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

Chriss was a walking red flag

I really don’t see it with Dennis Smith Jr.

― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, October 31, 2018 11:49 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

undersized PGs are becoming as obsolete as floor-bound bigs imo (can't switch on defense).

what the hell was that foul by wes matthews, inexcusable

Smith just isn’t a good enough scorer to justify what a ball stopper he is xp

doncic made a sick one-legged 10 footer to tie and then dallas inexplicably fouls in the bonus with 3 seconds left

Lol forgot about Chriss

I think Doncic missed his first 5 shots then didn’t miss again aftrre that

he is Good

everybody hates Chriss

xxp

doncic is real, they need to run everything through him rn

It’s weird to me that Luke Walton is trying everything other than playing Zubac

the first spurs-lal game, zubac couldnt stay on the floor. he racked up like 5 fouls in 5 minutes. it was bad.

i was a big dennis smith fan coming out of college, i thought there was a lot of d wade to his game tho maybe it's more terry rozier realistically. im still optimistic but i dunno if he makes a ton of sense next to doncic so his future might be elsewhere.

Are we sure he’s not Randy Foye

jr wantin a trade

Are we sure he’s not Randy Foye

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, November 1, 2018 11:44 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark

it's possible tho athletically i think dennis smith was considered elite for a G and i don't think that was true for foye

how did derrick rose score 50 points did anyone see it can it be verified

Domantas Sabonis is averaging 14-10-2 in 22 minutes per game

Seems like the pacers have a lot to figure out.

how did derrick rose score 50 points did anyone see it can it be verified

― lag∞n, Thursday, November 1, 2018 1:11 PM (forty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

reviewing the footage looks like he got a lot of buckets

hmm

as my man JR smith put it

to score you need to shoot
to score more you need to shoot more
hoops galore

Accurate

Can't believe it's already Trade Machine season

http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=y8stjg5a

here's some advanced analytics on the relationship between shooting and scoring, pretty interesting stuff

https://i.postimg.cc/QCgrhQyZ/ChartGo.png

Unless you are indeed JR Smith in which case it flatlines at about 10

the nuggets offense is now starting to be a little concerning

i love how montell jordan is on the halftime performance circuit now.

it was a great night to talk about ball and the dang site was down : /

playing the hawks, but de'aaron fox and the kings looked really feisty last night

i watched a bunch of donic highlight videos and he has a preternatural feel for the game but also very notably slow feet out of ~50 made baskets i watched he had 1 layup that wasnt a put back he relies a ton on floaters step backs and so forth aka difficult shots also the kind of shots a determined defense can take away, will be interesting to see what happens with him maybe if he gets in better shape his athleticism will improve a lil, really cool player does fun stuff out there has his head on a swivel but if he cant figure out a way to get to the rim i dont think hes gonna be the star a lot of ppl are expecting, and on defense hes prob just hopeless

the celtics made a bunch of 3s one shot of the league record missed their last 4 too lol, one of those games where they were ahead the whole time but the bucks kept creeping back in then the celtics barely won, giannis is amazing but the bucks have a lot of sus guys playing over their heads right now theyre getting used to hitting 3s and were just chucking awful looks last night

taurean prince is going through a particularly bad slump rn

the nuggets offense is now starting to be a little concerning

i watched a bunch of donic highlight videos and he has a preternatural feel for the game but also very notably slow feet out of ~50 made baskets i watched he had 1 layup that wasnt a put back he relies a ton on floaters step backs and so forth aka difficult shots also the kind of shots a determined defense can take away, will be interesting to see what happens with him maybe if he gets in better shape his athleticism will improve a lil, really cool player does fun stuff out there has his head on a swivel but if he cant figure out a way to get to the rim i dont think hes gonna be the star a lot of ppl are expecting, and on defense hes prob just hopeless

They let Boban start the second half last night and he produced...

harden gets to the rim like crazy man

i think it will be hard to tell until luca gets in better shape. maybe he can't get faster but he can at least get stronger and get to the rim that way.

man idk hes like really slow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRth8rxEjH4

more likely path to stardom is to get at good at hitting in between shots as most guys are at layups a la cp3, which obvs is very not easy but he does seem to be ridiculously good at basketball but so who knows

sorry if this was posted, I just thought this was legitimately pretty good research from Stephen A here as to the issues with Melo's game.

https://deadspin.com/stephen-a-smith-tells-the-hard-truth-about-carmelo-ant-1830163774

classic SAS there

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/25156914/magic-johnson-admonishes-luke-walton-los-angeles-lakers-slow-start

"I've assembled an insanely stupid roster why can't you win with it?"

lolkers

niice

lol we called this mess. good luck finding any coach to convince lebron to try on defense in the reg season.

those luka highlights are interesting. there's one play from the 3rd i think where he's going coast-to-coast and is maybe at top speed. it doesn't seem like he has a great first step but also looks like he's going slower at times so he can scan and find guys for dimes. also i think he takes that floater sometimes b/c he doesn't want to try and power through defenders at the rim. he certainly has the size and frame to get stronger if he ever wants to be more physical down there.

it does seem like he has a lot of room for floaters and whatnot because everyone is staying home and taking away passing lanes. should be fun to watch him evolve.

yeah hes def a cool player, seems like a natural point forward, tho obvs playmaking is a lil trickier if you cant get past the second level of D

wtf is going on the kings are hella fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKNW0b4f6zk
that simple cross to burn bazemore and the shot at 4:30

im mad about this via that draft pick the celtics own, im sure theyll come back to earth but theyve already banked 6 wins and are prob just not awful

otherwise its p cool tho i like fox

i took the kings over back in august when the projections got posted here and ppl thought iw as crazy