2019-20 NBA Regular Degular Season thread

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

They need to play MPJ 20 minutes a game. His good-case scenario is just too perfect for what they need and they need to give it every chance.

Classic Whiteside statpadding game here

if the celtics lose this game i will remember jayson tatum committing 3 turnovers in 4 possessions to start the 4th quarter

if they want to have groups out there with one starter and four reserves it needs to be brown or hayward. tatum can't do it right now.

fucking doug mcdermott just did a martial arts palm strike into gordon hayward's nose

smh wite on wite crime

the sorting of 2-6 in the east is gonna be very interesting

cld see the raps getting dropped by the pack and pacers staying in the mix if they can find some health

Gordon Hayward tells reporters in Indy he didn’t break his nose, he’s got a headache, and will see how he feels Thursday morning.

— Chris Forsberg (@ChrisForsberg_) December 12, 2019

Hard to question the devonte graham thing anymore

Lol that this Bucks Pelicans game wound up being nationally televised since Giannis ain’t playing

hes ballin xp

p funny how they way overpaid rozier when they had a much better player on a rookie deal

jfc man get ahold of yrself

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ELhGByUWwAAfvB4?format=jpg&name=large

p funny how they way overpaid rozier when they had a much better player on a rookie deal

The hawks are really bad.

Warriors v Knicks is underway. Did Las Vegas bother to set the spread?

Warriors -4.5 lol

Ja Morant is a bad boy!

dubs are shooting 32% against the mighty knicks

That Ja dunk O__o

gawsh

JA MORANT ENDED ARON BAYNES. pic.twitter.com/jlxiv6GNMD

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) December 12, 2019

good dunk

reminds me of those absurd dunks they'd let Kobe do in NBA Courtside where the game engine hadn't calculated the physics properly so he just magically elevates another foot

the suns were so salty after that game they all left the court without doing the customary hugs and “good game” with the grizz

it really does from that first angle looks like he pushes himself up w his off arm or something but then no its just jumping xp

As @ZachLowe_NBA mentioned on his podcast, here's Kevin Love intentionally taking a three second call out of frustration
When Darius Garland leads your team with 2.8 apg.. pic.twitter.com/cOt7eJ6AGM

— Bootum (@DaRealBootum) December 12, 2019

I would still rather have Zion than Ja but...

Kinda bummed by this Lonzo season. I guess you can’t shoot this badly and get it done.

just saw yet another article about how hew rebuilding his shot

He definitely changed the mechanics a lot. I feel like he’s completely focused on 3 pointers to his detriment.

its horrible and also an incredible story how he shoots like that cause his crazy dad made him shoot 3s when he was too small

He should have given him the Maravich pistol technique

Maravich somehow just switched to a normal jumper when he got strong enough tho

yeah its fn weird he just kept shooting like that

not to mention that the easiest way for kids to hoist is just from over the shoulder

He definitely changed the mechanics a lot. I feel like he’s completely focused on 3 pointers to his detriment.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, December 12, 2019 9:34 AM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he should take the ben simmons approach to 3s.

imo the question for lonzo is can he learn how to play meaningfully w/in a halfcourt offense while off the ball? bcuz as long as the pels have ingram and zion and jrue, he's never going to be handling the ball much. if he can't ever shoot then it's a huge problem because then he's basically like late career rondo if he's ever on the court w/ the team's three other best players. personally i still think he needs to get to a team that has minutes to give to a ball dominant guard, prob as a sixth man, so that he can properly start to develop his game. he needs to find his oladipo in indiana or whatever. i can still envision him as like... jamal crawford/lou williams level impact in the style of jason kidd's game. but in new orleans that's not gonna happen and i feel like he might just flame out of the nba.

It’s hard for me to imagine that he can’t hack it with his defense, passing and size. Ricky Rubio figured it out (and was a net positive from the jump).

yeah but rubio's teams put the ball in his hands from the jump. that's why i think lonzo needs a new team. the problem is you start going down the list of even the bad teams and it's hard to find a place that has no other guards it wants to develop. i feel like the lavar in the no 1 media market aspect might make it untenable, but the knicks would be a great place for him to land.