NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

Players build their games around repetition. Take away their hand slaps after free throws and their world will wobble on its axis.

Pops looks a bit like Immortan Joe these days

Bucks getting smoked by the team they just beat by 40

I really like the Hornets. Lamelo ball plus 8 boring players who are good at defense is really a perfect formula

these back to back matchups are going to hammer home how much individual NBA games come down to make/miss randomness

the trae young/john collins pick and roll is looking very well oiled

kyrie just too much

hornets shredding mavs by 30 in dallas weird stuff

Season is super weird but I’m kinda into it

it is a very bizarre first two weeks

i feel like orlando starts 4-0 every year

miles bridges with a 20-16 ?!

he also dropped his debut album last week

speaking of nba-adjacent music i keep hearing that "tyler herro" song on the radio and the first time i thought he maybe actually had something to do with it but apparently not.

i think stotts is gonna get fired which is dumb to do in this environment (that being that the nba is weird)

i think he shows up in the music video xp

i watched it and [white rapper voice] im tyler herro now

harlow is terrible.

Separately:

“Shit, it’s hard to breathe in that mask,” Kawhi Leonard said, referring to the odd-shaped protective plastic mask he wore on his face Wednesday.

“Serge can’t talk too much, we’ve got him on the trading block right now,” Leonard said. “Whoever wants him, let us know. We’re trying to trade Serge.”

what a weird guy

i think stotts is gonna get fired

that would be all kinds of crazy

i suspect one contributor to the crazy variance so far is the empty arenas. not getting much press because we're used to it at this point, but feel like it was a very different thing to play without fans in the bubble, which was more like a camp, with everyone in the same place. i wonder if it's messing with players' heads in a different way to be in their home venues with 10-15K empty seats (does anyone know how big the bubble arenas were?).

way too many extraneous factors piled on top of each other this season to ever have any confidence in causality, but another really big one is the discrepancies in offseason rest. teams that didn't go to the bubble just got 9 months off! not a huge surprise they are completing some shocking upsets over teams that were still playing in august

Sixers shot 60% from 3 and put up 38 on the Magic in the first.

And have 98 with 2:

Oops: 98 with 2:13 left in the 3rd.

all that talk about how the wiz might be decent this year is starting to seem questionable

well, good thing they didn’t trade away any first round draft picks

they shd shake things up trade bertans to the celtics

Sixers keep winning, but Danny Green looks cooked.

thats just what danny does, calm down

he got the nickname icyhot for a reason

its because hes icy (bad at basketball) and hot (sweaty)

Another year gone by. Think I’ve been posting here for ten years now. Happy New Years my ilh homies, love y’all.

ja hny ilh

a bad day for ball but a good place to be

happy new year to my basketball bros <3

hny all!!

cheers budsm here's to peace and good hoists!

Happy new year folks! May 2021 bring spectator sports that involve some spectators...

happy new year, friends. very grateful for this group year in and year out.

fwiw i meant to type "cheers bdsm" above and not "cheers, " as you might innocently believe

the best board

ilh is love

hny ilh

happy new year everyone

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He's a little FIFA 2020, a little Chick-Fil-A.

sounds like a lovely evening

he's more machine a collection of his experiences than man now

happy new year all

It's way too early and they've played no one, but it is interesting the things Doc is trying to address so far this season. Sixers have been crazy turnover machines the last several years with Simmons and Embiid, and bad in late game, half-court situations (other than when Butler ran things). Doc seems to simplifying things for Embiid and giving him easier reads to avoid the inevitable double team. Also running way more pick and roll.

doc is a good coach imho hes not without his foibles but his teams generally play pretty good and everyone likes him except for tracy