NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

the logo three he hit seconds before, too. jesus.

xxp

yeah + not sure the last game winner I can remember off a fumbled jump ball

ridic

holy fuck dame

sickk

jazz-nugzz rematch on deck

22/3/2/1/1 for Jokic in the first on 9/11 shooting

jokic is fucking on one rn

This is against Gobert and favors, who have made zero mistakes lol

It’s cool that rj Hampton is in the rotation, Malone usually hates rookies so a good sign

weird how mike conley’s RAPTOR defensive plus-minus of +22, a legitimate estimate, isn’t helping more here

The Nuggets shot 15/17 (88.2%) from 3 in the first half, which is the best 3-point shooting half in NBA history per @Sportradar. No one has shot over 75% with 15 makes. Only thing close is the Thunder going 12/13 vs UTA in 2017 or the Spurs going 10/10 against OKC in 2019. https://t.co/6EGJu7uEep

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) January 31, 2021

now might be a good time to give jokic a half-game off!

nope lol

idk i'd prob just sit him for the 4th here

Campazzo doing campazzo things

barton just airballed a layup over the backboard

Jokic double double streak continues

Jokic is my favorite player, and I love the team in general, but it’s hilarious to me how they continue to sign and draft the players I want. And it’s not just tim Connelly, Masai did it too. Like RJ Hampton and bol Bol were top 10 guys for me and campazzo is basically the platonic ideal of a guy I would sign.

I’ve never been a Russell Westbrook fan but this is pretty sad

this is prob his best game of the season at least in terms of scoring efficiency

Lmaaao

Bradley Beal’s first half pic.twitter.com/myuahk6bMW

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) February 1, 2021

if you’ve gotten to that point you might as well just demand a trade, what’s the point of torturing yourself

And your teammates

it's odd tonight because the wizards are actually playing fine. russ is having a decent game for once.

yeah it seems like brad realized the game was actually gonna be competitive and so he starred to try

only down by 2, imagine where they would be if he wasn't dicking around like that earlier.

basketawwws

"You one my favorite players."

—Immanuel Quickley to Lou Williams

Respect 🤝💯 pic.twitter.com/sgikjJIalP

— ESPN (@espn) January 31, 2021

dying @ horrific game ending westbrook 3 attempt

never change, russ

..... or not!

hahaha wait what????

This Nets-Wizards simulation is insane.

— John Hollinger (@johnhollinger) February 1, 2021

That was madness wow. Lol why is joe Harris their inbounded over and over

I’ve never been a Russell Westbrook fan but this is pretty sad

― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, January 31, 2021 7:26 PM (two hours ago)

41-10-8 on 16-28 shooting, 4-7 from three, game winning shot

Yeah I do this all the time, I’m the king of reverse jinxes

it's pretty obvious that he assumed durant would keep moving toward the sideline, and durant for some reason did a 180 and headed for the middle of the court. of course joe needed to actually look where he was passing but i can see why he thought someone would be there.

Brooklyn needs to crack down on the defense. Build up some strength and toughness. “We must protect this house!” Remember those ads? They need to be like that.

and brad beal hit an insane pull up 3 with a hand in his face to even make it possible to begin w/ xp

the nets plan to play every game in the 120s 140s and win lose by less than 5 is going great

― call all destroyer, Monday, January 18, 2021 8:12 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

nets can't stop dribble penetration and have no rim protection, it's not a great combo

beal didn't score in the first quarter (wasn't even trying) and then put up 37 in three quarters, russell had 41, they were getting wherever they wanted the entire game

btw after all that wiz still should've lost by giving up a point blank lay up look off an in bounds

kyrie's blatant travel on that should have been called, he was acting like a guy doing a side out in soccer

They really did trade a lot of players for harden. I still think this should work but I have questions now

Sixers somehow came back from down 16 with 8 minutes left without Embiid.

it will work for scoring but i dont think they have one single plus defender on that starting lineup. maybe kd

big 3 heat were a great defensive team, KD era warriors had 4 plus defenders in their line up if you count igoudala, last year's lakers were primarily a great defensive team more than anything... feels like the nets are def in uncharted territory. maybe you could point to the lebron/kyrie/love era cavs that had JR and tristan rounding out the line up, but again you had lebron at the very least

i dont see how they get to league average defense with their current roster

they're along the lines of those cavs teams for sure. but it seems like the offensive environment is even crazier now though, which makes it harder to just outscore everyone, and all of a sudden you're getting lit up by the wizards whose best player literally didn't try for a quarter of the game.

-it's just crazy how a 149-146 final score doesn't seem that crazy anymore