2019-20 NBA Regular Degular Season thread

meanwhile Brogdon seems like the kind of dude who makes everyone better, he has great court vision & shoots very well. he's racking up tons of assists on the Pacers which he didn't really do in Milwaukee.

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

if u cant shoot fts u cant shoot is how i break it down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XWgRpfkxhY

thing w bron too is hed just take over a fourth quarter making a game winning shot unnecessary

lebron has the most playoff buzzer beaters of anyone

that too, especially heat bron. but he's hit lots of big shots!

when a very good team is all ok were gonna throw everything we got into stopping this guy and they just cant well thats the champ stuff

that weird banking floater to beat toronto was some true goat stuff

yeah thats the immediate one i remember

i don't really believe in the whole imposing their will thing though

idk i think being unstoppable is valuable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZiK72JZpsY

btw this year i became totally comfortable crowning bron the GOAT

i watched a lakers game where he demolished a fourth quarter cause he felt like it then saw some old jordan clips thatre starting to look old and was just like.......its time

now watch clips where LBJ quits on his team in ECF or where he loses a Finals to Dirk + role players while scoring < 18ppg on poor allaround shooting

lol I'm actually fine with anyone having him as their GOAT. He's very very good at basketball and has been for a long time.

and hes still dominant at 34, tho obvs doesnt have the energy level to do it all game every game

feel like you can make a case for MJ, kareem, or bron as the GOAT but that’s the list

yeah those are the guys

jordan was so captivating at the time but when i watch his clips now it just doesnt hit the same, the game has progressed, naturally

I don’t think some magical thing happens in the playoffs. Giannis is the best player in the world and the only reason he wouldn’t be the best player in the playoffs is variance. The same was true for Lebron.

MJ's shooting % starting falling by that age, and points/rebs/asts were all down a tick. LBJ basically still has same numbers for all those as he did in the typical late 20s athletic prime.

There are certain players who don’t give a shit about the regular season and turn it on tho

imho the offs are different

I don’t think some magical thing happens in the playoffs. Giannis is the best player in the world and the only reason he wouldn’t be the best player in the playoffs is variance. The same was true for Lebron.

― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, December 3, 2019 12:43 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

ding ding ding. lebron couldn’t win in the playoffs until he did. same will be true for giannis

i'm with matt on this one, the only magical thing that happens is every game is vs a good team that isn't resting any players

its not magical im sure u guys cld come up w some things thatre different about the playoffs its not hard

theyre well known and make sense

ding ding ding. lebron couldn’t win in the playoffs until he did. same will be true for giannis

― k3vin k., Tuesday, December 3, 2019 12:45 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

something mightve changed between the losing and winning something to ding about

They call fouls less and sometimes they totally shaft role players. Two things that I don’t seeing a big problem for Giannis (certainly wasn’t for Shaq)

I mean do you think playoff officiating is what gets James Harden

its def a big part of it

giannis might want to think about making his game more like shaqs

imo the 2011 Finals were more about Dirk than Lebron

still hard to fault him too much when he got to the Finals all 4 years he was on the team then 4 more times with the Cavs, all with oddly constructed teams. when Jordan left to go play baseball the Bulls were still pretty decent, they won 55 games & a playoff series, meanwhile all of Bron's ex-teams utterly fell apart the instant he left

Dude he’s shooting like 65% lol

and he totally crushed until he met the raptors last year

Variance how do it work

thats fine if u dont watch basketball

all superstars go through a process of honing their games, making them bulletproof if they want to beat the best most prepared teams

When the raptors were up 2-0 on the raptors and Giannis was averaging like 27-15-5 was that because the raptors hadn’t activated playoff mode

but i mean maybe playing the suns on wednesday night in january is the same as the ecf sure

*bucks up 2-0

iirc thats when they switched kawhi onto him

Hmmm seems like this is all really matchup dependent and not a playoffs thing then

playoff adjustments baby!

Giannis had a bad game 3 and that’s all that matters

idk i dont think its difficult to see the flaws in giannis game

matchups are more important in the offs cause teams have more time/incentive to prepare, its more strategic than the regular season where u m/l just have to play yr game and move on to the next

Took the league until game 3 of the eastern conference finals to solve his game, they then forgot

HOT TAKE: playing the SAME good team for 4-7 games in a row is much different than anything else an NBA player deals with