NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

just saw it, completely ridiculous

That’s crazy

For those wondering, here's the play right before the ejection: Draymond Green tries to make an entry pass to James Wiseman, but a miscommunication leads to a turnover. As they get back on defense, Green yells at Wiseman and the refs ejected him! https://t.co/L3VbMNprs9

— Alex Kennedy (@AlexKennedyNBA) January 22, 2021

Wtfffff

The Shaq-Donovan Mitchell exchange was awkward. lol pic.twitter.com/JxnxSIKl9F

— gifdsports (@gifdsports) January 22, 2021

inside has needed a cleansing fire for like, what, at least 5-6 years now

the fuck

ugh. that sucks.

they were being so negative about mitchell in the halftime of that game. it was bizarre.

It is a shame to see Shaq going hard like he was some Jordan-esque mind warrior of the game instead of just the biggest, strongest guy on the court. If you were such a basketball ubermensch maybe you would have shot better than 53% from the line for your career.

Pfft he could have averaged 20 rebounds a game

what the hell Shaq, he's so weird on that show, grumpy and no fun

saw him on First Take yesterday and he was super fun, like the big kid vibe, what happened to him on TNT?

past his bedtimes

He ruined inside the nba the second he joined the crew

yeah shaq has always been lame but inside the nba shaq is the lamest shaq of all

looks like the rockets are going to pick up kevin porter jr. for nothing

just give him a normal locker haha

Time for Shaq and Chuckles to move on honestly

yeah chucks been cooked

its wild that the nba media employs so many people who just repeatedly shit on contemporary basketball, like that is bad for business, the nfl doesnt do that

they should bring in Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson

otm

they should bring in matt barnes and derek fisher

lol

haha

i still love inside the NBA, great show. it's funny & entertaining more often than annoying

they should bring in Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson

i still love inside the NBA, great show. it's funny & entertaining more often than annoying

― J0rdan S., Friday, January 22, 2021 11:36 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i used to purposely watch it now sometimes i find myself watching it

people are twitter defending Shaq like "That's what [Kobe/Jordan] was like he's just challenging them to be better!" as if there's not a difference between being the best player on a championship level team getting at teammates in practice vs. a big bloated old timer talking shit on a TV show

it’s fun to have it on after a good game, the appeal is not really in basketball analysis altho they do sometimes say interesting things about basketball or the NBA as a culture

shaq is straight up a dullard with nothing to say tho

the subtext of the show often feels like "maybe tonight is the night shaq will crack chuck's skull"

shaq also fucked around for a good portion of his career and has no credibility to challenge anyone to be better or whatever he was trying to do

shaq literally never tried to get in shape his whole career lol

somebody should start a twitter where they arbitrarily break down what percentage of every current and historical player's success should be attributed to genetic lottery vs teammates vs drive vs coaching

if he keeps up these confrontational interviews someone is gonna call him a fat fuck on live tv

vs historical rule changes vs state of the league vs social support vs...

Christian wood calling him a casual was as good as it gets

Sometimes I come across this narrative about Shaq that he is some brilliant cagey businessman, renaissance man even, and evidence to the contrary is him crafting his persona and playing the public. The people proposing this have clearly never watched Inside, or watched it infrequently enough to think it's really just an act.

In fact as I type that it reminds me of a certain recently departed president. I think the real unifying thread of Shaq's career off the court is attn/media whore.

also I was just perusing his wikipedia page and he's had more controversies than I remember, including some overtly racist comments when Yao Ming entered the league, that he wrote off as, wait for it, "locker room humor"!

he's always been a corny ass dick head imo

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Shaq is a bully. No one likes him. He’s used endorsements to raise his Q-rating but the guy who is on tv is just an ignorant jerk, no different from the guy who said “Ching Chong yah wah ah so” when asked about a young guy named Yao Ming

I didn’t like kobe at all but everything kobe said about him was right

Chuck is worse than Shaq for me at this point.

chuck is just exhausting and often barely knows the makeup of the teams that he's talking about

see for awhile i had convinced myself that shaq was cool

the whole charm of inside the NBA is that chuck doesn't really know what he's talking about.... they've done a segment for 10 years called "who he play for" where the entire joke is that chuck doesn't know what team random guys are on. it's not a show about analysis, that's kinda missing the point

any television show that is capable of this deserves to be on air in perpetuity imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D824ese7n-8

inside the nba comes on at like 1 am and exists for ppl to be roasted, it's perfect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF4VF86k44E

i'm gonna suggest that there is room to improve beyond perfect if perfect is charles barkley doing "dumb and dumber" jokes

sometimes it is really fun. its just waaaaaaay less so once shaq joined. i liked it when they balanced chuck/kenny with a shuffling cast of recently retired or even current nba player who would ie bosh, webber, baron davis, draymond, etc. i think they need SOMEONE who appreciates the modern game and can speak to it and balance out chucks ignorance.