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

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