Official Around the NBA Thread: December 2022

I like to see Phoenix get a good ol fashioned butt whoopin’.

From the eye ball test Boston looks like the best team in the league to me.

 

Damn- Jazz came back from 4 down with 9 secs left and won. Former Blazer NA-W with the assist and steal to win it. Unbelievable. Warriors just can’t win on the road.

 

Phoenix plays NOP back to back next. Who are you rooting for?

 

And they still have Gallo coming. Pritchard and Horford were out too.

 

Probably Suns.

 

I guess I’ll root for a split. Don’t want either team super confident.

 

I get that every team has a night like this, but the word "effort" was never there.
Marcus Smart taking the ball away from Bridges, and laying it up, while two Suns (Ayton&Paul?) just stood there...
Hey Phoenix: You can die with dignity.

 

Still 10 minutes left. This would be an amazing comeback.

 

The Jazz second to last position started with 13.3 seconds left in the game with the score at 123-119.
Alexander-Walker dribbled the ball to the hoop and had an open 2 pointer but threw the ball out to Beasley who made a 3 with 6.9 seconds left.
On the ensuing inbounds pass to Jordan Poole, Walker Alexander poked the ball out from behind Poole, Olynyk poked the ball again to Beasley who dribbled down the court and dished the ball to Fontecchio, who layed it in with 1.4 on the clock.

Golden State didn't have any timeouts and threw a long bomb down the court which fell incomplete.

Great execution for the winners, terrible way to end for the losers.

Atrocious defense by Klay Thompson on the 3-pointer by Beasley, as he stood on the edge of the key watching Alexander-Walker dribble to the hoop, did not defend Alexander-Walker and left Beasley, his man, undefended at the 3-point line. What the heck was he thinking?



And Poole was way too complacent with the ball, I guess figuring that he'd be fouled immediately.
Edit: Looking at it again Poole was stripped almost instantly from behind, so maybe it was just great defense by Alexander-Walker.

 

He was a Blazer on paper only, for less than 24 hours.
Not enough to get a seat at the table.
But, funny still..

 

Some egregious travels in there. No wonder he looks like a magician at times. He’s a cheater and the NBA allows it.

 

There sure are a lot of folks having convulsions and/or passing out on live TV. What the heck is going on!

 

Of course I was. I’m just tired of reading, “wait until GP returns!”

 

OK, I’ll be the one to ask…what the fuck is an NAW?

 

Not Available Woman....when they see the HCP the first thing they say is "NAW"

 

Shit! Wait til this kid gets in shape!!!!

 

Traveling? Or “Faking the bounce pass”?

 

at first I was thinking double-dribble, but he didn't take the 2nd dribble. It really doesn't look like a carry either

but he does take more than 2 steps during the fake-pass/spin-dribble-->catch-&-scoop-pass so that was a travel as the rule is you can't take more than 2 steps, or 1-step-&-gather between dribbles. Of course, the NBA's enforcement of the travel rules has gone the way of Pan American Airlines