Exclusive OFFICIAL Around the NBA thread: October 2019

Dame now has a real shot for a starting spot in the All Star game and maybe he makes 1st All Team again

 

A few observations so far this season:

• Pelicans have a lot of talent, their 1-4 record is worse than their performance have deserved so far but expected for a team that haven’t played with each other. Ball and especially Ingram showing lots of quality outside LA. Ingram will be a stud.
  
• As I expected, and unfortunately couldn’t bet, Indiana are a lot worse than last season. They lost many good pieces and aside from Brogdon did not recruit well.
  
• Miami are the best in the league at talent evaluation. All their draft picks from recent years are doing very well - Winslow and Adebayo have been awesome, Herro already looks a great pick. No idea how they pulled Nunn out of the hat. Very solid deep team, could be a handful in the playoffs.

 

I agree with bullet points two and three, I've watched three New Orleans games and our opinions on them could not be much different. Just opinions though. Also on point three, I think the Spurs are pretty close.

 

Curry will STILL get more fan votes than Dame is the sad thing.

 

Ridiculous performance from Brooklyn in first quarter. Ten turnovers, Kyrie having some sort of meltdown and refusing to shoot and attempting dumb passes all quarter (had 1 FG attempt in 9 minutes).

 

I think Pelicans will be good. They need a center though, Favors is actually preventing them from playing basketball the way they should play it. He was out last night and they played great.

 

Watching this Bucks vs Magic game. Bucks aren't looking great so far, but that team is LOADED. They are deep with talent.

 

Thats true

 

Kyrie the kind of guy Thats super fun to be around when things are good but the moment they go bad he just shuts down and becomes the biggest dick.

 

Looking great now to be fair.

 

Had a great second quarter scoring wise. Don’t get why he was constantly trying those dumb passes in first.

 

probably heard some noise that he was taking too many shots and the Nets have been losing. His usage is absurdly high right now. So dude comes out and takes no shots in the first while they go down. Then he dominates the shots in the second and goes “see? Not my fault. I need to take these shots to win.”

totally a guess, but seems like something Kyrie would do to try and prove a point.

 

Seems he’s doing another act in third quarter by just giving away the ball and hiding. They’ll be down by 15 in 5 minutes.

 

Seems like you’re wrong lol.

 

With curry out I fear Doncic will get that PG all nba 1st team

 

Why do you fear it?

 

Over dame. I want dame to get it

 

That makes hoopsjock the true basketball guru around here.

 

Hate to say it but this Blazers won’t beat the Lakers. They look good with AD and James

 

Refs totally blew/missed Dwight Howard holding onto Seth Curry while his man Danny Green hit the game tying shot at the buzzer.

HOWEVER, I never understand the defense some teams play when they're up by 3 points and the other team has one shot to tie. What in the hell is Maxi Kleber doing trying to defend LBJ as he dribbles to the hoop (then passes to an open Green)???
The Lakers had Dwight Howard, Unibrow, James, Green and Avery Bradley on the court. The two guys you DO NOT want shooting the ball are Green and James. You don't even have to defend Howard.
It's 5 on 4 and somehow Dallas let Green get open for a corner 3-pointer. Ridiculous.
The Lakers had no timeouts left so nobody should have been defending the hoop, yet there were two Mavericks standing next to Lebron under the hoop when Green hit the 3-pointer.