billionaire techbros club - 2016-17 NBA regular-ass season thread (the first of a series)

itt we watch grown men struggle futilely against an immovable leviathan in a late capitalist pasttime

lets do predictions and shit-talking. keep magnanimity and generosity to a fuckin MINIMUM please lest we forget the purpose of athletic pursuits altogether: the total, irredeemable humiliation of your enemies as determined by municipal residence

KEEP IT INTERSECTIONAL THO

lets do predictions and shit-talking

Got it. THE MIGHTY PORTLAND TRAILBLAZERS WILL FUCKING RULE as the sixth seed in the western conference.

predix:

WEST
GOLDEN'S TAINT WARRIOR
ACTUAL JESUS' TEAM aka COACH WOKEAVICH'S SQUAD #GOALS
LA CLIPPERS (ahem i believe it is las clipadoras)
UTAH MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR
GRIZZLED
TRAILS
H TAHN
THUNDERS

close calls: WOLFPUPIES, DALLAS

EAST
CLEVE
BOSSTON
DRAKE OWLS
HALCONES
DETROIT
PACERS
KNICKS
BULLS

nota bene i dont rly think the bulls and knicks will get in but i want to believe these terrible ass washed superstar teams deserve to get their moment to be thrashed about in 4 or 5 game 1st round routs

finally a thread for me, the Bay Area billionaire

http://i.imgur.com/q6soYAg.png

its sad, there are so few threads for you in the internet. the other day i was like wow i am so lucky to live in america but then i remember that i am a multi-millionaire and my billionaire brothers are out here struggling to post content. never standing for the pledge or national anthem or any of that wack shit, fuck america

for real though i am excited to watch the spurs infants, like half the team is under the age of 30 and im not used to having so many children. i feel like the old woman who lived in the shoe.

https://www.colourbox.com/preview/3440454-cartoon-basketball-raising-his-hands.jpg

want to use this prime real estate to honor my good friend 2014 nba finals mvp "passing"

rip passing, murdered by his evil twin ball hogging and evil cousins large shorts and boasting

time was you could walk into an nba arena and the attendants all knew your first name and you could leave your jacket with the phyllis and now because of obamacare? give me a fuckin break

nuggets will win the nba playoffs

by bringing the finest kush to oakland and convincing the warriors (who will be extremely high) that they should trade places

soothsaying

WEST
1. the bay area deficit hawks
2. the basket ballmers
3. bison's babies
4. [extremely homer voice]
5. evan macmullin's 6 electoral votes
6. d'antoni coaching harden should get a bunch of wins i guess?
7. memphis i guess? we really need fresh blood in this conference
8. the twolves of minnesota

EAST
1. bron
2. leprechauns
3. what is a pacer even? like a pace car? or a jogger or something? i never even thought about this.
4. canada
5. hawx
6. detroit? i hope?
7. hornets somewhere around here
8. gonna be contrary and say the wiz bounce back slightly this year but they just get injured so much and hate each other

mvp: bron
dpoy: kawhi why not
6 man: evan turner haha j/k nobody cares about this award
coach: bradley stevens

champ: cavs vs dubs, dubs win zzzz already bored of this

Really excited for the 2020 season

https://usatftw.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/ballmer11.jpg

vital above the fold image

wait i had meant to start a dedicated predix thread cuz i always wanna look back at them but can never find them

putting m bison and clay's posts in here 16-17 nba predix

this is the year ciderpress will be correct

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http://i.imgur.com/4TFQ157.jpg

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https://localtvwjw.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/jr-smith-shirtless-shirt.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Zg1aHDZ.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cvjgpz4UkAAOagI.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/lXARcHo.jpg

http://spillthatea.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Nike-Kobe-11-Retire-681x381.jpg

lmfao

http://gossiponthis.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Westbrook-alone-e1467719115217.jpg

https://fteswl.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/westbrook-alone-e1467719115217.jpg

now i don't have to pretend to car about nfl games

forever in our hearts

http://i.imgur.com/SQpZu65.jpg

;_;

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2016 season boldest prediction - basketball still dope ohhhhhhhh yyyyyeee
http://i.imgur.com/hBOHY9q.png

east
CLE TOR BOS CHA IND DET ORL ATL

west
GSW LAC SAS UTA HOU OKC DEN NOP

all these things shall come to pass

the topic is kinda lol but the way it reads is really lol http://theundefeated.com/features/white-american-nba-players/

I hope I can give every white American kid out there hope that they can make it to the NBA no matter what race they are or where they are from.

good thread already hey everybody

tonight do i watch cavs v knicks opener and ring ceremony or do i watch tribe vs cubs game 1 of the world series

cavs are old this year wow, FOUR players age 36 or older

seven players over the age of 30

warning sign def

Dave McMenamin
ESPN Staff Writer

LeBron James says he didn't have any input in the design of the Cavs championship rings. "I'm just fortunate enough to be a part of three championship teams so far in my career," James said at shootaround Tuesday. "It's not like I'm going to be wearing it like a wedding band or things of that nature, so I'm just happy to be able to be a part of another ring ceremony, be able to have a ring for my archives. But as far as aesthetics and things of that nature, it doesn't matter."

he's unstoppable

https://45.media.tumblr.com/325a5048799f919d2900e01266dfec9a/tumblr_nnb376Xq5m1ut8brzo1_500.gif

haha

I forgot to add to my post last week about lebrons basketball computer mind generating a way to climb out of the 3-1 hole in the finals- I actually really believe that Lebron is walking around using like 1% of his mental capacity on things like talking and whatever else we all think about and the remaining 99% is background-processing basketball stuff. So his responses to questions are basically on autopilot and thus a phrase like "things of that nature" just gets churned out automatically so it seems like he's talking to you but really he's thinking about how to solve a particular defense he saw in a game seventeen months ago

lebron is scarlett johansson in lucy and will eventually become godlike, formless basketball intelligence, doling out his skills to others at random whim

nah, he's just a messy little bitch quit foolin yourselves.

porque no las dos?

Andrew Bogut ✔@andrewbogut
It seems the accounts that are offended by my following of all political demographics are SJW's. Any good SJW accounts out there? #oxymoron

Hollow Ween Fan @T_nels
.@andrewbogut at least the Social Justice Warriors didn't blow a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals

Sick burn.

hahahahahahahahaha

i like this thread title just fine but the next one needs to incorporate "things of that nature"

and bogut damn i didn't know that about him

yeah dang gobutt

Dallas Mavericks ✔@dallasmavs
What are you doing @andrewbogut?
9:25 PM - 24 Oct 2016

o_O

fuck a bogut

http://i.imgur.com/jjdMzsB.png

apt

3-1 jokes... they hurt me

Chuck omg. Off to a quality start...
https://twitter.com/NBAonTNT/status/791040127321550848

3-1 jokes... they hurt me

― Spottie, Tuesday, October 25, 2016 4:55 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's gonna hurt till June sorry

Need to lock my actual predix but I was leaning toward cavs repeat until I found out how deep Tristan Thompson is into the kardashian vortex and no one there wins so...congratulations warriors

yeah that might even drag them as low as the 2 seed tbh

lol

Need to lock my actual predix but I was leaning toward cavs repeat until I found out how deep Tristan Thompson is into the kardashian vortex and no one there wins so...congratulations warriors

― gis for westbrook shark jump (agent hibachi), Tuesday, October 25, 2016 7:17 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Naw man, the Kardashian Effect works the other way around! See: Lamar and Reggie Bush's rings.

reminder that chuck doesn't actually watch basketball

Yeah I kind of knew that Boguts was more like Bigots for a bit.

reminder that chuck doesn't actually watch basketball

― k3vin k., Tuesday, October 25, 2016 5:01 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

of course, but it's like, you don't even have to watch or follow bball to know those claims are nonsense

I know what bogut was trying to say but "political demographic" is an extremely irritating malapropism

lebron 12/7/7 a half lebron at the half

lotta dunks for old man bron tonight

hornacek's brilliant offense has stalled somehow

shump ankle sprain looks like

oops actually concussion

i might be a bit of a sucker for ott championship ring designs but there's a lot going on here http://www.nba.com/cavaliers/releases/ring-breakdown-161025?page=1

lol u guys Evan Turner is an absolute embarrassment ;_;

AYYYYYYYYYY SPURS BENCH IS THE TRUTH THIS YEAR

19-4 run by the Spurs O_O

xxp not watching but 3 rebs 5 asts and a steal in 12 minutes!

AYYYYYYYYYY SPURS BENCH IS THE TRUTH THIS YEAR

Spurs bench would be like the fourth seed in the east.

Steph and Klay are combined 1-8.

love the energy from juice simmons and dedmon is playing with nerves but he's got hustle. patty is patty and manu is manu. david lee being spry is fun.

splash bros just not hitting shots. kd has been scary good.

pop's tie!

aw, cute pop joke.

JUICE FOR MIP CALLING IT

wtf is dray doing jesus

spurs are crushing the dubs

steph still doing the stupid mouth guard thing argh worst part about basketball

lol forgot pau was a spur and instead i thought boban (also not a spur smdh) had let himself go. also, what are the dubs doing

new death lineup alert!!

Aldridge with that ridiculous shot, looking dirkesque

it is halftime at moda and let me tell you friends basketball is a fun sport that I enjoy watching very much

kerr yelling at draymond, i like this

reggie just called a steph 3, in the second quarter, to bring the warriors within 10, a "dagger"

reggie has been looking at knives on his phone all day and cant stop thinking about em

lma still good eh

kd is going to be totally insane this year

simmons holy shit

kd is going to be totally insane this year

bold prediction :D

ok content warning foul language...

FUCK EVERYONE NOT NAMED JUICE SIMMONS

FUCK POPE FRANCIS

FUCK JANDEK

JUICE SIMMONS 4EVER

1st red panda siting, third nba game of the yr

nice

kd is going to be totally insane this year

bold prediction :D

― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, October 25, 2016 11:30 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol ikr, but just watching this it makes so much sense.

hey im watching nba, p cool

the warriors r bad now

Blow it up imo

otm trade steph, cut dray

the blazers jazz game is good currently

omg simmons just blew steph the f up

nba ball movement is so nice

iso joe is singlehandedly improving utah's offense from bad to fine

blazers jazz so fun look 4 me on your tream

joe johnson has 29 points lol

lol i wld be so bad at who he play for rn

I literally said "who he play for" aloud when he came into the game

lmao

spurs getting their hands on every dubs pass, up by 20

kawhi being extremely aggressive, its good

iguodala looks cooked. this warriors bench has been BAD.

Mike Brown? Wtf

rip warriors

wow what is happening

yeah dubs r gonna give a lot of minutes to sketchy dudes xp

just play the starting 5 48 minutes why is kerr messing round

pau gasol - lamarcus aldridge works like a charm

j simmons obv hit the juice in the offseason

motherfucker his LIFE is the juice

uhh kyle anderson is wearing those shorts w the team name on the ass but none of the other spurs are whats going on

juice paid 100 bucks to try out for the d league spurs, he's got 4 daughters under the age of 6. he got a non-guaranteed deal. he was playing semi pro ball and living off favors.

he deserves most improved life award this year

that is a legit inspiring story! I didn't know that about him.

whats up w weird 2nd round rookies getting minutes over livingston

LATVIAN RED ROCKET SIGHTING

davis bertans!!!!!!!

a throw-in from the kawhi leonard trade, i shit you not

well, that game was delicious and perfect, i am full

STATS 16-17

stats go here fools

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope is demanding more than $20 million per season in his contract extension talks with the Detroit Pistons.

oh hai

while i love kcp, we’re good. win a playoff game bro

well that was just wonderful. i dont think it tells us too much about the dubs tbh but it's in play that they're more 2011 heat than 2012 heat this first go-round. guarantee jonathan simmons's deal!

also, league pass is free-99 till nov. 1 for those of us w/o 200 to drop

J simms is guaranteed now but not when he joined the team last year

ah, word. i see he's getting just under 900k for this season. considering where he was last year that ain't bad at all

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lol

celtics playing nets in the opener, scheduling sense of humor

do the nets actually play bball though i thought they were more of a real estate holding company or something similar

they're all designers iirc

headphone marketing concern iirc

the nets are not completely terrible now unfortunately, they should trade brook lopez asap

i feel like third time's the charm for Nyc and maybe the timberwolves could relocate to staten island

the nets are completely terrible p sure (i watched a preseason game so im kinda an expert on this topic)

theyll be better than last season bc i'm sure lin will win some games on his own through chucktasticness, but not by any significant amount. i for one am not worried about the draft pick

(by "some" i mean like "three, four tops," to be clear)

it has the potential to be as bad as the 6th or 7th pick instead of the 3rd is what im saying

im having a hard time seeing why theyll be better than last year

potentially, but isn't this upcoming draft supposed to be loaded af?

(xp)

they will be worse. they lost Thad

who are these five or six teams thatre worse than them

the warriors, for starters

https://twitter.com/royceyoung/status/791320106534072321

yeah i mean they were an extremely bad team who lost two starters in johnson and young and replaced them with... lin? how does that make them better

they got a couple other rotation dudes who can kinda play a bit iirc but yeah youre right theyre still prob the 3rd worst team

royce young is still legitimately in tears every day because kd left

the only nice piece they have with upside is who... RHJ?

can't believe they havent secured a first round pick for bropez yet. let that man free

obvs a lot comes down to injuries, randomness, trades etc but cld easily see them being the worst team with philly and lakers showing a lil life

lakers and philly at least have pieces of a future tho, and should be entertaining on occasion

if they trade lopez they're the worst team probs unless embiid evaporates into steam tonight when he attempts to walk onto the court for an actual nba game

joel embiid is already the all time greatest player

seems like no one wants lopez, hes a good player but just too slow to fit with what most teams are trying to do

i give that at least a 60% chance of happening btw

i just looked at the roster and forgot how completely fucked the frontcourt is beyond bropez and rondae hollis-jefferson

luis scola yall! anthony bennett!

if they trade lopez they're the worst team probs unless embiid evaporates into steam tonight when he attempts to walk onto the court for an actual nba game

― ciderpress, Wednesday, October 26, 2016 3:54 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is 100 percent in play

lol poor former #1 draft pick anthony bennett

he is indeed a poor player

hes not good

remember his rookie year when he like didn't make a field goal for a week, that was a thing

prediction game: who will be the worst player to have a 40 point game this season

derrick rose

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CvqoFzLXYAEKapf.jpg

did everyone see that block btw its good https://twitter.com/NBA/status/791129050286854146

hassan whiteside

alternate: iso joe

prediction game: who will be the worst player to have a 40 point game this season

― ciderpress, Wednesday, October 26, 2016 4:06 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

derrick rose

― nomar, Wednesday, October 26, 2016 4:09 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark

i can't think of a better answer than this

maybe jeremy lin but i htink he might be better than rose at this point

Rose is a good answer but it could also be one of the bogdanovic bros or teletevic. maybe Lou Williams?

yeah feel like point guard chucker on a bad team is the way to go (doesnt need anyone to pass it to him)

Lou Williams and bojan were correct answers last year

also Kobe lol

GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- Most NBA observers probably wouldn't label Derrick Rose as elite at this stage of his career. But Rose believes he fits that description and that it's only a "matter of time" before he shows it to others.

Rose was asked after Knicks practice on Monday if he wants to show this season that he still is an elite point guard.

"Yeah, but I know I am," he said. "That's no surprise to me. It's only a matter of time until I put it together. All the hard work I put in, everything how I dedicated my whole life to this game, what I sacrificed. It's only a few that did it and that's doing it. So it's all about just putting it together."

watch, there will be some game where the knicks are in some shootout with let's say the bulls, and rose decides it's time to prove his bonafides and he'll score 41 and lead to knicks to a 1 pt loss.

schroeder got a 4/70m extension

wow @ the strides Simmons took to get that blk

damn thats evan turner money xp

yeah that's a crazy contract

this mavs lineup, o boy

the audio is desynced on the reborn celtics feed >:(

that quarter was... not good

it's out of sync on mavs home feed too ugh
Xp

on the plus side, the pacers in house entertainment just now is a baby race

looks like all the streams are desynced right now, weird it was working half an hour ago

Simms had so many transcendent moments in tht game, my god

judging from a quick twitter search its a league pass not a reborn problem (reborn is just int. league pass)

yeah i checked a few other stream sites and they were all desynced so its leaguepass

wtg nba smh

i think they just fixed it

celtics offense is pretty nice

jaylen brown scores his first nba points 3 seconds into his career :)

just a lil warning u all r going to like this guy

some of the mavs second lineups are fun - Powell, Anderson, barrea, acy, and i think curry is small fast and reasonably athletic. right now a bunch of jittery dudes who aren't playing super well, but i could see it against some benches

Early 2nd quarter minutes so it's probably experimental

horford just lead the break ran past three nets and made a perfect bounce pass through traffic in the lane btw everyone

anyone who thinks dray green is in his league is dum as heck, al can play the whole season at center too

i'm watching heat vs magic and folks neither of these teams look good

i didn't really pick up why some people were high on the magic coming into the year. their roster is so mismatched and haphazard.

who was high on the magic? that roster sucks.

i admire scal for abandoning a promising coaching career to become a broadcaster, good lazy move

btw yeah it's the nets but the celtics could have a lot of ways to bother teams with their second unit

ya theyre even deeper than last year

who was high on the magic? that roster sucks.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, October 26, 2016 5:18 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i def read some they're a team to watch sorta stuff that i did not understand at all

who was high on the magic? that roster sucks.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, October 26, 2016 8:18 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

to be fair my orlando magic theory post predated the ibaka trade, i dont rlly care about them now

i do like fournier/hezonja/gordon still tho

horford cleans up so many things on offense and defense, it's truly wonderful

he's so good

i wish reborn had a button that i could click to watch every game at once

*ignores draymond slander*

no slander dray is a good player imo but horford is much better

red panda is in boston now just can't escape her

red panda p dece imo

yo m night shamalan is a philly season tix holder

show me embiid

heey sergio rodriguez is baack that dude can play, also pg is phillys biggest need

calling it philly will not have the worst record this year

i liked the magic a bit this year. the moves they made were suspect in the longterm but i liked the ibaka trade, and vogel is a good coach. but...

ahhh embiid for three!!

embiid 4 3!!

heck

i admire scal for abandoning a promising coaching career to become a broadcaster, good lazy move

he was publicly fired from his only coaching gig and took a backup role to an 82-year old tommy heinsohn

golden state management tried to retain him / blocked jackson from firing him / everyone said very nice things abt him / other teams tried to hire him

hes a really good analyst too btw, his voice sounds dum as hell tho tbf

scal will be a great successor to tommy, love scal

you're going off of one source (his) re: golden state trying to keep him and other teams trying to hire him

also: friends with joe lacob

which teams have the best commentators currently?

new portland pbp guy (longtime sonics broadcaster) is good, new color guy is pretty rough

good q

nets, timberwolves, and trailblazers

(knicks too, of course)

dion wiaters and james johnson making plays for the heatles tonight

you're going off of one source (his) re: golden state trying to keep him and other teams trying to hire him

also: friends with joe lacob

― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, October 26, 2016 9:13 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what even is this weird anti-scal agenda? like what about him would suggest he would be a bad assistant coach?

man wes matthews is good on defense but his shot is roughhh

clay, is mike rice gone?

yeah i had to switch off the portland stream last night because the color guy was spewing platitudes and making me angry

i liked the hornets folks based on like 5 games i watched towards the end of last yr

hahaha i blame my celtics obsessed gf who watches every pregame

i also don't know if he would be good or bad. my point was that it seemed unlikely that he has a lot of opportunities.

most of that scal stuff has been p wildly reported and gs not letting jackson fire him did happen and ppl def do say nice things abt him, idk it all seems p realistic to me

gorman is pretty good tho

IT lighting up thee nets btw

never forget scal played a bunch of randos who claimed they could take him one on one and the aggregate score was like 80-1 or something

he def has a better grasp on the game than almost every player/commentator or at least a better ability to express it either way good coaching qualities, like i said he does sound dumb but if u listen to what he says

jaylen brown not scared

i remember the reporting but i also remember the source was usually (always?) scal (except the one jackson interview the day after he was fired). eh who knows?

and i'm mostly just complaining to complain

scal truthers r tearing the nation apart imo

i keep flipping to the sixers game during commercial breaks and embiid is never on the floor i still dont think he exists

i saw him

you can blame my bad additude on the pistons getting crushed by the raps rn

appreciate that jaylen brown has decided that cutting and dunking are the best nba skills to master first

reasonable approach

demar derozan is the worst player to score 40 points... tonight

we've got tyler zeller barreling down the lane for dunks

did he not develop a 3pt shot again this summer ?

Xp

excited to see the rockets put up 140 on the lakers, which will definitely happen

zeller looks super good. curious to see what happens when olynyk is back.

zellers always been a good pnr finisher and his defensive numbers r good never been able to isolate the issue that keeps him from getting consistent minutes

harrison barnes ties the game w 2ish seconds left!

xp yeah lots of fans don't like him and i don't get it, he has great hands and knows how to score around the basket.

stauskas making plays!

might be as simple as them liking johnson better in that role xp

yeah i can see that for johnson's defense but i'd let zeller run with second units for the scoring

theres a lot of mysterious names on the twolves bench still

lol wtf happened at the end of this celtics game they were up 20 w like 4 to go

Ummmm brow has an inssaaaaaaane stat line and still a quarter to go

someone who is terrible is kyle singler

embiid looks good for a guy who hasn't played basketball in 2 yrs

free brow from that ancient curse of a team

the thunder are playing a foreign wing -- alex abrines -- i've genuinely never heard of before!

who is the sixers pg with the beard and where did he come from

lol wtf happened at the end of this celtics game they were up 20 w like 4 to go

― lag∞n, Wednesday, October 26, 2016 10:01 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it was weird the bench went totally cold and the nets went on an 18-2 run

mcconnell? xp

sergio rodriguez

i just realized that charlotte traded out big al for roy hibbert, that's kind of funny for some reason

hibbert sucks but i feel like clifford could maybe make something of him

he can't be completely cooked yet is my opinion

ahh this guy http://m.espn.com/nba/playerstats?playerId=3025

ahh took him 6 years to recover from kings disease

saric has not looked impressive

mkg 23-13 hmmm

he keeps forcing up 3s and is definitely underwhelming otherwise
Xp

karl towns just stroked one from three to get the lead

twolves hanging in there with the grizz yeah

bunch of close games rn

brow at 48, that games almost tied too

btw it is nice to be back talking about basketball games with you guys

i sure hope embiid stays healthy

xp hear hear

whoa at what brow is doing

i have 3 games up and theyre all insane rn

BAskeBTALL

lol embiid shaking the refs hands after the game ends

the beard pg did too clearly this is a plot

btw it is nice to be back talking about basketball games with you guys

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, October 26, 2016 10:33 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark

*whispers* ILH is the only board

its true!

switched to the rockets game, immediately see a ryan anderson stepback long 2 go in

hell yeah baby

clay, is mike rice gone?

― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, October 26, 2016 6:20 PM (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mercifully, yes he is out to the pasture

brandon ingram is stretch armstrong

if you hate defense do i have a game for you

brow putting up 50 in a loss in the first game of the season is very depressing

harden has a shot at a double double in the first quarter

harden already has 12 pts 7 assists

harden's passing is so good

and fittingly that quarter ends 38-38 on an off-balance lou williams 3

harden is going to save my fantasy league this yr and i somehow drafted him sixth

giannis had a big line tonight

the over in this lakers/rockets game must have been huge, both teams are on pace to score like 140

the suns already look miserable

who tf is coaching the suns this year

earl watson!

suns played relatively well down the stretch under him last year

if you ever want to feel sadness spend a few minutes imagining a suns nets game

harden looks like he's in visibly better shape this season. his shoulders and upper back look sculpted.

yeah he came out the gates so outta shape last year.

this game is fun

pau gasol - lamarcus aldridge works like a charm

― moullet, Wednesday, October 26, 2016 3:33 PM (yesterday)

this felt wrong to me so i checked the lineup finder and for the one game vs GSW pau/lma had the spur's second worst two man +/- rating at -13 in 16 minutes.

they are just too slow together and pau's defense is awful. aldridge is better paired with dedmon imo

they could be worse imo and they were playing dubs starting lineup....

guess what? lakers and kings are ahead of the warriors in the division. lol

oh they will get worse, pau is 36.

lakers and kings should savour this very brief moment

https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/791474549862825984

aaron gordon looked good last night. his three pt shot looked very pure. it doesn't seem crazy that he could credibly play SF with two big guys but maybe the numbers will show that doesn't work.

btw it is nice to be back talking about basketball games with you guys

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, October 26, 2016 10:33 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark

*whispers* ILH is the only board

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, October 26, 2016 10:46 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya nice to have hoops back

though ive shocked myself by mostly watching baseball this week

smh

hes a cleveland guy it makes sense

baseball is good imo, it's football that is the enemy

i'll watch once we hit the elimination games

i kinda wanted to get into the playoffs this year but i did not

i'm going to "stay frosty" til i feel that the cubs are in a safer position, i.e. chapman facing off against naquin with an 8 run lead and two out in the ninth and the cubs up 3-1 in the series. or until the victory parade.

i kinda wanted to get into the playoffs this year but i did not

― lag∞n, Thursday, October 27, 2016 12:32 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

certainly wasn't much to get into from a red sox perspective :/

this felt wrong to me so i checked the lineup finder and for the one game vs GSW pau/lma had the spur's second worst two man +/- rating at -13 in 16 minutes.

+/- is just noise when minutes is too low (especially so for multivariate)

baseball is good imo, it's football that is the enemy

― k3vin k., Thursday, October 27, 2016 9:21 AM (thirty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

as NBA fans in 2016 we should all be in agreement on this one

baseball and hoops have the best most entertaining players, NFL has some guys.

Re: pau, his defense was atrocious. Feet glued to the floor while Steph ran actual circles around him

the only excuse any ILHers have is that they are patritos fans since they are still dominant and have one of two actual superstars in the league + gronk

stephen runs circles around everyone tho

kevin love that one time

mean, u r

i dont really "care" but football is objectively a better game to be a casual fan of than baseball

demonstrably wrong imo

baseball is no good unless you know what pitches diff pitchers have and so forth, i used to have that level of knowledge and it was good now i dont know who the players are and its bad, where as football theres really nothing required to understand that a sick leaping touchdown catch is awesome

i think that's true but it's an argument in baseball's favor imo xp

basically unless youre really dialed in on the pitcher-batter matchup baseball is a sport where nothing much happens most of the time

did you watch cards vs seahawks y/n

hah no but i wish i had

biggest prob w baseball (also a prob w football but not as bad) is that you have to invest too much time to just watch one game. playoffs average has got to be 4+ hours a game.

ya like 95% of baseball is *batter steps out of box kicks the dirt adjusts his junk spits takes a couple swings steps back in pitcher leans squints waves off pitch batter decides this is taking too long steps out of box etc*

baseball was the most perplexing north american sport to get into when i moved here, but it's now my favorite. nfl was the easiest to follow and enjoy immediately, but it's been diminishing returns

my wife sent me an article that said a baseball game contains only 18 minutes of actual shit happening. the rest is standing around.

football is 11 min iirc

xpost let's not forget the ~35 minutes of spitting.

i don't really have a stake here but the "minutes of action" thing is so incredibly inane.

alt theory - the reason why basketball is so #1 is the guarantee of (at least) 48 mins of action every game

they all complement each other very well imo.

nba players also allowed to have fun and even encouraged to showcase their personalities. plus they don't wear helmets/hats so everyone knows what they look like.

baseball is extremely chill--good sport

otm re: chillness

Hate all the whining about pace of game

clips/blazers should be fun tonight. I was actually at the last game of that series when Austin rivers got his face pulped

does the NBA app lag for anyone else, like when you're trying to check box scores sometimes it's blank for a minute before it loads?

also was there not an update? last night i went into the app store to see if they were gonna update it but it doesn't look like there is one

wasn't lebron complaining about it

yeah hasn't happened yet i don't think

observation: kawhi leonard is a better offensive player than last year

love dewayne dedmon. he's an athletic C who blocks shots and rebounds and is doing a nice DAJ impression. manu is finding him for all kinds of easy looks. 1Q numbers: 4-4 for 8 pts, 2 oreb, 2 blocks.

ya i was skeptical of his mvp contender status but if he can create offense like he did in that first game its legit xp

also the spurs starting 5 is gonna need some tweaking. the bench just looks so much more cohesive and dynamic, more ball movement, slashing, fast breaks, 3 pt shooting. pau+lma cant really play long minutes together. kawhi is p much the only starter with legs (tho kyle anderson will not start when danny green comes back from injury).

i know he's no one's idea of a strong defender, but im impressed with david lee's contributions so far. he's still quick on his feet and gives the spurs a guy who can board and shoot and pass well. he's not as creative as boris, but he's already an upgrade over david west.

ya i was skeptical of his mvp contender status but if he can create offense like he did in that first game its legit xp

― lag∞n, Thursday, October 27, 2016 10:15 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he worked with kobe this summer and it shows. some of the looks he's creating for himself have been ridiculously kobe-esque

goon why do you hate guys who are good at defense

like if he's averaging close to 25, 8 and still defending at a crazy level and the spurs are winning a shitload of games, its def a good chance for him to win it

boogie is eating pau's lunch. im read yo trade pau, fuck this guy.

ready to. estoy listo

oh wait he just hit a 3. he can stay.

can you still do hack-a stuff i forget if they changed that or not

bc if you can i'll go ahead and guarantee stotts trolls doc and hacks deandre every quarter despite it being game 2 of the season

defense is bad xp

spurs offense is p good, defense is trashhhhhhh right now. but this mills-ginobili-juice-lee-dedmon lineup is fun.

went to the game tonight, had been thinking that the hawks were maybe sneakily blowing it up as much as they could get away w/ in this market but idk, there may be a philosophy at work. when dwight first went to the line i muttered 'well, here we go', haven't felt that much of a combination of fraught tension and gooey emotional support since late 90s cat power shows. have to say though the rebounding was definitely refreshing, took some real getting used to. definitely felt weird w/o teague or horford, and there were some very weirdly sloppy moments, dudes clearly not in rhythm yet. already love deandre bembry; he barely played, just a few minutes in garbage time w/ the wiz bench of 'who is this white guy' were in, but he was standing up the whole game, just barking at the players when the ball was on that end of the court, you could tell dude was very happy to be in the nba, at his first game, and him and dennis and kent were clearly already bros. gucci mane was there.

also idk how much of this is confirmation bias but got weird vibes from the wiz, like john wall seemed pissy the whole night, i kept thinking 'dude you have 81 more of these'.

haven't felt that much of a combination of fraught tension and gooey emotional support since late 90s cat power shows.

legit lol

file under 'who he play for': ray felton sighted as a clipper. I have the sound off, so I didn't hear if the blazer crowd still boos him as loudly as ever.

they did

blake is looking really good, right back to that second-tier-and-knocking mvp form

harlan on the felton boos: "they're booing him because when he played here in portland... they thought he was fat."

they did

thx. I now see chuck b and shaq flapping their gums, soundlessly, which ratifies my choice to leave the sound muted

kings kinda sonning the spurs on the second end of a back to back (pretend that playing the suns counts as a game)

calm down, spurs are down 4

kawhi with back to back yanking of the ball from mclemore leading to fastbreak points

ok so i just downloaded the new ios and the app is different than with the old ios, and wow it is a mess. you have to scroll sideways like forever to find certain stats

KAWHI IS MAGICCCCCCC

he is drawing fouls these first two games on a harden level

lol at plumlee going after DAJ and the scared kids aw

telling that in crunch time in a close game in the 4th, pau is on the bench and dedmon is in.

uh you guys kawhi is really motherfucking good

kawhi's boring introvert ass being a superstar is the coolest thing

didn't expect blaze and clip to be chippy as hell this early in the season

clips want to make a statement after getting eliminated last year. blazers want to protect their house.

Dubs lost at home and it's not even April!

uh you guys kawhi is really motherfucking good

― k3vin k., Friday, October 28, 2016 1:09 AM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kawhi's boring introvert ass being a superstar is the coolest thing

― k3vin k., Friday, October 28, 2016 1:09 AM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea it is pretty cool

the ease with which he fits into spurs superstars' culture/lineage is pretty neat too

a bunch of boring introvert stars that are amazing at basketball

"That dude's good man. He's (bleeping) good.... He's good. He's really good."

- Demarcus Cousins

hes talking, obviously, about kawhi

saw an interview w russ and he seemed very at peace, think he hated kd, is happy hes gone

i think they were just work bros

already love deandre bembry; he barely played, just a few minutes in garbage time w/ the wiz bench of 'who is this white guy' were in, but he was standing up the whole game, just barking at the players when the ball was on that end of the court, you could tell dude was very happy to be in the nba, at his first game, and him and dennis and kent were clearly already bros. gucci mane was there.

― balls, Thursday, October 27, 2016 8:51 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Bembry was my favorite college player last year.

kawhi is m/l the extension of timmy

kawhi duncanson

15 overall pick acquired for george hill, crazy

this was so weird last night
https://twitter.com/BenGolliver/status/791877254452170752

was that call like 8 seconds late or...? so bizarre with 1 second left

she's really bad :(

yea the call was super late

Kevin Garnett joins Turner Sports as analyst for NBA on TNT

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2016/10/28/kevin-garnett-nba-tnt-turner-shaq-kenny-ernie-barkley/92881602/

can KG save Inside the NBA??

http://pix.iemoji.com/images/emoji/apple/ios-9/256/thinking-face.png

IF THEY REPLACE SHAQ W HIM sry acidental caps lock

i don't even know if he's good but he'd be better than shaq obv

chuck hasn't watched a game since shaq came on board and now he's just a hot-take artist

isn't chuck getting a special or regular show on TNT abt race? that's sure to be something avoidable.

ugh, did not really see kg going the tv route

he shd just yell motivational non sequiturs

this is a neat little story about the celtics strength coach making up playground games to keep warmups interesting http://www.espn.com/blog/boston/celtics/post/_/id/4724268/how-do-celtics-prepare-for-practice-playground-games-bring-fun-focus

russ with the totally normal line of 51-13-10

he took 44 shots in 45 minutes!

the thunder barely beating the sixers and then needing a 51 point triple double from russ to the beat the suns seems..... not good

the warriors are actually not playing defense at the moment

can we have a season where russ and brow both score 50 points every game please

According to the Thunder, it was the first 50-point triple-double since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had one in 1975.

the magic might get that GM fired

ibaka managed to be -25 in 19 mins tonight

oladipo isn't that great but you'd think they could have gotten a better trade

Ibakas been bad for a few years now

In other news. David west is garbage (has been for years obv). Zaza is garbage his skill set is not what they need. Looney looked nice.

Dubs trying to throw this game

david west shouldn't play until april basically

how's steph looking? his numbers have been off and i heard he looked a lil rough in the preseason

if their frontline is really this useless i wonder if they try and move.... livingston (?) for a warm body?

they need some easier wins where they can work their young guys into the game

not quite himself yet, he's hit a couple transition 3s that remind you but he still hasn't hit the season stride yet. Xxxp

brow, on the other hand, is mvp after 2 games for sure

mvp with zero wins though

the pelicans roster is really galling

Two starters are out for another month tho

it's enough really to look at davis' stats for the first two games and know that both were losses to get a good feel for where the pelicans are at talent wise

the second best player on the pelicans currently active is lance stephenson or tim frazier

if brow is playing at like even 80% of this for the rest of the season they should be decent when jrue and tyreke come back but they might be buried by that point.

if you look at the box score tonight they got 9 points on 11 shots from solomon hill, asik and e'tuwan moore and those guys are making a combined $28 million this year

it would be pretty good to see him play basketball with a few more nba level players im surprised Nola hasn't thought of this already

Curry looks ok he's also just trying to figure out how to play w KD. Had a burst tonight of 8 points in 50 seconds. Draymon doesn't seem like himself yet. There's gonna be lots of toying with rotations for like 30 games. Looney was promising tonight. Mccaw looked good but rolled his ankle. Their defense isn't that cohesive gel'd organism yet. Kerr hasn't really let that death lineup try yet, just really short spurts. I think Andy V and Maccadoo are gone sooner than later. Try and get a defensive center off he scrap heap at some point. They have to try out javale at some point too.

Solomon Hill signing was top 3
Worst this offseason.

they'll have some guys fall on their laps and when push comes to shove and everyone is giving 100% max effort i still think that 5 man lineup is unfuckwithable but there may be more rough patches than people expected

the pelicans roster is really galling

― J0rdan S., Saturday, October 29, 2016 12:19 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Two starters are out for another month tho

― Spottie, Saturday, October 29, 2016 12:20 AM (six minutes ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/Groundhog_Day_%28movie_poster%29.jpg

the warriors really need like whatever the 2016 version of the heat getting birdman is

Solomon Hill signing was top 3
Worst this offseason.

― Spottie, Saturday, October 29, 2016 12:26 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark

e'tuwan moore might have been worse! really incredible they signed both those guys lol

brow should sue the team

the warriors are gonna figure it out and when they do it's gonna be ugly for the rest of the league

lol Kev yah I posted that same thing about the pels literally like 4 times last year

Worth noting that Harry B has looked good so far

rockets look like they're gonna out-3P the warriors this year

this is a neat little story about the celtics strength coach making up playground games to keep warmups interesting http://www.espn.com/blog/boston/celtics/post/_/id/4724268/how-do-celtics-prepare-for-practice-playground-games-bring-fun-focus

― call all destroyer, Friday, October 28, 2016 10:39 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hah i love bryan doo long time fan

Curry looks ok he's also just trying to figure out how to play w KD. Had a burst tonight of 8 points in 50 seconds. Draymon doesn't seem like himself yet. There's gonna be lots of toying with rotations for like 30 games.

― Spottie, Saturday, October 29, 2016 12:25 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

[whispering] its unlikely steph or dray will ever have as good seasons as they had last year

but on the other hand they have the last two mvps so they shd be fine

no secret xp

true

my favorite team has 3 mvps

many do not know this

i love factoids

the pelicans roster is really galling

― J0rdan S., Saturday, October 29, 2016 12:19 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

srsly this is outrageous and shd be illegal

no idea who tim frazier was b4 this season but he was balling out and talking trash to curry/draymon/whoever else would hear it. he won me over

https://twitter.com/CurryIntellect/status/792217863587237889

Warriors won't suck by the All Star game. That's really all we need to know atm.

hey guys

the warriors really need like whatever the 2016 version of the heat getting birdman is

― J0rdan S., Saturday, October 29, 2016 4:27 AM (fourteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's Larry Sanders. Most don't know this.

sup matt. the nuggets are undefeated!

Nuggets look like a fantastic aside from Mudiay who needs to be on a different roster most likely

you know who also looks great?

THABO

nuggets were playing jokic and nurkic together and it ruled

i have both on my fant team

dubs took a look at larry sanders and passed

russ taking it a lil over the top
https://streamable.com/e/o9zf

Pre ‏@prechtik 2h2 hours ago
Steph bumps chest: "arrogant prick".
Draymond flexes: "arrogant a*hole"
Westbrook taunts opponents: "great competitor" 😐

lol first game of the season calm down russ

http://40.media.tumblr.com/c7683dee6939ff0bec72693ee86364b0/tumblr_inline_nps1hsYuGO1r9znqh_540.jpg

lmao otm

next thursday gonna be so lit

dubs took a look at larry sanders and passed

― Spottie, Saturday, October 29, 2016 8:21 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they also signed javale and didn't put him in the rotation. Clearly incompetent talent evaluation.

I actually like that rookie center they have but he's not healthy right

yah got his titty repaired, due back by end of year. i think the larry thing is probably deeper than his skill set. who knows if he is really ready to commit to coming back.

he seems to be a terrible person

nuggs in the rainbow alts tonight <3

havent watched most of the spurs game, but juice just dunked on ant davis, so its all good

dame just slicing up denver's d in a way that seems almost unfair

uh this blazers v nuggets game has been ridiculous. nuggets lost a 10 point lead in about 90 seconds and now it's going to OT. lots of extremely boneheaded defense by denver.

+ inbounded to jokic up 2 w/ 12 seconds left and jokic bumbled the ball out of bounds, like you kind of don't see nba teams lose leads like this.

I'm starting to wonder if Teague is worse than I thought, George hill is better than I thought or both

Wiggins' First 2016-2017 Assist Watch enters week 2

you know who also looks great?

THABO

Yesssss

crazy piece abt espn including a bunch abt the insane math of the nba tv rights deal http://www.outkickthecoverage.com/espn-loses-621-000-subscribers-worst-month-in-company-history-102916

lol thought the comments might have some interesting points but WOWWWW was i wrong

RIP giant ass contracts 1999-2021

yea these contracts next year may be the biggest we'll ever see in our lifetimes

dubs really need the 3s to drop, 1/16 for non-curry, non-durant shooters right now.

phoenix looks much less bad than i thought they might