NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

No Tacko no credibility.

melo at #10 in the west with a 12 pt, 3 rebound, 1 assist average

hoops stan culture is a poison

Seems like Seth Curry has long covid. Sucks, to be honest! Sucks that it happened to him, and the world.

https://www.fearthesword.com/2021/2/4/22267510/matthew-dellavedova-facing-possible-retirement-due-to-ongoing-concussions

sucks for him but otoh i watched him try to intentionally injure people on a regular basis

Really sucks for Seth he was balling. Hope he can shake it.

Feel like I haven’t seen delly play in like 3 seasons

Kelly oubre career high 40 tonight. Hopefully a turning point.

The Blazers beat the Sixers 121-105 tonight. Dame, McCollum, Nurkic and Derrick Jones Jr. were out because of injuries. Of all the players for the Blazers, only Covington was a starter on opening night, but he was coming back from an injury and only scored 9 points in 35 minutes. So, it was almost exclusively their bench who got this W. Weird season.

Warriors beat the Mavs with 9 players and Steph sat the whole 4th quarter. Mavs gotta figure some stuff out.

been seeing some of the at large love towards luka start to sour

147-116!

i doubt luka's in peak shape yet but other than that i'm not sure what he's supposed to be doing better. i wonder if all of their supposedly good defensive players have slipped significantly.

luka's not hitting 3's, the team as a whole kinda sucks at it, zingis might be in permanent decline, just no lateral movement. been missing guys for various reason, but even when healthy they havent looked right. josh richardson look not great, they miss sniper seth, its kind of a mess honestly.

i thought theyd have some cap space, but its not a max slot. looks like about $20M in space next year unless they do trades. not sure what they'll do bc they usually swing and miss on big name FAs

honestly luka shd start demanding a trade to SA

luka needs to shoot better im disappointed he hasnt followed my shoot more like harden and tatum advice

wow its like he stopped reading the board, what happened

i know smh

crazy hes still only 21, expectations are so high and the amount of time hes had to hone his game is very low

he takes that huuuge stepback so so often

they seem to be the second team that has bet on josh richardson being a really good 2-way player, and like the first team it's not looking good

he takes that huuuge stepback so so often

― Clay, Thursday, February 4, 2021 11:27 PM (thirteen seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah the footwork is real bad, he could do so much better there

i think hes prob not an exceptional shooter besides that but then you add in these sloppy high degree of difficulty shots and hes making it hard on himself

airball ft for lebron lol

time to retire :(

relegate lebron

sigh. weird game from jokic

did he eat in the middle of the game, what happened

Luka got beat back door about 15 times tonight. Their defense was worse than advertised.

cuban looking like shit, cursing, living life

here's the clip of mark cuban telling zach lowe "fuck you, you don't know shit" in response to lowe talking about luka being one of the whiniest players in the league toward the refs. pic.twitter.com/GOttOiXe50

— Josh Bowe (@Boweman55) February 5, 2021

cuban looking like boban dad there

mark buban

can’t wait til my plan comes together and I have one billion dollars so that I can be an awful little piece of shit but also a billionaire

zion just scored his 1000th point

i keep forgetting how few games he actually played last season, he's still just an nba baby

was on a minutes restriction for the first ~half of those games too

Zion is too smooth in the post. Just matched Blake Griffin as the fastest to 1,000 career points since Shaq (44 Games).

(via @NBA) pic.twitter.com/1ModSl8cfL

— SLAM (@SLAMonline) February 6, 2021

lol, he bent the rim on a dunk attempt and they're delaying the start of the 2nd half trying to fix it.

The legend grows

hoops paul bunyan

our beautiful son

wtf is going on with this durant contact tracing thing

lol came here to ask exactly that

Very weird. He already had it and he’s also had to sit earlier this season for contract tracing

Free me

— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) February 6, 2021

NBA gotta figure this protocol stuff out if they're really trying to have an all-star game this year lol

They really shouldn’t do the all star game

i'm not sure why it's any different than what they're already doing. if they can have full teams traveling all over the place they can have an all-star game. i don't care about it and i probably won't prioritize watching it but the players moaning about it to the media sound ridiculous since their union had to agree to make it happen.

Lol did not know

the players effected are a very small percentage of the union so i get why those guys are complaining about having to fly to a different city and take more daily covid tests instead of getting some time off just so the NBA can recoup some money off an event no players want to participate in and no fans want to watch. it’s not dangerous as much as it’s just useless and stupid

Casual fans love all-star games. The fact they have no bearing on anything doesn't matter to them since their team awareness or connections are weak and they get to see great players showing off their skills.