2019-20 NBA Regular Degular Season thread

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

most teams play 2 centers but in the current NBA the less athletic, less stretchy one is almost always gonna get squeezed?

also memphis has 5 players averaging between 25 and at the max 31 minutes, of which jonas is one. this doesn't seem like a major scandal...

I was at this game last night and this was weird...

Look at KAT LMAOOOOOOOO pic.twitter.com/r4ebWDDghQ

— Gianni (@Gianni2225) December 10, 2019

also wiggins def rivals whiteside for not looking like he cares out there. he had 23 points and i dont really remember any of them. wolves vibes were all messed up last night.

oh thats bad

KAT coulda/shoulda easily had 50 last night he was feasting on everyone but they just kinda didnt feed him the ball enough.

also memphis has 5 players averaging between 25 and at the max 31 minutes, of which jonas is one. this doesn't seem like a major scandal...

A lot of people on twitter were blaming Teague for that video which makes me think KAT isn’t exactly held to the highest standard

mb he has bad stamina xp

this is the same team that trade james harden cause they didnt want to pay the tax!!!

The Thunder are over the luxury tax, but I’m told evading the tax isn’t a priority. The financial penalty is minimal this season, and they’ll be out of the tax in the coming years because of all of the expiring salaries they have over the next two seasons. In fact, the Thunder are actually willing to absorb long-term, pricey salaries in deals, according to league sources.

https://www.theringer.com/nba/2019/12/10/21004318/nba-trade-deadline-kevin-love-danilo-gallinari-robert-covington

🚨Love would prefer to play for his hometown Portland Trail Blazers, according to multiple league sources.

hmmm

The Blazers have the salaries to make a deal work with the expiring contracts of Hassan Whiteside ($27.1 million) or Kent Bazemore ($19.3 million). Why not send both to Cleveland and also trade for Tristan Thompson? The Cavs center is also available and would like to play for a contender.

Teams are calling about Malik Beasley apparently. He’s a nice player and I can think of a lot of teams that could use him but what would the nuggets want? A 3 point sniper?

the thing the nugs are short on is size and athleticism (and a 2nd star but not sure if thats relevant to a beasley trade unless he was part of a package)

It’s not great that all their 3 point shooters max out at 37% when their best player is a passer who creates double teams

truu

reports are coming in that the wolves held a players only meeting...

well those always go well

the first step toward healing and winning the nba playoffs

Players Only is the name of a strip club

In retrospect it was pretty rough for the wolves that Thibodeau made Bjelica hate the NBA so much he almost left the league

blazers should tank sorry everyone

well, they already traded for whiteside, what else do you want?

fuckin wolves every year.,..

this was a great moment in wolves history, Jimmy Butler lying about calling a player's only meeting

Another Wolves player, Darius Johnson-Odom, tweeted (then deleted) that there was no players-only meeting.

So far, we have Jeff Teague, Darius Johnson-Odom and player-development coach John Lucas III saying there WASN'T a meeting versus Jimmy Butler saying there WAS a meeting. pic.twitter.com/ggRAZPWiu6

— Alex Kennedy (@AlexKennedyNBA) October 11, 2018

jimmy one of the weirdest guys in the league

the heat are really so good for him bcuz they only like young players who are "gym rats" so now he has no one to yell at

yeah the 'heat culture' is really all he ever wanted

perfect fit

Riley is the perfect exec to handle Jimmy, figure at some point he'll take him aside and suggest he's "demonstrating a failure to show appreciation".

yeah like there was a franchise out there already self-selecting for "players who could reasonably get along with jimmy butler", good for jimmy (and the heat) that he found it

why is justice winslow always hurt

I don’t think Rui Hachimura is gonna be good.

someone should probably let jokic know that the game has started

Lol, Jokic just did a toreador on a pass.

Jokic’s defense has been so good this game. Kind of hilariously so