NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

deni advija is gonna be a pretty useful player it looks like

thinking back to kevin o connor ranking killian hayes as the no 1 player in the draft

yeah yikes, gonna take his mock drafts in the future with a grain of salt

Didn’t he get hurt?

Also lamelo 22-12-11 in a W over atl

he did get hurt but even when he's played it's been obv that the idea of him as the best player in this class is absurd

love lamelo lamelo bandwagon baby

youngest player ever w a trip dub

and was one assist shy last night

lamelo averaging 14.5 pts, 7.3 boards, 7.5 assists in january (6 games)

dece numbers for a 19 y/o

bogdan bogdanovich is getting really banged up for the hawks. hurt his ankle earlier in the year and now has a knee injury. gallo's played 27 mins the whole season, rondo has played 31 minutes, kris dunn has yet to play

lol damn

w/ the sixers losing half their roster to covid and the celtics losing tatum for two weeks, literally every team in the east except detroit and boston is going to be either .500, a game above or a game below by this time next week

i meant detroit and washington**

brad beal was heavily breathed on by jayson tatum the other night post game and sat out tonight, who knows when he will come back. wiz season might already be over

he did get hurt but even when he's played it's been obv that the idea of him as the best player in this class is absurd

from everything i read or heard the concerns ppl had about him coming in -- slow footed, unathletic -- were playing out even in the short time he got on the court

based on the list of players who also suffered the injury it doesn't look like a flat out career ender but given the athleticism questions w/ him to begin w/ it's def stacking the deck against in a deeply concerning way

thinking back to kevin o connor ranking killian hayes as the no 1 player in the draft

― J0rdan S., Saturday, January 9, 2021 9:25 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he......doesn't know what he's talking about

the fact that they have him do a top 50 or whatever is absurd. he is not one of the guys that actually would go to the prep events and watch high school film and scout europe and stuff. he spends most of his time watching, podding, and writing about the nba season. no one can do both jobs.

also he has a show on the ringer and hes not the most appealing to look at person, not just his face but also how he moves it, the way he talks, his grooming and so forth

draft content shouldnt be that try hard ringer type stuff it should be high school game footage with stock music and bullet points like -needs to work on: shooting off the dribble

he'd be a fine like team blogger and by all accounts he's a super nice guy but i don't really take him seriously as far as media guys i trust for analysis

i was hoping to trigger a kevin o connor is over party so thank you guys for obliging

he is over its official sorry kevin please turn in your podcasting mic by the end of the day

lol, he's sort of the first "nba analyst" type that is younger enough than me that he starts talking about "how the league has changed" and "the way the game is played now" and i start thinking "are you sure about that, sonny?"

he's mostly okay, just kind of an odd choice to be the face of the ringer's basketball coverage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61uAgCA0Ais

aside from being the most talented of the brothers lamelo is also easily most handsome ... rough luck for the other two especially liangelo

they should come up with a way for NBA players to not hideously turn their ankles, just an idea

i have tiny baby ankles, i wouldn't stand a chance out there

a friend of mine badly sprained his ankle playing pick up in college and i still remember it sounding like a cinder block had been dropped on the court

someone should invent super ankles

one time i was playing tennis with my friend caitlyn who was a college soccer player and had rehabbed a catastrophic knee injury among other things, and naturally i rolled my ankle really good trying to move laterally. it was bad enough that i had to go to the ER but she was incredulous that i had never had a severe sprain before. that's when i learned that i have tiny baby ankles.

no one had ever judged my ankles! i felt very exposed.

lol

a couple years ago i mildly sprained both of my ankles in HIGHLY stupid ways (1. helping a very big drunk guy up the stairs to his apartment, he slipped and landed with his entire weight on my right ankle; 2. coming down some stairs trying to protect my just-sprained other ankle i over-corrected and fell down about half the flight). this happened in two days. it was awful and very embarrassing!

jesus man that’s rough

Ugh Clay. I think reinjuring it before it heals fucks it up forever. I sprained rt ankle badly landing on a dude's foot in high school gym class, then reinjured it skateboarding when it was like 80% healed. Then when that recovery was 95% I played at janky outdoor court where the concrete ended right at the baseline with a couple inch drop-off to grass. 22 yrs later and it's still lil tender.

Oh but you sprained diff ankles back to back huh

yeah it hurt like hell for quite awhile but mostly it was comic & pathetic like just being this grown ass middle aged dude waddling around everywhere slow as hell bc both ankles were basically deflated & useless, and they were relatively mild sprains (i had one really severe sprain 15 or so years ago and yeah that still bothers me)

bogdan bogdanovich is getting really banged up for the hawks. hurt his ankle earlier in the year and now has a knee injury. gallo's played 27 mins the whole season, rondo has played 31 minutes, kris dunn has yet to play

demar derozan might be an allstar in the west this year

if he's averaging 21-6-7 and the spurs are in the playoffs, kinda feel like he belongs

Yah that’s impressive.

instead of the allstar game this year they shd just have an open run

Tatum, Brown, Thompson, Both Williamses, Ojeleye, Green are out for COVID protocols while Walker and Langford are out with injury.

Active players tonight:
G: Smart, Teague, Pritchard, Edwards, Waters
W: Nesmith
Big: Theis, Fall

— Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA) January 10, 2021

yeah its dumb

Nba kinda fumbling it so far this season

Fuck the League making the Sixers play with essentially seven players but Boston and Houston getting postponed.

yeah doesnt make a lot of sense

Very dumb. There’s no fans so they should be able to be super flexible