NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

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(But I don’t want wiggins on the spurs- not with three years left on that contract!)

wiseman’s FT stroke looks good... curious how he plans on scoring during the normal flow of the game aside from rim running

I hate this

Chris and Marv in garbage time ugh

ive turned it off

the warriors look bad, but im trying not to overreact to one game. they def need oubre and wiggins to be real players and dray back asap.

they would def be a lock for the playoffs in the east

I'm not sure - but they ain't sniffing the playoffs in the west

i think they can make it in the west

the bottom end of the west offs has actually turned in to a big ol question mark

just watched the first half and first chunk of the 3rd before giving up and going live--

- i never really had a reason to scrutinize wiggins and mostly trusted what people tended to say about him, but watching him closely for a half and i totally get it. it isn't organizational, he's never changing. this is what he is. you don't suddenly learn how not to get backdoored by joe harris in year 6 or whatever it is.

- hugely impressed by wiseman's athleticism. such a fluid/fast runner. he'll figure it out but it's going to take some time.

- the warriors have had opportunities on offense but look really bad finishing as a team. that's not encouraging against a nets team that is not the most physical or imposing.

- the nets look pretty good. i enjoyed levert's 2nd unit minutes. withholding more judgement because to me this game is mostly the warriors not really playing competitive basketball.

Wiggins oubre and paschall all shot like zero percent and the whole team is brand new more or less. Gonna Give them like 15 games before I make any serious declarations. On the other hand the nets are flying on positive vibes and they look great. If kd is back for real then that’s so encouraging for Achilles tear sufferers going forward.

Yah cad otm. As bad as Wiggins was this is the worst I’ve ever seen him so it obv shouldn’t be this bad. Oubres energy was there but the shots weren’t falling for anyone in the first half.

there were a few plays where i was like wow kd moved extremely well on that play, he looked like himself, but we didnt get to see him for instance really lock in on D and have to jibberjab his feet all over and what not

Loving the early returns on wiseman he seems fun. The only way the warriors will really win is to rely on the curry dray pnr way more than in past years. And wig and oubre have to shoot league average at least from 3.

kd is also further removed from his injury than when most guys come back fwiw

yeah i was listening to something where there were saying maybe 18 months should be the standard layoff for achilles but it prob varies for different guys

there were a few plays where i was like wow kd moved extremely well on that play, he looked like himself, but we didnt get to see him for instance really lock in on D and have to jibberjab his feet all over and what not

xp my fear is that the warriors stick to this democratic offense stuff when they don't have the personnel for it. like i'm looking at wiggins and oubre's FGAs and they are pretty scary.

Yah Kerr has to adapt or this what it will look like.

Dubs gotta take on bucks next lol yikes

lol

Inside The NBA roasting KD immediately after interviewing him...Savage LOL pic.twitter.com/JFDnuKa38P

— gifdsports (@gifdsports) December 23, 2020

wiggins shot looked good and he blocked some shots at the rim, tho his on ball defense wasn’t great. i still think he could/would be good in the harrison barnes role but they need more from him now and when they turned the offense over to him it was really ugly

i still think they’ll be in the playoff hunt all season... it’s a race for 10 spots now anyway. the problem is they need curry-oubre-wiggins-dray to get in a rhythm together pretty quickly & tonight they looked like a team that was still in preseason mode. and then you’re trying to work in wiseman, and the bench doesn’t have much... they don’t have a lot of time for it to start clicking. steph looked like one of the 10 best players in the league still tho

theres just nothing on the bench

hah i forgot that batum exists

batum is starting???????

what the fuck

looks like zubac is out? maybe when he is available ibaka will play the 4

he's in now. i don't get these lineup ideas but they're working.

cant argue with results

harrell is gonna try and score every time he has the ball tonight lol

i think the clippers starting three wings along with ibaka makes sense, now i’m just confused as to why the hornets benched batum for like 2 straight years. he doesn’t look that bad!

otoh... batum and marcus morris not really the most inspiring choices for third wing on a championship team

definitely looking forward to the Wiggins discourse now that he's on a team that people care about

The Warriors having Wiggins is never going to work because he is an average NBA basketball player

I always wondered though if he was on a team that divorced him the player from who he was supposed to be, where he was drafted, maybe he could be a good contributor

He made way more sense paired with the splash bros but now with klay out they need like 25 ppg from him on high efficiency and that’s not gonna happen

correct

cannot fucking believe Kobe died THIS YEAR

i hear it's been a weird one (year)

from a distance that guy's name looked like "Montell Pretzel"

fit in or fit OUT

Harden doing his best to tank all his trade value

it worked for kawhi

yeah

smh haters

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ep8EW3LW8AYRtpY?format=jpg&name=large

welp

Several Houston Rockets, including John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins and possibly more, are expected to miss tonight's season opener vs. OKC due to coronavirus contact tracing, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) December 23, 2020

expected it but not this early - damn

seems like there'll be some teams that improve their playoff seeding this season, simply by having fewer positive tests in their organization.

I thought Wiseman looked pretty good!