2019-20 NBA Regular Degular Season thread

Nba shouldn’t retire any numbers

feel like kobe would be appalled by the idea of his number being retired by the celtics...

my general feeling about all this kobe stuff is the league prob should wait awhile until emotions have cooled before like irrevocably changing things to deify the guy

the thing kobe wld really hate is people having emotions and especially especially having emotions that cause them to postpone a basketball game

he wld be going around taking away his shoes from the entire league for being soft

Otm he woulda clowned Kyrie for sitting out last game to grieve

“I’m changing my number which I wear in honor of someone because he died.”

It would be funny if some team retired Kobe’s number but also threw in Maravich’s number

Hell why not Petrovic

retire all the numbers go to symbols

massive locker room fight over who gets to wear the 100 emoji

lmao

i can think of a few players who should wear an *

Wilt was always the most shocking basketball death to me. Just seemed like he would live forever.

Can you imagine if this happened when Kobe was still playing?? Who has died during their career? Bias and Drazen? Obv Kobe's death is a tragedy, but what starts the tearducts flowing for me is thinking about Gianna and a life cut short. Same thing with Bias and Drazen. Great talents who didn't live long enough to fully display their talents and have possible HOF careers, let alone fulfilling lives off the court.

Reggie Lewis

Petrovic and Reggie died like six weeks apart and they were the biggest active player deaths in my lifetime wrt the nba

and Hank Gathers if including NCAA. I was big into NCAA tourney back then and that was so shocking and freaky, actually having footage of him dying, ugh.

thinking about Gianna and a life cut short

I think three other girls her age died in the crash, too.

the other recent sports death that truly shocked me to my core was Jose Fernandez, just in terms of what happened and how much potential he had and what he'd already accomplished. and the fact that it occurred during his breakout season.

For some reason, it made me think of is the Heat’s championship parade when the float went under a low clearance bridge and almost got the Heatles killed.

Bison Dele fucked me up

yea was trying to think of any other player as iconic as Kobe passing away at such a relatively young age and the only thing I could come up with was Roberto Clemente

Yup, but Clemente died flying on a humanitarian mission to Central America. Kobe died helicoptering around Los Angeles.

The junior seau death was super sad and felt like the nfl tried to brush it away asap

Yup, but Clemente died flying on a humanitarian mission to Central America. Kobe died helicoptering around Los Angeles

There were 4 other people who died on that flight too.

Wow! I had forgotten all about those other passengers, granny. It happened so long ago. I'm amazed you knew that.

On July 6, 2002 Dele and his girlfriend, Serena Karlan, along with skipper Bertrand Saldo, sailed from Tahiti on Dele's catamaran, the Hukuna Matata.

sounds like a boat name a scriptwriter would assign

Thurman Munson was another one.

Aaron Hernandez doesn't count here i guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_baseball_players_who_died_during_their_careers

tuberculosis was a motherfucker pre20th century huh

(pls don't ban me for posting baseball link on ILH)

Aaron Hernandez doesn't count here i guess.

― omar little, Wednesday, January 29, 2020 3:16 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

smh patriot erasure

it used to be a thing to talk about a LeBron stopper. Is there such a thing as a Giannis stopper limiter? Anyone / any scheme been effective this year?

a good team scheme can slow him down for sure. but no one wants to show their hand or try at an elite level in the reg season.

i think the goal is known at least, keep him out of the paint, as to how u do that...........

So ... teams going to try something new in the offs and pray?

i think swarming is good like fast double teams by lengthy perimeter players fast frenetic d that doesnt let him be deliberate also of course dont give him turnovers

So ... teams going to try something new in the offs and pray?

― that's not my post, Wednesday, January 29, 2020 bookmarkflaglink

yeah you have 4-7 games in a row to try and figure it out while getting max effort from your guys, bucks were up 2-0 in the conf finals and lost 4 in a row. game 3 went to OT. they just needed a normal series from bledsoe really.

i think u gotta put a smaller quicker big wing type player who can stay in front of him on him then be ready to double if he gets into the paint, or if you have anthony davis just use him

tobias harris, james johnson, kawhi obvs, jaylen brown even

siakam.....

brow v freak wld be a pretty epic finals

thad young has the tools to guard giannis, wonder if another eastern team will target him in a trade

the other recent sports death that truly shocked me to my core was Jose Fernandez, just in terms of what happened and how much potential he had and what he'd already accomplished. and the fact that it occurred during his breakout season.

― omar little, Wednesday, January 29, 2020 2:39 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah I honestly feel nothing about kobe’s death, other than a general sense of unfairness at a life cut short, but fernandez was the last athlete death that really affected me

rough

Woj on the Pistons: "market has been really slow" on Andre Drummond.

— Michael Gallagher (@MikeSGallagher) January 30, 2020

not sure there's a team with a more dire outlook than the pistons. not even a young prospect to be excited about on that roster. maybe sekou?

sekou coud be good, but yeah. its just mediocre as hell and only getting worse.

ehh hornets were that team last year and they've already found some new talent, its possible

hornets are a half game behind detroit, theyre still bad

but they're less dire