Official around the NBA - DECEMBER edition

Nerlens Noel outplaying Cousins. The Sixers have sure played better since Okafor went down.

(Getting Ish Smith has a little to do with it, too.)

 

The Warriors were without 3 starters. But it would be nice if this got Klay Thompson and Draymond Green (both 4-15) to shut the fuck up.

 

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/14470040/steve-kerr-golden-state-warriors-resume-coaching-weekend

 

Kings lose at home to the Sixers. Keep an eye on them for some implosion

 

"They're going to ruin someone's life."

-Luis Scola on when Philly got their next win.

 

Too bad Walton's coaching doesn't actually count towards anything on record, since he is under the "interim" title. His real coaching record is still 0-0.

 

Gonna be interesting to see his head coaching record when he goes somewhere else. I'd actually put money on the Lakers offering him a job. It makes too much sense, Kobe goes out which means you have to shake a lot of things up and the first thing you do after Kobe retires is replace Scott. Then of course you've got the fact that he won two titles with the Lakers and basically played his whole career there.

I'm not too confident either way in how Walton will be as a head coach. But I do know that right now he is surrounded by arguably the deepest group of talent in the league, which already has a season of success leading to a championship under their belt. It's not like he came in with Julius Randle as his best basketball player.

 

Philly wins and Golden State loses ON THE SAME NIGHT! No wonder giant squid are popping up in harbors and New York is experiencing 60 degree weather in late December.

 

I think Rondo might be the root of the problem. He's getting gaudy assist numbers but opposing PGs are lighting him up. He's a shell of the defender he used to be. Sad - he was my fave non-Blazer for a while.