NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

Happy birthday, bise!! Have you tried that falafel joint?

Man that missed out of bounds call was the difference.

It’s all on the square pic.twitter.com/26NBf1Chh1

— feltbot (@feltbot) February 7, 2021

Sick game tho. Luka is a different animal when he hits threes

Going to double OT Lakers vs... pistons

Happy birthday, bise!! Have you tried that falafel joint?

― Fetchboy, Saturday, February 6, 2021 11:27 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

yes! several times! but moshe's closed some time ago bc the punkass owner decided to make another burger hole.

https://www.mysanantonio.com/food/restaurants/article/Moshe-s-Golden-Falafel-closing-so-celebrated-13960856.php

"celebrated chef" more like denigrated shit

immanuel quickly is impressive, the knicks may have outfoxed the league on that one

Quickley plays better than his draft position implies. Thibs seems happy to give him minutes, which always means a lot of minutes, bcz Thibs always over extends his starters. That has allowed Quickley to find a comfort zone and play with confidence. It's a virtuous circle in his case.

lmao only the knicks, only thibs, beautiful

Deal is done. Derrick Rose returns to the Knicks and reunites with Tom Thibodeau. https://t.co/zkUsC4ojKO

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) February 7, 2021

🎶re-u-nited and it feels sooo good🎶

lol why do this, everyone is so insane

I mean I get it, we all miss our pals during All This

knicks are getting a decent backup for scraps, nothing wrong with that

It’s just funny is all

thibs just loves the guy, kinda nice.

how many calls do you think he’s made to luol deng to try to coax him out of retirement?

good idea for the pistons to take a flyer on dennis smith

just took a look at dsj's stats and he might have one of the worst 3 years of any nba player ive ever seen in terms of his advanced stats. if he can be salvaged into an nba player i guess its worth it, but my god.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/smithde03.html

i liked him out of college, i thought he played like dwyane wade lol. i don't hate it for them, it's like the markelle fultz plan

feel like the rockets are full of reclamation guys, its kinda working for them

fairly certain I post this every two years but I have not thought about the pistons in two years

The pistons have a roster full of nba players. by definition.

i liked dsj out of college too but i think at this point theres plenty of evidence hes not an nba player

But he plays for an nba team, ergo...

DSJ can’t pass, shoot or defend

Bad mix!

kg, still cool

Kevin Garnett today with possibly the best (and most refreshing) take on the modern NBA I've *ever* seen from a former pro pic.twitter.com/VxFcI0iXfX

— Sam Cooper (@scooperhoops) February 8, 2021

plz replace shaq

xps to Dennis Smith convo yesterday

There was a period of time when DSJ was a trendy pick to be ROY from his class! Media narrative was the Mavs had stolen a highlight reel kind of player.

Fast forward to last year when his EFFECTIVE FG% WAS .379!!!! That's EFG, not FG! The splits contributing to that impressive feat were 34/30/50. Yikes.

i swear dennis smith was actually good in college

crazy athlete too

kg is spot on when he identifies the removal of hand-checking from the game as the primary difference in how the pro game has evolved. it got rid of ugly defensive maulers like the Riley-coached Knicks, unleashed the creativity of the offense and turned the game more fluid. steph curry wouldn't have been possible if his defender could have his hands all over him the entire game.

that whole interview with kg is in the times and it's worth a read. he's really smart.

yeah good stuff

Full article:https://t.co/SlQIGUyDt3

— Sam Cooper (@scooperhoops) February 8, 2021

was just watching lakers/celtics game 6 1987 on youtube

it's really interesting, i know we've talked about it before, but god everyone is SO stiff and plodding, even magic

you almost wonder if some of these guys could even play now? or at least would they be good?

bird i feel like could have adjusted to the 3 point game and was so inherently crafty (he comes out shooting like shit in this game though)

it's funny, james worthy is just on a different planet from everyone else athletically, he's the only guy that moves and looks like a modern player

a really basic thing that bothers me abt chuck, shaq et al is these guys are supposed to be selling the league, not shitting all of it with some well folks in my day garbage. people aren’t going to tune in to see a product of its most visible ambassadors are constantly like THREE POINTERS? WHY DONT YOU MAN UP, like this just drives me bananas

yeah its so dumb

billion dollar business idea find tv people who like basketball

the show would be way better with KG replacing Shaq

― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Friday, January 22, 2021 2:17 PM (two weeks ago

absolutely although i don't see him doing it.

a really basic thing that bothers me abt chuck, shaq et al is these guys are supposed to be selling the league, not shitting all of it with some well folks in my day garbage. people aren’t going to tune in to see a product of its most visible ambassadors are constantly like THREE POINTERS? WHY DONT YOU MAN UP, like this just drives me bananas

― Clay, Monday, February 8, 2021 1:23 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

a lot of people i interact with at work or rando acquaintances regurgitate this stuff too.

30 years ago a child would kick a ball in the street a slow power forward would karate chop you in the neck if you tried to make a layup

kings have won 4 in a row and 7/8 and fox got player of the week
https://www.si.com/nba/2021/02/08/deaaron-fox-kings-deserves-attention
haliburton may have fixed this team lol

basketball types are raving about this haliburton kid

impressive streak considering they’re still last in defense lol.

oof

lamelo throws an insane amount of oops not sure ive seen anything like it, hes out there creating dunks (the #1 shot)

a lot of people i interact with at work or rando acquaintances regurgitate this stuff too.

― a nice controlled drift (Spottie), Monday, February 8, 2021 3:38 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

there is a fascinatingly depressing circularity to the sports discourse where pundits say say ridiculously revanchist shit like this, it becomes the basic currency of casual conversation, somehow players also buy into it, players become pundits, rinse repeat

otm it’s sad.

Dejounte gonna be a star? 8 steals tonight and the game clinching sidestep three