@voodoo Rockets game postponed, but nothing to do with Harden apparently.
I watched some of yesterdays games, fuck they were boring. One was one-sided, the other was just dreary. First game of a long season featuring two teams who expect to be at the pointy end. No crowds. The crowd noise was really bad. It was a shit product.
It will never happen, but it would be great if the regular season dropped 30 games.
@mariner4life the way the modern nba is played is not helping.
Limited to no offensive manipulation just constant jacking up of 3 point attempts.
@KiwiMurph said in NBA Season 20/21:
@mariner4life the way the modern nba is played is not helping.
Limited to no offensive manipulation just constant jacking up of 3 point attempts.
drive the lane, kick out for 3, or draw the world's softest foul.
fast break? jack up a 3
play it fast, have as many attempts as possible, and everyone plays the same.
@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:
It will never happen, but it would be great if the regular season dropped 30 games.
Totally agree with this. These players want to get paid their 20m+ per year so would be against cutting games, but then you get load management bullshit and/or meaningless games until the playoffs.
All professional sports are guilty of maximising quantity and diluting quality (I'm looking at you, Super rugby), but the NBA is by far the worst culprit.
@TeWaio said in NBA Season 20/21:
@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:
It will never happen, but it would be great if the regular season dropped 30 games.
Totally agree with this. These players want to get paid their 20m+ per year so would be against cutting games, but then you get load management bullshit and/or meaningless games until the playoffs.
All professional sports are guilty of maximising quantity and diluting quality (I'm looking at you, Super rugby), but the NBA is by far the worst culprit.
Baseball too
Has anyone listened to 'The Book OfBasketball' podcast. Recommended by a team mate. I've been binging it the last two weeks.
Highly recommend. Bill Simmons and others look at re drafts, finals series, his rankings of players on the all time list and why.
@Magpie_in_aus said in NBA Season 20/21:
Has anyone listened to 'The Book OfBasketball' podcast. Recommended by a team mate. I've been binging it the last two weeks.
Highly recommend. Bill Simmons and others look at re drafts, finals series, his rankings of players on the all time list and why.
Yep, some of it is pretty good. Its his follow-up to his Book of Basketball (an actual book), that is excellent. He doesn't write much anymore now that he's made $200m selling The Ringer to Spotify, its all podcasts. But he is great quality, excellent insight and unique ability to link the trends of the times.
@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:
It's not quite jegga-iffic but I'm having Christmas dinner with Cam Oliver
Groupie alert...
Dear Sean Marks and co
Well done bro. KD and Kyrie have made it look easy against the Celtics tonight. Please don’t ruin this team by chasing Harden. With DJ, Allen, Harris, Dimwiddie, Levert, Shamet, Prince, Green - you have a very very good supporting cast to your two superstars.
@KiwiMurph said in NBA Season 20/21:
An underwhelming Chrismas Day slate of games.
Just a series of blowouts.
Welcome to the NBA regular season!!!
@ACT-Crusader said in NBA Season 20/21:
Dear Sean Marks and co
Well done bro. KD and Kyrie have made it look easy against the Celtics tonight. Please don’t ruin this team by chasing Harden. With DJ, Allen, Harris, Dimwiddie, Levert, Shamet, Prince, Green - you have a very very good supporting cast to your two superstars.
They'd be mad to chase Harden. I dont know if this team is good enough to go deep into the playoffs, but I dont think Harden will take them further. Its certainly not more scoring that they need.
Fuck harden was insane everyone was in that game the blAzers big 3 look nice. His book of basketball podcast includes the rewatchables. It's epic.
I have nba league pass this year (via Mexico sign up) been getting a hammering between cricket.
@Magpie_in_aus Blazers v Rockets games always tend to be close high scoring games. Both are explosive offensively but seem to have the same defensive breakdowns/lapses.
CJ was hitting some tough shots. He’s not as good as Klay but his jump shot is almost as smooth.
That Christian Wood is a keeper for the Rockets. I watched him have a couple of big games last year for the Pistons after taking a few seasons to find his feet on the league. When they get Cousins, Wall and Gordon back they’ll have a better rotation than they did last season.
Some crazy results today so far.
Hornets beat the Nets (Hayward was Mr Efficient), Clippers lose by 50 to the Mavs. Bucks are about to lose to the Knicks. Cavs do it easy against the 76ers. Spurs played a stinker against New Orleans after a couple of very good wins.
@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:
Did that fucking cat kawhi have the day off in the first fucking week?
To be fair, he did get a broken jaw last game...or 8 stitches or some shit. Looked bad anyway
Playoff P showing how good he is as a co-star though...
Ladies and gents, it's your NBA regular season!!!
@mariner4life yeah he copped a hard elbow straight to the face that pretty much knocked him out and blood pouring out.
Looks like a few other Clippers had the night off too, but were actually seen on the court...
Warriors get their first win.
@voodoo said in NBA Season 20/21:
@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:
Did that fucking cat kawhi have the day off in the first fucking week?
To be fair, he did get a broken jaw last game...or 8 stitches or some shit. Looked bad anyway
Playoff P showing how good he is as a co-star though...
Ladies and gents, it's your NBA regular season!!!
8 stitches in his lower lip. McCaw played a whole tourney with a broken foot, and Wags is bowling full speed with a broken toe FFS. Time to harden up Kawhai!!
@ACT-Crusader said in NBA Season 20/21:
Dear Sean Marks and co
Well done bro. KD and Kyrie have made it look easy against the Celtics tonight. Please don’t ruin this team by chasing Harden. With DJ, Allen, Harris, Dimwiddie, Levert, Shamet, Prince, Green - you have a very very good supporting cast to your two superstars.
Dinwiddie out for the season
Ja Morant went down during today’s game looked like a bad ankle sprain. Hopefully he’ll be okay. Grizzlies still got the win over a KD&Kyrie-less Nets.
Nuggets doing a number on the Rockets right now. Joker has it on a string and is giving a lesson in all round offensive play.
How’s that NBA regular season aye, lose to the Knicks and then come back the next night and smash the defending EC champs by 50 setting all sorts of 3pt records.
@ACT-Crusader you know what I'm gonna say...
@voodoo said in NBA Season 20/21:
@ACT-Crusader you know what I'm gonna say...
I watched the ESPN coverage of this one and not league pass, and the best thing about it was that they showed all the other games that had a lot closer finishes. Chuck and Kenny Smith debating Sabonis, Kenny not believing the 100+ consecutive 3s Curry hit in practice video, the panel laughing about the current state of the Pistons. It was hilarious
@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:
@voodoo travel!!!
That was one of the ones he actually didn’t travel...
@ACT-Crusader said in NBA Season 20/21:
@mariner4life said in NBA Season 20/21:
@voodoo travel!!!
That was one of the ones he actually didn’t travel...
I think if you look closely, his pivot foot does lift briefly (I'm not clever enough to do arrows). So technically it is a travel. But you'd never see that called, when so many more blatant ones are ignored, especially on the break.
Pivot foot definitely lifts
But I am way happier with that being allowed than the "gather" step
Curry goes off for 62 against the Blazers.
Nets lose again. Their 4th loss in the last 5 games.
@Dice said in NBA Season 20/21:
Curry goes off for 62 against the Blazers.
On only 8 3s too. Phenomenal game given they threw CJ, Dame, Covington, Jones Jnr, Trent Jnr at him defensively.
@ACT-Crusader said in NBA Season 20/21:
@Dice said in NBA Season 20/21:
Curry goes off for 62 against the Blazers.
On only 8 3s too. Phenomenal game given they threw CJ, Dame, Covington, Jones Jnr, Trent Jnr at him defensively.
I didn't see, but were the foul calls legit? Must be a career high in attempts at 19?!!
@voodoo said in NBA Season 20/21:
@ACT-Crusader said in NBA Season 20/21:
@Dice said in NBA Season 20/21:
Curry goes off for 62 against the Blazers.
On only 8 3s too. Phenomenal game given they threw CJ, Dame, Covington, Jones Jnr, Trent Jnr at him defensively.
I didn't see, but were the foul calls legit? Must be a career high in attempts at 19?!!
He was moving as good as I’ve seen from him. Getting to the basket and really troubling the defence in the paint.
Yeah was a career high FT attempts.