2019/2020 = NBA > STATS

i agree. it was a good time to be a center but looking back at his peak season stats will remind you that they were totally nuts. i think he would have been a compelling player in the modern game too.

oh i think his lack of passing or outside shooting would fuck him up in the modern game. the man never averaged more than 1.8 APG.

A bit of history for you. The Trail Blazers acquired Moses Malone in the ABA dispersal draft that happened when the NBA and ABA merged. However, the Blazers already had Bill Walton at center and had just acquired Maurice Lucas, too, so they traded Malone away at once for money and a 1st round pick.

The next season (1976-77) the Trail Blazers won the NBA championship, largely on the strength of the players they picked up in the dispersal draft. Nobody missed Moses Malone... until Walton got hurt in 1978, and the Blazers had no decent backup center, and they didn't get back to the Finals for another 13 years.

shit, another case of the blazers not picking someone bc they felt set at that position, when will they learn

oh i think his lack of passing or outside shooting would fuck him up in the modern game. the man never averaged more than 1.8 APG.

― peloton for the painfully alone (m bison), Wednesday, January 1, 2020 11:02 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

well i'm imagining he'd get modern coaching too. he was a more than respectable free throw shooter and i bet he could have done a little more passing.

if the lopez bros can learn to shoot threes this far into their career i figure moses malone coulda figured it out over a couple summers

thats true

also he hit this shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvPCLpABrwU&feature=emb_title

still one of the wildest shots ive ever seen

https://youtu.be/kvPCLpABrwU

try again

I think "black hole" was 1st used as term in bball for that 6ers team with Moses and Andrew Toney

moses passed.........it to himself off the rim

some of those off rebs should be reclassified as self-assists

NBA Scoring Leaders:

1. James Harden 38.3 ppg
2. Giannis Anteokounmpo 30.3 ppg
3. etc.

rockets need to trade russ so harden can average 40

jokic 47-8-5-2-1 with no turnovers

23rd player with 47 and not TOs

Bojan Bogdanovic had 35-0-0-0-0

straight buckets

http://bkref.com/tiny/ry44t

I remember that game, Slam magazine mentioned it in like every issue for a few years

weird

Proof of the NBA’s dwindling middle class:

We’re almost halfway into the season, and only ONE team (OKC) is on pace for a win total in the 40s. Everyone else is pacing for 50-plus or 38-or-less.

— Fred Katz (@FredKatz) January 8, 2020

nets have lost 7 in a row and still have the 8 seed with a 2.5 game advantage

they shd do that play in tournament but then at the end announce that none of them are allowed in the playoffs

Giannis on pace to be the only player in NBA history to average 30 ppg without being in the top 50 minutes played

seems to be a trend for star players to have super high usage but play short minutes, lukas the same way

makes sense let em do their thing but understand that its tiring

Giannis on pace to be the only player in NBA history to average 30 ppg without being in the top 50 minutes played

― frogbs, Wednesday, January 8, 2020 11:48 AM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

curry had to be close in 2016

he was 25 in minutes played that season. around 34 mpg

giannis is 31 mpg ha

i could live another 300 years and still never be able to keep Bogdan Bogdanović and Bojan Bogdanović straight.

James Harden 11 turnovers in the first half. Record for a game is apparently 14?

He had 13 in a close out game vs the dubs that one time

fished w 11 lol

I am Brandon Ingram pic.twitter.com/0DHUYmZBjm

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) January 13, 2020

hes good folks, headed toward second banana on a contender who plays both sides of the court status

.......if only the pelicans had a superstar in the pipeline

btw teams getting good returns for their stars has made the nba more interesting

wait isnt he really bad at defense still?

yeah but i believe in him

wonder if he has a tapeworm or smth tho

might just have that KD build

this seems not normal

17th starting lineup on the season

134th of Gentry’s career with the Pelicans. https://t.co/SZyFYRe2Gc

— Andrew Lopez (@_Andrew_Lopez) January 13, 2020

might just have that KD build

― omg what did you type to find this gif? (Spottie), Monday, January 13, 2020 5:52 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

hes got a much bigger frame than kd thoooo

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is the first player in NBA history aged 21 or under to have a 20 point, 20 rebound, 10 assist game.

— Matt Smith (@SmanSports) January 14, 2020

that is a LOT of rebounds for a guard

to be fair, the bigs in OKC have been trained to let guards get the rebounds.

lmao

shai is good i ride for shai only partially cause his first name is pronounced the same as my last name

23/15/8 for kevin huerter who is finally healthy and finding his groove a bit

Don’t listen to charlatans that say the midrange game is dead. Star players still take them, role players have moved back to give more space.
Also, thresholds on hex plots can be abused to drive a narrative.

2010-11https://t.co/9oQfHZ9hKr
2018-19https://t.co/Sn9Ql6rzPm pic.twitter.com/KJHyE4XEvw

— Ryan Davis (@rd11490) January 15, 2020

its really the long twos thatve fallen off a cliff, down by 50% in that chart, wldve expect the in between game to have increased feels like floaters are a bigger deal now but its pretty stable in those charts

he has the images in reverse chronological order there btw

yeah the long twos are the killer. funny to watch old iverson clips and hes doing step backs and pull ups with his heels basically on the 3p line multiple times per game it seems.