NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

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63 points combined 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 pic.twitter.com/qlmB9JjOx6

— Faizal Khamisa (@SNFaizalKhamisa) January 4, 2021

Lol It was a classic draymond game. He looked as good as ever.

lol

Draymond Defense Against Blazers 🔥 @Money23Green pic.twitter.com/NTqKnxk5E0

— 👑 (@PlayoffDraymond) January 4, 2021

so happy he's back. if they can get anything out of wiseman on defense this year that's a pretty good backbone

Payton Pritchard seems pretty solid, better than the other 87 other point guards they’ve drafted in the past 2 years

he seems like a good back up PG but i'm not sure i see anything more than that

something i didn't know:
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2895210-allen-iverson-to-receive-32m-trust-fund-in-10-years-as-part-of-reebok-contract

he seems like a good back up PG but i'm not sure i see anything more than that

yeah pritchard was a nice find

kinda crazy he just started playing good his first day in the nba, and its good for the celtics that he did cause they dont have a lot of guys!

he's got 11 points and 3 assists in 11 minutes tonight so far. scores easily at multiple levels, plays in control. he's a little small but there aren't a lot of holes in his game.

Maxey is playing pretty well for a rookie out of the box.

Bam Adebayo alley-oop dunk on Mike Muscala 🔥😳pic.twitter.com/S7gt7chlOG

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) January 5, 2021

mike muscala is really bad don’t get how he’s in an NBA rotation

it's good the thunder have 2 million picks bcuz they are very devoid of talent outside of SGA and bazley who looks like he could be a pretty good wing player

the type of shots jayson tatum is hitting tonight are ridiculous

on the one hand i feel like the raptors should prob be able to level out, they're too stable a roster/organization to really bottom out. on the other if you start thinking about their roster it's like... 35 year old kyle lowry who prob isn't an all star anymore, siakam playing well below all star level for a while now, OG who is a very good defender but doesn't do much on offense, van vleet who is a good player but not an all star, norm powell who is a nice 7th man... there's not a *ton* there

the celtics dominated them physically tonight and the celtics do not physically dominate very often. g. williams, r. williams, t. thompson were just beasting inside.

siakam has hit a bit of a development wall and norm powell is out of shape in the accounts i've heard so that's a couple strikes against a thin team.

xp they REALLY miss gasol's playmaking and D, and ibaka, too. their roster took a step back replacing them with baynes and boucher in the rotation.

yeah thats a pretty big downgrade

i know the raptors have the right to extend the game as long as possible for like a 2% win probability, but it is extremely annoying to watch

Really liking late career serge

Hey so Doncic is still really good

He should only go up from here once he plays himself into shape a bit more

Anyone watched any pels yet? Their record is good but they looked so bad in the bubble I kinda cooled on wanting to watch them. Fools gold?

i haven't seen much but sounds like a strong starting unit/suspect bench type of team

like their defense absolutely tanks any time steven adams is off the floor

zion continues to put up big numbers while mostly looking like hes just loafing around

brandon ingram is one of the best scorers in the league

they have a lot of talent, it doesn't fit incredibly well but they're going to be competitive most nights and will def be in one of the play in games at least

nurse mad

Nick Nurse, asked about Malachi Flynn: "He was OK. I think my bigger thing is that, if you wanna be honest about it, he didn't really do much out there. And if you wanna be honest about it, Norm hasn't played very well this year, TD hasn't played well, Matt hasn't played well."

— Josh Lewenberg (@JLew1050) January 5, 2021

the raps were playing mad in the 4th. but he needs to put siakam and all his big men on that list.

the way the pels flamed out in crunch time just now does not instill confidence in their coaching

Just saw the end of the game pacers pels highlights lmao they threw that game away

Pacers do the unthinkable to force OT against the Pelicans. 😮

(🎥: @NBA)pic.twitter.com/e3SDHrwOcO

— theScore (@theScore) January 5, 2021

This Pacers-Pelicans ending was wild 😳

Malcolm Brogdon called game. pic.twitter.com/tyB3lnkZ9I

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) January 5, 2021

i dont even know what lonzo was doing with the ball at the end of the 4th - passes it to reddick who is getting trapped in the corner, then forgets he can drive right past mcdermott of all people??

it's probably time to start wondering why luke walton still has a job

Draymond is a basketball genius man alive

it's probably time to start wondering why luke walton still has a job

the kings aren't some kind of desultory, untalented team. they have some ok players and some depth and he doesn't do anything to elevate it.

They’ve had two starters ask to leave in the last 12 months haha

i love how everyone apparently can't stand dave joeger but dave joeger got them to play like a coherent basketball team with a system in the one year they sniffed the playoffs.

kings are a clear situation where the owner has no idea what he's doing and the constant dysfunction of the organization reflects that. it's impossible to win when you're set up like that

Yah the issues run deep

I see a couple Zion defense lowlight clips after every game:

Come on man. pic.twitter.com/woDgnk00Fc

— Dave DuFour (@DaveDuFourNBA) January 5, 2021

has no idea how to be active and engaged, maybe it will some/maybe it won't

30/8/8 through 3 for Steph warriors look completely different with draymond back and getting his lungs back

and playing the kings who look absolutely terrible

has no idea how to be active and engaged, maybe it will some/maybe it won't