Regular Degular Redux - 2019-20 NBA Season thread 2

lonzo ball's shot looking like a million times better. it's not ever going to be amazing but his current form is working.

37% on 6+ attempts per game is good. Kinda bad he’s 40% overall tho.

happy for him, he looks awesome tonight

with his passing and rebounding combined w/ the way the game is played nowadays if he can hit 37% of his threes it prob doesn't matter if he can score inside the arch or not

these versions of ingram and lonzo paired w/ zion actually feels like it could be something longterm

7/9 threes tonight for zo

zinger can shoot too

this is a fun game some of our most promising young players

Love it

Zinger in the mid post is a disaster and they still go to it too often

Doncic got jrue there lol

Doncic has Paul Pierce’s speed and God’s handles

Steph back.

what a doofus

ESPN Sources: NBA has fined Mark Cuban $500K -- and rejected the Dallas Mavericks petition to replay the final seconds of a Feb. 22 loss to Atlanta. Cuban assailed league’s officiating leadership and system in a tirade — and twice went on court in final minutes to confront refs.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) March 6, 2020

Been a while since he’s done this but it was a pretty reg occurrence when he first bought them

he thinks hes part of the basketball game

maybe it's cos he has a generational talent on his team again

was nice to have curry back last night. nba much better with him playing.

clippers are addicted to guys

The Clippers are signing free agent center Joakim Noah, league sources tell ESPN. Noah, a two-time All-Star, is expected to join the team next week.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) March 6, 2020

thye gottta have at least 25 guys on that roster at this point

what do they even think theyre gonna do with all those guys

i totally forgot joakim played in the nba last year

teams are gonna put him thru the wringer every possession in the playoffs but this is eye opening

https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2020/3/6/21166068/duncan-robinson-miami-heat-three-point-shooting-impact-stats-highlights

Robinson ranks in the 93rd percentile off spot-ups
He ranks in the 96th percentile off hand-offs
He ranks in the 93rd percentile in transition
He ranks in the 98th percentile off cuts
He ranks in the 84th percentile on “guarded” catch-and-shoot attempts and in the 96th percentile on unguarded attempts

All this for a player who averages 1.1 field-goal attempts from two-point range per game. The NBA has seen a lot of great shooting specialists come through the ranks over the last two decades, but none of them have ever been quite as good at it as Robinson already is.

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— Austin (@ChefTrillie) February 29, 2020

hm

[from a different article]

He’s on pace for 298 three-pointers, which would be fifth-most in a season in NBA history, behind three seasons by Steph Curry (who hit a record 402 in 2016-17) and one season by James Harden. With Harden having made 261 threes this season and Buddy Hield 235, Robinson realistically could finish ranked sixth or seventh all-time for threes in a single season.

But accuracy is where Robinson gets a clear edge over any 3-point shooter other than Curry, if comparing single seasons historically.

He entered Friday shooting 44.6 percent on threes, by far the best for any of the five players who have hit at least 200 threes this season (Harden, Hield, Damian Lillard, Devonte’ Graham).

Only one player with 250 or more threes in a season (a threshold Robinson should surpass) has ever shot threes as well as Robinson has this season: Curry, who shot 45.4 percent during that season he made a record 402 threes. Three times, Curry has made more than 250 threes in a season while shooting 44 percent or better.

As perspective, Golden State’s Klay Thompson twice has hit 250 or more threes in a season (268 and 276) and converted at a 41.4 and 42.5 percent clip in those seasons. And Harden has shot between 34.7 and 36.7 percent during each of the four seasons that he has hit 250 or more threes, including 36.8 when he sank 378 threes last season.

In fact, only three players in history have done what Robinson is doing from a volume/percentage standpoint: Make at least 200 threes while converting at a rate of 44.6 percent or higher: Curry, JJ Redick (200 for 421, 47.5 percent in 2016-17) and Kyle Korver (221 for 449, 49.2 percent in 2014-15). And Robinson will hit far more threes this season than Redick or Korver did their seasons.

xp

I do be saying some crazy shit... but not that crazy...

— andre (@andre) March 1, 2020

i still believe

d rob is a cool player, fun to watch. herro is a sniper too. theye got some crazy good young talent.

the shot versatility is what's really special. lots of guys can spot up but to be able to get it up off all kinds of actions makes him so much harder to guard.

basically a kover 2000 type

Broke kyle’s record tonight for most 3s by a second year player

Aron Baynes went offfffff

Reason #1 not to fully trust the bucks: Eric Bledsoe

This is a good intense game

Bledsoe really is a liability for this team.
Great game so far. Bron has been exceptional the last few weeks

White Donte is ballin

The Nets are parting ways with head coach Kenny Atkinson.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) March 7, 2020

wtf

between kyrie’s comments recently and now this it seems like the nets are just intent on becoming a star driven franchise... feel like they’re gonna hire a ty lue like coach now. and even with all that heading into next year they still look like the 6th or 7th best team in the east.

i guess that's the only way to make sense of this:

Sean Marks and Atkinson had several conversations and the sense had been that a change was inevitable and both sides decided that there was no sense waiting on it. Both had felt that Atkinson and Nets had run course together. They have maintained a close relationship.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) March 7, 2020

either they didn't think atkinson could coach a kd/kyrie team next year or he made it clear he had no desire to do so

the nets making a bunch of savvy moves to speed up their recovery from the awful kg/pierce trade and then taking a hard left turn into trying to brute force a good team again is kinda sad

agreed. getting credit for building a respectable program and then revealing that it was all a front to get stars to a big market.

love for the Wolves to make a play for him

Somebody has to explain why a GREAT Coach like Kenny Atkinson gets fired?

— DeMarre Carroll (@DeMarreCarroll1) March 7, 2020

it’s true, someone should probably explain that to him

if the same person cld explain the shape of the earth at the same time.....

This is bizarre

Stephen A. Smith says he doesn’t “believe” the Nets organization believes in Kenny Atkinson.

That’s very irresponsible speculation if that’s not directly sourced.

He says the Nets coach will be whoever KD wants to be the coach.

— Billy Reinhardt (@BillyReinhardt) March 4, 2020

from 3 days ago lol