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

the wolves are paying jeff teague and have, from their perspective, found money in derrick rose. glen taylor might be dead by the time fultz is playing positive basketball.

fultz is a year removed from being the #1 pick and honestly he looks terrible but it wldve been pretty reasonable to take him over one of the two role players they got back imo, philly being not ready to give up on him or just too embarrassed to move him seems more likely than the wolves not being interested, but idk maybe his name is just mud league wide after this whole yips/looking like hes on the pills scenario

there's a scene in bbc's "africa" where they catch two giraffes getting into a fight. the giraffes are incredibly strong and powerful but bcuz of their height everything is just kinda wobbly, and as they tussle it seems like they might fall over or break one of their legs at any time. this is what it's like to watch hassan whiteside guard joel embiid.

lmao

35/18 from embiid tonight and he just put the game away with a step back 3

embiid went 3-4 from three and 16-20 from the line at 7 ft tall

dude is insane.

sometimes he just starts drawing fouls at an insane rate

think he's leading the league in FTA

he's shooting 10 FT per game at 80% and that was before tonight. so basically just banking 8 points every game.

idk how you're supposed to stop someone that big who can shoot 80% from the line

teams cld really help themselves by just letting him shoot 3s

a lot of those fts are generated via attacking the closeout

i agree. i feel like that's how horford was good at guarding him? he just always stayed in front of him and joel started dribbling the ball off his foot all the time and stuff.

guarding guys on the 3pt line that dont need to be is a pretty common problem these days maybe teams just dont have the time to prepare

not enough cross country flights to watch game tape, or just like you know not enough time to check to see what percentage embiid shoots from 3.

crazy how few smart defenders the league has

there must be some skill to pump faking that some guys have i.e. dudes falling for wade's pump fake long after they should ever be afraid of him making midrange jumpers

spurs v kings. sac looks pretty good. they run and shoot 3s v well.

are the sacramento kings negligent parents? because my lord do they have a lot of screens.

Markelle Fultz said that the ball slipped out of his hands on his double-clutch free throw in the second quarter of tonight's game.

— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) November 13, 2018

incredible

Fultz pump-faked at the FT line 🧐 pic.twitter.com/tSqWL6F7fY

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) November 13, 2018

his shot is the charles barkley golf swing

it's so weird how fultz conned everyone into thinking he had ever played basketball before, hats off

haha man i feel horrible for him. the yips is a helluva thing.

montrezl harrel is really fun to watch.

i love the yips so much, just the name the yips is so perfect

the wiki page for the yips is incredibly brutal btw highly suggested

what the hell

The yips affects between a quarter and a half of all mature golfers.[2] Researchers at the Mayo Clinic found that 33% to 48% of all serious golfers have experienced the yips[citation needed]. Golfers who have played for more than 25 years appear most prone to the condition.[citation needed]

i can def attest to the yips while golfing. i played competitively growing up and def had it on a few occasions. the most humiliating thing you can imagine. it seems way more common in individual sports. basketball players go through slumps but you usually dont have enough time to think and jinx yourself you're just more in the flow of the game with plenty of other stuff to think about (minus FTs obv)

pretty sure i get the yips driving stick sometimes

haha

sad

"We didn't even talk when we came in at halftime," Joe Harris said. "There was nothing to be said. Guys were crying. It was really that horrific just to see."

it appears marvin bagley has one singular move

Contract year Trill Will is an awesome player

yeah hes fierce

kings are good, shit

wow draymond is getting PUNKED by montrez

klllaaaaay

that was a horrendous 2 for 1 by KD

https://www.blazersedge.com/2018/11/8/18077288/hometown-hero-stages-in-arena-protest-of-trail-blazers-ties-to-leupold-stevens

hey this is pretty cool

it really was xp

hah klay was half asleep for 3/4 of this game then just explodes

on fire klay is very fun to watch

steve ballmer reaction alert

I think I'm a Clippers fan?

They've gotta fire Doc if he won't #freeboban, tho

boban only playable in a few matchups. harrel needs to be getting 30 mins a night tho

I'm definitely team Montrezl but can he play keep away with AD? The answer is no.

hah true

i can def attest to the yips while golfing. i played competitively growing up and def had it on a few occasions. the most humiliating thing you can imagine. it seems way more common in individual sports. basketball players go through slumps but you usually dont have enough time to think and jinx yourself you're just more in the flow of the game with plenty of other stuff to think about (minus FTs obv)

― Spottie, Monday, November 12, 2018 10:39 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wow that's cool, feel like golf is such a singularly weird sports culture must've been interesting to see it from the inside

Had a friend from HS that was great, he played on the low levels of the PGA for a couple years but then ended up being an alcoholic and almost killing himself so he quit and lives in the small town I grew up in after he got sober