NBA Info - November 2023

[Deleterious]

Gotta admire the consistency.  

 

[Deleterious]

Talking about Harden.

 

[RandyMarsh]

Carmelo is one of if not THE most overrated player in NBA history in my eyes. A volume scorer that did nothing else who never really elevated his team or teammates. In fact many of his teams got better once he left or got hurt. 

[RandyMarsh]

Victor went beast mode on the Suns particularly in the 4th when things got dicey for the Spurs. Reminded me of some of the times prime Lebron would just take over games by himself. Scary to think it was just his 5th or 6th game. Btw screw the NBA lottery!

[Deleterious]

These tournament courts are so awful.

[buddha]

i like the courts.

the games have been pretty good so far.

[Deleterious]

Jesus christ

 

[Deleterious]

 

[Deleterious]

Great block even if it was Kennard.  

 

[casimir]

8 hours ago, Deleterious said:

Jesus christ

 

I bet JC hates it, too.

[Deleterious]

 

[Deleterious]

 

[Deleterious]

 

[Deleterious]

His own move used against him.

 

[Deleterious]

 

[Deleterious]

Just give Jokic the MVP right now.

[gehringer_2]

2 hours ago, Deleterious said:

Just give Jokic the MVP right now.

meh - he did miss 2 freethrows.

[Deleterious]

This will never not hurt.

 

[Deleterious]

Sort of interesting because Houston has zero bench right now and he still can't get run.  

Nice to see a team using the G-League.  

 

[Betrayer]

10 hours ago, Deleterious said:

This will never not hurt.

 

The coping narrative around Killian was that if we got Haliburton we might not have been bad enough to get Cade. I wonder if that narrative goes away this season.

[gehringer_2]

25 minutes ago, Betrayer said:

The coping narrative...

LOL

I just try to avoid looking at the NBA draft lists from the last 10yrs. 😭

Well, who knows, maybe Thompson, Duren and Cunningham will finally be the core that pans out.

Edited November 8, 2023 by gehringer_2

[Betrayer]

Ausar is 3rd in the latest Kia rookie ladder. The fact that he's outrebounding both Wemby and Chet is pretty amazing, as well as his 5x5 potential. Amen isn't on the list.

Sasser is 8th.

https://www.nba.com/news/kia-rookie-ladder-nov-8-2023-edition

[Deleterious]

I think Silver is a pretty good commissioner.  But this idea is absolutely terrible.  The NBA is not the NFL. The NFL draft is interesting into the deep rounds.  Sometimes, the NBA draft isn't even interesting until the end of the lottery.

 

[gehringer_2]

27 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

I think Silver is a pretty good commissioner.  But this idea is absolutely terrible.  The NBA is not the NFL. The NFL draft is interesting into the deep rounds.  Sometimes, the NBA draft isn't even interesting until the end of the lottery.

 

It might not be interesting, but from a functional standpoint, the draft could probably start going deeper with the NBA having developed a more formalized minor league system. The comparison to football shows the two round draft was originally apt. Before the g-league, neither sport had a minor system and football drafted 6 rounds into a 53 man roster, while basketball drafted two rounds into a 15 man roster. That's pretty comparable. If it got/gets to where to each NBA team carried another 15 players assigned to the G league, doubling the draft to 4 rounds would follow - roughly.

Edited November 9, 2023 by gehringer_2

[Deleterious]

A few of those guys are more shot blocker and less defender.