2019 nba OFFSEASON news, rumors, drama, and recriminations

even better

feel like I haven't watched hoops in a year, offseason draaaaaging

its really depressing. im ready. season is gonna be a blast.

yes.

Season

hoop(s)

nice to see markelle fultz getting up some shots though i'm still not sold on that form

premature prediculation: markelle fultz will not be that good at hoop(s)

Interpretation of the evidence for the efficacy and safety of statin therapy. Collins et al, Lancet 2017

whoops lol

daaaang that’s a flex “accidentally” dropping that medical citation in a hoops thread, ok doctor k

i think there's a few things in pubmed that i'm an author on if it comes to that but i hope we can remain civil in discussing ball

Collins et al are fucking quacks fwiw

fn finally

Height will be measured with players' shoes OFF, I'm told. Player weight will not be sought because that number fluctuates so often ...

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) September 26, 2019

now gotta go back and remeasure every former NBAer still alive. Barkley will turn out to actually be 5'9".

haha I use ilx’s text box when I’m copying and pasting for power points because it always formats everything to the same font size and type

Oh weird, that’s kind of revolution. Kind of want to take bets on how tall KD actually is.

haha I use ilx’s text box when I’m copying and pasting for power points because it always formats everything to the same font size and type

― k3vin k., Thursday, September 26, 2019 1:03 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol as a heavy powerpoint user i love this

lol sick hack

(any text editor will do the same fwiw)

lol kev love it. i use text edit for de-formatting

I am basically a boomer when it comes to tech and obv always have ILX up

its good adam silver reads my posts

Breaking at ESPN: The G League this season will use the "one free throw counts for all the points" rule on shooting fouls -- on 2s and 3s: https://t.co/6mn9VQtzYg

— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) September 26, 2019

oh nice

Are they considering that for the NBA?

i like it to speed up the game but hate it otherwise. they do it in the big3

i feel like less free throw downtime would decrease the average number of minutes a starter could play in a game? maybe its not a big enough effect to matter though

Idk how I feel. Why should someone have to make 2 15 ft shots when hacked going for a layup/dunk? "good foul" is a part of the game...but it really shouldn't be. But then I do think all pro ballers should be at minimum very good shooters and I like the advantage excellent FT shooters bring to their team. The ol "two to make one" rule intrigues me more because if you miss the 1st attempt you're SOL otherwise.

deadball rebound, perfunctory daps is the most tedious play in the game

This change would be nearly as fundamental to the game as before and after the shot clock was introduced. Many traditional coaching strategies would be eliminated at a stroke. It would also eliminate a whole skill set from players' repertoires and allow more minutes for players with limited skills. These changes would push the game in a direction of being faster, but simpler.

I kind of like me some complexity. Even croquet benefits from its elements of strategy and complexity.

whatre u even talking about

"one free throw counts for all the points" rule on shooting fouls

ok well how does that do the things described in yr post

i don't think the change reduces the value of excellent free throw shooters. you no longer get the hope that the 65% guy is at least going to make one of two.

thinking good fts wld become slightly more valuable, never seen the numbers but i bet theres more variance between good and bad shooters on the first ft, but i dont think itd really do much except eliminate the worst part of the game

lil less rest for big minute players......

I wish they'd eliminate 2/3rds of the timeouts.

otm, i mean commercials are really the worst part of the game if u want to include them

I wish they'd eliminate 2/3rds of the timeouts.

― EZ Snappin, Thursday, September 26, 2019 12:58 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

they kinda did?

The maximum number of timeouts per game has been reduced from 18 to 14 and teams can now call just two timeouts – instead of three – in the final three minutes of regulation. Also, teams now have just two timeouts to use per overtime session instead of three.

i thought the last 2 mins got noticeably better last year with no more than two timeouts per team

yeah

yeah it was a great move and made for some crazier endings

v much looking forward to this 1 ft experiment

4 out of 18 is not 2/3rds.

no, it's 4/18ths

(citation needed)

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i don't think the change reduces the value of excellent free throw shooters. you no longer get the hope that the 65% guy is at least going to make one of two.

yeah agree. I left out the part of my thinking where I totally get rid of FTs on hacks committed on a guy in the paint.

idc i just want to see some hoopses

(all of ILH nods vigorously)