NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

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!

Very fluid and loads of energy I’m sold

There was a group of Houston players -- including Martin, John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins -- away from the facility at an apartment getting haircuts, sources said. That's led to the contact tracing on Wall and Cousins as team awaits more testing results on Martin, sources said.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 23, 2020

getting haircuts vs going to the titty bar

shave and a hair cut
two tits

harden’s a child

On the second night of the NBA season, Houston could not field the minimum requirement of eight players in uniform

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) December 23, 2020

Game Postponed lol

wow really disappointed in Adam Silver coming out against women becoming bosses and putting their people in a position of success

whomst would be upset if he were just suspended for the season

Imo 70% of the league has had it by now

Harden might go down as the least liked all time great since Isiah Thomas

ESPN Sources: In the past 24 hours, Rockets rookie KJ Martin had one positive coronavirus test result followed by a negative test result -- and now awaits results of an additional test. https://t.co/9PR8XX0NZk

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 23, 2020

does anyone know anything about the tests they use? I assume it’s the PCR tests, in which case a positive is a true positive (unless they’d been previously infected). you can’t just test negative later that day or soon after and be “negative”

Cavs by 21 at the half!!!

poor Hornets

Enjoying the new Spurs jerseys and Keldon Johnson's aggression in the paint

Is it too late to worry that the Sixers best lineup tonight has neither Embiid nor Simmons?