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

btw some love has to be sent the clippers way for letting reggie jackson guard luka straight up w 3 seconds left i mean why not right

they sign two of the premier perimeter defenders in the league with arms for days, but yeah makes sense to put one of your shortest players on their best guy

hes only five inches shorter than him not known for his defense and if you blitzed luka the mave would have like two seconds to make a play

Doc Rivers vs. Rick Carlisle is not ever going to make Doc look good.

i honestly have no idea what reggie jackson is doing on the floor in this series

basically just cause beverly is injured

if you blitzed luka the mave would have like two seconds to make a play

srsly send 3 guys just blitzing and screaming at him when the clock gets to 2.5 seconds, it's luka ffs

xp i'd try shamet at this point, how can he possibly be worse

I’ve never understood the Reggie Jackson “thing”

i mean shamet got minutes too, they might think about some super big lineup idk

I’ve never understood the Reggie Jackson “thing”

― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, August 23, 2020 7:56 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Great two sport athlete but at 74 he just doesn't have the quickness anymore

benching mpj seems to help denver with not bleeding points

mpj subs in and is immediately tore up by mitchell

raptors bench scored 100 points tonight

Lukkkkkkkkkkkkaaaaaaakdjdjdjjdsjjsj (sorry just finished the game)

Wtf is going on with Pandemic P? Is that really his quote from after the game? Kinda reads like the quote after dame sent them home and he said It was a bad shot. Was kinda hoping he’d say that about this one too.

xp norm powell had a really nice series. i don't love that he's feeling it going into the next round against the c's

defs going to be a good series for watching

I really think there’s like 6-7 teams that have a legit shot at the title right now.

i’m reminded again how often i hear “post malone” when someone on TV says “coach malone”

if the nugs lose this series they might be the same thing haha

hahahaha.

malone is an interesting case of a guy who went with the shaved head for as long as i've known of him but it turns out he has perfectly acceptable hair.

if the nugs lose this series they might be the same thing haha

― lag∞n, Sunday, August 23, 2020 9:51 PM (three minutes ago)

I do think the nugs are rapidly approaching the age/talent window where expectations are going to be very high next year

are there any breakdowns out there of how the big break between covid shutdown and the bubble start affected certain teams? seems like there's some huge variation and while some of it is obvious like getting injured doodz back or being kind of lazy about booting back up i'm not sure why the nuggs have seemed comparatively dismal

I think a lot of it is the injuries! harris and especially barton were so important to a bunch of denver's lineups

jazz ball handlers are getting to the paint whenever they want on the pick and roll

i’m absolutely convinced one of the TNT guys is going to blow out an achilles racing to the big screen so kenny smith can do elementary tape breakdowns

lol jordan

Haha

nuggs also have the most significant home court advantage thats erased by the bubble

i guess the jazz are the one team that doesnt matter as much against though

yeah it's funny, these are the two altitude teams so it's a wash in the bubble

nuggets played as clean a first half as you could and the game was basically even, not great for them

jamaal murray is basically a kobe era player who understands he needs to take a certain number of threes... but at heart he wants to shoot step back midrange fadeaways. when the shots go in it does look nice tho

The nuggets had the best defense in the nba the first 6 weeks of the season

that was a long time ago

what’s the fix for denver on that end going forward... it doesn’t seem like any substantial changes are coming to the roster. murray and jokic prob project as average defenders at best... porter could maybe be legit on that end but that feels a few years away.

an insane trade was the heat getting crowder and igoudala (and dumping waiters) for the price of a player whose absence is fully unnoticeable

Just jam good defenders around those three guys, it works for Houston xp

need a hot hand update from matt

porter is so bad right now i struggle to see how he ever does more than scrape average on defense

scraping average being a high end projection

i think he’ll be a good help defender bcuz of his size... he’ll be able to contest. aside from his lack of reps i wonder about how much he’ll be able to/want to bang on defense given the state of his back

murray!

millsap with the clutch swipe block

fuck, mitchell

rip nuggs

paul millsap not the donovan mitchell stopper

donovan is...fuckin good man

Nuggets probably deserved to lose after Millsap did that swipe block (coaches tell you not to do that)

sort of exemplifies their desperation to stop mitchell