NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

some big christmas day records being set today, witnessing history

brandon ingram heard duncan robinson broke his xmas day record for threes made and started going off

The Ingram vs Simmons debate is still alive

do you even need to say “tough day for Bledsoe” anymore, isn’t it implied by the fact of his being on the court

Zion’s FT stroke looks better to me

i see a lot of games in zion's future this year where he puts up those kinds of lines and is still -13

The Heat are exciting. Cool team

once again i don’t understand how a heat draft pick (precious) fell to them

This bucks second unit looks awful. How do they score?

God why do the warriors still have Chriss

i don’t understand how a heat draft pick (precious) fell to them

i'd say a good half the teams in the league evaluate draft picks on the assumption that raw athleticism is always more valuable than demonstrated skills on the court, because they assume skills can be taught. they overlook how hard it is to un-teach bad habits or to rebuild a player to have good habits. hoops skills are instilled by endless repetition and muscle memory and if that repetition has been laid in poorly it's an uphill battle to overcome that. 'projects' rarely pan out as desired.

It’s because Jord is a heat homer, I solved this mystery

This bucks second unit looks awful. How do they score?

idk man the heat keep finding NBA players with low picks and mostly i find myself wondering why other teams didn’t draft them first

heat are spurs east i thought this was noted long ago

heat have traded away picks or just had bad ones for a lot of the riley era but recently theyve had some late lottery picks and done well with them

they didn’t have a great run in the bron era basically only picked norris cole & shabazz lol

it’s prob a bit unfair to judge the warriors based on playing two of the fiveish best teams in the league but it’s not clear to me how they’re gonna beat good teams

they dont look great!

Bucks are unstoppable if Middleton plays like this

GS is not making the playoffs.

ILH knows things. DRAY v KLAY

tbf neither of them have played this season

nets in the basquiats today they must not prosper

Trying to avoid judging my boys too much... but it’s hard. I think we need 2016 draymond to show up somehow. Hope he got that klutch hgh connection.

i still think dray was the better player at the time of that poll

I don’t see how the Warriors make the playoffs. Looks like they got something with Wiseman tho

Middleton was just trash in the bubble, bubble created lots of illusions

bubble boys go pop

the google pandemic ad makes me want to do terrorism

loooooooool

they wd just put your terrorism in their montage, theyre crafty like that

cant beat the big g

its sucks, theyre called alphabet bc they own all the letters, cant beat em

more like alpha butt

Just an absurd shot from Jayson Tatum pic.twitter.com/6c9i49iZVZ

— Chris Grenham (@chrisgrenham) December 25, 2020

kd is moving and playing at 100% imo and let me add yikes

the nets are...good

is the google pandemic ad the one where a bunch of dead celebs are made to seem to be endorsing google because that is a crime

they could accomplish the same thing with a tupac hologram looking up his death date on google and saying "damn."

lmao

Middleton was just trash in the bubble, bubble created lots of illusions

durant looking scary good it’s true

Middleton said he didn’t touch a basketball in quarantine and now he’s back in business so I’m all in on it. Millsap looks a lot better out of the bubble too btw, maybe because he’s a dad.

Nets look great and they are fun to watch the vibes are strong so far

did he touch a ball before the 2019 east finals?

the not touching a ball thing was such an obvious lie lol

wes matthews has looked completely cooked to me for like 4 years and keeps getting signed and put on the floor by title contenders

think the nets might be the favs in the east

lmao jvg never change my man