2018 NBA OFFSEASON

yeah, lot of new people trying to figure out where they go. demar hasn't made much of an impression yet. rudy gay lookin good, loving jakob poeltl altho his shooting's been iffy, but his d, pnr action, rebounding, floor running has been great. so happy to have beli back. dejounte looks more comfortable on offense and he's got that pick 6 ability that kawhi had. he's going to have a good season as a full-time starter.

lol the starting 5 was a wreck as a unit tho. dejounte-demar-rudy-LMA-pau. pau is still a good rim protector and passer, but woof, he just looks his age out there. poeltl will have his job by season's end if they wanna keep two bigs.

no minutes for my dude lonnie in the first half (nb i paused the game here so i could run errands).

watching the second half on delay and they brought out a unit of derrick white-patty mills-demar-larmacus-poeltl. that's the best this team has looked all game. DW is a great pick and roller and can guard multiple positions.

spurs 2 is not very good

the coyote?

will brow win the mvp this year cant think of who else there is russ harden and kd already have their allotted one, kyrie maybe if the celtics just totally run shit

kawhi is in line too i guess

regardless theres a very good chance that this season begins a run of brow being the best basketball player

bron is prob about to show us just how hard he can loaf through a season

giannis still not quite there as far as really smoothing out the rough edges IMHO but hell prob put up just insane numbers and will be in the convo

bet they did

Report: Timberwolves offered Jimmy Butler to Bucks for Khris Middleton https://t.co/trlhg9sPO4

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) October 1, 2018

Feels like it's his to lose yeah. I think Giannis has a better shot than Kyrie out east. Or even Embiid if they lift his restrictions. Harden's best days are behind him, he's gonna need a couple months to play himself into shape. I could see Curry being hungry for another one but he'd have to do something approaching his 2016 run to get it. Bron def gonna coast to 25/6/6, his minutes and games played should take a dip. Gotta see Kawhi play before I can make a call on him, but if he's what he was and gets the raps to a 1 seed then he could take it.

kyrie just a few %s from putting up 25ppg on 50/40/90 last season while playing on a fd up knee, imo theres a chance hes got a steph-like alltime little man offensive season in him, especially considering the celtics are rolling out a starting five who all shoot ~40% from three, which like if theres not a second line of defense behind kyries man im not sure how you stop him, also just familiarity with the celtics system/shedding some of those bad chucker habits which u cld def see happening last year as the season progressed

having said that brow is just better him being a true two way monster and whatnot, but if the celtics finish w the best record and the pelicans are back in the pack in the west that sort of scenario has a way of swaying the voterz

Ringer guys are all about Doncic:

https://www.theringer.com/nba/2018/10/1/17921946/mavs-luka-doncic

embiid cld def put up a monster season but i feel like theres a unwritten one year waiting period of being a recognized superstar before theyll consider giving you the award, also feel like the sixers cld underperform super high expectations as teams focus on exploiting their weaknesses etc a lil more, last year they kinda came out of nowhere and everyone was just all whoa whos this gigantic austrialian slithering right at me where now they know to just keep backing up lol, also they relied a lot on weird old flawed players reddick/belineli/ilyasova only two of whom are even on the team anymore

lol if the nba blogosphere still existed it wld def be lining up to kiss doncic

doncic is one of the intriguing stories this season. he was so extremely effective in the European leagues you have to believe there plenty of talent for the nba, too.

yeah i think hell be good but lack of athleticism will prob limit his celling especially on the defensive end, its somewhat worrying that both him and smith jr will have to work to prob even be average defenders, they both look like they cld cause serious trouble on the other end tho

I think the Mavs premise is to have the guards contest outside and have DJ protect the paint against the drive. That might be doable in small chunks.

doncic needs that summer of 2017 oladipo diet

Kyrie on 20, 30 years in the future: “I don’t know if you guys will see me. I’ll probably be in 800 acres in Texas in the middle of nowhere. Off the grid in a self-sustaining community, just living with no power. Like this is fun and all, but technology is just killing me, man.”

— Nicole Yang (@nicolecyang) October 1, 2018

otm

lmao

Kyrie apologizes for saying the world is flat. #Under30Summit pic.twitter.com/uJH3fNbPqS

— Nicole Yang (@nicolecyang) October 1, 2018

kyrie wisdom levels increasing from the world is flat to the world is bad

Have we talked about the Uncle Drew movie yet? I saw it the other day it was p good.

my cousins/nephews all saw it and loved it (average age is 15 probs) in a silly movie they know what they're getting type of way. I want to see it for sure.

agree w goon about eh 76ers being unproven but if fultz approaches his potential then....

Ben Simmons pushes the pace and kicks to Markelle Fultz for 3! 👌#NBAPreseason pic.twitter.com/Y8zHC9ahjh

— NBA (@NBA) October 1, 2018

gonna need to see this in the reg season

Ummm... Frank Mason with Bagley, Labissiere, Giles and Cauley-Stein.

— James Ham (@James_HamNBCS) October 2, 2018

Scored $15 tix to celts/cavs tonight (thanks amex!)

nice

anyone have any new methods of watching games this year?? Any nu-ballstreams out there?

youtube tv + nba league pass = ~$500 per season, you get a six person /family plan/ with yr youtube tv account, split w buds, beware tho u can only be part of one family at a time, basic youtube tv gives u all the national games including nbatv, league pass gives u the rest :)

There’s that Bleacher Report thing, too

I’ve got YTTV. Maybe I’ll spring for league pass for the first time since I’ll have the nationally covered games covered.

goddamn

ESPN reporting with @Zachlowe_NBA: In another example of the league's changing attitudes on gambling, the Dallas Mavericks are hiring former NBA bettor Bob Voulgaris (@Haralabob) as Director of Quantitative Research and Development.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) October 5, 2018

so bob lost all his money by investing in bitcoin is what i'm getting here

lol

Mo Bamba has scored 24 points on a 91.7 eFG% so far in this preseason.

— Michael Gallagher (@MikeSGallagher) October 6, 2018

thats pretyy good

the famous dunk is the best shot

magic might be onto something w their frontcourt of the future

guess it wasnt all dunks

Curious as to how @OrlandoMagic C Mohamed Bamba is so comfortable and confident on the perimeter? This story from July, detailing the work Mo did with @DrewHanlen, might shed some light on why he’s made all 4 of his 3-point shots in two preseason games. https://t.co/CE8Zy2uPMk

— John Denton (@JohnDenton555) October 6, 2018

hanlens pr machine in overdrive rn

For real haha

new category of nba celebrity the trainer

so friday lonnie walker the fourth got injured for at least 2 months and then today, dejounte murray's knee buckled and he's gonna have an mri tomorrow YAYYYYYYY

Nothing worse than preseason injuries

preseason has bad energy they shd cancel it

they should juts ban running during preseason games

play horse call it a day

they should play with the old-school womens rules where you basically can't move