NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

theres gonna be a lot of nets games with ridiculous scores

i mean

kyrie - one of the worst defenders in the league
harden - were all familiar with his work
kd - good to great when locked in, not always locked in, unclear what the situ is re major injury recovery
joe harris - actually have no idea
dre jordan - cooked
landry shamet - doesnt look like a good defender
jeff greem - gotta be cooked right

tbf the best defense is a good having james harden and kevin durant to score a lot of points

they shd try to trade kyrie for defense lol

Yah exactly xp. Cabarrot might be good but not sure. Interested to see how nash (kd) staggers the minutes of the big 3.

honestly what do they even need kyrie for

That may be why they got harden. Trade Kyrie before he retires or takes off a season to go hike Europe

the current nets roster is bad and hated

i wonder what they cld even get for him rn

yeah if he doesn't want to play for a basically guaranteed finals team who is he gonna show up for

the current nets roster is bad and hated

i actually like the madness but i can't argue with that

Capela is having a great season. That was such a weird trade. Why did Houston give up on him again?

he was injured and they were making a last ditch effort to win a ring before morey and harden fled

Well glad the Hawks took advantage of that delusion

yeah good deal for them

Giannis’ free throw problems remind me of Tim Duncan. There were a couple years where he struggled and it really got in his head.

when guys come into the league work on their shot for years and... it gets worse, thats nba baby

Season continues its weirdness... Celtics only score 75 points lose to the knicks by 30. Bulls blow out the mavs coby white 0 points Lavine only 10. More games postponed.

Pacers ended up getting second rounders from the rockets and cavs to make the trade happen. Gotta imagine those will be top 40 picks

Watched most of the Bulls Mavs. Best defense I've seen Bulls play since Thibodeux days. Unselfish on offense, including Lavine. But Mavs are…not a good team.

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The slow-mo of this is even weirder looking. https://t.co/f46FdlID9p pic.twitter.com/XaCG0oWhgt

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It’s so weird that Jokic has been so awesome on both ends but we’re 6-7. The bench shouldn’t be THAT bad but they are.

Yeah the nuggets lost Jerami Grant... but Jamychal Green has been just as good. I don’t really get it.

question: can jokic palm the ball?

Kevin of course he can

are we absolutely certain

It’s really hard to dunk with one hand if you can’t palm it

I don't know if that's true. Whenever I'm around a lowered hoop I have no problem one hand dunking with my tiny girlish hands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmlSRqQ7w58

11/15 (73.3333333333333333%) of his dunks last year were two-handed. even when he goes for the one-hander there's not a whole lot of confidence or really yamming going on

https://imgur.com/a/9ka1xkE

not an authoritative palm imo

is there any video evidence of jokic palming the ball, at rest, palm-down?

It’s really hard to dunk with one hand if you can’t palm it

Durant was clearly joking

My hands are a whole lot smaller than Jokic’s and I can palm the ball.

Jokic is a very, very large man with very large hands. He probably dunks two-handed because he's a euro and they approach the game with a greater emphasis on fundamentals compared to the American love of flash & swagger.

is it harder to palm a leather nba ball?

looks like jokic does have abnormally small hands, per this list http://www.draftexpress.com/article/2014-Nike-Hoop-Summit-International-Measurements-4437/

THE HONEY THICKENS

maybe abnormally small hands for a 6'11" man who weighs more than 250 lbs. and has a 'wingspan' of 7'3", but that's still a damn big hand.

jokic has baby hands thats why his nickname is baby honey hands

When the universe is aligned I can palm a leather ball just about as easily as a quality synthetic. I can barely palm a synthetic so the fact that I can sometimes palm a leather shows there's not much difference

I bet you could count the number of nba guys who can't palm a ball…on one hand. But there's palming and then there's doing in game shit with it with ease like it's a tennis ball.

Exactly. Allen Iverson couldn’t palm it and you could tell. I guarantee Durant and Jokic can hold the ball palm down

Durant misses a lot of one handed dunks

yeah i can palm the ball but having full control of it while palmed is a different matter

If you ask someone if they can palm a basketball that’s what they mean, they don’t think Scottie pippen ballfakes are the test

It would be funny if Durant just never worked on grip strength and that’s the entirety of his issue though

When he entered the league he couldn’t do a single rep on the bench press...

lance stephenson loved to do that showy one handed pump fake, but he also had some of the largest hands in the league. youd think that if it was easy more players would do it but i cant recall seeing it except maybe from kawhi

Risk/reward issues i would imagine; unless you can be absolutely sure that it won't slip out of your hand in a full speed game scenario, you're gonna get benched for showboating if you cause a turnover with that shit