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

you know who is in first place in the nba its the boston celtics despite losing their new all start free agent signee to death on the first night of the season

harden 22 pt 8/8 4 assist 1st Q

he's up to 10/10 now, 5/5 3pt, 4/4 ft

mo speights is very fat this season

mo speights has his ring already

not sure if he does tbh he mightve......eaten it

scal told a good story during the game that when he was on the warriors staff one day speights threw a lil fit saying that his teammates were freezing him out and that they were the only ones who cld stop him and if he got any shots he wld score like crazy, then the next day david lee came in (after going online clearly) and wrote on the white board the league leaders in shots per 48 and speights was second behind kobe lol

Nice

Harden 52-13a after 3 and prob done for the night

19-22 7-7 11-12 is fn insane thats gotta be one of the greatest shooting games ever

hadn't really considered that if it weren't for batshit years from steph and russ harden could be grinding towards his third mvp trophy this year

yeah hes been in the mix, tho that zombie defense video def did permeant damage to his rep

oh man they put him back in and he missed 3 shots whatre u doin james!

Lol selfish James wanted to drop 70

"I want one time for the first unit to get on the second unit because we blew a lead," Wade said with a chuckle. "I'm waiting for that day to happen."

this seems like a productive thing to say to the media

porzingis is validating all the faith

zinger is good

"I want one time for the first unit to get on the second unit because we blew a lead," Wade said with a chuckle. "I'm waiting for that day to happen."

this seems like a productive thing to say to the media

― call all destroyer, Sunday, November 5, 2017 7:24 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao old wade DGAFFFF

wade and bron were giving each other incredible were so cooked looks today

scal told a good story during the game that when he was on the warriors staff one day speights threw a lil fit saying that his teammates were freezing him out and that they were the only ones who cld stop him and if he got any shots he wld score like crazy, then the next day david lee came in (after going online clearly) and wrote on the white board the league leaders in shots per 48 and speights was second behind kobe lol

― lag∞n, Sunday, November 5, 2017 8:43 PM (one hour ago)

lol this is so good

Ntilikina looks like an absolute pest on defense. not sure what they scouting report was on him but watched them a couple games and he's picking up dudes and 3/4 court

he was advertised as a really good defensive prospect... looks like he could be one of the better perimeter defenders in the league tho. & his jumper looks pretty ok too.

his 3pt stroke looks p nice, v easy

lol cavs r melting down http://nba.nbcsports.com/2017/11/05/hospitals-ripped-jerseys-and-discord-cavs-melt-down-in-atlanta/

kevin love got yelled at by his coach put his jersey over his head ripped his jersey walked off the court and went to the hospital for undisclosed reasons

he was advertised as a really good defensive prospect... looks like he could be one of the better perimeter defenders in the league tho. & his jumper looks pretty ok too.

― J0rdan S., Sunday, November 5, 2017 8:04 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ah cool. yeah as advertised then. really solid instincts.

wow wtf happend to love? so much messy drama in cleveland

In 47 minutes, the lineup of Derrick Rose, J.R. Smith, Jae Crowder, LeBron James, and Kevin Love is allowing 133.5 pts/100 possessions.

— David Zavac (@DavidZavac) November 5, 2017

i believe this is what they call their starting lineup

yeesh

lebron is second in the league in minutes

cavs are last in defensive efficiency

the fucked up thing is if you look at their roster it makes sense

who could have foreseen the love at the 5 situation as being a defensive catastrophe

cavs are going to do one last desperate trade before the deadline, aren't they

lebrons gm skills turned into a pumpkin

its their destiny to cough up the nets pick

who could have foreseen the love at the 5 situation as being a defensive catastrophe

― k3vin k., Sunday, November 5, 2017 10:26 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and having zero plus defenders in the backcourt

the good team 'boston celtics' has extended their win streak to 8

kyrie has gotta be feeling pretty vindicated right now

kyrie sabotaging the cavs and rolling into a win streak with the celtics is pretty funny

btw i have watched every celtics game this year and they dont even look that good but then at the end of the game they are ahead 8 to 15 points, the key to their play so far has i think been "defense" and strangely "rebounding"

gotta think the "load up on old vets" strategy has failed enough times (cavs, prokhorov's first foray with the nets) now that teams will stop trying it, but they will never stop trying it will they, hmm

i guess the 04 lakers almost succeeded until they didn't

lowe & windhorst were both blowing this off on lowe's latest podcast, saying that it doesn't really matter because the cavs aren't trying and aren't going to try until the playoffs. i sort of buy that but idk this team didn't solve any of its problems from last year... lebron is basically the only player on the team who is a plus on both sides of the court

and lebron is usually a negative on defense in a lot of regular season games simply bcuz he doesn't want to exert the energy

cavs can't turn it on in the playoffs unless they get there

they will make it, but they might be a 4 seed

cavs playing lebron 40mins a game to win only 4 out of 6 seems like a bad plan they shd do something else imo

seeding seems significant in the east where theres a pretty big falloff in team quality

a thing about the lebron experience is that he basically never plays with young players. it's been a constant of all his teams -- the heat were a unique situation bcuz they had to dump a lot of draft picks to put the big 3 together, but still the only young player who ever saw significant minutes on that team was norris cole. meanwhile guys like ray allen, battier, mike miller, haslem whose careers were basically over are the players lebron wanted around. i don't blame the cavs exactly... having lebron on your team is still worth it obv. but clearly they're nervous about it too as the kyrie trade indicated.