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

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/