2017-18 NBA REGULAR SEASON THREAD PART 1 ALL OF AMERICAS FAVORITE TEAMS ARE BACK

The extremely painful nuggets loss I’ve come to know so well is coming up

small sample size caveats notwithstanding, i kiiiiinda dont want tony parker to come back until playoffs

Jokic is back

Michael Malone just put Kenneth Faried in for defensive purposes and he watched things happen defensively

yeah that was not ideal

Really bad choice

if you like v. ragged basketball there is plenty of time left to enjoy this kings/suns game

I understand the logic of adding randolph and hill to be mentors but it doesn’t work so well if fox and labissiere are already better basketball players

that's sort of a nonsense point 3 games in but if we're just talking tonight i haven't seen much that suggests skal knows what he's doing

fox looks good but you'll pardon me if i hold my expectations for rookie guards after three games

Josh Jackson vs Fox was fun for a minute there

Whenever really old guys (zbo) switch teams I’m tempted to believe they’re washed

i think managerial/roster/contract factors have more to do w/it than the player's actual talent level at that time

Zbo been pretty washed for a bit now

Is this bogdonovic Bro supposed to be good?

guys "washed" isn't a useful description, like what do you expect from a 36 y.o. forward? his shooting dropped off a little bit last year but he still has value in a limited role

Bogdan looks good to me yeah

i think managerial/roster/contract factors have more to do w/it than the player's actual talent level at that time

chris webber's first full year as a sixer was fine and in line with his previous two years (one of which contained a major injury (unlike z-bo)), so that's some impressive foresight or something

Unusual scenes at the end of this suns game

Garret temple can’t miss

chris webber's first full year as a sixer was fine and in line with his previous two years (one of which contained a major injury (unlike z-bo)), so that's some impressive foresight or something

Because he’s better than all of their big men
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, October 23, 2017 10:47 PM (yesterday) Bookmark

yeah but they're gonna be the worst team in the conference regardless plus bender/chriss need to play, and josh jackson should prob be getting minutes at the 4 too

i'm more of a mudiay fan than most & i think they could do worse than getting him but faried would basically just be in there for salary matching and would impede the development of multiple lottery picks

fox looks good but you'll pardon me if i hold my expectations for rookie guards after three games

― call all destroyer, Monday, October 23, 2017 11:52 PM (yesterday) Bookmark

his athleticism is off the charts for a PG imo, if he's already capable of scoring like this he could be borderline unstoppable once he gets more experience

I’ve pretty much written off bender and Chriss tbh

also fox is averaging 5 boards per game and has 4 steals in 4 games. hard not to be really excited about him.

I’ve pretty much written off bender and Chriss tbh

― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, October 24, 2017 12:32 AM (fifty-two seconds ago) Bookmark

chriss was way overdrafted... i was a bender fan. regardless the suns would gain nothing from obtaining and playing kenneth faried is all i'm saying... i don't think they'd even be able to flip him for much

also kinda think phoenix and mudiay would be a terrible fit... he would not get better as a player there

how about bledsoe and an unprotected first for markelle fultz and salary filler

suns have two extra firsts from miami in the dragic trade...

the suns in a classic psyched abt coach getting fired game give up only 115 points

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty0g9BPvxfc

it wld be very funny if the sixers traded fultz 4 games into his rookie season after drafting him #1

fultz is a lost cause lol

the process never ends.......

“Embellished” technical foul overshadows Nuggets’ loss (full reaction from Malone, Jokic, Brooks) - https://t.co/k5cTxexAVr pic.twitter.com/CWLLC7reA4

— Harrison Wind (@HarrisonWind) October 24, 2017

The thing about Fultz is can you name a guy who started off his career this bizarrely bad and turned out to be better than ok?

coach should be fined for flopping

The thing about Fultz is can you name a guy who started off his career this bizarrely bad and turned out to be better than ok?

― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, October 24, 2017 1:09 AM (five minutes ago) Bookmark

d'angelo russell?

nobody was really paying attention to him but gary harris was completely awful his rookie year

It’s not that he’s bad it’s that it’s WEIRD

https://youtu.be/dvQPafKPns8

lol why did he decide to change his shot to "jumping bill cartwright"

ive never seen anything like this what is going on over there

trust the process

weren't all you guys really high on fultz before the draft btw lol, you guys watch college right was his jumper not weird then?

it was maybe slightly mechanical by modern standards but it wasnt like this!

it's not the prettiest shot ever but it's normal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEEP-uTR01I

fultz was a good shooter in college

isn't shooting the thing that least reliably translates to nba

That is definitely an injured guy trying to shoot without tweaking his shoulder, I cannot come up with any other teams explanation

He's either thinking through this weird form he invented or trying not to hurt himself or both, which is why he can't even get the shot away before he's coming down. So weird