NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

there’s a version of steph’s career where KD stays in OKC and cp3 gets to houston and there’s some epic battles to get out of the west just to face those excellent cavs teams. steph certainly wins fewer titles that way but maybe wins one in a way that garners him more respect ultimately.

i don’t think steph will ever be remembered as some great champion but his legacy as a pivotal figure in the history of basketball is pretty cemented at this point imo

i don't think they were a superteam pre KD, just a perfectly assembled regular team

jordan-pippen-rodman wasn't a superteam either

the guy who wouldve been just unstoppable is iverson

― lag∞n, Tuesday, December 29, 2020 5:35 PM (forty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

He's my favorite, but I wonder. He wasn't a great 3P shooter by today's standards, but he spent more time on his back in the paint than any player ever and now that's getting called every time and he could shoot FT's reasonably well.

when evaluating steph and cp3, i look at whose game changed the way hoops are played on every team from the pros down to high school.

iverson would have had a lot more room for drives with today's spacing. fewer 6'11 stiffs hanging out near the lane.

dipos made a couple nice plays tonight looks like he might be getting heathy

When iverson started slowing down the jumper got better. His mechanics were good. I think with a lot of guys who are insanely fast they mess up their shooting because you just can’t shoot with that kind of suddenness. And he probably was the quickest, fastest guy ever.

also chucking was consider ok back then there wasnt a lot of pressure to not shoot 30%

I think for sure that steph’s peak was higher than paul’s peak, but it’s closer than most people think — everyone forgets how great paul was in the 08 and 09 seasons. he doesn’t have that knee injury forcing him to change his game pretty radically and who knows what kind of player he ends up being. longevity it’s simply not close and unless steph plays well for another 10 years it won’t be. paul is setting the new standard for PGs into their mid-30s and beyond

it’s hardly worth rehashing the playoff debates but paul simply has some of the best numbers ever and has been — to this point — a better playoff player than curry on a minute to minute basis. it simply is not his fault that blake griffin missed something like 30% of the clippers playoff games during his peak. he played hurt and missed a small number of games of his own which is not his “fault” but you can argue the best ability is availability which is fairer. and I mean just imagine what his playoff record would be if he played in the east lol

Embiid is 1 for 5 from 3! This team is done.

raps outhustling the sixers rn

and then they blew it

Yeah they really blew this game

may i just say that theres a feed down the side of the espn nba scoreboard thats broken and this guys face has been sitting on top of it for at least a week

https://i.imgur.com/09nn8dT.png

Raps might have their own problems.

feel like there arent a lot of great teams in the nba right now

bucks just set the NBA record for threes in a game (28) two days after missing 31 threes in a 20 point loss to the knicks

the clippers should great, the lakers won last year with two starting quality players but have moderately better guys now, the nugs have a lot of guys but are they the right guys, heat are cool but dont quite have the star power, bucks idk...

i think it's going to be a very flat season with the compressed schedule, the rapid restart, and lack of training camp affecting teams in a bunch of different ways. even if you had a team that was stacked enough to dominate, would you bother when the offseason was barely 2 months and you're going to be playing more or less every other night?

the serious contender teams should only be worried about being a 4 seed in their conference

yeah prob true

how do you go from getting blown out by the Knicks to beating the team that destroyed you in the playoffs by 50

shooting luck, baby!

feel like the minimal training camp/preseason is def showing so far

early season nba is always pretty ragged anyway

just want to acknowledge that udonis haslem is still on the heat roster

def one of the odder lil nba details

congratulations to the orlando magic who will start 4-0 for the first time in their history

if the question is "who is the most boring player you love to watch" my answer might well be vooch

vooch has moves

This kid is gonna be somethin else

JAMES. WISEMAN. 🤯 pic.twitter.com/GZ3kLsE8pc

— Golden State Warriors (@warriors) December 30, 2020

he as they say moves well

wow that wiseman clip

luv to be a young lad in the open court

one of these days the nuggets are going to want to rethink their “let the other team shoot as many threes as they want” strategy

that's Kiddball

wiseman showing off his unicorn horn there.

has there been a single good national TV game so far this year? i guess the bucks-celtics from last week. feels like it's just been a series of dreadful games

yeah it hasn't been amazing

Julius Randle is ballin. 24/10/6 through 4 games

it looks like he's in great shape just from a physical perspective

has there been a single good national TV game so far this year? i guess the bucks-celtics from last week. feels like it's just been a series of dreadful games

ratings are a disaster surely

Wiggins probably the best game I’ve ever seen him play tonight. Has like 15 or 17 in the 4th. Compare that to last week where he looked like completely lost. Gonna be a wild ride having to cheer for this dude.

ratings are a disaster surely

the steph vs cp argument... it isn’t even close lol y’all are crazy.

feels like the pandemic permanently killed sports ratings? dunno when/why they will come back if not now. how's football doing

yeah it's weird -- in theory everyone is home and has already watched the queen's gambit so what else is there

people didn't start reading did they

maybe sports bars are a bigger deal than I thought

I do remember hearing the NFL was doing really well this year