2019-20 NBA Regular Degular Season thread

If Allen walks because you are worried about the luxury tax (which is weird since you signed KD and Kyrie), then Deandre can just be your starting center for 9.8 million. It’s fine! Everyone thought this was fine 18 months ago!

And yeah it’s a 4 year deal. We’re pretty deep into year 1 and Deandre is still good at basketball so

everyone thought it was fine when dallas overpaid for a year of him, he did nothing to help them, and they dumped his ass to the knicks?

it's nice that deandre jordan is not an unplayable disaster in year one of his deal but unfortunately for the nets nothing that is happening this season matters

He’s averaging 14/17/3 per 36 with a 67% TS%. So yeah not an unplayable disaster. Some might even say he’s “good,” like he has been for his whole career.

hm if only there were reasons why deandre jordan doesn't play 36 minutes per game anymore...

Weak

as weak as his -6.5 net rating this year?

WS/48 over .200

Do people in here think he’s a bad NBA player? Is that the level of takes that you’ve accepted in your life

"bad nba player" is such a useless rubric. we know what he is. he's an aging center who relies on athleticism. he's going to get worse, not better. guys like this don't generally get 4 year contracts for a reason. he's not out there, like, murdering the nets (yet), but it's a contract that is unquestionably out of balance with the market.

Above average player with above average salary.

paying players market rate sucks ass though, you can't build a top team with $100m worth of players. you have to have guys that are underpaid due to the max or them outplaying their contract

I think a team where no one is overpaid can be pretty darn good

so does my boss apparently, hey ohhh

for the nets this whole argument is moot bc kyrie & kd took pay cuts to make room for dj

the contract would be bad in a vacuum but apparently it is in fact worth it for the vibes

Worth a shot anyway

ime bad vibes are bad

I am rolling at jordan's exended matty a burn

for the nets this whole argument is moot bc kyrie & kd took pay cuts to make room for dj

im w matt here, you're not paying DJ $10m per year, youre paying kyrie, KD, and DJ ~$85m per year

he'll probably be rly bad the last two years of that deal and he's making less than $10m each of those years, not an untradeable salary

I just meant the imaginary roster building, that was pretty funny

oh yeah lol

I would pay money to see that lineup tbqh

memphis beat the rockets and theyre on a 6 game winning streak. ja is the truth.

lol just thinkin about how the spurs waited until almost halfway through their 2nd year with demar to figure out to get the most out of him and lamarcus and now theyre gonna slug it out with memphis and probably get 9th place this year instead of trading demar by the deadline like they should

ja is on superstar trajectory

Ja is incredible, the most thrilling player rn

I almost ran on the court like it was a AND-1 Mixtape pic.twitter.com/08DIesmt2r

— Chris Vernon (@ChrisVernonShow) January 15, 2020

this is such a crazy move, and then he hits the second guy trailing

Matt Armstrong at 3:06 14 Jan 20

WS/48 over .200

this is an impressive "would smash" rating tbh

wonder if the game getting less physical is letting players develop faster, luka and trae top five in scoring in their 2nd years, ja lighting it up as a rookie

ie they dont have to wait to get big muscles before theyre good

ja & jjj looking like a great long term little-big 1-2

this is such a crazy move, and then he hits the second guy trailing

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, January 15, 2020 11:15 AM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

wasnt even his best play of the game

Ja Morant is absurd 😳 pic.twitter.com/FVaAGMNlWC

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) January 15, 2020

Ja Morant won’t stop torturing Harden tonight😤pic.twitter.com/3gvNxYbKls

— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) January 15, 2020

yoyo dribble in traffic the hits the roll man w a behind the back..........

players are cool

i agree that harden shd know about him did he not read the scouting report or what

“Tell that motherf***er about me.”- Ja Morant

When Harden gave him space from the 3 point line pic.twitter.com/vRqpU7ExkC

— NBA RETWEET (@RTNBA) January 15, 2020

Morant is doing open court ballhandling stuff that I’m not sure we’ve seen since White Chocolate, and his stuff actually works

yeah its legit

harden not even concerned with the appearance of trying

trae had a nice shammgod last night

Trae Young with the Shammgod👀pic.twitter.com/EhoTInXKC4

— Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) January 15, 2020

shammy

wonder if the game getting less physical is letting players develop faster, luka and trae top five in scoring in their 2nd years, ja lighting it up as a rookie

― lag∞n, Wednesday, January 15, 2020 11:30 AM (forty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah i think this is true plus pace of game. it's just a really nice time to be a perimeter player on offense.

Luka is just a freak and is also built like a truck. Trae is the guy who seems to be of this era and reflective of a new kind of basketball. OTOH he’s the worst defender in the nba so there’s an adjustment going on there

I was a Trae skeptic because so much of his game is built on crazy threes but it looks like he really can shoot those at a good clip which makes him a monster

insane court vision too. the defense thing is a big deal tho.

ja broke coach nick

I think I'm just going to post a video of Ja's highlights with music. They're flabbergasting

— BBALLBREAKDOWN (@bballbreakdown) January 15, 2020

wonder if the game getting less physical is letting players develop faster, luka and trae top five in scoring in their 2nd years, ja lighting it up as a rookie

Yeah think so. Plus the continuing of the trend of each class of new players who have grown up where basketball=handles+deep shooting prowess. On the whole young guys are so much better at both than in the past.