Fuck, dude. I don’t want my team to be the one that everybody says “Man, they could’ve been great if…” I don’t want to be the pitied team, that keeps grinding out victories, gets into the playoffs, but can’t win the big one because we’re too crippled, or because we don’t have the firepower necessary. I don’t want to be… that team.

Damn. This really sucks.

Derrick Rose injury x Titanic.

It’s amazingly painful/painfully amazing

(video by dusomeproductions)

ballershots:

Wake up, Derrick. Wake up… please wake up…

(pic via Ben Lange)

My first post over 1,000 notes! Yay!

I promise in return I will finish these playoff would-be previews, and I’ll keep doing funny basketball stuff on here. But if things be a little slow, it’s only ‘cause it’s finals week.

Also, I’m on twitter.com/baller_shots

Wake up, Derrick. Wake up… please wake up…

(pic via Ben Lange)

nbaoffseason:

This is all on you, David Stern, you scumbag.

From now until the day he leaves the commisioner’s office, I never want to hear about how that greedy fuck cares about player safety or the quality of the product. He took the NBA brand and squeezed it like a sponge that was bone dry, hoping to drop every last penny he could into the pockets of the owners and the league. There have been many casualties due to his greed, but none more heartbreaking than the reigning MVP.

Prayers go out to Derrick Rose for a speedy recovery. Hopefully he returns next season, even better than before.

As for the NBA commissioner? He should step down at the end of the season. Good riddance, once & for all.

(w.w.)

Do I even need to say how much I second this motion? Ok fine, I will.

The lack of logic in playing 66 games in such a short time is baffling. Why? Why did it have to be 66? Where does that number even come from? Did David Stern really get a band of physicians and scientists together and figure out the exact amount of games a player could play before his body LITERALLY broke down and refused to work?

If he did, he should be tried (literally) and hanged (figuratively). Because we just saw that happen TWICE in one night, Stern’s favorite night, the night of his biggest cash cow, the playoffs. The time when he gets to make better basketball without paying any of them an extra cent!

And where was Billy Hunter in all of this? Where was the protection for the players, to keep Stern in check? Hunter was hired to be not just a negotiator, but a strongman too. But in the end, he was a businessman, too. They all were. Making money off the hardest workers. The workers they convinced to give up on their education to make money (but not as much as their corrupt owners). The workers they force to abandon their families for half of the year, because basketball comes first, not love, family or marriage.

After I saw the injury to Iman Shumpert, I realized this wasn’t the fault of the coaches as much as it was the fault of this insanity of business. I don’t think I was wrong in saying “fuck you” to Thibs for keeping the starters in that late in the game, but his mistake came second to the greed of man.

I’ll get up the rest of my playoff previews soon, I just need time to… decompress.

(Source: theagonyofdefeat)

Dammit. GOD FUCKING DAMMIT.

Up 12 with a minute to go. The game was won.

Was it worth it Thibs?

(Derrick Rose Tears His ACL vs 76ers by GandLsports)

Blake Griffin is ‘definitely sick of taking hard hits’

Tell ya what Blake. We’ll all stop hitting you so hard when you start getting called for offensive fouls every time you stiff arm a guy in the face on every dunk.

And the same goes to my man crush Derrick Rose. Never ask to be treated like other “superstars.” It makes you look like a fucking asshole.

nbapassion reblogged your post: The Bulls play better against the Heat without Derrick Rose.

Here comes the team-plays-well-without-someone talk. Comeon. Stop with this crap already. Fans said this to Melo too…

I said they play well against the Heat specifically without Rose. Don’t get me twisted with conspiracy theorists/people who post comments on the Yahoo sports blog. It’s the same way with certain players who can turn it on against one team in particular (Mike Dunleavy against the Knicks? Who knew?)

Personally, I think it’s a mix of things. One, LBJ destroys Derrick on defense one-on-one, and unfortunately, Derrick keeps trying to be The Man and go to the lane or shoot jumpers against double or triple coverage.

That’s the problem when you have a point guard as your top dog. Size is a factor. Payton had Kemp, Stockton had Malone, Westbrook has Durant, Magic Johnson could’ve been a fucking Power Forward if he wanted to. Derrick has either Deng or Boozer, depending on what side of the bed they woke up on. God forbid Rip should put up double digits when he actually has Rose passing to him.

Okay, I gotta stop this. My Bulls fandom is coming on a li’l strong.

pigbomb replied to your post: The Bulls play better against the Heat without Derrick Rose.

he played like 1 game in 1 month. he was just really rusty. he won’t be nearly that bad in the playoffs

Playoffs last year? The game back in January? How can Rose get dominated when Watson and Lucas can come off the bench and get it done?

I’m just sayin’, I got questions. Sheeeeit.