NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread

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

The suns started 7-4 last season too. They are better for sure but it’s the suns... so we need to see more.

Wiggins has been pretty solid since I spoke ill of him. Starting to hear some "is he the third best player on the team" talk.

well... who else would it be

i could see the argument for just leaving that spot empty and going right to fourth best player...

1st team all defense baby

oubre surely will make a couple shots at some point right... RIGHT?

when would be a good time for us to revisit the conversation from the offseason about whether kelly oubre was too much to give up for chris paul

well... who else would it be

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, January 12, 2021 3:30 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

damion lee?

guys they are finally trying my idea of banning handshakes

― k3vin k., Tuesday, January 12, 2021 12:33 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

forgot to say congrats to kev for this big moment in ilh history. every time i see players hi5 after a shot i think of this idea so it will be awesome to see it play out in games. how many will reach for hands out of muscle memory? Are the refs authorized to give techs if they do it?

we'll see if things get bad enough that the league is forced to roll out my related idea "the lane is lava"

lol

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/nba-player-ratings/

tiny sample size but jokic lapping the field, especially in on-off RAPTOR

many xps and whatevs but:
"and what’s your searing insight on this situation forks?"
i already made it, yours was "don't care" so it shouldn't shock you if i shrug back

it's kind of funny that in a game where guys end up rubbing their full bodies against each other in a scrum under the basket and face up against one another while breathing heavily, the NBA thinks that the danger of COVID is in players dapping each other up

kinda weird to see collins on there xxp.

Nwaba must be really good on defense to make that list

confidence inspiring

Nets coach Steve Nash was asked if he's confident Kyrie Irving will be back this year. He replied, "sure."

— Michael Scotto (@MikeAScotto) January 12, 2021

lol, welcome back steve

haaa

i wanna be like “this isn’t what steve nash signed up for” but actually it’s exactly what he signed up for

Gary Harris out tonight so Mike Malone is starting... Bol Bol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Erkm7PLXMAUo1Gx?format=jpg&name=medium

russ hasnt done that?

yeah one would think

russ has a lot of games where he goes like 3 for 16 and ends up with 12 points would be my thinking

13-2-5-1-3 first quarter for Jokic there

respect once more for the Big O

Respect for Nikola too! Playing out of his mind right now.

Turning into a KD/Jokic duel

already 4x5 19-6-9-5-1

kd is goin off

This feels like a bubble game. Barclay’s is really dark like the bubble was...