Regular Degular Redux - 2019-20 NBA Season thread 2

I generally hate disney-related shit but thought this was a pretty great hype video for the bubble season:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E8mrdBYUc8

NBA Desktop does good work in my book

Zone only for Bol. He might be good enough that they change the whole defense for him
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, July 22, 2020 6:15 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

yeah rookie big man just isnt gonna —get— nba D, you gotta let him just use his talent the best he can, one wld think hell prob fall out of the rotation once they play a good team in the offs but until then let him do his thing

Zone only for Bol. He might be good enough that they change the whole defense for him
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, July 22, 2020 6:15 PM (yesterday)

in 2026?

bol looked good. the most impressive part to me was the corner 3 bcuz if you can hit that shot and protect the rim you have a clear role in today's NBA. his skill and ability to handle at that size is pretty crazy tho. all that said it was a glorified d league game at best... bol was the no 4 overall player in his high school class, he should be able to put up stats in a game like this. i could see them throwing him out there for a few mins maybe in one of these real games but he'll be nailed to the bench once the playoffs start and have a long road to real minutes over the next few years if malone's use of porter jr is any indication

Malone seems to like Bol a lot more than Porter for whatever reason. Maybe a psychological technique

I don’t think it’s out of the question that they just let Plumlee walk...

That’s really the most likely role for Bol imo: Backup center who plays 10 minutes alongside Jokic. Not a 33+ minute guy. But man it seems like he could be really good at that.

it is deandre ayton's 22nd birthday today. i misread that it was his 28th birthday and had some thoughts about Time that turned out to be meaningless

cant believe deandre ayton is 35 seems like just today he was 28

rip deandre ayton who passed today of natural causes

rip big man

wow i cant believe its the 100 year anniversary of deandre ayton's passing

today we celebrate the 2000th aytonmas amen

today is a day of aytonment

wow i cant believe people used to worship a dead basketball player thousands of years ago, also what is basketball, also what is people

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preparing to watch nba

rusty lol

lou dort fan

so much shoe squeaking and clomping sounds in the broadcast. I think they're going to pump in crowd noise for the actual games.

seems like big moments in the big playoff games to come are gonna feel so weird. impossible to predict who this playing environment will favor.

its very not normal mb they should do some computer graphics fans

i think thats the plan for the games

im leavin bubble foot pain

Report: Pacers’ All-Star Domantas Sabonis has “significant” foot injury, leaves bubble https://t.co/gKUYekEX3P

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) July 24, 2020

its very not normal mb they should do some computer graphics fans

― lag∞n, Friday, July 24, 2020 5:44 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think thats the plan for the games

― Spottie, Friday, July 24, 2020 5:49 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it shd be the nba 2k fans and the home team controls them

celtics tv guys keep referring to the presuspended season as last year, they cant stop, they just talked about it then did it 30 seconds later

tremont water is just kinda good idk hes tiny but hes good

he got sec defensive player of the year twice...

Every time Simmons is trending on twitter I check to see if it's because he hit a three. Today it is.

i like tremont, he just seems to succeed wherever he goes

zion back in the bubb

celtics tv guys keep referring to the presuspended season as last year, they cant stop, they just talked about it then did it 30 seconds later

Adam Silver: Zion please hurry and come back

Zion: Ok Adam pic.twitter.com/BipRXWC347

— ⚜️The B-U-N™⚜️ (@BayouBun) July 25, 2020

ESPN story on the Knicks and Tom Thibodeau finalizing terms on a five-year deal as head coach: https://t.co/LKFnzZUOQA

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 25, 2020

God bless

this will absolutely work

its destiny

Young players run for the hills... https://t.co/w1uPWSRBgP

— David West (@D_West30) July 25, 2020

gotta say this is some true knicks stuff and “I’m Lovin’ It”

Now they need to go get Lavine as rumored

yea lavine is a perfect future knick

Yes please ship him!

lavine for randle and a first plz

this seems like a bit of a mismatch in terms of where the knicks are as a team but for all of thibs flaws, the t wolves have made the playoffs once in the last 16 years and it's when thibs was coaching. if jimmy butler hadn't gotten hurt that year and tanked their seeding they may have even won a round. i also think the knicks prob need a coach who brings some inherent power into the building, bcuz putting an up and coming coach like fizdale in that situation is a recipe for disaster. if the worst that happens is thibs gets to runs some young players into the ground over the course of 5 years the knicks will prob at least make it back to the playoffs once or twice

that being said, their roster is bottom 3 in the league and their new GM is an agent, so like.......................

i saw they were interviewing other teams assistants and stuff tho and while i'm sure that's a normal information gathering process for a franchise on a macro level, putting an non-established coach in that franchise just isn't tenable imo. and once you start going thru free agent coaches thibs is as good a choice as any prob

this is an inside job by the CAA crew, it could work or not work (prob not) but that's what it is.

for sure. i think that gives it a better chance of success bcuz the front office and coaching staff won't be at odds and thus can't be leveraged against each other by ownership. we won't see leon rose giving a hasty press conference 10 games that leaves the coach out to dry. i mean, again, probably... lol. my doubts are with leon rose taking a team whose best current "assets" are rj barrett, mitchell robinson, kevin knox, and frank ntilikina and turning it into a competitive roster in the next 3 seasons.

just witnessed ben simmons easily score as the roll man in a pick and roll what a world

Thibodeau injures players. You just can’t have that

I guess you could contractually restrict him from playing guys more than 35 minutes