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

hahha

kawhi looks like the best player in the nba tonight

this game is good. cant belive kyrie missed that layup tho

wow the nets came back and tied it going to overtime.

dinwiddie hit three threes in a row

kyrie made up for missing that layup by making two much harder shots in the next two possessions

KYRIEEEEE

sweet Harden can post up an even more ridiculous stat line

(his +/- is -5 right now)

if anyone is wondering why i'm out on all kyrie criticism, that's fucking why

dude just took over the final few minutes here

that went from being a bad loss for the celtics to a bad loss for the raptors

there was a long discussion on the recent bill simmons zach lowe podcast in which bill was criticizing kyrie for not doing what he just did (taking over a game in peril)

iirc the criticism has been more about his not setting the tone in big games, he concedes that he is a killer late

bill was holding kyrie to a weird standard (not really a surprise); kyrie has been unassailable this season.

harden was ice cold from 3 for most of this game... 5 of 19 now but he was 3 of 15 a minute ago. 11 of 15 from 2 tho

he was holding him to harden's standard which is not realistic for anyone including james harden (probably) xp

but i think also on that podcast they talked about how kyrie has more value in the playoffs than the regular season because he's so good at finishing without relying on foul calls, as compared to harden (which i agree with)

dinwiddie for mvp

yeah that seems right, like picking a random game such as a tough road game in miami and saying the guy didn't show up sufficiently for that game isn't really a "standard"...idk i've watched a lot of kyrie and it seems like he's doing everything he possibly can to play winning basketball this season.

yeah I don't really follow what he's going for, it's very vague. thought his take on kyrie's "leadership" was reasonable tho

xp cad

wow the rockets are going to lose this game

but i think also on that podcast they talked about how kyrie has more value in the playoffs than the regular season because he's so good at finishing without relying on foul calls, as compared to harden (which i agree with)

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, January 16, 2019 8:34 PM (thirty-three seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah also just being an elite shot creator for when defenses tighten up in the playoffs

crazy come back in regulation and in overtime by the nets

106 combined threes.

70 by the rockets...

xp it's likely because i'm a fan of the team but i find the leadership stuff to be way overdone, it's all code for certain players just needing to play better. it kills me to see kyrie playing his ass off on both ends and other dudes on the team massively underachieving.

yup

70 by the rockets...

close, but no "nice"

kyrie has been amazing this year. outside of his comment the other night (and a kind of rough first handful of games) seems like ive only heard positives about him this year.

at what point do you start to get concerned about hayward tho.

really liking this nets team, they seem to have figured it out. dinwiddie is a stud.

when the nets signed ed davis, I knew they'd improve this season

btw I think if it hasn't been already it's time to put the cracks about harden's conditioning to rest -- to play these kinds of minutes and carry this kind of load while performing this well isn't something someone who's out of shape can do

luka 25-8-8 but spurs come back to win

well harden's conditioning has never really been questioned in january

yeah he got into shape for sure. he just lets it go in the offseason a bit. dude is ripped right now tho.

haha yeah he's got to have a big playoffs to back this up, but the load he takes on is starting to become unprecedented, idk what human could have enough 4 months from now

xxxp this was such a good game! spurs were shitting the bed in the 1q, at one point down 23-4. they just kinda hung around in the first half, got close in the third, and put the gas down in the 4th. demar looked as good in that quarter as he has in a while. hopefully he can play like that for a full game when i go see them play on sunday.

kyrie is lord fwiw hes won a bunch of games single handedly like tonight

idk if bill simmon wants him to do it every night but that doesnt seem reasonable

haha yeah he's got to have a big playoffs to back this up, but the load he takes on is starting to become unprecedented, idk what human could have enough 4 months from now

― k3vin k., Wednesday, January 16, 2019 10:51 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

harden might consider the regular season to be more important has anyone asked him

he's made it clear how important MVP awards are to him

like kyrie takes over games so often that when toronto went ahead i was like i wonder if hell take over and sure enough

klay dunks now

klay cant dunk weve all seen the china video

he just did a dunk, a good one

5 dunks in two nights

no

i love alvin gentrys voice

okafor is on the pelicans

looks like the warriors blew their wad last night

https://www.sfgate.com/warriors/article/klay-thompson-dunk-text-friends-zaza-nuggets-13538343.php i liked this story about klay's dunks