NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

"kevin the chris paul stan" is 4 first names iirc

There’s so much agonizing about MPJ from the nuggets fan base

🐦[Javale!!!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/4HdUfTxAzS🕸
— Jay King (@ByJayKing) January 25, 2021🕸]🐦

Would javale have put up wilt numbers if he played in wilts era lol

Cavs are setting the stage for Lebron to come back again

javale wouldve put up wilt numbers if he was better at basketball

bron ending his career in cleveland does feel like a bron thing to do

I remember when the Cavs picked Sexton and I was like “this is the guy they always draft” but this time it worked!

That turned out to be a pretty amazing draft. 10 of the 14 lottery picks have been very impressive and you can’t really question the team’s decisions on them.

I remember when the Cavs picked Sexton and I was like “this is the guy they always draft” but this time it worked!

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, January 25, 2021 11:20 AM (four minutes ago)

i mean..... maybe. he's putting together a fun season but i would suggest not looking up any advanced numbers on sexton if you want to believe he's been particularly valuable overall as a player

That turned out to be a pretty amazing draft. 10 of the 14 lottery picks have been very impressive and you can’t really question the team’s decisions on them.

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, January 25, 2021 11:23 AM (eight minutes ago)

i think the draft where 3 teams passed on luka will go down in history as the questionable decision making draft

i mean..... maybe. he's putting together a fun season but i would suggest not looking up any advanced numbers on sexton if you want to believe he's been particularly valuable overall as a player

― J0rdan S., Monday, January 25, 2021 11:29 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

cmon hes a third year player who just scored 20 straight points down the stretch of a tight game, he might not be efficient or consistent yet but those are things you can work on, 90% of nba players couldnt score 20 straight regardless how much they worked, i mean theres no guarantee he pans out but he has obvious talent

xp not sure how you're getting to 10......

sexton has been fun! he's not going to be a bust. he obv has moments of crazy, very high level shotmaking. but if he's the best player on your team for an era of like 5 years i'm just not sure if you're ever making the playoffs or winning anything if you get there

who knows! he might be good enough to be best player on playoff team, its in play

btw his was the pick the celtics gave up in the kyrie trade lol

which was a very reasonable decision but did not turn out great

celtics were the guinea pigs for 'leader' kyrie

small chucker type PGs are fun but it kinda reminds me of the kemba era hornets where it's like... you can only do so much

xp not sure how you're getting to 10......

― call all destroyer, Monday, January 25, 2021 11:41 AM (seventeen minutes ago)

if we're going by "very impressive" i'm not sure how you get to like... 5

if we're going by "not busts" i could get to 8 or 9

can sexton defend?

small chucker type PGs are fun but it kinda reminds me of the kemba era hornets where it's like... you can only do so much

― J0rdan S., Monday, January 25, 2021 11:58 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

you can get other good players........

it’s okay goon jordan’s just trying to inspire sexton to take it to “the next level”

lol motivational posting

you could almost say it’s jordan-esque

I remember when the Cavs picked Sexton and I was like “this is the guy they always draft” but this time it worked!

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, January 25, 2021 11:20 AM (four minutes ago)

i mean..... maybe. he's putting together a fun season but i would suggest not looking up any advanced numbers on sexton if you want to believe he's been particularly valuable overall as a player

― J0rdan S., Monday, January 25, 2021 11:29 AM (thirty-three minutes ago

I've only seen him play a few times this year and I am baffled he's good based on the way he plays but his advanced numbers are actually solid? TS 62%, PER 21.5, RAPTOR is +1.6. not bad for a 22 year old who

he suggested not looking up the advanced numbers

well per 538's WAR number he's been equally as valuable as damion lee, cameron payne, thaddeus young, talon horton tucker and josh hart, which is sorta my point

he's a fun player, not a bust, it was amazing when he stunted all over the nets, i just think the player archetype is a tough one once you get beyond crazy upset wins and random insane scoring busts, which *is* fun so i guess it just depends on where you're coming from in the discussion

if you sort the 538 numbers by offense he rates as a top 35 overall player (sandwiched in between jamychal green and enes kanter go figure) & his defense isn't even a huge drag on his numbers (538 has him as an equally below average defender as malcom brogdon, devin booker & brandon ingram). he just has to take the offensive game to a level even beyond this

ok!

SOURCE: The Brooklyn Nets are in active discussions with the Cleveland Cavaliers to acquire JaVale McGee. Also have interest in Kevin Love

— Jason Dumas (@JDumasReports) January 25, 2021

lmfao if they put love on that team

javale makes sense. kevin love does not. they need defense lol

The Suns passed on Luka because they had Booker. Was that the best decision? Probably not. But Ayton looks scary good this year and I can’t really argue with the decision anymore.

ayton looks good the last few games. he was his not so good lazy self before that.

ayton pick was way more defensible than the bagley pick but only barely

only barely way more

But Ayton looks scary good this year and I can’t really argue with the decision anymore.

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, January 25, 2021 12:53 PM (one minute ago)

i can!

It’s coming into focus tho. I wish it wasn’t, I don’t want Jokic playing him 4 times a year rn

i am really hoping for kevin love to the nets now

kevin love needs to go to the nets it couldnt be more obvious

Collin Sexton is averaging 26 ppg while shooting 52/46/82 so if there’s a stat that says he’s not a top 30 offensive player rn it’s probably a bad stat

the thing about not taking luka cause you have booker is they wouldve been good together, at least on offense lol

they picked ayton bcuz he went to school in arizona and most NBA front offices still default to "well you have to pick the center, there's only so many guys like that on earth!" but it turns out there are way more players like deandre ayton in the NBA than there are players like luka. ayton will prob have some really nice seasons but at its core the logic was deeply faulty

the league has moved on from the center centric viewpoint, suns mustve really thought ayton was special, like youve really got to be a baller to be a superstar center in todays league eg jokic, davis

james wiseman just went 2 overall over a handful of wing/perimeter players who will prob be more valuable than him over their careers

i'm not seeing $30M in outgoing salary on the nets unless it involves a guy with the initials K and I

it's hard to know what the suns thought because their owner 100% meddled in that decision

james jones just took jalen smith over tyrese halliburton and devin vassell so he was prob down with it

james wiseman just went 2 overall over a handful of wing/perimeter players who will prob be more valuable than him over their careers

― J0rdan S., Monday, January 25, 2021 1:05 PM (twenty-nine seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

he did but thats much more the exception than the rule these days, also weird draft/weird situation

i'm not seeing $30M in outgoing salary on the nets unless it involves a guy with the initials K and I

― call all destroyer, Monday, January 25, 2021 1:07 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

its prob bs, some local news guy, cleve prob planted the story to see if anyone would call them about love

even though the game isn't played that way anymore it seems like teams still get a pass by playing the gotta-draft-a-can't-miss-big-man-when-you-can card. center centrism dies hard