NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

I’m liking what I’m seeing from RJ Barrett

Is there a team worse than the bulls this year? Looking pretty dire there

okc or nyk maybe?

I think Reddish and Hunter contribute more for the Hawks this year than Gallinari and Bogdanovic

Oh yeah knicks I guess

ESPN is clearly experimenting with a zoomed-in view with Pelicans-Heat. It's not quite as close as Mobile View on NBA League Pass, but it's way closer than the standard broadcast. What does everyone think? pic.twitter.com/EoisOkFVkf

— Kevin O'Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) December 25, 2020

watching now and this is atrocious. you can't see the near corner or the very top of the 3-pt arc half the time!

they shd just do closeups on guys faces the ball swishing through the net slow mo put some emotional music over it shit like that

This is a fun Zion game

ok i was wondering what was going on w the camera angle, it’s very bad

zion is

— a free throw machine
— one of the best rebounders in the league
— unstoppable on the fast break

some big christmas day records being set today, witnessing history

brandon ingram heard duncan robinson broke his xmas day record for threes made and started going off

The Ingram vs Simmons debate is still alive

do you even need to say “tough day for Bledsoe” anymore, isn’t it implied by the fact of his being on the court

Zion’s FT stroke looks better to me

i see a lot of games in zion's future this year where he puts up those kinds of lines and is still -13

The Heat are exciting. Cool team

once again i don’t understand how a heat draft pick (precious) fell to them

This bucks second unit looks awful. How do they score?

God why do the warriors still have Chriss

i don’t understand how a heat draft pick (precious) fell to them

i'd say a good half the teams in the league evaluate draft picks on the assumption that raw athleticism is always more valuable than demonstrated skills on the court, because they assume skills can be taught. they overlook how hard it is to un-teach bad habits or to rebuild a player to have good habits. hoops skills are instilled by endless repetition and muscle memory and if that repetition has been laid in poorly it's an uphill battle to overcome that. 'projects' rarely pan out as desired.

It’s because Jord is a heat homer, I solved this mystery

This bucks second unit looks awful. How do they score?

idk man the heat keep finding NBA players with low picks and mostly i find myself wondering why other teams didn’t draft them first

heat are spurs east i thought this was noted long ago

heat have traded away picks or just had bad ones for a lot of the riley era but recently theyve had some late lottery picks and done well with them

they didn’t have a great run in the bron era basically only picked norris cole & shabazz lol

it’s prob a bit unfair to judge the warriors based on playing two of the fiveish best teams in the league but it’s not clear to me how they’re gonna beat good teams

they dont look great!

Bucks are unstoppable if Middleton plays like this

GS is not making the playoffs.

ILH knows things. DRAY v KLAY

tbf neither of them have played this season

nets in the basquiats today they must not prosper

Trying to avoid judging my boys too much... but it’s hard. I think we need 2016 draymond to show up somehow. Hope he got that klutch hgh connection.

i still think dray was the better player at the time of that poll

I don’t see how the Warriors make the playoffs. Looks like they got something with Wiseman tho

Middleton was just trash in the bubble, bubble created lots of illusions

bubble boys go pop

the google pandemic ad makes me want to do terrorism

loooooooool

they wd just put your terrorism in their montage, theyre crafty like that

cant beat the big g

its sucks, theyre called alphabet bc they own all the letters, cant beat em

more like alpha butt

Just an absurd shot from Jayson Tatum pic.twitter.com/6c9i49iZVZ

— Chris Grenham (@chrisgrenham) December 25, 2020

kd is moving and playing at 100% imo and let me add yikes

the nets are...good

is the google pandemic ad the one where a bunch of dead celebs are made to seem to be endorsing google because that is a crime

they could accomplish the same thing with a tupac hologram looking up his death date on google and saying "damn."