It is the years 2018-19 in the National Basketball Association (NBA) - The Regular Season

In one of those articles they mention that the suns only missed the playoffs like 6 times from 75 to 2010. Would be a shitty thing to see them move.

i think colangelo wont let it happen

Dubs v Raps tonight yall

duds vs craps

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I lol'd tho

duds vs craps

― ciderpress, Wednesday, December 12, 2018 5:54 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

faced

lol

KD on the bill simmons pod round 6. he seems in a better mood this time.

jfc 6 times lol

listened to that in the car today, not a lot of juicy stuff

Yeah, but Rich, please stfu.

Turns out if you can stay in front of Giannis he’s actually a minus on offense? Tough to ever buy Bucks or a Simmons-centric 76ers ever make a finals if neither of them learn how to score outside the restricted area.

I admire Giannis’ commitment to grinding through sub-20% outside shooting – it’ll come eventually since his form looks decent (and knows which hand is dominant).

Rich does seem like a dud for sure. Kd much better for dramz when he’s drunk and grumpy

kyrie just assassinated the wizards

no kawhi tonight lame

thad young is one of the best possible defenders for giannis in terms of size/strength/agility

Lol even in the post-game, Thad just shook his head and said “Gotta stay in front of him.” Basically, you either have a a spry, long-limbed defender or you don’t! Feel like having those willing defenders is what makes Raps/Celtics/Pacers so dangerous for Bucks/76ers in the post-season (Raps/Celtics being the obv best bet).

I admire Giannis’ commitment to grinding through sub-20% outside shooting – it’ll come eventually since his form looks decent (and knows which hand is dominant).

― ヽ（´ー｀）┌ (CompuPost), Wednesday, December 12, 2018 9:11 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

must respectfully disagree his form is trash

another year, another round of smh at how bad westbrook is in clutch situations

It’s true, but in my mind I was mostly comparing it to Simmons’ jumper, where there is a thrilling which-hand-will-shoot-with performance. I can imagine Giannis tweaking his jumper quicker.

Giannis gotta get rid of the hitch. Way to much going on with his shot.

dray with 2 fouls and a tech in 4 minutes

Giannis had basically improved his 3pt % every year: 16% -> 25% -> 27% -> 31%, and his ppg avg progression would look right at 28ppg if he just hadn't slipped. Hitch or no, there is no way he's ending the season shooting 11% from 3.

its hard to shoot when yr limbs are one million feet long

KD says otherwise

its not like no one can but the correlation is clear IMHO

they shd maybe just play him at center? a lot of his halfcourt looks are just post ups he dribbles into anyway he might benefit from playing off the ball more getting looks in favorable circumstances diving to the rim and so forth, then let him be a freeform ball handler in transition, only problem is bucks roster is kinda bereft of other creators

His destiny is to be a KD who can overpower PFs if he needs to – he's got KD limbs and Kawhi hands, he should be fine. He really doesn't need to spend any time doing anything but figuring out his form and just getting it right. Kinda wonder if this 11% is maybe due to Bud-era's first try at streamlining his shot and he's just struggling. Would explain why he still has a green light shooting as badly as he is. Historically bad!

not everyone can shoot at an nba level its really hard

Hitch or no, there is no way he's ending the season shooting 11% from 3.

― ヽ（´ー｀）┌ (CompuPost), Wednesday, December 12, 2018 10:55 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ok but he's also not going to end the season shooting a percentage that is even in the vicinity of average

and he's not in the same universe as kd as a shooter. never has been, never will be.

ATM Bucks should just recognize which teams will stay in front of Giannis and let Bledsoe control the game; otherwise, just let Giannis dominate games where he can. Funny that Thom Maker will continue to be the X factor that keeps them from being a really fun team. He's still super-young, really hope he maxes out his potential.

I know someone else who's pretty decent despite having a bad jumper, a man by the name of Lebron James

lebron's jumper comes and goes but it isn't "bad" at all

lol is it ok with you guys if giannis is like the 7th best player instead of the 2nd or 3rd?

Totally right – he's never been an outside threat. But! He's improved every season, and I have to think that he'd relied on his driving game for most of his basketball-playing life. It'd be a struggle to get back up to 30s% this season, but it's still early. It's clear that everyone understands that Bucks' potential rests in Giannis' ability to shoot from outside, and they're willing to let him shoot ~10% after 30 games to force it to happen.

brons been a pretty dece shooter for a while except that one season like 3 years ago where he cldnt hit one shot in which i suspect his back was just fd up

it’d for sure be impossible for giannis to bring his season mark up to 30%, as he’d have to shoot >40% the rest of the way

lol is it ok with you guys if giannis is like the 7th best player instead of the 2nd or 3rd?
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, December 12, 2018 11:13 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Want Giannis and Simmons to max out their potential - would make both teams so much more exciting if both players didn't have crippling deficiencies. Again, it's cool that Bucks are giving Giannis leeway to fail; sucks to watch Simmons basically concede this whole year, esp. since 76ers would immediately become a legit team if he could score in the midrange at all.

the monkey paw will not uncurl until simmons switches shooting hands

raptors are killing the warriors in oakland without kawhi

yikes, they went off w/o him last night too

xp I mean it's not looking great, but he's 2.5apg, so if he did decently on 4apg, he could maybe bring it up. Probably not going to happen for him this year! I think they'd just like him to hit a 35% clip at some point this season - the hope is that they're emphasizing some kind of consistency with his jumper, even if he's fucking it up now. See how it develops!

Warriors thought they could half ass this game with raps on the 2nd night of b2b and w out their best player. Not so.

Warriors haven’t had a wild 3rd q comeback in a whole. It’s time.

giannis jumper seems to be getting worse w coaching, bad sign

He needs the shot doctor

Oh damn sick kd around the back move then smash on ibaka !