NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

really no idea what they are doing but if all they get for harden is a handful of picks then i think they lost this trade badly. okc got SGA out of the PG deal plus all the picks. i guess they could just firesale the whole thing

well they could have had allen and/or levert and passed on both. wall-oladipo-christian wood is getting you a first round slaughtering at max and that's assuming health from the first two which feels like a real gamble.

they are sort of stuck in no man's land... the wall trade is understandable bcuz they got a first round pick for exchanging equally toxic contracts but the wood signing indicates they didn't think they would have to trade harden this season

tbh wood ended up signing for so cheap there was kind of a "why not?" factor to it. if he plays well and the background stuff is decent he could have trade value too.

yeah def a defensible signing

i just hate the idea of breaking it all the way down if you dont have to. its still worthwhile to field a competitive team on the way to the next phase.

they have a couple months to get a good look at oladipo

spottie i agree w/ you re tanking, the heat never bottomed out between the big 3 and jimmy eras and some of those seasons were really fun, even after bosh's blood clot stuff. it just seems like that's where they're headed w/ this trade so i feel like if you're going to go the draft picks route you might as well go all in. i also think it's much harder in the west to play the 7-8 seed game because of how much stronger the conference is on the fringes of the playoff race.

exactly. the clippers did it too after lob city broke up and turned themselves into a plug n play desirable place for big free agents. showing competency is important. but the big wildcard here is tilman firtitties money problems.

that guy shd consider sell the team good way to get money

yeah for every team that successfully pulls off a hard tank (i guess the latest example is philly?) there are 3 or 4 more that never recover e.g. wolves, hawks

i'm not sure how good a fit dipo is for the heat in terms of player profile. having two players in butler and adebayo who won't shoot outside the paint is barely viable in todays nba. oladipos breakout season was founded on unsustainably hot shooting which has now regressed to his mean

dipo to lakers makes more sense. even if they know its only for this season. hes set on getting paid as much as possible and reportedly turned down 25m p/a from the pacers

hes gonna end up on the knicks isnt he

probably yeah

lol

bud really sucks huh

yep

wait how the fuck did thanasis get into the game?

dis lebron guy ayy hes pretty good

tbh haven’t seen much this year to convince me that we’re headed for anything other than the lakers going back to back pretty comfortably

yup

i miss the old irrelevant Lakers and as much as I kinda like LeBron and Ant Davis, I hate that they teamed up on the fucking Lakers.

i feel like it has already been forgotten that brow was leaning well into heel territory in his last year with the pelis

Davis isn't such a sweet guy the world can't help but love him. otoh, it was obvious to me that NO is not a very competent franchise and he was being wasted there, so his being unhappy at that explains much. It isn't looking good for NO knowing how to make the most of our transcendent son Zion either.

looks like the rockets are going to pick up kevin porter jr. for nothing

and what a strong culture they will be welcoming him into

dray must have said one of the magic words

just saw it, completely ridiculous

That’s crazy

For those wondering, here's the play right before the ejection: Draymond Green tries to make an entry pass to James Wiseman, but a miscommunication leads to a turnover. As they get back on defense, Green yells at Wiseman and the refs ejected him! https://t.co/L3VbMNprs9

— Alex Kennedy (@AlexKennedyNBA) January 22, 2021

Wtfffff

The Shaq-Donovan Mitchell exchange was awkward. lol pic.twitter.com/JxnxSIKl9F

— gifdsports (@gifdsports) January 22, 2021

inside has needed a cleansing fire for like, what, at least 5-6 years now

the fuck

ugh. that sucks.

they were being so negative about mitchell in the halftime of that game. it was bizarre.

It is a shame to see Shaq going hard like he was some Jordan-esque mind warrior of the game instead of just the biggest, strongest guy on the court. If you were such a basketball ubermensch maybe you would have shot better than 53% from the line for your career.

Pfft he could have averaged 20 rebounds a game

what the hell Shaq, he's so weird on that show, grumpy and no fun

saw him on First Take yesterday and he was super fun, like the big kid vibe, what happened to him on TNT?

past his bedtimes

He ruined inside the nba the second he joined the crew

yeah shaq has always been lame but inside the nba shaq is the lamest shaq of all

looks like the rockets are going to pick up kevin porter jr. for nothing

just give him a normal locker haha

Time for Shaq and Chuckles to move on honestly

yeah chucks been cooked

its wild that the nba media employs so many people who just repeatedly shit on contemporary basketball, like that is bad for business, the nfl doesnt do that

they should bring in Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson

otm

they should bring in matt barnes and derek fisher

lol

haha