2019-20 NBA Regular Degular Season thread

Neither team’s uni is more wack than Russ’ hair though

I’m having a hard time watching Harden at this point. How do you flop on every jumpshot

Looks like this is a good ersan season

giannis fouled out with 5 minutes left and the bucks didn't really miss a beat

rwb w/ 16 rebounds, who's his new addams

Does steve Kerr wear a wig

With teams like Wesley Matthews on them, you can’t lose

Why the lakers organization didn’t like Zubac will always be a mystery to me

let me be the first to say the clippers are good

well this is a nightmare start for the warriors

until d'angelo his 10 straight points, the heat check on the last shot was v nice

2018-19 had a nightmare finish for the dubs, so this was foreshadowed.

xp they're going to need a lot of that.

draymond forearm injury could be extremely bad news.

trez and lou must be absolutely salivating to get into this game

damn these warriors line ups... random as hell

Bob Myers sucks. Look at this crap roster. Like what were you doing all these years

Remember their victory lap over taking Jordan Bell

Where’s that euro dude that they stashed in the d league

What in gods name is russ doing with his hair

warriors season already looking cursed

Remember their victory lap over taking Jordan Bell

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drafting in the late 20s is going to humble just about anyone. though i do think they completely lost their minds this offseason.

Barkley just slamming the warriors to Klay’s face lol

that was amazing lol

i think when you're constantly shedding picks for short term upgrades, picking no 29 every year when you do draft, and giving as many roster spots as possible to over the hill veterans your team is eventually gonna get hollowed out

the celtics got saved by the nets trade but every other title team in recent history looked egregiously worse post-peak

I mean they could have hit on SOMETHING. People make good second round picks all the time

that's why i think some part of it is about how much resources you have available in a development sense -- where is your coaching, playing time going etc. maybe it's not a coincidence that the heat post-lebron started unearthing multiple useful rotation players from the scrap heap per year

Plenty of teams draft guys and then send them to the d league and when they get called up they can play. The warriors just whiffed over and over and that’s on the GM

heat are still kinda climbing out of the post-big 3 hole xps

Heat have had some great FA signings but the reasons things are really turning around (seemingly) are Adebayo and Herro

the spurs are an exception... they def could've done better but this is mostly the norm

Waiters and JJ got suspended and are on their way out, Whiteside is gone etc xp

Jord Bob Myers has been GM for 7 years and has made one good draft pick. And it was in his first draft! There’s not many teams with a draft track record like that. Even David Kahn picked Bjelica.

the heat had a nice run of finding quality rotation players from little to nothing incl whiteside, tyler johnson, rodney mcgruder, derrick jones & richardson who was a second round pick... and they "player developed" james johnson, waiters & wayne ellington as vets. it only gets you so far when you don't have the top end talent and that's why they were a roughly .500 team over that period, but my original point is that it's much easier to find diamonds in the rough when you have many more resources to devote to sifting

kendrick nunn looks like he might be the next guy

Dude the golden state warriors have the resources to scout second rounders. Come on

Josh Richardson wasn’t going to be a bust in Oakland because the coaches were busy

the warriors were built in a very weird way from tanking for barnes, to offloading all that shit for iggy, to the cap spike coinciding w/ KD's free agency. i think it's hard to evaluate how good of a GM bob meyers is in a traditional sense. but we used to argue about whether pat riley is a good GM and i would say that there's different ways to be a good GM aside from just good drafting, so i'm not as willing to hold that against him given that they also won 3 titles.

the only players taken after jordan bell in the 2017 draft who ended up being better were dwayne bacon and thomas bryant. the best undrafted FA was antonio blakeney. \(o_O)/

Dude Monte Morris is wayyyyyyy better than Jordan bell. He’d be the 4th best player on the warriors right now!

It looks like Edmond Sumner is going to be good too. And who knows about Cancar. But Jordan Bell most definitely did not work out for the Warriors.

oh i missed monte down there, he's def better

he didn't work out, he also didn't get to develop many skills touching the ball never.5 times per game

The warriors have a motion offense...

Nuggets had Monte on a two way where he spent half his time in Sioux Falls and he managed to make it work

i mean he didn't seem very skilled, whatever. i'm not really taking up the case of bob meyers. i'm just saying that logically it makes sense to me that franchises doing everything they can to win a title every year for several years are going to be pretty unsuccessful at acquiring and developing young and/or scrap heap talent.

They went out of their way to spend millions on second rounders, they put the effort in and wanted to make good picks and they didn’t

ok yeah but drafting second round picks is really hard

He had seven years to find an udfa, hit on one second rounder, one first rounder. And his failure to do so likely led to catastrophic injuries that wrecked the dynasty! Just one Joe Ingles would have changed everything.

like since drafting capela, the best player young player daryl morey has found is montrezl, who did nothing on the rockets before being traded bcuz there was no playing time. otherwise it's..... danuel house?