:

Jan - 42% 3pt, 92% FT
Feb - 49% 3pt, 86% FT
Mar - 43% 3pt, 83% FT

He's also brought his turnovers down again this year. If he's hitting shots like that and taking care of the ball, he certainly vaults back into the top 5 PG discussion.

I was watching highlights from that Denver '10 series the other night and damn he was good. Denver had homecourt and the Jazz took them out in 6. First 5 games in that series Deron went 26/11, 33/14, 24/10, 24/13 and 34/9 -- both of those +30 games were in Denver. His four years in the playoffs with the Jazz he averaged 19.2/8.6, 21.6/10, 20.2/10.8, 24.3/10.2. That was ages 22-25. The players the Jazz replaced him with could be pretty good as a group, but there's no one on the horizon that will be as dynamic as he was at his best.

[MarkGrace]

He's going for 23.6/7.7 on .474/.440/.850 since the AS. Finally seems healthy again.

[smokymountainrain]

This is a fun, detailed, breakdown - with videos - from Grantland's Zach Lowe, of Miami's offense and how it has evolved into a lethal attack from where it was two years ago.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/...ominate-league

The Heat have almost totally reinvented their offense over those three seasons, and in the process they've done something very rare: taken a good offense and transformed it into something almost historically great. The Heat ranked eighth in points per 100 possessions last season, sporting a mark about two points above the league's overall average, per Basketball-Reference.com.2 They're no. 1 this season, a full seven points over the league's overall average — a huge five-point year-over-year jump in comparison to the NBA's general scoring output.

How rare is that? Only 51 teams since 1953-54 have made such a large jump, relative to league average, from one season to the next, per research Basketball-Reference's Neil Paine performed for Grantland. Not surprisingly, most of the teams on this list were very bad in Year 1 and made some sort of massive (and positive) offseason change before Year 2.3 Only four teams have ever improved this much on offense in Year 2 after having merely an above-average offense in Year 1; the Heat will be the fifth such team.

The other four:

• 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers: an all-time great team, owner of the 33-game streak Miami is chasing.

• 1995-96 Chicago Bulls (Michael Jordan's first full season back from retirement).

• 1997-98 Los Angeles Lakers: Shaquille O'Neal plays nine more games than prior season, Kobe Bryant no longer a rookie.

• 2003-04 Sacramento Kings.

And now the Heat, a super-team that for two years was prone to puzzling and inexcusable bouts of stagnancy on offense.4 No more. Miami is a pass-happy team that whips the ball around the floor, shifts bodies all over the place in carefully coordinated motion sets, gobbles up the most efficient shots available, and generally destroys opposing defenses in a way that is both visually pleasing and nothing like how they played in the past. League observers used to talk about Orlando's four-out/one-in system, with four shooters surrounding Dwight Howard in the post or on the pick-and-roll. Miami and Erik Spoelstra have one-upped that by often playing a five-out system, with all five guys moving around the 3-point arc as the Heat run through a series of rehearsed actions while hunting for gaps in the defense. It's a system Miami settled upon through organic internal growth, free-agent signings, injury-related improvisation, and the study of everything from college football to NCAA basketball to high-profile international hoops teams.

[CardiacCoug]

This is a fun, detailed, breakdown - with videos - from Grantland of Miami's offense and how it has evolved into a lethal attack from where it was two years ago.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/...ominate-league

I just read that. Good stuff.

I love it when teams defy convention and have a lot of success. The Miami offense is pretty much the opposite of what the Jazz do when they dump it into Al Jefferson and then stand around.

[Blueintheface]

This is a fun, detailed, breakdown - with videos - from Grantland's Zach Lowe, of Miami's offense and how it has evolved into a lethal attack from which there is no escape.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/...ominate-league

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[Surfah]

It's over.

[Joe Public]

It's over.

Incredible run by the Heat.

[FN Phat]

It's over.

You and DDD =

[Surfah]

You and DDD =

I was never worried.