2018 Around the NBA - November

I have never had a facebook account, and with every piece of news that that comes out about facebook, I am more glad.

 

I'm sure if I were a high ranking government employee I would be worried. But I am not. I am just some schlub. The only thing my data tracking is going to tell them is that I like Marker's Mark, follow various sports teams and am obsessed with collecting Frank Zappa and Todd Rundgren albums.

 

Right? They couldn't find someone more bland to represent their Normcore shoes!

 

I saw these guys at the PanHandle summer 68.
3:00The Mothers Of Invention - Oh, In The Sky (1968)

 

You, my man, are one of the few truly awesome people on this planet.

 

Who he play for?

 

I use Facebook to stay in touch with family all over the world. I love it.

 

And yet somehow, inexplicably, you are not a high ranking government employee. No wonder our political landscape is so fucked. We need more whiskey drinking Todd is God fans running this country.

BNM

 

Anyone else finding the NBA games boring this year? It started somewhat exciting - but it basically looks like a 3P shooting competition - I am finding the games repetitive and somewhat boring this year.

 

A BAD 3-point shooting competition. League wide, 3FG% is down from .362 to .350 while attempts, per team, are up from 29.0 to 31.3. The result is, that for the first time in league history, we are being treated to more than 40 missed 3-pointers per game.

BNM

 

Im totally with you, the 3 point or dunk and thats all that happens basketball, is just not super exciting. Games literally feel like 3 point contests, a lot of blows outs too mainly centered around who’s hot and who is cold.

 

Looks like Pop agrees with you.

 

We have a barn burner in Toronto. Raps beating GSW 119 113.

 

Tie game. shit!

 

Raps/warriors game is crazy, KD going off

 

I'm not a big Durant fan but that was a hell of a shot to tie the game up.

 

Thought the same thing

 

It's so interesting that I am going to post the part about the Blazers duo:
Portland Trail Blazers
Like Wall and Beal, the Damian Lillard-C.J. McCollum duo is the rare backcourt with both players scoring above the 20-point mark. But unlike the Wizards, they don’t rely on each other to get those numbers. Wall assists Beal twice as often as Lillard-to-McCollum (every 12.3 minutes compared to every 30.6 minutes). The same goes for Beal-to-Wall (every 41.7 minutes) and McCollum-to-Lillard (every 80.4 minutes).

One contributing factor: McCollum has shot 33.3 percent from 3-point land on Lillard’s passes compared to 40.8 percent from all other teammates. That same lopsided split showed up last season, too.

But Portland fans shouldn’t fret too much just yet. The Portland offense has been far healthier than the Wizards’ outfit. Portland’s 113.4 offensive rating with Lillard and McCollum on the floor suggests they don’t need to reinvent the wheel here. Furthermore, Lillard isn’t a natural distributor like Wall, so setting up McCollum all the time isn’t a huge surprise.



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The chemistry between McCollum and Lillard isn’t super inspiring when it comes to crunchtime. In 28 minutes of clutch situations this season, Lillard and McCollum have combined for 13 field goals between them, but interestingly enough, no assists from each other. Lillard has fed Al-Farouq Aminu and Jusuf Nurkic for buckets twice, but nothing to McCollum.

This isn’t a new thing either. Last season, Lillard assisted just six of McCollum’s 37 crunchtime buckets and McCollum assisted just one of Lillard’s 39. The fact that Lillard only scored once off of a McCollum pass looks worse when you consider that McCollum had 14 clutch assists last season. The lesson here is that Lillard and McCollum don’t need each other to put up big numbers. But they might need to if they want to take the leap in the playoffs.