2019-20 NBA Regular Degular Season thread

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?

and if the warriors had joe ingles right now people would maybe expect them to make the playoffs and lose in the first round instead of miss the playoffs altogether, so i'm not sure i'd say it would "change everything" exactly

Yeah Danuel House and Trez would be pretty good on the warriors rn

They wouldn’t have had to play Durant 40 mpg over 90 games

That nonsense in the playoffs when they basically never sat Durant led to his injury, it seems pretty obvious

yeah i don't think danuel house is changing the course of history at any point including the present

But Ingles would have.

When the heat had the triplets + bird man they had a good excuse because Riley literally had an empty roster when they signed them. Myers had 7 years to find one guy.

But they had no good players, klay and Durant played 40mpg in the playoffs and that was all she wrote

i don't think it's that simple. and the way the west shifted this season means that no draft pick or UDFA could bridge the gap between them and the LA teams

We all knew Durant was playing too minutes, Kerr kept shrugging off questions about it but we all knew. And then he got hurt.

One good player would have taken so much pressure off and they win the title most likely.

sure but the calculus that led to that wouldn't change simply due to the presence of one more slightly above average wing player

riley really redeemed himself by drafting winslow, richardson, bam, and herro w/ 4 straight picks

Joe Ingles is far far better than any player they had outside of the big 4. It would have made a huge difference.

Plays Durant’s positions too. It would have been great. James Johnson would have been pretty good too.

I’m not gonna crown Winslow after one game btw

ok but joe ingles was so good that he signed a 4/52 contract two years ago so idk how he would've been able to stay on the warriors

What are they not paying the luxury tax?

winslow was fully good last year once he started playing point regularly. and he's been 37%+ from three for 2 years. he's not some prodigy or something but the stanley johnson debate is over and he might be better than myles turner at this point. devin booker def still better but winslow has established himself in that draft class.

i think him and butler are gonna be a really good tandem, watch how many times winslow assists him in this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPHS7_twYlc

Winslow is a good player and stats probably don’t convey how good he is but I still think they got a role player in the lotto there

Stan Johnson is a pretty amazing bust. The number 3 recruit in high school

def but he could be a really good role player. it wasn't the heist people were saying at the time, but when the year's lottery produces 7 good players and you get one of them i think that's a success unless there's some egregious misstep. maybe you could say passing on booker was one, we know they love kentucky players.

they also have winslow on a good contract fwiw

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stanley johnson will not be a really good role player

Looney was a pretty ok pick!

That was a really weird game to watch I had no idea who was who for the game. Gonna be a long season and Kerr is going to have to actually coach. Curry/dray and Dlo/dray pick n rolls all day leave the motion out. Gonna need trill to get back healthy quick like.

still laughing at the announcers praising Westbrook for taking over the game in the 4th as Houston got outscored by 15

Rockets documentary gonna be called 9 for 30

— Josh “Andrew Toney” Richardson (@_JimmyMcCormick) October 25, 2019

^ basketblolz

i havent watch a game yet me internet is down :|

i willing to entertain this tho

Mike D’Antoni on the Rockets’ pace with Russell Westbrook: “Six seconds or less, baby. We’re working on it.” Houston had 27 fast break points in the opener, matching their most in any game last season.

— Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) October 25, 2019

clips look pretty good so far huh w/o pg and w kahwi adjusting to new team

it does seem like the biggest single thing westbrook could do for the rox was get them to play a little faster.

the clips do look good though i do think their starting lineup is odd since so much of the offense is going to be initiated by forwards. may just take some getting used to how it looks.

Imagine if the Warriors had a good GM like the Spurs and had taken Jaron Blossomgame, Nikola Milutinov, and Cady Lalanne instead of the chumps we got

I thought the rooks looked p good last night. good stuff from Paschal specifically. jordan poole is NOT shy, hopefully he can actually make shots. I thought steph, dlo and dray looked out of sorts more than anything.

here's what a real gm does with low picks

2019 NBA 2 49 Quinndary Weatherspoon Mississippi State
2019 NBA 1 29 Keldon Johnson Kentucky
2019 NBA 1 19 Luka Šamanić Olimpija Ljubljana
2018 NBA 1 18 Lonnie Walker University of Miami
2018 NBA 2 49 Chimezie Metu University of Southern California
2017 NBA 1 29 Derrick White University of Colorado (solid!)
2017 NBA 2 59 Jaron Blossomgame Clemson University
2016 NBA 1 29 Dejounte Murray University of Washington (very good pick)
2015 NBA 1 26 Nikola Milutinov Partizan Belgrade (Serbia)
2015 NBA 2 55 Cady Lalanne University of Massachusetts Amherst
2014 NBA 1 30 Kyle Anderson University of California, Los Angeles (the great Grizzlies bench player)
2014 NBA 2 58 Jordan McRae University of Tennessee

Honestly if we had Murray and White we might be contending this year! lol

def

r u being sarcastic rn i cannot tell

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ya imo u cant really fault the dubs gming record, late picks dont usually work out and they made some good decisions that werent the consensus at the time eg getting iggy, not trading klay for love, theyre kinda fd now but that was p much inevitable and theyve had a bunch of injuries, even getting dlo back for kd was good

lonnie walker might be good fwiw