NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

someone on Twitter pointed out that Shaq owns a percentage of the Kings and missed

casual

me or Shaq? true either way

can we somehow leverage his Kings ownership into getting him booted from the nba journosphere? pick your argument: he's biased for his team, his lack of knowledge about his own team proves his uselessness, his team is the ultimate laughingstock

shaq should stick to adverts

xp definitely shaq and not you matt.

hopefully ppl are starting to realise that shaqs fragile mouthbreather act isnt an act

yeah it's not a new thing lol

the jazz not having a better wing to play over royce o neal concerns me. i know it’s all been gravy this year but when i watch them i can’t help but feel like they have 4 out of 5 of an ideal line up. in the playoffs teams are going to target bogdanovic on defense and dare o neal to make shots on offense & i feel like it might be their fatal flaw

the good thing for the jazz is the have gobert back there to clean things up for iffy defnders like bogdan and clarkson, teams trying to run rudy off the court is maybe more of a danger

That’s always been the problem when they get into the playoffs.

jazz are def the kind of moneyball team you love to see on paper and it’s cool it’s clicking in this very small sample weird ass season but as they say time will tell

thing is you can still be very good and lose a series to kawhi leonard or lebron. the chances of the jazz beating the LA teams back to back seem very minimal to me & that’s not even shade

their wing match up vs the clippers scares me but the clippers guards trying to stop the jazz guards is laughable. lakers are tough bcuz AD draws your center out naturally

luke kennard just played 8 total minutes across two games vs the grizzlies

exactly what you want from a guy who just signed a $64M contract extension

the chances of the jazz beating the LA teams back to back seem very minimal to me

if the jazz stay at 1 and the lakers and clips stay at 2 & 3 they jazz will only have to beat one of them fwiw

that is true... pretty important one seed this year

1 Across in today's nyt crossword is a delight

yes i thought of ILH :)

post it what is it

The clue is "Hoopster's mantra." 10 letters

haha awesome!

andonetrik

BEHOISTING

It looks like Shai Gilgeous-Alexander will be a top 15 player at some point. Pretty cool

hes fuckin good as hell, not even sure that paul george is that much better than he is RIGHT NOW let alone for the next decade plus with all those picks

averaging 23.6/5.3/6.3 on .515/.425/.790 splits, sheesh

https://i.imgur.com/s9wOixV.jpg

Was just stopping to drop off that nyt xword

man the t wolves are fucking awful

I looked up the league average 3 point shooting this year, it’s .369 compared to .355 in 2019. actually not as big of a difference as I thought it’d be

how many more attempts tho

oh yeah 34.9 vs 32.0

Every day I’m mad at myself for losing faith in Randle last year

fake friends smh

I looked up the league average 3 point shooting this year, it’s .369 compared to .355 in 2019. actually not as big of a difference as I thought it’d be

i’m not yet willing to believe that lavine and randle are much better than we thought they were given the offensive environment in the league this year

_I looked up the league average 3 point shooting this year, it’s .369 compared to .355 in 2019. actually not as big of a difference as I thought it’d be_


idk a full 1.5% jump league wide seems pretty big to me

Two young players expected to join New York's Obi Toppin in the All-Star Slam Dunk competition on March 7: Portland's Anfernee Simons and Indiana's Cassius Stanley, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) February 28, 2021

i’d be more interested in whether obi toppin can touch his toes

Haha

if ever there were a year for actual all stars to do the dunk contest

anything involving flying more players around the country to party for a weekend is dumb as fuck

cassius is not an nba player but he does have crazy hops

yeah just make zion and zach lavine do it

this whole play was great

The Greek Freak SLAMS IT HOME for the win!! pic.twitter.com/BUG7kLl4SL

— Milwaukee Bucks (@Bucks) February 28, 2021

Those are the Bucks I want to see in the playoffs some time (not vs Boston)

commendable to be making passes on a last second play

Giannis has been good this year but its been a while since he just took over a game like that, monster 4th q from him

Atlanta signed Gallinari, Bogdanovic, Dunn, and Rondo in the offseason for about $50m in total salary owed this season, and they've combined for -0.1 EPM estimated wins.

— AKelly (@andlankell) March 1, 2021