2019-20 NBA Regular Degular Season thread

Drafting true superstars outside the lottery picks is not impossible, but it is not a skill one can acquire. when it happens it's pure luck. Once you get outside of the 'unicorn' stratum of NBA players, the separation between starting rotation players and bench players gets a lot narrower and even the difference between training camp players and contract players is mighty slim. When you compare how well teams did using their below-20 picks over the past seven or eight years, then you're comparing very marginal differences. In my estimation, they are all nearly equally bad and good, except for a few picks more ascribable to luck than the skill of the drafting team.

With the Spurs, I'd say most of their success is in coaching, player development and predicting how a player's skills and temperament will merge with the whole team's concept of play. Many of their best moves have been to acquire players who've been in the league a while already, but poorly utilized by or poorly fit with their old team.

gsw have curry, klay, russell and dray on contract through to 2022 and still own their 2021 and 2022 first round picks. thats a pretty good situation for a superteam with 3 rings.

sure theyll suck this season but thats to be expected for a capped out team with its second best player injured

RJ Barrett has a strange combo of head and neck

he was p good against the spurs i thought! he was getting to the rim and getting good looks.

Yeah after a lot of hand wringing in the preseason he looks pretty darn good

Dennis Smith Jr in a bad place career-wise rn

dejounte absolutely ate him alive. the knicks calmed down once elfrid peyton entered the game.

Towns looks like he’s winning the scoring title

The hornets dance team are called “the honey bees?!?”

Watching the nuggets with an antenna. They still don’t have a local cable tv arrangement but bought time for the home opener on a local channel. Would like this to end in general.

league pass is free this week man

hassan whiteside is looking pretty good in a blazers uniform

Looks like the jazz downgraded their pg shooting from Rubio to Conley

conley’s been so bad

Timberwolves on pace for an undefeated season

seems likely at this point

league pass is free this week man

I guess I’m supposed to use a VPN or whatever

The bucks should trade for Malik Beasley imo.

who do the nuggets get

korver was a good pick up for them since they’re not asking him to do a single thing besides make threes

the ultimate question with them is whether bledsoe is gonna play up to what they’re paying him... he’s taking as many shots as guys they’re paying far less money

trae continuing to do some stuff

trae is good

kemba doing whatever he wants v ny knicks

msg crowd chanting we want tacko lmao

ahh they put him in

he got a dunk!

he got two dunks lol

Apparently he can do the best shot in basketball with ease

its a great shot for him

Sacramento seems worse than last season.

Harden 2/18 from three ha

Sacramento seems worse than last season.

The shape of the season to come is not yet discernible at this stage. But, yeah, Sacramento regressing this season would not be surprising at all.

Overreacting to the first three games of an eighty two game season is the what it’s all about

Ingram kinda beasting: 35/15/5

if sacto had one random good season while the celtics owned their draft pick then go back to sucking well ef that imo

the ultimate question with them is whether bledsoe is gonna play up to what they’re paying him... he’s taking as many shots as guys they’re paying far less money

― J0rdan S., Saturday, October 26, 2019 8:18 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

when u go ahead and look at the bucks roster u gotta be thinking that maybe giannis wont be playing there for that much longer

Okay, hear us out... pic.twitter.com/6zwasIIniE

— Sacramento Kings (@SacramentoKings) October 27, 2019

who do the nuggets get

suns cookin

I’m a fan of this trae young guy

kawhi is on the bench for some reason?

Maybe that Denver win last night wasn't that bad?

— Skippyjon Jones (@AndyGlockner) October 27, 2019

Luke Walton is bad. Joerger got hosed.

Oh boy

The Warriors' center rotation endured another blow today, as Kevon Looney will miss the next two games — and likely longer — with a "neuropathic condition" that has affected his right hamstring. https://t.co/jYlc94vFvV

— Connor Letourneau (@Con_Chron) October 27, 2019

when u go ahead and look at the bucks roster u gotta be thinking that maybe giannis wont be playing there for that much longer

― lag∞n, Saturday, October 26, 2019 11:20 PM (yesterday)

he's def already hinted at it, that said every team in the east is pretty flawed. i think i'd still take giannis + middleton over the sixers out of the east since at least those 2 can get/make shots

dennis smith jr. pic.twitter.com/kY4U7VPgzg

— trey (@TreyfromNY) October 27, 2019

The bucks roster makes a lot of sense and I think they’re probably gonna make the finals but yeah it would be nice to have a promising 4/5 on the team under 30

youd like to have yr second best player be better than middleton