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

hahahahahahah

honestly, as soon as that story came out, they should have immediately fired vlade for letting his petty personal bullshit get in the way of saving their bum ass franchise. imagine fox and luka, good lord.

i feel bad for bagley, not only did he get sent to the nba development graveyard but he has to carry the burden of having been picked before luka. odds are really stacked against him

34-20-12-2 for luka

seems good

derrick white is avging 20-5-5 in the bubble, could be helpful for the spurs

guards playing a little more freely without LMA maybe?

a lot of that, a lot of pop prioritizing the development of their young guys. their starting lineup has been white-murray-lw4-demar-poeltl which is v small ball but is kinda working with keldon johnson as the 6th man. demar has actually played really well in this setup. tons of driving and kicking on O, lots of switching on perimeter D. poeltl is the perfect pick n roll complement for derrick as well.

spurs fans have been clamoring for this all year. no amount of losing seemed to dissuade pop but the pandemic + injuries to lyles, forbes, and aldridge have kinda forced his hand. and it's working.

feels a little like the fabled EWING THEORY

so many of these games have been awesome it's kind of insane

suns and clips throwing blows in crunch time rn

gonna finally watch a basketball game

devin booker buzzer beater fatality

TJ Warren is doing it again!!!

how do you get to be one of these virtual fans

family and friends of the team & team office from what i can tell

some virtual fan lady let her titties air out the other day

yikes

Grizzlies: Memphis F Jaren Jackson Jr., suffered a meniscus tear in his left knee and will miss the rest of the season.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) August 4, 2020

this suns team is good. this shot was crazy.. reverse pivot over kawhi and pg and got fouled

DEVIN BOOKER FOR THE WIN.

pic.twitter.com/cuYWMiYvu7

— Complex Sports (@ComplexSports) August 4, 2020

heat looking crispy without jimmy butler this evening

xxp

shit thats pretty bad for the grizzlies playoff hopes. they have a 2 game lead over the competition, but they could easily lose it in the 6 games left.

that lead is meaningless anyway because 9 only needs to be w/in 4 games to trigger the play in

yeah true

from what i've seen of the griz losing jjj is it for them

for sure, he's amazing. that eighth seed is wide open

lol gordon hayward has been feisty inside the bubble

awesome bam game tonight

another incredibly competitive game overall

too many fouls

Yeah, Griz are done. I will lol eternally if someone other than NOP get in and the NBA diapers become soiled.

i wonder if the refs are getting psyched out by no fans

there's def a strong undercurrent of sloppiness to these games but everyone is playing super hard and there has been good scoring

bam doing his giannis impression tonight

marcus smart just fouled out in the 3rd quarter lol

that's dope as hell

i'm not gonna lie when reggie miller said that a minute ago i simply thought i had misheard him

lol

tatum has 5 fouls still the 3rd quarter

i don't see the issue personally

i heard today that there's like 10 more fouls per game, which is completely nuts. i guess one theory is that they hear contact more easily without crowd noise?

is the fake crowd noise just on tv they shd play it in the stadium

they probably should at this rate

the celtics should play “kemba walker”

its a good idea

That really sucks about JJJ

i heard today that there's like 10 more fouls per game, which is completely nuts. i guess one theory is that they hear contact more easily without crowd noise?

i do think some of it has to be chalked up to the odd alchemy of intensity and sloppiness that could only come from dropping the players into the final 2 weeks of the regular season after a 4 month layoff

Tbh I haven’t been super upset about the number of fouls but there’s been a lot of clearly wrong calls (many of which aren’t challenged for reasons I can’t grasp)

there's a few sequences in each game i've watched that are like benny hill preseason level play w/ bodies flying everywhere and 6 missed shots in the span of 20 seconds but at playoff level intensity

forgot how completely weird the rockets are now