2019-20 NBA Regular Degular Season thread

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

the cavs are pretty dire

at least if minny has to move kat before long they'll get some decent picks & young talent in return unless they fuck it up (they might fuck it up)

they will fuck it up

kat for gordon hayward str8 up

dipo after missing exactly one year of basketball games come back and hits a 3 to send the game into ot

indy gonna be tough once he gets up to speed

cj for kat this is very reasonable

Don’t see why Minnesota would ever do that, KAT is so much better than CJ

Clay is jokes.

Trading kat would be such a wolves thing to do

i mean they might be concerned he doesn't come back after his deal ends this year but they can give him so so so much money

which is why they should move him for cj immediately

I think the most likely scenario is a three way trade where they get D Lo and that makes KaT happy enough

Oof

"He's got a lot of female tendencies on the court, flopping and throwing his head back...he's soft, very woman-like"

- Marcus Morris on Jae Crowder pic.twitter.com/MxtFnKbu3M

— Knicks Videos (@sny_knicks) January 30, 2020

The play lmaaao Jae

Elfrid Payton LEVELS Jae Crowder in garbage time and we got ourselves a brawl in MSG 😳 pic.twitter.com/c9OKC8B4a9

— ClutchPoints NBA (@ClutchPointsNBA) January 30, 2020

lol jae is obnoxious

can someone explain exactly why the Lakers are so much better this year? even when Bron & Brow sit they're still good. that team was a garbage fire last year.

they got a good coach and went from a bunch of young guys to vets who know their role.

ton of injuries last year too they prob wldve at least made the playoffs w decent health, they were #2 in the west at one point iirc

bron wanted a year off tbf also all the weirdness with magic

i am in favor of kicking the knicks when they're down

BREAKING: NBA changing format for All-Star Game. Scores to be reset to begin second and third quarters, and a target score - with a Kobe Bryant tribute twist - will decide which team wins, all while $500,000 for charity is at stake. AP story here -- https://t.co/RwY9DYZ4Y3

— Tim Reynolds (@ByTimReynolds) January 30, 2020

the NBA needs to fire most of its fans and bring in a new crew who think hoops are a real sport

“We’ve been very focused on making it more competitive, making it more exciting and making it fun,” Spruell said. “And we’ve had a great collaboration with the union. For this year’s game, we really focused on what new things we could do to make it a really competitive game where each quarter mattered in this case.”


hear me out, how about the best players from each conference who play a basketball game but they actually play hard