NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

topshot lulz economy starts here

Kyle Lowry tries to go under George Hill 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/DwXtS68Z4d

— CJ Fogler #BlackLivesMatter (@cjzero) February 26, 2020

Sources: 2021 NBA All-Star reserves:

West: Chris Paul, Paul George, Damian Lillard, Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert, Zion Williamson, Anthony Davis

East: James Harden, Julius Randle, Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Zach LaVine, Ben Simmons, Nikola Vucevic

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) February 23, 2021

randle over middleton is kind of insane IMHO, middleton is having a better year and randle has had one half of a season being this good ever

congrats to the boston celtics they have not really played that well but whatever they are good players

yeah agreed

paul over booker huh, tho i guess whichever didn't get picked is gonna replace brow

booker not quite having the year he had last when he def shouldve made it

trae not making it is kind of wild

really jaylen shouldve been listed as a front court player then he couldve taken voochs spot and trae could have the backcourt spot no one wants vooch in the big game

lavine, vucevic, randle making it over middleton, bam, trae is craziness. perhaps every team in the east is .500 bcuz their coaches are imbeciles.

might be something to that

feel like every nba generation has a guy who is like the most borderline all-star type who literally not a single person wants to watch in an exhibition game and vooch is extremely that dude

joe johnson handing over the armband or whatever it is

fucked up that conley has never been an all-star

Devin Booker is the most disrespected player in our league!!! Simple as that.

— LeBron James (@KingJames) February 24, 2021

idk guys i think lavine deserves it over trae. he's got that team in 8th place (hakws 10th) and his splits are insane:

28/5/5/1
on 52/43/86

while trae is
27/4/9/1
on 44/38/88 and everyone hates his ref bating.

CP over Booker is hilarious, even if booker hasnt been his best self (looking good of late, tho)

weird that there are two guys on the east team who have half a season of allstar production they usually make you prove it for a year before they let you in, unless youre zion or someone like that

idly wonder if russ is super pissed and is going to go 6 for 38 next time the wizards are out there to take his vengeance

also people like to watch lavine dunk, and zion

wonder how ingraham feels about zion getting in over him

broken record thing but the general talent level of the west vs east squads is pretty frickin nuts

i dont feel like theres a big fanbase for lavine but i could be wrong he is generally the type of player who could have fans

I always feel weird about guys like lavine because they’re making the all star team largely because they are seemingly at the far high end of their shooting variance. But you can’t argue with those numbers.

lol that luka 3 is brutal for the c’s, good D

LUKA x2

not much you can do about that except not be down big needing a 16-3 run to even get the game close at the end

Why did they put tacko in

it’s tuesday

Lol

I always feel weird about guys like lavine because they’re making the all star team largely because they are seemingly at the far high end of their shooting variance. But you can’t argue with those numbers.

And a shortened season didn’t allow for the normal return to the mean. These picks might look real silly come end of ye season

effort level from the nuggs on D is insanely low

just caught the end of celtics mavs and whoooo brutal

Such a delightful player, I think he’s gonna stick in the NBA for sure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP90cvTmuOU

yeah hes cool

I am lukewarm on him as an impactful player but he does fun stuff

can he reach the ceiling of tj mocconnel?

TJ is lowkey dangerous as a scorer in certain areas

Facu is just such a pest on defense that I’m kind of dismissive of any stat that says he’s not decent overall

yeah he causes a lot of chaos out there

Facu is averaging 2.2 deflections per game in 15mpg which is a crazy number. Simmons leads the league at 3.9 per game.

just seems like a guy who knows how to ball even tho he is short

TJ has 6 blocks and 9 steals in his last 4 games kinda wild. I think the league changed how they assign blocks, if you strip low on the way up for a shot its counted as a block now i think.

cp3 shooting splits for february .541/.500/1.000

seems good

his career numbers are so consistent

perusing some numbers this morning and weirdly jamal murray is 14th in the league in RAPTOR WAR

All-Stars based on each of the impact metrics (looking at total value so playing more minutes helps). I think the East has too many guards for RPM so I added in Simmons who would replace Kyrie if there needs to be an extra frontcourt. pic.twitter.com/VWWcjppqLN

— Krishna Narsu (@knarsu3) February 23, 2021

all in one stats are so dumb i hate them