2019-20 NBA Regular Degular Season thread

First, Ja Morant tough finish ties game with seconds left, barks at Kyrie.
Then stuffs him at buzzer.
This kid, no fear. pic.twitter.com/PHl6LYpiWh

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) October 28, 2019

serious explosion to the basket! he is good.

People using this GSW season to slander Steph’s legacy, I hate to see it

a fun exercise for some writer this season will be to figure out if a player as good as steph has ever played with a roster this bad

smh shd be using this opportunity to slander dray xp

kobe in 05?
lebron in cleveland mk I?

Kobe isn’t in Steph’s league

If the warriors are a 30 win team that really may be the first time that’s happened with a top 10 all-time player near his prime

bron had some worse teams def

he was real young tho, hadn't figured out the game or himself the way steph has at this point

This was a worse roster. Would not win 35 games in the 2019 west

https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/CLE/2008.html

so the blazers closing lineup now features bazemore, hood, and hezonja?

the '08 cavs definitely come to mind. we'll need some time to see how bad the other warriors actually are but the falloff from their top 4 guys to guys who aren't nba players is more extreme than any team i can remember.

btw nice win for the grizz at the buzzer!

blazers added so many new guys i'm pretty sure they'll be doing lineup tweaks deep into winter xps

this warriors team is the exact type of hangover you should have to deal with after hollowing your team out to run 4 all stars

what clay said. also, stotts is known for riding with any player(s) who he thinks is playing well.

blazers won tonight partially because of a well-deployed coach's challenge from stotts, so i guess that really is a thing now

Wiggins had a big game
this Wolves team is fun

Warriors roster already gutted now missing 3 of their rotation players... it’s not pretty. D lo got ejected. Kerr refusing to change his system so far. Need high iq players to run his thing and we have two of those at the moment, Curry’s gravity don’t mean a thing if it’s to get random rookies and journeymen an open look. Run and gun and high pnr with curry dray or d lo dray is the only way this team will succeed for now. they can’t defend and can’t rebound. Luckily the nba is cool and other teams are fun to watch.

Also:

Anthony Davis headed to the locker room early with an apparent injury to his shoulder according to a source close to the team #Lakers

— Lauren A. Jones (@LoJoMedia) October 28, 2019

the warriors will be better, it's been 3 games

*2 games

steph sure does look bummed out tho

they cld be better and still be bad

it will be tough for them to make the playoffs

there's still only 7 teams in the west i'd say are definitively better than them (nuggets, rockets, clippers, lakers, blazers, jazz, spurs) but you could arguably count dallas at this point. the margins are very thin.

the zion injury probably eliminated one challenger at least

I don’t think the warriors can do it unless WCS really works which I do think is possible

i'm bullish on dallas as per my prediction post

kings are also maybe capable of doing stuff

Idk what’s going on with the Kings, expected a strong start from them

One of the exciting things about this season is how it feels like the games already matter given how close the West was last year

Idk what’s going on with the Kings, expected a strong start from them

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, October 28, 2019 10:37 AM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

they went to india

Fun!

i'm bullish on dallas as per my prediction post

― ciderpress, Monday, October 28, 2019 10:32 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah they look nice, luka-zinger is some sort of euro fever dream

I would still be pretty surprised if Porzingis makes it through the season without some major injury

Porzingis looks unguardable, especially when they post him up at the baseline. That’s what they should be going with in clutch situations imo (especially if the other option is Doncic iso stepbacks)

Porzingis growing another inch since his rookie year is really surreal to see

will be surprised and elated if zing makes it to the allstar break unscathed; i imagine teams are going to start violently bodying him from now on

nba blitz

not sure if theres any point to it or even if its a good idea but zinger shooting a step back 3 is just completely uncontestable

he also hit one from ~35ft yesterday

will be surprised and elated if zing makes it to the allstar break unscathed; i imagine teams are going to start violently bodying him from now on

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, October 28, 2019 11:55 AM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol no one —violently bodies— in the nba anymore

but yeah zinger will prob not last long due too being too tall

Jumping up and down repeatedly is the wear and tear for zinger

pretty much any player who's been in the nba for 3 seasons can handle the physicality of the game, i always think that point is overplayed (i.e. when ppl used to say you just need to knock steph curry down)

one thing abt physical play is its really tiring, harden steph et al being able to take one million step back 3s in a game while remaining fresh is a direct result of the league mandated tightening officiating, theyve gone a lil too far imo harden shdnt be allowed to do that shit

Physical play means bruises and stuff which doesn’t knock anyone other than anthony davis out of games

Jumping up and down repeatedly is the wear and tear for zinger

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, October 28, 2019 9:21 AM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

zinger should learn from tacko and just never leave his feet

jumping is for nerds