2018-2019 NBA Regular Season Thread

[podsox]

Only harden can score 61 and Im not be excited to watch it. He is obviously awesome but I don’t enjoy watching him play at all

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Shitty to see Oladipo go down. One less contender in what was shaping up to be a very strong east class.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Kawhi missing his 14th game tonight and 4 straight due to rest management lol

Yeah let's all not mention him in the MVP race again. It is over for that

We weren’t mentioning him for regular season MVP.

 

[bksballer89]

Classy lol

 

[thunderc]

I’m thinking asking a guy with a bounty on his head to tank might be a bit confusing to him.

 

[HurricaneDij39]

Ugh....

Not Dipo.

Sorry @HurricaneDij39 .

I hope it turns out to be less serious.

His health is most important at the moment. We'll worry about Pacers basketball later.

 

[wildturkey]

What perfect timing. Reggie Jackson out here proving Blake's point.

 

[wildturkey]

This sucks. He left the court on a stretcher.

Did he go down running as in something popped or did he hit his knee on the fall and that caused the injury? I can't tell from the video I've seen. Not that it matters for him. I'm just curious

 

[RobToxin]

If this is the kind of teammates Harden has, I may have to start cutting him some slack....

 

[Bolts]

Did he go down running as in something popped or did he hit his knee on the fall and that caused the injury? I can't tell from the video I've seen. Not that it matters for him. I'm just curious

This clip shows him actually suffering the injury, he was running back to stop the fastbreak basket and his leg just gave out. Looks like the knee hit the floor on the way down but I don't think that's what caused it.

 

[Mecca]

Only harden can score 61 and Im not be excited to watch it. He is obviously awesome but I don’t enjoy watching him play at all

It's the basketball equivalent of watching Mayweather, Bernard Hopkins fight.

Or, should I say, Run and put on a boring ass, defensive clinic.

 

[Mecca]

Mostly

You think Magic all by himself was responsible for the Lakers 13 game improvement in his rookie year? Doubt it

Jordan isn't a scorer, #1 option, or etc lol.

He is a defensive center who can rebound and play defense. He basically can't do anything on offense on his own if it is not coming from an offensive rebound

He's a fucking hypocrite.

Go back and look at the amount of times he said Lonzo's #'s = J Kidd.


Mavs improved 23 games Kidd's first year.

The Lakers improved 9.

Kidd is not in the Magic tier. But, he is a champion and HOFer.

So, It's all blasphemy. But, it doesn't stop fans, commentators from doing it.

#SelectiveOutrage

 

[tlance]

If this is the kind of teammates Harden has, I may have to start cutting him some slack....

And that is easily Harden's most reliable teammate at the moment.

 

[Mecca]

@bksballer89

And you clearly have a big ol Harden poster on your ceiling.

I know he has to do this, I just hate his game. It's the opposite of beautiful basketball. Totally ISO, ball stopping, add in the flops and bullshit foul inducing. No thanks.

He gets all these accolades but he's not a fun player to watch. So I'm ripping him, as is my Jordan-given right.

Jordan given..

I see what you did there.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

I’m thinking asking a guy with a bounty on his head to tank might be a bit confusing to him.

Maybe by asking him to lay low they're doing him a solid?

 

[Mecca]

It's a lazy comparison.

Magic: 18 ppg on 12.3 shots, .530/.226/.810, only attempted .4 3s per game, 7.7 reb, 7.3 ast, 2.4 stl
Doncic: 20 ppg on 15.3 shots, .428/.356/.730, 6.6 3s attempted per game, 6.8 reb, 5.3 ast, 1.2 stl

Beyond the stats, Magic was more athletic, taller, had a better handle, etc.

.....and?

So, is Lonzo to Kidd when everything we've seen says he's more Rondo at best, Elfrid Payton at worst.

LeBron is a more athletic version of Magic.

His Rookie stats before All star weekend..

20.4 PPG, 5.8 APG, 5.7 RPG

That looks awfully close to Luka's.

Based on stats, style of play, it's still as legit a comparison to list Luka with LeBron and Magic as it is Ball with Kidd.

I mean, don't we always tend to LeAnn towards the rosiest comparison possible?

He's no Magic nor Bron.

But, it's obvious why people who like his game might make that connection.

 

[shopson67]

You think JJ is going to the Raptors?

Maybe; to replace Kawhi (or Green) coming to the Lakers...

 

[shopson67]

He's a fucking hypocrite.

Go back and look at the amount of times he said Lonzo's #'s = J Kidd.


Mavs improved 23 games Kidd's first year.

The Lakers improved 9.

Kidd is not in the Magic tier. But, he is a champion and HOFer.

So, It's all blasphemy. But, it doesn't stop fans, commentators from doing it.

#SelectiveOutrage

You have to admit though that Kidd had a much slower growth to his final form than someone like Magic. Kidd took a long time to develop his jumper and was very much a dimes/d player early on.

 

[flyerhawk]

i don't even know about a defensive stand. they were down for a second, came back and were ahead by a point late with the ball in their court, after that i think they quickly got down by 8 with about 2 minutes to go, and never got down or lost tempo and came back and took the lead and the game, i feel like the last time they played the spurs they lost by like 30, so feeling good about this win.

Yeah they got smoked in San Antonio.

The team is playing its best hoops of hte year right now. 9-3 in their last 12 with several quality wins. The next 4 games are going to be big as they play 4 road games, all on the west coast.

 

[bksballer89]

How did the Spurs lose? Had no idea they were up 120-112 late in the game until I woke up this morning