NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

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

extremely weird behavior not sure ive seen this before

Semi Ojeleye making sure Danny Green doesn't end up at the line: pic.twitter.com/vlJ8njmfyd

— Chris Grenham (@chrisgrenham) January 23, 2021

i loved that! really smart when guarding a smaller quasi-shooter like green.

it looks like how a penguin would play defense if we need a shorthand

nets lost to the cavs again

cavs are officially america's team

The Brooklyn Nets are being out-rebounded 50-29. Look at this shit. pic.twitter.com/r7wxM1lMbz

— Malcom Wobdon (@WorldWideWob) January 23, 2021

I've always liked Simmons a lot, but starting to come around that he's never going to be a star.

Agreed that Celtics with Tatum are a whole different thing. Simmons can only guard one of them.

also these were kembas second and third games of the season

and who knows maybe the celtics will do some sort of "trade" to "address their bench situation" haha

Lol, I totally forgot about Kemba!

cavs being fun and possibly good is a miracle

2nd 40pt game of the season for jaylen tho

Lol, I totally forgot about Kemba!

― Smokahontas and John Spliff (PBKR), Friday, January 22, 2021 10:01 PM (thirty-six seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

rude!

Though as I say this Simmons has 11pts in the 4th?

he most manufactured them via defense/fastbreak tho

which i mean they count and he is elite at both those things but still they gotta find something for him in the halfcourt

One thing that Doc has "fixed" is the Sixers have been much better in closing situations than they ever were under Brown.

yeah i mean imho he is a much better coach than brown who was bad

Seemed like Brown was p good at what his job was initially, which imo was making sure that all these promising young players’ spirits didn’t get permanently broken by playing on the most famous tankiest team of all time. But yeah once the games started to matter, seemed like they were a season or two late making the change.

cavs are officially america's team

🐦[The Brooklyn Nets are being out-rebounded 50-29. Look at this shit. pic.twitter.com/r7wxM1lMbz🕸
— Malcom Wobdon (@WorldWideWob) January 23, 2021🕸]🐦