NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

classic basketball game lol

thats what i call ball

watching thiess clank threes in crunch time while being left open by 12 feet i might disagree with the celtics on what they value in bigs

Love Jrue on the Bucks. Exact kind of player they need, mentality-wise.

xp yeah i'm with you but they do set a ridiculous amount of screens with the 5 every game. it's just a factor to consider. as much as you or i like him the rest of the league clearly is not breaking down the door to acquire myles turner.

the bucks have a lot of guys in their rotation where i’m like.... man, i guess

my read why they didnt want to trade for turner is just you know salary concerns, paying gordon hayward ~$30m is already dicey, having to take back that much salary for a quality starter and whoever else they throw in to make it match and going into the luxury tax for it, i can understand why theyd rather have thompson at $9m and a big trade exemption from signing and trading hayward

accountant shit, thats the nba baby!

spurs look...good right now! even tho ja is hanging a 40 piece on them

yes. pretty clear they liked thompson and the trade exception more than turner.

avoiding the lux tax is big in nba

brook lopez might be kind of done as an offensive player which isn't great for the bucks. only 4 fg attempts and 1/2 on threes tonight. he just doesn't really do much on that end anymore.

the funny thing abt brook lopez 3pt specialist is hes just not very good at it

it was really just that first season with the bucks where he was shooting 6 a game @ 36% and it was a real weapon. that's gone now.

Stoked with the Spurs performance tonight - despite having no answer to Morant, the young core has me excited. Athleticism, dunks, confident 3pt strokes, and some nice ball movement. The defence also looked a ton better than preseason, and Derrick White still to come back in. Happy holidays, hoopers!

yeah, you live with morant hitting those tough buckets in the paint, my god

if I had one slight concern I did expect Poeltl to defend a couple of Morant's drives better but it's early, early season

the morant highlights on twitter tonight are ridiculous

ja love

i’m a big lonnie fan... crazy athlete, he’s skilled and he can do stuff on defense

i liked the tristan signing and if they get a healthy kemba and can go kemba-smart-brown-tatum-tristan i think they’ll have a good chance. but turner looked good in the playoffs to me & trade exceptions are overrated anyway

lonnie in transition was a marvel, and his catch and shoot from 3 is very reliable. spurs played 9 dudes and 7 of them were in double figures. every starter had at least 16 pts and >50% shooting.

i'm sorry i just have to vent for a second, there is a new feature on espn dot com where if you go to a box score page there is a tiny embedded highlight video, but it doesn't start playing right away. so i check out my box score, navigate to like three other tabs, minutes pass by, and all of a sudden i'm hearing game audio coming out of nowhere because the tiny video suddenly decided to play. wtf.

ha yeah that thing sucks

espn's entire site is unholy

truly not a place of honor

i recommend not using websites unless they look like this one

its true this is how sites should be

they dont even make websites anymore, just apps masquerading as sites

its true

terry rozier scored 42 points tonight btw weird factoid

they dont call him scary terry for nothing!

http://hosted.stats.com/nba/scoreboard.asp

someone here (i forget who! ums?) pointed me here a couple years ago when I was complaining about how stats sites are bad and terrible and it's been v good

not very committed?

How committed are the Blazers to improving their defense? Coach Terry Stotts brought in Jim Boylen, the former Chicago Bulls head coach, to consult with staff for three weeks. https://t.co/TrLQsUg95W

— Jason Quick (@jwquick) December 23, 2020

http://hosted.stats.com/nba/scoreboard.asp

someone here (i forget who! ums?) pointed me here a couple years ago when I was complaining about how stats sites are bad and terrible and it's been v good

― (not a strip club) (Clay), Wednesday, December 23, 2020 11:12 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

wow nice! this site is pretty clean and fast. thanks!

wait rozier scored 42 points tonight?

yes

that article about the blazers defense is really weird. they play their scheme well enough so with better personnel this year why not just give it a shot? the defense boylen used in chicago is gimmicky as hell and would never work in the playoffs.

also why is terry stotts' job always in danger? i don't think there's a ton of untapped potential in this team.

if anything stotts' teams have routinely overperformed

yes! like, who's going to do a better job with these guys?

he's been there longer than you'd think so I guess there's the classic "risk of losing the locker room" thing but the only dudes there with him most of the time are dame and cj and they're not gonna suddenly dip at this stage

yeah if dame and cj had a problem with the coach we would have known that by now

cp3-booker-bridges-cam johnson line up looking fast and cohesive tonight

Everything that happens tonight determines the season.

wild stuff!

OMG KINGS

What a win over the Nuggets. Hustle plays all over in OT. De'Aaron Fox with the block to save it and Buddy Hield with the tip-in to win it.

INCREDIBLE pic.twitter.com/48fZwW4cpl

— Kevin O'Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) December 24, 2020

immediately running off the court is always one of my favorite celebrations

Even better with no fans there

The jazz make so much more sense with bojan playing

i think they have as good a shot as any team in the non LA tier

Love when the ball does unpredictable things around the hoop ring

This basket from Josh Richardson lol pic.twitter.com/fZYAzAqg5o

— Jackson Frank (@jackfrank_jjf) December 24, 2020