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

also donovan mitchell is good

i just searched twitter for jason kidd to see if the pitchforks are out and yeah ppl seem to be aware that he does not coach well

Bucks would be so good if they could just play average defense

they have a great defensive roster too!

like how do you manage a bottom 10 defense when all your players have an eight foot wingspan. how do you settle for long 2s on every other possession.

they have good smart players too, good passers. he's gotta go.

some good stuff in here including how the jazz are good without gobert

https://bballbreakdown.com/2017/12/04/10-interesting-trends-far-season/
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DQOZFhEU8AEApcn.jpg

also found the dwight howard stuff interesting.

went to the pistons-spurs game tonight (lower bowl, yay for friends!) reggie jax was RIDIC, and the pistons kept making runs to go up by 8 or 9 points that the spurs always found ways to answer. spurs brought it in the 4th with some clutch blocks including rudy gay' game-clinching block on tobias harris for the last shot. got some grandpa juice from manu, some fuck-you blocks from danny green, some baby deer running drives from pau. great game, voice is gonna be rekt tomorrow.

apparently the pelicans and warriors tried to fight after the game

anthony davis was 15th in total minutes played last season and is 33rd so far this year

is that comment and that quote supposed to be related in some way lol

I rolled my ankle exactly the way steph did Friday afternoon (missed a last step on stairs carrying kid) and my shits still all fucked up

sprained ankles are legit the worst pain ive ever felt. worse than my achilles tear even.

Yeah it's unbelievable what a failure by evolution

My ankles are pretty much in pain to varying degrees at all times. I can't do some moves on the court cause the left one is so weak. Having a body sucks tbh.

sub optimal def

I'll take ankle pain or any ligament/tendon/muscle pain over nerve pain tho

true

during last nights game it was mentioned that the bucks D has been top 5 since acquiring bledsoe fwiw, not sure where thats at after allowing the celtics to shoot 55% but anyway seems like theyve seen some improvement at least, their D still doesnt look great tho imho

bledsoe got a little roasted by kyrie last night not that there's much shame in that.

thunder making this a game

idk where that "Top 5" metric comes from, it can't be in points scored nor points/possession

read this yesterday
https://www.theringer.com/nba/2017/12/4/16732390/bucks-defense-giannis-antetokounmpo-deandre-jordan

can the thunder pull out a close game?

they did it

ugly game but good finish by the thunder

ugh

Devin Booker carried off floor with no ability to put weight on anything after non-contact injury pic.twitter.com/bopfNnhuuX

— Rob Perez (@World_Wide_Wob) December 6, 2017

fuck

adductor strain--no idea how long those usually take

dealing with one myself so i can speak to that! doc said anywhere from a month to six months... of course i imagine if you are a professional athlete getting paid millions of dollars with a full-time trainer staff, you might be on the shorter end of that timeline.

uh wow Bradley Beal went to workkkkkk

i like watching these nba tv games where they just announce the game from the studio, it's very realxed

getting blown out at home by the wizards w/o wall is more evidence that portland isn't nearly as good as their record

i can't really make sense of the blazers this year, i think it's just someone rolling dice behind a curtain

i think theyre a good team adding nurkic really helped them a ton and theyve also been playing over their heads a bit

they defend the three really well

theyve got a bunch of scorers and so forth

*or they were playing over their heads a bit til recently now they overall for the whole season are prob playing about at their heads

They’re good in defense which seems kinda weird. Lillards been only ok this year idk i feel like they can sustain this. They just got Aminu back and he is one of those Swiss Army knives that kinda held things go for them.

a team that prioritizes defending the three point line needs a big guy like nurkic hanging around the basket to cleanup all those attacked closeouts is how i break it down

by allowing the system to work it encourages buyin by previously indifferent defenders like portlands backcourt for instance

like mccollum may be at a physical disadvantage defending the 2 but theres no reason dame cant be a good defender

ive heard rumors of improved defense by CJ this year but havent looked into it.

lowe on dubs life w out curry and the kd vs curry debate
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/21682752/zach-lowe-kevin-durant-golden-state-warriors-stephen-curry-nba

Here's the weird truth: even in this halcyon era, the Warriors never quite figured out offense with Curry on the bench. They've scored at around a league-average rate, or worse, with Curry resting in each of the past four seasons, per NBA.com. They have never really locked on a non-Curry identity. They move around without purpose, in cluttered space. Green shoots and distributes more, and can get a little wild. Thompson shoots more, and a little less accurately.

Golden State scored 115.4 points per 100 possessions when Curry played without Durant last season, and 108.7 with Durant as the lone alpha. The splits this season: 116 points per 100 possessions with just Curry, 107 with just Durant.

They remain historic with Curry as soloist. They are normal-good with Durant alone -- so far.

kinda makes u wonder abt drays legendary point forward abilities :P

crazy how dray's lineup numbers are consistently on in the top 10 of the league then!

weird there seems to be something abt lineup numbers in general i cant quite put my finger on

even the ones that adjust for teammates ;)

that said lineup data over less than a third of the season is probably quite meaningless

the famously good adjustments that definitely understand basketball