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

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Joel Embiid's shooting form looks... different 🤔 🎥: @JaimeBoyer pic.twitter.com/Fpv0l1y6hk

— SLAM Magazine (@SLAMonline) October 25, 2017

lmao joel is the best

hahaha

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/basketball/bulls/ct-bulls-nikola-mirotic-future-20171025-story.html

But there’s a growing sense that Mirotic would find returning to a locker room with Portis difficult. In an odd way, the severity of Mirotic’s injuries could help assuage the delicate and fluid situation merely by the passage of time. Emotions remain raw for now.

if i were the lakers id hold lonzo out all year w a fake injury and have him start over from scratch on his shot, i mean he looks like an amazing player except for the one thing every perimeter player needs to be able to do, hey why not more teams shd red shirt their rookies

it's not like anyone else on that team can shoot so what's the difference ?

this is gonna be like the dray vs klay thread all over again

lol is this a pattern is lakers drafting, the shooting doesnt matter theory

we really just need to go to euro academy model so guys dont show up in the nba w fucked up habits

wld also have the good effect of hollowing out shady hs/college athletics

Kyrie Irving said he took three steps on this court and immediately noticed it doesn't feel the same as a regular NBA court. Seems concerned

— Marc D'Amico (@Marc_DAmico) October 26, 2017

so mysterious what does this mean

lonzo ball = kevin martin x jason kidd

lol kyrie

where's the Kevin Martin part coming from

he shot from the wrong side of his head

so mysterious what does this mean

― 龜, Thursday, October 26, 2017 12:27 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

blood seeping up through the boards

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lol

haha

http://www.nba.com/bucks/release/bucks-replicate-famed-mecca-court-return-mecca-game-oct-26/

A replication of the “court that made Milwaukee famous” will be used for the Bucks “Return to the MECCA” game on Thursday, Oct. 26 against the Boston Celtics, which starts at 7 p.m. When the Bucks and Celtics take the floor at UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena, formerly known as the MECCA, they’ll do so on a replica of the famous Robert Indiana-designed court that the Bucks played on from 1977 through the team’s final season in the MECCA in 1987-88.

man I am loving Rudy Gay in his role. He was forced into the role he always shoulda had and he's embraced it and been exactly what the spurs need. Who are 4-0 w/o their mvp btw. LMA looks back to his old self.

lol is this a pattern is lakers drafting, the shooting doesnt matter theory

― lag∞n, Thursday, October 26, 2017 12:07 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

listening to ben falk on lowe pod yesterday and he was saying something kind of interesting, that shooting is in theory one of the skills that is most possible to improve (unlike softer skills like "feel for the game" which makes sense, it's mechanical and you can practice it endlessly, but you probably can't completely tear down and rebuild someone's shot when they're starting games.

the concept of correct shooting form is hegemonic

jk lonzo should play tho. they should be able to tweak his shooting form and let him try it out in real games since lakers games don't actually matter anyway.

mechanical set shots is how jason kidd is the leading 3 point maker of all time

i dont think tweaking is gonna do it for lonzo, i mean he releases the ball from the wrong side of his head, he actually has decent touch all things considered to be able to make that shot go in at all he cld prob be a good shooter if he moved the ball to the the other side of his head but it wld require a complete tear down something you cant do in the middle of playing competitive ball, and of course the lakers wld never consider it and the media wld go wild if they did decided to send him to the woodshed, but really shdnt teams be doing stuff like that i mean in the long run does it matter if a player plays his 19 y/o season prob not

he cld also lift some weights and get a hair style

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― ciderpress, Thursday, October 26, 2017 12:48 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Beat me to it

imo it matters if a player plays their 19yo season

Re: Kyrie and his Floor Concerns. The old parquet floor in Boston Garden was notoriously idiosyncratic. The Celtics practiced on it so often they memorized its quirks and failings and this was part of their home court advantage.

embiid simmons et al players who missed their rookie season def looked more developed than if they were coming straight out of college once they did play, and almost exclusively young rookies are bad, prob being in an pro organization learning training and just plain getting older are more important at that age than the experience u acquire by playing poorly, i dont think changes their career trajectory at all to miss a rookie season

xp urban legend debunked by the very larry bird himself + others fwiw

Larry Bird would never lie about anything that gave him a competitive advantage.

long after he was done playing

in fact he said he encouraged the myth while he was playing

the whole concept behind euro training academies is to work on fundamentals with young players and they really only use competitive games to treat them to some fun, obvs by the time players are 19 theyre playing a lot of competitive ball but imo the concept still applies to nba rookies especially considering youre dealing with the best league in the world where u need to be more advanced in yr skills to play good, the problem with the american system is players come up playing in leagues where the coaches are incentivized to win over teach and thats how u get guys with shots like ball or noah, theyre talented enough to win with them at the lower levels then once they reach the nba theyve got an unfixable liability

but maybe the liability is fixable, no one has ever taken a year off to try, the only time guys miss that kind of time is with a major injury which obvs hinders yr ability to train

they cld take the time off but still practice w the team in situations that allows them to learn the nba game w/o putting the pressure to actually make shots w half fixed form

let ball ball

btw lonzo was +13 last night and wall was -14

-100 meaningful

pellies and kings is the late TNT game tonight lol what

xp yeah just saying :)

i saw a really weird +/- outlier last night I think it was reddick

even the most dire hard +/- supporters are all you have to adjust it and then its still a lil noisy FROM SEASON TO SEASON

I enjoy it as a purely retrospective stat like the WPA stats in baseball

lonzo also jumps very forward with straight, stiff legs which makes his shot look like Double Dribble

I don’t think ball will ever be a good shooter. There’s just too much going on there. I think he’ll figure out how to shoot wide open shots like Kidd did tho.

kyrie thought the court was the actual old court not just painted to resemble it lmfao

In case you need to tell someone…tonight’s #ReturntotheMECCA court is a brand new floor.

Here’s how we made it: pic.twitter.com/GjtsIDts2A

— Milwaukee Bucks (@Bucks) October 26, 2017