2024-25 NBA Regular Season Thread – Capture the Flagg or King of the Hill?

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I forget, is this the thread that starts with all the funny photos?

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I can't stop laughing at the guy with the James Bond villain name chasing the small boy.

damn y’all brought it with the pics this year! well done

as far as opening night goes, we have this to look forward to

LeBron and Bronny James will share the court at some point during the season opener. They're going to get their photo op together, they'll get another with Ken Griffey Jr. and Sr., who will be there, they'll talk about it postgame and then we'll (maybe) move on with the season.

— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) October 22, 2024

also

With 6 missed FG tonight, LeBron James would pass Kobe Bryant for the most in NBA history 🤯

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— Basketball Reference (@bball_ref) October 22, 2024

It's hard not to think about bronny almost dying from playing hoops, but he still plays on. Under the circumstances, the Laker publicity campaign around LeBron's dream of playing with bronny in the NBA takes on a weird ghoulish aspect. The whole situation feels very wtf.

Please tell me the pic of Bron blocking Bronny is real.

it is lol

1:24 of Luka Doncic playing the worst defense you will ever see in the NBA Finals. pic.twitter.com/88SRPe0All

— 𝙍𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙮 ☘️ (@CelticsRiley) June 13, 2024

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great pic of Dikembe!

mikal bridges jumper watch starts now

the ball is upon us

first bridges jumper looked hitchy

celtics are hoisting

bridges is up there at the top of his jump fidgeting w/ the ball

brunson is smoking basically anyone the celtics put on him

yeah I think the celtics are gonna be good again this year

playing this celtics team in game 1 is basically the hardest task you could give to a newly constructed team -- that said whatever defensive structure the knicks are going to implement to have hart/OG/anunoby protecting KAT def feels like it's... in its nascent stages

i think the celtics should try and score 200 points

reggie miller incredulously calling out bridges shooting, i'm cracking up

bridges is hitting side rim like he gets a tip each time

Here’s the thing with Mikal Bridges’ jumper: He’s tried to make his release point really high and because of that on farther out shots, he’s just yanking the shot back to get more power. Often a red flag for me when a guy’s midrange and 3-point form are vastly different.

— Fred Katz (@FredKatz) October 23, 2024

i will say that if he does not make a single jumper all year it will lower the knicks' ceiling

it was a weird decision for him to go to markelle fultz's shooting coach

are shooting forms like pokemon moves in that in order to learn something new you have to forget how to do something?

maybe he can find his original shooting form as a TM in the depths of madison square garden

i still don't understand the impetus for this. was his jumper being regularly blocked? i don't feel like that was the case. his 3pt% dropped a percentage point between phoenix and brooklyn but that feels explainable by his role changing

celtics are a simulation man

bridges catch and shoot % on 3 pointers per nba.com

19-20: 35.3%
20-21: 40.5%
21-22: 38.3%
22-23: 38.8%
23-24: 38.5%

idk man

are you still watching Good at 3's?

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boston celtics

that's a lot of threes

he made one! beating the fultz allegations

KAT has played pretty well, it's really bridges, OG and hart who have looked kinda lost

It would be so funny if the Knicks made all these "objectively good" moves and ended up worse off.

Celtics gonna avg 140 this season

It would be so funny if the Knicks made all these "objectively good" moves and ended up worse off.

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, October 22, 2024 8:29 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this kinda shit really bings my bong (laudatory)

the celtics tying the league record for threes and then missing 11 in a row is actually more annoying than if they had broken it

12!

13! what a hilarious turn of events

NYK is thin, injured, and very early developing chemistry -- which really showed tonight. All that will improve. Boston is the favorite for a reason. But Celts also went at KAT on *both* ends the way a lot of good, smart teams will, and NYK responded poorly. It's early. 81 left.

— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) October 23, 2024

celtics are so good at targeting guys basically second nature now underrated aspect of their success

crazy that the most physical dude out there right now might actually be LeBron James

yall what if the wolves knicks trade was the rare "lose-lose" trade

possible

one can only dream

sorry for being a sap but Bronny actually getting into a game with his dad made me a little emotional

nice of his dad to set that up

finally some positive news for nepo babies

i dont have a problem with nepo babies if the person they're nepo'ing from is cool. very few cool people to nepo from though

it was fine they can release him now and give his roster spot to an actual player (thanasis)

a Thanasis/Bronny 1v1 would be incredible content for the ASG this year

when lebron retires he should buy a lil hardware store and call it James & Sons or maybe a professional basketball team with the same name

his team lost and he didn’t play well but something tells me DDV is still gonna sleep very soundly tonight

JOrdan, I don't remember which thread the Embiid talk was on, but I want to say I'm closer to your view after reading this in the Philly media:

Embiid again showed nothing of obvious concern. He made jumpers, handled contact fine, didn’t seem hesitant in his movements, playfully trash talked.

His coach insisted “there’s no setback.”

“Again, he’s really active, he’s lost some weight, he’s out on the court,” Nurse said. “It’s just kind of sticking with our plan of making sure we’re getting him in a really, really good place to then get him playing live.”

None of that summation is untrue. It still begs several questions, including how to reconcile the notion that Embiid’s ramp-up plan would not include him playing on opening night.

“I don’t know what to say to you,” Nurse said. “He’s in practice, he’s looking good, he’s progressing. He’s not quite ready yet. He’ll be ready pretty soon.”

After Embiid’s left lateral meniscus injury last season, is there a specific physical condition (or injury) of note here besides “left knee management?”

“This is getting him to where he needs to be to get him on the court,” Nurse said.

Either Embiid had a setback or is progressing more slowly than everyone planned. Nothing else makes sense.

def weird sitch

yall what if the wolves knicks trade was the rare "lose-lose" trade

― Cruz crews cruise through Carew's car ruse, cur ooze (m bison), Tuesday, October 22, 2024 9:53 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i would estimate i've consumed about as much writing/podcasts/whatever on the trade as is possible and at the end of the day there wasn't really a way forward for the team with KAT's contract, the Knicks finally caved on including DDV in the deal and the Wolves pulled the trigger, another injury or bad playoff performance and the contract would be untradeable

yeah agreed that they had to get off that contract and prob got as much as they could, im surprised they did it tho you dont see teams dumping salary after a great season, the aprons are real man

i think the risk for the wolves was pretty minimal. the opportunity cost is probably just this season, which isn't nothing -- i think ppl would have had them as close to co-favorites in the west had they kept the team together. it's possible we're sitting here in 3-5 years w/ the wolves not having made it back to the second round or something like, damn they should've pushed for that final KAT year. the risk for the knicks is far greater

until this trade i also didn't understand how onerous the restrictions of the second apron are -- it's far worse than just paying luxury tax, you lose your mid-level exception, you can't use trade exemptions, bunch of weird stuff

they start pushing yr draft picks to the end of the first round after a while

General vibe from opening shootaround; Bulls players are quietly confident they’ll exceed the modest expectations surrounding them.

— K.C. Johnson (@KCJHoop) October 23, 2024

love to exceed surrounding modest expectations

quiet confidence that the 7th seed is theirs for the taking

i like the wolves roster better now tbf i think they're going to figure it out. ant will control whatever their ceiling is but the floor should be top 3 seed pretty easily. lakers physicality is just a bad matchup for a few specific teams

dare i ask how bronny played last night?

Pretty much how you'd expect:

Bronny was 0-for-2 from the field and got a single rebound in nearly three minutes of play.

i think theres a chance that the wolves had a lighting in a bottle season last year and they regress somewhat, trading away their best shooter is pretty rough for a team that doesnt have a lot of shooting, they did get donte back but i dont think hes nearly as reliable as kat as far as that goes, ant not nearly as good as everyone thinks at least not yet didnt watch the game but saw someone saying that he didnt pass for ten possessions in a row and randle was visibly frustrated

i'm gonna yell at my dad tonight about his failure to become an alltime baller

very rude of him imo

saw someone saying that he didnt pass for ten possessions in a row and randle was visibly frustrated

― lag∞n, Wednesday, October 23, 2024 10:57 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

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The NBA is likely to commence an investigation into the Philadelphia 76ers surrounding the player participation of All-NBA center Joel Embiid, sources told ESPN. More to come on NBA Today on ESPN right now. pic.twitter.com/WwZNHgLLcl

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) October 23, 2024

what does that mean

like all those words are in the english language. but when put together in that order

shams is the only journalist who should not only not be fighting AI, but should be actively feeding his writing into it for legibility purposes

lol. and the “story” has no inside information either, just regurgitating quotes from the past couple of weeks

Embiid is the last player who should be investigated for not playing. They should investigate him when he plays.

prob happening cause the sixers are supposed to disclose what the issue is instead theyre just saying "ramping up"

god i miss woj already

Maxey has the AI shooting % to go with the AI cornrows.

cade looks good

heez im so sorry that i have to be an anti-hawks guy for the next 3 years but will be rooting so hard against u until 2027

grant williams for the lead! rockets/hornets is a fun game of who’s next up

i've decided. we don't really need a camera on Ballmer

Xp bise alls fair in love and war

Dyson Daniels might actually make the hawks good at defense. Cool player so far 5 steals tonight

suns ideally would be beating the clippers, no?

blazers might be bad this year

warriors might also be better than mid too... that was beautiful basketball, holy shit

I doubt that level of effort from Hield is sustainable but he does really seem to enjoy playing with Steph.

dubs movement offense prob good for him

dubs roster is weirder than i thought. lots of solid wing depth and tjd and looney are really their only bigs.

The thing that impressed me was the defense and its impact, but I'll temper my excitement until they play someone better. They did have some closer matches with this team last year and probably only looked this good a handful of times from start to finish. The chemistry was palpable last night too

Pistons looked improved from last year but Cade/Ivey/Duren/etc still look like a collection of assets for better teams to start picking off, maybe things will look different once Ausar Thompson is in the mix again. Cade balled out for stretches but had a rough 4th Q. Ivey also had stretches where he looked like an all-star driving to the basket – feel like he's always had great burst, but he was putting some moves together and looking very confident finishing at the rim, very Ant-like.

Redick: "I'm gonna send in a request for the league tomorrow that we can play with worn-in basketballs." pic.twitter.com/IQmPqMm3U0

— Spectrum SportsNet (@SpectrumSN) October 23, 2024

the lakers deserve and demand used balls

very relatable to me lol. when i played pickup (RIP, retired now) i was always the dude that was super picky about the ball we played with

maybe they start the season with all new balls, or maybe when they were doing their lil test at the beginning of the game the players thought the ball was fine

between redick and bronny this might be the most annoying lakers season in a number of years

new nba balls are insanely hard and slick, but once broken have thee best feel easily

between redick and bronny this might be the most annoying lakers season in a number of years

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Thursday, October 24, 2024 1:40 PM (nine seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

a very hard bar to clear but they may be able to do it yup

old or new balls, it's looking good that we are going get some truly weird JJ press conferences, should be fun

yeah it might be funny for redick to share all his pet peeves, you know every coach has them but theyre usually not telling the media

pretty promising redick returns on game 1 tbf. they already look more organized and like... playing their best players the most minutes.

altho lakers always look pretty good when brow plays like an mvp tbh

ha i had exactly the same thought process

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whoaaaa willium horny porker? thats huge news

also the spurs are playing like a real nba team for the first time in like 5 years

wiz are starting alex sarr and i dont think its good

he should be in the g league

Lukas fade is tragic

is he bad now

hes just a lil eepy in this game

jeremy sochan was born 4 inches too short for how he wants to play

thats why he wears the clown hair

just watching him get destroyed over and over trying to finish at the rim like a sad clown

watching wemby play is still so like what am i seeing here 7-4 guys slithering through four defenders low to the ground making a perfect interior dish off

all the new washed vets on these teams, lol

i dont think adam silver should wear suits anymore there should be a commissioners office uniform

Klay couldn’t ask for a better mavs debut.

spurs played great in the first half, but they couldnt trade buckets when the mavs got hot. wemby neeeeeeds to get smarter about shot selection, too. he was trying too much hero ball shit.

i was (am…) pretty convinced the klay signing was a horrible idea but maybe he really did just need a change of scenery

yes but have u been to dallas the scenery is not good

klwy will get some nice looks playing with luka and the mavs need shooting i do have questions about the kyrie-klay-luka defensive line tho

jalen williams opening the season by basically hitting jamal murray over the head with a club

season doesnt start until you get punched in the head

yeah i think you can see why the thunder wanted hartenstein

not a great game for the thunder to be missing every large player except chet

chet looks shook on offense they need him to play with a lot more confidence

nuggets non-jokic minutes looking worse than ever

yeah rough stuff

4/22 from 3 :(

sick move by shai

chet time baby

sigh

well hello chet

put me down as not being a fan of the westbrook experiment

kngs-wolves in a good one

put me down as not being a fan of the westbrook experiment

#freejokic

i want to believe that nuggets doomsayers are overselling it. but maybe it’s all true

Wemby really takes a ton of bad shots man. He should not be taking more than a few threes per game

i want to believe that nuggets doomsayers are overselling it. but maybe it’s all true

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Thursday, October 24, 2024 10:38 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

they went up against the team that is almost guaranteed to be the 1 seed and they have a lot of new guys to integrate. problem is malone has never really been known as a lineup wizard and I am not really expecting him to improve there. lineups with AG, pwat, and russ all playing at the same time are drawing dead offensively

Just realizing how much I missed basketball. Baked before lunch on a nice Friday thinking about how Trae reminds me of a hard bop drummer

salute Heez

it’s prob a bad thing when your best player is saying this about your roster on opening night of the 2024 nba season

Nikola Jokic after the Nuggets' opening night loss to the Thunder: "We are not a good shooting team, except Mike and Jamal. All of us are kind of streaky, not streaky, but just average shooters."#MileHighBasketball pic.twitter.com/pkkVFfVX6Y

— DNVR Nuggets (@DNVR_Nuggets) October 25, 2024

Things sure change fast in the NBA. Everyone was saying they had this big window in the aftermath of their championship, but it feels like that window is closing.

the dreaded aprons doing their thing

well in denver’s case the owner is just cheap aprons or not

i wonder if their approach w/ draft picks has been “we don’t need to draft shooters bcuz jokic is gonna get guys open threes at will” … or does booth just generally value athleticism over shooting in prospects? bcuz they’re in a weird spot now having added no vet like idk gary trent jr or michael beasley or something while also going several drafts w/o taking a player who has shooting as a carrying skill

where is their isaiah joe or sam hauser or duncan robinson type shooting development success story. they could really use someone like that right now

Just realizing how much I missed basketball. Baked before lunch on a nice Friday thinking about how Trae reminds me of a hard bop drummer

― Heez, Friday, October 25, 2024 8:44 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

love this

well in denver’s case the owner is just cheap aprons or not

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Friday, October 25, 2024 9:13 AM (forty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

window closed as soon as they let bruce and kcp walk and decided to give those slots to rooks. window REALLY closed when they signed russ

jokic otm nuggs arent a good enough shooting team

think ive mentioned this before but watching mazzulla celtics relentlessly hunt threes has warped my mind now when i watch other teams and theres a momentary window to launch open im like why didnt they shoot that whats going on

a lot of people dont like the style but once you get addicted theres no going back

Russ might have to watch his back, Joker brothers looming

haliburton might be broken

weird sitch

also loving this tre mann allen iverson cosplay

ha i just switched between those two games

i would like to wish all the hornets (except bridges) a very beat the hawks

Sixers shuffled the deck again and still have no shooting, lol.

Maxey seems like he's trying to do too much.

tough when you dont have your guys

I'm used to it.

lamelos shot should be studied by science it looks so weird but he gets it off effortlessly looks like hes shooting from ten feet when he takes a three

he has nine threes

imagine if he had three nines

he fouled out

that's six sixes

Lakers fans really go deep in their tic tac toe strategy

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derrick mutumbo white

clutch play vs the checks notes detroit pistons

pistons choked it man they were up by like 6 with a couple minutes left but alas

they looked good tough sched to start the season but theyre playing good teams close so far

much better than last year. cade and duren gotta stay healthy and ivey looks more comfortable for sure

nuggets lose at home to a mid team when jokic did this

Seen Steph lose w/ 60 last year, Jokic welcome to hell. https://t.co/KtZitHJTXo

— Niko (@nikotaughtyou) October 26, 2024

cade kinda beasting hes playing strong out there xp

he looks stronger

had to miss the nuggets game but…uh

they have too many guys who are bad at scoring seems like

+russ who is a historically bad player at this point in his career

the russ curse is so strong, jesus

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He’s older than I am how the fuck is he doing this?? That was 16 points in 4 minutes has he ever done that before?

I can give you an answer

in 4 minutes? hes truly declining then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyd4NPvzKQg

Milwaukee didnt count back then

Kevin Durant calls Luka “too small.” 💀

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— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) October 27, 2024

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— Nuggets Community (0-2) (@nuggetsfan_) October 26, 2024

soon

sorry to bring in politics but this long off-the-cuff answer from Pop about the election is so eloquent and on point

🎥 Gregg Popovich spoke at length about the American elections between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Full answer 👇 pic.twitter.com/VYyKCaw8TT

— Théo Quintard (@TheoQuintard) October 26, 2024

xp vj edgecombe sounds like a pen name a fantasy novelist would use for their off-brand series of murder mysteries

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— Zach Harper (@talkhoops) October 26, 2024

this is insane?

is that obi?

they usually get the broom for those ones

feels fitting that the signature play of obi toppin’s career is jumping really high when the game wasn’t happening

So casually too

yeah he got up there easy

Pacers picking up where they left off in the conference finals (multiple terrible turnovers in crunch time)

sixers with the intentional foul up two lol

and hali misses the free throw yeesh

sixers with the intentional foul up two lol

― symsymsym, Sunday, October 27, 2024 6:36 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

what

yeah they fouled up 3 a couple times, then missed one of their free throws, went up two and fouled again. caleb martin didn't know the score I guess.

lol jesus

the sixers were very relieved that it didn't cost them the game (or send them to double OT)

so tired of teams fouling up 3 at the end of games, nice to see it go wrong. wish there was a way the NBA could ban it.

they could make intentional fouls in the last 2mins 1ft + side out

Gotta say the hawks did well getting Dyson Daniels in the Murray trade. The type of guy who changes the whole team’s defense.

Gotta say the hawks did well getting Dyson Daniels in the Murray trade. The type of guy who changes the whole team’s defense.

Maxey with another Iverson-esque statline:

47:48 14 32 43.8 5 17 29.4 12 15 80.0 0 4 4 4 1 2 5 3 45 6

thats too many numbers

Well, it's not just the percentages that are AI, it's the volume.

harden just passed to a ref also it was a bad pass hit him in the feet

thunder are good man close game going in to the fourth and they just flipped the switch on the hawks

chet is destroying them at the rim on both sides

Yeah hawks couldn’t match that fourth. Trae looked gassed

I really like the team they’ve put together. big hole behind Trae but some cool players otherwise. Risacher is such a Frenchie it’s amazing

chet basically putting up peak anthony davis numbers at both ends so far, if he is this good all season then they may actually win 65+ games

chet is so good

bucks lost to the nets by 13 doesnt seem great

dennis schroder and cam thomas both went off seems like the bucks point of attack defense has not been fixed

i think the bucks are not good and the jrue-for-dame trade was a bad idea and also giannis is coming to san antonio

not sure about that part at the end

but maybe idk where giannis should go

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— Josh Eberley 🇨🇦 (@JoshEberley) October 28, 2024

yeesh

oh no

He is a HOF weirdo as a player.

giannis will join the famous golden state warriors

afraid of the moment his team was up 17 in the 4th hes afraid of the layup

giannis to warriors does feel right

wigdawg killing the clips over here

there's really nothing about the bucks except the idea of having two stars that would make you think they should be considered contenders. age curves are all in the wrong places, no young talent behind them, zero proof of concept over the last two seasons. it's very respectful to giannis, but...

yup

dame is going to end up a weird career guy

steph rolled his ankle then came back in and rolled it again wtf :(

remember when steph's glass ankles were going to keep him from being great?

wow looks like Alex Sarr really sucks. poor Wiz

any other rookies looking good?

sarr was so obviously not currently at least an nba quality player in the celtics game just chucking up wild shots getting blown by gotta send him down to the g league

i'd like to think the hawks would have passed on him but i appreciate him denying them that opportunity

might have another james wiseman on our hands

speaking of... wiseman tore his achilles. just a really sad career

damn

people have been saying good things about yves missi

pelicans finding a center would be good for them

odd thing this year where the rookie ppl in the media are most excited about (reed sheppard) is barely playing and doesn’t have a clear path to more minutes

people speculating that jalen greens deal was made to be traded

steph castle passes the eye test even if his shot isn’t cooking rn

marcus smart type

jalen green strikes me as one of those offense only two guards who is theoretically tradable except for the part where no team seems to ever want to give up anything of value for that kinda player on a big contract

they have a bunch of draft picks too

k3v are you tracking this or what:

Ben Simmons is averaging more fouls (4.7) than shots (4.0) per game 🤯

Nets vs Hawks:
5 PF
4 FGA

Nets vs. Magic:
5 PF
5 FGA

Nets vs. Bucks:
4 PF
3 FGA

Season Total:
14 PF
12 FGA pic.twitter.com/iy1zbh2MLM

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) October 28, 2024

speaking of weird career guys...

Risacher got his first start last night and i'm thinking he may stay there here on out

i mean look at this dude

https://youtube/ri2uy7L4iG8?si=k6L9MhcWqPeJG5eD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri2uy7L4iG8

the move he puts on Chet is cool

clingan averaging 2.7 blocks in 13mpg so far

thats crazy, risacher looking way better than people thought

risacher's game looks very mature already, no hesitation but no hurry either

lol at this bbref feature being enabled this early in the season. 2016 is back baby

https://i.imgur.com/z9cN5CH.png

maybe risacher drank all the french basketball juice and sarr got none

the process 2

paolo cookin'

37-7-6 in the first half

wow

dario saric is really bad

yeah the saric and westbrook signings were inexcusable

malone had to go with aaron gordon backup 5 minutes in the first half of game 3/82. (they were actually pretty good)

saric had some good moments early in the season last year but something changed after his knee injury and he looked scared to be out there after it. was unplayable by the end of the season.

PAYTON PRITCHARD DOES IT AGAIN 😱 pic.twitter.com/FgIO7vCZ67

— NBA TV (@NBATV) October 29, 2024

jeremy sochan breakout season downloading

pritchard is an elite nba 3pt shooter

im not a fan of tony brothers reffing

darius garland looking like an elite scoring guard right now vs the knicks, would be cool if he could bounce back this year

he had a weird year last year broke his jaw missed a bunch of time and lost a bunch of weight because its hard to eat with a broken jaw

nuggets were down 10 with like 1:30 to play and just sent it to overtime on a sikk jamal reverse layup

taylor hendricks injury, my friends... is not good dont look it up unless you can handle the worst of the worst kavin ware style

think i might skip that one

ryan dunn looks like a perfect fit in phoenix

broken fibula + ankle dislocation combo is all i need to know on that one xp

anthony davis basically looks like the best player in the NBA with the way he’s moving around and this level of efficiency

fun finish lakers/suns

knicks very much “still figuring things out”

Cam Payne
26 FG attempts this season in 52 mins

Karl-Anthony Towns:
25 FG attempts this season in 78 mins

Not ideal

— Tommy Beer (@TommyBeer) October 29, 2024

And similar to Redick with AD, Kenny Atkinson is feeding Mobley some more reps as PNR ball-handler. The Mobley/Merrill inverted PNR caused NY some issues. KAT with 6 3PAs in three games isn't going to cut it given early issues on defense. https://t.co/4ECpE9Ns2k

— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) October 29, 2024

number of teams seem to be benefiting from their coaching changes already lakers cavs suns nice to see except for lakers

pistons too

everyone is jerking JJ off for the plays he’s running and i’m sure there is truth in that but what’s gonna matter there is how he handles things when they start going less good, when lebron starts agitating for weird stuff, all the nonsense that happens in that organization etc you see this in football a lot where a new coach changes the scheme and everyone thinks the heavens have opened but then guys get hurt, teams get hip to your plays etc you have to be more than schematics especially in basketball. the rest of those just seem like pure coaching upgrades w/ guys who have been around the block so they feel more real to me

also ad is playing out of his mind which will prob not last

rudy gay retires

I’m 38 years old.

I’ve had an 18 year career in the NBA.

It’s time to hang it up. Thank you for everything — it’s all love. @PlayersTribune https://t.co/GOEjp3rolL

— Rudy Gay (@RudyGay) October 29, 2024

“DEFENSE!…NOOOO NOT RUDY GAY! NOT THIS GUY! NOOOOOO YOU FN A**HOLE!” https://t.co/wP71u5Qf9s pic.twitter.com/tCYCLRPL50

— Jamal Cristopher (@JamCristopher) October 29, 2024

lmaoo genuine fan hate gotta respect it

wish I could remember when that was from. has to be at least 10 years ago now

yeah likely from like 2011-12 or so id imagine

ant 24pt 1st quarter

luka some sort of knee sprain didnt look terrible but he wasnt putting weight on it

hes back

seems like hes trying to have a better attitude this season, he did just get teed up anyway tho

minnys d not up to their standard

really sloppy game by the wolves, barf-o-rama

early season basketball baby

pretty fun game tho i thought

the nuggets have once again won an overtime game

best OT record in the league

ive been watching some of the youtube shows where they analyze nba plays and theyre not too impressed with the bucks defense rn

think maybe dame told giannis about the idea of not really trying that hard

if the plays guys don’t like it that’s rough

the plays guys watch some of the plays multiple times they know what happened

that’s crazy

theyre like super interested in basketball

Dubs looked really good without Steph, Wigs and Melton

Defense in the 2nd was so good. Like 10 steals

think maybe dame told giannis about the idea of not really trying that hard

Jrue took all the vibes with him when he went to Boston

Lindy Waters III, forced out of OKC by the roster squeeze, has been doing well for the Warriors. 21 points tonight.

He looked amazing... mad effort, smooth stroke from 3, solid D... wow! Dude was playing blowout garbage time against the Blazers

i caught like 10 mins of the game and he had a dunk that popped off the screen to me. i was like, damn who is that

okc so good at drafting even their cast offs can play tre mann is balling too

small sample size alert, but, luka doncic's usage rate through four games is 33.7 percent. it would be the second-lowest mark of his career.

— Josh Bowe (@Boweman55) October 30, 2024

there’s a lot to say about the bucks i think ultimately the idea they had to acquire an offense first PG at the expense of a defensive PG and many of their assets was a bad idea, a misread of their team

if you think back to the root cause of it all, which was jimmy butler somewhat randomly making jrue look like he couldn’t play defense anymore, and then think about an alternate history of that series, where jimmy is… picking on dame every time down? is dame’s ability to hit pull up threes solving that? i guess at the time they thought the solution was to score more points. but taking a step back from it, it really doesn’t make a lot of sense, actually. they just didn’t see the harm it would do to their defense, which is pretty bad when you’re running the team

Cmon guys I’m sure it’ll all work in the end

one thing to remember is giannis was pressuring them to make a move and when they traded for dame he signed an extension

the other problem with the bucks is that all their vets started declining and they're like the worst draft and development organization in the nba

they developed Donte DiVincenzo

well, they certainly drafted him

if you think back to the root cause of it all, which was jimmy butler somewhat randomly making jrue look like he couldn’t play defense anymore, and then think about an alternate history of that series, where jimmy is… picking on dame every time down? is dame’s ability to hit pull up threes solving that? i guess at the time they thought the solution was to score more points. but taking a step back from it, it really doesn’t make a lot of sense, actually. they just didn’t see the harm it would do to their defense, which is pretty bad when you’re running the team

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, October 30, 2024 8:09 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

there is certainly something to this, but just as important probably is that their other key guys have been either injured or slowing down with age. giannis hurt the last 2 playoffs, doesn’t matter if they have jrue or not if giannis isn’t 100%

Coulibaly for the wiz seems like a good player

I know Embiid and PG are out, but the Sixers losing by 16 to DET isn't a great sign for this season.

love coulibaly, amazing defender

are the wizards...good now? (no, they just beat the hawks twice)

i just watched this breakdown of coulibaly guarding trae young earlier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMC9EILN8mQ

the hawks are decimated by injuries but good for the wiz nonetheless

some big questions about the celtics tonight most pertinently are they NOT frauds judy is out

judge judy?

yes judge judy is our what’s your question

she’s not sure

judge judy also does not appreciate gotchas regarding post autocorrects she’s a serious jurist

lol celtics made a 14-2 run to send the game into overtime but couldnt close the deal and continue their playoff run of winning games vs the pacers at the last possible moment

bams 3 pt shooting has not carried over from the preseason

shocking that a veteran would revert to their old behaviors once the season starts

well, it was more than just the preseason

Preseason, workout videos, Ben Simmons Instagram. We've all been there.

It really sucks that I'm fated to watch the Tatum/Brown Celtics never, ever be out of a game against the Pacers, really doesn't feel different from watching Heatles v. Pacers except instead of and endless loop of LeBron and-1s, it's the Celtics dialing up their defense 5% and Pacers just crumbling.

Mathurin beginning to look too good to come off the bench. He started last year looking like he'd regressed – really weak finishing at the rim, which affected the rest of his game. Very much back on track this year, just hope his body doesn't wear down by the end of the regular season. He's had a few beautiful combo spin moves that I don't remember seeing from him; would be amazing if he could hit his ceiling and develop into an impactful 1-v-1 scorer. Feel like the ball has also been sticking in his hands less.

IMO alarm bells should be way louder for Haliburton. Doesn't seem like he's playing with any nagging injuries (he plays with a perma-grimace when he's playing through injury, and he's been generally pretty smiley so far this season), but his offensive numbers are absolutely cratering across the board, it does make me wonder if he's tweaked his (awful) shot form somehow. Shot selection has been worse, he's rarely making his way to the paint and missing those easy assists, even his FT% shooting is way down. However he's looked better on defense!

i haven’t seen tons of the pacers this year so this is not a deeply informed theory — and perhaps it’s all just a shot thing — but i do think the rest of the league was bound to find a way to curb the way the pacers were playing offense early last season. teams are too smart and too understanding of what good offense is these days & how you might be able to stop it. i don’t think you can just 7 seconds or less style run roughshod over the league for multiple seasons anymore. the pacers were second in pace last year and are 12th this year — i’m sure they’ll move up as the season goes on bcuz several teams like chicago, washington are playing at paces right now that you can’t keep up for a full season. but i do think it would be fair to assume that teams playing the pacers are keying in on slowing the pace of the game down and just generally disrupting their style of play. another stat — pacers are 24th in 3PA per game so far, last year they were 12th. the difference is only 3 attempts per game, their ranking has slid moreso bcuz other teams are shooting like crazy, but even that somewhat defangs the advantage of the pacers’ style. but you also have to imagine that there is a concerted effort to run them off the 3 pt line

and then w/ halliburton himself, he’s obv a basketball genius to some degree but he doesn’t have the raw athletic skills of i.e. a ja morant where you can try and game plan for what he likes to do but there’s still gonna be times where he just does stuff athletically that no one can defend. a lot of what made tyrese indefensible was the long range shooting, but if that is not at steph levels then he is a far more conventional player. his shooting numbers so far are obviously unsustainably bad so we’ll see where everything levels out, but he never struck me as being an indefensible basketball player in the way other top guys are or project to be bcuz of the physical attributes

You're definitely right that their pace has slowed / 3PTA are down – they've done far less early-shot-clock jacking and psychotic fast-breaking this season by design I think, in an effort to improve defense / defensive rebounding, which has been m/l fine so far. So you lose a few of those extra points from the 3PTA as well as at least a few fast-break layups a game. Suddenly, you're looking at a quick 10pt/game drop that you're hoping to make up w/ efficient half-court offense (which they're not getting so far) and more defensive stops (which they're getting). They've also had Nembhard start initiating the offense, which again has been m/l fine but just means the ball is in Hali's hands even less.

What makes Hali great is that logo-3pt range, but what makes him at least a good player was his ability to penetrate and dish or find a decent shot, and he's not doing that. The wildly atypically bad %s across 2pt, 3pt and FT attempts makes me think it has a lot less to do with teams scheming for him and more either idk shot tweak, some hamstring/back injury, or a tiny case of the shooting yips? Some of these shots have looked really, really bad. It would be funny if he simply has to exert this much of his offensive performance just to be a league-average defender, which I think he has been so far. I don't think he's even had a single highlight assist over the first five games?

There really aren't any other massive dark spots in their offense so far otherwise. Luckily there are enough young players on the roster who all look like they've taken positive steps, so Hali's awful start is masked a bit.

Sources: Milwaukee Bucks are declining the rookie-scale $4.7M fourth-year option on MarJon Beauchamp and the 24th pick in the 2022 NBA Draft will become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season. pic.twitter.com/yZpK1dcMzE

— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) October 31, 2024

more coulibaly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEkmXVx-G4E

ja is so good man really cool guy to watch play

he's such a creative scorer

some great passes tonight too

bucks guys cursing at each other after letting the grizzlies score 1 second after a dame lay up

bucks are old and slow

yeah theyre not exactly radiating good energy

dame has turned into a fulltime foul merchant

who is the best athlete on the bucks after giannis

ja is embarrassing them

out of the guys who actually get minutes yeah not sure xp

it honestly might be taurean prince which really shouldn't be possible

at least in this game edey's presence isn't impeding the grizz's ability to run or ja's ability to get into the paint

ja 21-8-9 first half

Ok I changed my mind Milwaukee is not very good

well i think they are exceptional

You’re not wrong

ja throwing lefty lobs to whoevers around nbd

I’ve never seen them just give up like this

So early in the season too

its not great

so last year they fired the coach. this year …?

fire the coach

unless middleton getting back rights the ship this doesn’t feel sustainable to me for even this season

i know it sounds drastic but they may be better off just admitting the dame thing isn’t working and seeing if they can at least get a different kinda roster around giannis. i can’t imagine dame would stand in the way of getting moved out of there

be pretty hard to trade dame and improve the team on the other hand not sure what they should do give up maybe

yeah that’s why i said different. brook may actually have more trade value

maybe trade brook move giannis to center

trade giannis to the spurs

torn oblique for paolo, out 4-6 weeks at least

come on

shit

reed sheppard growing a mustache between college and the pros hes up to something

you know whos not that athletic the dallas mavericks, currently getting run over by the rockets

they have athletic bigs who can play above the rim at least and that’s def a positive for them offensively in the half court. but yeah at the guard and wing spots…. no

so i guess the jazz are just fully going for one of the three worst records this year

its the right move

but also lauri isnt playing

suns were down 18 at the handful, then hit their first 14 shots of the third quarter and now have a lead early in the 4th

Another *extremely* disconcerting loss for the Bucks last night. Sure, some bad shooting luck (9/42 on 3s), but absolutely run off the floor. Every team making a point to bully MIL guards. More teams putting Dame in ball screens. Ton of demoralized body language/miscommuniction

— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) November 1, 2024

Offense lacks flow. Chemistry/connectivity b/w Dame and Giannis still isn't where it needs to be. Doc going back to Jackson Jr. last 2 games screams "we just need some freaking speed + athleticism out there," + AJJ stands out in that regard -- probably too much. Red alert stuff. https://t.co/kENxJmsGTI

— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) November 1, 2024

such a bummer about paolo :( was off to an incredible start

five games in, list of games guards have had vs the bucks:

Pritchard: 28 points 100% TS

Cam Thomas: 32 points 62% TS

Schroeder: 29p/6a 78% TS

Coby White: 35p/6a 80% TS

Ja: 26p/14a/10r on 68% TS

— subscribe to the state of the league patreon (@JoestarJokic) November 1, 2024

only guard who didnt tune them up is the one youd think would maxey he had 25pts but shot poorly

dame 3 pt shooting %

19-20: 40%
20-21: 39%
21-22: [hurt]
22-23: 37%
23-24: 35%
24-25: 27%

dame having his heart set on miami and getting traded to milwaukee has got to factor into all this

dame having his heart set on miami was unrealistic to say the least. miami had minimal interest in dame and nothing of value they wanted to give back in trade

youll have to talk to him about that

i'm trying not to psychoanalyze too much but dame just seemed to be going thru the motions of the game last night. the shots he took were rarely in rhythm -- they weren't "forced" in the sense that he was heaving the ball up as the shot clock expired, but more forced in the sense that a lot of the shots had a vibe of "well, if someone was in this position i'd guess they'd shoot this" and so he'd shoot it, usually contested, and the ball would clang off the rim

for as bad as the defense has been they're 24th in offensive rating by NBA.com's stats and the one thing that was really noticeable last night is that when dame has the ball it was extremely easy to force him to pass the ball to either gary trent jr or taurean prince, neither of whom were being guarded. they shot 1-13 from three and that's obv not gonna happen on most nights, but it just seemed to me like the defensive game plan was very simple and it was "give dame an open pass to a guy we want shooting and force him to make the 'right' play." and so he made a bunch of the "right" plays except it all was just really mechanical and rote, swinging the ball to the open passer w/o even looking for another answer. you never sensed him trying to change the game in any way, to try and regain control of how he was being played. maybe physically he can't as much anymore, maybe it's more mental

it was a jarring juxtaposition tho watching the energy and speed and creativity and force and just overall "i am going to leave my fingerprints on every possession"-ness ja was playing with vs this listlessly robotic version of dame

yeah I agree he seems to have a sort of an Eric Bledsoe type of energy about him these days

the cowards curse

it really pains me to say it but unless they can somehow get Khris back and healthy for the whole year I don't think this team is gonna work and they don't really have any prospects for the next few years so it might be time to see who's gonna give you the biggest haul for Giannis and plan to be relevant again in 2027

yeah i think giannis demands a trade before the start of next season

its really hard to stay good in the nba these days

dame 'bledsoe' lillard

I Dont wanna be here

— Eric Bledsoe (@EBled2) October 22, 2017

xp self obvs theres the luxury tax situation but also i think the value of non star guys has gone up you really need ~7.5 quality players and then also the bar for quality player has been raised guys have to be able to defend and shoot and make the right pass, if your roster isnt loaded with quality guys then yr opponents will ruthless exploit you in the playoffs

new KG quotable just dropped

https://t.co/a5Eu8WaHLN pic.twitter.com/FNhC5U48GV

— ⚡️ JM ⚡ (@WeAreOKC) November 1, 2024

He’s the best

if your roster isnt loaded with quality guys then yr opponents will ruthless exploit you in the playoffs

― lag∞n, Friday, November 1, 2024 4:50 PM (forty minutes ago)

i believe hollinger was the one who said a few weeks ago that the playoffs were becoming more about the worst player on the floor than the best. the way the celtics are built would seem to exemplify that to me

yeah otm

one of the immutable issues the bucks have is that even when middleton comes back they still have a 5th guy on the floor who is a minimum salary player. last year it was beasley this year it will be prince or trent jr. those guys are probably better than "minimum" players and the bucks have been celebrated in both off seasons for getting these "steals" on the minimum but whether those guys are getting paid $1.5 million or $5 million it doesn't really matter. they're still the flashing red light on both sides of the ball, whether it's being okay w/ that guy shooting the ball instead of dame/khris/brook or on defense where the guy is gonna be in the pick and roll every single time down. their star power is essentially fighting an uphill battle against that one player on the floor -- in theory it's not impossible for them to overcome, but you feel them pushing the boulder. i don't think the NBA has typically been defined on these terms

umm i meant a few years ago on the hollinger thing not a few weeks ago** xp

yeah ideally yr minimum guys would be soaking up regular season bench/spot starter minutes and then not playing in the offs

sometimes you find a diamond in the rough like last year the celtics had hauser on a minimum deal and he played well in the offs but even then he was their 7th man

i guess 6th when zinger was out which was most of the time

salute to sam hauser

When zone defense was technically illegal you always had to stop the best opposing player using man defense, so teams could do a lot of iso plays. Now teams can freely flow from man coverage to zone concepts however they want and it's become very hard to work an iso play for your best guy.

if you look at the best teams now there aren't just old guys hanging around like that. you have the young guys being able to backfill. pritchard & hauser, wiggins & isiah joe, dean wade & sam merrill ... even phoenix getting guys like tyus jones & ryan dunn into their line up

true way better to for yr marginal players to have young legs cause at least then they can run around and whatnot

sam vecenie was saying on his pod that ryan dunn was one of the best perimeter defenders hes ever scouted in college

there was still a time recently where it was standard to have one or two old vets as key parts of contenders. lebron heatles w/ battier & ray allen, lebron cleveland round 2 w/ guys like richard jefferson, the warriors had this w/ like bogut and iggy towards the end. i think we got used to this dynamic and started to consider it like a normal part of championship team building, think of how much ppl cared about when blake griffin or kevin love or whoever got bought out. but i think that has been left behind and now if you have those kinda players in your rotation it probably is a sign of an unbalanced and flawed roster (consider denver's slow descent into minimum russell westbrook being a key rotation cog)

*reverse gif of homer simpson stepping out the hedge*

slob wizard (J0rdan S.) wrote this on thread nba off season 2024 bud 2 suns etc on board I Love Hoops on Jun 27, 2024

the ryan dunn pick by phoenix is also somewhat interesting to me -- they need the ability to play small w/o putting KD at the 5 and he can give them that while also being able to guard probably up to the 1. for what they probably need to do (find a killer small line up) he may really work, he seems like the best switch defender in the draft. it will all obviously fall apart if he is a sub 30% shooter but he will at least be shooting tons of wide open ones, you have to figure. the upside of herb jones but even better is there -- if he went to a bad team in the top of the second round i would've been pessimistic, but he'll have the one crucial thing (tons of floor spacing) that players like this don't get on shitty teams.

nice

Fast ball movement is becoming the dominant winning style, with lots of picks and cutting, few set plays, and instant reads on where the ball needs to go next. Peak Steph used to run his defender ragged all over the court and into half a dozen picks. How's that going for GS this season? I haven't tuned in.

Joel Embiid on accusations he is not trying hard enough to come back and play:

“I’ve done way too much for this fucking city to be treated like this.”

— Underdog NBA (@Underdog__NBA) November 1, 2024

[freedom of speech guy] I think the sixers should follow the rules and update the league and the media honestly about embiid’s health

yeah its been obvious for a while that his knee is held together with mud and straw doesnt really have anything to do with a lack of desire to play joel likes get out there do some dunks ham it up for the home crowd whats not to like

reasonable people could debate how much joel has done “for the city”

its a mysterious statement tbh

i dont understand not leveling with the public about his condition people just come up with their own theories like hes a lazy coward otherwise

what condition? he’s ramping up

its called ramp knee

if he hadn’t played in the olympics they could hide behind ramping up because nobody would have seen him in public all summer. but that isn’t what happened

hornets new coach charles lee came over from the celtics and the hornets are playing celtics style ball vs the celtics tonight which imo is a bit rude

grant tried to murder jayson tonight also a bit rude

halftime of nuggets-wolves. wolves up 3. nuggets starters between +6 and +15. the bench…

yeah idk what grant was up to there def not anything good

A genuine nba weirdo

HAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA pic.twitter.com/J9f3cEGNtp

— Aadan (@JMurrayWrld) November 2, 2024

Jamal Murray is out for the remainder of this game in concussion protocol

— Katy Winge (@katywinge) November 2, 2024

damn

bro that double tech?? gobert should be thrown out what the fuck

double tech is always the worst call, that clearly should have been a flagrant 1 on rudy for making a spectacle of himself

how about for assault?

assault on our sensibilities, yes for sure

insanely knuckleheaded call. gobert should have been thrown out

also, russell westbrook sucks. this statement will surprise no one who has been reading my posts the last 10 years

he’s abjectly horrible right now. imagine trying to explain to someone who’s never seen him that he’s a lock for the hall of fame.

one phony mvp trophy and a few seasons coattailing a true first ballot guy does a lot for a mans career

Ant was talking about how he'd been working on his 3 pt. shot this summer so far he's taking a crazy amount of threes with an average of 43.3%

Most three-pointers in NBA history through five games:

33 — Stephen Curry, 2018-19
29 — Anthony Edwards, 2024-25
28 — Stephen Curry, 2023-24
28 — Stephen Curry, 2015-16
27 — Stephen Curry, 2022-23https://t.co/a2vIDwcAjE

— Aaron Gleeman (@AaronGleeman) November 2, 2024

Asked Anthony Edwards what he would say to someone who thinks he's shooting too many 3s... pic.twitter.com/NITAeEVGi7

— Dane Moore (@DaneMooreNBA) November 2, 2024

if he can really hit threes at all like he has been so far thats pretty fuckin sick, he prob cant tho

one phony mvp trophy and a few seasons coattailing a true first ballot guy does a lot for a mans career

lol

will say russ is one of the worst crunch time players of all time and one of the worst shooters, weird game

😤the_westbrook_defender😤 has logged on

he was also often their best player in playoff games. was the best player on the floor putting up 43 in an NBA finals game featuring lebron, KD, harden, wade and bosh!

thats the thing is he was often completely dominant, but ultimately imho just way too much trick or treat play, way too much trick