2019-20 NBA Regular Degular Season thread

Before he became an assassin he was mostly known for being this just fun scorer and he had those dunk contests with Nique too. He was on some mediocre squads that he was trying to will into being contenders and soon had some great playoff moments that were legend-building. He just had a really clean narrative to his run of league wide dominance.

sorry I didn't mean to suggest that he's not great, and he probably is the goat! it's just there's a....weird energy...to the way that dudes get so adamant about it, like it it's not the stats then it's the rings and if it's not the rings then it's the "era", I dunno something I can't quite articulate bums me out about it

childhood heroes die hard

MJ being seen as likeable was purely a byproduct of the image he was given by Nike, Hanes, and other advertisers.

Like that dumb Lebron chalk celebration is a bastardization of an actually fun thing Jordan would do with Red Kerr before games

ha that encapsulated the diff between MJ and Bron for me back when I really did not like Bron

80s MJ was way more fun than 90s MJ. I don't think ppl who weren't around back then are familiar with that pre-titles, pre-postup fadeaways, pre-BeLikeMike era.

MJ altered his game in subtle ways incrementally over time that made him a bit more traditional and less jaw dropping moment to moment that the initial impression he made is easy to forget but when you see clips of him from his first several seasons he was so explosive to the hoop, he was making every else look like George Mikan.

Like George Mikan circa 1986

These was a reason Nique was his rival bc he was the only one out there whose game was similarly futuristic seeming, I recognize there was considerable overlap in the timeline between MJ and Nique and Bird and Magic but the latter pair felt much more old school.

Absolutely. Pre MJ nearly everyone looks awkward and stiff in comparison. Even someone like Dr J has an awkward game apart from his modern style athletic finishing abilities. Post MJ you have journeyman randos who can smoothly break guys down off the dribble and finish with a double clutch reverse. Just elevated the vocabulary of basketball.

Prime Bird, MJ or Magic would be the best player in the nba right now.

I feel like ABA Erving was probably a shorter Giannis

Bird and Magic but the latter pair felt much more old school.

― omar little, Tuesday, December 3, 2019 7:02 PM (fifty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

iirc bird was on the jordan bandwagon early saying something like "maybe theyll leave me alone now" when asked about him lol

also a bit in some dream team doc where bird and magic were getting each other amped to go against jordan at their first practice and he came in and just annihilated them and they were both all welp our time is over now

Bird and Magic but the latter pair felt much more old school.

― omar little, Tuesday, December 3, 2019 7:02 PM (fifty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

iirc bird was on the jordan bandwagon early saying something like "maybe theyll leave me alone now" when asked about him lol

props to bird for appreciating the good basketball

63 point game. God in basketball shoes. That was MJs 2nd year and only played like 19 reg season games.

I always thought Magic was over the hill by 91 finals. But he was only 31 when he retired. Wow that was a shame.

My friends and i all thought Magic was going to die in a month iirc

I always thought Magic was over the hill by 91 finals. But he was only 31 when he retired. Wow that was a shame.

Feeling a big Jokic game here

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Yah wtf is going on w dude

I think I need to take a break from watching him for a while. just really mad at him

You’ve got yer boy doncic at least

Fultz is good now and that’s cool. Orlando was the perfect spot for him to get his groove back

i don't even like the nuggets and jokic is making me mad

Jokic gonna dominate the second half you’ll see

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Javale going over the back on every rebound

Honestly Jokic has been fine I just want some more FGA

Jamal Murray wyd

lonnie walker single handedly willed this spurs team into a tie against the rockets after being down 16 going into the 4th

scored 19 pts in the 4th alone, including a dagger 3 to tie it from about 28 ft out

That’s cool I gotta check the highlights

yeah that's great. spurs need to be trying anything right now.

these clippers uniforms are very confusing in a game against portland.

Spurs need to let the kids play and get rid of the middle aged midrangers

rondo is such torture to watch

Pretty sure Gary Harris is the best defensive 2 guard in the league

is the clippers court the worst in the league bc it is really awful

just athletically speaking idk if the spurs have ever had a player like lonnie. kawhi is an athletic freak but lonnie’s explosiveness is different. if he can knock down threes he’s gonna be an awesome player for them. he’s gonna be able to score at the rim and has the length to be a pest on defense.

he's been doing that all night tonight

Is Lonnie good tho I’m not sure

looking ahead at the playoffs, the heat look like a bad match up for the raptors. bam shut down siakam tonight and the raptors have no post offense to counter the heat putting their de facto center on him.

Lonnie Walker IV dropped 19 PTS in the 4Q to force OT 😳 pic.twitter.com/VQA2ny501n

— Bleacher Report NBA (@BR_NBA) December 4, 2019

Nuggets really needed Barton to hit some of these threes

Spurs rox has been fun. Russ is ROUGHHHH

think he’s like 8/32 fg or something

Harden has like 30 fta

russ 7-30
harden 11-38