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

one of the top guys in his class

celtics offense is doing some fun stuff right now

good profile on bol in SI earlier this year:
https://www.si.com/college-basketball/2017/07/11/bol-bol-manute-son-recruiting

From all indications so far, the blazers will be playing a hell of a lot of close games this season and winning about half of them, give or take.

9 Ls in a row for Clips

doo doo

perhaps cp3 really is that good

blake is shooting like 42% on the season now. maybe time to stop shooting 6 threes per game.

celts gonna lose to the... mavs?

ahhh nothing like a harry B iso step back long two try and win a game

Kyrie normalizing his percentages over the last couple of games

wonder if ballmer will pull the trigger on doc

the boston celtics have won 16 games in a row

thunder 7-9

Net Rating by quarter (before tonight):

1st: +20.5
2nd: +3.7
3rd: -1.9
4th: -1.7

people didn't talk enough about the clippers just giving blake $173 with no hesitation

some projections/people thought they'd be the top 5 in the west... i didn't think they'd be that good but i thought they were a clear playoff team. without gallo tho it's not clear how they score any points. their best off the dribble creator right now is... austin rivers

the theodosic injury didnt help either. and pat Bev has been banged up per usual.

not sure the clippers had any other choice but to sign Blake and keep him happy. Ballmer wants to be competitive

yeah i don't feel like it was really a basketball decision. but i did briefly have hopes that the clippers would become a flexible/tricky team that had a few ways to beat you.

i wonder if it's as simple as blake not being a guy who can really carry a team at this point

they were def in a weird place after cp3 bolted but i dunno. that contract has the chance to cripple their team. what's he gonna be like in year 3 of that deal?

they shd prob just blow it up

they were playing p well before the gallo/milos injuries, right? is it not that straightforward? at any rate, they would struggle to get back into the playoff hunt and should totally bottom out this year.

also by year 3 their powder is mostly dry except they have almost $57 mil going to blake and gallo, oops

year 3 = 2020, that is

i think the bucks need to fire kidd. that offense is not working.

yeah hes bad

brogdon is playing horribly. bledsoe and giannis and middleton just take turns ISOing. badddddddd

he always looks confused about whats going on in the basketball game

think that's just his resting face tho haha

they play this super swarmy trappy defense which is exploitable by ball reversal aka the thing all modern offenses are designed to do too which is like whats the point of having all those long arms they shd just switch and stay in front of their mans contest and so forth, with the roster they have now they cld just play simple solid basketball on both sides and it wld work

yeah they have good solid individual defenders and good shooters throughout their lineup.

they could beat anyone on any given night but no one is worried about them over a 7 game series at this moment.

bledsoe-giannis pnr seems fine as soon as he rolls every defender will be all over him and hes a good passer and they have shooters and he will still be able to dunk it most of the time even if hes triple teamed on the catch

celtics-sixers-bucks are teams w serious young talent the east cld be brutal in a couple years its unclear if the sixers and bucks have the organizational competence to pull it off tho

xp yeah and there's obv gonna be some growing pains w bledsoe and brogdon but early returns show that Kidd is still the weak link *queue eight game win streak*

we need the 76ers in the playoffs this year.

def

also lol at the only game tonight being the Bulls v Lakers.

needed to clear the sched for that one

haha
Bulls should keep Lauri and Dunn and send the rest to the glue factory

they play this super swarmy trappy defense which is exploitable by ball reversal aka the thing all modern offenses are designed to do too which is like whats the point of having all those long arms they shd just switch and stay in front of their mans contest and so forth, with the roster they have now they cld just play simple solid basketball on both sides and it wld work

― lag∞n, Tuesday, November 21, 2017 11:49 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's like a weird copy of the lebron heat era defense only that is now a full version behind offenses today (and required massive ball IQ plus experience down the roster plus the best player to make work)

I'm no defensive genius but I look at those giant wingspans plus no obvious minus defenders to hide and just say 1) switch every p&r and 2) otherwise stay up on your man and 3) have some sort of rebounding philosophy and just stick to those rules and you'd end up middle of the pack at worst right?

theyre 22nd in defensive efficiency! outragous

they should be top ten easily, really top five tho

theyve got a lot of defensive talent, i can cut them some slack cause theyre young but not even being in the top half is dumb

haha
Bulls should keep Lauri and Dunn and send the rest to the glue factory

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, November 21, 2017 10:59 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah Dunn looks like an actual player!

the kidd decision will be interesting. lasry was the owner that got him into the job, but edens is still the governor for two more years and they already had that weird controversy about the gm where edens may have exercised veto power.

and here's another chapter in ray allen's weirdly depressing life: http://www.celticslife.com/2017/11/ray-allen-claims-hes-been-catfished.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

The men who were repeatedly catfishing Ray Allen: pic.twitter.com/mmzSYjq7Fd

— Cameron Stewart (@ThatManCam) November 21, 2017

cool thing for a married guy to do