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

if you can't play your best possible D with Thibs yelling at you and Butler reinforcing that, there's no hope. still early in the season, he has time.

yeah and hes young, its weird tho

theres no reason kat shdnt be able to defend hes got all the tools he just seems........soft

but why

lack of focus maybe?

it almost seems like he lacks....hardness?

KAT will never have the same temperament and attitude as a KG or a Pat Beverly, but it seems a bit harsh to call him soft.

~~~~drifts off into dream ~~~~~~~~
years from now KAT walks up to the podium to finish his life's dream.... after a classy, gracious speech in which he thanks his family, God, Thibs, the coach who spurred him on to four NBA titles and three MVP awards, the late Flip Saunders...he paused... his eyes welling up..."You know there's one person I haven't thanked... one person who helped me on my journey in so many ways...KAT pauses again, clearly moved..... that's upper mississippi sh@kedown... when there were so many doubters on ilh, calling me soft, questioning my commitment to defense...he never stopped believing.....(sobs pointing into the crowd) he's right here.... stand up man....yeah.... this one's for you, dog.... this one's for you......

I do feel like Wiggins and him both get judged on the fact they don't necessarily mug and make big angry man gestures after they do something big on the court

hot take: they are the first post-Drake NBA stars

:-|

no m@tt nooooooo

dream sequence was funny tho

if post drake means very bad at defense!!!!

at least kat rebounds wiggins is just a non entity on one side of the ball (the defense side)

lmao at management making wiggins promise to get better at basketball before they maxed him out, alltime telling on yrself

youd think wiggins could at least be bad like Monta was in his prime where he gambles every possession but at least comes away with a few steals per game.

he has very long arms if he just waved them around some good things wld happen now and then

Wiggins seems like an odd kid in some way, I remember in the Spurs game thinking he wasn't playing with much intensity then the stats came up in the third quarter he was the game's leading scorere and had more points and rebounds than Lamarcus who the announcers had been raving about

I don't really believe the Drake thing but it feels right when I type it

neither are great at defense but so are a whole shitload of dudes with rings and in the HoF

centers being bad defenders in todays nba is becoming nearly untenable, u have to at least be able to play at a in the right place at the right time level, the good news is kat shd be able to accomplish this easily, the bad news is so far he has not, wiggins u can prob deal with doing nothing but scoring tho its def not ideal

he has very long arms if he just waved them around some good things wld happen now and then

― lag∞n, Saturday, October 28, 2017 3:08 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Curry turned the corner from bad defender to good/competent with this as one of his methods
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/12648764/how-stephen-curry-developed-top-flight-defender

at least defense can, to some degree, be taught and embraced effort wise if the player is willing.

however these are all small things in the Timberwolves mission to build increasingly fascinating and complex ways of disappointing me

this piece on giannis goes into some detail about how the bucks entire defensive philosophy is basically high hands and kidd logs all the times giannis had low hands on their whiteboard post game to shame him http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/enterpriseBucks/how-giannis-antetokounmpo-bucks-plan-take-warriors

nice, gonna read.

p good piece

pels scored 123 with 9 bench points that seems like an unusual ratio

pistons are wearing whites with the same color scheme as the clippers in staples i can't deal with this

years from now KAT walks up to the podium to finish his life's dream.... after a classy, gracious speech in which he thanks his family, God, Thibs, the coach who spurred him on to four NBA titles and three MVP awards, the late Flip Saunders...he paused... his eyes welling up..."You know there's one person I haven't thanked... one person who helped me on my journey in so many ways...KAT pauses again, clearly moved..... that's upper mississippi sh@kedown... when there were so many doubters on ilh, calling me soft, questioning my commitment to defense...he never stopped believing.....(sobs pointing into the crowd) he's right here.... stand up man....yeah.... this one's for you, dog.... this one's for you......

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, October 28, 2017 5:46 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"most importantly, i appreciate m@tt's willingness to continue to follow and support my career after i left the timberwolves, a venerable but cursed franchise, to join the los angeles lakers"

i just got around to watching the fight from last night and these jerseys are irredeemable trash

celtics-heat was physical as hell both teams playing super scrappy kinda fun to have one of those games now and then, kyries doing a reasonable isaiah impression when bostons double digi lead was cut to 2 with 2 mins left he scored 9 straight points to ice it, heat r pretty impressive totally a team of cast offs that plays really hard

i've really come around on kyrie though i still think he looks like he's 35

Embiid is a turnover machine. Averaging almost 5 a game in limited minutes...

he cld use a lil more discipline to his game altogether, just out there operating on talent doing whatever

but hes played like what 35 games

Yah I guess that just seems super high for a scoring center.

its insanely high def

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNVOHLEVwAI2lRj.jpg

I guess Sabonis is good.

I think Willie Cayley-Stein is low key not good

iPhone corrects cauley to Cayley which seems presumptuous

he cld use a lil more discipline to his game altogether, just out there operating on talent doing whatever

tend to agree

R.I.P. Cavs

they had a good run

i had such high hopes

rip warriors

lol up 14 then down 10 they are bad rn

my prediction that my pistons are better than everyone expected is coming true (seventh time is the charm i guess)

drummond suddenly figuring out both free throws and defense helps a lot, not sure if its small sample or an actual improvement

my scapula unbalanced

if homeboys scapula unbalanced he cld like get it