NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

i guess its official that colin sexton is good now

15 points in OT2 for Collin Sexton. What. A. Game. pic.twitter.com/0cZdjVhTza

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) January 21, 2021

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsOTzH-XUAMBmNg?format=jpg&name=large

lol

haha

lmao whats he doin

we should have known the moment this happenedpic.twitter.com/wwz5s25v6H

— Wobin Sexton (@WorldWideWob) January 21, 2021

happy for sexton, i've never forgotten that he played a chunk of a game in college 3 on 5 and still put up points.

collin sexton singlehandedly beating KD, harden & kyrie in double OT reminds me of when he scored 40 points in college in a game where his team was forced to play 3 on 5 for basically the entire second half

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw7IqVZ6ork

lol yes!! xp

lol wild shit

Both James Harden (51) and Kyrie Irving (48) set career-highs in minutes played in tonight's OT loss at Cleveland. Depth might be an issue in Brooklyn.

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) January 21, 2021

also defense! (cant guard colin sexton)

durant played 50 minutes too... meanwhile landry shamet who the nets essentially traded a first round pick for got a DNP-CD

deandre jordan 24 minutes, jeff green 45 minutes...

All this OAKLAND stuff must be super annoying to people who actually live in Oakland.

read some thing that was like "the soul of the warriors lies in oakland" well the you shouldve stayed there then

i keep hearing all these analysts saying the "there's only one ball" thing is facile but there are upper limits on possessions per game and offensive efficiency, and the nets may find them while losing to teams like the cavs.

yeah

Pop looks a little evil with his black mask

COLE ANTHONY CALLS GAME pic.twitter.com/qGPr5ioRnS

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) January 21, 2021

lol the wolves announcer

what a brutal loss for them... i think they were up by like 15 points at half

wolves may end up keeping their pick after all at this rate

Nets are gonna have to stagger those 3 dudes somehow but does nash know what he’s doing?

Kat should take the season off tbf

the wolves are going to have a real, real long season

the nets can't stagger because they have something like 8 nba players at the moment

Ha true

i think it's a nash inexperience problem, regardless of what you think of their rotation there's no reason to be playing KD, harden and kyrie 50 minutes when you have shamet, bruce brown & TLC playing a combined 19 mins. those guys are standard NBA bench players and beating the cavs simply isn't that important to begin with

there have been ppl already pointing out that KD's minutes coming off his injury are a bit concerning... he played 30 mins vs the knicks last week but aside from that he's played at least 36 mins in every game since the new year

yeah that's fair, i don't know what's going on with shamet who has never particularly impressed me but seems to be unplayable now.

It is a weird experiment having the three best iso players in the league on the same team.

it's really hard to parse who is running the nets and what they care about but their actions are that of a team who thinks its window is this year, maybe next.

feel like they're in this weird position where

a. their three stars are 1. coming off an achilles injury 2. famously out of gas in the playoffs 3. out for the season w an injury half the time
b. but need to play a lot together in the regular season to establish on-court chemistry
c. have a first year coach who doesn't seem to have a grasp on how to modulate their minutes to begin with

i still feel like there hasn't been an adequate explanation for why they hired steve nash

Cos kd liked him in gsw

yes that is literally the reason

Wiseman has like 8 dunks in this game

Yeah this is fun

What’s up with the audio on the ESPN game?

S/o to Bernie for hanging tight through 2 OT’s #dedication pic.twitter.com/072HdazRUi

— Andre Drummond (@AndreDrummond) January 21, 2021

lolll

Crazy to me that just 17 players got on court in a double overtime regular season game

the nets can't stagger because they have something like 8 nba players at the moment

if the nets break durant i am going to be very sad

so who are the suiters for Drummonds expiring?

kings? wizzards? Bulls?

oladipo to the heat feels like the most obvious trade on the board to me right now

do they even need to trade for him? i assume they'd just wait and sign him over the summer unless the price to get him in the building is extremely low.

well, i think if they want to compete in the east playoffs this year they need more firepower. i think it makes sense for them to flip like kendrick nunn and a second or something to houston, get a half year + playoffs out of oladipo and get a close look at whether you actually want to give him a bunch of money. clearly the rockets acquired him to deal him

oladipo makes $21M so miami would have to send a bunch of money out and i'm not sure that they have a first-round pick to trade. i guess in that scenario nunn as an RFA is the sweetener to houston? seems like they could do better although victor sure seems to be making it clear that he wants to get to miami so maybe other teams just stay away.

dipo doesnt seem like he has the miami mindset

i know, it's weird but it seems like within the past week anyone connected to any sort of rumor mill agrees that he wants to go there.

the heat have enough salary filler... i think it comes down to whether the rockets can get a first of any sort for oladipo, which seems possible but idk if it's likely given his contract situation. choosing him over lavert signals they obv think he will have real trade value at the deadline. heat could trade 2025 which would be a good trade for houston, idk if the heat would do it but riley prob won't be around then anyway so he might just say fuck it

if the heat think dipo is ok physically and hes willing to resign for a reasonable amount a first plus filler seems like a pretty good deal for them