2010-2011 NBA Season Thread

[Gredival]

http://www.didthecavswinlastnight.com/

Check the update rofl.

[Kaslo]

Freaking. Classic.

[toqabowl]

Bulls go 3-2 on the 5-game road trip w/ win against Hornets 97-88

next game is back home on Tuesday

[kisada]

heat/celtics game getting feisty. love this kind of basketball in the reg season

[Kyo]

Every televised celtic game I watch now, KG gets into it with someone.

[Gredival]

Damn the bouncing LeBron head is gone. Need Cavs to pull out a few more wins to bring it back.

Rondo was hilarious last night. Super Three go 0-3 against the Celtics.

[Moss]

I don't know when or why it happened, but I have moved to the point of rooting for the Heat over the Celtics and Lakers.

[Heavencloud]

I don't know when or why it happened, but I have moved to the point of rooting for the Heat over the Celtics and Lakers.

That's bad and you should feel bad.

[Correction]

For posterity

[Moss]

That's bad and you should feel bad.

I do

[Gredival]

This is copypasta from Basketbawful in the comments section. Source is apparantly Broussard but I can't track down the source article.

Williams and Sloan found themselves at odds during the 2010 draft and soon their already tenuous relationship began rapidly deteriorating. Deron lobbied hard for Ed Davis and Paul George. With Davis, Deron saw a big man whose size and toughness in the paint could finally allow Utah to solve the Los Angeles front-court problem. With George, Deron saw a running mate who could help Utah win right now.

Instead, Sloan saw this lobbying as a direct assault on his control over the team and a questioning of his abilities. He saw Deron's actions as an attempt to meddle in Sloan's affairs. Already leaning strongly toward Hayward, these actions pushed him solidly into Gordon's camp. The message was clear, Sloan wanted players who will come in, take orders, and stay out of his business.

As if not enough of an insult on its own, Sloan used the drafting of Hayward as justification for letting Deron's best friend on the team, Kyle Korver, to walk as a free agent. To make matters worse, Korver went to Chicago to play with Derrick Rose, a guy the notoriously jealous Williams was threatened by. Deron felt betrayed and from then on it was open war between the coach and his star PG.

Already not off to a good start, the situation was exacerbated when Deron met Hayward for the first time during the summer. The two bumped into each other in the team weight room. According to a source close to the situation, Deron asked Gordon if he could spot him on the bench-press. Gordon instead rolled his eyes, said "yeah right", and went over to the exercise mat to do jumping jacks. After doing a set of 200, Gordon left the facility and, according to reports, shut the lights out on Deron.

Sources say the first major blow-up came during a heated practice earlier in December. Known for riding his players hard during practice, Sloan was extra venomous over what he thought was a lack of effort and blatant disrespect on Deron's part. When Deron failed to pass the ball to a wide open Milsap who was standing behind the arc, Sloan stormed onto the court and started cursing out Williams.

"Do you want to get me fired? You want to get me fired you fucking piece of shit but I ain't going no where. Just run the fucking plays like you're supposed to you fucking dumb fucking fuck"

"Why the fuck are you always yelling at me so much? Fucking go bitch out Gordon for once, that fucking guy just ran into me when he was trying to set a screen and ended up tripping his own teammate the last play we ran"

"Because he does what I fucking tell him to. Do you ever want to win a championship? Then just fucking listen to what I tell you you big fucking idiot. You would be nothing without me, remember that. Now just do what I fucking tell you and you can maybe be a winner like Gordon"

From then on, Sloan's favoritism toward Hayward became such a sore spot among the players that they would often storm out of practice early. All except Hayward, who would often stick around to receive special one-on-one coaching. The players saw this as a blatant attempt at sucking up to the teacher. According to a team official who wished to remain anonymous, the two even went so far as to draw up special plays together just for Gordon.

The final straw happened this week against the Bulls. Not wanting to be shown up by his biggest rival on his own court, Deron yelled at Sloan during the final minute to get him the ball. But Sloan had a different idea. He drew up one of his special plays to get Hayward the ball. Williams was livid.

"If that fucking cracker gets the ball, then I am out of here"

"That kid has already hit more clutch shots then you ever will. Now pass him the fucking ball"

But Deron didn't pass him the ball, instead opting to modify the play on the fly.

Afterward, Gordon and Sloan were both livid. Sloan was pissed that Deron would ignore direct orders. After the game, Sloan stormed off to O'Connor's office with Hayward in tow to explain what happened and demand Williams be traded. This is where things take a twisted turn. According to a source in Hayward's camp, Gordon agreed to back Sloan up until the moment he realized that O'Connor wasn't going to side with the coach. He then did a 180 and told O'Connor that the team was sick of Sloan and that he needed to go. Betrayed, Sloan scribbled his resignation on a box-score print-out and stormed off."

[kisada]

link to comments?

[Iono]

"Because he does what I fucking tell him to. Do you ever want to win a championship? Then just fucking listen to what I tell you you big fucking idiot. You would be nothing without me, remember that. Now just do what I fucking tell you and you can maybe be a winner like Gordon"

What an unlimited amount of possibilities of a comeback to this....

[Naafeih]

Best trend from this weekend. NBA Flow Charts:

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f...feih/Young.jpg

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f...Flowchart1.jpg

LeBron:
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f...eih/lebron.jpg

Keith Bogans:
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f...eih/bogans.jpg

Michael Beasley:
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f...sFlowChart.jpg

[GRT]

This is copypasta from Basketbawful in the comments section. Source is apparantly Broussard but I can't track down the source article.

interesting, but note that Hayward played the second most minutes this season (30 mins, way over his season average of 12) and his best individual game Friday against the Suns after Sloan had resigned

[Dimmauk]

Wow @ that story if it is true. So far the Jazz have basically said Sloan retired cause he was tired, and not because of any player.

[Gredival]

link to comments?

Meh I got wooshed, I listened the Broussard clip that was linked with the post and when none of that was in it I tried to ESPN and Google search the article. A dozen comments later the guy said he was making it up.

http://basketbawful.blogspot.com/201...ason-ever.html 15th comment

[kisada]

heh, yeah figured it could've been. seemed pretty crazy.

that said, that definitely is how sloan talked to his players. definitely a reason why some players just can't handle how he coached.

[Gredival]

I kind of believed it cause it seemed like a lot of fucking effort to fake that and it was pretty stylistically similar to an ESPN article. Thought it might be an pay-to-view INSIDER article or whatever the hell that ESPN shit is.

[Dimmauk]

I LOL'd @ the flowcharts, cause they are true.