NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

I don't think the NBA cares much about unwritten rules, everyone loves this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naNJ3_PswVw

That play should be the logo

nutmegs are awesome and if some mad vet wants to give you a shoulder as you attempt to retrieve the nutmeg, also awesome

is ariza out of the league?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOogNLT6vX8

Somebody has *got* to fix the defense AI in NBA2K

My goodness... pic.twitter.com/Athoi4VYo1

— John Schuhmann (@johnschuhmann) February 26, 2021

those clips are illustrative of a really useful concept for the layman who wants to understand bad defense--how when presented with the decision to move to point A or point B, it is possible to choose the wrong point every single time.

sacto now lost 8 straight, are they missing guys or are they just regressing to the keang

bagley is so bad I’m not sure he’s gonna figure it out

they're trying to play him at center but it's really not fair to anyone, it's like if i put one of my cats in the car and asked him to drive me to the store.

https://compote.slate.com/images/d6d7dcc2-2063-49e1-8af0-6b6b13a1baa3.jpg

christ that last possession for the nuggs

should have been an alley oop

lol bagley backpedaling until hes under the basket up there btw

sorry but lol

Nuggets have a 3 on 1 fast break down 2 in the final seconds and **FART NOISE** pic.twitter.com/sq7RUZU458

— Fastbreak Breakfast (@fastbreakbreak) February 26, 2021

bagley was pretty dominant in college but there basically hasn’t been a single thing that would indicate he’s going to be a positive NBA player. i don’t know what any optimism would even be rooted in at this point

feel like you’ll rarely see as striking a demonstration of NBA players being taught to fan out to the 3 on fast breaks now than that nuggets possession

bagley getting picked ahead of luka because of a deep multigenerational serbian hoop feud is one of the great nba stories

y'all might wanna turn on bucks/pels now

if you love to see some bricks

bagley getting picked ahead of luka because of a deep multigenerational serbian hoop feud is one of the great nba stories

Not one player cutting for a gimmy game tying dunk is shameful the nba needs to rethink itself

they could’ve picked jaren jackson jr
― J0rdan S., Friday, February 26, 2021 1:08 AM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

or trae

i don’t know what any optimism would even be rooted in at this point

somebody must have told Michael Porter Jr the rim had vaccine on it

— Fastbreak Breakfast (@fastbreakbreak) February 26, 2021

there are currently 3 east conf teams over .500

Timberwolves should be relegated to the East

we got our own problems buddy

it seems weird that they go out of their way to promote how little Shaq knows about the NBA

"Do I get a lifeline?" 😭

“Shaq’s First Name Game” went as expected. pic.twitter.com/qMygFgNHax

— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) February 26, 2021

those players arent even obscure

shaq sucks

someone on Twitter pointed out that Shaq owns a percentage of the Kings and missed

casual

me or Shaq? true either way

can we somehow leverage his Kings ownership into getting him booted from the nba journosphere? pick your argument: he's biased for his team, his lack of knowledge about his own team proves his uselessness, his team is the ultimate laughingstock

shaq should stick to adverts

xp definitely shaq and not you matt.

hopefully ppl are starting to realise that shaqs fragile mouthbreather act isnt an act

yeah it's not a new thing lol

the jazz not having a better wing to play over royce o neal concerns me. i know it’s all been gravy this year but when i watch them i can’t help but feel like they have 4 out of 5 of an ideal line up. in the playoffs teams are going to target bogdanovic on defense and dare o neal to make shots on offense & i feel like it might be their fatal flaw

the good thing for the jazz is the have gobert back there to clean things up for iffy defnders like bogdan and clarkson, teams trying to run rudy off the court is maybe more of a danger

That’s always been the problem when they get into the playoffs.

jazz are def the kind of moneyball team you love to see on paper and it’s cool it’s clicking in this very small sample weird ass season but as they say time will tell

thing is you can still be very good and lose a series to kawhi leonard or lebron. the chances of the jazz beating the LA teams back to back seem very minimal to me & that’s not even shade

their wing match up vs the clippers scares me but the clippers guards trying to stop the jazz guards is laughable. lakers are tough bcuz AD draws your center out naturally

luke kennard just played 8 total minutes across two games vs the grizzlies

exactly what you want from a guy who just signed a $64M contract extension

the chances of the jazz beating the LA teams back to back seem very minimal to me

if the jazz stay at 1 and the lakers and clips stay at 2 & 3 they jazz will only have to beat one of them fwiw

that is true... pretty important one seed this year

1 Across in today's nyt crossword is a delight

yes i thought of ILH :)