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

great basketball is not allowed until after the holidays, im logging off immediately

Manu NEVER RETIRE.

uhh Manu really got a gift there

wow manu clean stuffs giannis and gets called for a foul smh

great game btw throwback manu stuff going on

Def. JVG otm good low scoring game

Henson and Giannis are blocking everything

PG13 thunder breakout game

the celtics apparently cannot lose even when theyre down 16 and missing all their dudes

celtics will win 74 games

bledsoe and snell started last night but brogdon had more minutes than either of them

somehow delly still got 20 too, guess they dont really have a backup 3 so they end up running out a bunch of 3 guard lineups

Kidd trusts him and he was seeing who he played better w. That bled brog Middleton Giannis Henson lineup looked really good

Yah they had all three guard in at one point don’t think that worked well tho

yeah that xp lineup makes sense to me, tho maker is prob their future center

very switchable as the kids like to say

Henson is a little more sound defensively at this point. Henson had 6assists last night too!

celtics are so far out in front in defensive efficiency its nuts, theres as many points (4) between them and the 2 team (okc) as there is between okc and the 13th team (charlotte), but when u watch them play it doesnt seem like theyre shutting their opponents down its not like theyre swarming the perimeter or blocking every shot at the rim, i guess it comes down to almost all their players are + defenders who just play really solid and rebound well, also their sched has been pretty weak

smart and rozier are defensive allstars who cause some srs havoc when played together, they also both shoot 35%

smart is shooting <30%

that too lol

smart is easily the most confident shooter who doesnt shoot well enough to be in the nba that ive ever seen

he should not be 3rd on the team in usage but here we are

yeah that is utterly insane

get well soon gordon!

+al and kyrie

i declare another ciderpress bowl tonight for orlando vs denver

back on the magic train i see

i just want to figure out whats going on

my theory they mostly just got hot but adding simmons-ross-augustin-isaac + moving gordon to pf has prob made them good enough to get a low east playoff seed

also they have a good coach who just had a hard time dealing with last years nonsensical roster construction

i love catch all stats now

2017 draft WARP leaderboard
Jayson Tatum 1.2
Lauri Markkanen 0.9
John Collins 0.9
Kyle Kuzma 0.5
OG Anunoby 0.4
Jordan Bell 0.4
Lonzo Ball 0.2
Jonathan Isaac 0.2
Bam Adebayo 0.2
Nobody else positive https://t.co/flkgv2QI64

— Kevin Pelton (@kpelton) November 11, 2017

yeah lonzo has managed to be valuable enough on defense to not be a negative still

he was putting up huge lines for a while too but that seems to have died down

kyrie was fn abusing him when they played, at least when he felt like it, he actually ended up having kinda a shitty line via taking bad jumpers when the celtics were up by 20

feel like lonzo might benefiting from generally solid team D, ive seen him get blown by a lot

which is not to say he doesnt have defensive talent but he is a rookie, and pretty skinny too

lonzo fills the stat sheet... it still gives him a pretty low floor. he's fourth among guards in blocks for instance. even with his shot completely broken he's not having totally empty games.

its true he cld be the new marcus smart

hehe

really tho for all the talk there will be about lonzo being a bust... if he can even get to like austin rivers' level scoring production, w/ the rest of what he does on the floor that's still a useful rotation player

crazy to think smart was the consensus 1 pick in 2013 but then ended up going 6 after staying another year in college, that 2013 draft was so fn bad but then did somehow have giannis going 15th lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_NBA_draft

unless his shot gets fixed, seems like lonzo will probably settle out as the equivalent of about a mid-first-round pick

and gobert 27th! xp

thats gotta be the most wrongly ordered draft ever, the #1 pick is already out of the league!

that draft has to have the worst top 10 of all time. there's... 4 good players?

porter and dipo cld maybe slip into a game but mccollum is the only guy there that has legit allstar talent

C.J. McCollum went #10 in that draft and is probably the best player among the top ten.

and then theres a GOAT candidate and a perennial dpoy picked way after WTF!!!

like its actually a pretty good draft once u put in it the right order

I like your enthusiasm, giannis has a LONG way to go to even get near the ten best of all time.