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

yup, completely agree.

i know the blazers defense is terrible, but caris levert is legit with those herky-jerk stop-start moves

otoh that final brick was v bad

idk wtf reggie is talking about but that was not a good look.

levert could get to the rack so easy all game & takes that jumper wtf

there's a reason why ideally caris is a 6th man

respect to the bubble suns, i wish them the best for next season

Maaaaaaan blazers d was atrocious

caris missed on purpose out of respect for dame

this is canon now

so that game was extremely anticlimactic but pretty much even with every other blazers bubble game so fair enough and also it sucks the griz are in instead of phx who deeply fucked up the bub every night but c'est la vie and may we be blessed with a max amount of dame as demigod games going forward

Amen. Very excited to see Dame try to show up Lebron.

Nurkic seems like he’s worn out. Started off the bubble looking like the best center in the game

Bulls have fired coach Jim Boylen

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) August 14, 2020

good.

what took so long

“Each time I saw a look… I was raising up and shooting it.”@Dame_Lillard on his logo shot. pic.twitter.com/7QdMWMuWL3

— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) August 14, 2020

Logo Dame
*Wrist moving into extension during upward arm motion, balance hand is bias top of ball at release, he “drops” into 1-2 step(ball dips w/hip drop), & rotational freedom
🔺Unique:Finger tips come off ball as wrist moves from extension into flexion @bballbreakdown pic.twitter.com/nbterPcbwo

— BBiomechanics (@BBiomechanics) August 14, 2020

he should have ROTATIONAL FREEDOM on back of his jersey

otm

haha

The Ian Mahinmi Experience is over.

4 years
180 games
5.3 PPG
4.5 RPG
$64,000,000 pic.twitter.com/reza41UMyD

— Wiz of Awes (@WizOfAwes) August 13, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPXIIokdc1U

wow, boylen is gone. but he accomplished so much.

Most bad NBA coaches get fired without ever leaving a mark. Jim Boylen literally installed a punch clock at practice, caused a team mutiny his third day on the job, coined the phrase 'double lose', compared Luke Kornet to Robert Horry, drew up ATOs for Adam Mokoka while down 20,

— Ricky O'Donnell (@SBN_Ricky) August 14, 2020

Invented a 'leadership council' that didn't exist, made grown men do push-ups and wind sprints at practice, put Ryan Arcidiacono on Giannis, spoke daily of 'growth plates and 'care factors', had no shame in losing to the worst team in the NBA, "prepare the children for the road"

— Ricky O'Donnell (@SBN_Ricky) August 14, 2020

Defended losses by quoting "Field of Dreams", said he wanted his team to average 35 assists which has never happened, watched almost every major piece on the team regress, had a rookie center say he's "got some things he can get better at as a person and as a coach”

— Ricky O'Donnell (@SBN_Ricky) August 14, 2020

as someone with no investment in the Bulls this is a sad day, Boylen delivered incredible lolz

really quite unbelievable he made it as long as he did.

never underestimate how stingy Reinsdorf Co is

ha didnt know half of that stuff the punch clock my god

Not really sure what happened to Derrick Jones, but they had to carry him off on a stretcher. Really just looked like he ran into a screen with his shoulder :(

Kings GM Vlade Divac is stepping down, source tells @TheAthleticNBA. Joe Dumars (advisor previously) will be interim executive VP of basketball ops and immediately assumes GM duties. Dumars will be involved in the search for a new GM.

— Sam Amick (@sam_amick) August 14, 2020

end of an era

fire up the 21 cig salute

"My understanding is that Divac being so close to Luka and knowing his dad so well factored into their decision," MacMahon said on ESPN's "The Woj Pod." "Basically, he didn't think a whole lot of Luka's dad, and the whole like father like son ... well ... no, this is a different dude.

yo is it true vlade divac got sonned by a slovenian kid after a yugoslav beef????

wow, that is quite an acceleration from the story i read ~24 hours ago about how joe dumars was an emerging voice in the kings org and that he and vlade would be working together closely!

Shoulda happened years ago

would be into a season or two of succession but it's vivek and vlade and whoever else just flailing helplessly behind the curtain

lol thinking abt vivek just getting madder and madder the better luka gets until he cant stand it anymore

joe dumars is there with both of his phones, ready to listen

Houston is lifeless

sixers are going to score 150

i assume everyone is pulling there starters pretty soon

Vlade did talk Bjelica into coming back to the nba. Luka thing is just unforgivable tho

yeah the scale of those two things is....very different

i have seen what vivek is doing play out in my own professional life. the cliche about some leaders is that they will act like they are experts on things they know nothing about and then they make a bunch of bad decisions.

but that's not usually it. there are really smart people, who are good at a bunch of things, that end up with responsibility for something they know nothing about. and they know that they don't know about it! and that they need to listen to experts. and then they become very.....credulous. and they listen to whichever *expert* is around at the time. and *that's* how they end up making all the bad decisions.

the play in games are prob here to stay right having all those teams in the race down to the wire was good

i don't like the idea of them with a full 82 game season but if it's just 8 vs 9 i can deal

like why are we playing 82 games in a sport with decently low variance if we're still not going to accept the results at the end

also in this case it didn't actually add any relevant teams

memphis is relevant