2019-2020 Official Regular Season Thread

[tlance]

Let's not get ahead of ourselves just yet. 1 quality win vs the Bucks. 2 wins over lowly Atlanta. I loss to middling TWolves and 1 win over ? Grizz. That should very well be 3 lottery opponents, other than the Bucks.

Atlanta is not lowly and Minnesota had been playing very well.

They have had a great start despite missing their best player for 3 or 5 games.

 

[tlance]

wasn't it 3 games? or almost 5% of the season? or did he come back early?

He took a week off to spend with his family.

I actually find it refreshing to see a professional athlete act like a real human and spend family time instead of rushing back to his team while his wife/girlfriend is still in the hospital.

And 3 games in the NBA is less impactful than an NFL player missing 1 game. In this case, Butler’s absence may have even helped the Heat because it led to extended minutes for Herro and Nunn.

In other words, just quit while your behind instead of digging yourself deeper.

 

[dtgold88]

Atlanta is not lowly and Minnesota had been playing very well.

They have had a great start despite missing their best player for 3 or 5 games.

Atlanta without Young (as they were when Miami played them) is lowly. Agree no shame in a loss to Minny and they had a big win vs. the Bucks.

 

[dtgold88]

He took a week off to spend with his family.

I actually find it refreshing to see a professional athlete act like a real human and spend family time instead of rushing back to his team while his wife/girlfriend is still in the hospital.

And 3 games in the NBA is less impactful than an NFL player missing 1 game. In this case, Butler’s absence may have even helped the Heat because it led to extended minutes for Herro and Nunn.

In other words, just quit while your behind instead of digging yourself deeper.

I'm good with whatever a player does in this situation. His choice. No right or wrong way to approach it.

 

[bksballer89]

Atlanta is not lowly and Minnesota had been playing very well.

They have had a great start despite missing their best player for 3 or 5 games.

Yup.

4-1 is 4-1 lol

And if they actually watch these games then they would understand the excitement. It has a whole lot to do what Heat fans are seeing from their team in terms of how they play together, the depth, rookies looking good, and seeing Bam and Justice put up really good numbers as starters

 

[bksballer89]

He took a week off to spend with his family.

I actually find it refreshing to see a professional athlete act like a real human and spend family time instead of rushing back to his team while his wife/girlfriend is still in the hospital.

And 3 games in the NBA is less impactful than an NFL player missing 1 game. In this case, Butler’s absence may have even helped the Heat because it led to extended minutes for Herro and Nunn.

In other words, just quit while your behind instead of digging yourself deeper.

How dare Jimmy miss 5 days of work to spend time with his newborn

 

[bksballer89]

Wiggy criticizing Jimmy for missing 3 games and 5 days of basketball to be with a newborn is hilarious. Get your priorities straight

 

[bksballer89]

2-3 games for birth of his kid. Reasonable.

More than reasonable and something tells me it would have been fewer games if Miami didn't have a 2 game roadtrip last weekend

 

[Bolts]

Kings are the only team in the league yet to pickup a W.

Sorry @Bolts

Thanks, I couldn't have predicted the season starting this poorly even after suffering through all these losing seasons. Yeah there is still over 75 games left, but there's not a lot of reason for optimism with how the Kings have performed especially in 3rd quarters. And they also declined the option for Harry Giles, so the 2 players they got from trading back from 10th(with Mitchell on the board) could be gone by next season. He's still very talented and if healthy could be a big boost for them, but the injuries have really messed up his career. That's on top of Bagley missing a chunk of time with an injury. I don't want to be a debbie downer, but there is a lot of negative right now as a Kings fan and very little positive.

 

[Gman]

Don't know if this belongs here or in the politics forum, but it's mildly amusing:

Brad Stevens dresses up as presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg for Halloween and vice-versa.



Pretty strong resemblance.

 

[bksballer89]

Thanks, I couldn't have predicted the season starting this poorly even after suffering through all these losing seasons. Yeah there is still over 75 games left, but there's not a lot of reason for optimism with how the Kings have performed especially in 3rd quarters. And they also declined the option for Harry Giles, so the 2 players they got from trading back from 10th(with Mitchell on the board) could be gone by next season. He's still very talented and if healthy could be a big boost for them, but the injuries have really messed up his career. That's on top of Bagley missing a chunk of time with an injury. I don't want to be a debbie downer, but there is a lot of negative right now as a Kings fan and very little positive.

Yea i fully expected them to beat Charlotte

 

[Black Adam]

Wiggy criticizing Jimmy for missing 3 games and 5 days of basketball to be with a newborn is hilarious. Get your priorities straight

hey, always gotta have a way to dog out the Heat...

course you already KNEW that...

 

[Taddy Mason]

feel it's very early in the season to make predictions based on the outcomes so far. this is still preseason feel for a lot of these teams. all we can say for sure is the warriors will struggle to win 10 games and the sixers are the best team in the league. everything else needs further evaluation.

 

[Bolts]

Yea i fully expected them to beat Charlotte

That and the Suns game seemed like ones where they should have had a chance, but got handled in the 3rd quarters of both and lost. They've been tied or leading at halftime 4 games this season yet only the Denver one seemed close at the end. Usually it's halftime adjustments to improve on how the team was playing, not throwing the stuff that worked out the window and trying different stuff that doesn't work.

 

[Taddy Mason]

That and the Suns game seemed like ones where they should have had a chance, but got handled in the 3rd quarters of both and lost. They've been tied or leading at halftime 4 games this season yet only the Denver one seemed close at the end. Usually it's halftime adjustments to improve on how the team was playing, not throwing the stuff that worked out the window and trying different stuff that doesn't work.

i have to ask, what the fuck is up with the kings so far? it's my brothers favorite team for reasons unknown (he was a shitty fan in the early 90s, Bills, Bulls, Braves) adopted the Kings because of Webber, Patriots because of Bledsoe, and think lost interest in baseball. Didn't feel like calling him up to be like, yo, your team is fucking it up out there.

 

[HurricaneDij39]

Was a not a decision by Jokic to add weight.

He is way out of shape.

If he has said anything about his weight gain being intentional then he is lying. Because the weight he gained is not muscle and it isn’t helping him.

Did you ever pick up your bandwagon release form from @thunderc in the other thread?

I'd certainly give you more props if you was able to admit that you're a Lakers fan now.

 

[tlance]

Did you ever pick up your bandwagon release form from @thunderc in the other thread?

I'd certainly give you more props if you was able to admit that you're a Lakers fan now.

Cute.

Never was a Warrior fan genius.

But I do like to predict which teams are real contenders. The last 4 years all roads went through GS. And nobody wants to waste time talking about the Wizards, so...

And for the record, while subject to change once we have a larger body of work, I think the Clippers and Sixers look like the 2 best teams to me. Don’t think the Lakers are coming out of the West.

 

[Mecca]

Don't know if this belongs here or in the politics forum, but it's mildly amusing:

Brad Stevens dresses up as presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg for Halloween and vice-versa.

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Pretty strong resemblance.

Here.

It's not political, it's fricking Halloween.....and amusing...lol

 

[Bolts]

i have to ask, what the fuck is up with the kings so far? it's my brothers favorite team for reasons unknown (he was a shitty fan in the early 90s, Bills, Bulls, Braves) adopted the Kings because of Webber, Patriots because of Bledsoe, and think lost interest in baseball. Didn't feel like calling him up to be like, yo, your team is fucking it up out there.

Haven't played fast despite having a team that should be running it, defense is not good, their top pick from last year is hurt, and the 3rd quarter has destroyed them in pretty much every game. But besides all of that and not winning a game so far, things are fine.

 

[Mecca]

i have to ask, what the fuck is up with the kings so far? it's my brothers favorite team for reasons unknown (he was a shitty fan in the early 90s, Bills, Bulls, Braves) adopted the Kings because of Webber, Patriots because of Bledsoe, and think lost interest in baseball. Didn't feel like calling him up to be like, yo, your team is fucking it up out there.

Here's the problem in a nutshell.