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

i hate plumlee so much

like 6 of the NFL's 10 most marketable players are either injured or suspended, I'm sure that's not helping

LeBron just got ejected for the first time in his NBA career. pic.twitter.com/M4vvDbeSNp

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) November 29, 2017

how has he never been ejected? even curry's had a couple

the blazers are... leading their division, fourth in the western conference? whodathunkit?

pretty amazed the announcer knew that off hand. how do you play 15 years and never get the boot once. dork.

simmons go to move seems good

The unstoppable shot. If Ben Simmons gets this down with his left hand, there won’t be many point guards that can guard him at all...probably not any of them pic.twitter.com/WMNsndilSK

— IN THE LAB (@TEN000HOURS) November 28, 2017

lil hook floater

half hook float push

Deer up 33 on the road, hell yes

up 33 against the kings is more of a gee, uh, yeah, good I guess

well they kings did beat the dubs last night

the cavs have only lost one more game than the warriors

some stuff about the grizz
http://www.commercialappeal.com/story/sports/nba/grizzlies/pick-and-pop/2017/11/29/what-david-fizdale-firing-says-him-marc-gasol-grizzlies-front-office-and-others/904113001/

helluva ankle roll here

Porzingis to locker room with ankle injury. Bye. pic.twitter.com/V4ALVzGfM8

— Will donate ankle for playoffs (@World_Wide_Wob) November 30, 2017

terrence ross's leg just got destroyed

fuck xp

destroyed is too strong

like livingston bad? or blake griffin the other night bad?

it's hard to say but westbrook buckled his knee pretty bad

porzingis' xrays were negative btw

yeah phew

russ hella stressed

🗣Stressssss https://t.co/rnH0mVq5l9

— CHAMPIONSHIP MEK (@_YoMek) November 30, 2017

russ 11-23, pg 7-17, melo 5-16, who coulda predicted this might not come together seamlessly

i wonder if Pop is sitting Kawhi so he could have a month or two to establish LMA and build his confidence.

local radio guy speculated as much based on the information that parker has been physically ready for two weeks

LMA dropped 41 tonight

my boyfriend kyle had 10 pts and 4 stls

Lakers giving the dubs a fight

Bingram ballin

Steph came alive in OT

think he airballed like 5 times tonight w that wrapped finger

Yeah seemed weird to play him at all, but he came through when it mattered. KD with the super-clutch 3 to send it to OT.

fun game. ingram looked unstoppable, pretty sweet how he picked KDs pocket at the end of reg too

Boogie rubbing off on Brow I see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVuF-0VVGcU

ben simmons body want to shoot with his off hand so badly ive never seen anything like this

Slomo of Ben Simmon’s free throw shooting form: A miss sandwiched between two makes. It’s remarkable he gets the shot on line considering how much leftward motion he has in his release. pic.twitter.com/iuAUxLHwkl

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) November 30, 2017

that looks like how I feel when trying to shoot with my left (ie off) hand

omg that is painful to watch

it's like he's throwing a slider

can jokic not be hurt

And yet he made like a gazillion free throws the other night against the wiz in the 4th even though his brain is fighting itself over his form, it's so bizarre

I take it back he only made like half of them which is why Scotty glasses went hack a Simmons for like two hours of real time and now I hate him again

Yes I was watching that game and it looked exciting when I turned it on and rapidly turned to mush

Re lebron ejection he's always been treated with kid gloves by the refs, he never even fouled out of a game until a couple of years ago iirc

I don't mean that to be controversial I think he also knows when to dial back on yelling at the refs and how not to foul out but it just seems mathematically impossible that he fouls out so infrequently

And all of the bron/wade heat teams yapped at the refs A LOT and got away with it in a way I think they would not today

yea I think both things are true. its kind of tough to officiate fairly when one of the players is a mega-talented speed hulk

^prob the biggest point, peak lebron must have been impossible to officiate, dude took Shaq level hacking and breezes right thru like it's nothing

Still does really

after watching last nights game i have some thoughts about ben simmons, i think his inability to shoot is a major problem which will make him stoppable by prepared good defensive teams ie the type of teams you meet in the playoffs, he takes all these crazy running hooks weird angled layups etc because teams can clog his driving lanes as they dont have to defend his jumper, these already difficult but makable by a skilled player shots become not that makable once the defense cranks up resulting in a westbrookian situation where a guy crushes the regular season but then shoots 41% in the playoffs

i wonder if it might be best to play him at center where he receives the ball closer to the basket is matched up against slower players and can punish double teams with his genius level passing, of course the sixers already have a center

or he could also try shooting with his right hand, the hand he already shoots almost all of his non jump shots with which is also the hand his body clearly wants to shoot with, switching shooting hands when youre already in the nba wld def be one of the craziest things ever attempted but since hes basically not taking jump shots now he might as well be shooting with neither hand whats he got to lose

switching shooting hands when youre already in the nba wld def be one of the craziest things ever attempted

tristan thompson did it!

all respect to TT but hes got a single digit career scoring average

the sixers play super fast which is smart bcuz all the questions about simmons jumper become moot when the game is being played in transition... looking at some stats on nba.com they get tons of transition opportunities but score them at a very inefficient rate... i'll chalk that up to their age. to goon's point tho the game always slows down in the offs & that would def present problems for ben

playing him at 'point guard' def seems like one of those goofy early career experiments that ppl take seriously for whatever reason

there's a level of passing/seeing the floor that can almost negate one's bad shooting even in the halfcourt tho. pretty much no one has ever respected john wall's jumper but he's prob the best in the NBA after lebron at finding open shooters out of the pick and roll by throwing the ball to the opposite side of the floor. simmons will prob get close to being that good.