Random NBA Observations 2025 - 2026

[SchoolboyC]

kansas guards = Ohio St qbs

It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day tell him @Flight

 

[Primetime]

The elephant in the room with DAL (and HOU), is what exactly is their offensive identity?

I'll always bring up the 213 era Clippers...

Spoiler

they tried 6 different point guards in 4 years (Brooks, Kennard, Rondo, Wall, Russ, Harden) and none of them shyts worked because their identity was always going to be my turn/your turn Kawhi iso/Paul George iso. The ball was going to be in their hands, not a point guards.

Finally they decided to just get rid of Wall, George, Russ, etc and made the identity of the team "Harden-ball" feat. Zubac and Kawhi.

This DAL team is coming off 7 years of Luka-ball. AD is coming off 6-years of Bron-ball. Kyrie's whole career has been an ancillary-piece to Bron/Harden/Luka-ball. And Klay played in the antithesis to those systems. So none of them facilitate offense for others.

If you’re top 2-3 players don’t facilitate offense for others but operate in silos and don't synergize with each other, then even if you get the “truest” point guard, you’ll just be Phoenix last year or the 213 LAC at best. Same with Houston.

 

[Primetime]

Ok… this was fantastic

I missed the broadcast but that’s a top knotch crew to have.

Blake will be interesting. For 15 years it seemed he was gonna end up as one of them Seth Rogan type comedic personalities post-playing career… be it on the big screen or small screen.

 

[SchoolboyC]

And what makes ESPN look even worse is Haslem had been there the last couple years. So whole time he could’ve been part of segments like this but nah let’s have another MJ-LeBron debate

 

[Flight]

It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day tell him @Flight

I ain’t debating these nikkas brother..we saw what Darryn did to Mikel last night…almost had that guy on the verge of tears last night.

 

[Primetime]

Watching Lakers/Wolves…

Ant worked on his mid-range jumper, sure… but he didn’t improve his point of attack. He’s still playing iso-ball 25 feet from the basket.

Another example of it don’t matter if it’s Conley or Divencenzo at point… the ball will be in Ant’s hands or Randles to operate in silos, and neither generate offense for others except the most basic drive n kicks. But because Ant starts 25 feet out and does his rapid fire iso dribbling (and not a methodical back-down dribble or PnR manipulation like Luka/Shai), the offense isn’t settled and his mid range shots are still tough/high energy.

Hence the continued inconsistency of a big 1st quarter but a quiet 2nd quarter.

 

[DoubleJ13]

Surely they can't go to double overtime tonight

 

[Flight]

kansas guards = Ohio St qbs

I’ll have 20 Somali’s outside your house wallahi if you keep playing with my program

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

It seems you're using a conversation(s) you took part in as representative of a whole, or at least, the main discussion.

Yeah, his 3-pt percentage was certainly a talking point around his projection, but from all the scouting reports and discourse that I saw, there certainly wasn't this analytics-driven agenda to propel him. A lot of those same cats hyping up his 3s, were also wary of how good he could be given he was undersized and wasn't that good at creating his own shot. Like many white prospects, there was a whole lot of talk around his intangibles, which was certainly more glaring to me than this analytics angle.

I don't know why you're bringing up deflections as if he didn't average 2.5 steals, as if somehow Casuals haven't typically used steals to overrate defense since the beginning of time.

With all that said - we're only two games into the season, where he's been thrown in at the deep end on a team that has no offensive identity. I'm not his biggest fan but it's too early to be writing the book on him. Even Amen hasn't looked good being thrust into his new role.

We”ll just have to agree to disagree regarding the Reed draft process topic

But in regards to Amen having him on ball full time isn’t ultilizing what he’s best at and kind of amplifies his shooting weakness..Think ppl saw his solid handle and the fact he can see the floor relatively well and and just assumed he can run point …when in actuality he’s probably be best utilized the same way Ausar is ..he can be on ball sometimes but he’s best cutting and wrecking shyt on the open floor

Thing is I think Ausar has been playing off ball longer and is more comfortable in that role ..Think Amen has always had the ball in his hand

Both need to become at least respectable from 3

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

The elephant in the room with DAL (and HOU), is what exactly is their offensive identity?

I'll always bring up the 213 era Clippers...

Spoiler

they tried 6 different point guards in 4 years (Brooks, Kennard, Rondo, Wall, Russ, Harden) and none of them shyts worked because their identity was always going to be my turn/your turn Kawhi iso/Paul George iso. The ball was going to be in their hands, not a point guards.

Finally they decided to just get rid of Wall, George, Russ, etc and made the identity of the team "Harden-ball" feat. Zubac and Kawhi.

This DAL team is coming off 7 years of Luka-ball. AD is coming off 6-years of Bron-ball. Kyrie's whole career has been an ancillary-piece to Bron/Harden/Luka-ball. And Klay played in the antithesis to those systems. So none of them facilitate offense for others.

If you’re top 2-3 players don’t facilitate offense for others but operate in silos and don't synergize with each other, then even if you get the “truest” point guard, you’ll just be Phoenix last year or the 213 LAC at best. Same with Houston.

Think Houston’s identity got thrown in the trash the moment FVV got hurt ..ppl clown him but he can run a functional,capable offense . With him gone they don’t have anyone else to do that..It’s either KD doing masterclass shyt or they’re going to have a ugly offensive possession.

 

[VegetasHairline]

 

[Big Mountain Hélà]

 

[ReggieFlare]

It might get spooky for ESPN

 

[Doctor Doom]

It might get spooky for ESPN

Silver finally got it through his thick skull that one of the reasons the NFL is constantly growing is that the league put out the memo to anyone covering shyt for them has to keep it football and respect all the eras

That tabloid/trashy coverage that is barely surface level was good for small little bursts of popularity, but it served more to increase the popularity of the commentators than it did the NBA.

 

[Collateral]

Got that new four leaf clover pacc