2019-20 NBA Regular Degular Season thread

don't forget *interior flexon adjustment wrt lwr pendulum swing mid motion

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, November 18, 2019 11:41 AM (thirty-four seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao

im def not claiming draymond was a good shooter. even the year he spiked it felt like a blip while it was happening. I did think after that year he could even it out to a league average area tho.

hes gotten literally the best looks in the nba his entire career.........

fultz steal into the and 1 jam to ice the game was sick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVTPXZYKcrQ

It seems like Fultz will end up being a nice role player

hmm

Catch one dunk and get drug tested 🤣 #surprisesurprise

— Danny Green (@DGreen_14) November 18, 2019

update: seeing a game in a suite is very good
wolves played very bad

I think the Spurs should blow it up. I don’t say this as a criticism of the organization it’s just the right year to do it

yeah it doesn’t seem like there’s really a plan there, which seems weird given the organization’s history

luka is crushing again. 19-4-4 on 6/8 shooting with 4 minutes to go in the first half

wonder if this might be pops swan song

im gonna see what the famously entertaining player jame harden is up to now

its crazy how westbrook is totally fine w just giving harden the ball and standing in the corner

otm x3 xxp

pop seems emotionally checked out this year. aldridge seems complacent. derozan is motivated but hasn't evolved his game at all. belinelli might the worst player in the nba this year.

spurs fans are not used to losing, but we can understand it if it's for the good of the future. which is why rooting for L's is hard, but necessary.

re: spurs front ofc, i think kawhi thing legit blindsided them. the best parts of the derozan trade were jakob poeltl and keldon johnson, but they talked themselves into demar because of his all-star pedigree. this is a more intense version of the richard jefferson years for the spurs.

i really do not understand how harden does what he does maybe hes magical or cursed

most players the other teams defense seems to affect them in some way but not harden

dame trying to guard him is not great

they attempt traping him and he just floats little perfect passes over them

russ is doing russ type stuff w harden on the bench

put jame back in

Zombie Pacers looking extremely good. It’s a shame Goga’s minutes will dwindle now Turner/Sabonis are back in ... Goga is already a great interior defender. Everyone looking a little better than expected; Warren continues to look like a + defender, and McConnell has looked like a really great pass-first pg for the 2nd team.

Difficult to know who gets rotation minutes once everybody is healthy (Dipo, Brogden, Lamb, Sumner out now, Turner and Sabonis just coming back), team is a total question mark until post all-star. Incredibly good sign they’d be a low playoff seed even w/o everyone. If the team is already felling defensively, who’ll be really cool to see what it looks like w/ everyone healthy (though can’t imahine Dipo will be 100% this season).

Underrated good vibes having Holiday Bros, they share a lot of minutes and def link up. Feel like most bro same-team combos tend to be forwards, funny when it’s two guards. Justin has been launching a ton of 3a off of Aaron drives, and Justin always gets it to Aaron in transition really quickly.

turned to celtics just in time to catch one of brother brads trademark hopeless second quarter lineups

celtics look pretty awful without hayward, dunno about your plan to get rid of him

i really do not understand how harden does what he does maybe hes magical or cursed

― lag∞n, Monday, November 18, 2019 9:34 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I was thinking something just like this earlier today. I think part of the reason he is so polarizing is he dominates the game in a way that is alternately offensive and inscrutable to our accumulated understanding of the way superstars dominate. it’s easy to see why people hate him, and they’re not wrong, but at the same time you just have to respect the craft

celtics look pretty awful without hayward, dunno about your plan to get rid of him

― ciderpress, Monday, November 18, 2019 9:57 PM (four seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

well they wld get another guy(s), but yeah

they just lit up the suns at the end of the half, did not look so awful

talk about cursed it's this blazers season, they're really bad and hey guess what carmelo anthony (famous because of his hats) suits up tomorrow

yeah they turned off the awful finally

sorry i was trying to decipher james harden so didnt see it

one thing is you can tell the rest of the rockets when they have the ball are thinking abt whether they shd just give it to him and get out of the way

this seriously troublesome dude who began dating a coworker of mine recently called me a "fucking moron" and the r-word when i informed him that i didn't think this whole carmelo anthony thing was gonna work out

yikes

russ got a trip dub, harden only scored 36, theyre sitting down up by 20+ w 3mins left

pretty hostile response to your take on a guy signing for the minimum, non-guaranteed.

he's a feisty fella

lmao the suns dancers are doing a routine to ante up what the heck

this is not arizona appropriate music!

36 huh that's gonna take a dent out of his average

russ taking too many shots smh

are there any potential consequences for >50% of the national tv games this year being unwatchable

don't you just HATE it when this happens? pic.twitter.com/KKtaLjNn5W

— Adam Ward (@adamcward) November 19, 2019

delightful sequence at the end of wolves/jazz had joe ingles pathetically trying to get fouled on like 5 consecutive pump fakes from behind the line and the refs not entertaining any of them.

The Marvin Bagley draft choice may go down in history with Sam bowie

A healthy Sam Bowie should have been a respectable lottery pick, but more like number 4 through 6 instead of number 2. The game back then was built more around big centers on the low block. A few years later the Drexler-Porter-Kersey Blazers still made the NBA Finals with Kevin Duckworth at center, but Bowie could have filled that starting center spot equally well. Bowie's body just couldn't hack it, but the talent was there.

end of this clips-thunder game is great

What I like about harden is that he cares about the regular season.

What I like about Harden is he gives me something to truly loathe. Makes me feel alive.

A healthy Sam Bowie should have been a respectable lottery pick, but more like number 4 through 6 instead of number 2. The game back then was built more around big centers on the low block. A few years later the Drexler-Porter-Kersey Blazers still made the NBA Finals with Kevin Duckworth at center, but Bowie could have filled that starting center spot equally well. Bowie's body just couldn't hack it, but the talent was there.

iirc that was another case of we already have a guy like that

Right they needed a center. And as bobby knight famously told them “play Jordan at center”