( ( ( ( ( nba bubble ball 2020 ) ) ) ) )

yeah fan thing is fine in long shots but the closeups are v v weird almost unsettling

hah yah stay zoomed out

lol, you know it's a pels home game because there's "smoothie king" on the court

yah kinda funny the little team logos and the sponsor logos.

Who the hell is tony bradley

damn zion. wasnt even ready for the oop and still got there somehow

agree with this

Stan Van Gundy is constantly dropping knowledge on this broadcast. Really a pleasure to listen to him and Ian Eagle. High-level announcer combo.

— Kevin O'Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) July 30, 2020

Was wondering who was doing the color commentary cause was thinking he's good but doesn't have that prime time pizzazz the national games usually go for

yah not one to throw out catch phrases or get hyped up

lonzo has missed like 7 layups

bubble boy

utah is just so uninspiring on offense. they are really missing bojan.

Utah has no fucking chance to do anything in the bubble. Their two best players hate each other and the bad vibes are obvious.

They look lukewarm, yes.

weird how svg comes off as sincere and enthusiastic while his bro has become a complete drag

i watch hoop friends

feel like u can only be a tv guy for so long before u just cant care anymore xp

unless ur a lifer play by play pro

gobert shd be deported from the bubble hes a super spreader

xp yeah true

watching baseball during commercials everything is normal

red sox have accomplished the famous home run

i guess i need to learn a bunch of jersey numbers since tons of guys have different hair and education reform on their backs

where is big zion w tho

they're playing him in like hockey shifts

ha yeah jersey names serve a purpose

where as these slogans...

for a second i was all who is this guy peace

mr. metta world peace really was a pioneer in retrospect

ha yeah

cad, that's bugging me too; especially in the replay when the camera is in a position where you can't see player's faces and it's impossible to tell who's who!
i don't know why they don't have the name and the slogan below?
it's leading to unintentionally awkward moments where Black Lives Matter is passing to Say Her Name and then getting blocked by Ally

zion has such amazing touch he just flips it up there and it goes in

magnets

Not a fan of the slogans on the uni thing

gotta say, i always felt concerns about quality of play in the bubble were wildly overblown and i'm feeling pretty good about that take

theyre looking a lil rusty but not awful

Those scrimmages had me lil worried but otm

And lagoon said exactly what I was going to about jvg. His boredom with the nba is so apparent.

have not watched tv since the sports stopped and have to say am not enjoying these weepy pandemic era commercials

the key is to literally shut yr brain off in a state of near death then u dont notice them

ah cool will do

pelicans r blowing this game bigtime

these courts need better lighting. also the chroma key for the team sponsors is shit

pels interior defense is just so bad and there isn't a quick fix for it

Ooh nice pass by Donovan

welp

extremely dumb and more importantly cowardly for the pels to not play zion in the last few minutes

yeah what the point of their team even if theyre not gonna play him

you gotta think that whatever shot the league had to add a bunch of new fans who tuned in bc of the high quality of the bubble product compared to other situations in sports is gonna be flattened by no new viewers having any clue who is who out there

ha lebron isnt doing the jersey slogan thing

Will/can Bam guard Anthony Davis (to the extent anyone can)?

xp bruh that 2015 series was the semifinals

Lakers in 6?

yeah, if I had to pick. but i really have no clue how this series plays out. Miami is the hottest team right now but who knows how the matchups will be.

lakers have two unguardable guys heat are gonna run around a lot see what happens

lakers in 6 feels like the safest bet. heat are gonna have to shoot the lakers out of the gym.

i love this photo of spoelstra video coordinating

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ei-bQdIXkAE_fc4?format=jpg&name=medium

i wonder if he keeps up with the video coordinating tech

I sat on a plane next to a nba scout like 20 years ago and they had all this crazy video tech for watching film on their laptop. Video cartridges I hadn’t seen before. I also realized watching him work that if you run a new play every team knows what the play is in a day: the name of it, the hand signal for it etc

They probably use the cloud or something now

is it just me or were the celtics basically terrible every time hayward was in the game? he missed a stock-still layup with about 6 minutes left to go in the third and i wanted to throw my toshiba regza through the wall.

love the heat though. just going to log off now and order my “group economics” replica tank

hayward was bad he never got up to speed after the injury would be a shame if they were forced to trade him for myles turner

oh my god he DOES belong back in indiana, jesus

it was written

J.R. Smith predicted a Lakers vs. Heat Finals back in February. 👀🍿 pic.twitter.com/JvJ0oENsw2

— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) September 28, 2020

twice a day

J.R. Smith predicted a Lakers vs. Heat Finals back in February.

Call me crazy, but this evidence doesn't convince me that J.R. Smith has a brilliantly analytical basketball mind that can sift through thousands of variables and arrive at a sound prediction of the NBA's future.

http://media2.fdncms.com/clevescene/imager/u/original/19701283/lebron_jr.jpg

https://www.gq.com/story/inside-the-nba-bubble

did this get posted somewhere? it's fantastic

Inside, we devised all kinds of ways to pass the time. Once, I played Heads Up! (the charades-like game where you hold your phone up to your forehead) with Kemba Walker of the Boston Celtics at the end of an interview. The answer on the screen was “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,” and the clue he gave me was “They be flying on brooms and shit.” Ja Morant of the Grizzlies and I would play Connect Four on the iPhone (he still hasn't beaten me), and Chris Paul and Russell Westbrook—who were traded for each other before the season began—would team up and play spades on their phones against Chris's brother, C.J., and his mom, Robin. Westbrook in particular was a model bubble citizen. He always made sure his hotel room was “clean and in good shape,” and he reportedly left an $8,000 tip for the housekeepers. (When we spoke, Westbrook confirmed he wrote a thank-you note and left a good tip, but wouldn't confirm the amount: “The money doesn't matter. I just like to do the right thing. That's it.”)

there's some other great stuff I don't want to spoil

it got posted in the offseason thread but yes everyone should read it, really really good stuff.

oh right I'm dumb