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

those guys get clowned on so hard on the local talk radio shows here.

i like how theyre rugged dudes but still have that really intense twin relationship

hah yeah

Nance fractured hand out 4-6 weeks.

injuries suck

Maybe having Darren Collison guard Ben Simmons is not a winning strategy idk.

probably not but the pacers are so thin at the wing theres not really another option? idk

It's so disruptive that you have to put Lance in there to shore up the D side; Pacers have enough offense to let Lance be a little anonymous on the offensive end.

its a shame lance has been so trash this season because his bench unit has real potential imo

cory joseph is somehow hitting 58% of his 3pa while shooting 2.4 per game

damn embiid might get tossed??

Not a cool challenge there.

why would you lay a flagrant on joe young, the most inoffensive player in the game lol

Frustrated beyond belief watching Lance so far in reg season. He has *all* the right tools to do what Dipo is doing w/ the first team -- drive hard and either dish or take to the rim -- but he's been settling for long js and it's awful to watch.

BTW Bulls halftime show tomorrow is Steve Max, Professional Simon Sez leader, a man who figured out a way to make a living on Simon Sez. Favorite halftime show so far this season!

yeah ive been thinking about how young lance was decent harden pastiche. hes lost some speed now but could transition to using his size to bully smaller guards

Nice Croat showdown b/t Šarić and Bogdanović.

some croat just checked in for cleveland too, it's croat mania

surprised no one has commented on them playing for croatia together tbh.

less surprised that no one commented on the whole croat v. serb thing when the two bogdanovics faced off earlier this week

Will Fultz make a 3pt before Simmons

how embiid biff two dunks in crunch time lol

this is simmons shot chart...

https://i.imgur.com/b0BGoDO.png

Lebronimo is having himself a GAME

Oubre is exasperatingly dumb

Wizards need to fire their coach

These two teams are atrocious defensively, good lord

bron playing playoff minutes in november

Was kind of a must win game lol

lol come on

okc playing unbelievable defense

Millsap has started to get comfortable

I watched a little bit of the hawks game and it’s really hard to win basketball games with Dennis Schroder

okc melting down?

i didn't watch the 3rd where the c's apparently came screaming back lol

horford doing his best klay impression this quarter

kyrie is so good

kyrie is free jazz while everyone else is playing straight 4/4. idk how to describe it but he's just playing another game on offense sometimes.

yeah he does some crazy things where he mixes together hesitations crazy footwork and off hand finishes, that one shot in the fourth where he was driving on the left block and it looked like adams had him smothered and he just weirdly stepped a little toward the corner and finished over him, hes fun to watch

celtics had 37 at the half and finished with 101

oop

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNwtQSLWkAELghr.jpg

yeah i bailed, chalked it up to a bad night, and by the time i got back the c's were down by 4 or something. crazy win in that i loved how okc was playing defense in the first half and didn't see a road back.

it didnt feel like the celtics were making some huge run at all they just started getting good looks and hitting them and okc cldnt buy a shot, their offense is pretty fd rn

local take: a lot of al horford skeptics are shutting up, i mean i liked him last year but he's definitely taken a step as far as being comfortable in the offense. such a solid dude.

hes playing out of his mind so far this season, also last year in the playoffs

such a great facilitator/steadying force on offense + scores when he has the looks, knows when he has the looks

also playing great D, al is great, and nice

Kyrie plays defense now

yeah big brad got him into it

May I be the first to congratulate the 2017-18 NBA Champion Boston Celtics.

pretty much everyone in the celtics rotation is playing plus defense so far

celtics playing this good with all the roster discontinuity and their big free agent dying opening night is pretty crazy