2019-20 NBA Regular Degular Season thread

Harden and Russ have yet to figure out how to play good at the same time. I don’t think it can happen really

btw russ cut his 3pt attempts in half for the last ~month and has been much better since think part of the capela trade was to get him more room to operate hes been posting a bunch which is an interesting counter to the d laying off his shot

― lag∞n, Friday, February 7, 2020 11:20 AM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah they've basically turned russ into a center.

― call all destroyer, Friday, February 7, 2020 bookmarkflaglink

this is why i am intrigued by the rockets. they are willing to go all in on the biggest strengths of their roster. the 76ers could learn something from it.

xp to lagoon and matt I feel like the obvious answer is shaq. came into the league dominant and ended up a top 10 player of all time. put some respect on the man’s name

I used to be a rockets defender and I still like harden and pj tucker, but what matt said is true, they have been basically running the same offense for like 4 or 5 years now and it’s getting old

rockets offense changed entirely 2 years ago when they got cp3

yeah otm re shaq but can we at least say joel is one of the very mostest talented post players of modern nba

I’m happy gazelle didn’t get traded because the thunder are hella fun

they already have so many draft picks i don think it wld be the end of the world for them to not tank

ya best of both worlds baby

showing competence is a good strategy as well.

want to keep shai happy too

Probably the biggest thing that drives me nuts about Embiid is how slow he is in his decision making. I haven't looked into it, but it seems like teams are double-teaming him even more than in the past. So often he gets the ball 10ft from the basket and should see the second defender hedging toward him for a double team. Instead of reacting right away and decisively attacking his defender before the double team can get there (or passing it right away to the open man if the second defender is already committed), he takes 2+ exaggeratedly slow dribbles before he tries to go to the basket, allowing the second defender to come over and block the path to the basket or strip the ball. I know he was a late bloomer, but it seems like maybe his feel for the game was always intuitive and he hasn't learned much since.

it just seems like he hasnt worked on his game at all since coming into the league

too busy working on his persona

Bron dont be caring sometimes pic.twitter.com/XEOwB6TyCk

— drew. (@NBAYoungDrew) February 7, 2020

lol wow. russ didnt move at all either.

Last 2 min in close game wtf

they cancel each other out

load management

duh

Steve Kerr on D’Angelo Russell: “To be blunt, the fit was questionable when we signed him (from a positional standpoint).” Full quote. pic.twitter.com/eKs89GSLQr

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) February 7, 2020

not exactly showering him with praise on the wag out.

when Bron's wife is mad at him does she give him the "load management" excuse in the br?

i knew dlo was out after this

Pretty sure Draymond was REALLY MAD at D'Angelo for not sprinting back to prevent this Nuggets dunk ... pic.twitter.com/iGj75Sll5D

— Drew Shiller (@DrewShiller) January 17, 2020

btw thats literally the fastest i ever saw him run the whole season. that may be his top speed

wow tough words but with Curry and Thompson out there, not much room for D'Angelo to fit in on the court i guess damn

he was always the means to get someone else

wiggins!

wiggins would be ok for about half of what he's making now.

yeah I mean the Wolves couldn't do it because they wanted to save face and/or hope he was going to some day turn into a superstar, but maybe now he can be just a player divorced from where he was drafted, expectations, all that, could be good for him

not a good slate of games tonight

yah p ugly.

anyone watched Oladipo play yet? How's he look?

hes missing a lot of shots and is a bit less explosive. his defence and confidence are still there tho

oof whiteside is out tonight, gobert is gonna eat portland alive

the returns of the rockets new tiny lineup are mixed

no russ tonight tho

lol dame started off this game with 4 straight threes, 27 in the first half, it ain't over

How is Dame as a defender?

better than he used to be in that he tries now but not great

So lame that that’s not reviewable. So obvious that it was a goaltend

That’s a huge deal for the blazers fighting for a spot

IT HIT THE BACKBOARD FIRST!!! pic.twitter.com/Ld0l2RgPrv

— BBALLBREAKDOWN (@bballbreakdown) February 8, 2020

they have to change the rule to allow a review in that scenario

not happy about that non call folks!!!!!!!!!

sorry about the non call clay

it was really bad and may have playoff implications!!!!!!!

John Collins has been killing it since coming back from the suspension

the PEDs worked!

Totally

Got that new juice

minny smoking the clippers rn. 102 with 3:30 left in the third

we made a trade, now we're the best team in basketball