and yet Green seems to be the only one that keeps kicking people, particularly in the nuts, see the problem?

Did he kick Harden in the nuts his last ejection? Maybe you're blind. His leg coming up and hitting harden in the face was unfortunate and unintentional. I'd argue him pushing his arms out is more harmful

ActionJackson calling someone a she as an insult, stay classy my friend

N A T U R A L S H O O T I N G M O T I O N

Surprised Pop didn't sell the farm to get Dray. He's worse than Bowen.

Grief still not over i see

i didn't realise that the pistons were 7th in SRS so far, pretty strong without jackson

Lol. I'd give up posting itt for awhile, woman. Get back to the kitchen, chef curry.

Yeah, they were hanging around 0 for a while but they beat the Hornets, Celtics, and Hawks in consecutive road games. Losing to Orlando at home will drop them a bit. They've played really well the last couple weeks. Offense has finally started to get some real ball/player movement. I'm hoping that can continue with Reggie, who loves to over-dribble.

The defense has been terrific though. KCP is a beast and Drummond is too when he's engaged. He's still just so bad at maintaining focus. Still, the Pistons had the 2nd best defense (schedule adjusted) in the league per bref going into the night.

Just noticed the schedule-adjusted ratings page today: http://www.basketball-reference.com/...7_ratings.html

never change Rondo

Was lol'ing after the Cavs game with MJax and everyone else slurping his leadership and knowledge and how coaches love him.

He's a complete cancer.

So is cousins, and Westbrook is championed for his stat padding while Rondo is vilified so I guess it really comes down to perspective.

I liked this from the comment section of the Rondo article:

In case you haven't noticed the Thunder are 5th in the West and have won all 5 games during Westbrook's triple double streak.

Cousins is def cancerous but also 10x the player Rondo is at this point so it's a lot more palatable. Plus Boogie would never get praised by announcers like Rondo was.

Westbrook is like the 4th-6th best player ITL and Rondo is around that on his own team (maybe) so that's a bit different as well. Westbrook is currently shouldering a 41% USG while averaging 31 a game on 53.8 TS%. Rondo has a 16.8% USG averaging 10 a game throwing up bricks at 43.6 TS% and getting into fights with coaches.

GOATBROOK also has the highest AST% of any player IN HISTORY right now. RUSS is also at a REB% that is by far the best season any guard has ever posted.

they get a pass because they're good at basketball

Yep. Not to mention a RUSS rebound is an elite outcome for OKC since he just turns on his built in rocket shoes and flies down the court to start the break.

Also Rondo is somehow sporting a worse TOV% than RUSS as well, impressive stuff.

Players who have won championships as an integral part of the roster usually get more praise than guys who have never sniffed the playoffs despite being considered top two for their position. Westbrook's averaging a triple double quest for the season after Durant left is cute but pretty apparent won't mean much in the playoffs. I guess if the bulls team was in cahoots to get Rondo a triple double every night out he would be close to one each night too.

Rondo cursed out an assistant after the bulls got blown out by the worse team in the league and has already apologized and participated in a toy drive for the team yesterday so not completely cancerous, imo

I'm not saying Rondo was never good ever, he had a real nice run with the celts but since 2013-2014 he's basically been a worthless garbage man since then.

Russ has never sniffed the playoffs? He's made the NBA finals and conf finals multiple times, is 2 years younger than Rondo, and the Thunder have a better record as the Bulls RIGHT NOW with Russ literally carrying the team and Rondo being at best the 4-5th best player on his own team.

The wanting is strong on this one sir.

Was talking about boogie getting praise...

Boogie doesn't get praise (for his personality anyway) even in TZ for the most part, and I don't disagree he's cancerous but his talent and play is very good whereas Rondo has sucked for years

the westbrook love is basically the corollary to the durant backlash - he was disliked before this year.

personally i find his playing style obnoixous as he's become a caricature of angry russ carrying the poor downtrodden OKC franchise.

bballbreakdown spent 15 minutes arguing harden > him.

i think there's plenty of people who aren't in love with Westy's game.

How's nobody talking about Matt Barnes

Because it's cooler to **** on Rondo for being pissed at losing to a terrible team than someone who puts hands on a strangers throat or punches someone they outweigh by 50-100 pounds, duh