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

yeah i like tyus a lot

rox 5 game losing streak

losing capela has hurt them more than losing paul

yeah CP is on that team for the playoffs. It's like iggy w the warriors (not comparing the two).

paul has been very good and rockets are 15-1 in games he plays fyi

yeah he's a great fit but they can win a lot of regular season games without him. he's gonna be v important for them in the post season.

RIP thon

Well Russ ended Thon’s career pic.twitter.com/Di38fcgZFE

— Eric Buenning (@ericbuenning) December 30, 2017

league pass alert bucks vs okc

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lmao he stepped out and they didnt call it haha

steph happy to be back

terrible loss for the nuggets tonight

it's been weird watching the Bucks lately, both in outscoring the Twolves 27-12 in the 4th and having a game winning blown call going our way. always wondered what it was like to be on the other side of that.

why did the nuggets trade donovan mitchell?

i feel like they probably technically traded the pick that became donovan mitchell but i guess you can see how they thought he'd be redundant on a pretty guard heavy team

trey lyles has actually been pretty awesome for them esp recently but they'd prob take that one back

if they redid the draft today itd be something like

tatum
mitchell
markkanen
smith
collins

undrafted: lonzo ball

magic being so gassed off his own legend that he traded russell for nothing and drafted ball is shaping up as an alltimer

Kuzma at 6

i did have him there but then i deleted it cause hes been very good but is also a lil older so im not sure abt his ceiling

there are a bunch of guys who cld still be very good that draft is looking pretty deep

it would be interesting how the potential of guys like lonzo, josh jackson, de'aaron fox etc would be judged

i bet they'd all still go top 10. ntilikina and jonathan isaac as well.

magic wld def take lonzo again just to be stubborn

fox ntilikina and isaac still have their upside mystique still somewhat intact, jackson is maybe the only one who has been totally exposed, ball is wounded and divisive but still has supporters

de'aaron fox has been pretty bad too but the kings were in love w/ him & would still take him i bet

also it was kinda obvious he was gonna struggle

I think the lakers being tragically preordained to take Lonzo painted them into a corner that even a time machine couldn't get them out of.

if we eliminate the inevitability of dumb teams doubling down in a second draft and weigh things a lil more on the side of adjusting to new and valuable information mitchell wld def be in the top 10 so youd have to push someone out j collins is prob in there too, so likely at least a couple of ball jackson fox ntil isaac are out, kuzma cld def displace someone too

also the #1 pick fultz??? who even knows where he goes

remember that guy

bam adebayo too cld see him rising into the single digits

I can't help but wonder how well the current Spurs front office would do if they ever had a lottery pick. I think they've been picking at #20 or lower ever since they picked Timmy.

they traded to take kawhi at #15 is a pretty good answer

OG might be really good too. Dudes built like a linebacker and loves his short shorts and can shoot.
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Who knows with fultz knowing the 76ers we may not find out til the 18-19 season.

nice shorts salute og

Josh Jax is so bad, haven’t even really seen glimpses of what he can be. Fox has been bad too but at least he’s shown flashes and who knows what the Kings are trying to do with their rotations and player development.

has josh jackson fixed his shot at all? it's really hard to watch

Nope

why do so many young dudes have bad shots these days you think with all the systems and institutions it’d get fixed by age 12 or something

the systems and institutions are bad! its 90% petty coaches who just want to win games

in europe u show any talent and they throw u right in a skills academy, in america u play 5000 aau games instead

yeah I guess I should remember my 90s nyc boroughs basketball culture books

and that was prob even better than the dollar sign eyes dads of today

meanwhile jason tatum was working with a basketball trainer who has nba clients since he was in jr high 😎

Athleticism, speed and height still trumps skills in the aau system.

yeah if youre built like josh jackson youre gonna dominate the mortals youre playing against basically until u get to the nba when suddenly everyone is a 6-7 elite athlete

Ya and confidence and ‘drive’ (self motivation) seem to be hard for scouts to scout. Like these kids are used to being ‘the guy’ and being clearly the best on whatever team they play on so how will they respond to sucking as a rookie or being in the doghouse or w/e.

you’d just think a 23 year old well meaning assistant coach would be like hey bud maybe don’t shoot in a way that is extremely fucked up it’ll cause u problems down the road but I guess said coach would lose his job bc this country is v v dumb

Yah don’t criticize the kid or they’ll pout and bounce to another program that panders to them