NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

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.

Otm. I remember Webber being great in that role

the idea of a "smart" sports analysis show has basically never existed in the entire history of television, inside the NBA is a late night comedy show that exists as entertainment first and foremost and non-coincidentally is the best sports analysis show that has ever existed. for people who "understand the modern game" i suggest podcasts

jordan dying on oneal hill

I kinda got bored of Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson on their show pretty quick tbh

i mean its one thing to be charmingly out of touch as a schtick its another to give weird lectures to players in post game interviews

inside the NBA is a late night comedy show

so could someone please tell shaq to be funnier? he's amuses himself, but that's not how to be funny.

and i mean strange postering aside shaq is just a lame unfunny try hard, and chuck has gone from not caring as a schtick to very obviously not just not caring but having open distain for the show, theyre still occasionally amusing like when they sent up whoever that was extremely flat post game interview the other day, but basically we're just dealing w tedious rich guys who spend their days on the golf course at this point, except kenny kennys still cool

the way they think about the game on the court is pretty antiquated but i also think when it comes to topics of the nba as a culture, interpersonal relationships between teammates, expectations of star players w/in franchises etc i still value their opinions and enjoy listening to the discussions. they had good debates about harden's behavior in houston, i wanted to hear their take on the kevin porter jr situation over the type of NBA commentators who "understand the modern game" ... they have equity in those discussions and a chemistry as a group that supersedes anything else in basketball discourse, imo

when it comes to topics of the nba as a culture, interpersonal relationships between teammates, expectations of star players w/in franchises etc i still value their opinions

wait, I thought you said it was a comedy show?

kenny walking off the show feels like the most meaningful nba culture thing that's happened on there in the past year; shaq and chuck not joining in solidarity said a lot imo.

when it comes to topics of the nba as a culture, interpersonal relationships between teammates, expectations of star players w/in franchises etc i still value their opinions

wait, I thought you said it was a comedy show?

― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Friday, January 22, 2021 3:31 PM (forty-four seconds ago)

the show contains multitudes, where have you been the last 15 years?

i dont even care if they understand the modern game whatever that means, just not constantly shitting on it would be good, maybe even take some slight joy in the insane skill of the players idk, and stop the pining for the old days its just so lame, chuck is still saying a jump shooting team cant win a title after the dubs rammed 3 down his throat ffs lol

the show contains multitudes, where have you been the last 15 years?

I was quoting you back to you. What part of what you said are you disagreeing with?

shaq and chuck not walking off w kenny was one thing but then when they started taking weird passive aggressive shots at the players for protesting was when i was like these are just plain old after noon drunk rich guys

all this complaining about inside the NBA when we all sit thru 3 hour broadcasts of marv albert and c webb displaying negative amounts of chemistry and reggie miller just in general. if i was going to change anything w/ TNT it would be the actual game broadcasts, ESPN kicks their ass from that perspective. but i still love having inside the NBA on after a game, it's almost always fun

it was once a great show but now has only occasional echos of greatness, sad

they cld try removing shaq and see where that goes

I was quoting you back to you. What part of what you said are you disagreeing with?

― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Friday, January 22, 2021 3:36 PM (three minutes ago)

i'm not arguing this semantic nonsense w/ you, my point is quite clear

shaq is literally a cop... like literally. ernie johnson gave an impassioned plea for ppl to have civility in the trump era and revealed he wrote in john kasich for president. chuck says stupid borderline fireable shit all the time. it's still the best postgame sports show on TV by a million miles. like, there isn't even anything else in the discussion.

its a low bar, thats the thing, it was great then they added shaq, now what do we have, paul pierce saying he could still beat bron in one on one, theyve abandoned us to a barren ladscape

tho it was obvs going downhill before shaq, thats why they added him, which predictably backfired BIGTIME

i don't love shaq but i do think he's gotten better over time. he's less annoying now than he was in the first few years on the show.

anyway it's not just the panel, there's a sensibility w/ the show from the production side that nothing else in sports television has been able to replicate. you can throw all sorts of ex players or smart basketball thinkers on TV and the result is almost always something pretty stiff and boring. have you guys ever watched the rachel nichols ESPN show? there's just something missing. there's a je nais se quois w/ inside the NBA that still exists to me and doesn't exist and has never existed anywhere else that transcends the fact that chuck spends 90 seconds each show complaining about ppl shooting threes

yah i cant think of another sports show i like more honestly, it's pretty one of a kind in that respect, very much in a comfort food role for me... but yah low bar and i just wish it was as good as it used to be. shaq ruined it for me, or at least made it so it wasnt essential viewing. and i dont want a show of boring talking heads who just break down nba actions and such but a little splash of that would help balance it. i thought even just having that weird-ass area 21 show was good enough even tho it was mostly bad

lol, the beefing with players is honestly kind of funny just wish it wasnt over such dogshit opinions

Kevin Durant on Charles Barkley: "I don't know why they still ask for this idiots opinion." 👀

Yikes. pic.twitter.com/5WRUklQOur

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) January 22, 2021

fair comment lol

i feel like replacing shaq with a semi- or god forbid even actually intelligent player (Iguodala? Ray Allen? Baron Davis? Steve Nash once he's done with this season?) would shift the conversation around and put Chuck in the Megan McCain seat where he belongs.

the show would be way better with KG replacing Shaq

i consider kg an intelligent guy! Mostly!

Gary Payton

payton and kg are guys who should be on the show or a show like the show

the glove and c webb had the best show no idea why they stopped it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5AodJFb29o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWsd7YNw2eQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF3P2Lr9NAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nEYc09-NPY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6bWAp_RO9U

What was so amazing about that is that it seemed like they just got thrown together on the show and discovered that compatibility. And nbatv works with Turner sports! Just move them over

and it would keep cwebb from calling games everyone wins

lol embiid giving up on 3 plays in a row after not getting calls

literally lying on the court like a baby

hes such a baby!

Lol, I've missed some of the game and based on your comments expected the Sixers to be down by 10.

Wolves down 15 in the 3rd

lots of talk in MN that Ryan Saunders might not make it through the week

feel like teams should not make decisions based on this season because it is not real

I think Rosas has been looking for an excuse to tell the old man hey we gave Flip's kid a shot, but I want to move to Vanterpool

xxp embiid is still effective as a baby and a bunch of sixers are playing great

the odds are decent that flip's kid is not a good coach but otoh the wolves sans towns might have the worst roster in the nba

embiid is obvs great but id feel pretty good about a full strength celtics vs philly in a playoff series even with the bottom of the celtics rotation being absolutely dire

simmons is kind of a non entity in docs offense theyre gonna have to figure something out (trade him for brad beal?)

furkan korkmaz is one of those euros who was drafted as a shooter but cant actually shoot

lol he literally hit a 3 as i hit submit

I agree it's unfair when I believe D-Lo and KAT have played a grand total of 5 or 6 NBA games together since the trade

but this was literally the only head coaching job in the league he would have been a candidate for

it would be interesting. seems like doc has cleaned up a lot of the foibles of the brett brown era and the roster makes more sense. but simmons seems less engaged than ever and he's supposed to be their second-best player.

xp w/goon re: simmons

i think it's time for everyone to come together and agree that d'angelo russell does absolutely nothing that contributes to winning basketball games