2017-18 NBA REGULAR SEASON THREAD PART 1 ALL OF AMERICAS FAVORITE TEAMS ARE BACK

ah one of the most scientific of processes

When I watch Kings games the guy who stands out as a culprit to me is Cauley-Stein. He plays bad defense and offers nothing on offense.

Papagiannis has to be better even at age 19 or whatever he is

This Mike James guy is pretty cool

“Embiid logs career-high 30 minutes”

as a wolves fan, it's weirdly encouraging to see them win a game in which a lot of the starters objectively played like shit esp. KAT, but yet we won

there were so many times in the past in which you end up walking away thinking damn we should have won that game but didn't

part of it is just having the weird sensation of having some real grown ass men NBA players like Butler and Crawford on the team, instead of steaky, ultra gifted but inconsistent vessels of "talent" and "potential"

I mean, we really haven't had a truly real-deal NBA player since KG

KG's a lock for HoF, so that's a high bar you're setting.

Sources: Cleveland Cavaliers' Tristan Thompson is expected to miss one month with left calf injury he suffered Wednesday night.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) November 2, 2017

cavs will miss the nba playoffs

cavs will be relegated to the ncaa

#TradeLebron the movement is growing

BREAKING: Cavs F LeBron James expresses his willingness to waive his no trade clause to a title contending team after the 124-107 loss pic.twitter.com/f5cSuHPmT4

— Depressed LeBron Fan (@BronGetsBuckets) November 2, 2017

Lebron walks into the front office and says “Im leaving this offseason no matter what”. Would you trade him?

— Kenny Beecham (@TheKOT4Q) November 2, 2017

everyone says yes

https://i.imgur.com/nTSsrXu.png

no

sry its fate

lebron should join the orlando magic

they dont need him, apparently

lebron shd play on a series of 10 day contracts for different teams

they should just let lebron play on whichever team the warriors are playing against each game

lol

fair

Hey the suns were just getting to be good/fun so let's bring in a worse version of eric bledsoe #whynot

The Suns prefer a third team to take on Reggie Jackson in any potential Eric Bledsoe deal with the Pistons, league sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 2, 2017

oh i misread the tweet lol

lebron's been to the finals 7 straight times and i'd still put down money on him being there this year again this year but obv there will be a season when that doesn't happen and it could happen sooner rather than later

how much u looking to bet

well im not a gambling man really

one million dollars it is!

cavs are gonna end up in a situation where they have to trade the nets pick if they want one last finals run lol

oh gosh lmao

danny ainge is so good

hes "got the touch"

every college coach whos ever come to the pros has crashed and burned but he finds one who is immediately one of the best coaches in the nba

i still think the celtics media overrepresented the value of Avery Bradley and especially Jae Crowder and the rest of the league bought it. the team hasn't missed a beat defensively without them and their advanced stats were never even that good.

imo theyre both good and theyre just the type of guys who can fit in anywhere and dont have too many flaws, but there prob was some hysteria too around crowder at least tho a lot of that is that hes on a cheap deal, bradley they kinda just had to dump to get his contract off the books, not to say morris is useless or anything

their defense is much better this year! tho a lot of that is rebounding (and losing IT)

Kyrie looks like he is trying sometimes, that's cool

hes been trying very hard! hes totally out there hustling acting like hes got something to prove

maybe he should work that hard on his earth science studies

crowder went from underrated to overrated soooo fast

This Mike James guy is pretty cool

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, November 2, 2017 12:19 AM (eleven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You just gotta love stories like this
http://www.basketballinsiders.com/nba-pm-mike-james-the-27-year-old-rookie/

there were so many times in the past in which you end up walking away thinking damn we should have won that game but didn't

I’m kinda sympathetic to the harabob idea that Ricky‘s game is particularly badly suited to the way NBA games tighten up into halfcourt chess matches at the end of close games - his strengths of “creativity” and “trying on defence“ get lost, and you’re just left with a guy that can’t shoot. It’ll be interesting to see if that happens in Utah? Anyway winning close games against good teams is extremely nice I like it I hope it continues.

yeah guys who can put pressure on the defense and score the damn basketball are still the most valuable even in this age of efficiency

ok guys baseball is over. i'm not caught up at all on the NBA happenings. And I have to be strategic about my viewing time so

what team look intersting?

your surprise early season performer ?

turns out the lakers have been disbanded for the good of the league sorry carne

oh im ok with that tbh

lol

cavs are gonna end up in a situation where they have to trade the nets pick if they want one last finals run lol

― ciderpress, Thursday, November 2, 2017 1:53 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hurts so much bc i know it's true

there's definitely gonna be some dumb rash move too like firing ty lue or something

again tho IT returning could change things tho not much on defense