Random NBA Observations 2019 - 2020

[Lakerman0834]

Ballmer being richest owner and paying reporters paying off. The shyt they get away with any other star would be blasted on national media

Kyle Goon
@kylegoon

I feel for my media colleagues who had to be told by Staples Center employees — not even the Clippers themselves — that Kawhi Leonard wouldn't be doing postgame interviews tonight. After all the stories they've done about a really exciting team, they don't get that courtesy?


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Bill Oram
@billoram

It is understood that players don’t always want to talk. But the collectively bargained rule is that they be available postgame. Somehow Kawhi and the Clippers, amid the greatest “moment” in franchise history, are falling well short of the bare minimum.

 

[thelonious21]

Bu Bu Bu...He should have been player of the week

 

[Illin Degenerate]

Marv

ouch, marv looking like one of those terrible college football announcers looking at a roster sheet that has two players with the same number, cept theres only one 13 on either team and hes not wearing a helmet. hes not wearing a helmet marv

 

[thelonious21]

One thing I do agree with @Darealtwo1 about is the absurdity of Carmelo winning conference player of the week

It's like the NBA gave him a weektime achievement award

Well.. you see Harden dropped 50 again jus to show it was his award


Only player I can see having beef is Luka da Don...

And.. got damn yall.. its ONE week.. the nikka didnt steal an All NBA spot or All Star slot.. sheeesh.. its mad more weeks left..

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

Why you putting random words into my mouth that I've never said?

You said that MPJ would be the best player on the Nuggets the moment he stepped on the court. You REALLY want to keep upping this convo?

In his last 10 games MPJ is averaging 2.2ppg on 30% shooting and 16% from 3pt while committing 2 fouls a game and looking like a liability on defense. Why are you still talking about him like you want any part of that "Porter is better than Jokic right now!" debate?


And Malone the "tread water" coach is on pace for 59 wins and a 2 or 3 seed, the 5th straight year the team will have improved under him.

He’s the most talented player on the team, period. What rookie doesn’t miss defensive assignments? Malone isn’t a good enough coach to win games while coaching MPJ through his mistakes, which he basically admitted in his own words

The Nuggets have the slowest pace in the league and can barely score 100 points a night in an era where teams routinely score 120+. They’ll win a bunch of games due to home court advantage (as they’ve done forever) and beating bad teams on the road, and then blow it in the playoffs. Malone is an average coach on his best day.

 

[THE MACHINE]

wrong thread

 

[Jplaya2023]

And Toronto has a better record than the Clippers. Didn’t coli say Kawhi won the title last year “by himself”?

No we said durant and klay being hurt won the title 4 kahwi along with embeed being sick and trash in the 2nd round

 

[Professor Emeritus]

He’s the most talented player on the team, period. What rookie doesn’t miss defensive assignments? Malone isn’t a good enough coach to win games while coaching MPJ through his mistakes, which he basically admitted in his own words

The Nuggets have the slowest pace in the league and can barely score 100 points a night in an era where teams routinely score 120+. They’ll win a bunch of games due to home court advantage (as they’ve done forever) and beating bad teams on the road, and then blow it in the playoffs. Malone is an average coach on his best day.

You said he was ALREADY the best player. Now you juelzing and blaming the coach for the "best player on the team" being a net negative every time he steps on the floor.

Denver has the best defensive rating in the entire NBA but it's the coach's fault that his "most talented player" can't play in the scheme even after having a full year to do nothing but sit and learn. Name one time when a coach was blamed for 1 player's struggles the way you trying to blame Malone.

And how is having a slow pace a bad thing? If you're winning games with a slow pace then you're already more playoff-ready than a team that gets its scoring off of fast breaks and easy shots. You really don't know much about basketball, do you?


Denver was 30-52 the year before Malone got there. Since then they've won 33, 40, 46, 54, and now on pace for 59. You called him "literally the definition of a treadwater coach" cause you literally don't know what "treadwater" means and are on this random crusade to try to juelz your way out of a really, really bad hot take about MPJ.

According to you Jokic sucks, the rest of Denver's roster sucks, Malone is a shytty coach, they have no offense, they don't know how to teach defense, and yet they're 2nd in the West.

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

According to you Jokic sucks, the rest of Denver's roster sucks, Malone is a shytty coach, they have no offense, they don't know how to teach defense, and yet they're 2nd in the West.

That’s about right

 

[Teko]

what does an early regular season record in the EAF have to do with winning the title? Toronto was notorious for having good reg season records w/ lowery & derozan, but not winning it all.

They won it all on a bounce and KD and Klay getting injured. Toronto is a great team and has shown that over and over again

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Why is Will Barton still starting at the 3 for Denver when they have Michael Porter Jr?????

Mike Malone, one of the best coaches in the league according to a few guys on here

Ahead of the NBA Saturdays game between the Denver Nuggets and Sacramento Kings this weekend Nuggets’ star Gary Harris talked about the importance of having Will Barton on the roster and team’s defense.

On Will Barton

Gary: “He puts a lot of pressure on the defense and it opens up a lot of things for everybody else. He can score from all three levels, he handles the ball, he rebounds, he pushes it, he dictates the pace. With Will playing like that we’re at our best. Thrill has been huge on both ends. He’s been locked in defensively, offensively he’s had it going. He’s been playing great. We thrive off of his energy. When he plays like that and all of our guys are clicking we’re a difficult team to stop.”



According to data from Cleaning the Glass, the Nuggets have outscored their opponents by a whopping 30.2 points per 100 possessions with Barton on the court versus off, the most among all players on Denver’s roster, with Jamal Murray a fairly distant second at plus-23.6. That puts Barton in the 97th percentile among all NBA players, and what may be most impressive and encouraging is that he’s in the 98th percentile defensively, where he has shown visible improvement so far.



Crunching matchup data from NBA.com, opposing players have combined to make just 38.3% of shots which Barton has defended this season, which puts him in elite territory at least for the time being. Barton’s defensive rating of 90.8 is the best among Denver’s regular rotation players



Averaging 15-7-4 (in just 32 minutes with the slowest pace in the league) hitting 40% of his threes, one of the top offensive rebounders at his position and playing elite defense, one of the top energy guys who sparks the team and gets to the rim as well as anyone opening shyt up for everyone else, the team plays WAY better when Barton is on the court, and you think he should be sitting behind a guy who ain't hitting his shots OR playing defense solely because that guy was a great high school player in the state of Washington....before he got hurt.




MPJ might be a good player one day, but you will NEVER be a good basketball coach.

 

[Flex Luger]

 

[Brandon M.]

markelle might have the best midrange game in the nba now


drastic turn of events

 

[CSquare43]

SIAP: Disclaimer - I haven't looked it up yet.

Harden has shot more FT's this season (20 games) than Steph did all last year.

 

[Mr. Jack Napier]

Box score watching?

You do know that Patterson hit his first couple of three's when melo was on the bench right?

Harkless got the start over Patterson....

And are you going disregard that Patterson was still dropping threes in the 4th when after melo had already sat down.

The gameplan was obviously to sag off patterson and make him beat you. Meaning you can live with him hitting a few open 3's vs having Leonard / PG13 go off....

Obviously that backfired. Aside from from the second clip, the defense in the first clip isnt that bad.

With said Patterson obviously had the hot hand tonight, so he went off. That shyt happens in basketball, quit talking like a casual. Sometimes there's nothing you can do stop someone from going off...

That's like when lillard has the hot hand, it doesnt matter how good your defense is when someone is hot or has momentum.

Fam, don't argue with that fool. He has some of the WORST sports takes on the site.