NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

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

It appears that Anthony Edwards might not be able to shoot the ball very well

Durant needs to learn a couple tunes off Me and Jerry to get that finger strength

giannis a non-factor in crunch time vs the nets, every play ran for middleton

harden’s “i’m trying again” stat lines are hysterical

xp honestly was wondering if he was hurt or something

Kevin Porter situation sounds terrible, worrying

the nets plan to play every game in the 120s and win by less than 5 is going great

crazy how whenever it comes down to the last possession Budenholzer always seems to draw up his lowest percentage play. its always contested corner 3 for Khris and he never makes it

the nets plan to play every game in the 120s and win by less than 5 is going great

― call all destroyer, Monday, January 18, 2021 10:12 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i support this plan

Kevin Porter situation sounds terrible, worrying

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, January 18, 2021 10:10 PM (twenty-four minutes ago)

his reaction seemed immature/scary but tbh they kinda did him dirty w/ the locker situation

if i was out of work for a few weeks because of ... "personal issues" ... and i came into the office one day and there was a new hire sitting at my desk i would be pissed

another player throwing food in anger in cleveland, theyve got serious cultural problems over there

can't imagine giving a fuck where my locker is but in fairness i have not had a locker in a long time

apparently they moved his locker to the section of the locker room reserved for end of bench guys who don't play. i get why he felt disrespected... obv there's lots more going on w/ him but it seems like a reckless decision on the team's part w/ someone they know is in a mentally fragile place to begin with

like, hey we're not letting you play and we just traded for a guy and now he has your locker. i would feel disrespected or like a message was being sent to me... not that i would've have thrown food. now i'm dying on kevin porter jr hill

yeah, i get it, otoh they have taurean prince coming in and i'm sure they want to make him feel welcome and like he's part of the rotation which he is, and currently kevin porter is not.

it does seem like a clear example of message-sending that in this case did not work out.

he "threw food"? Feels like we are getting half the story. did he throw the whole tray of oysters or just the bowl of parsley chiffonade.

realized i was picturing it as a chili dog

He threw the edible flowers! before the dish could be plated!

just unseemly

every basketball game should end with an iron chef like meal, where a team earns 0 to 50 points making multiple courses for the refs.

Oubre got a tech for blowing a kiss at Trezz 😂 pic.twitter.com/qAQqVeIDPB

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) January 19, 2021

Good tech

imo player should have to blow kisses after made baskets, this is an outrage

honestly it is ridiculous i am not the commish

pretty much all taunting should be legal

https://i.imgur.com/rwdv78X.jpg

big anthony blew no kisses, and a whole town paid the price

why is kuzma playing in crunch time?

vintage

STEPH SHOW pic.twitter.com/MMb0jxPrNS

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) January 19, 2021

i love how excited steph gets after he makes crazy threes, he's still not unphased by his shooting ability

dang, awesome win for the dubs

yeah that was nice

Come on, Steph pic.twitter.com/sHhfPtWKaV

— CJ Fogler 6'7" IQ 269 #BlackLivesMatter (@cjzero) January 19, 2021

Incredible comeback. Kelly’s best game dubs win another one with Steph not playing that great. 2nd unit looks solid

why is kuzma playing in crunch time?

seems like schroeder-KCP-bron-AD is gonna be their four at the end and the fifth will just be whoever is hot out of their hodgepodge of other role players

the margin of error for the dubs vs these A level teams but steph + draymond + anyone making a three pointer is still just very very good offense. steph looks like one of the 5 best players in the league to me, draymond is still so good getting on the pick and roll and going downhill... they really just need oubre or wiggins or someone to be able to catch a pass and make a shot. it makes so much sense on paper lol

paschall was good tonight

Kerr probably needs to play more Lee next to curry. I could see their best lineup being curry Lee wig oubre dray. Paschal leading the 2nd unit as a small ball center is working.

I’m kinda worried about wiseman. If the dubs want to win games this season they probably shouldn’t be playing him. Dude has hands of stone and needs time... but they shouldn’t squander any season with a healthy Steph.