2019-20 NBA Regular Degular Season thread

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

xp

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

xp

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

need to see how he looks w/o rookie hair

lonnie is gonna be v good, him and dejounte are going to be one of the best two-way backcourts for a while imo

also tall luka is a potentially special player, but will need probably two years to know for sure

yeah i wldnt go that far

r u being sarcastic rn i cannot tell

it depends on if you're going to ban me again.

I think I'll take Klay and Curry over Murray and Walker but I guess we'll see

i would, too! but the spurs have drafted better in the late 1st rd than probably any team ever

wait i banned you???

yeah i wldnt go that far

― lag∞n, Friday, October 25, 2019 1:33 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

6'11" athletic and outside range, p unicornish

i was talking abt best two way back court but i will take a wait and see approach on tall euros too (im not matt a over here haha)

i think lonnie is gonna be awesome

my man

i was talking abt best two way back court but i will take a wait and see approach on tall euros too (im not matt a over here haha)

― lag∞n, Friday, October 25, 2019 1:39 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

u will c

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tracing draft pick history is really time-consuming but worth noting myers has only made 5 second-round picks, one of which was draymond green. he's also made five picks at either spots 28 or 30 and found looney (the rest of those are busts or too soon to tell).

the fact that they didn't make a pick at all in 2013, 2014, and 2017 definitely informs their current lack of depth. a lot of those picks went into getting iguodala. i don't think there's enough info to say if myers is better or worse at drafting and finding late-round depth than a lot of other guys.

Why do you guys think Looney is good

They got Jordan Bell in '17 and Nemanja Nedović in '13 via draft-day trade. That's as good as a draft choice to me.

i don't think he's particularly good but he's not playing his way out of the league like damian jones.

ah, thank you for filling that in xp. no hits on those picks though.

Looney's best attribute is that he stays within his limits and doesn't try to do things he can't do adequately well. This may not make him 'good' as an individual player, but it makes him 'good' in a team setting, where his job is well-defined and he does it.

He hit a three last night so y'all better watch out.

Looney's constant air of slightly wonky, stoic zen focus is incredibly endearing

I'd be surprised if that 3 was a play that was called for Looney. More like it developed from within Kerr's system and he was expected to take it under those circumstances, because another pass wouldn't have helped.

Looney turning into a rotation player was really unexpected after sitting his rookie year with the hip thing and then looking lost and fat after he came back. he worked into shape and he was very valuable vs the rockets the last two times they met in the playoffs and in the finals. getting a rotation player around the 30th pick is good imo.

looney and the warriors been talking up his three ball all summer (this happens with every big every summer i know)

I’m trying to understand how someone could post that spurs draft record and think it’s bad

talking up his three ball

respect comes with results

xp my man