Exclusive Official Around the NBA: November 2022

Dwight Howard found a team

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/dwight...tball-leagues-taoyuan-leopards-032226556.html

 

Amazingly I find myself having to defend Russ here. The rest of that Lakers roster is g league guys that can't shoot.

 

Doncic is a fucking magician.

most entertaining basketball player to watch for me.

 

Well someone is making their shots or he would not be racking up all those assists. The problem is the other side of the ball. The Jazz shot 56% from the field last night so his offensive stats don't seem to be very important.

 

Judging by his pay grade he should be able to handle that team on his own.

 

Found a little respect for Russ through this. He is doing what needs to be done to produce for his team.

 

Jimmy Butler MJ’s son lol

 

Totally disagree, the problem for the Lakers is their roster up and down is full of guys who can't shoot, as in they are a historically bad shooting team, possibly the worst ever in NBA history, they've already set many records.

Look at their three best 3point shooters right now;
1 Matt Ryan who is almost 26 and has an NBA career of playing one game for Boston
2 Austin Reaves who as a rookie last year shot 31% from three.
3 Russell Westbrook is currently third on the Lakers in three point percentage!

Yes the chucker who has shot 3700 three pointers in his career at a terrible 30.5% is the Lakers third best three point shooter.

The Lakers are absolute garbage this year. Remove Westbrook they are garbage, add him they are garbage.

Plenty of things to criticize Westbrook for over his 15 year career, and I often have; but this horrible Lakers team just isn't one of them.

Whoever built a professional basketball team in 2022; with this 3 point era that has no shooters is terrible at their job. To think that last month Pelinka got an extension is nuts. So I'm not sure how much of that blame should go to GM, ownership, or star (LBJ) player. But the result is a roster of shit.

It's another great year to be a Lakers hater.

 

You cited only 3-pt shooting. Pinwheel1's point was that someone has to be making shots in order for RW to earn assists, and last I checked, 2-pt shots also count toward assists.

 

This was a bad no-call at the end of the Warriors - Kings game.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...s-missed-foul-call-klay-thompson-warriors-win

 

Moments before this, Steph was trapped by 3 Kings, nowhere to go with the shot clock running out. . Then he got touched/fouled (Stupid Kings) just before the 24s expires. Steph's reaction was as if he did something incredible. He got bailed.

 

I think he was talking about ROTY Scottie Barnes. Not Harrison.

 

shit....that's such an obvious foul

 

Yeah. I was pissed.

 

Man, you can’t help but feel for the kid.

 

Also in the report:
The Last Two Minute report also confirmed that Stephen Curry traveled with 16.1 seconds remaining in the game, which also went uncalled.
A missed traveling call, you don’t say…

 

Aussie Josh Green with a great game for Dallas (16 pts @ 100%, 5 reb, 2 ast), and a very good start to the season with a league leading 66.7% 3P%, and 92.1% TS%.

 

geeeeezuz.... I don't know what the recovery time is although from what I just read the minimum would be 6 weeks, but that's for returning to 'normal' activity, not pounding on a BB floor

Zach's history suggests this will keep him out of action for months. He should think about giving up BB otherwise he might be hobbling around on canes in his 40's

 

One of Olshey's rare smart moves.

 

the one time he didn't fall into the sunk-cost fallacy

but my god, that 2017 draft:

10 Zach Collins
12 Luke Kennard
13 Donovan Mitchell
14 Bam Adebayo
19 John Collins
22 Jarrett Allen
23 OG Anunoby
26 Caleb Swanigan
27 Kyle Kuzma
29 Derrick White
30 Josh Hart
43 Isaiah Hartenstein
45 Dillon Brooks