NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

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

they built up all the cap equity and have some decent trade pieces when you include picks so i think the question is whether they want to use it on dipo or if they think they can get beal or whoever else might be out there. i don't see how they just do nothing, but the FA class has thinned out so much that i feel like getting dipo in for this year's run makes sense and then you likely end up re-signing him looking at this year's FA market. but it would prob rule them out of the brad beal convo so idk

from houston's perspective he prob has the most trade value when sent to a team where there is mutual interest in dipo being there longterm... which is prob less than 5 teams. but if it gets to a situation where they're just looking for whoever is offer the most for this year's playoff run the pool widens. he's prob the most interesting piece out there at this point in terms of what could happen at the deadline

seems like a bad deal for rockets. he's looked pretty normal of late. is it foregone they dont want to keep him?

unless they just give him an obscene amount of money idk why he would resign there, and that would seem crazy on the rockets behalf

my interpretation of them flipping lavert for oladipo is that they wanted to collect even more assets this year, like as much of a full reset as they could possibly do

the rockets owe 2 first and 2 swaps to OKC so even w/ the harden trade it's not like they're swimming in draft equity i feel like they're prob trying to squeeze another first out of some other team in the league

rebuilding from the ground up seems like a bad move for them. they have wall (un-tradable) and wood (great contract) why not try to win some games and sign a prime oladipo.

lol they also have eric gordon locked up for ~4 more seasons at 20M

if they had no interest in a cheapish, under contract, caris levert, why would they have interest in retaining victor oladipo making a lot more money?

oladipo (potentially) is much better than levert

really no idea what they are doing but if all they get for harden is a handful of picks then i think they lost this trade badly. okc got SGA out of the PG deal plus all the picks. i guess they could just firesale the whole thing