NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

oops

hey maybe that's an indigenous thing too

lmao

lol!

if only he weren't so outrageously talented, it would be a lot easier to just go with "lol kyrie" but it's a bummer that he can't find at least enough balance in his life to not so regularly impact his playing career... it's not like he doesn't seem to be a guy with his heart mostly in the right place!

Kyrie Irving donated 1.5 million to WNBA players who opted out of the bubble this year, 323K to Feeding America, and partnered with an NYC charity to provide 250K meals. Maybe let’s not have a referendum on his character because he doesn’t want to talk to beat writers.

— Sean Keane (@seankeane) December 5, 2020

philanthropy as always doesnt say much about a very rich person

neither does playing hooky from work

yeah i dont have much enthusiasm for caring about the character of celebrities either way tbh

i mean kyrie is a team cancer obvs, but inability to fit in in the nba doesnt mean youre a bad person

i think it’s funny that the nets season is already collapsing but aside from that i find it hard to care too much about kyrie skipping out on shitty useless pandemic basketball

yeah

powerful insight, thanks

i'd probably be annoyed if i was a nets fan but yeah

the good thing is the nets dont have any fans

and what’s your searing insight on this situation forks?

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vXAGKXWGXWw/hqdefault.jpg

i just want to know what KD is thinking... and Nash.

Remember when people thought the hornets signing Hayward was a huge blunder

Kyrie is a coach killer, an absolute flake and that’s just how it is. You can’t be a top 10 player doing that and it’s hard to win a title doing it either. But sports is mostly art; enjoy the cool things he does on court.

love the craft

Remember when people thought the hornets signing Hayward was a huge blunder

into the contract!

lol

Hayward was awesome last season, continues to be awesome. Seems like a good thing for the Hornets.

the big downside risk for the hornets is hayward is injury prone, other than that hes good player paid like a great one which for this hornets team thats prob not going to need him to generate quality looks in big playoff games is fine

i don't think anyone ever questioned the quality of his play. it is a question of whether a. he can stay healthy b. it's worth it for the hornets to get a 7-10 seed, lose in the first round of the playoffs a few times and end up w/ a bunch of non lottery picks to build their future around lonzo

yeah being bad this year prob wouldve been a better plan

i mean kyrie is a team cancer obvs, but inability to fit in in the nba doesnt mean youre a bad person

― lag∞n, Tuesday, January 12, 2021 12:38 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm

it's not that the other side of the hayward argument -- that making the playoffs a few times and having a very competent professional player like hayward around their young players -- is completely unfathomable or anything... but not sure we can call it either way after 11 games

yeah being bad this year prob wouldve been a better plan

― lag∞n, Tuesday, January 12, 2021 1:52 PM (one minute ago)

and yeah honestly w/ the way this draft is shaping up they prob should've bottomed out again in a season w/ no fans to begin w/ and gotten one of these studs in the top 5

The Boston Celtics-Orlando Magic game on Wednesday is expected to be postponed, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) January 12, 2021

also i'd be remiss to not point out that so far this season...

PER

gordon hayward - 19.50
nic batum - 16.90

win shares

gordon hayawrd - 1.2
nic batum - 1.2

538 war

gordon hayward - 0.7
nic batum - 1.6

lol

I know it sucks that Hayward’s wife is fash and all but he’s as good as ever

Sources: NBA and NBPA working through a minimum two-week window of protocol tightening that includes:
*No hugging or interaction of rival players on court pre and post-game.
*Reducing social interactions during games, including tapping hands during free throws.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) January 12, 2021

guys they are finally trying my idea of banning handshakes

glad that they're focusing on the really impactful stuff

they should probably either do the bubble or suspend the season but selfishly I wanna see how the handshake thing looks, maybe it’ll stick

So apparently the nuggets this season are the 2nd best team with Jokic on the floor and one of the worst teams in NBA history with him off the floor

yeah you don’t need stats to tell you that lol

the bench is an absolute mess. definitely need to make a trade or two assuming this season continues

So do you guys think the Warriors are figuring it out, or just fluked their way into a few wins?

i think steph curry will sometimes score a lot of points and they will win

that they're 6-4 despite curry running decently below his career numbers is a good sign i guess

you can tell how hard it is for the warriors to beat really good teams -- the clippers were steamrolling them until steph went supernova -- but against like half the teams in the league they will have easily the best player on the floor every night and that should at least take them into the playoffs imo

If Oubre somehow gets his shot back, it would help!

They’re figuring some things out for sure but they aren’t an upper tier team atm. The defense looks pretty sound in the starting unit. Good sign that They won the last game where curry was 2/16 fg.

I’ve always maintained that a healthy curry and draymond is enough to compete on any night

the first 10 games have to be taken with a massive grain of salt but somewhere in the mix for the 7-10 seeds is probably reasonable.

could see them getting bonked to 9th if the rockets get their shit together and all of last years offs teams repeat other than OKC -> PHX

I’m not trusting anyone in the west outside of the LA teams at the moment