2020/21 NBA season + Olympics

Coneygree · 03-01-2021 12:32pm

There's no package the Raptors can offer the Rockets for Harden.

pjohnson · 03-01-2021 1:16pm

Coneygree wrote: »

There's no package the Raptors can offer the Rockets for Harden.

The rumour was Harden + PJ Tucker in exchange for Siakam, Norman Powell + Draft Picks.

ButtersSuki · 04-01-2021 12:36pm

Steph with a career high 62 in less than 37mins. As impressive as it was I've seen him play better. I know that may sound strange but it wasn't a particularly close game. What is impressive about it however is he hasn't exactly been on fire this season by his own standards.

ButtersSuki · 04-01-2021 12:39pm

Funny how many games in these sequential games are being split isn't it? I know there's lots of psychological reasons for that in theory, but I'm still surprised at how many are actually happening. The Bucks-Heat mini-series being the prime example. Bucks completely blow out the Heat and set NBA record for 3s, then lose a couple of nights later to the same team.

Carcharodon · 04-01-2021 2:27pm

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Steph with a career high 62 in less than 37mins. As impressive as it was I've seen him play better. I know that may sound strange but it wasn't a particularly close game. What is impressive about it however is he hasn't exactly been on fire this season by his own standards.

I was literally telling my friend a few weeks ago that I expect curry to set or break some records this season.
I think he finally stopped trying to get Oubre and Wiggins going first and just did his own thing, more of that please, helps having Draymond back also, he may have lost a step but he adds that extra bit of competitiveness and will to do better.

ButtersSuki · 04-01-2021 3:50pm

Carcharodon wrote: »

I was literally telling my friend a few weeks ago that I expect curry to set or break some records this season.
I think he finally stopped trying to get Oubre and Wiggins going first and just did his own thing, more of that please, helps having Draymond back also, he may have lost a step but he adds that extra bit of competitiveness and will to do better.

Yeah it would be interesting to see what he could go for if for example he was chasing a la Booker or Harden. Like he only played just over 36minutes. What could he do if he played 45+, didn't care about the result, was gunning, and the team were setting him up?

I don't think that's his style though to be fair. As great as his individual play is he's more team-oriented than many scorers.

ButtersSuki · 06-01-2021 7:14am

Some choice words between Booker and Paul George the other night. George is clearly a target for trash talkers this year more than ever after multiple “Play Off P” disastrous performances and general shoyte-talking and behaviour. He’s a hard guy to like really.

buyer95 · 06-01-2021 3:33pm

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Some choice words between Booker and Paul George the other night. George is clearly a target for trash talkers this year more than ever after multiple “Play Off P” disastrous performances and general shoyte-talking and behaviour. He’s a hard guy to like really.

The whole 'Playoff P' and then Barkley coming at him with 'Call me Championship Chuck' was probably the greatest laugh I had last year. I agree, George is a very hard guy to like. I don't think the Clippers are good enough to win the West either, the Lakers have gotten better while the Clippers quite simply haven't.

A few quick predictions for the season...

MVP : Anthony Davis (I think the Lakers will be careful with Lebron, he has had hardly any break and at 36 they need to keep him fit and ready for the playoffs) KD will also be in contention

ROY: James Wiseman

Winners of West:
Lakers

Winners of East:
Nets (Less confident in this. I can see this team team blowing up also. Kyrie is not a good teamate, and a lot will rest on him getting on the same page as Nash and the coaching staff. That being said if they can come together they could legitimately challenge the Lakers) If Philly trade for Harden I would change my pick here to them

NBA Champions:
Lakers- Too good, unless injury hits AD or LeBron. Schroeder is a very good addition, and with Gasol and Harrell they have gotten even better.

Coach of the Year:
Monty Williams- I see the Suns being very good, definitely a playoff team and possibly as high as 5 or 6. The addition of CP3 beside Booker makes them very very useful.

Executive of the Year
Rob Pelinka- Did a superb job to reload this already very strong team. The Cavs never were able to do for LeBron what Pelinka achieved in this past offseason. An excellent retooling, and the Lakers look poised to be even stronger than last year.

6th Man of the Year

Montrezl Harrell- This award is often won by the same guy multiple times. Harrell is in the perfect position, his primary role is to provide offense for when LeBron and AD sit. He will do this no problem.

In short, I can't see past a Lakers repeat (barring injury.)

ButtersSuki · 06-01-2021 4:59pm

Jokic had a play last night where he caught the defensive rebound, took a few dribbles and then without breaking stride threw a defence splitting in traffic 40+ foot bunce pass for a dunk. Insane skill level.

ButtersSuki · 07-01-2021 4:43am

Fultz out for the season with a turn ACL. Very tough in him as he’s just started to play well.

buyer95 · 07-01-2021 5:02pm

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Fultz out for the season with a turn ACL. Very tough in him as he’s just started to play well.

Shockingly unfortunate. He's been absolutely cursed since he came into the league. Nice win for the Knicks last night. I watched most of it, they started very poorly but in typical Thibs fashion they hung around and turned it around in the second half. Probably going to be close ish to a playoff push with Thibs at the helm.

Coneygree · 07-01-2021 5:05pm

At least Fultz got paid. Awful shame though. When I was watching Cade Cunningham videos on Youtube, Fultz's college highlights popped up as recommended. Jesus Christ he was some prospect. He was still playing very well with the last 12 months, and started the year off strong.

buyer95 · 08-01-2021 12:10am

Per Joe Vardon - The Athletic
"Steve Nash said he does not know why Kyrie Irving won't play tonight against the Sixers, as in, he is unaware of what KI's personal issue is. Nash said he reached out to Kyrie and did not hear back."
Yeah this is why I hesitated picking the Nets to win the East... Maybe a genuine reason for this, but this seems very 'Kyrie-ey.'

ButtersSuki · 08-01-2021 12:13am

buyer95 wrote: »

Per Joe Vardon - The Athletic
"Steve Nash said he does not know why Kyrie Irving won't play tonight against the Sixers, as in, he is unaware of what KI's personal issue is. Nash said he reached out to Kyrie and did not hear back."
Yeah this is why I hesitated picking the Nets to win the East... Maybe a genuine reason for this, but this seems very 'Kyrie-ey.'

Kyrie acting the bollox again. :rolleyes:

He should of course be fined and suspended for this but he won’t.

Coneygree · 08-01-2021 12:49am

Kyrie is like Rodman but without the craic.

ButtersSuki · 08-01-2021 12:49am

Coneygree wrote: »

Kyrie is like Rodman but without the craic.

Lol.

Ikozma · 08-01-2021 1:32am

What's going on with the raptors so far?

buyer95 · 08-01-2021 1:32am

Coneygree wrote: »

Kyrie is like Rodman but without the craic.

You misspelled 'crack' and left out Madonna

buyer95 · 08-01-2021 1:34am

Ikozma wrote: »

What's going on with the raptors so far?

They'll be alright, still early. By alright I mean top 5 or 6 in the east. Don't think they have another run in them.

08-01-2021 1:34am

buyer95 wrote: »

and left out Madonna

And prime Carmen Electra.

08-01-2021 1:35am

I made an investment in the 76ers earlier so expect the Nets to win by 30+

buyer95 · 08-01-2021 1:37am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I made an investment in the 76ers earlier so expect the Nets to win by 30+

What's the line?

Coneygree · 08-01-2021 1:49am

buyer95 wrote: »

They'll be alright, still early. By alright I mean top 5 or 6 in the east. Don't think they have another run in them.

Unless Siakam can remember how to play again and take it to another level I think they could be in trouble. In all honesty they should be probably look at trading Lowry and start the rebuild.

08-01-2021 1:50am

buyer95 wrote: »

What's the line?

No line, just them to win the championship :pac:

Coneygree · 08-01-2021 1:52am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

And prime Carmen Electra.

He deserved one of Jordan's scoring titles for that.

Corvo · 08-01-2021 11:05am

Think the Kyrie thing could be linked to the incidents in Washington. Sort of thing that would send him into a spiralling depression of some sort.

kmart6 · 08-01-2021 11:22am

Corvo wrote: »

Think the Kyrie thing could be linked to the incidents in Washington. Sort of thing that would send him into a spiralling depression of some sort.

Jesus that's a leap.

Corvo · 08-01-2021 1:39pm

kmart6 wrote: »

Jesus that's a leap.

You're right, could be anything with Kyrie

09-01-2021 6:41am

My Bulls making steady progress at long last. Defence coming on leaps and bounds.

Played really well tonight with a chance to win it. 12 secs left on clock Bulls possession and timeout, ends up with a poor shot from LaVine - he should have kicked it to Thad Young. But I suppose your best player is always going to take those shots, especially when he's just scored 38.

Patrick Williams playing like a 10 year vet and the bench contributing well.

Light at the end of the tunnel.

Carcharodon · 09-01-2021 7:45am

Warriors throw back tonight, down 22 and end up winning.
Obviously a lot more impressive without Durant and Klay plus like of iggy and Livingston but damn Curry never gave up tonight and led this team back, it really felt like the atmosphere back in Oracle even if there were no fans, very weird
A couple of take sways, Oubre is way of the pace, really needs to improve, I would drop him out of that rotation but I think Kerr will give him time.
Draymond adds so much competitiveness to this team, it just can’t be quantified
Clippers looked good at the start, PG looked unstoppable but when it came to crunch time,it was a bit of a familiar story
Iam liking how this Warriors team is progressing, they look to be on the right trajectory

Corvo · 09-01-2021 9:41am

Second game on the trot for the Lakers that opposing teams centres are having free scoring games (LMA and now Wendell Carter). Early days but I’ll be keeping an eye to see if not resigning Dwight Howard was a mistake.

Of course AD didn’t play at all but worth watching

Carcharodon · 09-01-2021 4:15pm

Corvo wrote: »

Second game on the trot for the Lakers that opposing teams centres are having free scoring games (LMA and now Wendell Carter). Early days but I’ll be keeping an eye to see if not resigning Dwight Howard was a mistake.

Of course AD didn’t play at all but worth watching

I watched Howard play a few nights ago and was pretty impressed at his fitness condition and effort. I would of thought after the ring and being under LeBron s watchful eye, he would of taken it easy but he still-looks good

I also realized how god damn big Embild is, holy Christ, Howard looks small next to him

buyer95 · 09-01-2021 6:54pm

Corvo wrote: »

Second game on the trot for the Lakers that opposing teams centres are having free scoring games (LMA and now Wendell Carter). Early days but I’ll be keeping an eye to see if not resigning Dwight Howard was a mistake.

Of course AD didn’t play at all but worth watching

Steady on there. The Lakers won the championship and have had basically no break at all. They are in no hurry and are bedding in half a team with the addition of Schroder, Gasol, Harrell, Mathew's. They are in second gear and will be for most of the season. Watch them still get either the one or two seed. It's folly to read in to one game with less than 10 games played. You do realise that arguably the best defender in the league AD missed the Bulls game? Also playoff LeBron is an entirely different animal to anything we will see for the next 4 months.

pjohnson · 09-01-2021 7:11pm

Saw a stat that Bradley Beal has scored 40+ points in the last two games and lost both, the last player to do that was........Bradley Beal last season.

It gets worse since last year Beal has scored 40+ points in 12 games. Only one of them was a win.

Carcharodon · 09-01-2021 7:36pm

buyer95 wrote: »

Steady on there. The Lakers won the championship and have had basically no break at all. They are in no hurry and are bedding in half a team with the addition of Schroder, Gasol, Harrell, Mathew's. They are in second gear and will be for most of the season. Watch them still get either the one or two seed. It's folly to read in to one game with less than 10 games played. You do realise that arguably the best defender in the league AD missed the Bulls game? Also playoff LeBron is an entirely different animal to anything we will see for the next 4 months.

I think he basically said that in his post, chill bro !

pjohnson · 09-01-2021 7:53pm

Dwight Howard will play point guard tonight.

The 76ers have 7 players.

Corvo · 10-01-2021 1:44am

buyer95 wrote: »

Steady on there. The Lakers won the championship and have had basically no break at all. They are in no hurry and are bedding in half a team with the addition of Schroder, Gasol, Harrell, Mathew's. They are in second gear and will be for most of the season. Watch them still get either the one or two seed. It's folly to read in to one game with less than 10 games played. You do realise that arguably the best defender in the league AD missed the Bulls game? Also playoff LeBron is an entirely different animal to anything we will see for the next 4 months.

Strange reply. I mentioned absolutely nothing about seedings, their championship win and I’m sure we are all aware of Le Brons ability to coast in the regular season.

I literally said in my post that AD didn’t play against the Bulls.

buyer95 · 10-01-2021 1:51am

Corvo wrote: »

Strange reply. I mentioned absolutely nothing about seedings, their championship win and I’m sure we are all aware of Le Brons ability to coast in the regular season.

I literally said in my post that AD didn’t play against the Bulls.

Sorry Corvo, I speed read it. I don't want to come across as a Lakers fan either, I am not. I'd love to see someone else put it up to them and win it. Anyway yeah my bad.

Corvo · 10-01-2021 1:55am

buyer95 wrote: »

Sorry Corvo, I speed read it. I don't want to come across as a Lakers fan either, I am not. I'd love to see someone else put it up to them and win it. Anyway yeah my bad.

No problem!

I’m not a fan of any of them to be honest, but I’ll watch Lakers a bit just to see Le Bron. Play offs killed me staying up, reckon I knocked off at least 4 years of my life. And I never want to see another Wendy’s ad...ever.

Coneygree · 10-01-2021 10:55am

My Hawks are in trouble after what looked like a very promising start.

Corvo · 10-01-2021 11:15am

La Melo’s first triple double, must try catch that game today.

pjohnson · 10-01-2021 11:31am

Coneygree wrote: »

My Hawks are in trouble after what looked like a very promising start.

Any word on Bogdanovic?

Coneygree · 10-01-2021 11:46am

pjohnson wrote: »

Any word on Bogdanovic?

I've seen no updates. Looked horrible.

Corvo · 10-01-2021 6:29pm

Oh man Thomas Bryant has torn his ACL. Was really enjoying watching him.

Coneygree · 11-01-2021 12:37am

People talk about how smooth PG and KD play but when he's on form there's nobody in the league I enjoy watching more than Lavine. Insane game again tonight. Like Beal, he should have been an All Star last year.

11-01-2021 12:44am

15 secs left on the clock, down three to Clippers, LaVine with poor shot selection with 7 seconds left on the clock. Rushed it.

Similar story to what happened against Lakers.

Another great performance though;

LaVine with 45.
Coby with 13 assists.
Pat Williams with a season high 17 and matched up well against Kawhi. That's LeBron and Kawhi he has been marking and didn't look anything like a rookie in doing so.

I'm seeing more and more light at the end of that tunnel.

Coneygree · 11-01-2021 12:48am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

15 secs left on the clock, down three to Clippers, LaVine with poor shot selection with 7 seconds left on the clock. Rushed it.

Similar story to what happened against Lakers.

Another great performance though;

LaVine with 45.
Coby with 13 assists.
Pat Williams with career high 17 and matched up well against Kawhi. That's LeBron and Kawhi he has been marking and didn't look anything like a rookie in doing so.

For the first time in yonks it's fun to watch the Bulls.

I really got it wrong about Coby White, I was certain he'd be a bust before he was drafted.

Williams is going to be a star. He's the closest thing to a Kawhi clone.

kmart6 · 11-01-2021 3:35am

pjohnson wrote: »

Any word on Bogdanovic?

Fractured right knee.

Sweet.Science · 11-01-2021 12:50pm

Bad start for the Nets not helped by missing KD for Covid protocol and now Kyrie going awol. Apparently linked to scenes last week .

However i still think they will make the playoffs easily enough . When they click i think they will have the best offence in the league

ButtersSuki · 11-01-2021 12:57pm

Some strange results and an awful lot of blowouts already. This, coupled with the miniseries nature of scheduling will throw up some weird records I feel. And that's before we go into COVID. Part of me wonders if they'll be able to see the whole season and Play Offs out and if cancelling the season is inevitable?

You can't have games with 7 players like we did last week, that's absolutely farcical.

All things being equal I can't see anyone beating the Lakers in the Play Offs. But what happens if LeBron and/or AD test positive or are close contacts for a Game 6 or 7?

2020/21 NBA season + Olympics

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