2019-20 NBA Regular Degular Season thread

he'd be the perfect upgrade to ingles but they can't trade ingles this year and there's no other way to make the money work

plus with love's injury history, tho i guess that's a gamble with gallo too xp

bogdanovic + exum works xp

i really think it's underrated mismanagement that the cavs blew back to back top 5 picks on point guards.. feel like ultimately you really need wings and/or a star big to win in the NBA, and picking sexton/garland is such a poor allocation of your best resources. i really can't even envision what that backcourt is supposed to look like even in the best scenario... a far less dynamic version of john wall and brad beal?

bogdanovic has been like their best player tho

ingles cn be traded later this year fwiw

saying that the jazz would trade for love is reverse racism

one of the best kinds of racism

sexton is just getting lit up by every celtic tonight btw hes gotta be one of the worst defenders

i don't think ingles can be traded until april 2020 so not this season

tradenba.com says Joe Ingles cannot be traded because 3 months have not passed since he was signed. He will be eligible to be traded after January 19th.

interesting. espn trade machine has it as 6 months. i'm reading cba faq and am leaning toward the 3 months interpretation.

which is weird cause arent newly signed players eligible for trade on dec 15

guess theres diff rules for extensions tho who knows why

yeah. it's either three or six months from the date he extended which was 10/21. different rules for extensions for reasons i am not clear on.

from what i can tell the six-month restriction would only apply to a 4+ year extension where ingles only extended for a year....

ah there u go

i just asked danny leroux on twitter b/c now i am very invested in this trivial question for a team i don't even like.

lmao

i don't know that we have recent proof that a star big is enough to win in the nba without wings

lol

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— Dan Devine (@YourManDevine) December 10, 2019

he should play for sac

Love would feel at home in Sacramento - as a place to live. He might even like playing with that team, since it is on one of its periodic upticks that happen just before a couple of its newly cultivated stars turn UFA and head out of town.

marc gasol is good at defense, in my opinion

hahah bjelica sinks the rockets with a deep 3 at the buzzer

Love would feel at home in Sacramento - as a place to live. He might even like playing with that team, since it is on one of its periodic upticks that happen just before a couple of its newly cultivated stars turn UFA and head out of town.

I honestly don’t know if Love is a better player than Ingles at this point and even if he was Ingles offers totally different things. But I guess they are desperate

So, you're saying Love wouldn't even feel at home in the home he grew up in? Because that's just a few miles from where I live and it isn't LA.

Even if he wants to go back to Oregon that ain’t Sacto

Oregon ain't Sacto. Oregon ain't LA, either. But Sacto is a mid-sized west coast city with a culture somewhat similar to Portland. It might not be his first choice, but he'd adjust pretty fast.

bjelica buzzer beater was v nice

sacto is .... not very much like portland

Not very much like Portland, sure but it would be hard to find any NBA city that closely replicates Portland. Most of them are a lot bigger. The smaller ones are places like SLC, Charlotte, San Antonio, OKC, or Minneapolis. Sacto is a closer fit than most.

You think there’s dozens of suicide girls across Sacramento strip clubs? 5 at most.

You're right. I plum left that out of my calculations.

what's sacramento's food carts per capita numbers looking like these days

I still don’t understand why Jonas Valanciunas isn’t just accepted as a good player. Like what am I missing

i thought he was considered pretty good on Toronto but no clue what he's up to now

we're on like year 10 of matt asking why some lumbering big man doesn't play more

He plays 25 minutes a game every year! Like why not 10 more minutes?

always thought he was a defensive liability with the raps. he's a good post scorer for sure.

Ja Morant might be the most fun guy to watch in the nba rn

First possession for the Bulls. Woof. pic.twitter.com/pu4Srjs18V

— Stephen Noh (@StephNoh) December 10, 2019

Wow Dunn’s lack of shooting painfully obvious there. It looked like a fine play up until he came around the 3 pt line unwilling to shoot.

lavine missed that pass out of the double team that really ended any chance of a productive play. not the first time

if jonas valancunius played 10 more minutes he’s be like 10th in the league in minutes and first among centers.

It just seems like he’s an unusually productive starter who never gets 30 mpg

if only there were some years long trends we could point to in order to explain why a center's minutes are being depressed

yeah i mean if youre looking for someone who can switch on the perimeter jonas is not yr guy

Then why play him at all