2018 NBA OFFSEASON

jfc this guy

Def hyper-focusing on 👣Vs scanning eyes/🏀using peripheral vision 2perceive foot motion
📍Myth:U must jump high/have high release point 2be a Gr8 shooter
🚨Fact:Rate of coordinated force production,pretensioned w/min JH/lower release point is highly effective @bballbreakdown pic.twitter.com/jPW9R4Vs80

— BBiomechanics (@BBiomechanics) February 1, 2018

maybe it's been there for a long time, but i just noticed that the nba has all the draft combine testing and measurements going back to 2000 up.

https://stats.nba.com/draft/combine-strength-agility/

if nothing else it's kind of cool to have more or less real heights, wingspans, and standing reaches for most current players.

hornacek fired

jeez didn’t even wait til the season’s cold

guess its his fault zinger blew up his knee huh.

ugh there's apparently rumors of the bucks going after budenholzer

a weird nba coaching subplot is when the fuck did coach bud get enough clout to say "i don't want to coach a rebuild"?

there arent that many good coaches out there

Guess people have faith in his ability to replicate the Spurs magic having been there for so long.

Plus his turnaround from 38 wins to their best ever season in ATL supports that.

Vogel fired

Bud on the Bucks would be a big step up, he's a top ten coach. But coach is only about 50% of their issues, that roster needs some big upgrades and better fits.

Top 3 odds for lottery teams:#Suns - 64.2%#Grizzlies - 55.8%#Hawks - 42.6%#Mavs - 42.6%#Magic - 29.1%#Kings - 18.3%#Bulls - 18.3%#Cavs (via Nets) - 9.9%#Knicks - 6.1%#Sixers or #Celtics (via Lakers) - 4.0%#Hornets - 2.9%#Pistons - 2.5%#Clippers - 2.2%#Nuggets - 1.8%

— Basketball Reference (@bball_ref) April 12, 2018

Clifford fired

ahaha (sry heez)

The Heat won the 16 pick which slid the Bucks to 17 and therefore keeping their pick. The Bucks representative in attendance screamed "YEAH!" when the Heat won the 16th pick just now. https://t.co/Tx1Nff0jpz

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) April 13, 2018

wait maybe im confused that pick is going to phx i guess whatever

well the hawks lost both coin flips and are now most likely to pick 5th. that plus budenholzer given permission to interview with the suns. offseason is sucking so far.

:( sorry dude

on the other hand the 5th pick shd be pretty sick in this draft

Kristaps Porzingis is 22 years old and going on his fourth NBA coach

— Stefan Bondy (@SBondyNYDN) April 14, 2018

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2771394-the-bottled-water-obsession-taking-over-nba-locker-rooms

discussed a little here hello friends it's the 2018 NBA Playoffs, a place where dreams GO 2 DIE

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DbfuT5sU8AArtVp.jpg

lmao suns gonna be in the gutter until sarver sells.

why not throw mark jackson into the mix

http://www.tmz.com/2018/04/23/chris-paul-selling-houston-mansion/

i distinctly remember looking at this exact same house back when CP3 bought it lol what is going on

Lookin' for a big ass house with 14 bathrooms?

lol sick lede

cp lbj pg melo wade to the lakers confirmed

and derrick rose. cant forget drose.

She Said Yes!! https://t.co/UhSmb0H0CS

— TMZ Sports (@TMZ_Sports) April 24, 2018

#Heat expected to try to trade Hassan Whiteside, via @amathur90. #NBA https://t.co/LzFpVChSQ2 pic.twitter.com/HJJoWc0T9z

— Sam Amico (@AmicoHoops) April 25, 2018

key word: try

otm. they're going to have to attach a pick or useful player to it or take back some bad contracts. or just dupe the kings.

how about whiteside for tyson chandler and change? feel like that would be good for both teams. whiteside was born to be a sun

reasonable

so the hawks just let bud go. i have no idea why but assume bud wanted to move on. fuck

the true rebuild is on

hey, if pop retires this summer? bud would be top of the list for spurs. just sayinnnnn

uhh

Rumor: 76ers increasingly confident about signing LeBron James https://t.co/gUx5MR5tXN

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) April 26, 2018

lol that would be so sick

we cn only pray for a huge personality conflict between bron and ben

im really not enthused abt the carpet bagger lebron james interfering with the celtics rightful 2019 nba championship

sixers need to wait their turn

celtics prob in that second tier even if bron doesn't go to philly tbh

celtics won 55 and have significant improvements baked in already before making any moves

they'll be great in the regular season for sure

they will prob win next year

three allstars + two soon to be allstars + the best coach, the best defensive team, theyre on the verge of winning a playoff series right now without their best two players with a roster of majority under 25 y/o players and u know danny will do some good low key off season moves at the very least

i think this was supposed to be the year they go for brow but the pels didn't crash and burn again

three allstars + two soon to be allstars + the best coach, the best defensive team, theyre on the verge of winning a playoff series right now without their best two players with a roster of majority under 25 y/o players and u know danny will do some good low key off season moves at the very least

― lag∞n, Thursday, April 26, 2018 12:45 PM (two minutes ago)

yeah it will be interesting, I think they lack the star power to really be on the houston/GSW level when the playoffs come but they're just below

depends on the leaps the young guys make

even im sick of the patriots xp

otm

lol wut https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2800264-report-bulls-insider-says-jimmy-butler-changed-due-to-mark-wahlberg-friendship

Horrible article haha

It accuses a four time all-star of not improving his game lately! Because he "began seeing himself as a star"!

this is good
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2800225-hassan-whiteside-is-ready-to-cook?share=other

Fultz Standstill 3
*Substantial air space(distance from ball 2forehead at release)
📍Prematurely straightened arms w/major reduction in freedom of motion=dysrhythmic energy transfer
📍160k shots w/said energy transfer=rep training doesn’t necessarily=self organized refinement pic.twitter.com/WzPbIjshuq

— BBiomechanics (@BBiomechanics) October 11, 2018

philly traded tatum + a likely high lottery pick for him ha

and simmons is useless when hes not handling the ball

simmons is good

hes good in a lazy midseason game, in the playoffs against a team prepared to exploit his weaknesses hes got a lot of weaknesses

In the regular season he’s playoff Rondo. In the playoffs last year he was regular season Rondo.

hes good in a lazy midseason game, in the playoffs against a team prepared to exploit his weaknesses hes got a lot of weaknesses

― lag∞n, Saturday, October 13, 2018 12:37 PM (six hours ago)

yes he was also a rookie

I was listening to the bill simmons over/unders podcast, he's really high on the lakers and thinks they're a lock to be over 47.5 or 48 wins or whatever it is and has them as the #3 seed and...I don't see it. I mean they could do it for sure but if there is anything we have learned about regular season lebron over the past 7 years, particularly in his first season with a team, it is that they do not exceed expectations in the regular season. no way lebron goes hard enough for 82 games for that team to win 50 in a stacked western conference imo

it is actually gonna be hard for many teams in the west to break 50 kinda like last year, too many good teams that are gonna beat up on each other

Yeah was listening to the same podcast and I was surprised. I mean they can't really break 48 wins with their current interior defence rotation. Are there any speculated trades to help in that area?

They also won't want LeBron defending the 5 and wearing himself down. Really I would have thought that they should be looking to preserve him for a real run next season (w/ a free agent star signing) and for now develop their younger assets, and if they make the playoffs this year it's a bonus.

Rough win calc:

Bucks: 1/2
Bulls: 2/2
Cavs: 1/2
Celtics: 0/2
Clippers: 3/4
Grizzlies: 2/3
Hawks: 2/2
Heat: 1/2
Hornets: 2/2
Jazz: 1/4
Kings: 3/4
Knicks: 2/2
Magic: 2/2
Mavericks: 2/3
Nets: 2/2
Nuggets: 1/3
Pacers: 1/2
Pelicans: 2/4
Pistons: 1/2
Raptors: 1/2
Rockets: 1/4
Sixers: 1/2
Spurs: 3/4
Suns: 3/4
Timberwolves: 1/4
Thunder: 2/3
Trailblazers: 2/4
Warriors: 1/4
Wizards: 1/2

So maybe they are kind of hovering around as a 47 win team but 3 seed? Nahhh

Not that I want it to happen but just wondering what trade would it take to get Mark Gasol on the Lakers? Esp since he can opt out next year. Grizz could tank pretty effectively without him and I would assume noone is interested in Conley really.

lakers would only trade grizzlies their expiring vets probably which memphis might do to get under the cap or something idk.

Yeah I just looked on trade machine and Lakers just don't have the salary to do it.

https://www.inquisitr.com/5071865/nba-rumors-lakers-magic-could-explore-kentavious-caldwell-pope-for-nikola-vucevic-trade-per-clutchpoints/

This just makes sense to me really.

that would be fine for everyone i think. lakers really need an innings eater at the 5, if they leave the rotation as it is they're adding a ton of unnecessary wear and injury risk to lebron and kuzma and whoever else they use to fill up 26 minutes a nite.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dib9-qIVsAAQlYS.jpg

that needs to go in nba fashion!!!!!!

ps my friends
It is the years 2018-19 in the National Basketball Association (NBA) - The Regular Season

yes he was also a rookie

― k3vin k., Saturday, October 13, 2018 7:01 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was he really tho, something to think about