2019-20 NBA Regular Degular Season thread

I watched part of the game on ABC. It was my first extended look at Zion since the NCAA tournament and I'll share several impressions. He's clearly overweight and has some rust to knock off. He has his rookie moments where he gets lost on the floor and has not fully adjusted to the constant speed and athleticism of the NBA game. I thought Tucker did a good job of defending him. Seems obvious that when he's fully up to speed, probably not until next season, he will be completely awesome. My final impression is that, christ, this young man has a pair of shoulders on him previously seen only on comic book characters.

I was watching a game with hubie on the mic this week and yeah he has no idea what stats are anymore and he basically just goes to games and says things he likes but for 86 years old he basically sounds like he did 30 years ago

bruh

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EPv9DueXUAISaP6?format=jpg&name=small

why are the rockets always trying to trade capela

dan tony doesnt want to be forced to play anyone over 6'6"

he hates the talls

Capela would be awesome on the hawks can they make that happen

seems like they shd be able to

if capela goes to atl i he shd adopt mutumbos finger wag to get the crowd hyped

rockets looking for wing depth? what do the hawks have that hou would want? bembry?

jabari if they need scoring i guess

woj article said the rockets wanted a wing and a center for capela

hunter and len for capela

or huerter and len + filler for capela

hakws should not get rid of huerter

u gotta give something to get something baby!

but yeah id rather move hunter too

im sure the hawks wld rather fleece the rockets but both of those are pretty fair imo capela is a good player pretty good chance neither of those hawks guys ever make it to his level

i tried to make a bigger deal w evan turner but the rox are weird cause all their money is tied up in harden and russell

tbh depending on if you think hunter is going to pan out as a defensive force keeping him might be better from a roaster construction standpoint youve got yr outside in 1-2 in trae and collins then a rugged switchable defensive big-wing makes a lot of sense

tho a guy who can hit threes and play basketball good also does, is huerter good at d seems like he has the tools to be

Huerter is kinda good at everything from what I’ve seen

not sure hunter fits the rockets timeline either. im sure they are looking for vets no?

yeah prob

tho he is an old soul

I like how the Rox are just basically admitting they're never gonna get far enough to have to worry about guarding AD or Embiid.

pj tucker will simply guard ad and bron

he basically guards all 5 players already

Apparently this is largely driven by wanting to get out from capela’s salary because their owner is broke

jfc

I’ve always wanted capela on the nuggets but they probably can’t make that work.

Apparently this is largely driven by wanting to get out from capela’s salary because their owner is broke

mb sell the team instead

ESPN Sources: Another team engaged with the Houston Rockets in trade talks for center Clint Capela: The Boston Celtics.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) February 3, 2020

the way this is playing out thru incremental woj updates is very fishy

woj knows of prob 20 active trade convos at any given time why is this the one that is being reported out like he's the public's pool reporter

is morey one of wojs known conspirators

morey will talk to anyone iirc

love to see mike scott come off the bench for philly, score 17 points (on 5-for-7 from three) in 13 minutes, and be a -16

sixers getting punked in miami a game after getting punked in boston and play in milwaukee next

yike

raul neto legitimately looks like they put one of the equipment managers in the game

i watched the 2018-19 celtics and so i think i have a great feel for teams that work on paper and not in practice, and this is a post about the 2019-20 sixers

toronto won 11 in a row while i wasn't looking

trade embiid

the horford signing is currently looking like an extremely bad choice

it made no sense everyone was saying

philly 7-20 on the road now iirc

or 9-18 lol

Cavs lost to the Knicks tonight. At home. That has got to hurt.

that's got to be up there in the running for least compelling game in history that went to overtime

trade rumors heating up...

suns possibly sending a first for kennard

why

suns need depth and shooting. he's been really good this year BUT.... he's 23 and has sat like 20 games straight with tendinitis in BOTH knees...